The Biology of a Vampire - D&D

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[alantremonti]

Everyone misses you, dude. It's okay if the production quality takes a hit--your best strengths are the intruige in your scripts, your frankness, your tonality and just your readings in general. The pictures and all take second fiddle, if that's what's holding you up. Whatever you decide, we eagerly await your next video!

[daviddaugherty]

Actually, I'd say a vampire that ran a dog shelter would more likely be _repelled_ by dogs. Per Van Richten's Guide to Vampires, a vampire's former life is effectively anathema to it, as a mockery of the person used to be.

[azel]

Hope All is Well MrRhexx, Ive been binge watching your channel and every one of them has been the best, I'm a sucker for D&D and even more to for the lore, I still can't wait for whenever you do another Upload

[WolfJarl]

So the bloodline and potency is similar to the World of Darkness vampires: Cain being the very first vampire, followed by the 2nd generation, three of his direct childer, followed by their childer, the 13 Antediluvians from whom the 13 clans descend from, with each successive generation being increasingly diluted and weaker.

[evilallensmithee]

D&D Moms: “Always keep your nails you clean you never know when you could be turned into a vampire, and your could be stuck like that forever”

[heysamuelhere]

You know it's a MrRhexx video when you dive into the reproduction of any creature in question.

[Draven-mm]

In the novel Dracula, the Count was very tied to controlling wolves and bats as well as transforming into them several times during the novel. Not sure what Bram Stoker's reasoning for that was but that is why DND associates them so closely.

[derskalde]

Maybe you'll touch on this in a future video, but symbolism is also the reason why Vampires don't show up in mirrors or photographs.
It's actually basically the same reason as to why garlic is harmful to them.
Silver has antibacterial or antimicrobial (can't remember which it was) properties. It was also believed to be very pure in a metaphysical sense, believed to be able to ward off evil. So there were practices, where, when you thought your child had the evil eye, you'd put some silver into a bowl of water, so the water gets infused with the silver, and then sprinkle that water onto your child, which would banish the evil eye, for example.
So the reason for Vampires not having a reflection is, that back then many mirrors were backed with or made of polished silver, and it was believed, that a Vampire would not show up in a mirror due to the silver simply refusing to show the image of such a tainted, soulless being as a Vampire. Similarly, a Vampire wouldn't show up in a photograph, because in early photography, the process included silver (I think it was silvernitrate or something like that).

[captainthorrek]

Vampire: If you'll excuse me, I need to use the restroom...

Every other creature in the game: What’s a restroom?!

[derskalde]

Reminded me of a book series I've read, that has something akin to dragons, that can turn into humanoid form, the only markers that they aren't human being them all having golden eyes and fingers with four digits. At one point in the book, the topic of age comes up, and why these creatures can live for hundreds of years, and the answer was basically "muscle memory": these creatures live so long, because they age very slowly, and the reason they age so slow, is because their body remembers its youthful state and takes a very long time to acknowledge that it gets older.
So whenever you do something and think "What? But I used to do this with ease", with not wanting it to be true that they can't do things anymore, that is literally the reason for why these dragons-like creatures live so long.

Now I wonder, if you could force the body of a Vampire to acknowledge it's age, so to speak, would it spontaneously die, with the effects of all the years rapidly catching up to them, kinda like what you see with Dorian Gray in The League of extraordinary Gentlemen movie?

[andrewmcreynolds]

Hmmmm, need to make a bayou vampire with an affinity for gators

[Alberto-wwvb]

currenty making a game about our dnd campaign, where one of the main BBEGs was a vampire, this is an excellent timing

[Silvitewolf]

What they don't tell you about MrRhexx - he vanishes :(

[TheGenericavatar]

Fridge Logic: If the vampire's self image determines how it looks for it's 'default' look (as per whether or not a scar 'sticks), then it follows that altering their memories that determine the vampires self image could possibly change the vampire's default look going forward.

[conner]

Figured I’d mention, there are actually vampires that can transform into swarms! There’s one in the “Dead in Thay” books that I once read a bit into

[lackhood]

Honestly you have become my go-to D&D guy, your vids are pretty short yet I never feel like im missing out on much information as you do mini-series on different subject instead of condensing it all into on very long vid and well you have a pleasant narrative voice(which props if one of the biggest reason if i sub to someone of not)

[ShadowKatt]

A vampire having breathing lungs, a beating heart, a thinking brain, and working organs makes more sense than it does at first glance. A zombie does not have these things, but a zombie was dead before it came back to life. A vampire was alive when it became undead. Every cell in its body essentially ceases to live, but every cell still remembers what it's like to be alive. The heart continues to beat even though it doesn't need to. THe lungs breathe even though they don't need to. Every cell continues just as its DNA instructs it to and the vampire as a whole continues to 'live' as it normally would.

However it's like Neo in the Matrix: Do you think that's air they're breathing? THey're not, and this also explains why older vampires are so much stronger. The older a vampire gets, the more experience they have, the more they understand that the rules no longer apply to them. Just like the Matrix, they are stronger, faster, tougher, smarter, and once they are sufficiently powerful enough they can dodge arrows. But they won't even need to.

[NecroGoblin-ylfx]

i use the Grim Hollow transformations, and they are brilliant for players who want to become vampires, lich, werewolves, elementals and so on :D
though i must say the spectre is pretty strong with the walk through walls

[robertarcher]

Hey man. with the release of the Oblivion remaster i was wondering if you were planning on making more TES lore videos. i enjoy your DND ones but your Tes Videos were amazing. and you discussed and explained stuff soo well despite being a decade younger

[blaringsea]

If you're still counting the theme of Vampires: Can we get a video that goes over the lore of Dhampirs in D&D?