D&D 5E Meet Dracula, THE Vampire Lord for D&D

Often imitated, never bettered. Dracula is the vampire all the other vampires aspire to be. Yes, that includes you, Strahd.

Mythological Figures & Maleficent Monsters for D&D

A beautiful D&D hardcover tome of legendary figures from Achilles to Robin Hood, Thor to Dracula, King Arthur to Baba Yaga!

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[dave2008]

Ok, I finally got a chance to review this and I like it a lot. From what I can see it is a very interesting high CR monster - nice work! My only minor issue is his strength. Dracula was supposed to be a strong as 20 men (at least Bram's version), so STR 20 seems a bit low.

Also, if you tease me too long, I just might have to get my fix somewhere else

 

[Morrus]

Also, if you tease me too long, I just might have to get my fix somewhere else

The pandemic is an issue. Plus, you know we don't launch Kickstarters until we know we can deliver immediately. It's our thing.

 

[Asisreo]

They don't stack, but temporary hit points are granted by the feature/trait/spell, and the amount of temporary hit points granted by it is determined by the number of targets and the total damage dealt.
Using it twice in a row (while he still has temporary hit points from a previous use) would replace whatever leftover temp HP he has when the feature is used a second time.

Would that mean a fiendlock gets temp hp to all creatures he kills with an AoE? I don't think that's particularly broken but I just want to make sure.

That doesn't seem right, though.

 

[Mike Myler]

Would that mean a fiendlock gets temp hp to all creatures he kills with an AoE? I don't think that's particularly broken but I just want to make sure.

That doesn't seem right, though.

Dark One's Blessing (the warlock fiend's first level archetype feature) is for "when you reduce a hostile creature to 0 hit points". That's a single event. You can reduce several creatures to 0 hit points at the same time, but they're all individually getting reduced to 0 hit points on their own because we're talking about their hit point totals.

Lifestealer is "Creatures in the area of effect must succeed on a DC 21 Constitution save or take 21 (6d6) necrotic damage; half of this damage is granted to Dracula as temporary hit points." The single event it is referring to is all the creatures in the area of effect taking necrotic damage at the same time (not what their totals are afterwards), and care was taken not to word it like other area effects (typically these things read as "A creature in the area makes a blah blah saving throw, taking blah blah on a failure or half as much on a success.") in so far that it specifically refers to creatures (plural) within the same sentence.

 

[Mike Myler]

and I resisted saying it before but Dracula would d-e-s-t-r-o-y Strahd any day of the week :3

 

[Tyler Do'Urden]

According to the Midgard Worldbook, King Lucan is only an ordinary MM "warrior vampire"...

...yeah, screw that. Should my PCs ever come toe-to-toe with Lucan, THIS is the stat block I'm using.

 

[Tonguez]

Wheres the neck biting and blood sucking?

 

[Mike Myler]

Page 81 (and his legendary actions and stuff are on page 82). He's one of the real heavy hitters in the book and gets all the pages he wants (all his stats are in the original post too, just not all spiffy).

 

[Morrus]

Wheres the neck biting and blood sucking?

On the next page.

 

[Olrox17]

Hrm. You guys just inspired me to create my own stat block for a Castlevania Dracula. Already did that back in 4e, I’m going to port it over 5e.