Albannar Discussion Thread

[Dante]

There were quite a few Eastern Europe vampire legends which were REALLY weird. The Alp, for example, drew its power from its hat. The Dakhanavar only bit its victims on the soles of its feet. And picking up and counting small objects featured prominetly in those legends.

EDIT: As for Asian vamprie weaknesses, they include peachwood swords, bronze coins, dog's or virgin's blood, and talismans stuck to the forehead.

[IHateMakingNames]

The blood thing I've never really heard off...

And asain vampires still have the sunlight weakness right?

I think Dante is our best source on this (This being asain vampires, and not really having anything to do with this RP...)

[Dante]

Asian vampires - I'm not too sure. presumably they are still weak against it. If vampires are Yin-aspected (death, stillness, negation) then the Yang of the sun (In Chinese it's "Tai Yang", literally "Supreme Yang") would wreak merry hell witht he vampire.

[Dragonsbane]

IHMN, you forgot the biggest strength of all................being nearly impossible to kill by normal means. Normal weapons can't really hurt vampires, and while blood speeds healing, they regenerate anyway. Besides Holy stuff, there aren't many ways to kill a vampire, even for a mage...

that is a HUGE advantage, and the holy weakness is necessary to counterbalance. The OCD thing wouldn't work, as it's something used with an entirely different genre of vampirism.......

in response to your "garlic" question.......garlic isn't a very strong poison, and if not ingested it doesn't do nearly as much damage as a Holy weapon (which would burn them severely........that's why truly holy weapons are rare, game balance). Even when ingested, only an extremely weak vampire would die from it, though a stronger one would be hurt and weakened. They can also smell it, and know to avoid it. This is basically just a way that someone who knows how can do a little damage with a nonmagical weapon to a vampire, it isn't much but it's better than nothing

[Dante]

The general idea of vampiric invulnerability is that they have zombie-like immunities - they have no vital organs (except the head) and while they CAN be torn apart by massed machinegun fire, stilettos and arrows and most piercing attacks are useless in and of themselves.

[IHateMakingNames]

Sure, it takes a lot to kill them, but if you do to them what would normally kill a non vampire, they won't be able to run/move much, so it shouldn't be to hard to cut off their head or pierce their heart.

And normal weapons can and do hurt vampires, just they can dodge/block better then most normal people, and they heal faster.

[Dragonsbane]

No, they don't. I'm starting to believe that you can only read your own posts......

I already explained how this works.......do I really need to repeat myself?

[IHateMakingNames]

Yes, they do (Assuming you mean normal weapons hurting vampires, since you didn't mention anything in your own post).

[Forever Zero]

You explained how D&D works, and not all of us like or follow D&D and instead look to literature or other RP systems. You also failed to take into account that these Vampire are not Undead, but only diseased, thus it doesn't make sense for them to be weak against all of the same things.

[Dante]

Oh, and if these vampires are diseased, then you could do worse than follow Blade's explanations.