The Vampie Class preview

[TerraDave]

much better, and much edgier, then I expected.

And it encourages necking among the party members, which is something I think the game has really needed.

 

[Nemesis Destiny]

This blood drain mechanic also gives you a good reason to knock foes unconscious - food for later!

 

[gyor]

Odds are the vampire will have an mc feat in hos. You probably won't be able to trade for encounter powers but you'll be able to trade your dailies and utility powers for another class's.

 

[twilsemail]

Odds are the vampire will have an mc feat in hos. You probably won't be able to trade for encounter powers but you'll be able to trade your dailies and utility powers for another class's.

I can see them writing a custom version of Novice Power that grants Blood Drain.

I like it over all. Unlike some others I really appreciate the Sunlight drawback. It's really flavorful and avoided if you spend the costly sum of 1 GP.

 

[gyor]

I can see them writing a custom version of Novice Power that grants Blood Drain.

I like it over all. Unlike some others I really appreciate the Sunlight drawback. It's really flavorful and avoided if you spend the costly sum of 1 GP.

Yeah some people are making a huge deal out of it, but come on a heavy cloak is enough to ignore it, not even a full body wrap. It got to be the easist weakness to over come. Even the radiant resistance is easily over come. Heck play a deva vampire and ask what vulnerablity?

 

[Nichwee]

Unlike some others I really appreciate the Sunlight drawback. It's really flavorful and avoided if you spend the costly sum of 1 GP.

I like that too. A way to have a Vamp in a group that isn't constantly forcing the rest of the party to only operate at night but can have issues at times.
It allows the DM to effect the player in less vital moments such as:
"You approach the town gates, the guards ask to see your face as they are on the lookout for some wanted bandits. You can keep your hood up and risk the guards' anger or take sunlight to the face."
to push the RP-side without having to screw anyone over too much.
I might also make the Vamp do a save whenever he is knocked prone in daylight to see if he exposes himself to the sun - minor action on his turn to pull his hood back up and avoid the issues.

 

[gyor]

Imagine a vampire that multiclasses to get legendary sovergien ed. As long his encounter attack never misses he has endless supply of potiential surges. Now add an artificer. And say they don't support artificers

A cool race to mix with the vampire is shifters. I don't know if longtooth shifters regen stacks with vamires regen, but thematically its cool. Razorclaw is cool as well, good way to simulate vampiric superspeed. You could play Tabitha from Staked. Void city here I come. I hope the vampires powers mix with shifters pp.

Wierdest mix would be I think Shardmind, Warforged, and Wilden. I'm going to drink your sap mawhahaha. Or a Foulborn vampire. Undead and abberant, talk about being a wanton violation of nature.

 

[Dausuul]

Whoa. D&D finally has rules for playing actual vampires--not half-vampires, quasi-vampires, or wannabe-vampires--that don't gimp your character beyond all reason, and produce a character who really feels like a vampire. I approve.

(And I strongly approve of the "burns in sunlight" effect. I was afraid they'd wuss out on that. I think it could stand to be a little nastier, in fact--dazed instead of weakened, say, so that it not only fries you but makes it harder to escape--but this will do.)

On a related topic, I really, really want to see this new warlock build.

 

[UngeheuerLich]

Yes, as much as i thought vampire as a class is a bad idea when i saw a poll somewhere, maybe this class thing is the much more reasonable choice.

When I wrote about multiclass feats i did not mean a feat to become a vampire as a multiclass (a feat that is obviously also needed) but just those normal multiclass feats we already know and some more that allow multiclassing into slayer or thief.

Some things that need to be tackled are paragon multiclassing and those required feats for it, as obviously having a daily power from a class like a slayer is impossible.

 

[gyor]

Mixing vampires into a slayer, what would Buffy say.