Building A Better Vampire

[trancejeremy]

I haven't seen the Green Ronin Vampire book, but I would agree that the Bottled Imp book is wonderful.

 

[Valiantheart]

I just dont like the idea of Energy Drain on any type of Corporeal dead. Just doesnt make sense to me.

 

[Graf]

Re: Re: Re: Building A Better Vampire

How many months has SHARK been tormenting us?

Over a year would seem to be the answer.
(Maybe he's planning on publishing...)

 

[kenjib]

Hi Shark,

I wrote up a folkloric vampire of the Eastern European, pre-Bram Stoker variety. It's kind of a long write up and not really quite what you're talking about so let me know if you're interested in seeing it (you might even have already seen it in past posts). The basic idea is more of a fellow who returns from the dead to plague his village and cause all sorts of general mischief and mayhem. It presents more of a mystery for the characters to solve with wits than a foe for them to battle with steel. He certainly won't be commanding any legions of undead minions...

 

[Arthur Tealeaf]

I'd really like to see a d20 Anne Rice/Vampire: the Masquerade kind of vampire.

 

[Voadam]

I just dont like the idea of Energy Drain on any type of Corporeal dead. Just doesnt make sense to me.

Energy drain for vamps and wights has become a D&D trope and can work for me, but I prefer it to be tied to a vampire's bite instead of a slam.

Con damage or drain is closer to a folklore view of what happens if your blood is drained.

Which is why I made my variants the way I did, one to represent a magical D&D vamp, and one template to be more movie mythic.

 

[Voadam]

Re: Re: Re: Building A Better Vampire

Shark's been teasing us with tales of this homebrew vampire for ages. He does it just to see us sweat, I know it!
I'll get you SHARK!


How many months has SHARK been tormenting us?

Oooh, one year today!

 

[Valiantheart]

Energy drain for vamps and wights has become a D&D trope and can work for me, but I prefer it to be tied to a vampire's bite instead of a slam.

Con damage or drain is closer to a folklore view of what happens if your blood is drained.

Which is why I made my variants the way I did, one to represent a magical D&D vamp, and one template to be more movie mythic.

Right. I have no problem with the bite having an energy drain effect. That would seem to fit into the mythological aspect of its life draining bite.

But i have problems with a corporeal vampire slapping you across the face and draining your life force out. It doesnt coincide with any of the vampires mythology and exists to essentially make them tougher.

 

[Voadam]

Any who are interested in my variants they are in the pdf monster book available here along with 4 preview monsters from the 50 monster collection (including my risen mummy template): www.unitedplaytest.com/gamingfrontiers/index.html

or just the whole book here http:

www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=1796&

 

[Bran Blackbyrd]

I'd really like to see a d20 Anne Rice/Vampire: the Masquerade kind of vampire.

See, now you're speaking my language.

To pull such a thing off you'd probably have to have lists of abilities you can pick from every so many levels.

If you wanted to start getting complicated, advancing as a class would be pretty normal, but advancing as a vampire would be different; a vampire would become more powerful from A: aging (which is slow, obviously), B: regular old experience? C: drinking the blood of another vampire (because the donor/victim's power would contribute to the one drinking it). Interestingly, it would be harder for a vampire to make more vampires without a willing subject.

Blah, blah, blah. I'm just rattling on.

Edit: I don't know much about V:TM, I'm talking about Anne Rice's vampires.