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  • @Jake-mf5sn
    @Jake-mf5sn 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3057

    "Vampires are forbidden from entering dwellings uninvited, we'll be safe here."
    - One of my players before the Vampire burnt down the house.

    • @SSD_Penumbra
      @SSD_Penumbra 5 ปีที่แล้ว +293

      So, basically, the Vampire was Jerry from Fright Night? That's awesome
      *You can't hide in the house if there IS no house.*

    • @keithsimonh
      @keithsimonh 5 ปีที่แล้ว +178

      Some tales have it that only the houses of the faithful are protected in this way, making for good scenes with faithless churches, others extend the forbearance to all mortal dwellings, including public spaces, hence why the vampire lord needs an undead army to feast on a city instead of sneaking in with their various powers (insert god of civilisation/walls here).

    • @crowfelo
      @crowfelo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +51

      I had a vampire drill a hole in the players house

    • @sebw1847
      @sebw1847 4 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      In my campaign the exact opposite happened, they burned down the house of a vampire tribe :/

    • @blvalverde
      @blvalverde 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Wand of fireballs?

  • @yarus5889
    @yarus5889 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3286

    "put any wooden post in its heart"
    Yeah, vampires are the only creature that would die from this.

    • @enigmaodell6806
      @enigmaodell6806 5 ปีที่แล้ว +446

      "Don't forget decapitation"
      "That works on most things"

    • @ChasoGod
      @ChasoGod 5 ปีที่แล้ว +231

      Actually it doesn't kill them, it paralyzes them until the object is removed. You can then decapitate or leave them out for the sun to burn to ash.

    •  5 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      You need to decapitate them and put garlic in their mouth, but it will only paralyze them. Then put them into sun or smh. Or sprinkle them with holy water.

    • @proffesionalidiot5994
      @proffesionalidiot5994 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Yeah. Duh.

    • @Siegmernes
      @Siegmernes 5 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      I was about to post the same thing xD
      It's probably my favorite joke from Hotel Transylvania. xD

  • @anthonylipira9526
    @anthonylipira9526 5 ปีที่แล้ว +499

    ONE! ONE GRAIN OF RICE AH-AH-AH!
    TWO! TWO GRAIN OF RICE AH-AH-AH!

    • @zacharyhawley1693
      @zacharyhawley1693 5 ปีที่แล้ว +25

      *promptly goes fuck this grabs a specifically made bag in your pocket and shoves all the rice in it and uses basic math to get the correct number of grains of rice finally violently murder everyone inside for trying to use my OCD against me*

    • @keithsimonh
      @keithsimonh 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@zacharyhawley1693 tfw the vampire your DM made to ranks in math and uses prestidigitation and ghost sound/programmed image to automatically count at high speed

    • @user-pp5oh9ee1k
      @user-pp5oh9ee1k 4 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      That’s actually why the count is a vampire, because vampires are obsessed with counting

    • @retts75
      @retts75 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      I actually only just clicked that's why the count, counts. Fuck I'm an idiot

  • @reillycurran8508
    @reillycurran8508 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1432

    Strahd: Block the Sun
    Dracula: Work around the Sun
    Kars: **TAME THE SUN!!!!!**

    • @dynamicworlds1
      @dynamicworlds1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +206

      Dracula in the book: walk out in the sun like a boss and only loose some of his rediculous powers.

    • @padfrog193
      @padfrog193 5 ปีที่แล้ว +218

      @@dynamicworlds1 exactly. Dracula: oh fuck,the sun, I'm mildly inconvenienced!

    • @henfinzim
      @henfinzim 5 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      Kars also has the best theme song of them all.

    • @lordphobius3876
      @lordphobius3876 5 ปีที่แล้ว +92

      Harkon: Sacrifice my daughter to block the sun

    • @diablopro3438
      @diablopro3438 5 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      Solair: PRAISE THE SUN

  • @altromonte15
    @altromonte15 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1397

    Vampires, for when regular alcoholism just isn't enough.

    • @artski09
      @artski09 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      that's how the witcher handles the blood part

    • @keyworksales6241
      @keyworksales6241 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@artski09 can you explain that?

    • @Aplesedjr
      @Aplesedjr 5 ปีที่แล้ว +34

      Tony Armstrong I think vampires in the Witcher world enjoy the taste of alcohol, so they are often found drinking the blood of the intoxicated. There’s a quest in the latest game about actively getting drunk to lure out a vampire to kill it.

    • @bjarnivalur6330
      @bjarnivalur6330 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      A vampires curse is a lot like a hangover, if you think about it

    • @Grinnar
      @Grinnar 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      VTM has had alcoholic blood since it was first made.

  • @magiv4205
    @magiv4205 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1346

    "A vampire pained by the loss of a loved one" *shows Dracula and Lisa*
    Dude, it wasn't necessary for you to hurt me like this

    • @johnsnow9210
      @johnsnow9210 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Lords of shadow 2? "Is this Gods reward for the devoted and the foolish?" th-cam.com/video/XT97tLHFczQ/w-d-xo.html Gary Oldman killed it though. Talk about sympathy for the devil. Straad can not compare.

    • @hysterical5408
      @hysterical5408 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      @@johnsnow9210 Ehhh... I don't know, I think Strahd's a lot more sympathetic.

    • @johnsnow9210
      @johnsnow9210 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@hysterical5408 he killed his brother an doomed a kingdom over infatuation. Would you kill your brother for his betrothed?

    • @johnsnow9210
      @johnsnow9210 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@hysterical5408 given: Strahd is smarter.

    • @fizziz_1035
      @fizziz_1035 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      .

  • @Penguin-of-all-penguins
    @Penguin-of-all-penguins 5 ปีที่แล้ว +284

    “The Sun is a deadly laser”

    • @ScythesBlade
      @ScythesBlade 3 ปีที่แล้ว +32

      "Not anymore, there's a blanket!" - Strahd

    • @Lettucem3n
      @Lettucem3n 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Not anymore, I wore a mask!-Kars.

    • @MartinDrumer21
      @MartinDrumer21 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@ScythesBlade I expected this response and i was not disappointed.

  • @OSIRIS30
    @OSIRIS30 4 ปีที่แล้ว +242

    *Vampire's castle gets destroyed*
    Vampire *starts dancing*: "I've got a jar of diiirrt! I've got a jar of diiiirrrrt!"

    • @ejsmith7626
      @ejsmith7626 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Someone has read Bram Stoker

    • @jillianh7565
      @jillianh7565 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Been there! Party has done that TWICE and Strahd was pissed!

  • @Zedrinbot
    @Zedrinbot 5 ปีที่แล้ว +392

    I think the original origin of Vampires was lightly explored in AD&D actually. I remember seeing something about it. Like, if a succubus was actually romanced by a mortal, she'd make him into an OG, patient zero vampire, which otherwise has only happened once in official lore in DND's history or something.

    • @temkin9298
      @temkin9298 4 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      Well makes sense. How the hell can somebody seduce the best seducer in the whole universe. I guess there is some bard that decided to not lay the dragon but lay the demonic seducer who can kill him really easily. Joking their spawm would be half demon, if the succubus has fallen in love( how) there can be a TRUE vampire.

    • @grizzlyb9984
      @grizzlyb9984 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Noice

    • @justabiscuit1794
      @justabiscuit1794 3 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      @@temkin9298 i call it the natural 20

    • @yoijoe13
      @yoijoe13 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The first vampire made in shadow fell

    • @erebos42
      @erebos42 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@temkin9298 One word: Glibness

  • @tiggs7255
    @tiggs7255 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3871

    The best way to implement a vampire transformation: stone mask

    • @FeinryelRavenclaw
      @FeinryelRavenclaw 5 ปีที่แล้ว +542

      “I REJECT MY HUMANITY JONATHAN!”

    • @V3n9eanc3
      @V3n9eanc3 5 ปีที่แล้ว +196

      yare yare daze

    • @TheDeceptiveMoss
      @TheDeceptiveMoss 5 ปีที่แล้ว +238

      GOODBYE JO JO!

    • @attila535
      @attila535 5 ปีที่แล้ว +168

      Meh. You are either born as apillar man or get eaten by one.

    • @defensivekobra3873
      @defensivekobra3873 5 ปีที่แล้ว +44

      What?
      I want to get that reference but i aint gonna

  • @alexanderjohnson1210
    @alexanderjohnson1210 5 ปีที่แล้ว +550

    Ol' Todd's pizza makes everyone jealous, thats not just a vampire thing.

    • @darcksage1
      @darcksage1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      I know right!

    • @notyouraveragelemon6128
      @notyouraveragelemon6128 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Damn Todd and his perfect pizza

    • @Grinnar
      @Grinnar 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Now I want pizza. 😔

    • @pingaspwnspiness
      @pingaspwnspiness 5 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      True, but if there's garlic butter on the crust then that's probably why vampires are jealous.

  • @Oscar-j6b
    @Oscar-j6b 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1868

    The reason why vampires can't be seen in mirrors is because old mirrors used silver with was thought to reflect the soul.
    Because vampires don't have souls they can't be seen in old time mirrors.
    Vampires can see themselves perfectly in modern mirrors.
    Also isn't the rise think a fairy weakness?

    • @brunop.8745
      @brunop.8745 5 ปีที่แล้ว +106

      Sometimes legends and myths overlap with each other

    • @slyseal2091
      @slyseal2091 5 ปีที่แล้ว +84

      I always thought it was just because silver repelled/thanos snapped them, which in turn meant that the mirrors did the same to to their reflections in a metaphorical way that is as easily explained as the existance of a dude who can't operate doors on his own.

    • @johnsnow9210
      @johnsnow9210 5 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      Vampires are a double edged sword for DMs. But so long as the are the same trough the setting/plane weaknesses and strengths can be lore tweaked. Will always love them. Runesmith even mentioned the possible Fey weakness of obsessive counting. Haven't gotten to use a vampire yet when it is my turn to DM but I did get to infect a PC with Lycantrhopy (the wonderful idiots freed a naked man in a cage on the third lvl down in a liches lair, got the rouge lol triggered anytime her life was in danger)

    • @burningbronze7555
      @burningbronze7555 5 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      @@johnsnow9210 Obsessive counting comes interestingly from the hopping dead the Jiangshi of china or at least that's what I heard.

    • @johnsnow9210
      @johnsnow9210 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

      @@burningbronze7555 well there are pyramids in Africa and South America but you just taught me something. He is one back: Bags of holding are made from beholder skin and strung with phase spider silk.

  • @attila535
    @attila535 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1805

    Everything is great, until 3 aztec god of fitness break out of their self imposed slumber.

    • @viperdragz4403
      @viperdragz4403 5 ปีที่แล้ว +151

      AYAYAYAYA

    • @bishop6881
      @bishop6881 5 ปีที่แล้ว +120

      Make a campaign about keeping a ruby out of some asshole vampires hands,
      but make all non enchanted objects useless against them
      Also write a scene where one just walk straight through someone ripping them in half
      Profit

    • @KoryLunaa
      @KoryLunaa 5 ปีที่แล้ว +79

      @@bishop6881
      AYAYAYAYAYA
      *Suddenly very loud Aztec dubstep plays*

    • @johnsnow9210
      @johnsnow9210 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      @@bishop6881 what is this referencing?

    • @bishop6881
      @bishop6881 5 ปีที่แล้ว +47

      John Snow JoJo’s bizarre adventure, the start of the pillarmen arc has one walk through someone causing them to explode, and you can only hurt them with “hamon” or sunlight

  • @racekitty
    @racekitty 5 ปีที่แล้ว +340

    A few ideas for vampires
    1.make full vampires just weakened by the sun like from the original Dracula story but let spawn keep the sun damage.
    2.make dragons involved the original creation of vampires because Dracula originally meant son of the dragon one example is a elixir made with dragon blood.
    3.have many of the classic vampire weaknesses/identifiers be myths made by vampires themselves.

    • @keithsimonh
      @keithsimonh 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Tie it in with a dracolich and you're golden.

    • @oliverschoneck7750
      @oliverschoneck7750 5 ปีที่แล้ว +52

      You can also take the discworld aproach in that they are just so god damn bored that they invent silly rules for themselves to make things more interesting.

    • @Master_E444
      @Master_E444 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Dracolich
      Dracula
      DEFINITELY LINKER

    • @grizzlyb9984
      @grizzlyb9984 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      You can make an og vampire that has all the benefits and no debuffs, and everyone under him just has more and more debuffs.
      A particularly cruel og might choose to make an enemy a weak vampire and give him the "organise everything mathmathicly" OCD and watch them as they are compelled to count rice until the end of time.

    • @williamwontiam3166
      @williamwontiam3166 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Or have them hiking around the outer planes. No sun there.

  • @torrinfell
    @torrinfell 5 ปีที่แล้ว +191

    Strahd von Zarovich IS the first vampire in D&D. He became a vampire after getting his powers from one of the ancient ones trapped in Ravenloft. As far as I can tell, making the pact that got him his powers also got him and his land of Barovia stuck in Ravenloft.

    • @baviddowie6210
      @baviddowie6210 5 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Pretty much. After he made the pact with Vampyr the Dark Powers were so moved by his touching display of pure unadulterated evil they yeeted Barovia into its own demiplane for the lols.

    • @gwiber
      @gwiber 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      Strahd, isn't the first vampire, just the best known in AD&D, and D&D, I guess.
      He was just there for a special module for 1st edition, and that got used for the new Ravenloft setting.

    • @aperfecttool2008
      @aperfecttool2008 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I thought it was pretty well known a true vampire is created from a succubus kiss that isn't intended to kill you and ur strong enough to resist the death effects....

    • @gwiber
      @gwiber 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@aperfecttool2008 You don't consider Strahd a true vampire? He threw himself from his castle walls high up, and that (plus his other stuff) made him into a Vampire.

    • @aperfecttool2008
      @aperfecttool2008 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@gwiber idk anything bout him but I do know from previous expansions in dnd and I believe a book series (can't recall I'm sorry) that it was succubus' who fell in love with a human and kissed them then they'd turn into a true vampire.

  • @flarenite1004
    @flarenite1004 5 ปีที่แล้ว +262

    1:34 Shrek forever after? Ah, yes one of the most powerful Relics known to man and feared by evil.

    • @nathanielsteward2221
      @nathanielsteward2221 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Flarenite100 It will forever protect us from the undead

    • @retosius7962
      @retosius7962 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I thought it was amade by evil

    • @Lobsterwithinternet
      @Lobsterwithinternet 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      @retosius That’s Shrek the Third.

    • @bruhboss3141
      @bruhboss3141 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh no, a cheap coffin wood splin-"
      and he was never heard from again

  • @stormyperson44
    @stormyperson44 5 ปีที่แล้ว +369

    3:08 You think that being alive is the greatest high?
    No, it's immortality and Stand Power

    • @madafaka2666
      @madafaka2666 5 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      And that sweet sweet Joestar blood
      Abbaccio's piss works as a replacement if there is no Joestar blood tho

    • @viperdragz4403
      @viperdragz4403 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      ZA WARUDO

    • @limyuxuan1272
      @limyuxuan1272 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Saikou ni haitte yatsu da !!!

    • @billydraco6250
      @billydraco6250 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Jojo references are tight

    • @SairinEarthsea
      @SairinEarthsea 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wrrryyyy!

  • @lagunasandroide
    @lagunasandroide 4 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    I tend to run vampires as having souls just like the rest of us, it's just the immortality that tends to drive them insane. Younger vampires tend to be quite similar to their mortal selves, middle-aged vampires are disillusioned but still hold on to some humanity, and ancient vampires are batshit insane.

    • @Lettucem3n
      @Lettucem3n 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      That’s just immortality

    • @fmitchell238a
      @fmitchell238a ปีที่แล้ว +2

      _Vampire: The Requiem_ (i.e. the reboot) posited that old vampires have to take a long nap to "thin their blood" (i.e. not need to feed on other vampires), and while they're sleeping for centuries their memories get ... muddled. One can also posit their stay in Dreamland makes them more disconnected from reality. As would sleeping through the whole Industrial Revolution and the rise of the Information Age.

  • @josephattwell1006
    @josephattwell1006 5 ปีที่แล้ว +64

    1:46
    This is why Count the Count has an obsession with counting things.

    • @firetarrasque4667
      @firetarrasque4667 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Holy fucking shit this comment changed my life

    • @Yental
      @Yental 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      1! AHAH!
      2.....
      567993! AHAHA

  • @glanni
    @glanni 5 ปีที่แล้ว +56

    1:46
    *You know that I am called the count*
    *Because I REALLY love to count*

  • @godzilla660
    @godzilla660 5 ปีที่แล้ว +446

    Can you teach us about Hamon next?

    • @bishop6881
      @bishop6881 5 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      Fortuna Risk thunder cross spilt attack for monks
      It’s the perfect mix of offense and defense

    • @Blyat763
      @Blyat763 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @@bishop6881 A PERFECT STRATEGEM

    • @Bluecho4
      @Bluecho4 5 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      Just play a Sun Soul Monk. The rest comes naturally. Although remember to breathe. That's important.

    • @2tired2p15
      @2tired2p15 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      sun soul monk

    • @MascaraMorada
      @MascaraMorada 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Lungs are important for hamon users

  • @whensomethingcriesagain
    @whensomethingcriesagain 5 ปีที่แล้ว +147

    The reason vampires didn't show up in mirrors is because mirrors used to be made with silver, which rejected their image

    • @SairinEarthsea
      @SairinEarthsea 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Like a silver chariot!

    • @samuelrodriguez9801
      @samuelrodriguez9801 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Coooooooool! Makes sense I guess since soulless objects appear in mirrors regardless and Chinese, stiff, jumping vampires, Jiang-Shi not only have reflections but fear their own reflections.

    • @danielpryce7126
      @danielpryce7126 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Sam Geuvenen
      Ironically that means most mirrors in a first world country can show a reflection. Because the reflective bit is some aluminum while flash cameras probably won’t because of the flash powder having silver in its formula.

    • @ComradeCarbon
      @ComradeCarbon 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thank you I was looking for this

  • @williamrosen3179
    @williamrosen3179 5 ปีที่แล้ว +309

    Vampires also make decent chairs for liches.
    EDIT: A chair for an Overlord and one of the 41 supreme beings.

    • @shadyauras
      @shadyauras 5 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      William Rosen Overlord reference?

    • @williamrosen3179
      @williamrosen3179 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Shady aura yes

    • @TaggedByTim
      @TaggedByTim 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Elder liches. You better give him the respect becoming of a supreme being. Kek

    • @johnsnow9210
      @johnsnow9210 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Reincarnated into slime is 0.000001% better, don't tell the overlord I said that.

    • @mgb360
      @mgb360 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Elder lich!? What is this insult to the great Ainz Ooal Gown, leader of the Supreme Beings? I'll have you know Ainz-sama is the most powerful of all Overlords, and cannot be compared in any way to a measly elder lich. Elder liches are but pawns in the hands of the Supreme One.

  • @Phyrior
    @Phyrior 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Actually, the whole sunlight induced death is a semi-modern invention started by the film Nosferatu. In China, there was a legend involving a vampire dying in sunlight, but this was only after it was starved and was sealed in place by the ringing of divine bells. Sunlight on the whole only serves to weaken Vampires to slightly above human levels of power. In fact, one of the more famous pre-film vampires, Varney, was so immortal in the pop culture of the time, the 'penny dreadful', that it literally took him diving into a volcano to finally end him.

  • @jordaosantana9607
    @jordaosantana9607 5 ปีที่แล้ว +187

    Ok, what I learned today:
    1- I need to be fucking creative to make a plausible vampire antagonist;
    2- Vampires are weak against creative players (throw them at beginners);
    3- Vampires should have emotional drama and animalistic behavior evidenced in the playthrough.
    Ok, should be fine to use.

    • @Usernamesdontmatter1
      @Usernamesdontmatter1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Eh you can still throw a vampire protagonist at experienced players. Just knuckle down on metagaming (an average fighter who hasn't encountered one won't know about it) and change the vampire weaknesses and strengths up a bit.
      You could also always have your antagonist come at them in a way they don't expect like as a benefactor via charmed proxies or minions. Also could have them take the blame for shady shit going on in the region so not only they have to deal with the vampire and it's minions but also other adventurers/bounty hunters and villagers.
      A gm did the latter to my group during a dark heresy campaign and even though the group was comprised of mostly experienced players and that fucking dumbass techpriest. We barely managed to save the day at the cost of several thousand innocents dying due to misunderstandings and with the team nearly failing or outright failing at every turn.

    • @WakkaMadeInYevon
      @WakkaMadeInYevon 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Vampires are also really easy to get metagamed. Newer players probably won't know what beats a lot of the monsters in the manual. But vampires have real world fame. Chances are a player is gonna know sunlight, holy symbols, and water are gonna fuck them up, even when their characters realistically wouldn't.

    • @WakkaMadeInYevon
      @WakkaMadeInYevon 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Maybe homebrew some unique strengths and weaknesses of vampires in your world to set your players on their toes?

    • @WhatMikeisEvolving1
      @WhatMikeisEvolving1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      I mean, lore has the vampires being much more powerful so if you want a good vampire antagonist you can also ramp up their power level with homebrew. Want them to be more manipulative? Make their charms and mind controls permanent and need a remove curse to undo. What them to mess up a party in melee? Give them a badass wolf form that it can swap to or give it fighter levels.

    • @twotone3471
      @twotone3471 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Vampires are the Undead choice for those who have no magic to speak of, otherwise become a Lich, way better. So basically Vampire is the Dollar General version of being a Lich.

  • @cielopachirisu929
    @cielopachirisu929 5 ปีที่แล้ว +94

    To make them more viable, you could choose a specific culture's vampires and only give them **THAT** culture's vampire weaknesses. Then just shave off the others!
    You could also have some of the weaknesses work on weaker vampires, and have it have diminished effects on them as they get stronger. For example, the rice thing. Maybe weaker vampires gotta do it, medium ones gotta pass a Save DC of some kind, and stronger ones just flat out aren't affected by it. Or, worse, a strong vampire like Strahd gets offended that you would try such a cheap trick on him and he gets some kind of angry bonus against you.
    Boom, done.
    You could also have the vampires find creative ways to subvert their weaknesses born of their own abilities. Like say, sure, they can't enter a house uninvited... but their minions can. Or they can set the house on fire to smoke you out of it.

    • @995cool
      @995cool 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      that is how we got twilight

  • @benediktgeierhofer4146
    @benediktgeierhofer4146 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Imagine all those weaknesses being rumours spread by vampires so there food spends less time being dangerous and more time doing useless stuff.
    Evil Genius!

  • @grayanderson2761
    @grayanderson2761 5 ปีที่แล้ว +417

    Man, Part 3 would've been over quickly if Jotaro just had a bag of rice

    • @marshbordeaux4210
      @marshbordeaux4210 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      thezombie baron Part 1 and Part 3 and Part 2 would’ve been significantly easier.

    • @attila535
      @attila535 5 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      @@marshbordeaux4210 Part 2 not so much, with the hyper intellect of the pillar men, they would've counted the rice in no time.

    • @MrDN83
      @MrDN83 5 ปีที่แล้ว +28

      How many pieces of rice can he pick up within the frozen time?

    • @marshbordeaux4210
      @marshbordeaux4210 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Admiral Attila Yes, but Joesph was constantly barraged by their vampires and they would be distracted, making it much easier to fight the Pillar Men

    • @devin5201
      @devin5201 5 ปีที่แล้ว +42

      *Jotaro spills rice
      ''Witness Jotaro as I DIO pick up all of this rice with my Stand, THE WORLD!"
      *Jojo spills even more rice
      ''You date mock the mighty DIO? I will break every bone in your body, after I pick up all this rice, once more THE WORLD grind to a halt!''
      *even more rice.
      ''Impossible! I am DIO I am invincible!"
      This goes on for twelve hours.

  • @SladePate
    @SladePate 5 ปีที่แล้ว +725

    Yeah I like vampires.
    Edit after watching video: I don’t like vampires anymore.

    • @YOOTOOBjase
      @YOOTOOBjase 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      Play in one of my games. You'll really hate them then

    • @LordMrF
      @LordMrF 5 ปีที่แล้ว +49

      I love the ones from the Witcher books and games, they are Vampires without the weakness and they are a race not corrupted humans or creatures

    • @johnsnow9210
      @johnsnow9210 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@YOOTOOBjase can we play online together? I will play a ghoul wizard or a deformed outer plane bezerker. I dunno, I just want to play again.

    • @johnsnow9210
      @johnsnow9210 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@LordMrF th-cam.com/video/P_SlAzsXa7E/w-d-xo.html your song. you will laugh (Genghis Khan by Mike snow)

    • @stinkysquid6533
      @stinkysquid6533 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @bryan diaz varela Think being undead might have worse concerns then getting never getting chub again

  • @Zerum69
    @Zerum69 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    *gets impaled in the heart with a wooden pole* "Good thing I'm not a vampire this would've been lethal for them"

  • @speccrusastrum
    @speccrusastrum 5 ปีที่แล้ว +34

    I heard that mirrors used to need silver to make them and because silver is pure it prevents a vampire's reflection.

  • @pricklybiscuit
    @pricklybiscuit 5 ปีที่แล้ว +140

    Every time I hear of a shite vampire I recall hellsing ultimate and feel better once again.

    • @UnNuclear
      @UnNuclear 5 ปีที่แล้ว +48

      My boss is a woman, I was a chick in the 40's, I hate everyone equally, and there's no one alive that can comprehend my sexual preference.

    • @starmstrong2062
      @starmstrong2062 5 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      @@UnNuclear C-C-CHECK YOUR PRIVILEGE

    • @medramonmasquedecendres2966
      @medramonmasquedecendres2966 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      B*tches love canons

    • @mgb360
      @mgb360 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Damn it, now I need to watch this again

    • @starmstrong2062
      @starmstrong2062 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      @@mgb360 No matter how many times i watch Hellsing Abridged i still think it's a gold mine for hilarious quote.

  • @entothechesnautknight1762
    @entothechesnautknight1762 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I personally like Vampire the maskarade's interpretation of vampires, as the subtypes make it so you don't have to shovel everything onto one hyper vampires and turn them into an actually playable race.
    Also they fully point out and know how humans could obliterate them.

  • @jozzyalthefool9273
    @jozzyalthefool9273 5 ปีที่แล้ว +147

    Damn. Vampires have so many weaknesses I'm suprised they don't die if they get a splinter from their coffin

    • @lebanemcarl68
      @lebanemcarl68 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Chief Joseph lol

    • @giovannialoisio4523
      @giovannialoisio4523 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      I mean if it gets to their heart that would kinda work

    • @k9px
      @k9px 5 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      Yeh but thats the modern western version of a vampire which is a bitchafied version of the original thing. The original thing you couldn't do jack shit to if you run into one, it would only hunt at night (not because it hates the light but because its nocturnal) and you could only kill it with something resembling an exorcism plus an iron nail in the heart while it sleeps followed by burning the remains.

    • @sirnarwhal9911
      @sirnarwhal9911 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      It's because vampires is a globally known monster so we merge all the weaknesses into one being instead of keeping them separate.
      Count Dracula from the book doesn't burn in sunlight.
      Count Orlok (Nosferatu) doesn't care if you invite him in your house or not.
      Counting the grains is merged from the superstition where if you spill salt you need to throw the grains over your shoulder to ward off the Devil or bad luck such as meeting a vampire. Thus, this weakness became associated with them because throwing the grains behind you keeps you safe from harm's way (or from a vampire chasing you). There's also the belief that in Hell there's a personal punishment where one needs to count the grains of sand on an endless desert, which is why vampires may be forced to do it as well.
      All of the vampire's weaknesses are more about the symbolic significance of the object's culture rather than its tangible counterpart. I can name all of them, but I think I've made my point.

    • @GeneralKenobi75
      @GeneralKenobi75 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@sirnarwhal9911 And yet in stories from those regions, those methods actually work. Vampires seem to be the most easily defeated undead for all their supposed power.

  • @UniverseAres
    @UniverseAres 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    1:04
    A brilliant thinker and capable warrior in life, Strahd von
    Zarovich fought in countless battles for his people. When war
    and killing finally stripped him of his youth and strength, he
    settled in the remote val ley of Barovia and built a castle on
    a towering pinnacle, from which he could su rvey his lands.
    His brother Sergei came to live with him in Castle Raven loft,
    becoming Strahd's adviser and constant companion.
    In his brother, Strahd saw everything he had lost. Sergei
    was handsome and young, while Strahd had become old and
    scarred. Resentment colored their relationship, eventually
    turning into hatred. Strahd's beloved, Tatyana, spurned him
    for Sergei, whom she pledged to marry.
    In a desperate attempt to win Tatyana's heart, Strahd
    forged a pact with dark powers that made him immortal.
    At the wedding of Sergei and Tatyana, he confronted his
    brother and killed him. Tatyana fled and flung herself from
    Ravenloft's walls. Strahd's guards, seeing him for a monster,
    shot him with arrows. But he did not die. He became a
    vampire- *the first vampire,* according to many sages.
    In the centuries since his transfo rmation, Strahd's lust for
    life and youth have only grown. He broods in his dark castle,
    cursing the living for stealing away what he lost, and never
    admitting his hand in the tragedy he created.
    *Strahd is the first vampire*

  • @thebiggestbigmacever6315
    @thebiggestbigmacever6315 5 ปีที่แล้ว +54

    Vampires: *exists*
    Runesmith: “I’m about to end this man’s whole career*

  • @donuttheturtle2.070
    @donuttheturtle2.070 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    In my campaign I introduced a vampire teacher who taught how to count he’s their best friend

  • @DaniMartVTen
    @DaniMartVTen 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Vampires also need AT&T Home Security Systems, because daytime burglaries by the local townsfolk with pitchforks can be difficult to deal with during daytime delirium.

  • @Randomdudefromtheinternet
    @Randomdudefromtheinternet 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    I was thinking about making a wandering merchant for a future campaign (like what if the merchant from Resident Evil was a vampire).
    With his vampire abilities he could travel anywhere (mostly for selling my players overpriced potions lol)

  • @erickchristensen746
    @erickchristensen746 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I know I’ve heard the rice thing from somewhere as a kid just can’t remember where.
    Also Strahd basically owns the entire land of his territory in Ravenloft, allowing him to go inside anyone’s house on his land without permission.

  • @jyraia11
    @jyraia11 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    During one of my 5e campaign I decided to create the first vampire.
    His story was simple, he was a human slave which was able to escape the city with luck and talent. A minor god wanted revenge against that city so he decided to help that human.
    After some time serving the god, he was blessed with a power which would give him power during the night but he would lost it during the day. After more time, he discovered that he could give his power to his army, but the soldiers became normal vampires...

  • @StarkMaximum
    @StarkMaximum 5 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Me: I want to run Storm King's Thunder and I have a homebrew campaign with a vampire big bad.
    Logan: Basically Giants followed by Basically Vampires
    Me:
    Me: I also want a generous soul to pay off my credit card bills.

  • @phalamy9180
    @phalamy9180 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    From what I heard, the original true vampires were created out of mad lads that actually survived a succubies death kiss

  • @_myst_4267
    @_myst_4267 5 ปีที่แล้ว +229

    >Video about vampires
    >No JoJo reference
    Reality is often disappointing...

    • @theman6422
      @theman6422 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      _Myst_ that’s why pucci is gonna reset it

    • @themagalanium9491
      @themagalanium9491 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@theman6422 a little bit closer to heaven

    • @bbdc1252
      @bbdc1252 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Not even a DIE MONSTER, YOU DON'T BELONG HERE

    • @antiquereality3168
      @antiquereality3168 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Fuck Jojo

    • @demi-femme4821
      @demi-femme4821 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@antiquereality3168 Shut up, Abbachio.

  • @wolfchanel2879
    @wolfchanel2879 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    2:44 is everything I ever needed from this channel for all eternity

  • @thegamesforreal1673
    @thegamesforreal1673 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Protip to counter vampires:
    Don't put a welcome mat in front of your door...

  • @frostyfrogz6930
    @frostyfrogz6930 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Finally someone who acknowledges the OCD vampires

  • @WhyYouMadBoi
    @WhyYouMadBoi 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    The welcome to Chili's slayed me like most things to vampires.

  • @THEOBSERVER-1
    @THEOBSERVER-1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    1:01
    If I remember correctly the first Vampire was originally human but was transformed into the first Vampire because of the love of a Succubus

    • @johnsnow9210
      @johnsnow9210 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Cain the first Vamp and Lilith the first Succubi, vampire lore from white wolf, shrug....

    • @heinoobermeyer7566
      @heinoobermeyer7566 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@johnsnow9210 World of Darkness, such an interesting setting hey?

    • @camerontwa799
      @camerontwa799 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thought I would have to make this comment myself but I wanted to make sure it wouldn't be redundant.

    • @johnsnow9210
      @johnsnow9210 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@camerontwa799 white wolf did vampires best and its old af still best out

    • @johnsnow9210
      @johnsnow9210 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@heinoobermeyer7566 i didn't get to play much vampire the masquerade. Our play group was young, we were creative murder hobos 😖😆

  • @dragonfell5078
    @dragonfell5078 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The picture of the Belmonts and Geralt of Rivia teaming up to beat the crap out of Dracula fits so well in my head

  • @killer40122
    @killer40122 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    One becomes a true vampire by having a succubus fall in love with them

  • @davidholliday1054
    @davidholliday1054 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Hey if you're curious I remember hearing about the origins of vampires in D&D
    Apparently they're created when a man with such suave charisma and rampant sex appeal somehow convinces a succubus to fall in love with him. When this happens and the succubus kisses him it does what any normal succubus kiss will do and sucks his soul dry, but due to the emotion the man gets bless with undeath. And there's your true blood vampire.

  • @chaseva9685
    @chaseva9685 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    That moment when you realize that you are one of the most powerful monsters but also the most lonely and the easiest to kill

    • @loganmavity2805
      @loganmavity2805 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      I've had a channel terminated for showing myself in my boxers.

    • @LoremasterLobsang
      @LoremasterLobsang 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Easy to kill? Lmao, watch their statblocks in 5ed

  • @AkiAmeko
    @AkiAmeko 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    "All you have to do is go to bed on time." CRAP, MY ONE WEAKNESS.

  • @okey3093
    @okey3093 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    A “true” vampire is made when a succubus falls in love with a mortal, uses kiss of death on them, and the mortal lives

  • @ShannonBlake444
    @ShannonBlake444 5 ปีที่แล้ว +43

    YOU THOUGHT IT WAS A VAMPIRE, BUT IT WAS ME! DI-
    Oh wait a second.

  • @Reishadowen
    @Reishadowen 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    "Because I have no idea how the first vampires started existing."
    Succubi falling in love with their target turns their target into a true vampire.
    "The reason you can't see a vampire in a mirror is because-"
    Early mirrors were lined with silver, which would "reject" showing the evil form of the vampire. Same for early photography which used silver nitrate.

  • @jdbm
    @jdbm 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Narrator: "Massive widows peak and little pointy bits is a vampire"
    Me (🤣🤣🤣🤣 over the fact that he also pointed to the vampire's junk)

  • @Skunnt
    @Skunnt 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Idubbbz: I have crippling depression.
    Guy in Wheelchair: I have osteoporosis.
    Vampire: I have crippling OCD.

  • @bluerider806
    @bluerider806 5 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    My understanding was mirrors used to be lined with silver.

  • @mortisvult2658
    @mortisvult2658 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I REJECT MY HUMANITY JOJO!

  • @ellebrown9675
    @ellebrown9675 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I just found your channel while looking for resources to get back into DMing and I just have to say I love your videos. Your style is hilarious and I am enjoying each one more than the last. Thanks for making these!

  • @sandraj45617
    @sandraj45617 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1537

    You thought this comment was gonna be relevant but it was me, dio.

    • @sandraj45617
      @sandraj45617 5 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      Matias Espinoza freeze, now you are just a head

    • @Vampiric_Kai
      @Vampiric_Kai 5 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      DIO!

    • @yancao3499
      @yancao3499 5 ปีที่แล้ว +35

      Is that mother fuckin jojo reference

    • @Jackb290
      @Jackb290 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Sandslashr Is that a mother fucking jojo reference?!!!?!

    • @sandraj45617
      @sandraj45617 5 ปีที่แล้ว +24

      The Big Freindly Gaijin yep, because runesmith forgot that dio is a vampire

  • @Spegg
    @Spegg 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Everytime you post one of these videos it gives me amazing ideas for encounters for my own campaigns. You're doing an amazing job on all these and they only seem to be getting better

  • @barrybend7189
    @barrybend7189 5 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Orc vampire wild mage that is basically a Weirdboi from warhammer 40K.

  • @CarrowMind
    @CarrowMind 5 ปีที่แล้ว +137

    Compared to World of Darkness vampires, D&D vampires are hilarious weak, if you want a really powerful and credible vampire threat for your D&D game, consider creating a homebrew vampire by borrowing and adjusting stats and powers from WoD vamps, plus you have over 13 clans and bloodlines to chose from!

    • @ChaoGuy2006
      @ChaoGuy2006 5 ปีที่แล้ว +19

      This might be too close to video-game logic, but you could even balance it out by having each bloodline have a singular weakness (other than light).
      Holy stuff? Better hope you picked the right religion, if it's a religion at all?
      Crossing a river or threshold? Want to take that risk while a vampire is barreling towards you?
      It'd quickly make sense as with the wide-breath of weaknesses, bloodlines, crossing bloodlines producing all new weaknesses, and the fact vampires would probably lie/deceive (convince an entire village you're weak to something, then go on a binge when they're all placated)- and vampires become more viable a threat. Everyone has heard their own version of what works, but good luck carrying it all.

    • @TaggedByTim
      @TaggedByTim 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      @@ChaoGuy2006 just to add on to your comment. If bloodlines are mixing and by result mixing the different weaknesses, wouldn't it also make sense to have them mix strengthens?
      Maybe a bloodline weak to holy water and a bloodline weak to Idk silver mix and as a result the offspring are more resistant to holy water but silver infused water just decimated them.¯\_(ツ)_/¯

    • @WarPaintClub
      @WarPaintClub 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      True! Thank you!

    • @ChaoGuy2006
      @ChaoGuy2006 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      @@TaggedByTim Rather than make more weaknesses, I'd just say it could just become something new. So a Vampire that fears a cross could gives its blood to another that hates garlic. Then the latter's weakness changes from garlic to the rice-counting thing.

    • @adonisadmirer2752
      @adonisadmirer2752 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@ChaoGuy2006 Sounds like a super complicated version of rock paper scissors to me.

  • @defensivekobra3873
    @defensivekobra3873 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    They are so damm spicy tho, give a vampire elf a moonblade and watch them smite everything

  • @LethalDose161
    @LethalDose161 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Imma throw half this out the window when making a vampiric race.

  • @hungryfordonuts6662
    @hungryfordonuts6662 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    796 likes, 5 dislikes, no views.
    Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.

  • @TheOracle23
    @TheOracle23 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    if you want to know more about undead
    read the 3.5 book Libris mortis:book of the dead. it focuses on more lore of different undead an teaches players and DM'S how to use undead.

  • @wesrose4258
    @wesrose4258 5 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Died at the Hot Kool-Aid reference.
    I MADE THIS FOR YOOOOOOOOUUUUU.

  • @brendanmurphy4034
    @brendanmurphy4034 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    One idea I had regarding vampires and a possible PC connection was something along the lines of a warlock pact of the undying. The twist being is that the PC was raised by said vampire. Imagine your family was killed by the vampires for any number of reason, they decide to take you in, most likely not that they felt actually pity for you but like a cool pet or a loyal indoctrinated servant that can walk in the light can be useful. You could have this weird relationship where the PC recognizes the vampire as really the only family they have, develop whether the vampire takes care of you to attempt to feel the warmth of humanity, has developed a genuine care by vampire standards, or uses them as just a tool.

  • @dragonfangalexander
    @dragonfangalexander 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Then you have Alucard (hellsing)
    One of the most broken Vampires ever. The living castle. I wish those could be translated into D&D

    • @lordphobius3876
      @lordphobius3876 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ......I'm gonna go for a walk

    • @keithsimonh
      @keithsimonh 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Easy, get epic casting, install demiplane in the hollow of your soul, fill with semi-phylactery blood demons made out of souls you drank. Really liking the idea of succubi being the metastasis of the OG vampires.

    • @iliketurtles2531
      @iliketurtles2531 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Just dub tarrasque as a vampire dude.

    • @williethenerfherder2193
      @williethenerfherder2193 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You forget Dracula from vampire hunter d. He is essentially a dark god who can cast spells, send his victims into the dark holes of space, or summon -500 degree temperatures and summon magma from the center of the earth.

    • @TheSmart-CasualGamer
      @TheSmart-CasualGamer 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The Great Vampires, a race from the Dark Times from Doctor Who, are also mad vampires. To defeat them in the War in Heaven (A predecessor to the Time War for any Who fans!), the Time Lords had to fly giant time travelling crossbows the size of cities. The ammunition used by the crossbow ships was made from solidified time from abandoned universe, because this is just how Doctor Who works.

  • @zyxaqc
    @zyxaqc 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I love how vampire lore has created so many ways of killing them that we now have multiple works of fiction where simply not getting merced by everything ever makes you cooler than every other vampire.

  • @brodieknight772
    @brodieknight772 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    No, the reason that you can't see a vampire in the mirror is because silver is pure and it refuses to reflect the unholy image of a vampire, and old mirrors were made of silver. Or so they say.

    • @keithsimonh
      @keithsimonh 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Yes, the polishing and silvering of mirrors was a pseudo-alchemic process that could make you blind and very ill.

  • @themageofcontext7071
    @themageofcontext7071 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Well, In an MTG card (I know, not the best source, but anyways), there is a line of descriptors that I use as a reason to homebrew the whole "no entering another's house without permission" thing out. It's that the rule is a myth told by parents in areas like Barovia/Innistrad(MTG vamp land) to help their children sleep at night. From my memory, it went along the line of "You know what they tell you about vampires being unable to enter a house uninvited? A lie to help you sleep at night."

  • @secretname2670
    @secretname2670 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    yea , attacking vampire might be sometimes frustrating
    but have you ever watched somebody spamclick combat in minecraft?

  • @nowlwane9623
    @nowlwane9623 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Vampires = Blood drinking, sun weakness, silver, and undead. Then make variations around it.

  • @AMPMASTER10
    @AMPMASTER10 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Video: Do like Vampires?
    Me: NO! IM HERE TO KILL THEM.
    Me: After watching video, well that was easy. Who wants Pizza?

  • @ravenousoreo
    @ravenousoreo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "you can tell by his widows peak"
    damn Vegeta must be a strong ass vampire

  • @chrisslash638
    @chrisslash638 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    The Inquisitor in me is laughing . Great vid.

  • @FirstLast-cg2nk
    @FirstLast-cg2nk 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "Vampires can't enter holy ground, he can't get us here."
    One of my fellow players before a vampire lord who had become an avatar of a vampiric blood god set foot inside the church, causing the entire building to burst into flames.

  • @ivlivscaesar5898
    @ivlivscaesar5898 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    IM THROWING AWAY MY HUMANITY, JOJO!

  • @user-ft3jq5vi2l
    @user-ft3jq5vi2l 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Just build your vampire army/empire in the Underdark! As easy as that!

  • @chaseallen372
    @chaseallen372 5 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    Never clicked a video faster cuz I'm a huge vampire nerd lol thanks for being a great enabler! 😂😂

  • @Eisenbrei
    @Eisenbrei ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The reason why vampires can't be seen in mirrors is, because when Dracula was written mirrors were made of polished silver and silver is anathema to vampires.
    They can't be seen on film for the same reason.

  • @ConkerTheCat
    @ConkerTheCat 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    The whole mirror bit is due to old mirrors using SILVER in them. Modern mirrors vampires WOULD be seen.

  • @jozzyalthefool9273
    @jozzyalthefool9273 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    MrRhexx made a video about the Succubus, and mentioned that a kiss from a Succubus that is in love with you turns you into a true vampire. That happens very rarely, but it did hapen a few times, and the first time was looooong time ago. Basicaly, a Succubus fell in love with a handsome young man, came in his house while he was sleeping, woke him up, kissed him, and then he became the first vampire. Then he bit a bunch of people, turned some of them into lesser vampires (a.k.a the common ones) who were much weaker than him. Then they all became a family of sorts. And that is basicaly how vampires came to be.

  • @trueaidooo
    @trueaidooo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    You should've known you'd get JoJo references when you made this video

  • @Frisbeehat
    @Frisbeehat 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    I really like a lot of how Jim Butcher portrays vampires in his "Dresden Files" books; having multiple kinds of vampires each with their own 'court' of nobles/hierarchy, each with their own strengths and weaknesses, how they feed and what they feed on, and they oft don't get along. Possibly a lot in common with Vampire: the masquerade bloodlines from what I've heard about it but still haven't gotten around to getting and playing it myself yet.

  • @audioclayton6919
    @audioclayton6919 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Anyone who dislikes a Runesmith video.. wtf dude, what in gods name are u thinking??

  • @loftwingheropon2743
    @loftwingheropon2743 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    With how many stupid weaknesses vampires have, in my current home brew world I actually have them as a Fey creature created as the result of a powerful hag curse placed on mortals, so all the dumb weaknesses are on purpose by the hag as a punishment.

  • @ironreed2654
    @ironreed2654 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    2:45 You cant see Vampires in mirrors, traditionally, because mirrors were traditionally made with silver...

    • @sullivanmorgan4122
      @sullivanmorgan4122 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Are vampires like fey, or something?

    • @ironreed2654
      @ironreed2654 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@sullivanmorgan4122 Undead...? Fey dont like Iron in some myths.

  • @ryanskaarud2230
    @ryanskaarud2230 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    Look forward to these Basically videos every time. Keep on keeping on Runesmith.

  • @victorminor1283
    @victorminor1283 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I thought the 24 hours thing only took effect after you and the vamp were on different planes... Why did 5e make all the damm monsters pushovers!
    WHY CAN'T THE BEHOLDER PICK WHICH SPELLS IT CAN CAST?!?!?

    • @Aplesedjr
      @Aplesedjr 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Because fighting a monster that can spam 6 disintegration rays in a single round isn’t fun.

    • @victorminor1283
      @victorminor1283 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Aplesedjr then think ahead, fight it from range from behind corners. Or surprise it and jump the fucker. Each eye (originally) had a unique beam so cutting the correct eye off meant none of those blasts hit you

    • @victorminor1283
      @victorminor1283 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Aplesedjr also when is fighting a fight you know you're going to win interesting?

  • @boldbearings
    @boldbearings 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    "The scary sun from Mario is trying to kill them."
    lolol. I never get tired of these.

  • @garrettsorensen631
    @garrettsorensen631 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Dracula wasn't killed by sunlight, his powers were just much stronger at night.

    • @madafaka2666
      @madafaka2666 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      _The sun is a deadly lazer_

  • @AliasEliahus
    @AliasEliahus 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    "its totally valid to sleep during the day if i was up all night right?"
    *ten seconds and one notif later*
    "now that's just uncalled for"

  • @zacrylist5748
    @zacrylist5748 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    and this is why almost no vampires makes an appearance in DnD, there honestly kinda garbo lol

  • @oblivioussquirrel8626
    @oblivioussquirrel8626 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    'hey you cant come in' but gets pushed inside so that it becomes dust. Id make a good Velmont