Early Vampires [Horror]

[Varyon]

Originally Posted by ericthered

To be clear: A mob of 10 year old boys with whatever weapons they can get their hands on is not a good baseline for "children". Such a group is moderately dangerous and can be fearless on occasion, and is self-selected for these qualities.

I should note this more-or-less describes the standard goblins from the Goblin Slayer anime/manga (they're explicitly noted to be roughly the same size, strength, and intelligence as human children, and roughly 10-years-old seems to match as the age). Anyone who has seen/read that has a decent idea of the sort of horrible things they can do to outnumbered adventurers (or sometimes even 1v1 if the adventurer lowers his/her guard).

[Astromancer]

Originally Posted by DangerousThing

Sparkly vampires or sparkly rpg's?

I once bought a sparkly RPG, it was a bitterly snarky take on fairies. Not folkloric fairies, they were part of Kipling's "Sugar and shake your head imposters that either try to be funny and fail or try to preach and...succeed!" It was also a satire of White Wolf's Noun: the Descriptive Term games. It was a better satire than it was a game.

[Johnny1A.2]

Originally Posted by Anders

Dracula is also incredibly set in his ways. He does not understand the modern world and as soon as he faces opposition he flees back to the home country.

IIRC, van Helsing actually refers to him at one point as something like a 'brilliant child-mind'.

[Racer]

Varnae the Vampire from Marvel (616) Universe , is amongst other things immune to Holy Symbols , Holy Ground etc .

Being a Sorcerer from antediluvian Atlantis , it's pointed out that ALL the Gods he ever feared , had long ceased to exist .
This is as he strolls into the Vatican & kills a noted Priest who was working on a way to destroy all Vampires .

Varnae is powerful enough to even give Thor trouble .

[maximara]

Originally Posted by Alden Loveshade

GURPS Bloodtypes is an excellent source for gameable vampires. It's Third Edition, but still quite useful for Fourth Edition.

Back in the 1990s, when people including me were discovering the Internet, a friend and I used it as a source to tell people online what type of vampire they were. We had a lot of fun doing it.

The GURPSwiki has conversions of Classic: Blood Types into 4e keeping to the original concepts as much as possible.

If you really want to go down the vampire rabbit hole Bane, Theresa (2010) Encyclopedia of Vampire Mythology McFarland should be your go to as it has 600 "types" of vampires.

It was used to make some corrections to Blood Types; for example the term "Ch'iang Shich" is used to describe two different types of vampires and what is in Blood Type appears to be wrong. While Crazy Safari plays the Jiang Shi (another variant Romanization) as comical they can actually be very dangerous.