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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Stormonu" data-source="post: 9890501" data-attributes="member: 52734">I've always been partial to "blood hounds" - wolves, wargs or mastiffs that have been fed vampire blood to give them a little bit of an oomph.  They make great daytime guardians over a sleeping vampire and for stats you simply use the base creature and slap one or two spell-like effects onto them, such as false life, enlarge, bless or the like - and you can scale the supernatural effect by assuming the creatures have fed more or been around longer.   Possibly consider even giving them a stirge-like blood drain effect when they successfully trip opponents, if you want to make them really nasty.<Edit>Also, homonculus, imp or quasit might fit, especially the former as it is a creature made of the caster's congealed blood.  Their terror would come from the constant spying (stealthily, invisibly, or as an innocuous creature such as a raven).  At night, these tiny pests can slink into the party's camp unseen and pass along nightmares (by touch) that disrupt individual party members ability to recover HD, spells or even get a good night's sleep.  In each case, if they are caught and destroyed, the vampire can simply recreate them to once again locate and harass the party (after a brief respite for the party).</blockquote>