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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Victim" data-source="post: 1989692" data-attributes="member: 78">Another thing to consider is who exactly is affected by the cataclysm.  1d4 negative levels to everyone would probably wipe out 90% of the population of the major races, but would probably have a completely different effect than something that killed indiscriminately (of course, given that higher levels also means greater resistance to disease, starvation, etc, very little wouldn't discriminate by level.  Except like a 2k damage AoE).  If higher level characters survive, than you have some communication, more respect for magic, better food production.  Same thing for a massive epidemic since surivors are likely to be clustered around folks who cure disease.On the other hand, a sorcerer detonating nexuses of magical power is likely to take a big chunk out of the high end casting population (along with everything else) because they'll be the ones who can use and defend the power sources.  In this case, magical infrastructure is toast, spellcasters become hated/feared, more emphasis is placed on technology, secondary die offs from disease and starvation are worse because of the lack of magical cleanup, etc.And what happens to certain monsters that might be resistant or immune to the effects - or weren't there at the time.  After this kind of disaster, the world is extremely vulnerable to extraplanar interference.</blockquote>