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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Li Shenron" data-source="post: 6006329" data-attributes="member: 1465">I agree that there is a big divide: those who want truly scary stuff such as Level Drain, and those who hate it.I think that if the game turns level drain into damage, that's practically like giving up on the idea altoghether. It's just another damage type, bleah...I don't think we necessarily mean a whole "module", tho it might be ok to call it like that, but I think anyway the key is level drain to be optional.My suggestion is to make level drain really scary, and then all you need to do is making it optional for each monster that used to have it, it takes only a tiny addition to a monster's stat block:VampireUsual stats: attack, HP...Special abilities: ability X, ability Y, level drain(optional)*XP: 1500 (*1000 without level drain)You don't really need to change everything else.Also, I quite liked how energy drain was handled in 3ed. You didn't really need to recalculate anything until the negative levels became a permanent level loss. You had 24 hours to find a way to remove those negative levels (although this was sometime trivial with a high-level enough Cleric that could cast Restoration), but at least there was a potential for an interesting rush against time.</blockquote>