D&D/D20 Vampires and Werewolves...

[Cergorach]

Vampires and Werewolves are some of the oldest 'horror' monsters that people use to scare other people, but in a lot of D&D and D20 games, more stranger beasts are rather popular (such as Beholders or Ilithids). I'm currently planning a campaign that has the short description of: "Humanity rules the land, were elves are legend, and are dragons myth.", so i'm looking for more 'human' antagonists, and i decided that Vampires and Werewolves should be part of my arsenal of antagonists. But to be honest, the default Vampires and Werewolves in the Monster Manual are a bit, how should i say, without much background and rather few options. So i'm looking for D&D and D20 (or OGL) sources that feature and/or expand the 'common' Vampire or Werewolf. I'm primarily an OGC freak, so i prefer OGC sources, but i'm still interested how non OGC sources handle 'their' Vampires and Werewolves.

The following list is what i found or were other people told me to look, as i find more and get pointed to more i'll expand this post, maybe someone else finds this usefull.

Vampire
D&D Monster Manual 3.5 (WotC) p.250-254 => Vampire and Vampire Spawn
D20 Advanced Bestiary (GRR) p.97-101 => Dread Vampire
D&D Ravenloft Player's Handbook (WW) p.196-201 => Ravenloft Vampires

Werewolf
D&D Monster Manual 3.5 (WotC) p.170-178 => Werewolf and Werewolf Lord
D&D Ravenloft Player's Handbook (WW) p.212-217 => Ravenloft Lycantropes

 

[der_kluge]

I saw someone post a variant vampire in, er maybe it was the rogue's gallery. Search for vampire there and it should come up. It was very well done, IIRC.

Other than that, you could consider checking out some of the Van Richten's guides from second edition for the Ravenloft setting.

 

[Felon]

Don't forget Libris Mortis, with it's vamp variants. Persuasive Vammp, Savage Vamp, Pyschic Vamp, and the fairly stupid Moonbane Vamp (or as Lisa Simpson refers to them "reverse vampires").

 

[Kax Tuglebend]

check out Lords of the Night: Vampires http://www.enworld.org/reviews.php?do=product&productid=118795
(i am not a sock puppet!)

it has lots of very different vampire types, the only real draw back is that the writer is somewhat obsessed with level draining attacks (all vampires get a slam attack that drains 1 level.. and quite a few can drain 2 or 3 levels at once) and.. as yet i havent actually found a CR anywhere in the book (but i might just have missed it)

if your interested in human villains there is also Lords of the Night: Liches and Lords of the Night: Zombies (sentient ones)

 

[Gothmog]

Paradigm Concepts brought out a really good lycanthrope book called Slaves of the Moon I believe. Had some great info on lycanthrope and werecreature variants, as well as werecreature specific abilities, feats, spells, and PrCs. I liked it much better than the Van Richten's book on werecreatures.

 

[seankreynolds]

Almost repeating the post I just made in another thread, I'm doing some stuff with lycanthropes in Curse of the Moon and other stuff with vampires in a not-quite-announced future book.

 

[Crothian]

Ultramyth Designeds has a really cool PDF called The Immortal: Vampires

http://www.ultramyth.com/vampires.html

You can read more there on their website

 

[caudor]

Almost repeating the post I just made in another thread, I'm doing some stuff with lycanthropes in Curse of the Moon and other stuff with vampires in a not-quite-announced future book.

Oh man, just thinking about Curse of the Moon gets my toes a' tapping.

On topic: One of my group's most memorable vampires was drawn from Villians - by Bastion Press. It wasn't the stats on this vampire that creeped out my players; but rather, it was his background, flavor, appearance (a clown), and motives. They really got hooked by this villian.

I should also mention, it was this particular villian that inspired my avatar.

 

[talien]

I humbly submit The Complete Guide to Werewolves from Goodman Games: http://www.goodman-games.com/3010preview.php

Features:

* A believable approach to werewolves grounded in traditional folklore from many cultures
* Rules for all aspects of a werewolf campaign, including birth moons, life stages, werewolf breeds, lunar influences, deities and domains, different kinds of transformations, and more
* Almost three dozen new feats, allowing you to customize werewolves however you'd like (whether PC or NPC), as well as a new system of "thorns" or weaknesses that balance out feats
* New prestige classes: the benandanto (good-aligned werewolves dedicated to slaying the forces of supernatural evil), alpha lukos (high priests of the cult of Lycaeon), alpha lucerus (priests of the wolf-god Lupercus), lupicinus (a wolf charmer), lupis venator (the werewolf's most hated enemy), Ulfhednir (werewolves dedicated to slaughter), and Varga Mor (wolf witches)
* New monsters relating to werewolves, new spells, new cleric domains, and new magic items
* A selection of iconic NPCs ready to be inserted into your campaign

 

[Psychotic Jim]

There are several variant vampire strains as well as one or two variant werewolves in Ravenloft's Denizens of Dread. The old 2E Van Richten's Guides might be useful as well.