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Message: <blockquote data-quote="moritheil" data-source="post: 3511246" data-attributes="member: 30610">Many of you are familiar with the Fell Draining metamagic feat.  All creatures damaged by the spell modified by this feat take one negative level, which does not last long enough to result in actual level loss.There are two related questions I wish to pose regarding how this feat works.First, how does this feat interact with spells that deal damage multiple times, or over time?  It seems that at no point in time should someone gain more than one negative level from the same casting, even if hit more than once (by, say, a fell draining call lightning.)  Is this how you would interpret it?  What if the spell lasts so long that the negative level wears off (or is removed) and then the creature is damaged again?  Should it bestow a negative level again?Second, is this feat at all useful in epic play?  Death ward is, after all, pretty easy to get at that level, and even if one doesn't have it, heal spells are not exactly uncommon.  A friend of mine went so far as to say that fell draining is a totally wasted feat slot at 15+ gameplay.  I'm not so sure, but as the character we were discussing hasn't had to fight any armies and instead has been dealing with massively powerful individuals, he does seem to be right.  (I'm acquainted with epic play, but I've never really looked at Fell Draining in epic.)</blockquote>