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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Nyeshet" data-source="post: 3121027" data-attributes="member: 18363">I think you've covered it remarkably well. The only real option a vampire has at this point is perhaps setting one of the houses on fire or tricking a child into allowing them entrance. A vampire could still rather easily slay the village - just set fire to their crops once they are nearly ready to harvest. Do this a couple years in a row and the old, young, and infirm will start dying rather regularly. After two - three years the populace will be eatting leaves and dying daily. This presumes, however, that the vampire wishes to slay them all. Really, they just need a source of blood every now and then. The village may have a custom akin to "The Lottery" in which every month or full moon they hold a lottery, and whomever loses is placed in a small public 'building' (little more than four poles and a bit of canvas over it to keep them dry in case it rains) or even tied to a pole in the village square. So long as the village has a few hundred people and enough food every year to get by then this won't be too much of a hassle on their population. And if the vampire only drains (damages) a couple Con a day, then the 'winner' of the lottery might last a while. If the vampire can subsist of non-human blood, they may offer a cow or goat or sheep every week to the vampire - tying it to a pole in the village. Technically, however, D&D vampires do not need to drink blood, so your scenario should work quite well. With Dracula and most other classic vampire stories the vampire either was lord in a castle over several nearby towns and villages, or they were buried outside of a large city. They could feed once every few days and no appreciable drain would occur to the population (in numbers). For a single village, if the vampire needed several Con damaged / drunk a night, it would be difficult to maintain the population. Strike that. I just re-read the SRD, and the Vampire causes Con drain. So it seems that the vampire, if it needs more than 1 Con drained a day, would require at least one humanoid every ten days (36-37 every year) to feed itself. A small village can't support that. A large village or small town might be able to support that, but I think you would really need a small city / large town to realistically support the vampire, as you will likely have someone vanishing every week - if not twice a week.</blockquote>

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