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Okay, that is just plain silly. The word means rooster, for chrissakes!

Yes, Dracula walks abroad by day. I just saw "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen", and I really appreciated the fact that the Mina Harker character walked in daylight--- the bursting into flames thing is soooo cliche. For Stoker's vampire, the stricture seems to be that the vampire rest...

First off, let me say for the record that in several recent vampire movies, I've seen vampires crawl seeming weightlessly across the walls and ceilings--- and it looked really, REALLY cool. It's just not the mental picture I have of Dracula from the novel. And I have climbed face-first down a...

From the SRD: "Charisma measures a character’s force of personality, persuasiveness, personal magnetism, ability to lead, and physical attractiveness." "Wisdom describes a character’s willpower, common sense, perception, and intuition." A forceful personality and great willpower are two...

By analogy, large animals should also have high Cha scores--- they are imposing. But animals have low scores. I agree that a ghoul is intimidating, which would seemingly be better represented by a modifier to such checks, were it not for the fact that a ghoul is probably just going to try to...

This thread is for anyone interested in modeling a vampire variant that is as true as we can make it to the creatures described in Dracula. My opening thoughts: 1. Vampires in the novel (obviously) don't have Energy Drain, and while Dracula gets his hands dirty disposing of Renfield, he does...

I don't understand why intelligent undead (as opposed to skeletons and zombies) seem to have good or better charisma scores. Sure, with vampires it makes sense, given the tendency to glamorize/romanticize them, and the game-mechanical consideration that their powers are Cha-based. But why...

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I just noticed that the primary natural attack for a half-dragon is her claws, while the primary natural attack for a dragon disciple is her bite. Strange, huh? Shouldn't it be the same for both? Any comments would be appreciated. Thanks.

Here is that link. There is a prestige class in volume 1 called the giant-hunter (or something close) that is a conversion of the 1e ranger.

I may be mistaken, but I believe what you are looking for was included in the Netbook of Classes produced by the FanCC. If I can find the link, I'll post it.

I'm pretty sure that they broke down weapon proficiency feats by type (broad categories of similar weapons) in the Everquest RPG.

'Dagredhel' was the name of my favorite character, an elf (of all things!) I composed his name using Tolkien's elvish as gleaned from the glossary of an old copy of the Silmarrilion. 'Dagr' for 'sword' and 'edhel' for 'tree'. The character went by 'Ironbranch' in the Common tongue (using it...

Hey there. Want to try translating 'Dagredhel' from the elvish into English?

"IMO" in my opinion does not an official ruling make.:D But posting the description of Alter Self was certainly considerate. The reference to using the spell to create a disguise, with the listed bonus to the skill check, makes me wonder whether a druid reincarnated in animal form would have...

Say a druid of 13th or higher level gets killed, and then reincarnated in non-humanoid form. It seems to me that she could use her A Thousand Faces ability to assume the appearance of her original body. (Unless there is a difference of +/- 50% in size, that seems well within the scope of Alter...

***BUMP*** Anyone? Pretty please?

What I was thinking was that the vampire's abilities could be spread over a goodly number of levels, more than a few, to replace the template entirely. A newly 'spawned' vampire would trade-in previous class levels for vampire monster levels on a one-for-one basis. Once the basic vampiric...

You're absolutely right. I missed it. The vampire template is listed as +5 ECL. For a creature to become a full-fledged, templated vampire, rather than a vampire spawn, the creature must start out with 5 or more HD, so a vampire's total level equivalent will be 10 or better. I'd still like...

Hey there. I just finished glancing over Savage Species. I had hoped there would be more on vampires, but oh well. It has interested me in the idea of spreading the abilities of a vampire (spawn?) over a certain number of levels to make a 'monster class' as per the examples in the book. But...