Vampires - do you play them realistically?
I've never been much into vampires, and have very little basic knowledge of their form and preferred environment, etc. But as I was designing the Coat of Arms for one of my two vampire clans, and orig...
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"Simmerville;c-17804932" wrote:
Ai, so cool to learn about al these ways to play vampires! I didn't even know there are different "schools" and traditions regarding this. I always thought vampires were based on the (Transylvanian?) Count Dracula.
There is so much vampire mythology, and beyond that, pop culture! Even Dracula has been reinterpreted multiple times. There was the actual real human Vlad Tepes, legendarily cruel 15th century voivode (prince) of Wallachia in Romania (he's associated with Transylvania only because he was born in a town there, Sighisoara). As far as we know, he's completely human ;) Then there's Bram Stoker's Dracula, who was inspired by Vlad Tepes and his actions.
There's about a million and ten different pop culture interpretations of the guy, too! In Vampire the Masquerade, for instance, Vlad Tepes was Embraced into the Tzimisce clan, met Bram Stoker and encouraged him to write a... variation of his story in an attempt to breach the Masquerade, it backfired and instead made vampires into a pop culture phenomenon. Whoops! In-universe, the Dracula 'stereotypes' (generally nobility, Romanian/Transylvanian, etc) come specifically off Vlad and the Tzimisce clan.
And that's not even getting into other pop culture! Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Castlevania, Vampire Diaries, Blade, Vampire Chronicles... they all have different rules.
To answer the question: I have different rules depending on their origins! So, my Sims-originating vampires (premades like the Vatores, and others I make specifically for the Sims) play by their rules. Different strengths and weaknesses, like Caleb can hang out in the sun with a nice meal, Lilith is hanging out with him but isn't eating because she has Withered Stomach, ones with the thin-skinned flaw are sulking inside. The characters I have from Vampire the Masquerade all have Thin-Skinned and Withered Stomach to mimic the complete lack of sun resistance and ability to eat food they have in that canon, and their abilities reflect on what disciplines they have. Those with Protean have the bat form, those with Celerity have supernatural speed, Potence = Vampiric Strength, Presence = Allure, stuff like that. It's fun being able to make really diverse combinations! (I just really wish there was a nice stable way to have vampire-spellcaster hybrids - some clans, like Banu Haqim, Tremere, and Tzimisce, make use of sorcery.)
But yeah, no one way to play a vampire!
