Posted by Macheath on February 19, 2000 at 22:19:37:
In Reply to: Why vampires? (text) posted by Radakh on February 19, 2000 at 20:45:23:
> How do vampires as a race fit in with thera? I could see > I'd like to hear some of your ideas on the vampire as a race. How you'd
> possibly as a quest for someone wishing be become one, but
> to have a bunch of them running about? I don't think the
> whole idea of vampires was to have them as a society. I've
> read some of the vampire the masquerade books and I hope you're
> not thinking of them in those terms. To me, vampires are
> creatures spawned by unthinkably evil acts. To have a race of
> them cheapens the effect they have on others. As far as abilities
> and such... They have great strength, speed, agility and are supposed
> to be quite intelligent. Sounds like a super race to me. Then if
> you throw in their weaknesses such as light, holy attacks etc... they
> become pretty pathetic. So you have a super race that dies quite easily
> to anything holy and can't walk around in the daylight. Doesn't sound
> like a lot of fun to me.
> counter the weaknesses while making sure they don't become overpowered.
> Also, how they would react to one another... How you would explain them
> just appearing instead of being born. And if they should be just another
> race for anyone to try.