Vampire (Dungeons & Dragons)
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| Dungeons & Dragons creature | |
|---|---|
| Vampire | |
| Alignment | Any evil |
| Type | Undead |
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| First appearance | |
| Image | Wizards.com image |
| Stats | OGL stats |
In the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, the vampire is an undead creature. A humanoid or monstrous humanoid can become a vampire, and looks as it did in life, with pale skin, haunting red eyes, and a feral cast to its features. A new vampire is created when another vampire drains the life out of a living creature.
A vampire can be of any evil alignment, and if its alignment was not evil in life it becomes so in undeath. A vampire retains all the abilities it had in life, plus it gains the ability to drain blood and life energy, and to dominate other creatures with its gaze. A vampire can also command rats, bats, and wolves, or take the form of those creatures.
Some vampires worship the god Kanchelsis.
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[edit] Variant Vampires
- Moonbane Vampire - a vampire vulnerable to the light of the full moon.
- Monstrous Vampire - a non-humanoid vampire.
- Persuasive Vampire - uses the power of its speech to sway opinions of listeners.
- Psychic Vampire - drains a victim's mental strength rather than physical health.
- Savage Vampire - rely on brute force and hunt in packs.
- Swarmform Vampire - can assume the form of a swarm of creatures.
- Vampiric Dragon - vampiric dragon forever anchored to its hoard, much like a normal vampire craves its coffin. It can overcome this weakness though through the use of magical trinkets, such as chokers, wrist bands and other pieces of jewelry that contains their entire horde. Most notable of these was Brimstone the Smoke drake's great diamond choker which allowed him to travel any length from his lair when ever he wanted so long as it was at night.
[edit] Vampires in Oriental Adventures
- Hopping Vampire - Arises when a body is buried improperly or in an inauspicious location.
- Pennaggolan - A floating head, with entrails and intestines hanging down from the neck, which it can wrap around throats and limbs to squeeze the life out of its victims before feeding on their blood.
[edit] Notable Vampires
- Union of Eclipses - A powerful and influential cabal of vampires whose dominion spans multiple worlds of the Material Plane.
- Vlad Tolenkov - A sometimes consort to and advisor of Lolth, he resides in a Nightmare World trapped in the Demonweb Pits.
[edit] References
- Collins, Andy and Bruce R. Cordell. Libris Mortis: The Book of Undead (Wizards of the Coast, 2004).
- Collins, Andy, James Wyatt, and Skip Williams. Draconomicon (Wizards of the Coast, 2003).
- Cook, David, et al. [[Monster Manual#2nd Edition Advanced Dungeons & Dragons|Monstrous Compendium Volume One (TSR, 1989).
- Gygax, Gary. Monster Manual (TSR, 1977).
- Jacobs, James, Erik Mona, and Ed Stark. Fiendish Codex I: Hordes of the Abyss (Wizards of the Coast, 2006).
- Stewart, Doug, ed. Monstrous Manual (TSR, 1993).
- Terrazino, Joseph R. "Bazaar of the Bizarre: Vampire Slayer's Toolbox." Dragon #288 (Paizo, 2001).
- Williams, Skip, Jonathan Tweet, and Monte Cook. Monster Manual (Wizards of the Coast, 2000 and 2003).
- Wyatt, James. Oriental Adventures (Wizards of the Coast, 2001).
- Dungeons & Dragons set (1974)
- Supplement I: Greyhawk (1975)
- D&D Basic Set (1977)
- D&D Expert Set (1981)
- D&D Expert Set (1983)
- Dungeons & Dragons Rules Cyclopedia (1991)
