V
vampire
Level 10
Armor Class: 1
Speed: 12
Magic Resistance: 25
Alignment: Chaotic
Attacks:
- Claw: 1d6 ordinary physical damage
- Bite: 1d6 drain life levels (Vampire) damage
Resistances:
- resists sleep
- resists poison
Other attributes:
- can fly or float
- doesn't need to breathe
- has humanoid head/arms/torso
- poisonous to eat
- regenerates hit points
- is walking dead
- follows you to other levels
- always starts hostile
- strong (or big) monster
- extra-nasty monster (more xp)
- is a shapeshifting species
- visible by infravision
He can transform himself to wolf, as we gather from the ship
arrival in Whitby, when he tear open the dog; he can be as
bat, as Madam Mina saw him on the window at Whitby, and as
friend John saw him fly from this so near house, and as my
friend Quincey saw him at the window of Miss Lucy. He can come
in mist which he create--that noble ship's captain proved him
of this; but, from what we know, the distance he can make this
mist is limited, and it can only be round himself. He come on
moonlight rays as elemental dust--as again Jonathan saw those
sisters in the castle of Dracula. He become so small--we
ourselves saw Miss Lucy, ere she was at peace, slip through a
hairbreadth space at the tomb door.
[ Dracula, by Bram Stoker ]
The Oxford English Dictionary is quite unequivocal:
_vampire_ - "a preternatural being of a malignant nature (in
the original and usual form of the belief, a reanimated
corpse), supposed to seek nourishment, or do harm, by sucking
the blood of sleeping persons. ..."
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