The Hive is (realy) Dead! Long Live the Hive Mind!

[Dog Moon]

Me, personally, I used to like the idea of the Vampire a lot more than I do now. Too many people, IMO, have attempted to do something with the vampire and it just isn't as mysterious or 'cool' anymore. Maybe I'm not reading/watching the best sources for Vampire material, but they seem overdone and rather boring now. It's like 'yay, another vampire shore. yippee' without any real enthusiasm.

I wrote a book once that I haven't done anything with which has a couple of Vampires in it. They are most certainly not the focal point of the book, but they do have a presence there. I attempted to put a slight spin on the Vampire, making them servants of the Master of the Dead, his elite guards. They can be killed, but it is quite difficult and the weakness to the sun came as a result of several Vampires betraying their Master. This was their punishment in order to prevent them from conquering the Humans.

Similar to normal in their strengths, but with a slight twist.

I think that's why I like this show. It was about a cop, but it wasn't the Vampire attempting to overcome Demons from without, but Demons from within as he attempted to find his mortal self. Same Vampires, but different twist. That's what the world needs more of...

Different twists.

 

[Aurora]

I like vampire movies. 'Cept that terrible one that had that R&B singer in it that is now dead.....I think. I tried to read Anne Rice's books about vampires, but have a short attention span and never got into them.

 

[Dog Moon]

I like vampire movies. 'Cept that terrible one that had that R&B singer in it that is now dead.....I think. I tried to read Anne Rice's books about vampires, but have a short attention span and never got into them.

The one with Aaliya. Queen of the Damned! [Took me a few moments of hard thinking to remember that]. I thought she was hot in the movie, though I didn't think it was very good...

Blade the Series [television] was kinda horrible too. Coulda been good. But wasn't.

 

[megamania]

I wrote a book once that I haven't done anything with which has a couple of Vampires in it. They are most certainly not the focal point of the book, but they do have a presence there. I attempted to put a slight spin on the Vampire, making them servants of the Master of the Dead, his elite guards. They can be killed, but it is quite difficult and the weakness to the sun came as a result of several Vampires betraying their Master. This was their punishment in order to prevent them from conquering the Humans.

Similar to normal in their strengths, but with a slight twist.

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I like that possibly better than the Stroker origin. Well done.

 

[megamania]

So here's a question ANYONE can answer: what do y'all think about Vampires? You can feel free to give whatever your thoughts are in any media you prefer to discuss, if any at all.

Much like yourself, I feel they are over used and too powerful. Only by borrowing the White Wolf / Blade infrastructure do they make sence. The more powerful ones run houses that control a lot in secret. Hide in the shadows and pull strings to live forever.

I would like to see a good way of building the Vampire abilities in DnD to show age and/or bloodline. I tried it in 2e for Darksun but I couldn't control the power levels very well.

 

[Dog Moon]

Much like yourself, I feel they are over used and too powerful. Only by borrowing the White Wolf / Blade infrastructure do they make sence. The more powerful ones run houses that control a lot in secret. Hide in the shadows and pull strings to live forever.

I would like to see a good way of building the Vampire abilities in DnD to show age and/or bloodline. I tried it in 2e for Darksun but I couldn't control the power levels very well.

Yeah, I kinda do like the Houses idea that was created and used by White Wolf and perhaps a few others. Don't know if WW created the idea or simply made it commonly used though...

As for the showing age, I know Ravenloft had done that in 2e and I woulda sword they had done something in 3e as well, though it of course would be a 3rd party source. Thought WW had done something there as well for d20.

And if you haven't heard, sounds like Monte Cooke is making WoD d20. Perhaps that will add in some bloodline stuff for d20.

 

[megamania]

curious.

 

[megamania]

anyhow....I gotta go.


cya hive.

 

[Dog Moon]

anyhow....I gotta go.


cya hive.

Later.

 

[Bront]

So here's a question ANYONE can answer: what do y'all think about Vampires? You can feel free to give whatever your thoughts are in any media you prefer to discuss, if any at all.

Vampires suck