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<blockquote data-quote="James Gasik" data-source="post: 8640214" data-attributes="member: 6877472"><p>Not sure if I should post this comment about level drain here or in the "5e rules thread". Eh, I'll do it here.</p><p></p><p>So one of my problems with level drain was simply logistics. Do you mark down each hit die roll at level up? No?</p><p></p><p>Then upon losing a level, how do we adjust your new hit point total? Just roll the hit die again, so you might lose more than you gained? </p><p></p><p>If you gained knowledge of a new spell, does it just go away? Proficiency in a skill vanishes? </p><p></p><p>What if you're a multiclassed character? Which level do you lose? The last one gained?</p><p></p><p>So much work has to be put into "de-levelling" your character. I suppose we could do what 3e did and bring negative levels back?</p><p></p><p>But this is what I mean about the juice not being worth the squeeze. It's like Reincarnate. Casting the spell and figuring out what you lose and what you gain can be so bothersome it'd be easier to make a new character!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="James Gasik, post: 8640214, member: 6877472"] Not sure if I should post this comment about level drain here or in the "5e rules thread". Eh, I'll do it here. So one of my problems with level drain was simply logistics. Do you mark down each hit die roll at level up? No? Then upon losing a level, how do we adjust your new hit point total? Just roll the hit die again, so you might lose more than you gained? If you gained knowledge of a new spell, does it just go away? Proficiency in a skill vanishes? What if you're a multiclassed character? Which level do you lose? The last one gained? So much work has to be put into "de-levelling" your character. I suppose we could do what 3e did and bring negative levels back? But this is what I mean about the juice not being worth the squeeze. It's like Reincarnate. Casting the spell and figuring out what you lose and what you gain can be so bothersome it'd be easier to make a new character! [/QUOTE]
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