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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Serge" data-source="post: 277272" data-attributes="member: 4049">In my campaign, Vampires come about either by a curse, a special arrangement with one of three gods of evil (two my own, the other Orcus, Demon Prince of Undeath), or by consuming the blood of another vampire after most of the victim's blood has been depleted.  As a result, I don't bother with vampire spawn in my world.  For my world, Vampirism (and Lycanthropy) are the results of a supernatural and evil disease that corrupts the soul and makes it evil and depraved.  Also, most Vampires and Lycanthropes in my world are not interested in sharing their "dark gift" (to steal a Rice phrase) and revel in murdering those lesser than they.  A Vampire most likely to inflict a mortal with vampirism does so out of lonliness, because she herself was cursed, or because she has been ordered to do so by the god/goddess she serves.However, that's my world.  Most legends confer vampirism on any person killed by a Vampire's bite (which differs from classic Lycanthropy in that only a survivor of a werewolf's attack becomes a werewolf).  This, of course, reinforces the suggestion that vampirism is an unholy, unnatural blight that cares nothing for the natural world concepts of not over hunting and such (which in itself is something of a falsehood.  African Elephants are notorious for tearing stuff down... One could argue that this helps out other, smaller animals, but it's unlikely that the Elephants are even considering this beyond their desire for more room and food).There's no indication in Dracula that Lucy is forced to drink the Count's blood (although her character says as much in the movie Bram Stoker's Dracula, it is never mentioned in the book.  That much I remember).  Yet and still, she becomes a vampire when she dies.  Also, we want a more classic, Dracula inspired D&D vampire, we would have to include other changes as well.  Dracula moves around in broad daylight in that book, although he's weaker and trapped in the form he was last in when the sun rises...  D&D Vampires and most movie and book adaptations of Dracula ignore that oft overlooked fact (except Bram Stoker's Dracula.</blockquote>

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