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<blockquote data-quote="Pour" data-source="post: 4436074" data-attributes="member: 59411"><p>This is my first attempt at something homemade for 4e, a player race and hybrid race based around Vampires. In my world they are an actual race, not something anyone can become. I decided not to address any of the weaknesses or blood lust, sort of leaving that to roleplaying. </p><p></p><p>Any feedback on the crunch would be greatly appreciated.</p><p><span style="color: Red"></span></p><p><span style="color: Red"><strong>UPDATED 8/30/08</strong>: Vampire, Dunpiel (Half-Vampire) and Related Feats</span></p><p></p><p><strong>Vampire</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>Average Height:</strong> 5'5 - 6'2</p><p><strong>Average Weight:</strong> 140 - 220lb.</p><p></p><p><strong>Ability Adjustment:</strong> +2 Dex, +2 Cha</p><p></p><p><strong>Size:</strong> Medium</p><p><strong>Speed:</strong> 6</p><p><strong>Vision:</strong> Darkvision</p><p></p><p><strong>Languages:</strong> Common, Infernal</p><p></p><p><strong>Skill Modifiers:</strong> +2 Intimidate, +2 Stealth</p><p></p><p><strong>Bloodhunt:</strong> You gain a +1 bonus to attacks against bloodied creatures.</p><p></p><p><strong>Graveborn:</strong> You have resist Necrotic 5 + 1/2 your level, and vulnerability 5 Radiant.</p><p></p><p><strong>Shadowy Origin:</strong> Your ancestors came from the shadow plane of Cadavera, thus you are considered a shadow creature for the purpose of effects that relate to creature origin.</p><p></p><p><strong>Child of Night:</strong> Once per encounter, you can use either <em>blood drain</em> or <em>overwhelming gaze</em>:</p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000"><strong>Blood Drain </strong></span> (Vampire Racial Power)</p><p>You sink your fangs into an defenseless victim, draining away their life to sustain your own.</p><p><strong>Encounter</strong></p><p><strong>Standard Action</strong></p><p><strong>Target:</strong> One Living Natural or Fey Creature</p><p><strong>Requirement:</strong> Target must be immobile or helpless</p><p><strong>Attack:</strong> Str, Dex or Con +2 vs. Reflex</p><p><strong>Hit:</strong> You heal 1d6+Con and inflict that much damage on the target.</p><p>Increase the bonus to +4 and the damage to 2d6 at 11th level, and +6 and 3d6 at 21st.</p><p><strong>Special:</strong> When you create your character, choose Strength, Dexterity or Constitution as the ability score you use when making attack rolls with this power. This choice remains throughout your character's life.</p><p></p><p>or</p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000"><strong>Overwhelming Gaze</strong></span> (Vampire Racial Power)</p><p>Your wide-eyed, piercing gaze floods a victim's mind with your darkest thoughts.</p><p><strong>Encounter (Gaze): Charm, Psychic, Fear</strong></p><p><strong>Standard Action </strong></p><p><strong>Range</strong> 5</p><p><strong>Target:</strong> One Creature</p><p><strong>Attack:</strong> Int, Wis or Cha +2 vs. Will</p><p><strong>Hit:</strong> Target is dazed (save ends)</p><p><strong>Sustain Minor:</strong> You sustain the power's effect.</p><p>Increase the bonus to +4 at 11th level and +6 at 21st.</p><p><strong>Special:</strong> When you create your character, choose Intelligence, Wisdom or Charisma as the ability score you use when making attack rolls with this power. This choice remains throughout your character's life.</p><p></p><p>AND</p><p></p><p><strong>Dunpiel</strong></p><p></p><p><strong>Average Height:</strong> 5'5 - 6'2</p><p><strong>Average Weight:</strong> 140 - 220lb.</p><p></p><p><strong>Ability Adjustment:</strong> +2 Con and +2 Cha</p><p></p><p><strong>Size:</strong> Medium</p><p><strong>Speed:</strong> 6</p><p><strong>Vision:</strong> Low-light</p><p></p><p><strong>Languages:</strong> Common, Infernal</p><p></p><p><strong>Skill Adjustments:</strong> +2 Endurance, +2 Intimidate</p><p></p><p><strong>Dual Heritage:</strong> You can take feats that have either vampire or human as a prerequisite (or dunpiel-specific feats), granted you meet any other requirements.</p><p></p><p><strong>Gravekin:</strong> Your vampiric ancestry affords you a +1 bonus to Fortitude defense and +2 bonus to savings throws against necrotic effects.</p><p></p><p><strong>Child of Twilight:</strong> You may choose either <em>blood drain</em> or <em>overwhelming gaze</em> as a racial encounter power. The choice remains throughout your character's life.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000"><strong>Blood Drain </strong></span> (Vampire Racial Power)</p><p>You sink your fangs into an immobile victim, draining away their life to sustain your own.</p><p><strong>Encounter</strong></p><p><strong>Standard Action</strong></p><p><strong>Target:</strong> One Living Natural or Fey Creature</p><p><strong>Requirement:</strong> Target must be immobile or helpless</p><p><strong>Attack:</strong> Str, Dex or Con +2 vs. Reflex</p><p><strong>Hit:</strong> You heal 1d6+Con and inflict that much damage on the target.</p><p>Increase the bonus to +4 and the damage to 2d6 at 11th level, and +6 and 3d6 at 21st.</p><p><strong>Special:</strong> When you create your character, choose Strength, Dexterity or Constitution as the ability score you use when making attack rolls with this power. This choice remains throughout your character's life.</p><p></p><p>or</p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ff0000"><strong>Overwhelming Gaze</strong></span> (Vampire Racial Power)</p><p>Your wide-eyed, piercing gaze floods a victim's mind with your darkest thoughts.</p><p><strong>Encounter (Gaze): Charm, Psychic, Fear</strong></p><p><strong>Standard Action </strong></p><p><strong>Range</strong> 5</p><p><strong>Target:</strong> One Creature</p><p><strong>Attack:</strong> Int, Wis or Cha +2 vs. Will</p><p><strong>Hit:</strong> Target is dazed (save ends)</p><p><strong>Sustain Minor:</strong> You sustain the power's effect.</p><p>Increase the bonus to +4 at 11th level and +6 at 21st.</p><p><strong>Special:</strong> When you create your character, choose Intelligence, Wisdom or Charisma as the ability score you use when making attack rolls with this power. This choice remains throughout your character's life.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><strong><em>Feats</em></strong></p><p></p><p>Besides the general feats in the PHB, vampires also qualify for these feats even if they don't meet the prerequisites: Hellfire Blood and Light Step.</p><p></p><p>In addition, vampires and dunpiel also have access to several custom heroic feats.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: #cc0000"><strong>Elemental Drain</strong></span></p><p><strong>Prerequisites:</strong> Vampire, <em>blood drain</em> racial power</p><p><strong>Benefit:</strong> You can use your blood drain on elemental creatures.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: #cc0000"><strong>Immortal Drain</strong></span></p><p><strong>Prerequisites:</strong> Vampire, <em>blood drain</em> racial power</p><p><strong>Benefit:</strong> You can use your blood drain on immortal creatures.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: #cc0000"><strong>Aberrant Drain</strong></span></p><p><strong>Prerequisites:</strong> Vampire, <em>blood drain</em> racial power</p><p><strong>Benefit:</strong> You can use your blood drain on aberrant creatures.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: #cc0000"><strong>Shadow Drain</strong></span></p><p><strong>Prerequisites:</strong> Vampire, <em>blood drain</em> racial power</p><p><strong>Benefit:</strong> You can use your blood drain on shadow creatures, including other vampires.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: #cc0000"><strong>Undeath Drain</strong></span></p><p><strong>Prerequisites:</strong> Vampire, <em>blood drain</em> racial power</p><p><strong>Benefit:</strong> You can use your blood drain on undead creatures.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: #cc0000"><strong>Slowing Gaze</strong></span></p><p><strong>Prerequisites:</strong> Vampire, <em>overwhelming gaze</em> racial power</p><p><strong>Benefit:</strong> You can choose for a successful overwhelming gaze attack to slow a target instead.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: #cc0000"><strong>Nightmare Gaze</strong></span></p><p> <strong>Prerequisites:</strong> Vampire, <em>overwhelming gaze</em> racial power</p><p> <strong>Benefit:</strong> Every round your gaze is successfully sustained, it deals 1d6 psychic damage to the target.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: #cc0000"><strong>Psychic Waltz</strong></span></p><p><strong>Prerequisites:</strong> Vampire, <em>overwhelming gaze</em> racial power</p><p><strong>Benefit:</strong> When you successfully hit with overwhelming gaze, you can push the target 1 square in addition to keeping him dazed. Every round the target remains under your control, you can push him 1 square.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: #cc0000"><strong>Lich-Loved</strong></span></p><p><strong>Prerequisite:</strong> Vampire</p><p><strong>Special:</strong> Necrophilia on a regular basis</p><p><strong>Benefit:</strong> Mindless undead regard you as one of their own, ignoring you unless provoked. Provocation includes the undead being attacked while you are in their threat range or you attacking the undead.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: #cc0000"><strong>Graveborn</strong></span></p><p><strong>Prerequisite:</strong> Dunpiel, <em>gravekin</em> racial trait</p><p><strong>Benefit:</strong> You replace your gravekin racial trait with a vampire's graveborn.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: #cc0000"><strong>Night Stalker's Sight</strong></span></p><p><strong>Prerequisite:</strong> Dunpiel, low-light vision</p><p><strong>Benefit:</strong> You now have darkvision.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: #cc0000"><strong>Muse-of-All-Trades</strong></span></p><p><strong>Prerequisite:</strong> Hybrid Race</p><p><strong>Benefit:</strong> Choose one skill you are trained in or racially adjusted towards. You grant all allies within 5 squares of you a +1 bonus to that skill. This skill choice can be switched after a short or extended rest while in combat or a strenuous situation, or at will otherwise.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: #cc0000"><strong>Jack-of-All-Trades</strong></span></p><p><strong>Prerequisite:</strong> Hybrid Race</p><p><strong>Benefit:</strong> Choose one skill you have seen performed since your last extended rest. You gain a +2 bonus to that skill until your next extended rest, even if it's untrained.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pour, post: 4436074, member: 59411"] This is my first attempt at something homemade for 4e, a player race and hybrid race based around Vampires. In my world they are an actual race, not something anyone can become. I decided not to address any of the weaknesses or blood lust, sort of leaving that to roleplaying. Any feedback on the crunch would be greatly appreciated. [COLOR=Red] [B]UPDATED 8/30/08[/B]: Vampire, Dunpiel (Half-Vampire) and Related Feats[/COLOR] [B]Vampire[/B] [B]Average Height:[/B] 5'5 - 6'2 [B]Average Weight:[/B] 140 - 220lb. [B]Ability Adjustment:[/B] +2 Dex, +2 Cha [B]Size:[/B] Medium [B]Speed:[/B] 6 [B]Vision:[/B] Darkvision [B]Languages:[/B] Common, Infernal [B]Skill Modifiers:[/B] +2 Intimidate, +2 Stealth [B]Bloodhunt:[/B] You gain a +1 bonus to attacks against bloodied creatures. [B]Graveborn:[/B] You have resist Necrotic 5 + 1/2 your level, and vulnerability 5 Radiant. [B]Shadowy Origin:[/B] Your ancestors came from the shadow plane of Cadavera, thus you are considered a shadow creature for the purpose of effects that relate to creature origin. [B]Child of Night:[/B] Once per encounter, you can use either [I]blood drain[/I] or [I]overwhelming gaze[/I]: [COLOR=#ff0000][B]Blood Drain [/B][/COLOR] (Vampire Racial Power) You sink your fangs into an defenseless victim, draining away their life to sustain your own. [B]Encounter[/B] [B]Standard Action[/B] [B]Target:[/B] One Living Natural or Fey Creature [B]Requirement:[/B] Target must be immobile or helpless [B]Attack:[/B] Str, Dex or Con +2 vs. Reflex [B]Hit:[/B] You heal 1d6+Con and inflict that much damage on the target. Increase the bonus to +4 and the damage to 2d6 at 11th level, and +6 and 3d6 at 21st. [B]Special:[/B] When you create your character, choose Strength, Dexterity or Constitution as the ability score you use when making attack rolls with this power. This choice remains throughout your character's life. or [COLOR=#ff0000][B]Overwhelming Gaze[/B][/COLOR] (Vampire Racial Power) Your wide-eyed, piercing gaze floods a victim's mind with your darkest thoughts. [B]Encounter (Gaze): Charm, Psychic, Fear[/B] [B]Standard Action [/B] [B]Range[/B] 5 [B]Target:[/B] One Creature [B]Attack:[/B] Int, Wis or Cha +2 vs. Will [B]Hit:[/B] Target is dazed (save ends) [B]Sustain Minor:[/B] You sustain the power's effect. Increase the bonus to +4 at 11th level and +6 at 21st. [B]Special:[/B] When you create your character, choose Intelligence, Wisdom or Charisma as the ability score you use when making attack rolls with this power. This choice remains throughout your character's life. AND [B]Dunpiel[/B] [B]Average Height:[/B] 5'5 - 6'2 [B]Average Weight:[/B] 140 - 220lb. [B]Ability Adjustment:[/B] +2 Con and +2 Cha [B]Size:[/B] Medium [B]Speed:[/B] 6 [B]Vision:[/B] Low-light [B]Languages:[/B] Common, Infernal [B]Skill Adjustments:[/B] +2 Endurance, +2 Intimidate [B]Dual Heritage:[/B] You can take feats that have either vampire or human as a prerequisite (or dunpiel-specific feats), granted you meet any other requirements. [B]Gravekin:[/B] Your vampiric ancestry affords you a +1 bonus to Fortitude defense and +2 bonus to savings throws against necrotic effects. [B]Child of Twilight:[/B] You may choose either [I]blood drain[/I] or [I]overwhelming gaze[/I] as a racial encounter power. The choice remains throughout your character's life. [COLOR=#ff0000][B]Blood Drain [/B][/COLOR] (Vampire Racial Power) You sink your fangs into an immobile victim, draining away their life to sustain your own. [B]Encounter[/B] [B]Standard Action[/B] [B]Target:[/B] One Living Natural or Fey Creature [B]Requirement:[/B] Target must be immobile or helpless [B]Attack:[/B] Str, Dex or Con +2 vs. Reflex [B]Hit:[/B] You heal 1d6+Con and inflict that much damage on the target. Increase the bonus to +4 and the damage to 2d6 at 11th level, and +6 and 3d6 at 21st. [B]Special:[/B] When you create your character, choose Strength, Dexterity or Constitution as the ability score you use when making attack rolls with this power. This choice remains throughout your character's life. or [COLOR=#ff0000][B]Overwhelming Gaze[/B][/COLOR] (Vampire Racial Power) Your wide-eyed, piercing gaze floods a victim's mind with your darkest thoughts. [B]Encounter (Gaze): Charm, Psychic, Fear[/B] [B]Standard Action [/B] [B]Range[/B] 5 [B]Target:[/B] One Creature [B]Attack:[/B] Int, Wis or Cha +2 vs. Will [B]Hit:[/B] Target is dazed (save ends) [B]Sustain Minor:[/B] You sustain the power's effect. Increase the bonus to +4 at 11th level and +6 at 21st. [B]Special:[/B] When you create your character, choose Intelligence, Wisdom or Charisma as the ability score you use when making attack rolls with this power. This choice remains throughout your character's life. [B][I]Feats[/I][/B] Besides the general feats in the PHB, vampires also qualify for these feats even if they don't meet the prerequisites: Hellfire Blood and Light Step. In addition, vampires and dunpiel also have access to several custom heroic feats. [COLOR=#cc0000][B]Elemental Drain[/B][/COLOR] [B]Prerequisites:[/B] Vampire, [I]blood drain[/I] racial power [B]Benefit:[/B] You can use your blood drain on elemental creatures. [COLOR=#cc0000][B]Immortal Drain[/B][/COLOR] [B]Prerequisites:[/B] Vampire, [I]blood drain[/I] racial power [B]Benefit:[/B] You can use your blood drain on immortal creatures. [COLOR=#cc0000][B]Aberrant Drain[/B][/COLOR] [B]Prerequisites:[/B] Vampire, [I]blood drain[/I] racial power [B]Benefit:[/B] You can use your blood drain on aberrant creatures. [COLOR=#cc0000][B]Shadow Drain[/B][/COLOR] [B]Prerequisites:[/B] Vampire, [I]blood drain[/I] racial power [B]Benefit:[/B] You can use your blood drain on shadow creatures, including other vampires. [COLOR=#cc0000][B]Undeath Drain[/B][/COLOR] [B]Prerequisites:[/B] Vampire, [I]blood drain[/I] racial power [B]Benefit:[/B] You can use your blood drain on undead creatures. [COLOR=#cc0000][B]Slowing Gaze[/B][/COLOR] [B]Prerequisites:[/B] Vampire, [I]overwhelming gaze[/I] racial power [B]Benefit:[/B] You can choose for a successful overwhelming gaze attack to slow a target instead. [COLOR=#cc0000][B]Nightmare Gaze[/B][/COLOR] [B]Prerequisites:[/B] Vampire, [I]overwhelming gaze[/I] racial power [B]Benefit:[/B] Every round your gaze is successfully sustained, it deals 1d6 psychic damage to the target. [COLOR=#cc0000][B]Psychic Waltz[/B][/COLOR] [B]Prerequisites:[/B] Vampire, [I]overwhelming gaze[/I] racial power [B]Benefit:[/B] When you successfully hit with overwhelming gaze, you can push the target 1 square in addition to keeping him dazed. Every round the target remains under your control, you can push him 1 square. [COLOR=#cc0000][B]Lich-Loved[/B][/COLOR] [B]Prerequisite:[/B] Vampire [B]Special:[/B] Necrophilia on a regular basis [B]Benefit:[/B] Mindless undead regard you as one of their own, ignoring you unless provoked. Provocation includes the undead being attacked while you are in their threat range or you attacking the undead. [COLOR=#cc0000][B]Graveborn[/B][/COLOR] [B]Prerequisite:[/B] Dunpiel, [I]gravekin[/I] racial trait [B]Benefit:[/B] You replace your gravekin racial trait with a vampire's graveborn. [COLOR=#cc0000][B]Night Stalker's Sight[/B][/COLOR] [B]Prerequisite:[/B] Dunpiel, low-light vision [B]Benefit:[/B] You now have darkvision. [COLOR=#cc0000][B]Muse-of-All-Trades[/B][/COLOR] [B]Prerequisite:[/B] Hybrid Race [B]Benefit:[/B] Choose one skill you are trained in or racially adjusted towards. You grant all allies within 5 squares of you a +1 bonus to that skill. This skill choice can be switched after a short or extended rest while in combat or a strenuous situation, or at will otherwise. [COLOR=#cc0000][B]Jack-of-All-Trades[/B][/COLOR] [B]Prerequisite:[/B] Hybrid Race [B]Benefit:[/B] Choose one skill you have seen performed since your last extended rest. You gain a +2 bonus to that skill until your next extended rest, even if it's untrained. [/QUOTE]
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