Twilight Sage: Consume Life...


Rules Questions


Hi all,
I have a doubt about the Consume Life ability:

"As a full-round action, she can consume the life energy of a helpless living creature, killing it. This creature must have 2 or more Hit Dice and be below 0 hit points."

This means that anything less than 2 Hit Dice don't give any arcane reservoir points, which is fine.

However...

"The twilight sage adds 2 points to her arcane reservoir if the creature’s Hit Dice equaled or exceeded the sage’s character level..."

Ok...obviously you get more points if the creature was powerful, but...

"...or 1 point if the creature’s Hit Dice equaled at least 1/2 her character level."

...and what you get if the creature's Hit Dice were less than 1/2 her character level??

Because seems that the 2 Hit Dice thing was already set to balance and this extra "balancing" feels like a badly-written ability... :(

Any clue?

Thanks,
Skarm


I think it is both
As you get stronger you can’t go murdering 2 hit dice things to bolster your pool

So it is further balacing

Minimum is 2 or half CL whichever is higher


It has to be at least 2 hit dice AND hit dice at least equal to half your level. You can’t kill chickens at 1st level, and you can’t kill ogres at 14th level.

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