Building Better Monsters | Vampires
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One of my favorite takes on vampires was from loop hero: the vampire protects and manages the village in return for power and wealth. Just because they're the undead doesn't mean they have to be hostile or evil. I love the idea that the vampire just kinda vibes.
Gnolls could probably use the ol' Map Crow tune-up. Compared to kobolds, goblins, and orcs, gnolls don't really feel like they fill a unique niche. I can't remember the last time I saw them at the table.
Gnolls, goblins, orcs are all on the list! They all kinda fight the same roll around tier 1 and 2 for 5E, but don't offer a lot of flavor as written, I think.
Gnolls fit the "nightmarish religious horror" niche in 5e, being near-mindless monsters that are less "hyena-person" and more "bundles of demonic corruption and abyssal hunger that appear as a twisted mockery of a person." They're horrifically mutated, utterly remorseless, and so terrifyingly hungry that they'll leap into near-certain death if it offered even a slim chance of getting a mouthful of warm flesh.
I think gnolls can be presented in a more sinister way. I dunno maybe them being the only beast type creature in this "bog standard monsters" group makes me think about the Beastmen from Warhammer Fantasy.
Gnolls can certainly go that route since they are often described as demon worshippers and stuff like that, I can see DMs using them whenever their campaigns feel their campaigns may need a bit of grimdark going on
Pathfinder 2e has gnolls being much more pragmatic than inherently evil. They don't believe in fair fights and are going to make full use of the stuff they kill, whether it is a wolf or a human.
They can have friends and care about others, but are focused on results more than fair play or honor.
"why don't the common people rise up against the rich, sociopathic ruler that devours some of them every so often?" -Map Crow commenting on our current age.
concept: the beast and the person are linked in a sort of split-life way. like the beast’s existence keeps the vampire immortal because he has (admittedly similar to a lich) has divided his life force into two. perhaps this helps him keep his humanity and avoid losing control because his most violent instincts are left to the other half.
YEAH! Now you're on the trolly!
I actually prefer the idea of the tragic vampire enabler that Map Crow groks at. It's a pretty on point take at how a lot of evil works - seemingly good people standing around overlooking the sins of those that they care about, or defending them out of loyalty.
Langdon Cobb the Quantum Lichen
I love this "sin eater" thing.
and the exemple of it being made of a loved one really put some extra drama into the vampire characterisation.
I can totally see that being the norm of a vampire: they must make a sin eater or they die or something.
making the individual vampire being either okay with it (like most of the vampire... or not!) and some doing it by necessity (leading to more drama).
all and all, that was very creative, and it really got me thinking.
Thank you!! Yeah, I just kept thinking of Sin Eater Lore, but I wanted the video to be less than 40 minutes! Haha!!
@@mapcrow Do you have any plans for making more extended lore/worldbuilding food like that? It is my personal favourite part about these videos, I honestly am just stealing and editing most of the lore you spout about these revised monsters, they're great!
@@xandostres Yup! We are working on a book!
I didn't know I needed "Dorian Gray the Vampire" in my game, but NOW I DO.
The top goth playlist DnD game! Haha!!
This is tangential but I'm always a fan of power coming at a cost. A necessary sacrifice. A loved one, a treasured memory, a passion. Creating a price that must be paid allows for a level of pity and empathy for the monsters we fight. They're broken things, and even if they are themselves what broke them - they deserve both the poison and the poultice.
I love this! I'm inventing a god of the undead at the moment and I might incorporate this!
Haha! Awesome!! Yeah, go for it!!
Absolutely love this! I did a similar thing to this a while back inspired by the myth of Echo in Greek mythology, a powerful magical creature with perfect recall who could return any amount of damage dealt to it or its ward, of course with a suitably tragic addition of “only doing this to protect the town’s hero, a man who doesn’t seem to age or fail and is loved by all, but is really pretty morally bankrupt and doesn’t know the creature responsible for his prowess even exists”
Heck yeah!! That's a neat twist for that classic myth!!
This series is very good for my brain. Every Thursday it gets my creativity working before the weekly sessions.
So glad to hear that. Thank you!!
i love the idea of a Dorian Gray type of vampire lich creature, it makes me want to give a painting like that to players and see what happens as they slowly make their own worst villain
More cursed paintings in games!! Yes!!
@@mapcrow i played a campaign where we got a hold of a small painting that would show the viewer whoever their biggest rival/enemy was and it lead to a lot of very good interactions
Sin-eaters used to be a thing! The idea was to take on the "sins" of the recently deceased by way of ritual (which varied by locale) in order to quell them in eternal rest and ensure no malevolent spirit persisted. People who took this role were generally outcasts, essentially pawning their own soul for the redemption of the dead they "witnessed". This would even suggest that the vampire themself were the Sin eater, rather than a sacrificial townsperson, love or elder.
So that here is fascinating. The idea of a village and her ecosystem essentially corrupted by this curse, sustaining the power of the vampire but downtreading the common people. Perhaps the vamp lord has traded the living people with impunity of sin, but the consequence is a curses extension of life. Maybe when the adventurers discover the township people are actually really pious, realising the only way *they* can beat the vampire is by starving it at the source, but that could take decades or centuries so maybe these powerful visitors could so something faster.
Yeah! They would get some dude to eat bread crust and drink beer to absorb the sin of a dead body! That was what I had in mind! I was going to talk more about that, but the video was getting long enough!
Could you imagine if during the day the vampire irself is more of a boil or a growth on the noble prince. But when the night turns all of the blood and muscle and bone seeth into the boil until the roles are reversed and the beautiful prince is a shriveled growth on the horrific beast. It would also be funny if the beast or man would still be able to communicate with eachother through some kind of psycic connection. A fun little discovery in lore is if a party member has a mind reading ability and figure this knowlege out on accident.
I go on small rants but completely forget to mention that this video is flippin neat.
Yeah! There is a large possibility space to explore!! These are good ideas!!
Another fun alternative: the party contains somebody who is an obsessive pimple popper.
I love this! I've been thinking about vampires myself, mainly this idea of stasis, a vampire never ages (depending on the type of vampire) their clothing style stays the same through the centuries, no matter how much the world changes around them the vampire is this constant- a snap shot in time, this could be why they are always pining after some forbidden, impossible romance, the vampire is forced to live as they lived when they were turned, chasing this love that can never be forever, i feel I need to flesh it out some more but I think it's a good angle to take the vamp
Damn, this vampire was pretty much a Blasphemous / Silent Hill monster, I deeply liked it. Very Wuthering Heights too, I'm absolutely stealing it for my own game!
I appreciate the Sin-Eater as a form of vampire. In lots of Asian cultures, chiefly Filipino from what I know, you see monsters who drain victims out of memories, nightmares (like the Japanese Baku) and the like. When you said "what if the people don't remember the bad that the vampire lord did?" I thought "Because he's feeding on their memory instead of their blood!"
Also, I like that explanation more than the one given by Bram Stoker. "You see, the g*****s are just bad and evil by nature so they're easily conquered by the devilmonster in the castle". Boo!
Great video as always =) Waiting intently for the Kobold one, and crossing my fingers for some dog-headed bois =P
Thank you so much!! Bram Stoker's version is wonderful, but he was taken down by a lawyer, his fiancé, and some friends. I think it works great in a different genre than DnD. Haha
Why are you censoring goblins?
A splendid one once again ! And i like his beautiful Alucardesque look, hehe !
I suggest oozes as a theme for a future episode ! Often oozes are just relegated to random low level enemies but i love their stranges out-of-place microorganism-like vibes and they do have a lot of potential in bizarre unnatural places and in big-slow-terrifying-unstoppable-threat-like situations !
(I like to put dashes between words)
Thanks, Rodar!! I have oozes on the list!!
I absolutely love Picture of Dorian Gray, it’s one of my favorite novels. I’ll have to steal this.
Heck yeah! That's what it's here for!
I've been watching your vids for a few months now, and your work is really inspiring! I'm an artist who primarily works in 3D in Blender, and drawing is something that's always been more of a struggle than enjoyable. Your video on how to use color pencil convinced me to give them a shot, and it is some of the most fun I've had with both drawing and non-digital art!
This makes me so happy! I really enjoy drawing because I think it's fun! If it brings you joy, go for it!!
I really want to see your take on an eldritch or “lovecraftian” being. What are ways, as a GM and an artist, can you describe a thing that is incomprehensible?
Interesting idea to "split" the vampire into two seperate, but connected creatures. As long as one lives so does the other type thing. Immortality could definitely be a motivator for a morally ignoble noble. 😁👍
~ Adam
Amazing video, as always. I want to draw my own sin-eater now.
Go for it! Drawing gross monsters is fun!!
Midnight Mass was a dope reinterpretation of vampires
I'm loving the picture of Dorian Grey vampire design
I like how they work in castlevania with the way they separate their society from humans yet they still have to keep them around for food
In my games, i link a character's magic with their lifeforce (not hp, but their soul). Vampires are those that through their own greed or recklessness have "gone to that well one too many times" and ended up breaking their own souls. They are now forced to absorb the souls of others to keep their own soul from burning out and killing them. You could just look at this condition as a terminal disease, but many are driven mad by their fear of death and embrace the route of vampirism.
This idea is great. Your art is, as usual, inspiring. This video gave me an idea for a strange merging of Beauty ad The Beast and Vampires.
HAha! Yeah, there definitely is that angle on it!! Thanks for the kind words!!
Gives me a great reason to use all of the weird bat monster soulblight gravelord miniatures I have for dnd.
Yeah, I didn't mention all the bats, but I would have their be so SO many bats!! Haha
Map Crow once again being one of the top DnD/TTRPG channels
My favorite way to do vampires is to combine the parasitic relationship nobles have with their peasants to actual parasitic animals, especially if they suck blood.
So lots of lampreys, leeches, ticks, mosquitoes, and such.
Hi Kyle! I just wanna let you know that I appreciate you putting in the effort to make unique versions of D&D monsters and the like. I've been trying to do the same for my fantasy world as well and I think my favorite is the gods.
You may have heard of "giants" in creation myth as enemies of the gods, like the Norse Jotun and Greek Titans. Well, in my research, I've learned that these "giants" were more like a different race of gods, even part of the extended family that is now broken apart. This could make their rivalry much more personal and intimate, much more like a real family with differing agendas and vendettas rather than superpowered people fighting giant elemental monsters. A war between the Old Gods and the New Gods.
I can imagine a scene in which Zeus find his father, Kronos, sitting on his throne with a deadly glare in his eyes. Before Zeus could retaliate, Kronos suddenly swings his sickle at Zeus, bringing the razor sharp tip dangerously close to puncturing the Olympian's throat. Kronos tells his son that he has been abusing his authority by producing numerous demigod children that could disrupt the natural order of the world.
He warns him to cease his antics so he could act responsibly and be faithful for once so Zeus can maintain order, or else Kronos will send someone to "deal" with him; that someone being Typhos of course. Before Kronos makes his leave, he lets his son in on a little secret: Zeus didn't free the Cyclopes and Hecatoncheires out of kindness, but out of desperation because he secretly feared his father's great power. Without them, Zeus would've lost the war a long time ago. As Kronos leaves, Zeus could only obliterate his own throne room in a fit of rage. He would rather die than admit it, but Kronos was right.
Meanwhile on Earth, a disguised Kronos walked away from the portal to Mt. Olympus. He smirked as a terrifying thunder storm ravaged the sky, fully aware that he got under his son's skin.
How does that sound?
Heck yeah! You should run with this idea. I've been trying to figure out my take on giants for a while, and I think the etymology is leading me towards an good idea! Yeah, the translation of Jotun as "giant" seems to be a complete curveball that stuck around because of visual appeal? Kinda like balrogs having wings! Haha
@@mapcrow Thanks so much!
Best RUclips subscription of 2022 by a mile.
Thank you so much!!
I know one twist on vampires that I enjoyed lots was actually in team four star's dnd campaign. It was mainly nautical so the vampires actually had theming more so around leaches, lamprey, other blood sucking aquatic creatures. I think itd be fun to make a mosquito themed vampire, but there's also blood drinking birds and moths
Ooo! Very cool!! Yeah, love a good moth monster!!
A fantastic video as always!!! Keep up the good work. A vampire idea that I find interesting is from the game darkest dungeon, where vampires don't look like bats but creatures that resemble mosquitoes
I’m working on a vampire based parallel-adventure to my current game, and really got stuck with some of the plot beats in the middle. This has certainly given me some good ideas beyond the basic “vampire in the castle” narrative.
The split is a really cool idea!
I approached vampires more from allegory + worldbuilding. To me the core concept here is the exploitation of the working class. With classic vampires, that comes in the form of the village aristocracy (like you mentioned), so I thought it would be an interesting twist if the true vampire turns out to be a large employer in town.
That certainly helps with what you mentioned at 3:15 - why DOES the village tolerate the vampire if everyone knows its nature and how to defeat it? From the capitalist allegory, any number of arguments naturally arise ("it's always been this way", "the vampire is helping our community", "the alternatives are just as bad", etc etc).
Could be interesting with an RP-focused group!
I'm so happy this series is back
Kyle you rock so much. I live for the energy you inject into my days.
I am loving this concept!
not zombies, but a zombie horde specifically. i feel like you’ve would approach that in a neat way
Gosh... I don't know that I've ran a zombie horde in a game... that has me thinking!!
I absolutely adore this idea!
The way you read those descriptions at the start gives me major Soul Calibur vibes.
I am going to 100% use this next time I have a vampire in my story. Man you really put that meaning and humanity into those creatures.
What a gorgeous art piece! I love this channel, it has everything I love to see: great art, homebrew dnd, historical awareness... You're the complete package!
Wow, thank you!!
Whoa! You really knocked it out of the park on this one. Your monster tune ups are very inspiring
I love your maps. I'd love to have a really huge and detailed one as a poster to hang on my wall in front of my bed so that I can go on adventures in my mind before I go to sleep. Ever heard of "games you can play in your head, by yourself"? Like that. But better.
I get excited for these every week!
I do love my gothic horror.
Thank you!!
I love this idea, I’m working on a gothic horror/ noir detective campaign and I can’t wait to include this some how!
This is brilliant, it's always amazing how creative you can be with these. Absolutely stealing this for my next horror game.
I always love the unique take you have on these cliche monsters. Homebrew is tough but this channel always has some strong inspiration
Has anyone suggested fixing the Tarrasque yet? Even though it's made out to be so scary, it's really just a big T-rex. I always thought it's gravitas should have a kind of a "meta" aspect to it; not just an ender of worlds, but an end of stories, a monster that eats everything, including the narrative.
And, there's always some fun lines from Revelations about big scary biblical monsters!
What a phenomenal concept! The ideas and creativity on display is mind blowing, absolutely in love with everything on display here!
Completely unrelated to anything but WOW, the vampire you drew here is hot as hell
This style is amazing! Can't wait to see what you do with Kobolds
You and me both! Cheers!!
I love all these classic monster coming for an appearance; vampires, werewolves, angels... I love their individual backstory you give to all your monsters, I'm really curious what your fantastic mind can do with a ghost... ;)
Thank you! I'll have to add ghost to the list!!
The Dorian Grey Sin Eater thing works really well for throwing off suspicions. It also really ties well to the theme of feeding your dark desires. The nuances of the relationship if they have some tie to the monster are also a great resource. Perhaps the sin eater is a willing or unwilling sacrifice of sorts that is consumed as a result of what created the vampiric symbiosis. Are they a victim of circumstance attempting to atone by caring for the monster they created (and thus becoming more of a monster themselves) or do they feed their impulses with abandon to attempt to drown out the ever creeping suffering and bottomless hungers that the sin eater afflicts them with that drives them further down a spiral of emptiness? Maybe the Sin Eater or vampire could be saved or released from their suffering somehow by reversing the ills of the world back onto the vampire, kind of like how the painting works in the story. Or it serves as a twisted version of a phylactery to mirror a bit of how a lich works. Perhaps this is an introductory step or misstep in the process of lichdom.
I am absolutely enamored by the building better monsters series!!! These have been giving me such good ideas for my campaign settings! I appreciate all you do !
I'm so glad! I really enjoy this too!! As an artist, I love starting with a prompt instead of from nothing. So like, "Vampire but different than other vampires" was a tricky but fun challenge!!
so good. what a great idea
You are a genius I love this concept
This is my favorite channel on RUclips. Nothing inspires me to play more games like this channel, your art, your philosophy, the way you talk about TTRPGs reignites a passion and creativity within me. Thank you
Wow, thank you!! I love sharing the process with people, and I really do hope that folks are inspired to bring more creative projects into their lives!!
Yess!!! I found your channel like three days ago and have since watched every single second of every single video- keep up the good work!! I especially love this series 😁
Wow thank you!! That's a lot of seconds of videos!!
oh man this concept is amazing!!
Aw!! Thanks!!
Omg this is such a great way to look at vampires, and as always the art is exceptional
I’d like to see your take on the classic Beholder monster
Thanks! It's on the list!!
Amazing work
You are amazingly creative. Thankyou for sharing.
Thank you! Cheers!
Incredible as usual.
Thank you so much!!
Just looked for something to listen/watch while I draw! Thank you
Enjoy!
woww this is incredible!!! Grat work!!!
Thank you so much!!
I think it would be really cool to see your take on an aboleth. They're one of my favorite monsters in concept but I don't know how I'd insert one in my game other than the classic love craft fish person town
Funnily enough, your complaint about an entire village knowing about the vampire's identity and taking precautions to starve them out is the exact plot for Bram Stoker's Dracula.
The entire village knows Dracula is a vampire, they've set up garlic and other wards to keep the vampire away, and that's actually why Dracula was making the effort to hire the book's first protagonist to his castle. 1) To actually have a meal since he was being starved out by his own village, and 2) To buy property in London (the first protagonist being an English Lawyer) so he could move and have fresh food ignorant to his nature.
Yeah! It’s a neat novel! Not a great rpg action adventure if you are one of those villagers or trying to help them.
@@mapcrow Though a vampire luring an adventuring party to their castle under the guise of official business would be a pretty fun start to a campy horror adventure, that with the added mystery of the Sin Eater and a few red herrings on who the vampire actually is in the castle and you have a few sessions of organ music and bad accents aplenty!
Awesome man I love your art
Thank you so much!!
Yesss kobolds! Also, the sin eater kind of reminds me of the Futurama episode with the baghead actor and his ego.
HA! Don't remember that one!
@@mapcrow Essentially a famous actor that had a monster he kept at his mansion that was pure ego, which got bigger the more famous he got.
Also sidenote: Splatbook is a fantastic podcast! Started listening the other week and almost through all the episodes already!
@@posadistpossum Thank you for listening! John and I started it as a way to have conversations that just don't fit on Map Crow.
Man, have I been waiting for this one.
I hope it lives up to the hype!! Haha!! Cheers!!
@@mapcrow It most certainly does. I love the idea of a sin eater so much that I might incorporate something similar in my books. :)
This is an amazing idea, very creative :)
Thank you! Cheers!
Another great video, I love the finished piece!
Thank you very much!!
I like the weird freaky anatomy of the gaping chest cavity of the first piece you did. And I think I preferred the hair done up & flowing dress version of your initial sketch, looked very greek. But I guess the final render does read more gothic horror. I really appreciate how much of the illustration process you include, I always love seeing the ideation and sketching phases.
Yeah, I just wasn't liking the original composition, seemed like it wasn't carrying enough of the relationship or power dynamic that I wanted to convey.
LOVE THE DUALITY CONCEPT!
comes to me the "inner beast" concept from world of darkness books (vampire the masquerade etc), but in a medieval (and kind of gory) concept.
looking foward to see some candles in the mining kobolds (perhaps?)
Yeah! World of Darkness has done it all!! Haha!!
I know it may be a tad excessive, but one of my favourite creatures is the Hydra. I particularly enjoyed the Warcraft III variant with the sea blues and locations in the campaign, but otherwise I feel that they go very unsung. Mentioned in name aplenty, but confrontation always seems so stale...
I absolutely love giants, but despite their wealth of mythology comparable to dragons, I feel they're underrepresented these days. It'd be great to see your take on them!
A vampire can just look at you and make you its thrall, anyone sort of an adventurer would be more afraid of fighting their loved ones if they retaliate
In Dracula, a lawyer, his fiancé, and a couple of friends killed the scariest vampire ever. Just saying.
First time I heard it I didn't like it but as time go's on I like Elder Scrolls vampires. The longer they go without feeding the more feral they become. It's adds an interesting balance like a junkie needing a fix. The more they have only makes the addiction stronger but going without is even more problematic. It makes Vampires have to interact with humans one way or another.
oh this is dark, I love it
Haha!! Thank you!! Yeah, folks keep asking for all these horror monsters, so these last few have been intense!!
Really loved the dual-being vampire/bat-monster idea 👍 Gonna use them as a boss for a personal quest a (Dhampir) player of mine is leading the party on. The group has already fought the standard vampire countess (courtesy of the great adventure: Rold & Told Issue #6 - The Lady of Lasting Kisses), and are on their way to confront the next lieutenant of the head vampire they're questing to slay (which I'll be putting the Lord and Sin Eater into the role of). Thinking about having the people the Lord rules over be a bit bewildered by its actions, having it openly run around saving villagers from all the other nasty monsters its "vampire-ness" attracts (wolves, twig blights, and the like) instead of snacking on them (cause it no longer hungers for blood), while it on-the-side sends out letters to churches and adventuring guilds requesting heros come to "rescue" its town, so it can then kidnap and feed them to the Sin Eater in its basement, perpetuating its own rule without directly harming any townsfolk. Anyway, thanks for the amazing idea! and if you're looking for a monster to redesign, the Bone Devil might be an interesting challenge.
I think you mean Re-Vampedires! Haha thank you, I'll look for my check in the mail because nobody came up with that yet.
imagine putting THAT, instead of the heart in casttle ravenloft
Okay, so one idea I had for why the villagers don't oppose their vampire lord is that he's essentially just another aristocrat, not different from other feudal rulers, and even beneficial to "his" people in some ways. The idea is that the commonfolk from his demesne have this initiation ritual into adulthood where young men and women who just reached adulthood go and spend a year or two as "guests" at the lord's palace - essentially always until the next "initiate" arrives - and then return to their villages to be recognized as full adults. What happens in that castle is generally not talked about, but the people generally don't complain, because while they obviously have some of their blood taken during that time, they're also well-fed and supplied without having to work during their stay in his palace or castle. It's also beneficial for the rest of the commonfolk, because the lord doesn't take the tenth from their field labor or lifestock. After all, he has no use for food, grain or meat, so he only ever takes enough to feed his current "initiates". The commonfolk also don't really wonder why he never ages or dies, after all, they know what he is. This vampire isn't evil, he's just another type of feudal lord when it comes down to it, and arguably a relatively benign one. Of course, it depends on how vampires work in the setting, but he might even become a questgiver and ally for an adventuring party - maybe his demesne is threatened by some less benign force. Maybe religious fanatics, those might work pretty well as villains in this context. I'm sure there are even ways to make it a bit more morally ambiguous, so players or protagonists have to make a real choice here.
I don’t know where else to share this, but I think there is great potential for making rpg monsters out of examples from evolutionary biology. lots of weird animals used to walk this Earth, and they should be represented in roleplaying games! (moreso than just dinosaurs)
Yeah! I think you would want them to exist is a low-powered wilderness game. Giant sloths are awesome, but if you can shoot lightning they kinda lose their impact.
@@mapcrow what if they can shoot lightning back ;) I’d love to see your reimagining of D&D monsters apied to real life animals. To, I don’t know, magic them up a bit, give a sabertooth cat some supernatural origin, like they drag souls into hell after they make a kill, disappearing from the encounter. I’m just rambling at this point haha
Actually the original slavic myths that gave birth to the modern vampire are seldom explored, to give the cliff-notes version vampires in the original myth were nowhere near as defined, and were kind of a blend of vampire, werewolf, AND witch. Or rather none of these things was really their own distinctive legend/monster, & really just different aspects of the same thing. There was also a very dualistic thing where the good white witch was the anti-vampire, aligned to the forces of good... and of course could be turned to evil.
Re watching because its just so damn good
Thank you so much!
Maybe a sineater starts of as a split from the vampire but it trueling becomes its own when the vampire drains one it loves. The sineater eats the body and everyones memeries of the person. Maybe even the vampire don't remember the people it has killed nobody does. And as the vampire kills with a white concions the sineater grows bigger and bigger until one of them kills each other. Just to start again from the beginning with a new body and a new personality
I used this in my own campaign! A baron had himself turned into a vanilla vampire and, unable to control his vampiric instincts, fed on and killed his wife. horrified at his own transformation, he decides the only way to “save” their young daughter was to turn her into a sineater, to protect her from meeting the same fate as her mother. now he mopes around his big, gothic castle trapped within his own immortality. unfortunately, the daughter has been escaping from the castle and feeding on peasants, attracting some very unwanted attention. can’t wait to present my players with a really fucked up domestic dispute.
The sin eater sounds a lot like a lich's phylactery.
I would like to see Medusa in a future episode
Oooo! That's a good one!! I'll add it to the list!!
The Sin-Eater should be the vampire lord's mother!
In a homebrew world of mine, there is a family of vampires who have a town to their own. they act as the shepherds for a flock of live stock, they protect the town from other creatures and threats. and give the townsfolk a good level of autonomy, And to get around the effects drawing blood from them has they drain them. The town is also located near a gold and silver mine making it a wealthy place. The vampires would as well pay the people handsomly and rotate the "feedings" so that no folks where killed that did not need it. However they where very very strict with punishments, not opposed to any disrespect to the family. Any townsfolk who left without permission or orders would be hunted down and killed. They realized that going on killing sprees for food or abducting people at random for food would always lead to their downfall eventually. And over time they have learned to keep these little foolish mortals happy enough to not warrant a revolt. and the wealthy they have basically would make it hard enough to really try and buy the townsfolk off, specially when the town itself is safe, Most people would not really lock their doors since thieves, murderers and the like would be swiftly dealt with.
Right on! I think the vampires ruling the town in the Warhammer: Cursed City novelization are pretty great! Lots of neat little wrinkles to how that might go!
Nice.
Thank you! Cheers!
Do mimics!!!!
Fangs for this video 🧛♀️
HAHA!! Your velcome!!
@@mapcrow 😅
A tax of a pint of blood every two months is easier to pay than the absurd number of gold pieces the governor next door wants for the same amount of land
Plus, the education opportunities for apprentices are outrageous if you don't mind some stiff competition
Can you please do Displacer Beasts?
Me at start of video: "Huh, so let's think. A twist on vampires could be.... they don't need blood for sustainment? Rather any body fluid, or a different one? That could change the tone to something overtly sexual, or intimate if it's saliva, or "
Also me: * returns to video at 1:30, the whole canvas being painted piss yellow*
Also also me:
Me: "Or both but also never mind"
Sounds like you might need to hydrate more.
Love the art, is there any way to access a high res digital copy of it? Same for the other monsters revamped
There is a redbubble store in the description for merch, but the print files are not public.
I would probably actually call the "sin eater" the "scapegoat" instead. You've gotten me well and truly addicted to using the bible to plan for sessions