Just a minor note:
You are using the terminology imprecisely... most of your examples are Save-or-Lose (Sleep, Dominate, Dismissal) or Save-or-Suck (Blindness/Deafness, Fear, Confusion, Bestow Curse)...

Related to this is the fact that "or that penalize but don't completely cripple the target." is VERY vague, and could use a lot of expansion/definition. That might be a large part of this project actually.