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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Whizbang Dustyboots" data-source="post: 2615385" data-attributes="member: 11760">Stoker, Polidori and ... crap, whoever wrote that Gothic novel about the female vampire, Carmilla, I think her name was.It's been a long time since I got my English degree and I'm at work and unable to look through vampire Web sites right now. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />In any case, D&D is almost entirely concerned about modern takes on fantasy, as opposed to games like Ars Magica. While there is an audience for things like Green Ronin's Mystic Vistas classical and antiquity settings, for the most part, D&D is thoroughly modern. (Look at the takes on zombies and werewolves, for instance, or dragons.)Modern vampires, which started in the 19th century and were a popular literary sensation at the time, are creatures of passion, who feel regret, sorrow, fear and love. It doesn't stop Dracula from being a creature of evil, but I would submit that the reason vampires didn't capture the imagination until those traits were added was that the shallow beasts they were traditionally portrayed as are, frankly, kind of boring.In any case, if the D&D vampire bothers you (and he bothers a lot of us -- level draining always seems clumsy to me when grafted onto the vampire), there are oodles of variants out there. It's one of the many reasons to pick up Denizens of Dread, for instance. You can get your bestial vampire and I get my blood-drinking vampire (along with bitchin' racial vampires).</blockquote>

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