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<blockquote data-quote="Sketchpad" data-source="post: 9177152" data-attributes="member: 9168"><p>I love a good spooky monster tale, and have used a bunch of variations over the years. </p><p></p><p>Want different Vampires? Make them more like beasts with limited intelligence that serve a smarter, and more dangerous master. Give them bat-like features, or even wolf-like. Maybe they don't drain, but devour. Or maybe they want something besides blood (like lifeforce or willpower). What if their nests were in higher regions, like a mountainous cave or a decrepit temple everyone fears.</p><p></p><p>What about werewolves? How about making them smarter and inherently evil. Not instinctual, but truly evil. Maybe they're spreading lycanthropy because that's how their species breeds, and they want to take over the world. Want something truly terrifying, use a werebeast. What happens when your best friend turns into something you've only seen in nightmares? Not wolf, bear, or any other known creature, the werebeast is big, angry, and HUNGRY!</p><p></p><p>With witches, I always like the concept that some magic just corrupts people. In the case of witches, or maybe I should say the classic Hag monster, it's dark magic that causes the hag to become a creature of darkness. Can they be saved? Maybe. Maybe not. Depends on the magic, and the hold it has on them. Maybe they're almost like Deadites from Evil Dead, only magical and more manipulative. Or maybe they're a true creature of darkness feasting on the souls and organs of the pure and noble.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sketchpad, post: 9177152, member: 9168"] I love a good spooky monster tale, and have used a bunch of variations over the years. Want different Vampires? Make them more like beasts with limited intelligence that serve a smarter, and more dangerous master. Give them bat-like features, or even wolf-like. Maybe they don't drain, but devour. Or maybe they want something besides blood (like lifeforce or willpower). What if their nests were in higher regions, like a mountainous cave or a decrepit temple everyone fears. What about werewolves? How about making them smarter and inherently evil. Not instinctual, but truly evil. Maybe they're spreading lycanthropy because that's how their species breeds, and they want to take over the world. Want something truly terrifying, use a werebeast. What happens when your best friend turns into something you've only seen in nightmares? Not wolf, bear, or any other known creature, the werebeast is big, angry, and HUNGRY! With witches, I always like the concept that some magic just corrupts people. In the case of witches, or maybe I should say the classic Hag monster, it's dark magic that causes the hag to become a creature of darkness. Can they be saved? Maybe. Maybe not. Depends on the magic, and the hold it has on them. Maybe they're almost like Deadites from Evil Dead, only magical and more manipulative. Or maybe they're a true creature of darkness feasting on the souls and organs of the pure and noble. [/QUOTE]
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