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Vampires are probably the most iconic monters type among undeads. Blood sucking aristocrats ruling mere humans with an iron first. There are lots and lots of interesting tales and stories about vampires, all of them could make a huge RPG. Only the Scholomance background of Dracula can be a entire extremely long RPG campaign yet modern game devs only makes SHIT characters and SHIT mechanics.
Hexxat(bg2""ee""), Astarion(dos3) and Rudi(vtmb) are the most iconic examples of shit modern vampires. Vampires are creatures from Slavic folklore, very aristocratic and selective on who they will embrace. The idea that a vampire would see Hexxat, Astarion or Rudi as candidates to join their peerage is completely retarded. At best, they will be low quality meal. A 500+ yo undead aristocrat should not have the same worldview and moral values as a modern tiktoker liberal!!! He would be disgusted to see someone of his bloodline becoming like Rudi and would not only painfully kill Rudi but also Rudi's "maker". Any elder of any respected bloodline would do something similar.
And is not the characters which declined a lot. Vampirism as a "game mechanic" declined a lot too.
Vampires in Daggerfall :
Iconic vampires from RPG's also suffered with the decline. Strahd is the most iconic example. In 2E, he was a astonishing 16th level Necromancer with powerful contingency spells + magical items and immune to weapons bellow +3 which are exceptionally hard to find in Barovia. Despite very nerfed was a quite formidable enemy in Strahd possession CRPG. D&D 4e nerfed him and made him a skirmisher, he has a ridiculous hp poll to be akin to a mmo raid boss. And in 5E, he is a very low level character for such ancient vampire. Vampires in 5e lacks everything that made them great from previous editions. In 2E, they could inflict negative levels, stat penalties, negate non magical weapons damage, heal from negative energy among other things.
There are very few modern games with good vampirism IMO. One of them is BloodLust 2 : Nemesis. I can't judge V Rising since din't played yet.
Hexxat(bg2""ee""), Astarion(dos3) and Rudi(vtmb) are the most iconic examples of shit modern vampires. Vampires are creatures from Slavic folklore, very aristocratic and selective on who they will embrace. The idea that a vampire would see Hexxat, Astarion or Rudi as candidates to join their peerage is completely retarded. At best, they will be low quality meal. A 500+ yo undead aristocrat should not have the same worldview and moral values as a modern tiktoker liberal!!! He would be disgusted to see someone of his bloodline becoming like Rudi and would not only painfully kill Rudi but also Rudi's "maker". Any elder of any respected bloodline would do something similar.
And is not the characters which declined a lot. Vampirism as a "game mechanic" declined a lot too.
Vampires in Daggerfall :
- +20 to every attribute except Intelligence
- +30 to Climbing, Critical Strike, Hand-to-Hand, Jumping, Running, and Stealth
- Levitation, Calm Humanoid, and Charm Mortal spells
- Immunities to paralysis and disease.
- Immunity to certain grade of weapons(silver+ weapons works)
- Sunlight will damage you
- Holy places like Churches will damage you
- The game threats you as dead, so all reputations obtained with many guilds will be lost
- Multiple clans, each one with its own peculiarities
Iconic vampires from RPG's also suffered with the decline. Strahd is the most iconic example. In 2E, he was a astonishing 16th level Necromancer with powerful contingency spells + magical items and immune to weapons bellow +3 which are exceptionally hard to find in Barovia. Despite very nerfed was a quite formidable enemy in Strahd possession CRPG. D&D 4e nerfed him and made him a skirmisher, he has a ridiculous hp poll to be akin to a mmo raid boss. And in 5E, he is a very low level character for such ancient vampire. Vampires in 5e lacks everything that made them great from previous editions. In 2E, they could inflict negative levels, stat penalties, negate non magical weapons damage, heal from negative energy among other things.
There are very few modern games with good vampirism IMO. One of them is BloodLust 2 : Nemesis. I can't judge V Rising since din't played yet.
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