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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cor_Malek" data-source="post: 5331324" data-attributes="member: 91608">Damn, that sounds like a really fun idea with a lot of potential.It would also allow a lot of directions from very start. Is this a druid inflicted by vampirism or a vampire that decided to become a druid?He could hate/dislike idea of vampires, but once he get's it - well what's he going to do, roll over and die? How would that be better? Or he might not understand what's the problem with him having developed canines and not tolerating sun.Vampires get inexplicably bad rep. As their food-source is renewable and they don't have to kill victims, they're already above all carnivores. And human-vegetarians, who unlike some more careful animals mostly kill the entire plant they're eating. So I'd say they're as bad as, um... giraffes? They don't have to kill to survive, but sometimes it happens if they don't pay attention to how much they ate.Killing all victims? Um... tricky to pull off (rationalization-wise), as there's a lot of bio-mass just going to waste.I'd say that a very good way to do this, would be to have the vampire druid stripped of druidic powers, and have him work his way up/back to them. Show that he can shield nature in his current condition.Underground ecosystems could even mean that a lot of people are not aware this druid is a vampire. And dwarfs could make for even better targets for druidic turf wars than humans.Of course there's this whole unnatural, undead thingie. Thankfully, none of those has ever been explained in a comprehensive way. Unnatural? Well they're part of nature, so evidently not. Undead? Well it might not be so obvious in many cultures, including XX-XXI c. Earth, where heart beat is not defining life or death. Change of definition of "alive" was mostly a pragmatic thing - which part cannot be replaced / stop of what organs cannot be restored. For example - resurrected adventurers are not considered undead. They were dead and they returned, so what's the deal?RPG's are made up things. So if you want to have something - just do it, and rationalize your way up! IMO that's pretty much the whole point!</blockquote>

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