Actually, I'd say a vampire that ran a dog shelter would more likely be _repelled_ by dogs. Per Van Richten's Guide to Vampires, a vampire's former life is effectively anathema to it, as a mockery of the person used to be.
The 2e Van Richten's guides were awesome! Vampire was one of the better ones IMHO, although my favs are probably still Guide to Lich and Guide to Hags.
If going off negative energy.. what it is affected most by is negative emotions as opposed to positive. So if they ran a dog shelter and hated dogs then they might be able to? It paints a interesting picture of Strahd, though that might be more due to an egotistical view of “everything in Barovia is mine” but maybe wolves and bats were creatures he especially didn’t like in life?
In life, they loved exercise. Now they hate it. They loved people, now they hate them. They loved food, now they hate it. Doesn't completely check out as a hard-rule. Vampires possess logic and most other faculties they once had. If they ran a dog shelter out of their love of animals and their sense of altruism, part of what matters is how they became a vampire, if it's relevant to the animal shelter. Another would be how they felt about their relationship with animals, i.e. if they felt it helped them reach their goals, or made them weak. A Kennelmaster that loved his dogs wouldn't just start hating his dogs because [status=vampire]. That's... bad writing. His relationship to everything, but especially what he once loved would itself become vampiric. Dracula and Strahd were once capable of love, but now that they're basically blood-junkies, their empathy is gone. Their "love" can only be expressed through extremes like obsession, because their relationship to the person is inherently vampiric, i.e. exploitative, or self-centered, or otherwise pathological. Meanwhile, pretending that it's as simple as these entities becoming 100% inversed beings to what they were before because they're undead now is a gross oversimplification, and not worthy of the 'Ackchtually' that preceded the post.
So, hear me out, serial killer becomes vampire, no works as a doctor to save people's lives. I call it Vampire MD, i will be collecting my multi-million dollar cheque from Netflix any day now.
A D&D vampire with an internal inferiority complex because it got hit by a carriage with dirty underwear and had to stay that way forever would be great.
So the bloodline and potency is similar to the World of Darkness vampires: Cain being the very first vampire, followed by the 2nd generation, three of his direct childer, followed by their childer, the 13 Antediluvians from whom the 13 clans descend from, with each successive generation being increasingly diluted and weaker.
The weakening with generations part isn't really present (for full vamps spawn are obviously weaker) in the cannon material but that's totally a DMs call.
I'd like to see a VTM campaign with a 2nd generation in modern nights. Be it an antagonist or just some poor sod chosen by Caine as an experiment of "Let's see what happens" kinda thing. No instructions, just turned and let loose.
Maybe you'll touch on this in a future video, but symbolism is also the reason why Vampires don't show up in mirrors or photographs. It's actually basically the same reason as to why garlic is harmful to them. Silver has antibacterial or antimicrobial (can't remember which it was) properties. It was also believed to be very pure in a metaphysical sense, believed to be able to ward off evil. So there were practices, where, when you thought your child had the evil eye, you'd put some silver into a bowl of water, so the water gets infused with the silver, and then sprinkle that water onto your child, which would banish the evil eye, for example. So the reason for Vampires not having a reflection is, that back then many mirrors were backed with or made of polished silver, and it was believed, that a Vampire would not show up in a mirror due to the silver simply refusing to show the image of such a tainted, soulless being as a Vampire. Similarly, a Vampire wouldn't show up in a photograph, because in early photography, the process included silver (I think it was silvernitrate or something like that).
In the novel Dracula, the Count was very tied to controlling wolves and bats as well as transforming into them several times during the novel. Not sure what Bram Stoker's reasoning for that was but that is why DND associates them so closely.
IIRC, it's because Dracula was an old vampire who was part of the hinterlands. Wolves were rightly feared by the common folk, and bats were nightdwellers that carried disease. It doesn't help when bats tend to swarm, because that's like being stuck in a cloud of hissing and screeching fangs and claws. Now in modern society, or even at the end of the 19th century, wolves aren't that dangerous a threat, but in Romania at the time, that area felt like stepping back several centuries. A tool to terrorize the peasants before he would devour them.
@@sirwill4223 Makes sense. I think I always assumed the bat association was because of vampire bats (I know they got the name from vampires and not the other way around) but the wolf thing threw me off a bit when I first read Dracula, apart from knowing that they sound creepy when you're out in the dark and hear them howl, and they have been hunted to near extinction in many areas because of humans fear of them, which just makes Dracula more terrifying by proxy.
Reminded me of a book series I've read, that has something akin to dragons, that can turn into humanoid form, the only markers that they aren't human being them all having golden eyes and fingers with four digits. At one point in the book, the topic of age comes up, and why these creatures can live for hundreds of years, and the answer was basically "muscle memory": these creatures live so long, because they age very slowly, and the reason they age so slow, is because their body remembers its youthful state and takes a very long time to acknowledge that it gets older. So whenever you do something and think "What? But I used to do this with ease", with not wanting it to be true that they can't do things anymore, that is literally the reason for why these dragons-like creatures live so long. Now I wonder, if you could force the body of a Vampire to acknowledge it's age, so to speak, would it spontaneously die, with the effects of all the years rapidly catching up to them, kinda like what you see with Dorian Gray in The League of extraordinary Gentlemen movie?
A vampire having breathing lungs, a beating heart, a thinking brain, and working organs makes more sense than it does at first glance. A zombie does not have these things, but a zombie was dead before it came back to life. A vampire was alive when it became undead. Every cell in its body essentially ceases to live, but every cell still remembers what it's like to be alive. The heart continues to beat even though it doesn't need to. THe lungs breathe even though they don't need to. Every cell continues just as its DNA instructs it to and the vampire as a whole continues to 'live' as it normally would. However it's like Neo in the Matrix: Do you think that's air they're breathing? THey're not, and this also explains why older vampires are so much stronger. The older a vampire gets, the more experience they have, the more they understand that the rules no longer apply to them. Just like the Matrix, they are stronger, faster, tougher, smarter, and once they are sufficiently powerful enough they can dodge arrows. But they won't even need to.
If you get a chance I'd really recommend the Van Richten's guide to vampires. 2e so some of the mechanics would need translating but had a bunch of cool ideas (mechanical and roleplaying) for making unique vampires
Fridge Logic: If the vampire's self image determines how it looks for it's 'default' look (as per whether or not a scar 'sticks), then it follows that altering their memories that determine the vampires self image could possibly change the vampire's default look going forward.
Alternatively, perhaps Vamps are particularly resistant to memory changes (at least concerning their appearance) as a part of them always remembers the truth.
Yeah generally the idea has been that they're fixed as they were when they died. In Van Richten's guide to Vamps that was even used as an explanation for slower experience gain. Basically an in game explanation why an ancient vampire wouldn't be 40th level or something ridiculous.
Honestly you have become my go-to D&D guy, your vids are pretty short yet I never feel like im missing out on much information as you do mini-series on different subject instead of condensing it all into on very long vid and well you have a pleasant narrative voice(which props if one of the biggest reason if i sub to someone of not)
The blood going rancid when they die would be great if you were using vampires as operatives. You could store a vial of their blood and be able to tell instantly if they were killed.
i use the Grim Hollow transformations, and they are brilliant for players who want to become vampires, lich, werewolves, elementals and so on :D though i must say the spectre is pretty strong with the walk through walls
Patriarch are stated to have the strengh of Demigods,but in number is 21,the same of a Frost Giant,and that's in 2e,So in 5e is like 23. I don't have think to Strahd unique power as Salient Abilities but that would make sense,but I think is more is power as a Dark Lord,because in Van Richter Guide to Vampire 2e is said that only Eminent have Salient Abilities,and Strahd is consider by the book Ancient (but it have the stat of a Fledgling ,strange things). In Children of the Nights 2e there are many unique vampires but sadly no Patriarch or Matriarch example.
Magic Potions and Elixirs are not digested to be effective. You don't immediately digest food before it provides energy. Not even water, which has free flow to the blood through the stomach is not immediately digested. Consider potions "liquid air" once inside the body. Why? Magic.
Well hell if i cant be a twenty one year old looking smoking hot Vampire aint no point in getting turned. Who the hell wants to spend hundreds or thousands of years as a middle aged fat guy with a bald spot 😂
Currently playing a homebrew vampire spawn (amalgamation of a dhampire and a vampire spawn from the MM). He is a doctor, who became a vampire to have eternity to study medicine and hone his skills in healing people. Partially out of envy for his elf teacher's long life. And also, well, he fell in love with a vampire (or was it all her charm?).
The whole unchanging body is just never true EXCEPT when talking about children turned because that's creepy af. Every vampire story talks about how they change, becoming more monstrous, pretty, and most can change appearance to a limited degree. Really? You telling me every dude became a vampire with a vegeta hairline and a set of coke nails? Right.
A vampire is fear. Fear of death fear of time fear of ruination. A werewolf is denial. Denial of constraints denial of limitations denial of decay. Two very similar things drive them two very different outcomes where one clings to what can never be again the other strives against what already is
Why would non oxygenated blood be as bright red as oxygenated blood? Seems like it would be dark red or even maybe slightly congealed since they're dead
Blood generally oxygenates on contact with air. Even venous blood comes out of a living human the same bright hue as arterial, unless it's kept clear of air in the process. This isn't precisely a biological activity, either: oxygen diffuses across the cell membrane and binds to haemoglobin whether or not the cell is alive, so long as the blood hasn't dried out too much.
Hey MrRhexx, Baldurs Gate 3 really got me into the DnD lore and it's just amazing. After I found your channel I watched 5 years worth of videos in no time. Thank you for your effort in making these videos, they are just so well put together and cozy. Now if I'm being honest I am sad that I am out of videos to watch since I see that they take some time for you to make and I just wish there were more for me to watch.
Can we get a video on werewolves? I know you already did on about Lycanthropy but you also did one about wererats in specific and I think there a bunch of stuff left to talk about werewolves and other werebeasts
I wish this video was out at least a day earlier... Just yesterday my PC had to perform surgery on a vampire. Lots of silver dust, so healing did not work properly.
Love your videos I don’t have anyone to play with anymore but you’ve helped me build up the world so much with your videos. I really wanna play again so bad so hopefully I can make some friends to use all of this knowledge you’ve given me!
I have a deep love and mercy for all life I encounter, even the smallest bug. Though I despise infectious biology. If I became a vampire in 5e I guess I'd be a lame ass villain despising life in all forms except infectious diseases lol
Dude I used to listen to you while I delivered doordash, and I'm driving across country tomorrow and im going to listen to all of your videos in one sitting
From what I found it's usually a trick that older vampires can eat and pass food and depending on the type of food gain minor benefits (rare stake) but I don't think it applys in D&D except for flavor at a table
Wait if vampires revert to how they were at the moment before being turned, then how did Astarion get those scars on his back? Or does this only pertain to full vampires and not spawn?
I think BG3 gives way from exact mechanics like vampires being turned back for the sake of a better story and characters. Sure, they could've reverted the scars on his back, but imo i think that takes away from the character. You can change for the better, but you'll still have scars from your past.
Also, you can just say it's infernal magic, Cazador did strike a deal with Mephistopoles, after all. Cazador's marks (if you go that route) just didn't have time to fade.
So a vampire woman that was turned while she was a virgin would heal back into being a virgin forever no matter how many times she had her first time. LoL
I think I now know where Laurel K. Hamilton got her idea (at least in part) for some of her world building. Specifically, the "animal to call" power of her vampires. Being able to influence a vast variety of animals.
In our new campaign I'm playing a dhampir that was originally a hill giant child so she's the size of a human adult but has a weird immaturity to her features. She also eats food constantly because she still has that hill giant hunger but it doesn't do anything for her and she stays super skinny. All sorts of body horror to the character
Great video man🤘.. I rarely comment on your vids, but since i found your channel, I've watched all your content. Amazing Work & I lovin these extended videos on Vampires🤘.... Plz! Do Werewolves next & if possible thanks. But this "Bio of Vampires"..... Fuckn Amazing🤘
alright hear me out Vampire night guards A City made a pact with a small vampire brood to guard the city at night in exchange they can feed on the criminals
Hey, I'll try and comment this on the next couple of videos so hopefully you see it! I absolutely love your monster classes. They feel powerful and yet they also are fairly balanced from what I have seen and play-tested. Anyway, if you continue to make them, I would love to play a Couatl. I think their ability to shapeshift makes them especially easy to play in a campaign similar to the dragon class you made. I partly say this because I have played a Couatl in dnd before and had a blast. I took the idea that couatl's have a goal that they are tasked with pursuing in their lives and made mine that my couatl has been tasked to write the song of the world. This essentially means that he had to discover the words of power, the true names of everything and compose them into a song. So, if you make any more monster classes, I hope you'll consider this one as a potential option.
Ooh, first time I've been early to one of these. Can't wait to watch it fully. Edit: Finished video. Excellent work as always, MrRhexx. I'm always amazed by how much work must go into finding this information.
Id love to see you do videos about famous people in faerun maybe your personal favourites, been watching for a long long time since skyrim battles videos
So a big question I've always had and Astarion from BG3 actually brings up... if the way a new Vampire forms is for a vampire to make a vampire spawn and then later feed them blood to turn them into a full vampire... yet vampires are almost universally power hungry and not looking to create their own competition... would that likely mean that the only new full vampires that are ever created would have to be created by some other means? It definitely seems like a new vampire coming from a progenitor would be exceedingly rare, precisely because there would be no benefit to the progenitor to do so since they would be removing an asset and a tool and creating a rival. I do know that in D&D there can be several ways for a new vampire to come about, but it's usually through some dark magic ritual or curse/blessing of a god. Otherwise it seems like realistically you'd probably only have like one actual vampire and every other vampire would just be a spawn
Their gaze charme is one of the most broken ability in dnd Yeah there are other powerful monsters that have mind control abilities like illithid beholders and similia But vampires are much more common as enemies both as flavor and likeness to be use by dm in their modules Not only that but they can use it without consuming spells slots at will on multiple targets and the charme is extremely potent both in terms of what you can do and how long it last There are not many monster that can have such powerful abilities and for the same challange rating
So, is it that you need to be an exceptional individual to get special traits, or is it about age and one that survived, learned, and grew for long enough would develop these things? Or maybe a bit of both?
How's it going with the kickstarter? The original plan was Febuary, and that is admitably a while ago now. Also what options was it that won out during the Extra Monster Classes Vote?
Are you still alive. You said. You would make a vampire video then a beholder video. That was in secret biology of the beholder. You made two vampire videos. So if I had to guess the next one would be the final beholder video.
He also said in the first vampire video he was going to make four vampire videos in this one he said 3 to 4 vampire videos so I think he’ll do beholder than the final vampire
So... question, how much does the inherinted abilities related to Bat and Wolves, and controlling land implies that they are from Strahds bloodline? I dimly remember that Stradh is supposidly the first Vampire, despite being only a couple centuries old, because Time works diffrent in the Domains of Dread
Makes you wonder, shouldn't their neural architecture revert to just before death as well? Not a neurologist of course but assume on some level their memories and the maturity of the child vampire are emergent properties of their brain structure. Shouldn't their reversion to one consistant physical form make them unable to create or destroy neural pathways and therefore quickly forget any new information/memories they learn? It would make for a boring villain, I suppose.
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Actually, I'd say a vampire that ran a dog shelter would more likely be _repelled_ by dogs. Per Van Richten's Guide to Vampires, a vampire's former life is effectively anathema to it, as a mockery of the person used to be.
The 2e Van Richten's guides were awesome! Vampire was one of the better ones IMHO, although my favs are probably still Guide to Lich and Guide to Hags.
If going off negative energy.. what it is affected most by is negative emotions as opposed to positive. So if they ran a dog shelter and hated dogs then they might be able to?
It paints a interesting picture of Strahd, though that might be more due to an egotistical view of “everything in Barovia is mine” but maybe wolves and bats were creatures he especially didn’t like in life?
In life, they loved exercise. Now they hate it.
They loved people, now they hate them.
They loved food, now they hate it.
Doesn't completely check out as a hard-rule.
Vampires possess logic and most other faculties they once had. If they ran a dog shelter out of their love of animals and their sense of altruism, part of what matters is how they became a vampire, if it's relevant to the animal shelter. Another would be how they felt about their relationship with animals, i.e. if they felt it helped them reach their goals, or made them weak.
A Kennelmaster that loved his dogs wouldn't just start hating his dogs because [status=vampire]. That's... bad writing. His relationship to everything, but especially what he once loved would itself become vampiric. Dracula and Strahd were once capable of love, but now that they're basically blood-junkies, their empathy is gone. Their "love" can only be expressed through extremes like obsession, because their relationship to the person is inherently vampiric, i.e. exploitative, or self-centered, or otherwise pathological.
Meanwhile, pretending that it's as simple as these entities becoming 100% inversed beings to what they were before because they're undead now is a gross oversimplification, and not worthy of the 'Ackchtually' that preceded the post.
So, hear me out, serial killer becomes vampire, no works as a doctor to save people's lives. I call it Vampire MD, i will be collecting my multi-million dollar cheque from Netflix any day now.
@@darkmatter9643 Dr. Acula M.D
D&D Moms: “Always keep your nails you clean you never know when you could be turned into a vampire, and your could be stuck like that forever”
A D&D vampire with an internal inferiority complex because it got hit by a carriage with dirty underwear and had to stay that way forever would be great.
You know it's a MrRhexx video when you dive into the reproduction of any creature in question.
Dragon smex lmao
It's a dirty job, but someone's gotta do it.
90% of the time it’s rape :(
my favorite was sobold kex
@@indiciaobscure consent is better but still weird
So the bloodline and potency is similar to the World of Darkness vampires: Cain being the very first vampire, followed by the 2nd generation, three of his direct childer, followed by their childer, the 13 Antediluvians from whom the 13 clans descend from, with each successive generation being increasingly diluted and weaker.
That's exactly what I thought
The weakening with generations part isn't really present (for full vamps spawn are obviously weaker) in the cannon material but that's totally a DMs call.
I'd like to see a VTM campaign with a 2nd generation in modern nights. Be it an antagonist or just some poor sod chosen by Caine as an experiment of "Let's see what happens" kinda thing. No instructions, just turned and let loose.
Maybe you'll touch on this in a future video, but symbolism is also the reason why Vampires don't show up in mirrors or photographs.
It's actually basically the same reason as to why garlic is harmful to them.
Silver has antibacterial or antimicrobial (can't remember which it was) properties. It was also believed to be very pure in a metaphysical sense, believed to be able to ward off evil. So there were practices, where, when you thought your child had the evil eye, you'd put some silver into a bowl of water, so the water gets infused with the silver, and then sprinkle that water onto your child, which would banish the evil eye, for example.
So the reason for Vampires not having a reflection is, that back then many mirrors were backed with or made of polished silver, and it was believed, that a Vampire would not show up in a mirror due to the silver simply refusing to show the image of such a tainted, soulless being as a Vampire. Similarly, a Vampire wouldn't show up in a photograph, because in early photography, the process included silver (I think it was silvernitrate or something like that).
Also why running water harms them. It specifically means rivers, which are considered natural barriers, that cannot be crossed by unnatural things.
@@MrKoraborasAlso running water purifies
Watch the last video lol. He goes over it
This is the latest video though? @@CaymenLeP
In the novel Dracula, the Count was very tied to controlling wolves and bats as well as transforming into them several times during the novel. Not sure what Bram Stoker's reasoning for that was but that is why DND associates them so closely.
IIRC, it's because Dracula was an old vampire who was part of the hinterlands. Wolves were rightly feared by the common folk, and bats were nightdwellers that carried disease. It doesn't help when bats tend to swarm, because that's like being stuck in a cloud of hissing and screeching fangs and claws. Now in modern society, or even at the end of the 19th century, wolves aren't that dangerous a threat, but in Romania at the time, that area felt like stepping back several centuries. A tool to terrorize the peasants before he would devour them.
@@sirwill4223 Makes sense. I think I always assumed the bat association was because of vampire bats (I know they got the name from vampires and not the other way around) but the wolf thing threw me off a bit when I first read Dracula, apart from knowing that they sound creepy when you're out in the dark and hear them howl, and they have been hunted to near extinction in many areas because of humans fear of them, which just makes Dracula more terrifying by proxy.
Vampire: If you'll excuse me, I need to use the restroom...
Every other creature in the game: What’s a restroom?!
Reminded me of a book series I've read, that has something akin to dragons, that can turn into humanoid form, the only markers that they aren't human being them all having golden eyes and fingers with four digits. At one point in the book, the topic of age comes up, and why these creatures can live for hundreds of years, and the answer was basically "muscle memory": these creatures live so long, because they age very slowly, and the reason they age so slow, is because their body remembers its youthful state and takes a very long time to acknowledge that it gets older.
So whenever you do something and think "What? But I used to do this with ease", with not wanting it to be true that they can't do things anymore, that is literally the reason for why these dragons-like creatures live so long.
Now I wonder, if you could force the body of a Vampire to acknowledge it's age, so to speak, would it spontaneously die, with the effects of all the years rapidly catching up to them, kinda like what you see with Dorian Gray in The League of extraordinary Gentlemen movie?
Hmmmm, need to make a bayou vampire with an affinity for gators
Crimson Court time.
Thank you, I will be stealing this idea
Considering his ability to punch through monstrosities with his fists, this leads me to believe that Joe Baker was a bayou vampire.
I think you're onto something lol why didn't True Blood think of that?
Damn imagine combining the already staggering power of Florida man with that of a vampire!.. 💀
A vampire having breathing lungs, a beating heart, a thinking brain, and working organs makes more sense than it does at first glance. A zombie does not have these things, but a zombie was dead before it came back to life. A vampire was alive when it became undead. Every cell in its body essentially ceases to live, but every cell still remembers what it's like to be alive. The heart continues to beat even though it doesn't need to. THe lungs breathe even though they don't need to. Every cell continues just as its DNA instructs it to and the vampire as a whole continues to 'live' as it normally would.
However it's like Neo in the Matrix: Do you think that's air they're breathing? THey're not, and this also explains why older vampires are so much stronger. The older a vampire gets, the more experience they have, the more they understand that the rules no longer apply to them. Just like the Matrix, they are stronger, faster, tougher, smarter, and once they are sufficiently powerful enough they can dodge arrows. But they won't even need to.
currenty making a game about our dnd campaign, where one of the main BBEGs was a vampire, this is an excellent timing
If you get a chance I'd really recommend the Van Richten's guide to vampires. 2e so some of the mechanics would need translating but had a bunch of cool ideas (mechanical and roleplaying) for making unique vampires
A Neolithic vampire that summons vampiric sabertooth tigers.
Fridge Logic: If the vampire's self image determines how it looks for it's 'default' look (as per whether or not a scar 'sticks), then it follows that altering their memories that determine the vampires self image could possibly change the vampire's default look going forward.
Alternatively, perhaps Vamps are particularly resistant to memory changes (at least concerning their appearance) as a part of them always remembers the truth.
Yeah generally the idea has been that they're fixed as they were when they died. In Van Richten's guide to Vamps that was even used as an explanation for slower experience gain. Basically an in game explanation why an ancient vampire wouldn't be 40th level or something ridiculous.
Honestly you have become my go-to D&D guy, your vids are pretty short yet I never feel like im missing out on much information as you do mini-series on different subject instead of condensing it all into on very long vid and well you have a pleasant narrative voice(which props if one of the biggest reason if i sub to someone of not)
If you're still counting the theme of Vampires: Can we get a video that goes over the lore of Dhampirs in D&D?
The blood going rancid when they die would be great if you were using vampires as operatives. You could store a vial of their blood and be able to tell instantly if they were killed.
Or as a hunter I guess. If you manage to wound it and collect a sample you could verify it's alive
i use the Grim Hollow transformations, and they are brilliant for players who want to become vampires, lich, werewolves, elementals and so on :D
though i must say the spectre is pretty strong with the walk through walls
Figured I’d mention, there are actually vampires that can transform into swarms! There’s one in the “Dead in Thay” books that I once read a bit into
I was just rewatching an old video of yours after checking and seeing nothing new; just after finishing it, boom, upload
MrRhexx do a video about Gnomes my favorite DnD race.
I have been waiting for this video for almost a month, my fascination with dnd vampires has been only growing lately. Love your videos MrRhexx
Patriarch are stated to have the strengh of Demigods,but in number is 21,the same of a Frost Giant,and that's in 2e,So in 5e is like 23. I don't have think to Strahd unique power as Salient Abilities but that would make sense,but I think is more is power as a Dark Lord,because in Van Richter Guide to Vampire 2e is said that only Eminent have Salient Abilities,and Strahd is consider by the book Ancient (but it have the stat of a Fledgling ,strange things).
In Children of the Nights 2e there are many unique vampires but sadly no Patriarch or Matriarch example.
Wait. If vampires don't typically digest anything, does that mean that magic potions have no affect on them?
Magic Potions and Elixirs are not digested to be effective. You don't immediately digest food before it provides energy.
Not even water, which has free flow to the blood through the stomach is not immediately digested.
Consider potions "liquid air" once inside the body.
Why?
Magic.
If you had to digest a potion, the effect would be far from immediate.
Well hell if i cant be a twenty one year old looking smoking hot Vampire aint no point in getting turned. Who the hell wants to spend hundreds or thousands of years as a middle aged fat guy with a bald spot 😂
True, but a vampire hunter might not give you a second look.
@@toml.9937 Yeah there is that....
Currently playing a homebrew vampire spawn (amalgamation of a dhampire and a vampire spawn from the MM). He is a doctor, who became a vampire to have eternity to study medicine and hone his skills in healing people. Partially out of envy for his elf teacher's long life. And also, well, he fell in love with a vampire (or was it all her charm?).
You can still work out or get surgery to get the body shape that you want 😂
The whole unchanging body is just never true EXCEPT when talking about children turned because that's creepy af.
Every vampire story talks about how they change, becoming more monstrous, pretty, and most can change appearance to a limited degree.
Really? You telling me every dude became a vampire with a vegeta hairline and a set of coke nails? Right.
A vampire is fear. Fear of death fear of time fear of ruination.
A werewolf is denial. Denial of constraints denial of limitations denial of decay.
Two very similar things drive them two very different outcomes where one clings to what can never be again the other strives against what already is
its a good day whe Rhexx uploads
Still need the lore that explains if a vampire keeps or loses their soul
Can we get some lore videos on the feywild?
Didn't he already did some?
@AR-yd2nd Just the fairy dragon, some elf stuff, and maybe the thamorians. Otherwise, there are no actual feywild videos.
I'd love to see videos on the Feydark and maybe even the Shadowdark!
Imagine the Underdark in the Shadowfell. What a miserable place that must be!
Vampire stories that were written prior to bram stoker's dracula portray them quite differently from the modern representation.
This reminds me the Vampire Lord template posted in the WOTC forum for d&d 3.5.
reminds*
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Why would non oxygenated blood be as bright red as oxygenated blood? Seems like it would be dark red or even maybe slightly congealed since they're dead
Blood generally oxygenates on contact with air. Even venous blood comes out of a living human the same bright hue as arterial, unless it's kept clear of air in the process. This isn't precisely a biological activity, either: oxygen diffuses across the cell membrane and binds to haemoglobin whether or not the cell is alive, so long as the blood hasn't dried out too much.
Hey MrRhexx, Baldurs Gate 3 really got me into the DnD lore and it's just amazing. After I found your channel I watched 5 years worth of videos in no time. Thank you for your effort in making these videos, they are just so well put together and cozy. Now if I'm being honest I am sad that I am out of videos to watch since I see that they take some time for you to make and I just wish there were more for me to watch.
Can we get a video on werewolves? I know you already did on about Lycanthropy but you also did one about wererats in specific and I think there a bunch of stuff left to talk about werewolves and other werebeasts
"you're incredibly strong and fast" 🤣
I wish this video was out at least a day earlier... Just yesterday my PC had to perform surgery on a vampire. Lots of silver dust, so healing did not work properly.
The fact I started working on a vampire pirate setting just last night and this comes out is great
What I learned from that is that before fighting a vampire that might transforms you... get a haircut and get some pretty nails.
Love your videos I don’t have anyone to play with anymore but you’ve helped me build up the world so much with your videos. I really wanna play again so bad so hopefully I can make some friends to use all of this knowledge you’ve given me!
I have a deep love and mercy for all life I encounter, even the smallest bug. Though I despise infectious biology. If I became a vampire in 5e I guess I'd be a lame ass villain despising life in all forms except infectious diseases lol
As a real vampire i can breathe
So we all real vampires breathe
Understand sweetie
You make me want to play dnd so bad but iv got no groups, one of these days ill gather enough time to my self
I love how you used the Spanish conquistador vampires from Ixalan. They're one of my absolute favorite looks for the crestures.
Vampires can't resist big titied police girls and midnight walks.
Also, for a comfortable unlife, vampire needs a 70 inch screen plasma TV.
Dude I used to listen to you while I delivered doordash, and I'm driving across country tomorrow and im going to listen to all of your videos in one sitting
From what I found it's usually a trick that older vampires can eat and pass food and depending on the type of food gain minor benefits (rare stake) but I don't think it applys in D&D except for flavor at a table
Another banger! I never played D&D but damn I love your videos and story telling. Keep up the good work!
Wait if vampires revert to how they were at the moment before being turned, then how did Astarion get those scars on his back? Or does this only pertain to full vampires and not spawn?
I think BG3 gives way from exact mechanics like vampires being turned back for the sake of a better story and characters. Sure, they could've reverted the scars on his back, but imo i think that takes away from the character. You can change for the better, but you'll still have scars from your past.
Also, you can just say it's infernal magic, Cazador did strike a deal with Mephistopoles, after all. Cazador's marks (if you go that route) just didn't have time to fade.
I am sure sufficiently potent magic can bypass that
I've been waiting very patiently!!!! Best d&d lore source available!!
Please do a full breakdown on Dhampir’s. I’m trying to learn everything I can about them from all sources for a character I’m playing lol.
So a vampire woman that was turned while she was a virgin would heal back into being a virgin forever no matter how many times she had her first time.
LoL
I think I now know where Laurel K. Hamilton got her idea (at least in part) for some of her world building. Specifically, the "animal to call" power of her vampires. Being able to influence a vast variety of animals.
Just came home from a shitty day at work. Really looked forward to the next part of the series. Thanks for the nice timing.
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That can be fixed with a magically crafted vial imbued with the spell Gentle Repose.
In our new campaign I'm playing a dhampir that was originally a hill giant child so she's the size of a human adult but has a weird immaturity to her features. She also eats food constantly because she still has that hill giant hunger but it doesn't do anything for her and she stays super skinny. All sorts of body horror to the character
Great video man🤘.. I rarely comment on your vids, but since i found your channel, I've watched all your content. Amazing Work & I lovin these extended videos on Vampires🤘.... Plz! Do Werewolves next & if possible thanks. But this "Bio of Vampires".....
Fuckn Amazing🤘
alright hear me out
Vampire night guards
A City made a pact with a small vampire brood to guard the city at night
in exchange they can feed on the criminals
Hey, I'll try and comment this on the next couple of videos so hopefully you see it! I absolutely love your monster classes. They feel powerful and yet they also are fairly balanced from what I have seen and play-tested. Anyway, if you continue to make them, I would love to play a Couatl. I think their ability to shapeshift makes them especially easy to play in a campaign similar to the dragon class you made. I partly say this because I have played a Couatl in dnd before and had a blast. I took the idea that couatl's have a goal that they are tasked with pursuing in their lives and made mine that my couatl has been tasked to write the song of the world. This essentially means that he had to discover the words of power, the true names of everything and compose them into a song. So, if you make any more monster classes, I hope you'll consider this one as a potential option.
Ooh, first time I've been early to one of these. Can't wait to watch it fully.
Edit: Finished video. Excellent work as always, MrRhexx. I'm always amazed by how much work must go into finding this information.
Can vampires charm people while astral projecting? That would be huge, they could influece people really far off or in other planes...
@MoonGoblin Per Van Richten's Guide to Vampires, some vampires can totally do that, particularly older ones.
Ancient old ones can do that, but it's so rare tho
Id love to see you do videos about famous people in faerun maybe your personal favourites, been watching for a long long time since skyrim battles videos
Id love a a dnd playt through that ar the end your character betrays the party to become a apprentice of the vampire lord
So a big question I've always had and Astarion from BG3 actually brings up... if the way a new Vampire forms is for a vampire to make a vampire spawn and then later feed them blood to turn them into a full vampire... yet vampires are almost universally power hungry and not looking to create their own competition... would that likely mean that the only new full vampires that are ever created would have to be created by some other means? It definitely seems like a new vampire coming from a progenitor would be exceedingly rare, precisely because there would be no benefit to the progenitor to do so since they would be removing an asset and a tool and creating a rival.
I do know that in D&D there can be several ways for a new vampire to come about, but it's usually through some dark magic ritual or curse/blessing of a god. Otherwise it seems like realistically you'd probably only have like one actual vampire and every other vampire would just be a spawn
I've always seen it as a compulsive trait semi forced by the curse or infection to propagate and continue it.
So glad you're back!
8:29 kind of looks like Tarl Warwick.
Big fan of these videos! I’ve been waiting and waiting for the vampire stuff so this was great with the morning coffee 🙏🏾
I respectfully request a "What they don't tell you about Gnomes" video, thanks!
Your vids have completely changed my DMing! Much appreciated! Any chances you will be doing more of the giant variants?
Amazing!! 🤩 love you Mr. Rhexx!! ❤❤
Their gaze charme is one of the most broken ability in dnd
Yeah there are other powerful monsters that have mind control abilities like illithid beholders and similia
But vampires are much more common as enemies both as flavor and likeness to be use by dm in their modules
Not only that but they can use it without consuming spells slots at will on multiple targets and the charme is extremely potent both in terms of what you can do and how long it last
There are not many monster that can have such powerful abilities and for the same challange rating
Creator Deity of humans please! 💜
Fascinating. Thanks for sharing
This really inspired me to open up my curse of strahd book again. The lordly powers of a vampire are super intriguing
Very interesting as always!!
Always amazing and inspiring!!
Just what I needed using these as the main bad guys army
Love the vampire hunter D art in there very cool don't see or hear about him very much anymore but, one of my favorite vampire charaters.
I'm curious how being a vampire works with spell casting since they don't actually need to rest to regain spell slots.
So what if a young vampire consume the blood of an old vampire? Do they get the power of that older vampire?
"Vampires are bulimic."
.... actually yeah, hmm.
Great video man, always nice to see a new one from you 👍👍
these vampire videos are making me so excited for the new Nosferatu film
I want to see the biology of Giants
So it’s possible for a vampire to be able to turn into a dragon?
0:12 am I the only one who noticed the warframe status icons?
Woooohoooo finally new video.
Woot! Love the Rimworld opening of the last one, looking forward to this!
We wait for the goblin! Including Hogoblin and bugbear
So, is it that you need to be an exceptional individual to get special traits, or is it about age and one that survived, learned, and grew for long enough would develop these things?
Or maybe a bit of both?
Please do a lore video on aarakocra as a race and their history
He’s back!!
Hey Mrrhexx, quick question: could the mind flayer class from your monstrous races book work as a psionic class if you let a player pick a race?
How's it going with the kickstarter? The original plan was Febuary, and that is admitably a while ago now. Also what options was it that won out during the Extra Monster Classes Vote?
Probably best to check the kickstarter page for those details if you need them
Are you still alive. You said. You would make a vampire video then a beholder video. That was in secret biology of the beholder. You made two vampire videos. So if I had to guess the next one would be the final beholder video.
He also said in the first vampire video he was going to make four vampire videos in this one he said 3 to 4 vampire videos so I think he’ll do beholder than the final vampire
But, how can they be killed? How do they procreate? Since they are so powerful, they would logically have taken over the world by now.
Yo MrRhexx I love the content brother, especially the dragon videos. Could you do a video explaining GRAUGLOTHOR The Ferrous Dragon Supreme?
Been waiting patiently for this.
So... question, how much does the inherinted abilities related to Bat and Wolves, and controlling land implies that they are from Strahds bloodline? I dimly remember that Stradh is supposidly the first Vampire, despite being only a couple centuries old, because Time works diffrent in the Domains of Dread
Makes you wonder, shouldn't their neural architecture revert to just before death as well? Not a neurologist of course but assume on some level their memories and the maturity of the child vampire are emergent properties of their brain structure. Shouldn't their reversion to one consistant physical form make them unable to create or destroy neural pathways and therefore quickly forget any new information/memories they learn? It would make for a boring villain, I suppose.
I really hope you do a video on pandemonium!!
So high level druidic vampires would be the most terrifying