Vampires in Dungeons & Dragons

Episode 130. So you want to become a vampire. You'll need to prepare yourself and find the right sire. This information may help you with the steps to take into undeath.

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[RyanVonAegir]

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.

[brightglory]

I always assumed the garlic allergy was due to it's affect on blood both in reality and folklore.

[racekitty]

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.

[irontemplar]

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.

[Uknownuser-qvc]

I hear if you say you’re a vampire you get a free small soda at the movies!

[macabrederek]

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? ;) )

[troperhghar]

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

[taekinuru]

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

[Grinnar]

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.

[RyanVonAegir]

Also, any chance of a straight up lore video on Strahd or Barovia for Halloween?

[jillianh]

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.

[Pandafun]

Love Strahd and would love a whole video just about him <3

[voidjockey]

Huh, I thought the first vampire was the result of someone surviving a succubus' kiss of death.

[adamholcomb]

The video was well worth the wait👍🏼👍🏼💯

[CitanulsPumpkin]

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.

[codifanning]

I love that gaze seen in Dracula where Van Helsing basically says fuck you Dracula.

[joren]

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?”

[Supeskaj]

1:20 hold up these mo'fuggin vampires be countin seeds on the ground? What are they undead rainman?

[AnonYmous-hjtb]

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

[Ninebreaker]

Hey Jorphdan could you possibly do an indepth video on Gahenna? No one really covers that subject.