Vampires -- best supplement?

Kunimatyu · Nov 17, 2005

One of the most common D&D supplement themes -- other than Pirates -- seems to be vampires. Out of the many, many d20 vampire books, which one gets YOUR personal seal of approval, and why?

Voadam · Nov 17, 2005

The ravenloft ones have worked out best for me. Ravenloft Campaign Setting (3.0) expands the template for older vampires, the Denizens of Dread/Darkness ravenloft 3.0/3.5 monster books expand on the types of vampires and I have used the Vyrlakos disease vampire in my game to good effect.

Bastion's out for blood was quite nice for some background organizations and prcs I wanted to use but their disease vampire template lost out to the Ravenloft one for use in my game.

I also like the lesser vampire varient from Kalamar, a Kalamar module with I think Horror in the title.

I wrote two vampire variants for the no longer being sold Gaming Frontiers Monsters Book that I quite liked, one was a non template magical vampire and one was a _Lost Boys_ inspired vampire and spawn template.

Hairy Minotaur · Nov 17, 2005

Lords of the Night: Vampires - Bottled Imp Games

It just makes vampires nasty and the kind of creature that can take on a party of 6 all by itself.

It's a 3.0 product so you'll have to do some minor tweaking, but well worth it in the end.

jaerdaph · Nov 17, 2005

Hairy Minotaur said:
Lords of the Night: Vampires - Bottled Imp Games

It just makes vampires nasty and the kind of creature that can take on a party of 6 all by itself.

It's a 3.0 product so you'll have to do some minor tweaking, but well worth it in the end.

I second that. And, you can the 3.5 edition edition as a PDF here.

Kid Charlemagne · Nov 17, 2005

I like Fang & Fury from Green Ronin. They have a Vampire Scion template that is depowered Vampire that can be used for a relatively low-ECL vampire, or for a "Buffy"-style vampire (no gaseous form or charm, for example). LOTN: Vampires from Bottled Imp is pretty cool, too. That one will give you a more powered-up kind of vampire, but it gives a lot of flavor to vampires, and could be used in combination with Fang & Fury.

Aus_Snow · Nov 18, 2005

I like Lords of the Night: Vampires (Bottled Imp) too. Very nice book.

If you don't have a problem taking stuff from other systems though, I recommend Blood Types (GURPS). I've extracted all kinds of things from that book for use with two other systems (one being d20 fantasy).

jdrakeh · Nov 18, 2005

Aus_Snow said:
If you don't have a problem taking stuff from other systems though, I recommend Blood Types (GURPS).

Blood Types is one on the all time great monster supplements for any RPG.

Kunimatyu · Nov 18, 2005

If I may ask, what's so good about Blood Types?

Kaji · Nov 18, 2005

jaerdaph said:
I second that. And, you can the 3.5 edition edition as a PDF here.

I second the second. An excellent book for vampires

trancejeremy · Nov 18, 2005

Not that common. I think out of the 1200 or so d20 books (just a guess, used to know for sure here until they started taking non-d20 stuff, so I dunno the exact count), I think maybe 10 are on Vampires (including Ravenloft which I don't have).

The Bottled Imp book is quite good. And the author is a really nice guy.

I also thought the Green Ronin one, Fang & Fury was pretty decent.

The one from Bastion Press is okay, but is in part sort of a monster manual of vampires. There's also a PDF from some Scandanavia company which looks really good (Crothian reviewed it, I can't remember the name).