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<blockquote data-quote="Al'Kelhar" data-source="post: 1689562" data-attributes="member: 7884">I'm not sure I agree that negative levels are &quot;a form of damage&quot;.&nbsp; There are two types of damage in D&amp;D - &quot;damage&quot; (loss of hit points) and &quot;ability damage&quot; (temporary lowering of an ability score).&nbsp; Damage stacks - the loss of hit points from two fireballs stacks, as does the loss of Con from two strikes of a wyvern's poisonous stinger.&nbsp; &quot;Damage&quot; is a direct consequence of the particular attack forms (fire and poison respectively).&nbsp; The direct consequences of gaining negative levels are all specifically expressed as *penalties* - even the 5 hit point loss:Also from the SRD:I still reckon that multiple castings of enervation do not result in stacking negative levels, but do result in the highest number fo negative levels affecting the target creature.Ooh, ooh, can someone give me a quick rundown on the template pls (I've reverse-engineered the wight to give me a &quot;wight template&quot; to apply to some non-human monsters in my current adventure, but would like to see what the &quot;official&quot; word on it is).Cheers, Al'Kelhar</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Al'Kelhar, post: 1689562, member: 7884"] I'm not sure I agree that negative levels are "a form of damage". There are two types of damage in D&D - "damage" (loss of hit points) and "ability damage" (temporary lowering of an ability score). Damage stacks - the loss of hit points from two [i]fireballs[/i] stacks, as does the loss of Con from two strikes of a wyvern's poisonous stinger. "Damage" is a direct consequence of the particular attack forms (fire and poison respectively). The direct consequences of gaining negative levels are all specifically expressed as *penalties* - even the 5 hit point loss: Also from the SRD: I still reckon that multiple castings of [i]enervation[/i] do not result in stacking negative levels, but do result in the highest number fo negative levels affecting the target creature. Ooh, ooh, can someone give me a quick rundown on the template pls (I've reverse-engineered the wight to give me a "wight template" to apply to some non-human monsters in my current adventure, but would like to see what the "official" word on it is). Cheers, Al'Kelhar [/QUOTE]

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