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Message: <blockquote data-quote="carborundum" data-source="post: 4213735" data-attributes="member: 49284">Hmmm, suddenly it's not such an open and shut case!The feat in question is Fell Drain, and it is a metamagic effect with a +2 level cost. It basically says "any living creature that is dealt damage by the spell also gains a negative level."If a Shield stops a magic missile regardless of metamagic (and these feats didn't exist when that was written) then it does no damage and gives no level drain.If the level draining metamagic has altered the original spell so much that the shield doesn't recognise it anymore (by packing it full of negative energy), then where do you draw THAT line? Which metamagic effects would get a magic missile through a shield, and which are too ... funky?</blockquote>