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Message: <blockquote data-quote="genshou" data-source="post: 2623515" data-attributes="member: 13164">On pg. 10 of Elements of Magic - Mythic Earth, you present an optional rule called Draining Magic which appears to show some promise.  However, when I was looking at it I noticed that an increase of 2 ranks in a magical skill negates 2 points of Strength burn, but every 2 levels of a spell increase the amount of burn by an average of 2.5.  Was this done intentionally?  I must admit that having a 20th-level, maxed-out caster take an average of 7 points of Strength burn for casting a level 23 spell (12d4 averaged to 30, minus 23 for the spellcasting ranks) has an intereseting flavour appeal, but was that your goal when making this rule, or should it scale properly as per an option such as 1d3 per 2 levels instead of 1d4?</blockquote>