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<blockquote data-quote="Quickleaf" data-source="post: 7233449" data-attributes="member: 20323">This question came up recently in my PbP Al-Qadim game, though was averted due to the party cleric resisting a tempting offer to be gifted with immortality by an &quot;enlightened&quot; vampire.When it comes to monsters (and especially lore-heavy monsters like vampires), I treat the books as a starting point only and build from there. Some sort of a White Wolf-esuqe &quot;vampirism condition track&quot; would make sense for what you have in mind...you could&nbsp; borrow some of the mechanics from 4e's disease track as inspiration, just making advancing along the track more narrative/quest/moral dilemma/choice based.The big question when RPing with vampires is what leads this vampiric character to justify feeding on others to survive? (i.e. become evil-aligned) Answer that and you crack a lot of the story, and open up all kinds of interesting mechanics. I see that as a gradual progression. Either you need to work with the&nbsp; player of the vampire PC or be such a cunning rat bastard DM that you manipulate them into &quot;damned if you do , damned if you don't choices.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Quickleaf, post: 7233449, member: 20323"] This question came up recently in my PbP Al-Qadim game, though was averted due to the party cleric resisting a tempting offer to be gifted with immortality by an "enlightened" vampire. When it comes to monsters (and especially lore-heavy monsters like vampires), I treat the books as a starting point only and build from there. Some sort of a White Wolf-esuqe "vampirism condition track" would make sense for what you have in mind...you could borrow some of the mechanics from 4e's disease track as inspiration, just making advancing along the track more narrative/quest/moral dilemma/choice based. The big question when RPing with vampires is [I]what leads this vampiric character to justify feeding on others to survive?[/I] (i.e. become evil-aligned) Answer that and you crack a lot of the story, and open up all kinds of interesting mechanics. I see that as a gradual progression. Either you need to work with the player of the vampire PC or be such a cunning rat bastard DM that you manipulate them into "damned if you do , damned if you don't choices." [/QUOTE]

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