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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Green Knight" data-source="post: 259353" data-attributes="member: 2723">That's saying something considering I've got a short fuse. I half expected to be the one to start the flaming in this thread. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />  In regards to my saying I had 3 beefs with the vampire...    What can I say? I like to keep people on their toes. Nah, I just happened to have thought of a 4th thing that I didn't like about them that I had previously forgotten and didn't feel like changing what I had already written.    Yeah. That must be one HELL of a bitchslap!    Link, please?    <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> LMAO! Nice and succint. I like it! Hehehe.    Do you have the Ravenloft campaign setting book? In it, vampires gain greater powers the older they get. Personally, I like those rules a lot. To bad their based on the crap foundation that is the D&D Vampire.    Unless White Wolf puts out D20 books, I doubt we'd ever see such a thing. And whatever else you may say about Vampire: The Masquerade (And personally I never liked the setting or the angst ridden vampire characters. Ugh!), at least their rules for vampires were very well done. They covered all the angles very nicely. As someone else said, there really isn't one single vampire archtype. There're several. White Wolf did an excellent job in representing that. D&D should've done the same. For instance having a list of powers for the vampire to choose from, like the ghost (Which gets 1d3 special attacks out of its list of special attacks). That would've been a nice way to create variety amongst vampires.  But most importantly, I like their rules for creating new vampires. I don't like this bit at all about a new vampire being created when they suck someone dry (Or energy drain them. So bitchslapping someone creates a new vampire?). Pretty much every RPG I've seen requires the vampire make an effort to create a new vampire. Whether it be Rifts, White Wolf, or whatever else. And it's not as if that's unfounded. Didn't Dracula have to feed his blood to someone he wanted to turn into a vampire in order to create one? Sucking them dry til they were dead wasn't enough to do it.     I don't, but that's just me. I much prefer them as horrific monsters over angst ridden and romantic vampires.    Again, I point to the Ravenloft campaign setting book. It has rules for just such a thing. Vampires aging and becoming more powerful over time.</blockquote>

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