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<blockquote data-quote="Ramaster" data-source="post: 5961279" data-attributes="member: 6687585">In my opinion, the right way to go about it is to analyze WHY vampires can't cross running water and then attack the weakness from there (since, in my opinion, being washed over with a torrent from a fully powered Decanter of Endless water DOES constitute as being half-submerged in running water).&nbsp;Well, Wikipedia didn't have much information about the running water weakness... so I went ahead and committed a sin... I checked on YAHOO answers (Dun dun dun)!&nbsp;Some guys there said that vampires can't cross running water because Running Water is considered Holy since Jesus was baptized on a river, but obviously, we can't use that for games where there is no Jesus mythos (like your game, I assume).&nbsp;If we extrapolate and say that running water is a representation of the pureness of the world (and purity in general), then I would argue that Extraplanar Water (The one called or created by conjuration effects) is not, in fact, part of the natural world, therefore making it unfit as a vampire repellant.&nbsp;If you were to implement this rule, however, I would suggest letting your players know (or at least let them do research on the subject properly). Because, if you are playing the &quot;PCs vs DM&quot; game and suddenly inform them of this, they would see this as a Cheap Asspull (Tm) and the situation might escalate into a TPK quickly.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ramaster, post: 5961279, member: 6687585"] In my opinion, the right way to go about it is to analyze WHY vampires can't cross running water and then attack the weakness from there (since, in my opinion, being washed over with a torrent from a fully powered Decanter of Endless water DOES constitute as being half-submerged in running water). Well, Wikipedia didn't have much information about the running water weakness... so I went ahead and committed a sin... I checked on YAHOO answers (Dun dun dun)! Some guys there said that vampires can't cross running water because Running Water is considered Holy since Jesus was baptized on a river, but obviously, we can't use that for games where there is no Jesus mythos (like your game, I assume). If we extrapolate and say that running water is a representation of the pureness of the world (and purity in general), then I would argue that Extraplanar Water (The one called or created by conjuration effects) is not, in fact, part of the natural world, therefore making it unfit as a vampire repellant. If you were to implement this rule, however, I would suggest letting your players know (or at least let them do research on the subject properly). Because, if you are playing the "PCs vs DM" game and suddenly inform them of this, they would see this as a Cheap Asspull (Tm) and the situation might escalate into a TPK quickly. [/QUOTE]

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