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<blockquote data-quote="Green Knight" data-source="post: 670049" data-attributes="member: 2723">Wow! Can't believe this thread is still going! Anyway, to add to the discussion: &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Exactly my point. They kept drinking from this guy and he didn't die. If he didn't recover, then he would've been dead pretty fast. So he obviousl recovered enough that they could keep drinking from him without killing him. So people do recover from a vampire bite. At least according to Bram Stoker. It seems like such a pointless thing to me. More like that rule's there to screw with PC's rather than to portray a vampire the way it should be portrayed. And if the goal is to create a critter that exists solely to screw with PC's, then why not create a wholly new critter? Or a vampire variant? But for the vampire itself, let's keep it as sensible and as close to the source material (As in Dracula) as possible. &nbsp;And hey, if you want a vampire that DOES do permanent CON damage, why not make it a variant? Or give vampires a list of additional powers to choose from, like the Ghost, which makes them more unique? That's my opinion, anyway. &nbsp;Whatever the case, here's hoping D&amp;D 3.5 does a better job of it when it comes to the vampire.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Green Knight, post: 670049, member: 2723"] Wow! Can't believe this thread is still going! Anyway, to add to the discussion: Exactly my point. They kept drinking from this guy and he didn't die. If he didn't recover, then he would've been dead pretty fast. So he obviousl recovered enough that they could keep drinking from him without killing him. So people do recover from a vampire bite. At least according to Bram Stoker. It seems like such a pointless thing to me. More like that rule's there to screw with PC's rather than to portray a vampire the way it should be portrayed. And if the goal is to create a critter that exists solely to screw with PC's, then why not create a wholly new critter? Or a vampire variant? But for the vampire itself, let's keep it as sensible and as close to the source material (As in Dracula) as possible. And hey, if you want a vampire that DOES do permanent CON damage, why not make it a variant? Or give vampires a list of additional powers to choose from, like the Ghost, which makes them more unique? That's my opinion, anyway. Whatever the case, here's hoping D&D 3.5 does a better job of it when it comes to the vampire. [/QUOTE]

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