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<blockquote data-quote="Beholder Bob" data-source="post: 1277182" data-attributes="member: 12866"><p>Harrumph!&nbsp; I like LV drains - used very sparingly.&nbsp; I imagine a PC's life as a linear thread (plastic), the level drain is the equivalent of a flame striking the center, causing it to curl up but not break, unless to much flame is applied.&nbsp; That period of your life that was hit with the 'flame' is not erased from your memory, but rather then having the impact of having lived it, you instead have no more connection to it then if you watched that part of your life on TV.&nbsp; I do not bother assigning the skills lost, but rather impose a -1 to all actions except damage rolls, and the PC's effective experience is dropped to the minimum needed for the prior level.&nbsp; They do not reduce the LV on the PC sheet, but until they pay the XP to reach their current LV, they have no chance to go up a level.&nbsp; LV drains against folks with more then 1 caster class suffer the penalty for all such classes.&nbsp; The victims become disassociated with themselves.&nbsp; They know the information related to their lives, but the emotions are seared away.&nbsp; &quot;I know you are my son.&nbsp; Should that mean something to me?&quot;&nbsp; It is up to the player to role-play that aspect.&nbsp; LV drain does what it does because it eats away something far more important then your LV, it eats away from who you are.&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60e.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":cool:" title="Cool&nbsp; &nbsp; :cool:"&nbsp; data-smilie="6"data-shortname=":cool:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Beholder Bob, post: 1277182, member: 12866"] Harrumph! I like LV drains - used very sparingly. I imagine a PC's life as a linear thread (plastic), the level drain is the equivalent of a flame striking the center, causing it to curl up but not break, unless to much flame is applied. That period of your life that was hit with the 'flame' is not erased from your memory, but rather then having the impact of having lived it, you instead have no more connection to it then if you watched that part of your life on TV. I do not bother assigning the skills lost, but rather impose a -1 to all actions except damage rolls, and the PC's effective experience is dropped to the minimum needed for the prior level. They do not reduce the LV on the PC sheet, but until they pay the XP to reach their current LV, they have no chance to go up a level. LV drains against folks with more then 1 caster class suffer the penalty for all such classes. The victims become disassociated with themselves. They know the information related to their lives, but the emotions are seared away. "I know you are my son. Should that mean something to me?" It is up to the player to role-play that aspect. LV drain does what it does because it eats away something far more important then your LV, it eats away from who you are. :cool: [/QUOTE]

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