I have been sitting on those spells for a while, and unfortunately did not have the opportunity to test them as much as I would have liked. But some recent initiative from Wizards of the Coast threatening the validity of the Open Game License has convinced me that this content was better released than not.

I have tried to bring some interesting flavour to them, and keep the numbers reasonable. They are not the most powerful spells out there, as I was trying to make them interesting, rather than being a dominant choice. The rare variants also try to match this idea of interesting rather than immediately powerful, while attempting to explore other tactics.

I hope this will bring some interesting choices of spells to your spellcasters, especially the ones that are trying to fulfill that melee-spellcaster fantasy.