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<blockquote data-quote="bganon" data-source="post: 4437014" data-attributes="member: 60886"><p>Dealing a healing surge amount actually seems like a lot of damage, it's likely 6 damage (better than 1d10 on average) at level 1 and perhaps 17 damage (better than 4d8) by level 10. It only gets more out of proportion at high levels. Also, it seems rather odd to me to have the attack be based on a mental score.</p><p></p><p>I'd suggest two changes: make it do dice-based damage (something like 1d6 at heroic, 2d6 paragon, 3d6 epic, I think the damage should not be high since the power also heals you), and let the player choose one physical stat for Blood Drain and one mental stat for Overwhelming Gaze. That way not all vampires are automatically good at both.</p><p></p><p>Also, having the attack bonuses scale with level as others have recommended seems like a good idea.</p><p></p><p>The powers strike me as pretty powerful, but I'm not sure that they're way out of line with some of the nicer racial powers in the PH, and as you've written it the Vampire's not really getting any other special benefits (other than darkvision), and they presumably (at least from roleplay) have significant weaknesses.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bganon, post: 4437014, member: 60886"] Dealing a healing surge amount actually seems like a lot of damage, it's likely 6 damage (better than 1d10 on average) at level 1 and perhaps 17 damage (better than 4d8) by level 10. It only gets more out of proportion at high levels. Also, it seems rather odd to me to have the attack be based on a mental score. I'd suggest two changes: make it do dice-based damage (something like 1d6 at heroic, 2d6 paragon, 3d6 epic, I think the damage should not be high since the power also heals you), and let the player choose one physical stat for Blood Drain and one mental stat for Overwhelming Gaze. That way not all vampires are automatically good at both. Also, having the attack bonuses scale with level as others have recommended seems like a good idea. The powers strike me as pretty powerful, but I'm not sure that they're way out of line with some of the nicer racial powers in the PH, and as you've written it the Vampire's not really getting any other special benefits (other than darkvision), and they presumably (at least from roleplay) have significant weaknesses. [/QUOTE]
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