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* In ''VideoGame/ShadowHearts'', characters possess "SP" (Sanity Points) in addition to HP and MP. Throughout battle, it goes down slowly, but sometimes enemies may hit you with a special attack labeled as "SP Lowering".

** Mages who make {{deal|WithTheDevil}}s with [[EldritchAbomination Acamoth]] too frequently begin to suffer long-term penalties to all their spellcasting rolls, as their souls erode from the strain. Unlike any other source of harm in the game, this takes ''years'' to recover from.

* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'': StatDeath occurs if the Heart grace is reduced to 0, turning into something that doesn't matters. You're even more transient than the dream of a [[TheFairFolk creature made of dreams]]. This is not something that Creation-born have to worry about, but they can still have this if all their ''other'' graces are reduced to 0, which is usually the result of being soul-ravished by the aforementioned dream-creature.

* ''TabletopGame/ArsMagica'': There are spells to inflict permanent [[PhlebotinumOverdose Warping points]] on their target, which can be much worse for them in the long term than temporary Wounds. A mage is immediately threatened by a MagicMisfire and becomes irreversibly more vulnerable to them from then on; a {{Muggle|s}} with Warping begins to gain [[SkillScoresAndPerks character Flaws]].

* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrolls'' series, has many damage effects, that change game by game. For example:

* StaminaBurn
* SubSystemDamage

** ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragonsThirdEdition'':
*** There were various ways for threats to deal stat damage. Getting knocked to 0 for any mental stat rendered you some form of catatonic, while losing all strength or dexterity made you physically helpless. Losing all constitution just killed you.

*** Poisons worked this way in ''3rd Edition'': rather than damaging the target's hitpoints, most poisons worked by damaging one of their ability scores. If it was Strength or Dexterity damage, dropping to zero caused the character to become too weak to move or paralyzed (respectively) until they regained at least one point in the relevant ability score. If it was Constitution damage, dropping to zero was fatal. If a mental stat went to zero, the character was reduced to a helpless, blithering idiot.
*** The Allip, the ghost of a madman who's touch causes insanity, represented as damage to wisdom.
** ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragonsFifthEdition'': Shadows are infamous for being far more deadly than their challenge rating would suggest because of this. When they land a hit, in addition to dealing damage they also reduce the target's Strength score by 1d4... and if their Strength is reduced to 0, the target drops dead of StatDeath, with no saving throw. This is especially brutal given that A) ability-draining attacks are otherwise unheard of in 5th Edition so there aren't many defenses against it, and B) Strength is a DumpStat for almost every class so most player characters will only have an eight or ten.

--> Each opponent's maximum hand size is reduced by one.

Some damagable stats are medium-specific, such as hand-size in a card game. And for the games where there's no ''one'' clear HitPoints stat, then "HitPoints" is taken to mean all the vital stats, with this occurring if a non-standard, preferable non-vital, stat is targeted, such as Speed.

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* ''LightNovel/SoImASpiderSoWhat'' when Kumoko battles the Earth Dragon Araba, the fight seems hopeless because he has HP regeneration ''and'' eventually levels up which restores his HP and grants new abilities. However, she planned it to be an endurance battle as a gambit using her special skill "King of Sloth" which drains SP, counting on Araba not realizing she had a skill that was draining his SP (Stamina Points). Early on it's established that if SP reaches 0 you essentially die of starvation, which is the usual way it goes down (or rather doesn't replenish). The battle ends when Araba realizes that even 1 more attack will kill him, and chooses to FaceDeathWithDignity and allow Kumoko the final strike. This confuses and upsets her, since she expected others to fight to the end, but it's revealed later that to dragon kind she was considered a worthy opponent.
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* In the ''TabletopGame/NewWorldOfDarkness'', its second edition has a SanityMeter for mortal humans, Integrity...[[SubvertedTrope which cannot actually hit zero]] except under very special circumstances (read here; there's precisely ''one'' monster that can do that, and it does so explicitly as part of eating its target). [[/folder]]

*** Pathfinder's shadows laugh at Fifth Edition's shadows, because they roll against touch AC to hit, deal 1-6 Strength damage, and come in a greater variety that can do 1-8 points of Strength damage. Given most Pathfinder games embraced point buy, dumping Strength was even more common.
*** Feeblemind, inherited from D&D, reduced the character's Intelligence and Charisma to 1. Most spellcasting classes lost all spells at that point. Wisdom-based casters were made too stupid to speak, so they likely also were not going to be doing anything important either.

* ManaBurn: Then there's its own SubTrope, ManaDrain.
* ManaShield: Which turns regular {{Hit Point|s}} damage into {{Mana}} damage.

*** Poisons worked this way in ''3rd Edition'': rather than damaging the target's hitpoints, most poisons worked by damaging one of their ability scores. If it was Strength or Dexterity damage, dropping to zero caused the character to become too weak to move or paralyzed (respectively) until they regained at least one point in the relevant ability score. If it was Constitution damage, dropping to zero was fatal.

** In editions prior to ''4th Edition'' some monsters like Vampires and Succubuses had attacks that caused level drain. As in they actually destroyed your experience levels. If they drained a character's experience level down to zero, the character was automatically killed and would reanimate as some form of Undead (typically the same type as the monster that killed them, or else a wight).

** ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragonsThirdEdition'': The Joystealer, a monster, deals damage to the player's charisma. This can be absolutely devastating for certain player classes, such as bards, which rely heavily on the charisma stat.

** ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragonsFifthEdition'': Shadows are infamous for being far more deadly than their challenge rating would suggest because of this. When they land a hit, in addition to dealing damage they also reduce the target's Strength score by 1d4... and if their Strength is reduced to 0, the target drops dead of StatDeath, with no saving throw.

* ''{{VideoGame/Starcraft}}'': The Science Vessel's EMP ability destroys all energy (even on biological units) but deals no damage. It also reduces Protoss shields to zero.