D&D 5E How To Build Playable Werewolves and Vampires

[Mike Myler]

Or even better:
Create a class that fills the ''monstrous, cursed character'' niche. (I think the Occultist from A touch of Class is similar to this idea)

Archetypes would be:
Vampire
Lycanthrope
Revived (yup, the weird UA one)
Death Knight

This is exactly what the Occultist does. The expanded and revised Occultist (located in the Masterclass Codex) includes these archetypes: abomination, horror, nightmare, ooze, vampire, and werecreature. Example of occultist vampire build --> Mythological Figures: Vlad the Impaler (5E)

(also here: Final Fantasy VII: Vincent Valentine (D&D 5E) )

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

Do you rememer the barbarian's skill "find potion" in Diablo II? When I played I used it always.... and I mean a vampire PC who can "spend blood points" to heal herself could be OP, overpower.

Admit it!, you would like a d20 version of World/Chronicle of Darkness. I don't blame you, but I am afair a D&D version of Vampire: Masquerade/Requiem would need not only a bigger world than Ravenloft, but a complete crystal sphere.

Maybe we could see in the future Ravenloft spin-off about different horror subgenres as post-apocalypse or hell on the earth. American Horror Story, Channel Zero and other terror series show us a Ravenloft adaptation in the screen is possible.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Do you rememer the barbarian's skill "find potion" in Diablo II? When I played I used it always.... and I mean a vampire PC who can "spend blood points" to heal herself could be OP, overpower.

Admit it!, you would like a d20 version of World/Chronicle of Darkness. I don't blame you, but I am afair a D&D version of Vampire: Masquerade/Requiem would need not only a bigger world than Ravenloft, but a complete crystal sphere.

Maybe we could see in the future Ravenloft spin-off about different horror subgenres as post-apocalypse or hell on the earth. American Horror Story, Channel Zero and other terror series show us a Ravenloft adaptation in the screen is possible.

Well, no, that isn't what I want. I want to be able to play a vampire in an otherwise standard DnD game.

But I'd love to see them appear in a book dedicated to expanding on gothic horror with an exploration of Innistrad, and a whole chapter on buiding regions and worlds that explore these themes in your homebrew campaign world.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

The vampire wasn't not only a monster class in 3.5 and a base class in 4th edition, but also some 3PP published their own version. Vampire PCs aren't good for dungeon crawling. They may suffer "friend fire" by divine spellcasters, and in dessert zones feeding is harder. I wouldn't explore the underground with a vampire when I know if we don't find humanoid enemies he will be hungry...

My suggestion for theriantropes as PCs is a class like the shifter from Pathfinder, but with other name, nagual. WotC web published template classes for werewolves.

Savage Progressions: Ghost and Werewolf Template Classes

Savage Progressions: Ghost and Werewolf Template Classes

archive.wizards.com

* I think there is a open door for Innistrad, but not yet. The demiplane of dread will come back, and later some spin-off more..."epic metal", as Kult: lost divinity, Doom Eternal, Mortal Kombat, Hellgate: Lodon, Diablo (by Blizzard) or Clive Baker's Jericho.

 

[Mike Myler]

Admit it!, you would like a d20 version of World/Chronicle of Darkness.

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[Weiley31]

Well if nobody minds, If I use the Abomination in here as a class choice for my players, I'm using the Monk reskinned version.