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D2 Is it a Dracula?
- Yes
- Yes
D4 Photosensitivity
- Must be in coffin by sunrise. Loses consciousness with the sunrise
- Agonizing burns, rapid disintegration
- SPF600000, a thick umbrella, and long sleeves do the trick
- Sparkles
D6 Blood and
- Human Food
- Meat
- Brains
- Psychic Energy
- Wine
- Nothing else
D8 Age- Give them more d20’s and d100’s the older they are
- Freshly Turned
- Their contemporaries are old and frail now
- Old enough to have had several identity changes
- Tepes Contemporary
- The Thousand Year Vampire
- Has seen Calendar systems change over
- Is referenced in dead languages that few scholars remember
- Antediluvian/Prehistoric/Caveman Vampire- Has all the Classic Powers. 1d20 Quirks, and something unique
D10 Spooky Lair
- Classic, Crumbling old castle on a cliff over a dark and treacherous sea
- A fancy but otherwise unassuming mausoleum
- A victorian-style mansion, coffin in the sub-sub basement
- A castle that can teleport given time and magical resources
- A derelict subway car in an abandoned tunnel
- A penthouse, they own the whole building.
- Underneath a long abandoned barrow or ruin, perhaps they are ancient and awakening from torpor, perhaps they are young and have hidden themselves in the first safe place from the sun.
- A derelict building on the edge of an urban spawl
- In the 13th Hour, the eternal dreamless night of the Witching Hour
- An ivy engulfed duplex, rent shared between several other undead.
D10 Spooky Minion
- Classic model Igor
- Small squad of groupies/servants/familiars/mutants
- A lesser vampire- Roll up a vampire at least 1 age category lower
- A talking skull that offers snarky but wise advice
- Ghouls on loan from the Dream World
- A seemingly immortal butler of supernatural efficiency
- A series of mortal Majordomos or Renfields
- An Imp named Jenkins
- A flesh-bound Demon
- A mad scientist and/or their hideous flesh abomination
D12 Arch Nemesis and/or Lover
- A Rival Vampire (Roll ‘em)
- A Werewolf (Note to self, Werewolf generator)
- A semi-immortal knight whom they owe money to
- Generations of Melbonts
- An (fallen?) angel
- A survivor of their mortal life
- A Fae Noble whom the vampire broke a deal with
- Their sire, come to reclaim them
- Their progeny, who hates what has been done to them
- A rogue scientist who thinks they can cure vampirism
- A conspiracy theorist who uncovered something real
- The leader of a vast Hunter organization, maybe Abraham van Hecksing
D20 General Powers
- Change to Bats
- Change to Wolf
- Change to Mist
- Wall Climbing
- Fleshcrafting
- Supernatural Speed
- Supernatural Strength
- Supernatural Intelligence
- Supernatural Charm
- Telekinesis
- Telepathy
- Rapid Healing
- Supernatural Senses
- Melding into the earth
- Minion Mind Control/Brainwashing/Hypnosis
- Flight
- Fear Aura
- Grow vicious claws
- Paralysis Gaze
- Control Lesser Vampires
D100 Quirks
- Capable of siring Dhampyrs
- Blood Magic- The kind where you sacrifice vital forces to create hideous spells
- Blood Magic- The kind where you control blood like a puppet master
- Soul Sucking- Can feed directly on a being’s soul, can straight up eat ghosts.
- Absorbs the knowledge of those they drain, can specify what they seek otherwise just random fragments.
- Doppleganger- Can take on the forms of those they drain
- Dream Walker- Can manifest in the dreams of those whom they’ve touched, stronger manifestations with more interaction
- Necromancy- The kind where you interrogate dead folks for answers
- Necromancy- The kind where you raise skeletons to do your dishes for you
- Excellent Posture, you could measure it with a level. Lord Mark, I know you are watching.
- Can teleport (short/far/unimaginable) distances between shadows
- Psychometry- Can learn the history of an object by reading its physic residue.
- Possesses a grandfather clock that acts as a permanent portal to the 13th Hour
- Is turned to ashes by the sun as normal, but a sufficient amount of blood poured on the ashes will revive them once more.
- Is truly immortal, ‘killing’ this vampire will merely banish them until the conditions are right again for them to rise
- Is actually a massive leech/eel/parasite thing that lives within a human flesh-suit. There is more eel than what that body should be able to fit.
- Their vampirism really is a virus, an alien retro-virus that has written over the body’s DNA.
- Isn’t actually a vampire, but is possessed by a vampiric blade.
- Is immune to the traditional Vampire weaknesses, but has another set of unique weaknesses
- Can weild and manipulate darkness as though it were a physical thing
- Can spend a day in the sun if they eat an entire human heart harvested with a ritual blade.
- Is absolutely silent as long as they wish to be
- Emotional Vampirism- This vampire drains blood yes, but specifically they drain a specific emotion with it and prefer those who strongly feel that emotion as targets
- Rage
- Sorrow
- Joy
- Disgust
- Fear
- One of those untranslatable niche ones, like hygge
- Can transform into ‘elemental dust in moonlight’ whatever that means
- Cannot be bared by any lock, still subject to the invitation rule
- Can see the circulatory systems of their prey,
- Can call upon the spirits of all those they have killed as a horde of undead minions
- Is a Daywalker, but at night their body transforms horribly to feed
- Head pops off and flies into the night
- Torso flies off, trailing intestines
- Skin peels off, and their blood red spirit seeks breath and blood
- Turns into a terrible man-bat hybrid
- A slinking, squirming circulatory system
- An elemental thing of Blood and Shadow
- Has an escape rocket to the dark side of the moon that they’re still trying to fuel.
- Vampirism has given them immortality but not eternal youth and they appear now as a withered corpse of their former self.
- Can project wind or a psychic barrier to deflect projectiles.
- Can summon up great storms and cause minor natural disasters
- Has access to advanced and strange sciences far advanced of what is otherwise available.
- Can, with the correct ceremony, create a localized lunar eclipse
- Can drain the magic from spellcasters, learning one of their spells at random at each feeding
- They are truly immortal and cannot be killed by any means, but they are also incapable of healing from any wound, fated to be grown to dust over the centuries
- Has trouble with centuries of slang and lingual drift/
- Degenerates slowly into feral mindlessness if they’ve not fed.
- Can command all varieties of vermin
- They prefer to feed on those under the influence of any variety of substances, feeling a distant echo of their high.
- Pyrokinesis- Control over fire is something that makes this vampire feared even by other vampires
- Can astrally project themselves while they sleep or are in torpor
- Has made multiple demonic pacts that they can call upon.
- Instead of traditional fangs has:
- A mouth FULL of sharp teeth
- A proboscis tongue
- Mouths on their palms
- Sideway splitting mandibles
- Hypodermic claws
- Unhinged jaws that can take huge chunks of meat off or swallow small prey whole
- Doesn’t need blood any longer, however has a singular indulgence they MUST obsess over or be overcome with bloodlust.
- Is indifferent to religious iconography but is hideously afraid of clowns
- Obtained their vampirism through Alchemy and remains a master of that art
- Know a few words of the First Tongue and has gathered several True Names, these powers are awesome in their might but devastating to the vampire to use
- Knows the Last Word, but using it would mean their own destruction as well
- Kerimancer- Can magically manipulate wax and candles, possesses several candle based magical items such as Time Bewitching Incense, Thieve’s Candle, and Hands of Glory
- Can warp space in limited ways to modify distances and repel attackers
- Possesses a vast breeding pit of hideous and bizarre monsters to call upon
- Turns to stone when ‘killed’
- Rides a Terrible Steed for some awful reason.
- Lives in an infinite everchanging haunted mansion.
- Has a strange compulsive phobia
- Anywhere they live slowly corrupts and the land becomes a tormented hellscape.
- Is a collector of texts, their extensive library contains numerous rare and dangerous texts
- Ignore age roll, this vampire is not only prehistoric but belongs to a long gone epoch, it is fossilized and feral, its mind driven mad by a million years beneath the crust of the earth
- Has poker once a month with a mummy, a werewolf, and a fishman from some lagoon or another
- Can materialize a variety of bladed weapons they’ve collected over the centuries
- Can screech at glass shattering, eardrum bursting decibels
- Can turn their cape as hard as steel and as sharp as a scalpel (Of course they have a cape!)
- Is damned to continuously have their mortal love reborn and die just outside their grasp
- Possesses two very large pistols and refers to themselves as a “fother mucking” vampire
- Has a hatred of their own kind and actively works against them
- Has a dullahan driven stagecoach (or hearse)
- Their saliva is a potent drug that forms terrible addictions
- Is partnered with a Juxubus–that is a -Cubus that is a switch rather than a In/Top or Succ/Bottom
- Has a deal with Death, who has lent the vampire a fragment of Itself as a minion
- Can travel through mirrors of adequate size
- Keeps a number of hellhounds and goes on Wild Hunts with them on New Moons
- .Purposefully presents themselves to the world at large in the style of an absurd theatrical Bela Lugosi manner. Mortals largely assume they’re eccentric but harmless.
- Doesn’t have any sort of tragic backstory or anything, sorry y’all, just here for the blood
- Is able to instantly read the surface thoughts of any but those with exceptional wills, cab purposefully focus their wills to push harder and deeper
- Is not truly a vampire but a Fext, who feed via being a part of bloodshed rather than drinking blood itself. Only weapons and armaments made of glass have lasting effects.
- Are contorted into rigour mortis stiffness if they cannot drain the breath from their victims
- Is a terrible bloodthirsty spirit inhabiting a corpse, when this one is no longer useful it will move onto the next body.
- Is unstuck in space/time and has uncanny, if muddled, knowledge of the past, present and future.
- Is cursed with the feeding habits of a Hungry Ghost and must feed on
- Pus and Bile
- Feces
- Embers (which actively hurt them)
- Rotten sacrifices
- Poison
- Fat
- Is a graduate of The Scholomance, possesses vast magical power and might know a dragon
- Is able to pass their vampirism on to animals
- Is an Ardent of Limos, the Incarnation of Hunger, and has a stomach that is a literal bottomless pit.
- Has super-rabies on top of vampirism.
- Has a side gig as a detective, what? Vampires love puzzles
- Is a master of cartomancy, not only capable of tarot-based oracles but also capable of strange effects based on drawn cards
- Is a flesh-suit hosting the will of The Orkus, the rot at the end of the world
- Seeks out and drains other Vampires, gaining their powers and memories
- Can teleport but crawling into an animal and bursting out of another
- Wolves
- Crows
- Rats
- Cows
- Humans
- Anything Larger than a Pug
- Can spit intensely potent venom that causes
- Paralysis
- Necrotic Rot
- Hallucinations
- Seizures
- Heart Attack
- Intense Pain
- Has an extremely excessive hunting hobby, their lair is decorated with hundreds if not thousands of trophies. Also a fan of lederhosen for some awful reason
- Has a supply of “Kill Me Com Back Stronger” pills they take every morning before bed, may or maynot be a placebo.
- Extremely toned and always half-naked. Poses menacingly. Their true masters are petrified in a stone pillar deep in its lair.
- Can manifest their bloodlust and psychic will as a powerful familiar spirit.
- Is a legend amongst nightclubs across the continent, as a DJ, purveyor of drugs, and a lover/dancer of exceptional aerobic skill
- Is actually a fungus driving a corpse, feeds by stabbing its victims with mycelium
- Has stored up enough dark energy to detonate as a blood-red atom bomb when staked, doesn’t necessarily advertise this.
- Has a numerous but bumbling army of small homunculi that resemble crude clay versions of themselves.
- Is the CEO of a blood donation service or a charitable children’s hospital.
- Fuck, its the Sacred Ancestor (Dracula, Caine, Whatever.) Y’all screwed