What would convince a character to become a vampire ?

[johndaw16]

I'm currently the DM in my first D20 modern campaign and have run into an interesting dilemna with one of my PCs and an NPC. The issue at hand is how my NPC vampiress will convince the PC to be willingly turned into a vampire.

The relationship started out as a sort of awkward romance following an episode of ridiculous clubbing. So my idea is to try and romance/persuade the PC to allow the turning to happen. But I'm in need of ideas as to how she would go about this ? Any ideas or thoughts would be helpful I've kinda stalled and I don't want this NPC/PC relationship to fade out.

 

[Wulf Ratbane]

Easy... Show the player the vampire template.

Who wouldn't want all those goodies?

 

[cybermonkey]

Read Anne Rice. Most of those characters didn't have a choice. Perhaps the most common device used is that the character is dying and has to make a choice: "Do I die, or do I want to live." The death is not at the hands of the vampire, usually an accident of some sort or a fatal disease.

 

[Kalanyr]

Someone who likes to sunbathe a lot ?

 

[clark411]

Any sort of direct confrontation would probably have it fade out quite quickly... possibly in the form of a stabbing.

How exactly do you wish to frame this? Is the vampiress a selfish immortal who sees this person as something to be had, and will do whatever she can to maintain this relationship indefinitely, with vampire-centric pleasures and stuff? Would it be better if the character was, as before mentioned, nearly dying and she "saves" him? Would she risk his life to engineer such an event? Or is there simply the damning proposal, tempting eternal life and amazing, seductive power?

Does it even require him to become a vampire? Does she have to make him a vampire to continue the relationship, due to the demands of her sire or something? If not, human-vampire love is not... well it's not beyond the bounds of possibility without any external influences endangering it.

Personally, if you want this to seem like more than just the PC being cornered, boned, and required to do this, I'd either try the face-to-face proposal, or the "saving."

 

[Krieg]

Easy... Show the player the vampire template.

ROFLMAO!!

 

[johndaw16]

Easy... Show the player the vampire template.

Who wouldn't want all those goodies?

Well, Wulf the template I'm using is a homebrew one and its got plenty of trade-offs between the supernatural powers and drawbacks. Besides I'm trying to convince the PC "in character" not bribe the player with new powers lol.

 

[johndaw16]

Ok I think I need to give some more details to clarify a few things so that my question makes a little more sense.

Vampires in my campaign are split into two very distinct groups :

1. Your traditional immortal Princes of the Dark, these vampires form a hidden underground society, with heirarchy defined by age and family ties. They're the evil predators of the helpless and clueless humans of the world.

2. The second group is a new, extremely radical, psuedo-anarchical, faction. This group is made of mostly younger or outcast vampires and they're more interested in tearing down the decadant, stagnant, evil, and decaying society of the "traditional" vampires. To do this they've made a spiritually binding Covenant to live with humans in as close to harmony as they can (think using blood banks instead of hunting humans for sustence, etc.).

The vampire that my PC has run into is one of these Covenant bound vampires. The NPC vampire wants to turn the PC to gain an ally in her fight against the traditionalist vampires. So ideally this would be a turning that didn't involve threats upon the PCs life. Instead I want to try and convince the PC to join ranks with the rebelious Covenant bound vampires. Would this fight be worth becoming a vampire ? Could anything make it worth it to the PC ?

 

[Wombat]

Never understood the attraction myself

I mean, who wants to be a photo-intolerant 2-legged leech?

 

[clark411]

Never understood the attraction myself

I mean, who wants to be a photo-intolerant 2-legged leech?

Or a nocturnal, four-legged marsupial, for that matter.