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<blockquote data-quote="Primitive Screwhead" data-source="post: 3966677" data-attributes="member: 20805"><p>No.</p><p> Just say No.</p><p>Vampiric PC's going against Strahd might work with the entire party being vampiric spawn, but not with one lone-wolf hiding from the rest. If I were to run that sort of party, the first thing that Strahd would do is reveal the vampire PC... and then once that PC is destroyed by the party, 'reveal' another PC <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>However, if the entire party is made of of characters who know of the vampire in thier midsts and want to help it recover its mortal life, I would echo the recommendation to use the Vampire Spawn class progression out of the Libris Mortis, primarily from the viewpoint of keeping the party power levels somewhat close to each other. Using the Vampire Template, with its +8 LA, would mean the PC would be very low level and not be able to survive much...or if you ignore the LA the PC would be overpowered compared to the rest of the party.</p><p></p><p>This has an additional bite for the player as well. The Vampire Spawn is basically a PrC that requires you to start with at least 5 levels before dying and being raised as a Spawn. This means the Vampire PC would not have all the 'kewl' strengths of a full vampire *and* has a very solid mechanical cost to being 'saved'.</p><p> Any Vampire Spawn levels gained would be lost as part of the characters salvation.. meaning the more he/she has invested in it, the less likely the character will want to be saved.</p><p> A nice delimna for the player <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Primitive Screwhead, post: 3966677, member: 20805"] No. Just say No. Vampiric PC's going against Strahd might work with the entire party being vampiric spawn, but not with one lone-wolf hiding from the rest. If I were to run that sort of party, the first thing that Strahd would do is reveal the vampire PC... and then once that PC is destroyed by the party, 'reveal' another PC :) However, if the entire party is made of of characters who know of the vampire in thier midsts and want to help it recover its mortal life, I would echo the recommendation to use the Vampire Spawn class progression out of the Libris Mortis, primarily from the viewpoint of keeping the party power levels somewhat close to each other. Using the Vampire Template, with its +8 LA, would mean the PC would be very low level and not be able to survive much...or if you ignore the LA the PC would be overpowered compared to the rest of the party. This has an additional bite for the player as well. The Vampire Spawn is basically a PrC that requires you to start with at least 5 levels before dying and being raised as a Spawn. This means the Vampire PC would not have all the 'kewl' strengths of a full vampire *and* has a very solid mechanical cost to being 'saved'. Any Vampire Spawn levels gained would be lost as part of the characters salvation.. meaning the more he/she has invested in it, the less likely the character will want to be saved. A nice delimna for the player :) [/QUOTE]
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