Desdichado
Legend
OK, so I'm dusting off an adventure that I prepared earlier for a new setting. The PCs in my group may tonight (but probably not until next session or even later) encounter a vampire. However, I don't want this to be a regular vampire.
For one thing, the setting is fairly untraditional. There are no demihuman races. There are all new classes. The magic system (both arcane and divine) have been yanked out and replaced with Cthulhu-style magic. There's no turning of undead.![:]](http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png "Devious :]")
I want my vampire to be pretty different from what they're expecting. I actually have a miniature (I don't have a digital picture of my paint job yet, but trust me; this one's better anyway -- see attached image. My colors are a bit different, but it's still the same basic idea) and to scale, this bad boy's gotta be about 15 feet tall and have more muscle bulk than East German Women's Swim teams (gotta get my little Top Secret joke for the day in...) not to mention being studded with steel plates bolted all over it's body, and wielding a sword that's actually bigger than the PCs.
So, I want this guy to be really strong, have a high To Hit and Damage characteristic, and be blindingly fast and nasty. Rather than drinking your blood, he probably just munches on your flesh, and does a Con drain thingy that can mummify a person in 30 seconds flat.
Any other ideas on how to make this guy interesting, and different that other vampires you've seen in the past?
For one thing, the setting is fairly untraditional. There are no demihuman races. There are all new classes. The magic system (both arcane and divine) have been yanked out and replaced with Cthulhu-style magic. There's no turning of undead.
I want my vampire to be pretty different from what they're expecting. I actually have a miniature (I don't have a digital picture of my paint job yet, but trust me; this one's better anyway -- see attached image. My colors are a bit different, but it's still the same basic idea) and to scale, this bad boy's gotta be about 15 feet tall and have more muscle bulk than East German Women's Swim teams (gotta get my little Top Secret joke for the day in...) not to mention being studded with steel plates bolted all over it's body, and wielding a sword that's actually bigger than the PCs.
So, I want this guy to be really strong, have a high To Hit and Damage characteristic, and be blindingly fast and nasty. Rather than drinking your blood, he probably just munches on your flesh, and does a Con drain thingy that can mummify a person in 30 seconds flat.
Any other ideas on how to make this guy interesting, and different that other vampires you've seen in the past?
