Vampires

[Sargon]

i like many other DM that i know, arnt happy with the rules for vampires that are present in the monster manual. so i branched out on my own and am ameking my own unique vampires.

i am trying to make them fit in to the mold that vampires have in DnD, for example that are a decned number of vampire prestige classes out there, and i rather like them. the prestige classes i am talking about are of corse the life drinker out of the Book of vile darkness and others. i am also going to make a vampire version of the soul eater prestige class.
so comeing to this i had to make sure the vampire i am makeing is adapatalbe for use in the DnD system, that we use.

i wanted my vampires to take after the vampires presented in anne rices books. namely interview with a vampire, the vampire lestat, and the queen of the dammed. to these ends the vampire im makeing are unrealistically powerful.

i have 10 age catagories that the vampires can move through.

Age Catagories                              Age (counting from the time they were turned into vampires)
Child of the Night                             0-100
Fledgeling                                       101-200
Juvinile                                           201-400   
Child of the darkness                        401-700
Young                                             701-1000
Adult                                            1001-1400
Child of the centures                       1401-2000
Elder                                             2001-4000     
anchient                                        4001-6000
Child of the ages                          6001-10,000
True immortal                              10,000+

the age listed is jsut for the use for vampires that go stright from child of the night to true immortal. there are however many ways to get the power of a more powerful vampire when you are still quite young. so in this system is is possible for a 200 year old vampire to have the power of a anchient, and for all reasons be considered an anchient.

i will explan these tricks for you.

Vampires can only make other vampires 3 times a centure, any vampire made after is just a mindless blood sucking undead. The first vampire made is 1 age catagorie under then the vampire who made it. the second vampire made is 2 age catagoris under then the vampire that made it, and the thinrd is three categories under the vampire that made it. all other vampires made after that are jsut mindless undead ( vampire spawn that are under controll of the vampire that made them ) if the vampires that the maker vampire made, go under age catagory child of the night, they are jsut mindless undead. so a vampire literally can not make another vampire like it untill it is at least a feldgling, beacuse the first vampire in the century that can be make is automatically 1 age catagory under its maker.

at the same time if a elder make a vampire for the first time in the century, the vampire he made would have the power of a child of the centuries.

If a young vampire sepnds the night exchangeing blood with an older vampire, the young vampire is brought up to 2 age categories under the older vampire.

this is jsut the start of understanding the vampires i made, its a very complex system and i will get into it later on in this topic, but for jsut general information, only vampies that are anchients can spend a day outside in the sun, but they will be horribly burned.

also a draw back that the vampirs that i am makeing have, is once the sun rises, they fall asleep. there is no way for a vampire to be awake in the daylight, even if it is underground. so its rather easy to kill a vampire, you jsut wait untill the day time and find out where it sleeps. of corse the uncioncuios vampire will defend itself, but it will not be as smart or as strong as if it was awake, if you fight a vampire in the day, it is only a mindless kill ing machine, at night however its a brilliant creature of darkness, that has many tricks at its disposial.

[Lord Kain]

The vampires goe to sleep once the sun rises is a bit to BIG of a weakness. Only a stupid vamprie hunter hunts during night hours anyway.

Its also a bit to easy to make older age category vampires

[Sargon]

yeah i agree it is a bit of a big weakness, but it inst truly hard to hide yourself for a day.

these vampires also arnt restriced to coffines, but the older vampires do sleep in coffines beacuse they are kinda odd.

but these vampires can sleep anywhere the sun dosent hit them. they can walk out into the middle of a feild if they want to and bury themselves and fall asleep.

they also have nothing agasints water, they can swim to the bottom of a bog, and bury themselves in the bog itself and sleep ( that would not be too good for getting along with humans, on account of you smell like a bog )

but yes i agree that is a good bit of a draw back so vampires need to be very careful where they sleep.

also i do agree it is easy to make a higher age catagorie vampire, in fact its really easy jsut get bitten and turned.

only the problems with the high age catagorie vampires are they arnt many.

there is only 1 vampire in nightkord that is over 10,000. and he is sposebly the first vampire.

however no party will meet a vampire that is near that old, in fact vapires that are children of the centuries are increadbly rare. meaning that there might be 4 of them out there.

in accordance with the books, there are very few vampires that are over 400, in fact the oldest i think i will ever probbly have a praty see is 400, and that is equal with the monster manual vampires.

the vampires in anne rices books make a very good point reguarding eternal life, who has the stamina required to live forever? at 200 years old in anne rices books thats when it starts to drive them mad.

very few vampires live to be over 200 years old.

to make vampires in accordance with ann rices books ( a vampire i rather like ) i did the same thing.

nicolas in anne rices books, got sick of like after 2 years of being a vampire and burned himself to death.

magnus the make of lestat, got sick of like ( around 1000) and burned himself to death.

kheyaman, got sick of live at around 400 ( dosent say but you can assume ) and went to sleep for 4000 years.

also many vampires that go to sleep, never wake up.

so the it is easy to amke a older vampire, but first you have to find one. which is imnpossible hard.

[Sargon]

okay more on the vamps.

Child of the Night
when a vampire is made at and not a vampire spawn, he is a child of the night here is that template.

base creaturs turns undead and HD increases to D12
gains +2 natural armor.
gains a slam attack ( use the MM table for damage )
Speical Qualities.
blood drain
call 2d4 dire rats ( only rats )
dark gift
dark gift is how a vampire makes another vampire, or a vampire spawn. to make a vampire a vampire finds a victum drains him compleatly of blood, then forces his own blood into the victum, the victum is then turned into a vampire.
to make a vampire spawn drain a victum of half there blood, then force your blood into him. the inmurties creat a vampire spawn, a mindless creature under the controll of ites maker.

speical qualities.
turn resistance +1
resistance to cold and electricity 5
spider climb at will
doom ( as the spell ) at will
charm, as the vampire spawns in the MM have.
fast healing 1
damage reduction 10/+1
abilities str +2, dex +2, cha +2
LA +2
a child of the night can go 3 days without drinking blood before starveing to death.

fledgeling
everything the child of the night has but some things increases
they gain suggestion, and telepathy as speical qualities.

there natural armor increase to a +4
there damage recution stays the same
there turn ressitance increases to a +2
there resistance to cold and electricity increase to 10
there fast healing increases to 3


there atribues increase to
str +4, dex+2 int +2 wis +2 cha +4

there stat increase do not stack with the stat increases
they they got as a child of darkness, so if your moveing from child of darkness to fldgeling your bonus are
str +2 int +2 wis +2 cha +2
LA+3

juvinile

they get everything that a fldgeling gets but a few new things and a few increases.

they gain the ability to dominate ( as in the MM) and speed

speed: they can move faster then any human, so with every age catagory there speed increases by 10 feet. so if a creature was turned into a juvinel vampire, his base speed would increase by 10, so if he was a human with abase speed of 30, it would now be 40.

they gain enegry drain, there hit takes 2 levels from you.

there natural armor increase to a +6
there damage recution increases to a 15/+2
there turn ressitance increases to a +4
there resistance to cold and electricity stays the same
there fast healing increases to 5

thre abilities scores incease to
str +6, dex+4 int +2 wis +4 cha +6

LA +4

the juvinel vampire is equal with the vampire in the moster manual, or at least that is what i aimed for.