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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 623855" data-attributes="member: 1656">Strictly speaking, of course, what it says is that a character drained to 0 Constitution or less returns as either spawn or vampire dependent on hit dice.But the template can be added to any humanoid or monstrous humanoid; compare, say, the Death Knight template, which can be added to any evil humanoid of 6th level or higher.  The Death Knight has a restriction on the template itself; the vampire only has a hit dice restriction on vampires created by being drained to 0 Con.So if there are other ways of becoming a vampire (campaign specific, presumably), for instance: being born a vampire a la Blade; drinking the blood of a vampire and subsequently dying a la Chelsea Quinn Yarbro - then perhaps the hit dice restriction does not apply.But that's up to a DM.  If the only way to gain the vampire template is through Con drain, then yes, only base creatures with more than 5HD will be vampires.  But it's not a restriction on the template itself.-Hyp.</blockquote>