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Vampire Sunlight Protection
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This thread has some hilariously bizarre ads on the top bar and side.
some quick 'historic' research suggests another treatment involving the skin of lesbian mortals...
This is your campaign- remake the creature as you see fit. Just make sure that he remains an appropriate challenge for your party.
If you don't want to make the power innate, have him use a potion or a rare, rare spell.
After all, the concept of the vampire is not unique to the West, nor did it originate with Stoker's classic Count...and not all vampires shared the same vulnerabilities.
Michael Moorcock had Vampire trees, undoubtedly inspired by one of my favorite alternative vamps- the Vampire Butterflies swarm. (Possibly also the inspiration for the stirge.)
And of course, once you've heard of them, who could forget Vampire Beavers by Joe Hall & The Continental Drift?
If you don't want to make the power innate, have him use a potion or a rare, rare spell.
After all, the concept of the vampire is not unique to the West, nor did it originate with Stoker's classic Count...and not all vampires shared the same vulnerabilities.
Michael Moorcock had Vampire trees, undoubtedly inspired by one of my favorite alternative vamps- the Vampire Butterflies swarm. (Possibly also the inspiration for the stirge.)
And of course, once you've heard of them, who could forget Vampire Beavers by Joe Hall & The Continental Drift?
Herobizkit
Adventurer
I was going to suggest the same thing.
On the same tangent, though, if you really want to "by the book" it, look to the d20 Modern SRD for their Vampire description. Essentially, for every weakness they lose, they also lose a power, and each power/weakness is broken down for easy mix and matching.
But yes, ultimately, you're the DM, and if he's immune to sunlight, maybe moonlight is his bane... or silver... or apple cider. Whatever
Page references change with edition. How about an article from Snopes.com with many chapter references?
snopes.com: Dracula
From Snopes.com:
Another element surprisingly absent from Bram Stoker's Dracula is the notion that vampires cannot ever expose themselves to daylight; they must return to a safe enclosure (typically a coffin) before dawn and remain there until after dark. This isn't the case in Stoker's novel: Even though Jonathan Harker muses in his journal (in Chapter 4) that "I have not yet seen the Count in the daylight. Can it be that he sleeps when others wake, that he may be awake whilst they sleep?" he is clearly mistaken in his assumption, as he previously had a daytime encounter with Dracula:
"I had hung my shaving glass by the window, and was just beginning to shave. Suddenly I felt a hand on my shoulder, and heard the Count's voice saying to me, 'Good morning.'"
And as author Elizabeth Miller noted in Dracula: Sense & Nonsense, several more instances of the vampire Dracula's being out and about during daylight hours occur in the novel:
* The sun shines directly into Dracula's eyes at Whitby. (Chapter 8)
* Dracula is seen in daylight by zookeeper Thomas Bilder at the Zoological Gardens. (Chapter 11)
* Mina and Jonathan Harker observe Dracula on a hot day in London. (Chapter 13)
* Mr. Bloxam reports encountering Dracula during the day at his house in Piccadilly. (Chapter 20)
* Van Helsing observes that "It was possible, if not likely, that the Count might appear in Piccadilly during the day." (Chapter 22)
* Mina spots Dracula outdoors at 12:45 PM. (Chapter 23)
* As they wait for Dracula to return from an excursion out of town, Quincey Morris tells Van Helsing: "There's nothing to do but to wait here. If, however, he doesn't turn up by five o'clock [PM], we must start off." (Chapter 23)
* Workers attending to the vessel Czarina Catherine see Dracula at five o'clock in the afternoon. (Chapter 24)
Miller noted that successive film adaptations were responsible for introducing and promulgating this aspect of the Dracula story:
"The motif of destruction by sunlight was introduced in the 1922 silent film Nosferatu, loosely based on Stoker's novel. Although this innovation was not adopted in the 1931 [Bela Lugosi film version of] Dracula, it resurfaced in the Hammer [Studios' Horror of Dracula] production of 1958, in which Peter Cushing dramatically pulls open the drapes to expose Christopher Lee to the deadly rays of the sun. Another variation appears in 1979, when Dracula (Frank Langella) is hoisted into the sunlight where he disintegrates. The film most faithful to Stoker in this respect is Bram Stoker's Dracula: the Count (Gary Oldman) moves about freely during daylight, but with reduced powers."
