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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 3613193" data-attributes="member: 2067">For me, the vampire issue is part of the &quot;magically forced alignment change.&quot; In effect, the vampirism *forces* you to see the world in a fundamentally new way: one that leads you to actions that attract Evil to you. In this way, the undead condition propigates something like a virus or infection: it causes you to seek out what would propigate it. A Good vampire wouldn't be that interested in killing and drinking the blood and draining the levels of many people, if any. An Evil one, however, would spread that around as much as it could, resulting in more vampirism in the world. It's like that fungus that feeds on ants: it infects them, makes them addled, causes them to wander up to a high place so that when it spores, it gets as wide a distribution as possible. Vampirism wants to be spread to as many people as possible, so it gives you a mindset that inspires action that causes it to spread more (and it makes it extra creepy to give the condition an agenda of it's own -- you're not just fighting a vampire, you're battling an malevolent force that wants to consume the souls of everything it can!)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 3613193, member: 2067"] For me, the vampire issue is part of the "magically forced alignment change." In effect, the vampirism *forces* you to see the world in a fundamentally new way: one that leads you to actions that attract Evil to you. In this way, the undead condition propigates something like a virus or infection: it causes you to seek out what would propigate it. A Good vampire wouldn't be that interested in killing and drinking the blood and draining the levels of many people, if any. An Evil one, however, would spread that around as much as it could, resulting in more vampirism in the world. It's like that fungus that feeds on ants: it infects them, makes them addled, causes them to wander up to a high place so that when it spores, it gets as wide a distribution as possible. Vampirism wants to be spread to as many people as possible, so it gives you a mindset that inspires action that causes it to spread more (and it makes it extra creepy to give the condition an agenda of it's own -- you're not just fighting a vampire, you're battling an malevolent force that wants to consume the souls of everything it can!) [/QUOTE]

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