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<blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 2973249" data-attributes="member: 710">I don't see this as problematic. From a storytelling perspective, level drain or ability damage or item destruction or usually completely uninteresting. Their are very few instances where a character in a novel actually suffers from such consequences*. The &quot;real threats&quot; are usually related to the goals of these characters (they fail to accomplish their tasks) or their friends and family (they are kidnapped or killed). The only other permanent consequence in a story is death, and that (usually) marks the end of the story. *) Level Drain or Ability Damage in a story might be equivalent to permanent scars. Usually, such scars are character defining moments (and not seldomly happened in the past, not during the time of the story told). Item destruction is usually not done by a bizarre monster, but by an enemy that destroyed it. It's not uncommon in movies or books that characters are hurt or injured, but often enough, they are recovered a scene later.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mustrum_Ridcully, post: 2973249, member: 710"] I don't see this as problematic. From a storytelling perspective, level drain or ability damage or item destruction or usually completely uninteresting. Their are very few instances where a character in a novel actually suffers from such consequences*. The "real threats" are usually related to the goals of these characters (they fail to accomplish their tasks) or their friends and family (they are kidnapped or killed). The only other permanent consequence in a story is death, and that (usually) marks the end of the story. *) Level Drain or Ability Damage in a story might be equivalent to permanent scars. Usually, such scars are character defining moments (and not seldomly happened in the past, not during the time of the story told). Item destruction is usually not done by a bizarre monster, but by an enemy that destroyed it. It's not uncommon in movies or books that characters are hurt or injured, but often enough, they are recovered a scene later. [/QUOTE]

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