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I think most people will have heard the name before, but there's certainly a large group of people now (especially the younger generations) who don't know the lore and just know him to be "some vampire."

I never knew that all I needed to do was say something is so three times to make it a trend. ROFL. I would agree with the sentiment at a high level, and I personally wouldn't be bothered one bit by an IP labeling a species of three-headed dogs as cerberi. That said, I think the relative rarity...

Add to that the fact that while Dracula was the catalyst for a new lore of vampires as these seductive, "noble" beings who just so happened to murder people for sustenance, the public's idea of what a vampire is these days is no longer aligned with the Dracula mythos. Lestat and Strahd are...

I saw a couple of articles talking about this very connection as well. It's all speculation, but the evidence seems to point to that writing as the source of the idea. It seems like Gygax went with the altered version of the gorgon from that book as a play on it having the same name as the...

Yeah, that's one problem with a lot of the Greek mythological monsters as they're not very easy to extrapolate to modern day settings that make up the bulk of fiction. I don't anymore, but I imagine that what we're talking about is so limited in scope that 99% of people who do read comic books...

Also, this "genericization" of Dracula as a reference for vampires as a class of entities won't ever happen because of the fact that the association of the character Dracula as "the" vampire is not nearly strong enough. Band-Aid still has a strong enough brand recognition to be "the"...

It's not really a convention, though, if only an extreme minority of the relevant population knows about it and/or cares to use it. This really sounds like you having heard a term being used, having adopted it for yourself, and now hoping you can get it over so it's the "cool" term to use. ;)...

That's a very specific and limited scope to extrapolate to the whole of society, far outweighed by the ubiquity in movies, television, etc. where the term "vampire" is indeed the generic term. You're certainly free to refer to vampires as "draculas" if you wish, but it's not what the...

BINGO. We have Clash of the Titans to thank for that. I was in early grade school when that movie first came out, and it was more or less my introduction into Greek mythology. I was surprised to find out, after jumping all over the actual mythology, just how much the filmmakers pulled out of...

Fluffy is not referred to as "a cerberus" or "the cerberus". He is referred to very specifically as a "three-headed dog." The name "Cerberus" is not used in either the book or the movie.

You are quite literally the first person that I have ever heard refer to the category of vampires by the name of the arguably most famous one. Everyone knows that Dracula is _a_ vampire: the books, the movies, etc. make it abundantly clear when they refer to his victims becoming vampires. And...

I think it all boils down to how ubiquitous that information is. Very few people, relatively speaking, are going to know what the heck a gorgon, but most will have probably at least have heard the name Medusa (all thanks to Clash of the Titans way back in the day). Practically everyone has heard...

I agree that CR 8 seems a little low. I'm putting a version of Cerberus myself for my homebrew campaign setting as I need something tougher to tackle a party of 7 that is already currently at 7th level and will likely be substantially higher level by the time they reach "puppy".

Talk about coincidences... I literally just ordered a Cerberus toy on Amazon last night to use as a miniature stand-in since I was planning on bringing it into my campaign setting as a guardian for an important item in the campaign.

They've at the very least dealt with player character permadeath, though, which should be condition them to at least expect that their characters _can_ die, if nothing else. :)

Props on the name of the class. I've been designing a couple of Intelligence based classes for my campaigns, and the best names I was able to come up with were Tactician (so-so) for the martial class and Expert (just sounds like a boast) or Surgeon (too narrow) for the healing/support class. I...

It took me a few moments to realize that the black dragon logo in the upper right corner of the cover art for Unseen Waterdeep contained a stylized "AL" for "Adventurers League" rather than a stylized "4" which I assumed meant "4E".

I'm just a practical, realistic person. Get back to me when the Hannibal movie with the elephants comes out and we can revisit this convo. ;) And I would pay good money to see what Hannibal Lecter would do with a bunch of elephants and soldiers in the Alps!!

As an American-born Chinese person, I'm heartened to see legendary figures from my ancestors' culture included, especially since anytime anything "Asian" is used in Dungeons & Dragons and similar games, it seems like it's always based heavily on Japanese culture. I love how much stuff she's got...

I'm ambivalent one way or another about Eberron as a setting -- I didn't play 3/3.5/4E and the idea of the world, at least at a high level, isn't that interesting to me for the most part -- but I do agree that if they're going to introduce a whole new campaign setting they shouldn't half-ass it...