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Message: <blockquote data-quote="coyote6" data-source="post: 501610" data-attributes="member: 1225">Well, a kobold Cleric11-12 with a high charisma & the Sun domain would be rather odd, but it'd put the vampire down for good . . . <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />More seriously, and less "Bang! You're dead!", a couple of kobold rogues w/Use Magic Device or rogue/clerics, armed with wands of searing light would really mess with the vampire. Once the kobolds learn they're facing a vampire, they can have some new traps -- something that fires searing light, say. Also, look at all the vampire weaknesses -- D&D vampires are replete with 'em. Areas strung with garlic -- the vampire simply can't enter. Mirrors -- keep the vampire at bay. A tunnel with a roof that collapses, allowing an underground river/stream to flood it -- instant running water, the vamp can't cross it without a coffin, and if he's in it -- 3 rounds 'til destruction.Silence spells near the entries to clearly private areas -- his pals inside can't invite him in, until they get out of the silence (which of course requires running a gauntlet of traps & opponents) or otherwise dispel it. Hmm. Have a long corridor that ends in double doors; on the other side is the entry corridor to the leaders' private areas -- an area a vampire can't enter without invitation. Silence cast on the "private" side of the door mantle, or on a point in space on the private side. The corridor is, say, 10 feet wide (less than 30 feet, in any case) -- thus, the silence fills the whole corridor, keeping noise on one side from reaching the other. Since silence is an emanation, as soon as the door is opened, the "public" side of the door falls under the effects, too. 50-60 feet away, at the far end of the hall, are one or more kobold sorcerers with acid bolt ready (either a new spell, or simply lightning bolts crossed with the Energy Substitution (Acid) feat; either the sorcerers know the spell, or they simply have wands). So, PCs open the door, silence descends, acid bolts (and other spell & missile fire) open up, the vampire can't close, and can't cast spells until he backs up.Feel free to seal the corridor behind 'em with stone wall (via spell or a plain old drop-from-the-ceiling trap), too, pinning the vampire in the silenced area.</blockquote>

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