Hey Alzrius mate!
I kind of want to see the higher-order vampire templates, if for no other reason than Alabaster really needed to have one (seriously, the guy has the baseline
vampire template, which lets 1 round of sunlight kill him).
Looking at my notes an earlier idea was for: Vampire < Nosferatu
At some juncture in the plans the Nosferatu became a planar vampire and sort of its own thing and I developed a bit of a more interesting ecology for the Nosferatu; with the full entry now comprising 9 separate creatures and 2 further closely associated monsters.
...and of course the other types of planar vampires were similarly expanded (because I'm a bit silly like that).
That said, vampires do have an end state...the K _ _ _ _ _ _, ;-)
But one of the weird situations as regards putting together a small (small enough that even I can finish it in a reasonable time-frame) addendum is with a more limited number of entries is that if I, for instance, do a major entry for Umbrals or Nosferatu or almost anything...its about 8-10 monsters. Which is going to completely dominate any such book and thus potentially put off those wanting a bit of variety - hence my question in this thread.
The original Bestiary was probably far too dominated with Angels as it was. Imagine if I cut the size of the book in half and released it as its own product. It would be:
5 Abominations,
Akalich
Akishra
Amidah
7 Angels
Atata
Brood, Syzygy
(I'd have to cut the Cogent to fit in the OGL.)
In such a case I may as well have made the whole book revolve around epic angels and I doubt that would have been as interesting.
So the larger question is, if you had the choice would you want
A. 16 different (as in unrelated) entries
or
B. 8 related entries with an additional 8 or so unrelated.
or
C. 2 entries each with 8 related monsters
I'm not sure but maybe 'B' might be the most viable. Or the latter?
Epic Bestiary - Addendum A: Atomic Demons & Vampire Gods
Epic Bestiary - Addendum B: Dead Gods & Primordials
Epic Bestiary - Addendum C: Alien Entities & Fallen Angels
Epic Bestiary - Addendum D: Overdeities & Demiurges