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).
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.
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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.
*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*
@@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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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 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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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....
@@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.
@@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.
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.
_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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
*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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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*
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.
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)
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.
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...
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.
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.
"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.
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!
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
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!
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.
@@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)_/¯
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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
"Vampires are forbidden from entering dwellings uninvited, we'll be safe here."
- One of my players before the Vampire burnt down the house.
So, basically, the Vampire was Jerry from Fright Night? That's awesome
*You can't hide in the house if there IS no house.*
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).
I had a vampire drill a hole in the players house
In my campaign the exact opposite happened, they burned down the house of a vampire tribe :/
Wand of fireballs?
"put any wooden post in its heart"
Yeah, vampires are the only creature that would die from this.
"Don't forget decapitation"
"That works on most things"
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.
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.
Yeah. Duh.
I was about to post the same thing xD
It's probably my favorite joke from Hotel Transylvania. xD
ONE! ONE GRAIN OF RICE AH-AH-AH!
TWO! TWO GRAIN OF RICE AH-AH-AH!
*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*
@@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
That’s actually why the count is a vampire, because vampires are obsessed with counting
I actually only just clicked that's why the count, counts. Fuck I'm an idiot
Strahd: Block the Sun
Dracula: Work around the Sun
Kars: **TAME THE SUN!!!!!**
Dracula in the book: walk out in the sun like a boss and only loose some of his rediculous powers.
@@dynamicworlds1 exactly. Dracula: oh fuck,the sun, I'm mildly inconvenienced!
Kars also has the best theme song of them all.
Harkon: Sacrifice my daughter to block the sun
Solair: PRAISE THE SUN
Vampires, for when regular alcoholism just isn't enough.
that's how the witcher handles the blood part
@@artski09 can you explain that?
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.
A vampires curse is a lot like a hangover, if you think about it
VTM has had alcoholic blood since it was first made.
"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
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.
@@johnsnow9210 Ehhh... I don't know, I think Strahd's a lot more sympathetic.
@@hysterical5408 he killed his brother an doomed a kingdom over infatuation. Would you kill your brother for his betrothed?
@@hysterical5408 given: Strahd is smarter.
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“The Sun is a deadly laser”
"Not anymore, there's a blanket!" - Strahd
Not anymore, I wore a mask!-Kars.
@@ScythesBlade I expected this response and i was not disappointed.
*Vampire's castle gets destroyed*
Vampire *starts dancing*: "I've got a jar of diiirrt! I've got a jar of diiiirrrrt!"
Someone has read Bram Stoker
Been there! Party has done that TWICE and Strahd was pissed!
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.
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.
Noice
@@temkin9298 i call it the natural 20
The first vampire made in shadow fell
@@temkin9298 One word: Glibness
The best way to implement a vampire transformation: stone mask
“I REJECT MY HUMANITY JONATHAN!”
yare yare daze
GOODBYE JO JO!
Meh. You are either born as apillar man or get eaten by one.
What?
I want to get that reference but i aint gonna
Ol' Todd's pizza makes everyone jealous, thats not just a vampire thing.
I know right!
Damn Todd and his perfect pizza
Now I want pizza. 😔
True, but if there's garlic butter on the crust then that's probably why vampires are jealous.
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?
Sometimes legends and myths overlap with each other
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.
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)
@@johnsnow9210 Obsessive counting comes interestingly from the hopping dead the Jiangshi of china or at least that's what I heard.
@@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.
Everything is great, until 3 aztec god of fitness break out of their self imposed slumber.
AYAYAYAYA
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
@@bishop6881
AYAYAYAYAYA
*Suddenly very loud Aztec dubstep plays*
@@bishop6881 what is this referencing?
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
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.
Tie it in with a dracolich and you're golden.
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.
Dracolich
Dracula
DEFINITELY LINKER
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.
Or have them hiking around the outer planes. No sun there.
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.
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.
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.
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....
@@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.
@@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.
1:34 Shrek forever after? Ah, yes one of the most powerful Relics known to man and feared by evil.
Flarenite100 It will forever protect us from the undead
I thought it was amade by evil
@retosius That’s Shrek the Third.
Oh no, a cheap coffin wood splin-"
and he was never heard from again
3:08 You think that being alive is the greatest high?
No, it's immortality and Stand Power
And that sweet sweet Joestar blood
Abbaccio's piss works as a replacement if there is no Joestar blood tho
ZA WARUDO
Saikou ni haitte yatsu da !!!
Jojo references are tight
Wrrryyyy!
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.
That’s just immortality
_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.
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This is why Count the Count has an obsession with counting things.
Holy fucking shit this comment changed my life
1! AHAH!
2.....
567993! AHAHA
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*You know that I am called the count*
*Because I REALLY love to count*
Can you teach us about Hamon next?
Fortuna Risk thunder cross spilt attack for monks
It’s the perfect mix of offense and defense
@@bishop6881 A PERFECT STRATEGEM
Just play a Sun Soul Monk. The rest comes naturally. Although remember to breathe. That's important.
sun soul monk
Lungs are important for hamon users
The reason vampires didn't show up in mirrors is because mirrors used to be made with silver, which rejected their image
Like a silver chariot!
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.
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.
Thank you I was looking for this
Vampires also make decent chairs for liches.
EDIT: A chair for an Overlord and one of the 41 supreme beings.
William Rosen Overlord reference?
Shady aura yes
Elder liches. You better give him the respect becoming of a supreme being. Kek
Reincarnated into slime is 0.000001% better, don't tell the overlord I said that.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Maybe homebrew some unique strengths and weaknesses of vampires in your world to set your players on their toes?
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.
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.
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.
that is how we got twilight
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!
Man, Part 3 would've been over quickly if Jotaro just had a bag of rice
thezombie baron Part 1 and Part 3 and Part 2 would’ve been significantly easier.
@@marshbordeaux4210 Part 2 not so much, with the hyper intellect of the pillar men, they would've counted the rice in no time.
How many pieces of rice can he pick up within the frozen time?
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
*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.
Yeah I like vampires.
Edit after watching video: I don’t like vampires anymore.
Play in one of my games. You'll really hate them then
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
@@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.
@@LordMrF th-cam.com/video/P_SlAzsXa7E/w-d-xo.html your song. you will laugh (Genghis Khan by Mike snow)
@bryan diaz varela Think being undead might have worse concerns then getting never getting chub again
*gets impaled in the heart with a wooden pole* "Good thing I'm not a vampire this would've been lethal for them"
I heard that mirrors used to need silver to make them and because silver is pure it prevents a vampire's reflection.
Every time I hear of a shite vampire I recall hellsing ultimate and feel better once again.
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.
@@UnNuclear C-C-CHECK YOUR PRIVILEGE
B*tches love canons
Damn it, now I need to watch this again
@@mgb360 No matter how many times i watch Hellsing Abridged i still think it's a gold mine for hilarious quote.
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.
Damn. Vampires have so many weaknesses I'm suprised they don't die if they get a splinter from their coffin
Chief Joseph lol
I mean if it gets to their heart that would kinda work
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.
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.
@@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.
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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*
Vampires: *exists*
Runesmith: “I’m about to end this man’s whole career*
In my campaign I introduced a vampire teacher who taught how to count he’s their best friend
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.
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)
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.
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...
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.
From what I heard, the original true vampires were created out of mad lads that actually survived a succubies death kiss
>Video about vampires
>No JoJo reference
Reality is often disappointing...
_Myst_ that’s why pucci is gonna reset it
@@theman6422 a little bit closer to heaven
Not even a DIE MONSTER, YOU DON'T BELONG HERE
Fuck Jojo
@@antiquereality3168 Shut up, Abbachio.
2:44 is everything I ever needed from this channel for all eternity
Protip to counter vampires:
Don't put a welcome mat in front of your door...
Finally someone who acknowledges the OCD vampires
The welcome to Chili's slayed me like most things to vampires.
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If I remember correctly the first Vampire was originally human but was transformed into the first Vampire because of the love of a Succubus
Cain the first Vamp and Lilith the first Succubi, vampire lore from white wolf, shrug....
@@johnsnow9210 World of Darkness, such an interesting setting hey?
Thought I would have to make this comment myself but I wanted to make sure it wouldn't be redundant.
@@camerontwa799 white wolf did vampires best and its old af still best out
@@heinoobermeyer7566 i didn't get to play much vampire the masquerade. Our play group was young, we were creative murder hobos 😖😆
The picture of the Belmonts and Geralt of Rivia teaming up to beat the crap out of Dracula fits so well in my head
One becomes a true vampire by having a succubus fall in love with them
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.
That moment when you realize that you are one of the most powerful monsters but also the most lonely and the easiest to kill
I've had a channel terminated for showing myself in my boxers.
Easy to kill? Lmao, watch their statblocks in 5ed
"All you have to do is go to bed on time." CRAP, MY ONE WEAKNESS.
A “true” vampire is made when a succubus falls in love with a mortal, uses kiss of death on them, and the mortal lives
YOU THOUGHT IT WAS A VAMPIRE, BUT IT WAS ME! DI-
Oh wait a second.
A second you said ? THE WARUDO !
"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.
Narrator: "Massive widows peak and little pointy bits is a vampire"
Me (🤣🤣🤣🤣 over the fact that he also pointed to the vampire's junk)
Idubbbz: I have crippling depression.
Guy in Wheelchair: I have osteoporosis.
Vampire: I have crippling OCD.
My understanding was mirrors used to be lined with silver.
I REJECT MY HUMANITY JOJO!
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!
You thought this comment was gonna be relevant but it was me, dio.
Matias Espinoza freeze, now you are just a head
DIO!
Is that mother fuckin jojo reference
Sandslashr Is that a mother fucking jojo reference?!!!?!
The Big Freindly Gaijin yep, because runesmith forgot that dio is a vampire
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
Orc vampire wild mage that is basically a Weirdboi from warhammer 40K.
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!
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.
@@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)_/¯
True! Thank you!
@@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.
@@ChaoGuy2006 Sounds like a super complicated version of rock paper scissors to me.
They are so damm spicy tho, give a vampire elf a moonblade and watch them smite everything
Imma throw half this out the window when making a vampiric race.
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Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.
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.
Died at the Hot Kool-Aid reference.
I MADE THIS FOR YOOOOOOOOUUUUU.
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.
Then you have Alucard (hellsing)
One of the most broken Vampires ever. The living castle. I wish those could be translated into D&D
......I'm gonna go for a walk
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.
Just dub tarrasque as a vampire dude.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Yes, the polishing and silvering of mirrors was a pseudo-alchemic process that could make you blind and very ill.
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."
yea , attacking vampire might be sometimes frustrating
but have you ever watched somebody spamclick combat in minecraft?
Vampires = Blood drinking, sun weakness, silver, and undead. Then make variations around it.
Video: Do like Vampires?
Me: NO! IM HERE TO KILL THEM.
Me: After watching video, well that was easy. Who wants Pizza?
"you can tell by his widows peak"
damn Vegeta must be a strong ass vampire
The Inquisitor in me is laughing . Great vid.
"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.
IM THROWING AWAY MY HUMANITY, JOJO!
Just build your vampire army/empire in the Underdark! As easy as that!
Never clicked a video faster cuz I'm a huge vampire nerd lol thanks for being a great enabler! 😂😂
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.
The whole mirror bit is due to old mirrors using SILVER in them. Modern mirrors vampires WOULD be seen.
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.
You should've known you'd get JoJo references when you made this video
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.
Anyone who dislikes a Runesmith video.. wtf dude, what in gods name are u thinking??
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.
2:45 You cant see Vampires in mirrors, traditionally, because mirrors were traditionally made with silver...
Are vampires like fey, or something?
@@sullivanmorgan4122 Undead...? Fey dont like Iron in some myths.
Look forward to these Basically videos every time. Keep on keeping on Runesmith.
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?!?!?
Because fighting a monster that can spam 6 disintegration rays in a single round isn’t fun.
@@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
@@Aplesedjr also when is fighting a fight you know you're going to win interesting?
"The scary sun from Mario is trying to kill them."
lolol. I never get tired of these.
Dracula wasn't killed by sunlight, his powers were just much stronger at night.
_The sun is a deadly lazer_
"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"
and this is why almost no vampires makes an appearance in DnD, there honestly kinda garbo lol
'hey you cant come in' but gets pushed inside so that it becomes dust. Id make a good Velmont