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Hah, just been experimenting a little with Prismatic.
As I suspected, this spell just rips through opposition (I wiped out an improved invisible Lich with it. Nuff said). However, it's a little awkward to target, so you really need to experiment with its capabilities in order to determine its maximum range.
This is probably why it's been overlooked. After reading the scant posts about P. Spray in the archives, a lot of people have complained about the rays apparently hitting foes, and not having an effect. This isn't true. The rays will always affect if the opponent, if they hit (unless they make their save, naturally).
It's important to realize that the rays tend to tend miss opponents who are right next to you, but are not directly in front of the spray. This is obviously because of the 'spray' pattern. The 'width' of the spray increases with distance. Hence, the further a group of enemies are away from you, the more that will be caught by the spell. Essentially, the spray resembles a triangle shape, where the point of the triangle is where the spray erupts from the caster, and the base of the triangle is where the spray terminates.
The spray is quite powerful when foes are roughly in a straight line pattern. This way, the Prismatic 'Rays' cut through them all, ripping them to shreds.
I've looked at the spell in editors, but have been unable to fathom how often a foe is hit by two rays. According to the editor, no such thing occurs. But in the game, I find that my targets are often hit by two effects (this is most obvious when they hit by two of the damage rays).
It also blinds critters under 8HD. Very nice!
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