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@Jorphdan, If I may, I believe vampires should be classified as a Ka (or kami/youkai) along with: .Were folks .Abominations (were folks who don’t transform into mammals) .witches/wizards (I believe the occupation was named after these immortals) .chimeras (this term for creatures that have features from two or more animals) .gorgons (basically creatures with extra lizard/snake-like features that can petrify any living things by any means, it’s mostly different for most of them) .Fey (vaguely insect-like creatures) .Golems .Giants .Elven (human equivalent of Fey, that includes orcs, but I wish not to open that can of worms in this comment) .Ogreoids (human equivalent of oni) .Taurians (basically humanoids that have full bodies of other animals instead of normal humanoid legs) .Cyclops .etc. (I believe) While Monsters have: .Dragons .Dwarven .Goblinoids .Trolls .Elementals .Genasi .Prehistoric Creatures (that includes dinosaurs) .Genies .Abberitions (aliens) .Florafauna .Undead .etc. (I believe) That’s all I have to write about -Double D
Can a vampire become a lich? What is the most powerful vampire? There are some "good" liches, who are respected by other wizards etc, is there something similar for vampires?
Garlic has antiseptic properties, meaning that it can be used to cleanse the body of certain toxins. In a time where people thought disease was the work of evil spirits, people believed this could be use to repel evil forces, such as vampires.
A few things I do with vampires. 1. Any personality traits they have are exaggerated to the negative. 2. Give them class levels because when you're immortal you have all time in the world to study various subjects. 3. Special power depending on the race i.e elves get enhanced charm, dwarves get to phase through stone.
I am just going say certain things. 1. I have never seen it say anything about vampires losing their soul, and if that was the case I would disregard it because it removes any and all interest the creature has. It becomes just a stronger zombie. 2. Vampirism by comparison seams better then lichdom, or death knight... thing. Its definitely more moral then lichdom since with lichdom you need to consume souls. Vampirism you need to drink some blood every few days, and you still have your flesh and senses which oathbreaker, and liches lack. 3. A vampire almost always becomes evil when changed (there would be exceptions) however after the transformation they could become good or neutral afterwards. Or the evil nature they posses could only center around there obsession. 4. Vampires might create other full vampires for any number of reasons. It could be a reward. The vampire might have other methods of controlling there progeny even once they are a full vampire, or it can be simple loyalty. After all if your servant was already loyal to you and your cause to begin with, and you can more or less manage his ambitions. Or it can be a simple fact they have no real wish to hold rulership over people preferring the company of peers to the company of servants.
@Nospam Spamisham I'm sorry, but what? your first statement lacks context could you possibly elaborate. Could you also Elaborate on what you are going "nah" to. My comment had more then one point built into it. I dont see why you couldn't have a good vampire, or even a good lich (though that one would have more trouble then the former.), and possibly even a Death Knight trying to atone for his sins, and find redemption
The D&D cosmology makes it explicitly clear that becoming undead, as well as necromancy in general is evil by its very nature. In D&D, the undead were originally created by Orcus (a demon lord). In Pathfinder, they came from Urgathoa, a woman who was so hedonistic, that she refused to accept her own death, and clawed her way back to the world of the living. The process of which turned her into the very first undead, as well as elevating her to divinity as the goddess of disease and gluttony. There is only one way I have heard of to become a "good" undead that isn't the result of some cringe worthy fanfiction, and that's with the aid of Elvish High Magic. They have a ritual that can turn somebody into a lich, who doesn't need to consume souls to sustain itself, and keeps its original personality fully intact. Unfortunately, those who undergo this ritual are severed from the elven cycle of reincarnation, so it is only performed in the most dire of needs.
Depends on the mythos/universe. Buffy they're technically soulless animated corpses possessed by demons like dragon age undead. Classic mythos they technically have a something reminiscent of a soul but are cursed by God in undeath with all these weird weaknesses, garlic, silver, wood (doesn't kill the vampire traditionally when stabbed in the heart but paralyses them until removed) And strong uv light. In most though. Vampires are corpses animated by a cursed soul with a healing factor and weakness to sunlight. I feel when writing a vampire with too many weaknesses is actually stupid. They're more interesting with 1 or 2 and the classic abilitie. D
@@trollzynisaacjohan1793 The sunlight vulnerability isn't classical mythology. It wasn't until the story of Dracula became popular that the sunlight weakness became a more widespread thing.
Speaking as a predominantly V:TM player, I have to admit, this is one of the more compelling Vampire videos in the DnD lore, and as such, I tip my hat to you good Siphr (The PH is silent, is it not? ;) )
Not really, my DM let me play as a PC after my character got turned. The character just had to drink blood of the enemies they fought or find people in cities, usually beggars, thieves, lords... Or humanoids in other places.
Grinnar I don’t know much about this but I’ve never heard that you must npc a PC that gets turned, only that it can be very difficult to ply a pc vampire and as such it tends to be the best option.
@@feartheghus yeah, unless you can get to the Underdark, Shadowfell, or stay in a big city, it's unlikely to benefit anything. Plus the rules are very bizarre.
I played as a vampire "crimson court" blood hunter multi classed with profain soul with lathander as a patron, the pact is never feed on blood no matter how tempted and kill other vampires in exchange immunity from light damage and not being bound to a grave site. Honestly some of the most fun in dnd playing Geller the vampire hunter
side note on the running water for d&d purposes: Bridges and such are fine to cross over water. It’s immersion in running water that’s the problem. Buy a Ring of Waterwalking and you no longer risk dying in 3 rounds with a common watersource. (also you can get away with daywalking for 1 hour durations by applying the tar-like potion Liquid Night on exposed regions for 250gp or make it yourself for somewhere around 50ish gp from moonflowers. You also can wear full body coverings to protect from the sun.) Also animals are handy for you to sustain you to fufill your cravings. Nobody cares that much if a farmer’s oxen mysteriously dies of blood loss and energy drain and it’s a easy check to prevent it rising as a vampire ox
Curse of Strahd, The first campaign I have ever had a character survive through. Never survived a one-shot. I tend to make characters built to enjoy the oneshot, as most oneshots my DM makes lead into his own campaign. I'm less fearful of death within a oneshot.
My Curse of Strahd party has 3 fully transformed vampires. In fact, for about 2-3 months over the summer our group was down two fighters and my half elf cleric princess, Zelda Alagondar, was surrounded by these vampires! The vampires she travels with are Alexander Von Roeyen (brother of Strahd and Sergei Von Zarovich), Evelyn Sunstar (daughter of the elf vampire Jander Sunstar) and Anthony Hunt (Michael Morbius type of vampire). The idea of becoming a vampire has crossed Zelda's mind but she will only trust one vampire she knows to turn her and even that is only under extreme circumstances. Alexander wants to turn Zelda into his bride but respects her enough to give her the free will to choose her own path and if she is turned, to give her the free will to live as an equal to him. Zelda is currently still mortal and has to remain as such if she is to use the Holy Symbol of Ravenkind in the battle against Strahd.
It's worth noting that the Plane Shift articles released for both Zendikar and Ixalan include a playable Vampire PC race. Yes, Plane Shift is an official wotc developed product. Yes, the races in the pdf's are about as balanced as any other race. They might be a little more detailed than the PHB races, but in general Plane Shift races don't have as many extra bells and whistles as any of the Volos guide races.
1:20 I have never heard of that rumor that vampires must count stuff thrown on the ground until I played D&D 😂 and it wasn’t from a module but a player! I was running an old module where a cult is slowly taking over a town - in playing the npc who told the party about the strange stuff going with folk disappearing or not acting normal, I said “it seems like there could be something foul afoot, like idk vampires or somethin,” and they immediately latched on to this. They went to the inn and interrogated the owners with vampire tests, which is when one of them threw stuff on the ground. Idk what that was so did not react much. Later he said he was trying to see what they would do. I was like “uh what?”
Why do people always label us evil, I mean do the other kingdoms mind when bandits are found rip to shreds, drained of blood, head on pikes or impaled, heck Cormyr stands to gain,
I think that a video on how to make a working build that imitates vampire powers would be more interesting, d&d vampire lore is pretty well known already
There’s one campaign I did where it’s tieflings vs vampires they fight against each other tieflings are unaffected to vampirism since they are part demons but if they bite vampires and drink their blood it makes the tieflings stronger
Hello, Jorphdan. I really enjoyed this video and was wondering if you planned on making lore videos for the Elder Evils (Evil Entities/Elder Gods) of D&D. Cthulhu notwithstanding, there’s next to no videos about any of the individuals, or the Evils as a whole. I believe that the information would work well for your videos, and be quite spooky at the same time.
Forgotten Realms question: Who was the Vampire High Rider of Elturgard? Was it Lord Dhelt? He was a human and in power from 1358DR (still in power last recorded 1372DR) but the whole vampire problem only started ~1450DR. If it was him, the long lifespan could be explained with him being a vampire but how did nobody notice for a century? I wanna bring him back by having a secret lover he turned into a true vampire, who rose to power and want to take back the cursed Fort Morninglord for themselves to rule Elturgard from, after she brings him back by some means. (Side question: How does one bring back a soulless creature to unlife/undeath?) The players will help the Hellriders and Companion paladins (controlled by the vampire lover) as mercenaries to take back the fort and then will have to fight their way again through the fort but now filled with vampire spawn and get to the power-couple to save Elturgard and possibly the entire Sword Coast from vampire attacks. Or something like that...very early in the plot planning. I love the story of the Lord of Elturgard turning into a vampire and cursing the land, the ppl rising up and praying to the gods to send help. And what do the gods do? They just create another sun, right above Elturel to keep the vampires away from the capital city :D Also it's fascinating to have an extremely holy place (Elturel) on one side of the river and a very-very cursed place (Fort Morninglord) right on the other side. The duality is strong on that part of the Sword Coast.
I started with a character in my local campaign that was turned to a vampire as a child, we're using some custom class for that, which seems a bit underpowered - however after this video I noticed that a few of my current ideas don't quite align with the lore that vampires were given, so I might need to reconsider some thing with the DM - great report as always!
of course, vampirism is a curse not a gift. they are powerful when having the upper hand but lack the power to fight in daytime, over running water, or near the faithful with symbols of their faith. They are not suppose to be beings of ultimate power but rather a shadows of their former selves, unable to be what they were and losing their souls in the process.
the pain was relentless and it seemed to last for day on end but slowly racked with pain spams and horred stabbing pain my as all the time i felt my my mouth agap i could not scream for i had no breath the floor held me as if i was aficted to it ...slowly the pain left me .. crawling in the dark i could hear the movement of a spider on it's web and the tugging of the small incest it trapped i was cold colder thy i have ever been as if i has been walking the highs of the snowcaps of the north ..some how i found my way out of that hole i rememberd i was on my way home when i was attacked some thing huge grabed me by the back of my neck and draged me into the deep darkness .. i most have crawled for hours for it was the dead of night when i found the boon yellow and bright allmost that of day i could see clearly ..even out of my bad eye it was the cold that drove me into the town .. the music i so oved as i walked i felt a dread come over me as i walked past the bridge and up to the gates as to guards ran up to me helping me as i tryed to walk there faces shown the horror i was .. as they helped me to the healers home and as i was shown on ..... the horror attacked that poor town ...and i had brought it with me for that night as i was care after .. i attacked and kill thy very people thy tryed to help me as i ran i .....i .... to this day i remember there faces and names my frineds my family all are gone now .. i have not gone back for about mm 3900 years it is now most likely over grown you wish to become a vampire you wish to live in the night and become undead there is a price i payed for it with the lives of my friends and family ......go now and live a ling old life for in this i can tell you there is no joy in unlife with out some one dear to share it with .....
Vampires didn't get affected by sun in folklore until pretty much nowdays. They just went from nocturnal predators to "can't stand the sunlight". Plus they cant reflect on mirrors with silver as the reflectant, but they can/could on anyother. On a side note i find all these limitations in official d&d to be too much.
Honestly it's just a copy and paste of Brom Stroker's Dracula, and that's just boring. I think Underworld, Vampire the Masquerade, The Witcher, and Skyrim have a lot more interesting take on vampires.
Strahd is the first Vampire? How sure are you? Because if that's the case, then the rest would have had to come. from him... but he is in an inescapable demiplane... so how did his spawn leave?
Van Richten's Guide to Vampires both states that Strahd is the first vampire and describes characteristics of older Vampires. Even setting aside the issue of vampires outside of the Ravenloft setting (which could be relatively easily reconciled by either the demiplane closing _after_ the creation of spawn or the recognition that it's somewhat less than inescapable), there's pretty clearly an intentional contradiction in the presented lore. How to deal with that is left to the GM, and I can think of several possibilities (not least of which being that the mists are already known to fuck with time a bit)
I'm not sure the "no soul" trait of DD vampires is coherent. If Stradh is cursed, but it's not his soul in his body, who are the dark lords tormenting in Barovia? A demon soul that replaced the original one? It doesn't much make sense to me.
I've always had their weakness be Sunlight, Silver Weapons, Holy Water or anything else sanctified and a Stake through the heart (Silver Stake will outright kill a lesser vampire). The rest of the traditional weaknesses Running water, Garlic, trespassing or super OCD have been completely made up by the Vampires over the centuries to give people a false sense of hope and some amusement for the Vampire as their victim frantically tries these things to no avail and in fact for some of them Blood tastes better when you add garlic.
So I have a question if strahd is the first vampire how did vampirsm spread if he'd rather kill,eat,or turn you into his consort and keep you to guard his castle?
So what if a full vampire drinks from another full vampire? I heard a long time ago that the blood turns to dust in their mouth. But I cant find anything that confirms or denies it as far as dnd is concerned.
In other settings like Warhammer and World of Darkness, Vampires get weaker the further removed they are from the original first vampires, but drinking the blood of older vampire grants you the power of the older vampire.
Good question! I have a Saltmarsh script half finished, but struggling to find time with the day job and getting the house ready for our new baby. Maybe beginning of December?
The vampires of MTG are different. The Innistrad/D&D crossover book said that MTG vampires aren't undead but a race of beings that live a long time and drink blood. You can even play as one.
Strahd's not hard to find. We played the original Ravenloft adventure, and found him playing his organ in such a stereotypical vampire way that we couldn't help but laugh. He was pretty hard to kill though.
"You will be evil..." Common misconception. It's written that vampires "are evil" just like it's written that "barbarians are evil", "vikings are evil" and whatever other community the author of the text didn't like. There is no reason a vampire can't be good, it's just hard to marry with bloodlust and other pits of darkness that open up within them.
See I dont like the idea that, ALL Vampires are evil.. its just dumb, I mean I feel like they can have more than just the same trope of the one note evil vampire lord.. I think having someone that is a vampire but doesn't want to be evil or just wants balance and peace between themselves and man is a much more compelling story or somthing along those lines other than "there's an evil vampire.. you have to stop him... if you dont he will take over da world"
They must count small objects thrown on the ground? Source that please bro, it sounds like your just confusing OCD with Vampirism. Where did you hear that? So curious.
Honestly I think they need to deviate from the old Brom Stoker vampire. It's kind of boring and there so many other forms of media that make way more interesting.
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@Jorphdan, If I may, I believe vampires should be classified as a Ka (or kami/youkai) along with:
.Were folks
.Abominations (were folks who don’t transform into mammals)
.witches/wizards (I believe the occupation was named after these immortals)
.chimeras (this term for creatures that have features from two or more animals)
.gorgons (basically creatures with extra lizard/snake-like features that can petrify any living things by any means, it’s mostly different for most of them)
.Fey (vaguely insect-like creatures)
.Golems
.Giants
.Elven (human equivalent of Fey, that includes orcs, but I wish not to open that can of worms in this comment)
.Ogreoids (human equivalent of oni)
.Taurians (basically humanoids that have full bodies of other animals instead of normal humanoid legs)
.Cyclops
.etc. (I believe)
While Monsters have:
.Dragons
.Dwarven
.Goblinoids
.Trolls
.Elementals
.Genasi
.Prehistoric Creatures (that includes dinosaurs)
.Genies
.Abberitions (aliens)
.Florafauna
.Undead
.etc. (I believe)
That’s all I have to write about
-Double D
Can a vampire become a lich?
What is the most powerful vampire?
There are some "good" liches, who are respected by other wizards etc, is there something similar for vampires?
In our curse of strahd group, we try to avoid fighting Vampires at the moment since we aren't very good at being heroes lol.
I always assumed the garlic allergy was due to it's affect on blood both in reality and folklore.
In "real life" vampire lore at least, it was. Also, it was the garlic flowers that had the power, not the bulbs.
Garlic has antiseptic properties, meaning that it can be used to cleanse the body of certain toxins. In a time where people thought disease was the work of evil spirits, people believed this could be use to repel evil forces, such as vampires.
@Nospam Spamisham if it makes your blood taste bad then it would likely still repel them, no? 😛
I heard one theory was at some point people thought burning cloves (the spice) warded off Vampires, which over time became cloves of garlic.
The garlic repels vampiers thing was invented by Bram Stoker and i'm pretty sure it was because mosquitos hate garlic.
A few things I do with vampires.
1. Any personality traits they have are exaggerated to the negative.
2. Give them class levels because when you're immortal you have all time in the world to study various subjects.
3. Special power depending on the race i.e elves get enhanced charm, dwarves get to phase through stone.
I am just going say certain things.
1. I have never seen it say anything about vampires losing their soul, and if that was the case I would disregard it because it removes any and all interest the creature has. It becomes just a stronger zombie.
2. Vampirism by comparison seams better then lichdom, or death knight... thing. Its definitely more moral then lichdom since with lichdom you need to consume souls. Vampirism you need to drink some blood every few days, and you still have your flesh and senses which oathbreaker, and liches lack.
3. A vampire almost always becomes evil when changed (there would be exceptions) however after the transformation they could become good or neutral afterwards. Or the evil nature they posses could only center around there obsession.
4. Vampires might create other full vampires for any number of reasons. It could be a reward. The vampire might have other methods of controlling there progeny even once they are a full vampire, or it can be simple loyalty. After all if your servant was already loyal to you and your cause to begin with, and you can more or less manage his ambitions. Or it can be a simple fact they have no real wish to hold rulership over people preferring the company of peers to the company of servants.
@Nospam Spamisham I'm sorry, but what?
your first statement lacks context could you possibly elaborate. Could you also Elaborate on what you are going "nah" to. My comment had more then one point built into it.
I dont see why you couldn't have a good vampire, or even a good lich (though that one would have more trouble then the former.), and possibly even a Death Knight trying to atone for his sins, and find redemption
@Nospam Spamisham No, the more sentient undead like Vampires and lichs can still worship gods, though it's usually evil ones.
The D&D cosmology makes it explicitly clear that becoming undead, as well as necromancy in general is evil by its very nature. In D&D, the undead were originally created by Orcus (a demon lord). In Pathfinder, they came from Urgathoa, a woman who was so hedonistic, that she refused to accept her own death, and clawed her way back to the world of the living. The process of which turned her into the very first undead, as well as elevating her to divinity as the goddess of disease and gluttony. There is only one way I have heard of to become a "good" undead that isn't the result of some cringe worthy fanfiction, and that's with the aid of Elvish High Magic. They have a ritual that can turn somebody into a lich, who doesn't need to consume souls to sustain itself, and keeps its original personality fully intact. Unfortunately, those who undergo this ritual are severed from the elven cycle of reincarnation, so it is only performed in the most dire of needs.
Depends on the mythos/universe.
Buffy they're technically soulless animated corpses possessed by demons like dragon age undead.
Classic mythos they technically have a something reminiscent of a soul but are cursed by God in undeath with all these weird weaknesses, garlic, silver, wood (doesn't kill the vampire traditionally when stabbed in the heart but paralyses them until removed) And strong uv light.
In most though.
Vampires are corpses animated by a cursed soul with a healing factor and weakness to sunlight.
I feel when writing a vampire with too many weaknesses is actually stupid.
They're more interesting with 1 or 2 and the classic abilitie.
D
@@trollzynisaacjohan1793 The sunlight vulnerability isn't classical mythology. It wasn't until the story of Dracula became popular that the sunlight weakness became a more widespread thing.
I hear if you say you’re a vampire you get a free small soda at the movies!
Any movies?
And you get to stay up all night drinkin’ BloOd!
Speaking as a predominantly V:TM player, I have to admit, this is one of the more compelling Vampire videos in the DnD lore, and as such, I tip my hat to you good Siphr (The PH is silent, is it not? ;) )
Love me some good lore. Though D&D vampires are so different from VTM that you have to NPC them if a player gets turned.
Not really, my DM let me play as a PC after my character got turned. The character just had to drink blood of the enemies they fought or find people in cities, usually beggars, thieves, lords... Or humanoids in other places.
@@scottwoods9071 I mean, homebrew is a thing. So yes, really.
Grinnar I don’t know much about this but I’ve never heard that you must npc a PC that gets turned, only that it can be very difficult to ply a pc vampire and as such it tends to be the best option.
@@feartheghus yeah, unless you can get to the Underdark, Shadowfell, or stay in a big city, it's unlikely to benefit anything. Plus the rules are very bizarre.
Unless the player is a Dhampir now. You can have the freedoms and still have vampiric abilities
I played as a vampire "crimson court" blood hunter multi classed with profain soul with lathander as a patron, the pact is never feed on blood no matter how tempted and kill other vampires in exchange immunity from light damage and not being bound to a grave site.
Honestly some of the most fun in dnd playing Geller the vampire hunter
side note on the running water for d&d purposes: Bridges and such are fine to cross over water. It’s immersion in running water that’s the problem. Buy a Ring of Waterwalking and you no longer risk dying in 3 rounds with a common watersource. (also you can get away with daywalking for 1 hour durations by applying the tar-like potion Liquid Night on exposed regions for 250gp or make it yourself for somewhere around 50ish gp from moonflowers. You also can wear full body coverings to protect from the sun.) Also animals are handy for you to sustain you to fufill your cravings. Nobody cares that much if a farmer’s oxen mysteriously dies of blood loss and energy drain and it’s a easy check to prevent it rising as a vampire ox
Also, any chance of a straight up lore video on Strahd or Barovia for Halloween?
I cover most of Strahd in my Curse of Strahd video. so I'd recommend that :D
Curse of Strahd, The first campaign I have ever had a character survive through.
Never survived a one-shot. I tend to make characters built to enjoy the oneshot, as most oneshots my DM makes lead into his own campaign. I'm less fearful of death within a oneshot.
Love Strahd and would love a whole video just about him
My Curse of Strahd party has 3 fully transformed vampires. In fact, for about 2-3 months over the summer our group was down two fighters and my half elf cleric princess, Zelda Alagondar, was surrounded by these vampires! The vampires she travels with are Alexander Von Roeyen (brother of Strahd and Sergei Von Zarovich), Evelyn Sunstar (daughter of the elf vampire Jander Sunstar) and Anthony Hunt (Michael Morbius type of vampire). The idea of becoming a vampire has crossed Zelda's mind but she will only trust one vampire she knows to turn her and even that is only under extreme circumstances. Alexander wants to turn Zelda into his bride but respects her enough to give her the free will to choose her own path and if she is turned, to give her the free will to live as an equal to him. Zelda is currently still mortal and has to remain as such if she is to use the Holy Symbol of Ravenkind in the battle against Strahd.
Hey Jorphdan could you possibly do an indepth video on Gahenna? No one really covers that subject.
I made this one!
ruclips.net/video/VAhnHMFit_I/видео.html
How could I have forgotten lol I have that video downloaded. 😄
It's worth noting that the Plane Shift articles released for both Zendikar and Ixalan include a playable Vampire PC race. Yes, Plane Shift is an official wotc developed product. Yes, the races in the pdf's are about as balanced as any other race. They might be a little more detailed than the PHB races, but in general Plane Shift races don't have as many extra bells and whistles as any of the Volos guide races.
I love that gaze seen in Dracula where Van Helsing basically says fuck you Dracula.
Huh, I thought the first vampire was the result of someone surviving a succubus' kiss of death.
Theres multiple ways. Also the succubus kiss only does that if they truly love you
@@miriamvlachoulis6875 Don't tell a bard that or they will invest in enchantment magic to get the free eye-liner.
@@voidjockey82 let them live their lives lol
Dinosaur
The video was well worth the wait👍🏼👍🏼💯
1:20 I have never heard of that rumor that vampires must count stuff thrown on the ground until I played D&D 😂 and it wasn’t from a module but a player! I was running an old module where a cult is slowly taking over a town - in playing the npc who told the party about the strange stuff going with folk disappearing or not acting normal, I said “it seems like there could be something foul afoot, like idk vampires or somethin,” and they immediately latched on to this. They went to the inn and interrogated the owners with vampire tests, which is when one of them threw stuff on the ground. Idk what that was so did not react much. Later he said he was trying to see what they would do. I was like “uh what?”
Why do people always label us evil, I mean do the other kingdoms mind when bandits are found rip to shreds, drained of blood, head on pikes or impaled, heck Cormyr stands to gain,
I was turned by Strahd in my last session. Thank my high charisma. Idk what will happen next.
I think that a video on how to make a working build that imitates vampire powers would be more interesting, d&d vampire lore is pretty well known already
Welp I can't wait for the Grim Hollow Transformations any more. Time to play a Vampire and freak the party out!
There’s one campaign I did where it’s tieflings vs vampires they fight against each other tieflings are unaffected to vampirism since they are part demons but if they bite vampires and drink their blood it makes the tieflings stronger
Hello, Jorphdan. I really enjoyed this video and was wondering if you planned on making lore videos for the Elder Evils (Evil Entities/Elder Gods) of D&D. Cthulhu notwithstanding, there’s next to no videos about any of the individuals, or the Evils as a whole. I believe that the information would work well for your videos, and be quite spooky at the same time.
I touched on them in my Warlock video. But yes this is a great idea I'll see what I can come up with!
1:00 Let The Right One In. The! Greatest! Vampire! Story! Of! All! Time!
Also your 100th comment and all this at the 1:00 AM mark.
Do Vampire muses eat charisma?
Bards beware if that's true. Seduction could end in reduction.
That’s a chance we’re willing to take
so...... plane shift pamphlet from wotc you can roll up a vampire. so that's that. still ... oath of conquest or oathbreaker would be fitting.
1:20 hold up these mo'fuggin vampires be countin seeds on the ground? What are they undead rainman?
Forgotten Realms question:
Who was the Vampire High Rider of Elturgard? Was it Lord Dhelt? He was a human and in power from 1358DR (still in power last recorded 1372DR) but the whole vampire problem only started ~1450DR. If it was him, the long lifespan could be explained with him being a vampire but how did nobody notice for a century?
I wanna bring him back by having a secret lover he turned into a true vampire, who rose to power and want to take back the cursed Fort Morninglord for themselves to rule Elturgard from, after she brings him back by some means. (Side question: How does one bring back a soulless creature to unlife/undeath?) The players will help the Hellriders and Companion paladins (controlled by the vampire lover) as mercenaries to take back the fort and then will have to fight their way again through the fort but now filled with vampire spawn and get to the power-couple to save Elturgard and possibly the entire Sword Coast from vampire attacks. Or something like that...very early in the plot planning.
I love the story of the Lord of Elturgard turning into a vampire and cursing the land, the ppl rising up and praying to the gods to send help. And what do the gods do? They just create another sun, right above Elturel to keep the vampires away from the capital city :D Also it's fascinating to have an extremely holy place (Elturel) on one side of the river and a very-very cursed place (Fort Morninglord) right on the other side. The duality is strong on that part of the Sword Coast.
I started with a character in my local campaign that was turned to a vampire as a child, we're using some custom class for that, which seems a bit underpowered - however after this video I noticed that a few of my current ideas don't quite align with the lore that vampires were given, so I might need to reconsider some thing with the DM - great report as always!
Damn nice video my guy you did vamps justice with this
For such powerful beings, they seem to be very easy to defeat. Just build a moat around your castle and make your castle a temple to Torm or Tyr.
of course, vampirism is a curse not a gift. they are powerful when having the upper hand but lack the power to fight in daytime, over running water, or near the faithful with symbols of their faith. They are not suppose to be beings of ultimate power but rather a shadows of their former selves, unable to be what they were and losing their souls in the process.
the pain was relentless and it seemed to last for day on end but slowly racked with pain spams and horred stabbing pain my as all the time i felt my my mouth agap i could not scream for i had no breath the floor held me as if i was aficted to it ...slowly the pain left me .. crawling in the dark i could hear the movement of a spider on it's web and the tugging of the small incest it trapped i was cold colder thy i have ever been as if i has been walking the highs of the snowcaps of the north ..some how i found my way out of that hole i rememberd i was on my way home when i was attacked some thing huge grabed me by the back of my neck and draged me into the deep darkness .. i most have crawled for hours for it was the dead of night when i found the boon yellow and bright allmost that of day i could see clearly ..even out of my bad eye it was the cold that drove me into the town .. the music i so oved as i walked i felt a dread come over me as i walked past the bridge and up to the gates as to guards ran up to me helping me as i tryed to walk there faces shown the horror i was .. as they helped me to the healers home and as i was shown on ..... the horror attacked that poor town ...and i had brought it with me for that night as i was care after .. i attacked and kill thy very people thy tryed to help me as i ran i .....i .... to this day i remember there faces and names my frineds my family all are gone now .. i have not gone back for about mm 3900 years it is now most likely over grown you wish to become a vampire you wish to live in the night and become undead there is a price i payed for it with the lives of my friends and family ......go now and live a ling old life for in this i can tell you there is no joy in unlife with out some one dear to share it with .....
Vampires didn't get affected by sun in folklore until pretty much nowdays. They just went from nocturnal predators to "can't stand the sunlight". Plus they cant reflect on mirrors with silver as the reflectant, but they can/could on anyother. On a side note i find all these limitations in official d&d to be too much.
Honestly it's just a copy and paste of Brom Stroker's Dracula, and that's just boring. I think Underworld, Vampire the Masquerade, The Witcher, and Skyrim have a lot more interesting take on vampires.
I just love your channel.
Thanks so much! :D
The dislike(s) thought that vampires were supposed to sparkle in the sunlight.
they do sparkle. for about 2 microseconds they combust into flames.
ha!
Strahd is the first Vampire? How sure are you?
Because if that's the case, then the rest would have had to come. from him... but he is in an inescapable demiplane... so how did his spawn leave?
Hmmm questions indeed!
There are several 'first' vampires
Van Richten's Guide to Vampires both states that Strahd is the first vampire and describes characteristics of older Vampires.
Even setting aside the issue of vampires outside of the Ravenloft setting (which could be relatively easily reconciled by either the demiplane closing _after_ the creation of spawn or the recognition that it's somewhat less than inescapable), there's pretty clearly an intentional contradiction in the presented lore.
How to deal with that is left to the GM, and I can think of several possibilities (not least of which being that the mists are already known to fuck with time a bit)
Strahd is definitely not the first Vampire. Even in Ravenloft cannon, he is not.
strange, i saw a video in which you resist the the draining of the succubus and survive if the succubus stops transforming you into a vampire.
I'm not sure the "no soul" trait of DD vampires is coherent. If Stradh is cursed, but it's not his soul in his body, who are the dark lords tormenting in Barovia? A demon soul that replaced the original one? It doesn't much make sense to me.
I've always had their weakness be Sunlight, Silver Weapons, Holy Water or anything else sanctified and a Stake through the heart (Silver Stake will outright kill a lesser vampire). The rest of the traditional weaknesses Running water, Garlic, trespassing or super OCD have been completely made up by the Vampires over the centuries to give people a false sense of hope and some amusement for the Vampire as their victim frantically tries these things to no avail and in fact for some of them Blood tastes better when you add garlic.
Is it beyond a vampire lord to force a mortal to become a full vampire, as a means of spitting that former mortal?
It's funny, most die in Curse of Strahd. It was my second campaign. Yet it was the first that my character had the privilege to survive.
So I have a question if strahd is the first vampire how did vampirsm spread if he'd rather kill,eat,or turn you into his consort and keep you to guard his castle?
Because he's not the first Vampire. Even in Ravenloft canon, there are vampires known to be older than Strahd.
VAMPIRES! hmm... Halloween must be just around the corner. :-)
Coming Soon... Ravenloft 2?
4e actually had a vampire class, which was trash because only had 2 healing surges. But story wise, nothing is more fun than playing a pixie vampire.
fantastic :D
I would love to see a video on death knights and mummies
A vampire oath breaker sounds insane.
insanely good!!
What about Jander Sunstar? Wasn't he a good elf vampire?
Yes. And older than Strahd.
Happy Halloween Jorphdan!!!
Happy Halloween!
There are no rules stopping a vampire from entering a holy temple as long as it’s not a residence. A residence being a place where a person lives.
Will you do a video on Mordoc SeLanmere?
I love Helloween.
So what if a full vampire drinks from another full vampire? I heard a long time ago that the blood turns to dust in their mouth. But I cant find anything that confirms or denies it as far as dnd is concerned.
In other settings like Warhammer and World of Darkness, Vampires get weaker the further removed they are from the original first vampires, but drinking the blood of older vampire grants you the power of the older vampire.
@@InquisitorThomasinteresting, but nothing that confirms or denies what I said in D&D?
Vampire muses? What supplement are they from?
Open Grave from 4th edition!
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Paladins become death knights. I think a vampire’s more suited for a bard
Great content! Btw, when are the other adventure videos coming up? =)
Good question! I have a Saltmarsh script half finished, but struggling to find time with the day job and getting the house ready for our new baby. Maybe beginning of December?
Its too bad you can't be a daywalker so you have the strengths and no weakness but you will feel the need to feed.
is it Torment at 1:10 ?
didn't the mtg multiverse get added to dnd not too long ago? if so Sorin Markov would be a good example of a good aligned vampire
The vampires of MTG are different. The Innistrad/D&D crossover book said that MTG vampires aren't undead but a race of beings that live a long time and drink blood. You can even play as one.
I REJECT MY HUMANITY!
Is that a JoJo reference
Can a vampire become a lich or a werewolf or both?
Sadly no, lich creation requires a soul (vampires are souless) and werewolves can only pass their curse onto a humanoid.
Is it posable for a spawn to Steal the blood of the Vampire that "sired" it, if so, what happens?
Spawn are under the complete control of the lord that sired it. Sneak attacks, or stealing is impossible
@@FeinryelRavenclaw But, What If the lord is slain, and they regain their free will?
@@ErikWarhammer can't go against their orders. But if they never give you orders to stop you *big think*
@@TheCinderfang Say the "Lord" get put down by adventures, what becomes of spawn?
@@ErikWarhammer easy, you are still a spawn but without the lord you have free will
Strahd's not hard to find. We played the original Ravenloft adventure, and found him playing his organ in such a stereotypical vampire way that we couldn't help but laugh.
He was pretty hard to kill though.
Just play Vampire The Masquerade!
okay but how does one become a vampire in dnd? How did the original vampires get made?
Rumor is Strahd is the original vampire. He was created by the dark powers.
There's a type of vampires that are vulnerable to the sun and the full moon? Wtf
Or your evil dm just gives you a cool ring and suddenly your a vampire
thank you so much for your ....um insight please i wish to know more please ?
"You will be evil..."
Common misconception. It's written that vampires "are evil" just like it's written that "barbarians are evil", "vikings are evil" and whatever other community the author of the text didn't like.
There is no reason a vampire can't be good, it's just hard to marry with bloodlust and other pits of darkness that open up within them.
Cool video
just want to be immortal
Hey why are you tellin all our secrets. Or fouls.
How the fuck does running water kill a vampire?
They can swim lol
I play a human paladin vampire devoted to the god of death Kelmvor
You do know that Kelmvor is all about killing undead right?
you can also become a powerful vampire by getting a succubus to fall truly in love with you then kiss you.
vampires dont HAVE to be evil do they?
Its funny you don't even show any screenshots of Mordoc from the game, and instead you show Sorin from Mtg.
Strahd? Pfft. I'll stick with Dracula.
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See I dont like the idea that, ALL Vampires are evil.. its just dumb, I mean I feel like they can have more than just the same trope of the one note evil vampire lord.. I think having someone that is a vampire but doesn't want to be evil or just wants balance and peace between themselves and man is a much more compelling story or somthing along those lines other than
"there's an evil vampire.. you have to stop him... if you dont he will take over da world"
They must count small objects thrown on the ground? Source that please bro, it sounds like your just confusing OCD with Vampirism. Where did you hear that? So curious.
Honestly I think they need to deviate from the old Brom Stoker vampire. It's kind of boring and there so many other forms of media that make way more interesting.
Shame on you with a PH for using twilight pics..... bad host... bad host.
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Jack sparrow was a vampire! Jar of dirt!
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Ofc you failed to mention the most important thing about vampires you must have a widow's peak