shadowbod
Mar 13 2006, 05:42 PM
I have a question about the essence drain ability from p288 SR4...
Once essence has been drained from a character/npc, how quickly, if ever, do they recover lost essence?
Also, any character with a lot of cyberware and low essence is very vulnerable to death by essence drain - is that correct?
Thanks in advance for any help.
FrankTrollman
Mar 13 2006, 05:54 PM
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| Once essence has been drained from a character/npc, how quickly, if ever, do they recover lost essence? |
It never comes back.
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| Also, any character with a lot of cyberware and low essence is very vulnerable to death by essence drain - is that correct? |
Not really any more so than anyone else. Essence Drain requires the complete submission of the victim, and a good part of an hour to complete. So it's not really a combat manuver. It's also repeatable however.
So if a Wendigo knocks you out and drags you home and starts eating you, you're going to die. It doesn't really matter if the Wendigo consumes you in one bit or 6.
-Frank
Apathy
Mar 13 2006, 06:14 PM
A few creatures in SR3 (like the bean sidhe, and I think blood spirits) had a temporary essence drain power which was suitable as a combat tactic. Targets who had their essence temporarily drained in this way went unconscious until they got their essence back (which recovered at 1 point/minute). I would think low-essence characters would be pretty vulnerable to this, since the critter would only have to drain one point from you to put you down.
I don't believe that there are any rules for this in SR4, though.
Dashifen
Mar 13 2006, 06:35 PM
Didn't the Master Shedim have some form of essence drain? Or were they the critters that got the much maligned karma drain?
Apathy
Mar 13 2006, 08:37 PM
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| Didn't the Master Shedim have some form of essence drain? Or were they the critters that got the much maligned karma drain? |
I think the karma drain goodness was associated with wraiths.
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