By now you must know @TheEdVerse won’t curse you to be a frog. He’d use true polymorph to turn you into a clam, and then he’d drop a meteor swarm on you!

No, no, I'd do it GENTLY. ;}

One whose effects are precisely located so as to just scorch from afar. Like toasting a marshmallow as opposed to immolating it, or vaporizing it in an explosion. ;} It sears GENTLY.

I think that Elminster could definitely have a “gentle spellcasting” metamagic option. When you’re struck by a gentled spell, you don’t actually KNOW how much damage you take. It surrounds you like a warm rain of twinkling stars… and then a kitten sneezes and you drop dead.