I Was a Catholic Vampire

You never know who your D&D character is until you start playing them. #shorts #dimension20

[KAJ]

Vampire, who hates Priests, mass, crucifixes etc. Not because he is a vampire. He's Protestant.

[gwilym]

One of the fluff stories for VtM is about a vampire priest. His congregation loves him because he regularly heals them and seems to actually perform miracles. To celebrate a cardinal visiting the town, they drag the priest outside to present him. He burns up and they just assume God ascended him to heaven and he winds up a Saint.

[Danheron]

That’s actually in the original Dracula book where a girl (Mina) that been bitten by Dracula grabs crucifix and it burns her and she starts to cry (it was a communion, wafer, not a cross)

[Stormy-Knight]

Thing is vampires would have a better reason to be catholic because the fact that it works on them would be evidence of it being true. Unless in this setting all religious or faith based symbols work on vampires.

[swampgoat]

I did a vampire campaign where one of my players specifically requested this because theyre quite Christian themself and now theyre slowly becoming Blade.

[Malkav]

He’s talking about a character for Vampire: The Masquerade, a setting which absolutely has religious vampires and has a place for them

[michaeliglesias]

I love how simple things like this can create so much.

[RianeBane]

As a Catholic myself, the thought has occurred to me that the obvious solution to being a vampire is to convert to Catholicism, go to daily Mass, and frequently receive the Blood of Christ.

[eliaswolfe]

I had a character years ago that started as a Paladin, she was of a faith from the church she served. One day upon her return to her church, she was taken to the catacombs and forcefully turned into a vampire by other church members. While she was away, the church had been completely overrun by vampire overlords without her knowing.
It created this character that still wanted to cling to her faith bc it was all she had, but also now had to live with being a holy, unholy abomination and I was LIVING for it. The very next session our DM quit that campaign and I’m still really sad I never got to play out that tragic and complex story.

[DoctorMcHerp]

I can see this now as a Dhampir Cleric who still holds firmly to their faith, but is physiologically repulsed by crucifixes and other "holy" symbology.

[SpeakingJargon]

Them: NOOO you can't be a Vampire AND a Catholic
Brennan: haha character sheet go

[hogwilddevildog]

"You have to have faith in order for this to work on me, Mr. Vincent."

[jjbbx]

Not to steal his shine or anything, but Catholic vampires is no shock to anyone who's played Castlevania.
Dracula himself quotes scripture and even has a chapel IN HIS CASTLE.

[OpenBiolabsGuy]

Vampires who don’t encounter humans with dots in Faith: “Religion is B.S.!”
Vampires who first encounter Society of Leopold hunters that have dots in True Faith: “Holy Shit! How did you make that work?! That never works! What are you?”

[trippjohnson]

Brennan: "All of vampire society doesn't seem to care about religion"

The Sabbat: "am I a fucking joke to you?"

[FraterOphionoi]

"Oh all of vampire society doesn't seem to care about religion or have an active way to worship."

Brother, let me introduce you to the Sword of Caine. Our Messiah will end the apocalypse.

[PhilipPetrunak]

This was literally the plot of the first Vampire The Masquerade game.

[saxtonhalegaming]

So a Catholic Vampire, an Orthodox Werewolf, and a Protestant half-devil walk into a bar

[MaligoLibes]

Yeah, religion is a BIG deal for a lot of sects of Vampire Society in the World Of Darkness. In fact, it's a pretty major theme.

[eliza]

This worked really well for me the last time I played.
When the dm was going over world lore he said the halflings got wiped out in a war.
I told him I had been planning on playing a halfling and I was starting to worry I’d have to scrap it.
He said “if she were a halfling she’d basically be the last halfling…”
I said “what if she IS the Last Halfling?”
So my character got a gritty reboot where she grew up as a pickpocket after her entire village and family died.
She spent most of her time disguised as a human child but after some lucky loot rolls she also became a tiny little Batman 🦇