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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wombat" data-source="post: 1030862" data-attributes="member: 8447">I read a couple short stories by Charles de Lint of late regarding vampires.  He had an interesting take on them.  They don't age, they heal super fast, they don't sleep in coffins, don't fear the sunlight, have no fear of garlic or holy symbols.Sounds great so far.But each vampire has a particular problem.  Whatever the vampire had loved the most during its mortal life it now fears, hates, and loaths.  Since this story had to do with teens, one of them now hated feared everything about Easter (not in the religious context, but as in Easter Baskets, Easter Hats, Easter Eggs and all like that).  Another one did fear the sun (she had been a Tanning Goddess).  Another had a massive aversion to fuzzy animal slippers (go figure).This is something that I like playing with -- bringing in an unusual problem for my players, something they don't fully expect.  Yeah, they've heard all the tales and those vampire phobias, for example, might have worked at one point (very religious people, people who lived for their garlic fries, etc), but just because one vampire acts that way, not all of them have to.Nice to shake things up -- Monster Manuals make players so complacent!  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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