DRAIN (TRAIT)
Effect: Trait
Action: Standard
Range: Touch
Duration: Instant
Cost: 1-5 points per rank
Saving Throw: Fortitude
Optional: Fatigue
You can temporarily lower one of a target’s traits: an ability, skill, feat,
or power, chosen when you acquire this power. You must touch the target,
making a normal melee attack roll, and the target makes a Fortitude
save. If the save fails, each rank of Drain removes 1 power point from the
affected trait. The lost points return at a rate of 1 per round, except for
inanimate objects, which do not recover drained Toughness and must be
repaired. This rate can be reduced with the Slow Fade power feat (see
page 110). Drain’s cost per rank determines the affected traits:
• 1 point: Drain affects a single trait (such as Strength score or Will
save bonus), chosen when the power is acquired. (To affect a list of
traits, one at a time, take Alternate Powers; see page 108.)
• 2 points: Drain affects any one trait, one at a time.
• 3 points: Drain affects all traits of a single type (ability scores, skills,
feats, one type of power effect, or all powers of a particular descriptor)
all at once (subtracting its rank in character points from each).
• 4 points: Drain reduces all powers at once.
• 5 points: Drain reduces all traits at once.
