Cures for Vampirism: Help!

[Creamsteak]

Came up last night that while still running my normal campaign that a character became afflicted with vampirism. The PC's want to cure it of the character and I don't have any problem with that, but how should I do it? I need an answer by Thursday, and its Wednesday right now... Help!

 

[Hypersmurf]

Well, by "afflicted with vampirism", do you mean they were slain by a vampire's energy drain attack and arose 1d4 days after burial as a vampire spawn?

In that case, you need to kill them again and use Resurrection or True Resurrection. Raise Dead won't cut it.

-Hyp.

 

[Turlogh]

Some kind of resurrection spell might work.

 

[Serpenteye]

Silly Roleplayer

Doesn't he know that vampirism is a positive thing? Bah! Non- powergamers make me sick!

 

[Trellian]

In a recent copy of the Dragon Magazine (doesn't remember which), a magical dagger called the Deitus Dagger could bring vampires back to life. If you hit them with a 20, they had to make a fortitude save to remain vampires. I don't remember the save, but undead generally have low fortitude saves.

 

[DWARF]

So you have a PC that's afflicted with Vamparism... and a comrade wants to help?

That's EASY!

• Stake through the heart
• Direct sunlight
• Cut off his head, rip off his ears and stuff his mouth with garlic
• Submerge him in running water
• Cover him in holy water

Ohhh..... you meant a way to get rid of the vampirism that WOULDN'T kill him.... Oh well.

 

[Tonguez]

Really bad vampire movie I saw once had the newly infected vampires' father (a vet) give her a full blood transfusion and wow she became human again!

Otherwise Resurrection or Wish

Or you could create some other unique method eg submersion in a vat of lemon tea...

 

[MythandLore]

Resurrection, True Resurrection, Miracle or Wish would likely work.

 

[Sammael99]

Came up last night that while still running my normal campaign that a character became afflicted with vampirism. The PC's want to cure it of the character and I don't have any problem with that, but how should I do it? I need an answer by Thursday, and its Wednesday right now... Help!

Creamsteak,

I suspect that you not only want the "official" ways to solve this but maybe also campaign ideas ? In order to suggest interest quests or ideas to solve Vampirism, we'd need to know a bit more :

Did your PC contract vampirism through the normal means (ie. dying at the hands of a vampire) or is it campaign specific ?

Do you consider your infected PC to be irredeemably Chaotic Evil until he's cured or killed or do you play with the idea of him progressively losing control, etc.

Is the player of the infected PC rolling a new character already, do you want him to contribute to the quest to bring him back, etc. ?

 

[Dinkeldog]

Traditionally, if you could kill the master vampire by dawn of that night, you could reverse the vampirism.

That's not canon, though.