http://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16266
Could have been an interesting product...
Håvard
This one was new to me:
http://www.dragonsfoot.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=16266
Could have been an interesting product...
Except it did not exist
BTW, the original poster missed the Savage Coast MCA, which has the Nosferatu, as well as other undead creatures of the Savage Coast (the Inheritor Lich, Yeshom, Arasheem, Cursed One and Red Zombie).
Except it did not exist
BTW, the original poster missed the Savage Coast MCA, which has the Nosferatu, as well as other undead creatures of the Savage Coast (the Inheritor Lich, Yeshom, Arasheem, Cursed One and Red Zombie).
Good points. Perhaps these were originally intended for the Vampires supplement but then thrown into the MCA when the line was cancelled? Ofcourse there is still the possibility that Savage Coast: Vampires wasn't even a planned project but just a bogus one invented on the web.
Still, it makes you think about the Vampires of the Savage Coast. What are they like? Does drinking the blood of someone affected by the Red Curse change a vampire?
Håvard
Good points. Perhaps these were originally intended for the Vampires supplement but then thrown into the MCA when the line was cancelled? Ofcourse there is still the possibility that Savage Coast: Vampires wasn't even a planned project but just a bogus one invented on the web.
Consider that the cover blurb in the cited website is likely that of the SC campaign book, so it's likely that the "Vampires" was mistakenly added.
Still, it makes you think about the Vampires of the Savage Coast. What are they like? Does drinking the blood of someone affected by the Red Curse change a vampire?
According to the SC MCA, the Nosferatu cannot have legacies and do not need cinnabryl. They are more common in the City-States, though certainly they could be found in or near any large town.
Traditional Vampires are probably less common, as there isn't as vast a tradition of necromancy, entropic cults, and other typical background elements of Known World vampires.
¤ Savage Coast Campaign Book: Vampires
by Tim Beach,
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On the Cover:
Presenting a swashbuckling, Renaissance setting for AD&D adventures the Savage Coast! This campaign book features new rules, plus new character races, classes and proficiencies, and it details the history, peoples and lands of the Savage Coast where the legacies of the Red Curse leave no one untouched!
Ok... the description matches the Savage Baronies game supplement. What other character race is there in Savage Coast? We have all the possible races there. And... new classes? Is the Inheritor a class? We have it already. What else? Honorbounds?
A new class could just be the "Renardrie Somelier" ;)
And your friend missed the Monstruos Compendium appendix, in .pdf file, never published. In it I find interesting forms of undeads: inheritor lich, cursed zombie, and wonderful undead aranea. And they make a sense. What kind of sense could a vampire have?
Ok... the description matches the Savage Baronies game supplement. What other character race is there in Savage Coast? We have all the possible races there. And... new classes? Is the Inheritor a class? We have it already. What else? Honorbounds?
A new class could just be the "Renardrie Somelier" ;)
The text is obviously wrong as it belongs to the Savage Coast Camp. supplement. As Agathokles suggests, it is probably also the explaination to the origins of this "supplement". That is, someone mistakenly added "Vampires" to the SC supplement. Probably a case of bad cutting and pasting. OTOH, if that is not the case...
And your friend missed the Monstruos Compendium appendix, in .pdf file, never published. In it I find interesting forms of undeads: inheritor lich, cursed zombie, and wonderful undead aranea. And they make a sense. What kind of sense could a vampire have?
I agree with you. Including a monster is better if it has some meaning or purpose to go with the setting.
My suggestion thus:
Vampire, Cinnabryl
Cinnabryl Vampires are vampires who have fed off victims who are affected by the Red Curse. This affects the vampires themselves in turn. They are from that point on, forced to feed off victims affected from the Red Curse only to stay alive. They can drink the blood of others, but this gives them no satisfaction. This limits the Cinnabryl Vampires to the Savage Coast, and leaving that region becomes extremely difficult for them. However, they also gain certain benefits from the Red Curse Blood....
Hmmm....how to flesh out these guys? Any suggestions?
Håvard
And, what a bout an undead that vampirize cinnabryl itself?
The cinnabryl vampire feeds of undepleted cinnabryl talismans. Depleting them and the user don't even know it. Victims will realize of cinnabryl depletion only when it's too late...
This kind of vampires must feed of cinnabryl to protect themselves from the red curse.
They originated in Nova Svoga (as vampires, I need them to have an East-Europe flavour,and I like them to come from Hule border, evil calls evil!).
They are cursed becouse they tryed to bring red legacies outside the haze area, to bring power with them.
Now, they can leave the haze, but they need to feed on a week worth of cinnabryi for each day they plan do stay outside the haze.