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<blockquote data-quote="Cleon" data-source="post: 6552960" data-attributes="member: 57383">As I said before, I think we should specify a minimum weight for the &quot;lump of salt&quot;.The original text says they &quot;find pure salt repugnant&quot; so do we want to make any mention of purity? I'm thinking we might as well.Oh, and it also says the line of salt doesn't work if there are any breaks in it, so we'd better include that.How's this:Drow 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.I used used the price of a wooden holy symbol for the cost of the &quot;blessed salt&quot;.I wondered about allowing the &quot;purified&quot; salt to rebuke as well as turn, so it's usable by evil clerics. e.g. &quot;been consecrated or desecrated in a temple (costs 1 gp and can be used as a holy or unholy symbol to turn or rebuke drow vampires, depending on the alignment of the temple.)&quot;It seems better to keep it &quot;blessed salt&quot; based on positive energy though. A regular vampire isn't repulsed by an unholy symbol, after all!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cleon, post: 6552960, member: 57383"] As I said before, I think we should specify a minimum weight for the "lump of salt". The original text says they "find pure salt repugnant" so do we want to make any mention of purity? I'm thinking we might as well. Oh, and it also says the line of salt doesn't work if there are any breaks in it, so we'd better include that. How's this: Drow 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. I used used the price of a wooden holy symbol for the cost of the "blessed salt". I wondered about allowing the "purified" salt to rebuke as well as turn, so it's usable by evil clerics. e.g. "been consecrated or desecrated in a temple (costs 1 gp and can be used as a holy or unholy symbol to turn or rebuke drow vampires, depending on the alignment of the temple.)" It seems better to keep it "blessed salt" based on positive energy though. A regular vampire isn't repulsed by an [B][COLOR="#FF0000"]un[/COLOR][/B]holy symbol, after all! [/QUOTE]

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