In old RQII Vampires drained permanent characteristic POW and you could cease to exist if it went down to 0.
Ahh... the good old days.
With tap IIRC you can't go down below 0.
Simon Hibbs
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> At the risk of drifting into something like RQ mechanics, I thought vampires Drained rather than Tapped, because there is a slow natural recovery from the STR lost as a result of having one's blood drained. Tapped characteristics do not recover naturally.
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> I see the distinction as important because, to me, it is the permanent destruction caused by a Tap spell that gives rise to concern that tapping is Chaotic. Though there are other reasons for thinking that some/all vampires are Chaotic whether their blood-drinking is a tap or adrain