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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Rystil Arden" data-source="post: 3123541" data-attributes="member: 29014">Great thread so far--lots of flavourful ideas for verisimilitude in a social environment with a vampire (this really only works if you use the Con-damage variant suggested above).Here's an idea for a slightly different situation though, one with a vampire who is a bit more canny--the villagers in this prosperous town are unafraid to work into the evening, even though they know vampires lurk in these lands come nightfall, and they do not fear the howl of the wolf, or even the creepy gothic mansion overlooking the town on the nearby bluff...for within that mansion dwells a vampire.  Normally this would be cause for fear and paranoia, but this vampire is an urbane fellow who has made a deal with the villagers (perhaps initially leading off with Charm magic, but now it is enforced by sheer popularity)--supply him with a sufficient harem of the village's most beautiful girls at his request, and they have no need to fear the darkness.  The vampire will not attack any of the other villagers, and furthermore, he will kill or drive away any other vampires or werewolves or other creatures that threaten the village--he doesn't want competition.  In the same vein (ha, not a great pun, I know), he will never raise more vampires, as that is more mouths to feed.  He just stays in his mansion with the village's most beautiful girls, slowly feeding on them and letting them recover in an orgy of blood and sensuality.  He allows family to visit the girls, and they are being treated to a life of luxury and all seem to adore him, at least some of them without the effects of Charm or similar magic.This leads to several possible adventure ideas:1) A young man of the village has fallen in love with a beautiful young girl who has been earmarked as the vampire's newest pet.  He seeks outsiders to end the vampire's life, even though the rest of the village would throw him in jail if they knew his intentions--the older villagers remember stories from their grandparents of the times before, and they know they have it good.2) The adventurers are hired by the villagers to hunt down the vampire-hunter VanNachtsing, who has killed the vampire who protected them and taken his head.  News of their protector's death has reached other predators who were frustrated that they had to leave such a healthy town alone, and they are experiencing the horrors of the world once again in full-force.  They want the party to defeat VanNachtsing, killing him if necessary, and bring back the head so that they can revive their old lord--even the young ladies who he once fed upon.  The vampire is dead, so his magic can't be affecting them into making this plea...can it? 3) The vampire usually throws girls away when they get too old, but this time, he's fallen in love.  As he prepares to crown his new immortal Queen of Darkness (and perhaps he'll invite the PCs to the macabre wedding if they helped him out in (2) above), he realises that the status quo will not be able to sustain a ravenous young vampire...to keep his beloved by his side forever, his little town will have to go to war.</blockquote>

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