Vampires

[keithcurtis]

Sounds like a classic Transformation attack (albeit a powerful one.) Figure out how many points a person gets for being a vampire and add 1/5 of them to the body score for the purposes of the target number of the attack. That covers the increase in power.

It will probably require multiple attacks to succeed. 3 nights?

 

Keith "I do not drink... blood" Curtis

[Muawijhe]

The vampire is more of a unique opponent, rather than a run of the mill enemy. In my setting, only one exists for his sins...simulated from the Dracula story (Stoker), but altered some.

 

Instead of crosses, the severed and dried legs of chickens can be worn around the next (must be in plain sight) to repulse the vampire. As for the attack, the vamp just open his mouth, takes in a deep breath and the target's soul is sucked in (no more than one or two attacks, otherwise even the most powerful enemy will be cut down by then). Decided to scrap the zombie idea for the victims.

 

Maybe a super-powerful DRAIN attack, targetting BODY instead of STUN?

[Markdoc]

Sounds like you simply want an RKA, unranged NND, 1 hex area effect, does body (not vs people displaying dried chicken legs) at (gasp!) 45 points per d6. You might also want to add personal immunity, so he can use it in his own hex, without doing himself a nasty injury.

 

A 1 +1 d6 attack would cost 60 points, and drop your average peon in 3 attacks (basically , just a few seconds). It might take as long as 30 seconds to wipe out a really tough guy, but high dexterity would be of no use - you would have to dive away from the vampire to avoid the attack.

 

I would be inclined to let people hold their breath and block their nostrils (but use the drowning rules while they are doing this) to avoid this attack, since it's a) true to the asian source material and I'm not sure that dried chicken legs count as a "common defence" :-)

 

If you did that, the chicken legs could be dropped as defence and instead allow them to simply repulse him (physical or psychological limit) - that way he could not get close enough to use his attack if you were wearing them.

 

cheers, Mark

[Syberdwarf2]

IDHBIFOM, but what about

Conditional Power: Only works at night (-1/2)?

[Muawijhe]

Wow...I really do have to thank all you guys for the wonderful input. Markdoc, you pretty much just etched out the last bugs (and so will have something if your screen name written into a part of the plot in honor, hehe).

 

And the only useable at night limitation sounds good too, Syberdwarf! Thanks again. Once I get this all worked out I'll post the final stats for everyone to see, if they're interested.