Mishihari Lord
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Yeah, anyone with half a brain knows that real vampires aren't bothered by sunlight.
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Vampire Sunlight Protection
- Thread starter thundershot
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Yeah, anyone with half a brain knows that real vampires aren't bothered by sunlight.
None of the ones I've met have been.Yeah, anyone with half a brain knows that real vampires aren't bothered by sunlight.
Aus_Snow
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I seem to remember that they all had "problems" with sunlight (problems in this case meaning being turned into crispy critter) - but some, less than others, and even then only if points had been placed in the appropriate supernatural ability. Which, I think, you could do even if you weren't of the appropriate type, but it was more difficult, or you had to find training or the like. . .
Anyway, it's been a while. Could be way off.
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amerigoV
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In Expedition to Castle Ravenloft, there is a relic that vamps can be linked to be able to go out in daylight.
I think consistency is the key. If the game world lets vamps go into the sun, then the PCs should have knowledge of that (appropriate knowledge checks). If this is a one-guy only thing, then there needs to be reason, and perhaps it it part of the plot as a way for the PCs to leverage a weakness.
I think consistency is the key. If the game world lets vamps go into the sun, then the PCs should have knowledge of that (appropriate knowledge checks). If this is a one-guy only thing, then there needs to be reason, and perhaps it it part of the plot as a way for the PCs to leverage a weakness.
Wik
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Forget vampires. This thread is what needs protection from sunlight.
Yeah, it's kind of scary to think that an internet thread might just live longer than I will.
Festivus
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Why not make it so that these are a different breed, one that doesn't have a vulnerability to sunlight, but rather a vulnerability to moonlight (or something similar). That is why they live underground, the moonlight corrupts their bodies and causes them to decay more rapidly than in the light of the living day. Or perhaps water melts them (like the wicked witch in Oz)
Because of the subject of the thread and the universal laws of irony, this thread is fated to rise from the grave every so many years...
And, as we know from Bram Stoker, exposing it to daylight won't kill it...
As an aside, one of the things I found good about the short-lived "Moonlight" series is that the vampires could go about in daylight but they decayed faster, requiring more frequent feeding (blood) to halt and heal the decay.
As every supernatural thing they did entailed increased use of their resources (tired them made them decay) and therefore required more blood, it put an upper limit on what they could do between feeds (which they had to be careful about due to their version of the "Masquerade"). So doing something superhuman while being out in the sun might be possible - but undesireable under certain circumstances (like you don't know how long it will be before you can safely feed - which is probably most the time as "seeing the future" is not one of their powers).
I don't see why, in a game context, removing a vamp's vulnerability to sunlight requires the removal of an advantage or the imposition of another weakness to "balance" it - it's not like it's their only weakness and they're not meant to be easy to get rid of, anyway.
They managed to get by without exposing vampires to daylight in the original Dracula... which, iirc, mentioned wild dog rose also adversely affects vampires - something you don't often see mentioned in many modern books/movies (one of the Fright Night movies being the only thing I can think of - and apparently the character got the idea from reading Stoker's Dracula).
A former GM for one of our games would have given her soul for vampires that were immune to sunlight. Our standard response to being told the room was filled with pale, hungry-looking humanoids was: the fighter would yell "EYES!" whereupon my Drow and the other subterranean members of our party would shut and avert our eyes then the fighter would draw and activate his sunblade then he'd sheath it and we'd open our eyes and brush the vampire-dust off ourselves...
I lost count of the number of vampires we offed in one night alone using that tactic.
And, as we know from Bram Stoker, exposing it to daylight won't kill it...
As an aside, one of the things I found good about the short-lived "Moonlight" series is that the vampires could go about in daylight but they decayed faster, requiring more frequent feeding (blood) to halt and heal the decay.
As every supernatural thing they did entailed increased use of their resources (tired them made them decay) and therefore required more blood, it put an upper limit on what they could do between feeds (which they had to be careful about due to their version of the "Masquerade"). So doing something superhuman while being out in the sun might be possible - but undesireable under certain circumstances (like you don't know how long it will be before you can safely feed - which is probably most the time as "seeing the future" is not one of their powers).
I don't see why, in a game context, removing a vamp's vulnerability to sunlight requires the removal of an advantage or the imposition of another weakness to "balance" it - it's not like it's their only weakness and they're not meant to be easy to get rid of, anyway.
They managed to get by without exposing vampires to daylight in the original Dracula... which, iirc, mentioned wild dog rose also adversely affects vampires - something you don't often see mentioned in many modern books/movies (one of the Fright Night movies being the only thing I can think of - and apparently the character got the idea from reading Stoker's Dracula).
A former GM for one of our games would have given her soul for vampires that were immune to sunlight. Our standard response to being told the room was filled with pale, hungry-looking humanoids was: the fighter would yell "EYES!" whereupon my Drow and the other subterranean members of our party would shut and avert our eyes then the fighter would draw and activate his sunblade then he'd sheath it and we'd open our eyes and brush the vampire-dust off ourselves...
I lost count of the number of vampires we offed in one night alone using that tactic.
