05-31-2009, 08:33 PM | #1 |
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Leech and Born Biter
I'm building a vampire and giving him a leech attack (his vampiric bite) and the Born Biter perk from DF. This will allow him to make a bite attack and then hold onto the neck, like a grapple, draining blood, my question is if he'll be able to do damage from his bite and also leech, or will he have to choose one or the other?
In general, can someone deal damage with a grapple and use their leech ability? |
06-01-2009, 12:40 AM | #2 | |
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Re: Leech and Born Biter
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How are you picturing this, aesthetically? Does the vampire's mouth stretch out like a snake's? The body of relevant legends is of course quite diverse, but generally speaking they're usually depicted performing a grapple with their hands before biting when they feed violently at all... |
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06-01-2009, 03:47 AM | #3 |
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Re: Leech and Born Biter
I'm going for a "vampires have really overdeveloped jaw muscles" feel. The vampire still has a normal seeming human jaw, it's just much stronger.
I believe I got this idea from one of the Blade movies, seeing how most vampire templates place them at having at least 15+ ST, I don't think I'm stretching it to much by thinking that they could hang onto someone with their fanged mouths. The form of leech I'm using for the vampire has Blood Agent, to represent his having to bite his victim first, it doesn't have to be the classic sensual neck bite, he just has to bite somewhere. Having reread the rules, it seems you have to grapple and then Leech instead of say wrenching a limb, or snapping a neck, so it seems logical to assume that after biting with born biter (giving a free grapple) my vampire can move right into leeching the next turn, instead of have to follow a Grapple+Bite+Leech pattern. Last edited by tg_ambro; 06-01-2009 at 03:51 AM. |
06-01-2009, 03:07 PM | #4 | |
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You mean the second movie in the series, which featured the freakish vampire variant with a mouth that unfolds and stretches out to be huge? Most other vampires in Blade grapple with their hands before biting. |
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06-01-2009, 05:07 PM | #5 | |
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Yeah, that's the one, thank you. That one was pretty badass. |
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06-01-2009, 09:40 PM | #6 | |
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It's like the second and third Star Wars prequels for me: The overall effect kind of rubs me the wrong way, but there are so many individual, barely-related awesome ideas and visuals present that I forget while it's on. |
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