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What They Don't Tell You About Vampires - D&D

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20 Comments

@heysamuelhere2733 1 year ago

Oh no, he's fallen to Rimworld. Expect next upload next year.

@almasyelesbayev 1 year ago

You forgot to mention, that vampires always try to skate uphill.

@rpghorrorstories 1 year ago

I think the current lore is that a Vampire Spawn can survive indefinitely without blood.
They just go insane.
IIRC, Astarion mentioned that he was buried for a year with nothing but his hunger to keep him company.

@dracosfire7247 1 year ago

I can’t believe you stated that last point so casually.
The idea that Strahd is only halfway to his peak physical strength is terrifying.

@ericanderson2482 1 year ago

In Dave Arneson's dungeon Blackmoor (original D&D), there existed a vampire who had been polymorphed into a rose bush, and then stuffed upside down in a large pot. A paladin came by one day, and seeing the upside down rose bush, he attempted to repot the plant, right side up. Unfortunately, he was picked by the rose's thorns. This caused the paladin to unknowingly start the change into a vampire. The paladin was killed by the guards at the exit of Blackmoor dungeon who were responsible for making sure no evil influences escaped. The clerics detected the vampiric influence, and hosed the paladin down with holy water, which killed the paladin, much to his surprise.

@androidmk5987 1 year ago

Okay, the inner thigh is not at all where I expected a vampire to feed.

@daviddaugherty2816 1 year ago

Fun fact: the monstrous compendiums for 2e Ravenloft also had entirely different entries for different races of vampire, complete with unique abilities an weaknesses.

Elven vampires were especially hideous creatures that could only go out in daylight, and halfling vampires could be repelled by pipe smoke.

@pauljanetzke 1 year ago

If you can find them, bust out the Van Richten's Guides to the various undead from Ravenloft in 2nd Edition, the RR series. They have lots of alternate information easily adaptable to 3rd, 4th or 5th edition. Really throws the players for a loop when that Patriarch vampire, very very old, is actually much more powerful than what they memorized out of the MM.

@shawwhitfield7794 1 year ago

Never even played D&D. Watched literally everyone of your videos just for the lore.

@BlubRuss 1 year ago

Smoothskin astarion isn't real and can't hurt me

@runningthemeta5570 1 year ago (edited)

This is useful since I’m working on a campaign right now that has two bosses that are vampires. I’m try to figure out how to use the Monster Manual’s entry on vampires as a template for them and I’m getting there but it still needs some work.
Also, I do hope the Rite of Profane Ascension does get discussed in the future. Although I do doubt that given it’s only shown up in BG3.

@boogaboogaboogaable 1 year ago (edited)

0:56 Also, vampires wobble but they don't fall down. That or all Weebles are undead. Either way, frightening.

@U2bignaa 1 year ago

I think without knowing i always imagined a vampire to act like astarion from bg3

@Bobothejedi 1 year ago

18:17 ok vampire survivers I see you! Sidenote THIS GAME IS FUN AND ADDICTIVE

@UnitedCrossfire 1 year ago

22:05 An older vampire seeking to demean a younger one might call them...

"....Little Godbrand"

@viktorhaggstrom3131 1 year ago (edited)

I have known of the pleasure of a vampire’s 'kiss' thanks to a different system, the World of Darkness, where most vampires, except for the clan and bloodlines of death, their bites being just that: pleasurable. Their spit is also able to hide/heal the bite wound

@l0ker507 1 year ago

I was just rewatching your video on ghouls, not realizing it was spooky month and should be anticipating another undead video from you

@conormurphy1954 1 year ago

I like when these videos credit the artists, fair play!

@tommcd5943 1 year ago

the irony of strahd having been insulted in life by honorifically being called old one by tatyana

@135mikerules23 1 year ago

This is going to be very informative for me. I created a vampire Yuan-Ti Pureblood Warlock, so learning what I should know about what they don’t tell me about vampires will go a long way.