Life Drain/Playing With

Basic Trope: An attack deals damage and heals you.

• Straight: Bob casts "Life Drain" on Alice, damaging her and healing himself.
• Exaggerated: Bob's "Life Drain" attack keeps syphoning life from Alice even after she's dead.
• Downplayed: Bob's attack restores his HP...by 1 point.
• Justified: Bob is a vampire and is drinking Alice's blood for sustenance.
• Inverted: Bob is an Empathic Healer and drains his own life to heal Alice.
• Subverted: Bob stands over Alice while glowy life energy leaves her body and is absorbed by Bob, but Alice isn't hurt and Bob isn't healing.
  • Bob drains life from a Tentacruel, and the toxic ooze in its body causes him to lose HP instead of healing.
• Averted: Bob throws a fireball at Alice instead.
• Enforced: "We need more ways for the player characters to heal themselves. Let's let them drain life from the bad guys."
• Defied: "Oh no you don't, Bob! I brought my anti-draining armor!"

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