[MH] Custom Vampire Racial Templates

[NineDaysDead]

Originally Posted by Sunrunners_Fire

Tis easy enough for a True to 'convince' someone to dig them up; or even dig themselves up. But, yes, not dying can be a horrible thing in situations you can't escape.

Suffocation can cause IQ loss.

[vitruvian]

Originally Posted by Sunrunners_Fire

*looks at the mind control included in the template*

I don't think the True Vampire has to be concerned with someone making that attempt, truly, absent some serious protections against their racial and personal powers. :)

Oh, is the Blood Agent limitation only on the Decreased Immunity enhancement, not on the entire Mind Control ability? Did not realize that... and with the Power Talent, it looks like they've got 17 on their side of the Quick Contest. So, you'd need to assemble a team that uniformly had high Wills and other resistances like Mind Shield, I suppose, but then you'll need that in order to do much of anything against these guys.

Originally Posted by Sunrunners_Fire

But, hmm. I don't think that effect is actually doable on something with SD.

Well, not now that you gave them Unbreakable Bones, it isn't. Otherwise, though, it doesn't seem that Supernatural Durability prevents you actually being injured, just determines how you deal with it.

Originally Posted by Sunrunners_Fire

Tis easy enough for a True to 'convince' someone to dig them up; or even dig themselves up. But, yes, not dying can be a horrible thing in situations you can't escape.

The in-game appearance of an effect and the game effect itself are separate things. Or at least they can be separate things.

Actually, since buried vampires will quickly be down to -1 x FP, they'll either be unconscious, unless you rule that 'knockout' includes that form of unconsciousness as well, or at best 'on the verge of collapse', requiring a Will roll each turn to do anything other than Do Nothing, and that includes concentrating on Mind Control. Or use their Healing ability.

Do any of them ever remove their hearts and put them in safes?

[NineDaysDead]

Originally Posted by Sunrunners_Fire

• • Independent Body Parts (Instant Reattachment (Costs HP 1)) (Reattachment Only) [26]
  • Unbreakable Bones [10]

Why have both of these? Independent Body Parts allows you to Reattach severed limbs or extremities, but Unbreakable Bones means your limbs or extremities can't be severed.

[Sunrunners_Fire]

Originally Posted by vitruvian

Oh, is the Blood Agent limitation only on the Decreased Immunity enhancement, not on the entire Mind Control ability? Did not realize that... and with the Power Talent, it looks like they've got 17 on their side of the Quick Contest. So, you'd need to assemble a team that uniformly had high Wills and other resistances like Mind Shield, I suppose, but then you'll need that in order to do much of anything against these guys.

Yes, on Decreased Immunity 3 (for both Mind Controls, Mind Probe, Mind Reading) only; and on Telesend (Secure). Once they have tasted you, they can take effective ownership of their victim. (The Blood Agent on Mind Control for Vampires in MH1 is precedent for the idea.)

Actually, since buried vampires will quickly be down to -1 x FP, they'll either be unconscious, unless you rule that 'knockout' includes that form of unconsciousness as well, or at best 'on the verge of collapse', requiring a Will roll each turn to do anything other than Do Nothing, and that includes concentrating on Mind Control. Or use their Healing ability.

Yep. They are not without weakness. I could make them so ... but as True and Once-Human Vampires are intended to be playable as PCs ... I'd rather they have weaknesses.

The precognition with perfect danger sense (and the combat-only enhanced time sense) means they won't go down to surprise (absent something that makes you invisible to precognition).

Do any of them ever remove their hearts and put them in safes?

I imagine that, while not actually painful what with having SD, it would be very uncomfortable to do so, and so wouldn't be done by a True. A creative Master might, but they have the full Independent Body Parts advantage and so it wouldn't affect them.

[Sunrunners_Fire]

Originally Posted by NineDaysDead

Suffocation can cause IQ loss.

Good point.

Originally Posted by NineDaysDead

Why have both of these? Independent Body Parts allows you to Reattach severed limbs or extremities, but Unbreakable Bones means your limbs or extremities can't be severed.

Overcompensation. *grins* You raise a good point though; I believe I shall remove the Independent Body Parts then as those two effects do contradict each other. Fixing.

[Sunrunners_Fire]

Once-Human Vampire [130] ([177] without Multiplicative Modifiers)
Attributes: ST+4 [40], DX+2 [40], HT+4 [40]
Secondary Attributes: HP+1 [2], FP+1 [3], Will+2 [10], Per+2 [10], Basic Speed -.50 [-10]
Advantages:

• Appearance (Attractive) [4] ... or better if originally more attractive; minimum Appearance.
• Dark Vision [25]
• Doesn't Breathe [20]
• Energy Reserve 15 (Blood) (Special Recharge) [14]
• Injury Tolerance:
  • Unbreakable Bones [10]
  • Unliving [20]
• Leech (1 HP per Second) (Heals ER) (Blood Agent) [20]
• Magery 0 [5]
• Mind Shield 2 [8]
• Resistant (Metabolic Hazards) (Very Common) (Immunity) [30]
• Teeth (Sharp Teeth) [1]
• Unkillable 1 (Achilles Heel, Common) [25]*
  • Achilles Heel: Destruction of the Heart by Any Means
• Vampirism 2 (Power Talent) [20]
• Vampirism (Powers): Alt Bioenhancement
  • Combat Reflexes (PM) [14]
  • High Pain Threshold (PM) [9]
  • Regeneration (Very Fast) (Affects Others 1 (Blood Agent) (Temporary Disadvantage: Infectious Attack (Always Infects Victim))) (Costs HP 3 (Per Second)) (PM) (Requires Concentration) (Requires Will Roll) [25]
• Vampirism (Psychic Powers): Alt Psi
  • Danger Sense (PM) [14]
  • Detect Psychic Activity (Occasional) (Reflexive) (Selective Effect) (PM) [15]
  • Detect Vampires (Rare) (Reflexive) (Selective Effect) (PM) [8]
  • Mind Control (Fixed Duration) (Blood Agent) (Costs HP 1) (PM) (Reduced Duration, 1/60) [10]
  • Mind Probe (Sensory) (Blood Agent) (Costs HP 1) (PM) [10]
  • Mind Reading (Multiple Contacts) (Sensory) (Blood Agent) (Costs HP 1) (PM) [21]
  • Telesend (Broadcast (Selective Effect)) (Sensory) (Blood Agent) (Costs HP 1) (PM) [29]

Perks:

• Can Use ER (Blood) for Costs HP [1]
• Can Use ER (Blood) for Extra Effort [1]
• Can Use HP for Extra Effort [1]

Features:

• Affected by True Faith; Affected by Path of Body; Affected by Path of Mind; Affected by Path of Undead [0]
• Body Evaporates Upon Death [0]
• Unable to Use Holy Items [0]

Disadvantages:

• Bloodlust [-10]
• Callous [-5]
• Colorblindness [-10]
• Divine Curse (Unable to Enter Holy Ground) [-5]
• Divine Curse (Unable to Enter Private Residence without Explicit Invitation) [-5]
• Draining (Blood) (Common) [-5]
• Duty (Master Vampire Antecedent) (6 or less) (Involuntary) [-7]
• Energy (True Vampires) (Utterly Formidable Group) (6 or less) (Hunter) (Unknown) [-22]
• Flagrant Psychic Aura (+12 to Detect) [-5]
• Fragile (Flammable) [-10]
• Frightens Animals [-10]
• Infectious Attack (Bite w/ Leech) (Victim Must Die from Infectious Attack) [-5]
• Nocturnal [-20]
• Reprogrammable (by Master Vampires) [-10]
• Restricted Diet (Blood) (Very Common) [-10]
• Revulsion (Sunlight) (Very Common) [-15]
• Secret (Once-Human Vampire) (Possible Death) [-30]
• Supernatural Feature (No Body Heat) (Pallor) [-15]
• Unhealing (Partial) [-20]
• Unusual Biochemistry [-5]
• Vulnerability (Fire, Heat) (Common) (x2) [-30]
• Vulnerability (Holy) (Rare) (x2) [-10]
• Vulnerability (Silver) (Rare) (x3) [-15]
• Vulnerability (Sunlight) (Very Common) (x2) [-40]
• Weakness (Holy) (1d per Minute) (Rare) [-10]
• Weakness (Sunlight) (1d per Minute) (Variable) (Very Common) [-36]

...

Once-Human Vampire - Free Willed [+77] Racial Lens
Negated Disadvantages:

• No Bloodlust [+10]
• No Callous [+5]
• No Divine Curse (Unable to Enter Holy Ground) [+5]
• No Duty (Master Vampire Antecedent) [+7]
• No Fragile (Flammable) [+10]
• No Frightens Animals [+10]
• No Reprogrammable [+10]
• No Vulnerability (Holy) [+10]
• No Weakness (Holy) [+10]

Feature:

• Able to Use Holy Items [0]

[sir_pudding]

So all of these are intended as PC races?

[vitruvian]

Originally Posted by Sunrunners_Fire

Once-Human Vampire [130] ([177] without Multiplicative Modifiers)
Attributes: ST+4 [40], DX+2 [40], HT+4 [40]
Secondary Attributes: HP+1 [2], FP+1 [3], Will+2 [10], Per+2 [10], Basic Speed -.50 [-10]

Advantages:

• Appearance (Attractive) [4] ... or better if originally more attractive; minimum Appearance.
• Dark Vision [25]
• Doesn't Breathe [20]
• Energy Reserve 15 (Blood) (Special Recharge) [14]
• Injury Tolerance:
  • Unbreakable Bones [10]
  • Unliving [20]
• Leech (1 HP per Second) (Heals ER) (Blood Agent) [20]
• Magery 0 [5]
• Mind Shield 2 [8]
• Resistant (Metabolic Hazards) (Very Common) (Immunity) [30]
• Teeth (Sharp Teeth) [1]
• Unkillable 1 (Achilles Heel, Common) [25]*
  • Achilles Heel: Destruction of the Heart by Any Means
• Vampirism 2 (Power Talent) [20]
• Vampirism (Powers): Alt Bioenhancement
  • Combat Reflexes (PM) [14]
  • High Pain Threshold (PM) [9]
  • Regeneration (Very Fast) (Affects Others 1 (Blood Agent) (Temporary Disadvantage: Infectious Attack (Always Infects Victim))) (Costs HP 3 (Per Second)) (PM) (Requires Concentration) (Requires Will Roll) [25]
• Vampirism (Psychic Powers): Alt Psi
  • Danger Sense (PM) [14]
  • Detect Psychic Activity (Occasional) (Reflexive) (Selective Effect) (PM) [15]
  • Detect Vampires (Rare) (Reflexive) (Selective Effect) (PM) [8]
  • Mind Control (Fixed Duration) (Blood Agent) (Costs HP 1) (PM) (Reduced Duration, 1/60) [10]
  • Mind Probe (Sensory) (Blood Agent) (Costs HP 1) (PM) [10]
  • Mind Reading (Multiple Contacts) (Sensory) (Blood Agent) (Costs HP 1) (PM) [21]
  • Telesend (Broadcast (Selective Effect)) (Sensory) (Blood Agent) (Costs HP 1) (PM) [29]

Perks:

• Can Use ER (Blood) for Costs HP [1]
• Can Use ER (Blood) for Extra Effort [1]
• Can Use HP for Extra Effort [1]

Features:

• Affected by True Faith; Affected by Path of Body; Affected by Path of Mind; Affected by Path of Undead [0]
• Body Evaporates Upon Death [0]
• Unable to Use Holy Items [0]

Disadvantages:

• Bloodlust [-10]
• Callous [-5]
• Colorblindness [-10]
• Divine Curse (Unable to Enter Holy Ground) [-5]
• Divine Curse (Unable to Enter Private Residence without Explicit Invitation) [-5]
• Draining (Blood) (Common) [-5]
• Duty (Master Vampire Antecedent) (6 or less) (Involuntary) [-7]
• Energy (True Vampires) (Utterly Formidable Group) (6 or less) (Hunter) (Unknown) [-22]
• Flagrant Psychic Aura (+12 to Detect) [-5]
• Fragile (Flammable) [-10]
• Frightens Animals [-10]
• Infectious Attack (Bite w/ Leech) (Victim Must Die from Infectious Attack) [-5]
• Nocturnal [-20]
• Reprogrammable (by Master Vampires) [-10]
• Restricted Diet (Blood) (Very Common) [-10]
• Revulsion (Sunlight) (Very Common) [-15]
• Secret (Once-Human Vampire) (Possible Death) [-30]
• Supernatural Feature (No Body Heat) (Pallor) [-15]
• Unhealing (Partial) [-20]
• Unusual Biochemistry [-5]
• Vulnerability (Fire, Heat) (Common) (x2) [-30]
• Vulnerability (Holy) (Rare) (x2) [-10]
• Vulnerability (Silver) (Rare) (x3) [-15]
• Vulnerability (Sunlight) (Very Common) (x2) [-40]
• Weakness (Holy) (1d per Minute) (Rare) [-10]
• Weakness (Sunlight) (1d per Minute) (Variable) (Very Common) [-36]

...

Once-Human Vampire - Free Willed [+77] Racial Lens

Negated Disadvantages:

• No Bloodlust [+10]
• No Callous [+5]
• No Divine Curse (Unable to Enter Holy Ground) [+5]
• No Duty (Master Vampire Antecedent) [+7]
• No Fragile (Flammable) [+10]
• No Frightens Animals [+10]
• No Reprogrammable [+10]
• No Vulnerability (Holy) [+10]
• No Weakness (Holy) [+10]

Feature:

• Able to Use Holy Items [0]

So, even the once-human ones are incapable of having hands chopped off and so on? Interesting.

[Sunrunners_Fire]

Originally Posted by sir_pudding

So all of these are intended as PC races?

True and (Free Willed) Once-Human, yes. Master, no. Masters are intended to be Big Bads. I'm expecting to get (maybe) one PC True Vampire, and if not I'll introduce a NPC using the template as another Hunter in the campaign's area (an imaginary metropolis in Northern California along the coast) operating under the campaign's Patron's auspices.

• The PC True Vampire would get the Inhuman Template [200] and their Racial Template [whatever; somewhere around 1000].
  (Or their Racial Template and 200 points worth of customizations instead of the prebuilt templates.)
• A PC Once-Human Vampire would get the Inhuman Template [200], their Racial Template [whatever; somewhere around 200] and 200 points to spend on further development.
  (Or their Racial Template and 400 points worth of customizations instead of the prebuilt templates.)
• Human PCs get their Template [400] and 200 points to spend on further development.
  (Or 600 points worth of customizations instead of the prebuilt templates.)

Plus an assortment of campaign advantages and disadvantages that don't affect their point totals because they don't get to choose them.

I have odd ideas about point balance. :)

Originally Posted by vitruvian

So, even the once-human ones are incapable of having hands chopped off and so on? Interesting.

Yep! I like my vampires to be attractive, and I, personally, don't find missing bits to be attractive. :)

[vitruvian]

Originally Posted by Sunrunners_Fire

Yep! I like my vampires to be attractive, and I, personally, don't find missing bits to be attractive. :)

Makes the death scene in Roman Polanski's Fearless Vampire Killers a bit difficult, of course... ;-)