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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 5651767" data-attributes="member: 57383">It probably wouldn't surprise you to hear I suspected you were going to do that.Oh, and I think you meant ability drain, not level drain, like the SRD Wraith.I forgot to mention the original's &quot;Fluid Drain&quot; specifically didn't increase the Drow Vampire's HPs above its normal max, but I was reluctant to make it even fiddlier.I'm wondering whether 3 hit points per Con point is too much, the normal Vampire's Blood Drain (1d4 Con for 5 temporary hit points) works out to average 2 hit points per Con point: Blood Drain (Ex): Any living creature struck by a drow vampire's natural&nbsp; weapons suffers 1d3 points of Constitution Drain (or 1d6 Con drain with&nbsp; its fangs). To drain blood with its fangs, a drow vampire must hit with&nbsp; a bite attack (such as that possessed by its Alternative Form of a&nbsp; spider), or make a successful grapple check (in which case it drains 1d6&nbsp; Con for every round it can maintain a pin). For each point of&nbsp; Constitution drained, the drow vampire gains 2 temporary hit points.That looks satisfactory to me. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 5651767, member: 57383"] It probably wouldn't surprise you to hear I suspected you were going to do that. Oh, and I think you meant ability drain, not level drain, like the SRD Wraith. I forgot to mention the original's "Fluid Drain" specifically didn't increase the Drow Vampire's HPs above its normal max, but I was reluctant to make it even fiddlier. I'm wondering whether 3 hit points per Con point is too much, the normal Vampire's Blood Drain (1d4 Con for 5 temporary hit points) works out to average 2 hit points per Con point: [B] Blood Drain (Ex):[/B] Any living creature struck by a drow vampire's natural weapons suffers 1d3 points of Constitution Drain (or 1d6 Con drain with its fangs). To drain blood with its fangs, a drow vampire must hit with a bite attack (such as that possessed by its Alternative Form of a spider), or make a successful grapple check (in which case it drains 1d6 Con for every round it can maintain a pin). For each point of Constitution drained, the drow vampire gains 2 temporary hit points. That looks satisfactory to me. :) [/QUOTE]

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