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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 6551669" data-attributes="member: 57383">Drow Vampire "In Ravenloft" Working DraftTo be appended to the <a href="https://www.enworld.org/index.php?posts/6517695/" target="_blank">Drow Vampire Working Draft</a>.In RavenloftThe drow vampires of the Lands of Dread differ in some respects from those described above. Use the following rules. Any abilities or statistics that are not covered are the same as the standard drow vampire template.Attack: A drow vampire retains all the attacks of the base  creature and also gains a dread touch attack (see special attacks). If  the base creature can use weapons, the vampire retains this ability. A  creature with natural weapons retains those natural weapons. A drow  vampire fighting without weapons uses either a dread touch attack or its  primary natural weapon (if it has any). A drow vampire armed with a  weapon uses its dread touch or a weapon, as it desires.Full Attack: A drow vampire fighting without weapons uses either  its dread touch attack (see special attacks) or its natural weapons (if  it has any). If armed with a weapon, it usually uses the weapon as its  primary attack along with its dread touch or other natural weapon as a  natural secondary attack.Special Attacks: Remove the basic drow vampire's Blood Drain attack and replace it with the Dread Touch attack.Dread Touch (Ex): A drow vampire can drain the blood and vital  fluids from a living creature, dealing 1d6 points of Constitution damage  plus 1 point of Constitution drain. This requires a successful touch  attack that leaves a bloody welt upon the victim's skin. A drow vampire  can also apply its dread touch by making a successful grapple check.  This normally deals 1d6 Con damage plus 1 Con drain, but if the  grappling drow vampire succeeds in pinning its opponent the dread touch  deals 1d6+1 Con drain instead. A pinned opponent continues to take 1d6+1  Con drain each round the pin is maintained.Alternatively, a drow vampire can inflict its dread touch by hitting  with a bite attack (such as that possessed by its Alternative Form of a  spider), which does the damage of its bite attack plus 1d6 Con damage  and 1 Con drain.A drow vampire can only use its dread touch once per round whichever method of attack it employs.The drow vampire gains 2 temporary hit points for every point of  Constitution drain it inflicts with a dread touch attack.Constitution  drain caused by dread touch is hard to heal. A character  attempting to  cast any spell to heal the Con drain must succeed on a DC  20 caster  level check or the spell has no effect on the drained  ability. The curse  only affects the dread touch's Con drain, so any  Constitution damage a  victim suffers from a dread touch can be healed  normally. To eliminate  this curse, the effect must be broken with break enchantment or remove curse (requiring a DC 20 caster level check for either spell) or heal  (no CL check required), after which a caster level check is no longer  necessary to magically cure the Con drain.Drow Vampire WeaknessesDrow vampires have a number of weaknesses.Repelling a Drow VampireDrow vampires cannot tolerate salt and are unable to cross an unbroken  line of salt. Similarly, they recoil from a strongly presented lump of  pure salt. To repulse a drow vampire, a lump of salt must weigh at least  one ounce and either be a single piece of natural rock salt (costs 1  sp) or a piece of salt that has been blessed in a temple (costs 1 gp and  can be used by a cleric or paladin to turn drow vampires). These things  don’t harm the vampire—they merely keep it at bay. A recoiling vampire  must stay at least 5 feet away from the creature holding the salt and  cannot touch or make melee attacks against that creature for the rest of  the encounter. Holding a vampire at bay takes a standard action.Slaying a Drow VampireExposure to direct sunlight immediately destroys a drow vampire; direct  moonlight or indirect daylight prevents the vampire from fast healing  and does 2d6 damage per round; indirect moonlight prevents fast healing  and does 1d4 damage per round; starlight prevents the vampire from fast  healing but does no damage. Illumination by any spell with the light  descriptor has the same effect on a drow vampire as moonlight (for  spells of 3rd level or above like daylight) or indirect moonlight (for spells of 2nd level or lower, such as continual flame or light).Immersing a drow vampire in a waterfall robs it of one-third of its hit  points each round until it is destroyed at the end of the third round of  immersion. Water drawn directly from a waterfall and splashed at the  vampire has the same effect as holy water. Waterfall water loses its  harmful properties toward drow vampires as soon as it stops falling.Driving a rock salt stake through a drow vampire’s heart instantly slays  the monster. However, it returns to life if the stake is removed,  unless the body is destroyed. A popular tactic is to bind the creature's  body with silver thread and then burn it to ash.</blockquote>

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