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Message: <blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 5312322" data-attributes="member: 2067">You're pretty much right.However, this problem is mostly something that story can fix."All Arcane magic defiles to some degree, sapping vitality from people, withering plant life, killing puppies, murdering sand fleas, and generally making things unpleasant. However, this has no true mechanical effect. Descriptively, the defiler's fireball steals the life-force from nearby catcuses, or from the targets themselves, withering them and consuming them. But this doesn't do anything worth mentioning in the rules. The exception is when the Arcane caster really sucks the life out of stuff to get a true mechanical benefit, and when that happens, use the Arcane Defiling power."I'd do preserving the same way (mostly narrative), only make an Arcane Preserving power that mimics the ability of Arcane Defiling, and causes the caster to take damage instead of the caster's allies. For learning that, you might need to burn a feat. Sound good?</blockquote>