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Help me create a 3.5E LA+0 half-vampire race
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<blockquote data-quote="Hawken" data-source="post: 4880364" data-attributes="member: 23619"><p>It only becomes precedent if others continue to follow that example or use it to justify similar things. And weak or poor descriptions or rules should never be used to make an example or to set a standard.</p><p></p><p>I'm not sure what you're getting at here. What way they are currently written? If you give them the Tomb Tainted Soul feat, they heal through negative energy (Cause Wounds spells, rather than Cure Wounds). </p><p></p><p>That's the way every living thing operates. No one eats to "heal" but to survive. Their need for blood (in addition to food and liquids) could be survival related such as a disease of the blood that causes them to require daily ingestion of fresh blood. Vampires do not inflict negative levels just for the hit point boost, the 5hp they get per negative level is more of a "side effect" of the negative energy transfer rather than a method for healing--especially since they get Fast Healing anyway.</p><p></p><p>I'm not really sure where you're wanting to go with this. If they healed too slowly, they COULDN'T be adventurers. One combat would put them out of commission, assuming they even survived it. No one would want to play anything like that. What coup de grace bite attack? How/why would that be different than any other bite attack? </p><p></p><p>Also, if they have to feed on blood just to heal, that's not even viable, especially for an entire species. The logistics of that would require that they have to feed on another race daily just to survive. You couldn't have more than a dozen or so of those people in the same place at the same time--it would attract too much attention and they would quickly be hunted down and destroyed. </p><p></p><p>If I was around a character like that, I'd just wait til the dhampir was too weak and kill him off. Especially in an evil campaign. Someone knows a character has THAT kind of a weakness, kiss your dhampir good bye! He'd either be another body on the pile, or he'd quickly become enslaved. That kind of weakness is impossible to manage as a PC. A good group wouldn't tolerate that kind of a character. A neutral group might not care until the dhampir's feeding requirements drew a lot of unwanted attention their way. And an evil group would simply either kill or enslave the dhampir by using his weakness against him.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hawken, post: 4880364, member: 23619"] It only becomes precedent if others continue to follow that example or use it to justify similar things. And weak or poor descriptions or rules should never be used to make an example or to set a standard. I'm not sure what you're getting at here. What way they are currently written? If you give them the Tomb Tainted Soul feat, they heal through negative energy (Cause Wounds spells, rather than Cure Wounds). That's the way every living thing operates. No one eats to "heal" but to survive. Their need for blood (in addition to food and liquids) could be survival related such as a disease of the blood that causes them to require daily ingestion of fresh blood. Vampires do not inflict negative levels just for the hit point boost, the 5hp they get per negative level is more of a "side effect" of the negative energy transfer rather than a method for healing--especially since they get Fast Healing anyway. I'm not really sure where you're wanting to go with this. If they healed too slowly, they COULDN'T be adventurers. One combat would put them out of commission, assuming they even survived it. No one would want to play anything like that. What coup de grace bite attack? How/why would that be different than any other bite attack? Also, if they have to feed on blood just to heal, that's not even viable, especially for an entire species. The logistics of that would require that they have to feed on another race daily just to survive. You couldn't have more than a dozen or so of those people in the same place at the same time--it would attract too much attention and they would quickly be hunted down and destroyed. If I was around a character like that, I'd just wait til the dhampir was too weak and kill him off. Especially in an evil campaign. Someone knows a character has THAT kind of a weakness, kiss your dhampir good bye! He'd either be another body on the pile, or he'd quickly become enslaved. That kind of weakness is impossible to manage as a PC. A good group wouldn't tolerate that kind of a character. A neutral group might not care until the dhampir's feeding requirements drew a lot of unwanted attention their way. And an evil group would simply either kill or enslave the dhampir by using his weakness against him. [/QUOTE]
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