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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 3699975" data-attributes="member: 13966">Yep.  Sell yer peaches on the WotC forums, we don't care fer screams of PEACH!!! here. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> Anyway....  I second Primitive Screwhead's concerns about the ability to use Soul Drain from a distance while hidden or in gaseous form or bat form or whatever.Reminds me of Raziel from Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver, though.I don't think it calls for a different CR adjustment, but that depends on if it gets clarified or not.I would make it require looking into the victim's eyes as per the standard vampire's Dominate ability, so that at least it's less uber-stealthy.  Also, the victim should be aware of the drain when it occurs (they shouldn't be unaware that they're suddenly dumber, crazier, or less eloquent), at least IMO.Maybe no gaze requirement, but at least make it obvious when it happens....like a visual effect of some phantasmal spirit-stream flowing out of the victim and into the vampire.  And regardless it should be unuseable in gaseous form.Also, note: a character reduced to 0 Int, Wis, or Cha is normally comatose.  It would be rather useless to Dominate a comatose meat-sack.  <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/nervous.png"  class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":heh:" title="Nervous Laugh    :heh:" data-shortname=":heh:" />  So if you're going to have them Dominated once that happens, at least include a clause that says they become Dominated instead of comatose, until a Restoration or similar effect increases their drained ability score above 0.</blockquote>

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