Abandoned
Since infogami has been abandoned by its creators, I’m out too. Back to web.fisher.cx for me. Everything that was here is there.
Robert Fisher
Just thinking out loud
On level draining
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I used to really not like the level draining power of undead in D&D. As a DM, I seldom used level draining undead or tried to find an alternative. While there’s nothing wrong with that—as with so many things D&D—I have a different perspective now.
I think the idea behind level drain is that it is suppossed to make you avoid melee combat with that monster at all costs. You either flee & don’t come back, or you figure out how to attack it indirectly.
Drop level drain, & the monster becomes just another encounter. With level drain, it becomes a challenging puzzle.
As I once read years ago: Nothing simulates the fear that undead should generate like level drain does.
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