Vampiric Cleric raises his Holy Symbol...and then...!

[Ferret]

You pull out the gun point it at the bad guys and tell them to put up their hands, you do the same.

It just wouldn't happen; it isn't pointed at you...let me rephrase that. It isn't focused at you. Thus, it doesn't effect you.

Thats all IMO/IMC though.

 

[Pielorinho]

For this reason, the vampire cleric should always bolster himself before rebuking anyone.

Daniel

 

['o Skoteinos]

I don't have my books with me and the SRD is really useless, but I always thought turning was a cone or a half circle or something, so you aren't in your own area of effect...?

 

[jerichothebard]

Vampire clerics lose their ability to turn undead but gain the ability to rebuke undead. This ability does not affect the vampire’s controller or any other vampires that a master controls.

Assuming that you are one of the vampires that your master controls, you are not subject to the effects of your own rebuke.

If you are not controlled by a master, then you are your own master, in which case you still are not subject to the rebuke.

Therefore, the answer is quite clearly no.

jtb

 

[Pielorinho]

[QUOTE='o Skoteinos]I don't have my books with me and the SRD is really useless, but I always thought turning was a cone or a half circle or something, so you aren't in your own area of effect...?[/QUOTE]
Ooh, good call--I think you're right, that it's a cone, although the SRD doesn't mention this that I can see.

Daniel

 

[Lord Pendragon]

[QUOTE='o Skoteinos]I don't have my books with me and the SRD is really useless, but I always thought turning was a cone or a half circle or something, so you aren't in your own area of effect...?[/QUOTE]Nope. 60' radius emanation centered on you. Like tossing a fireball at your feet.

You pull out the gun point it at the bad guys and tell them to put up their hands, you do the same.

It just wouldn't happen; it isn't pointed at you...let me rephrase that. It isn't focused at you. Thus, it doesn't effect you.

I tend to think of it as akin to a very very powerful ultra-violet torch. Anyone who can see ultraviolet light is blinded. Anyone else doesn't see anything at all. Just because the vampire is the one lighting the torch doesn't mean he isn't blinded by it.

 

[Hypersmurf]

If you are not controlled by a master, then you are your own master...

In a philosophical sense, perhaps, but not in the sense that the term is used when referring to vampires.

If you want the vampire to count as controlling himself, then he also counts against the limit of hit dice of vampires he can control (twice his own hit dice).

-Hyp.

 

[Darklone]

"It's all about self-control, dude."