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Message: <blockquote data-quote="William drake" data-source="post: 3495832" data-attributes="member: 49143">AhahahaThis is the best quote on the entire thread.“Can’t cross running water” so what, they are carried over like people in wheel chairs? Aren’t there roads, bridges, wooden planks? Have you ever seen what Venice looked like in the 12th and 16th century? (and anyways, that popular note came from the aspects of the bible's Baptisim by Water, so, if you don't use it that way, it really doesn't apply.) Water, excpt in the rare places where you might use really, truly holy water, which hould be rare, has no effect on them. They still bathe, they may not sweat, but they do get dirty other ways.Also, how many humans are there? And how many vampires? If the vampires are living out and about, everyone knows about them, then their can’t be to many people. You see, most people, even being scared won’t submit for ever. That’s always been a factor of vampires...keep yourself hidden least the cattle learn of you and overtake you. “I might stop a bull by being in his way with a gun, but if I get in the way of a herd, even that gun won’t do me any good if they really want to get out.” Get my point. I would advise a few things:Make  it so that those humans who are in power, know of the vampires, and are under their control, thereby, the vampires are incharge. Do not mix other races, keep this a human, vampire tale. *thing of all the extra bull you might have to deal with if you don’t.* Also, vampires, in most opinions, do best if its just a human thing.Also, keep out some of the true D&D classes, but if you wish to keep them, make them fit the story. For example: make a wizard, an Occultist, and make his magic limited. This game I think would do much better on a small scale; hamlets, vast country, wilderness for the vampires to really call upon the things they can control. Also, a single vampire family; more is not always best.Now, I would reconsidered the church thing. Now I know I’m going away from D&D vampires, but...well, who cares. And, if the players are playing characters that know nothing of vampires, then they cant say “well, that’s not how it is in the book.” Ok, so back to the point. I’d keep the churches, make it a vampire joke. Religion doesn’t bother them, they don’t believe in god, or god’s; make the faith in that world, like ours.....everything religious that has ever happened, was a long time ago, and nothing big has happened since. *Then, if you into a cleric who can really do D&D stuff, that will make some heads turn.*Now, keep the sunlight...you can’t just block out the sun, and it would get kind of stupid to see the city having all black lights, and big sky shields or w/e you’d use to make it so that the vampire would have protections. Make it so that the sun, one of their only real weaknesses, isn’t known, there for, they have no reason to fear it; they don’t go outside, and that’s been enough to keep them protected for however long in your story they’ve been there. *might make it that one dude knew, but died ages ago...mysteriously.* Also, without the religious bs, now you can say that sunlight is an actual chemical reaction to their new state of being, how it ignites their cells to the point that lots of heat friction is produced, and fire is the effect. Remember, that vampires like most everything human, they like to be around the pleasures they can no longer have; they use people as go-betweens. They watch humans get drunk, since they cant, they watch humans have sex, since they cant. *Feeding, is the closest thing they have to erotica. The KISS, is what gets them.* Now, have you thought about Vampire Hunters...that could be fun.Lastly, do a lot of good vampire reading: Dracula, and some of the World of Darkness books; Ann Rice is ok, just make sure you understand her reason for using erotica in the way she does. Stay away from Anime, and other crap like Blade and what-not.But then again, these are just my thoughts. I could be wrong.Any way, Game On. And Good Luck.</blockquote>

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