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<blockquote data-quote="Guest&amp;nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 8503700"><p>I tend to think of AD&amp;D genre emulation more as fitting the genre to the framework of the conceits of D&amp;D (which I do think works but does have some of the issues you pointed to here). I was a Ravenloft GM so I remember that kind of unfolding in real time where the vampire started to come more in line with stuff like Dracula (I also think the Ravenloft line made monsters like that highly useable for gaming purposes and found ways to to build campaigns around them). With the AD&amp;D vampire I am a little torn. i kind of liked having both, because I saw the AD&amp;D vampire as this ferocious life energy draining creature (a little more like the monsters from Lifeforce). And that was pretty scary. But I was also a huge fan of vampire movies and vampire novels at the time, and leaned more towards the Ravenloft vampires. I will say, the AD&amp;D vampire is definitely odd on first encounter, I do remember expecting a vampire to be like out of the movies and it functioned pretty different. Still overall, life draining undead that cost you levels when they hit, always got my attention as a player.</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="Guest 85555, post: 8503700"] I tend to think of AD&D genre emulation more as fitting the genre to the framework of the conceits of D&D (which I do think works but does have some of the issues you pointed to here). I was a Ravenloft GM so I remember that kind of unfolding in real time where the vampire started to come more in line with stuff like Dracula (I also think the Ravenloft line made monsters like that highly useable for gaming purposes and found ways to to build campaigns around them). With the AD&D vampire I am a little torn. i kind of liked having both, because I saw the AD&D vampire as this ferocious life energy draining creature (a little more like the monsters from Lifeforce). And that was pretty scary. But I was also a huge fan of vampire movies and vampire novels at the time, and leaned more towards the Ravenloft vampires. I will say, the AD&D vampire is definitely odd on first encounter, I do remember expecting a vampire to be like out of the movies and it functioned pretty different. Still overall, life draining undead that cost you levels when they hit, always got my attention as a player. [/QUOTE]

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