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11-05-2007, 07:12 PM | #23 |
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Re: Late Halloween living corpses: vampires
Out of curiosity, would Fragile (Combustible) be a good way of modelling the effects of fire on a vampire?
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11-05-2007, 07:20 PM | #24 |
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Re: Late Halloween living corpses: vampires
Not really for a vampire. The combustible disadvantage means that with little fire damage you can burst something into flames. While fire does damage a vampire, it does not really do more damage than it would to a human. Combustible is more for a long dead dry zombie or a mummy, with it's dried out body and wrappings. if wanted extra damage for your vampire though, then try vulnerable instead, that just causes extra damage.
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11-05-2007, 08:10 PM | #25 | |
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11-06-2007, 01:03 AM | #26 | |
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In that line of thinking, vampires' "susceptibility" to fire is emulated well enough by selecting fire as the one thing that negates Supernatural Durability or as an Achilles' Heel for Unkillable. Now, if you want vampires to burst into flames at the touch of a torch, Fragile (Combustible) will probably do the trick well enough. There isn't much basis for that kind of "imflammable" vampires in folklore or in fiction, though, and it is mainly folkloristic and fictional vampires (including a few "movie vampires") I am creating. Max
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11-06-2007, 02:09 AM | #27 |
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Here's where it all started, the vampire from folklore. This is only an approximation, as vampire belief is widespread and quite varied. As such, this template is an amalgam of various European vampires. The vúrdolak, the vrykolakas, the upír and the vampyr could all conceivably use this template, deleting traits deemed inappropiate or adding new ones. It could also be used for a less film-like Nosferatu than the one previously described by adding Pestilence [5].
Folklore Vampire, 30 points Attribute Modifiers: ST+6 [60] Secondary Characteristic Modifiers: Perception+3 [15], HP+6 [12] Advantages: Dark Vision [25], Doesn’t Breathe [20] Immunity to Metabolic Hazards [30], Injury Tolerance (Unliving) [20], Unaging [15], Unkillable 2 (Achilles’ Heel: Fire, -50%, Decapitation, -10%; Hindrance: Impaling stake or spike through the torso, -15%) [25], Vampiric Bite [30] Disadvantages: Bad Smell [-10], Dependency (Own Grave; Daily) [-60], Divine Curse (Cannot enter home without invitation) [-10], Draining (Human Blood) [-10], Dread (Garlic, Sacred Objects, Wild Roses) [-40], Frightens Animals [-10], Infectious Attack [-5], Nocturnal [-10], Supernatural Features (No Body Heat, Pallor*) [-10], Uncontrollable Appetite (Human Blood, 12 or less) [-15], Unhealing (Partial) [-20], Weakness (Hearing the third cock-crow at dawn, Reburial at crossroads, 1d pr. minute) [-20] Features: Sterile. Vulnerable to True Faith. Not all traditional vampires suffer from the limitation that they cannot enter abodes uninvited (+10 points). * Not after feeding.
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11-16-2007, 12:24 PM | #28 |
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Yes, I know it's not Halloween anymore!
Here's another graveskulker, this time from ancient China. The Jiang Shi (or Chang Shi), lit. “stiff corpse”, is a restless ghost that sucks the blood of the living. It rises from the dead if left unburied, buried without proper ceremony, or if its grave is disturbed somehow (a cat passing over the grave is a favourite explanation). The corpse will then be possessed by the po (roughly "spirit" or "lower part of the soul") of the dead person.
Jiang Shi is alternately described as hideously ugly dessicated corpses and sometimes as pale, but seemingly living people. Jiang Shi, 170 points Attribute Modifiers: ST+6 [60] Secondary Characteristic Modifiers: Perception+3 [15], HP+5 [10] Advantages: Alternate Form (bird) [15], Claws (sharp) [5], Doesn’t Breathe [20], Immunity to Metabolic Hazards [30], Injury Tolerance (unliving) [20], Unaging [15], Unkillable 3 (Achilles’ Heel: Fire) [75], Vampiric Bite [30] Disadvantages: Bad Smell [-10], Dependency (tomb, shroud or coffin; Daily) [-30], Draining (human blood) [-10], Dread (garlic, incense) [-20], Frightens Animals [-10], Lifebane [-10], Supernatural Features (No Body Heat, Pallor) [-15], Unhealing [-20] Features: Sterile. Vulnerable to True Faith. Some Jiang Shi revenants have become Monstrous [-20] in death.
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11-18-2007, 06:51 AM | #29 |
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Méxica vampire: the civateteo
The civateteos were originally semi-divine spirits in Méxica (Aztec) mythology. They were malicious, especially towards pregnant women and women giving birth. When a woman was in labour, the civateteos would sometimes descend from heaven to harm her and her baby. Only loud noises and religious ritual would drive them off. The ancient Méxica had a cult for them to propiate them, and keep them from coming.
After the Conquest, the civateteo had been reduced to a restless, blood-drinking revenant, said to come about if a woman died in childbirth, especially if the infant died as well. The woman would rise from the dead, endlessly mourning her dead child, wandering alone along rivers. She will hate living mothers and their children out of jealousy and will especially delight in attacking them. As a left-over from the mythic civateteo, the vampiric civateteo sometimes haunt mothers about to give birth, screaming and wailing outside, trying to get into to feed on the labouring mother and her unborn child. As in ancient days, loud noises and ritual may drive them off, but the ritual will be Catholic and not Méxica (unless the GM has decided that only "the old ways" hold sway over the vampire). Civateteo, 310 points Attribute Modifiers: ST+6 [60] Secondary Characteristic Modifiers: Perception+3 [15], HP+5 [10] Advantages: Alternate Form (screech owl, coyote and snake) [45], Doesn’t Breathe [20], Immunity to Metabolic Hazards [30], Injury Tolerance (unliving) [20], Supernatural Durability (except fire) [150], Unaging [15], Vampiric Bite [30] Disadvantages: Draining (human blood) [-10], Frightens Animals [-10], Infectious Attack [-5], Supernatural Features (No Body Heat, Pallor) [-15], Uncontrollable Appetite (human blood, 12 or less) [-15], Unhealing [-20], Vulnerability (heart) [-10] Features: Sterile. Vulnerable to True Faith.
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