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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Joël of the FoS" data-source="post: 2455598" data-attributes="member: 17665">The Immortal, a book on vampires by Ben MowbrayThe Immortal, a book on vampiresAuthor: Ben MowbrayType: Accessory – monstersFormat: 136 pages, PDF netbookRelease date: 2005Summary of content: a netbook developing vampires and their powers.Distributor: it is available at <a href="http://www.rpgnow.com" target="_blank">http://www.rpgnow.com</a>Rating: **** Joel of the FraternityThis good sized netbook is all about vampires. While not made for Ravenloft in mind, many of its features can be inserted in a Ravenloft campaign. The main thing I liked is that many of these vampire strains are low powered, and easy to adapt to a campaign with proper background.Ben has read the 1800's vampire novels, as well as modern ones, and he offers many templates derived from literature, like the great Carmillite vampire (from the LeFanu’s Carmilla novel). The author explores many facets of "classic" literature vampirism, each with its own personality and tailored abilities. It also features different vampire folklore from our world. The book content in more details:  - 5 pages on vampire literature review, offering more on vampirism in ancient lore and classic vampire novels.  - 35 pages on the vampire monster, providing more options on roleplaying vampires, feeding, lair, wealth, vampire psychology. This part deconstructs the CR of the monster manual vampire, enabling a DM to tailor a vampire for his own campaign with great ease. It also proposes new vampire powers and weaknesses, using the same method, making it easy to set the CR of a new vampire. The same table is made with age categories, and a list of salient powers with each age category. Follows it is a short discussion on a vampire’s soul, appearance, notes on sleeping and feeding requirement, becoming a vampire, blood draining, etc.Most of these discussions are interesting to read and offer good options. The list of powers is endless and surely would fit any DM’s need for something new about blood suckers.  - 60 pages of new vampire strains follow. 25 types of vampire are discussed, like the Algul (low level encounter: a ghoul-like vampire), Baobban Sith (an enthralling, dancing fey, waiting for you to get charmed to drain you), Cambion (son of an incubus!), the great Carmillite Vampire (a vampire that likes to charm and deceive), Demonic Vampire and Incubus/Succubus, Dhampir, Master Vampire (think Stoker’s Dracula), Nosferatu (think Stoker’s Dracula’s brides), Romantic Vampire (Anne Rice’s vampires), etc. The book covers vampires from the world: Ch’ing Shih (China), Dearg-Due (Celtic), Draugr (Scandinavia), Estrie (Hebrew), Lamia (Greece), Langsuir (Malaysia),  Necurat (Romania), Rakshasa (India), Strigoi Mort (Romania), Upier (Poland), Vampir (Serbia), Vrykolakas (Greece), Zmeu (Moldavia).This material is good inspiration for Ravenloft, but as well good material for MotRD. Most of these monsters are well made and can be easily inserted in Ravenloft, and many can be used with low-level PCs. - The last part of the netbook is about well known vampire NPC (Carmilla, Dracula, Ruthren (from Polidori’s The Vampyre), Varney (from Rymer’s Varney the Vampire) and vampiric gods (the first being Egyptian vampire gods, inspired by Rice I guess). The art is fun, naïve and mostly enhance the book (the Lilith picture is … interesting). The cover is great, I like it a lot. For Ravenloft: The book is a worthy companion to the VRGttV, as this netbook offers many ideas and 3rd ed stats. Recommended.</blockquote>

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