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STEVE JACKSON
GAMES
D
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REDATORS AND
D
EADLY
P
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: V
AMPIRES AND
V
AMPIRE
H
UNTERS
By Lane Grate
Edited by Jeff Koke and Scott Haring
Cover by Tim Bradstreet
Illustrated by Dan Smith
GURPS
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ISBN 1-55634-113-X
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
STEVE JACKSON
GAMES
I
NTRODUCTION
.............................4
Good Evening.............................................................5
The Legend of the Vampire........................................5
About
GURPS
........................................................5
What is a Vampire? ................................................6
About the Author ....................................................6
Elements of the Vampire Legend ...............................7
Death ......................................................................7
Symbolism of the Vampire Legend..........................7
Disease ...................................................................8
Funeral Customs ....................................................8
The Night................................................................9
Predators.................................................................9
. . . For the Blood is the Life ...................................9
Sex........................................................................10
Metaphysics and the Undead ...............................10
1. H
ISTORY
...............................11
Variety of Vampires..................................................12
Lilith .....................................................................12
Glossary of Foreign Vampires..............................13
Vlad Tepes ............................................................14
Primitive Beliefs.......................................................15
Ancient Beliefs.........................................................15
Assyria..................................................................15
Babylonia .............................................................16
Egypt ....................................................................16
Greece...................................................................17
Elizabeth Bathory.................................................17
The Roman Empire ..............................................18
Vampires of Other Cultures......................................18
Native Soil ............................................................18
Gypsies .................................................................18
The Vampire in Europe ............................................19
The Middle Ages..................................................19
19th-Century Transylvania...................................20
Slavic States .........................................................21
The Balkan States.................................................21
Arnold Paole.........................................................21
Peter Plogojowitz .................................................23
Western Europe ....................................................24
The Epidemics......................................................24
The Gothic Period ....................................................25
Tournefort in Mykonos .........................................25
The Vampire of Croglin Grange ...........................27
The Gothic Tale ....................................................28
The Modern Vampire ...............................................29
Film ......................................................................29
Lord Byron............................................................29
Life After Death .......................................................30
Life, Death and Beyond .......................................30
Bram Stoker..........................................................30
Lord Ruthven ........................................................31
Day and Night ......................................................33
Varney the Vampire...............................................33
Feeding .................................................................34
Carmilla ...............................................................34
Count Dracula......................................................34
The Curse of the Vampire.....................................35
Modern Vampires .................................................36
Timeline....................................................................37
2. C
HARACTERS
.........................39
Men and Monsters................................................40
Vampire Quirks.....................................................40
Character Point Values .........................................41
Reputation, Status and Wealth..............................41
Character Types........................................................42
Vampire Character Types .....................................46
Advantages ...............................................................48
Disadvantages...........................................................49
New Disadvantages ..................................................51
New Skills ................................................................51
3. C
REATING
V
AMPIRES
................52
Vampire Characters ..................................................53
Other Sourcebooks ...............................................53
Vampire Occupations ...........................................53
New Rules ............................................................54
Called Shots..........................................................54
The Vampire Player Character .................................55
Beginning as a Vampire........................................55
Becoming a Vampire ............................................55
Liquid Weapons ....................................................55
Vampire “Races”..................................................56
Playing a Vampire ................................................57
2
Contents
Special Effects ......................................................57
Racial Advantages....................................................58
Racial Disadvantages ...............................................64
Combat, Injury and Death ........................................68
Invulnerability ......................................................68
Resurrection .........................................................68
Vulnerabilities ......................................................68
Injury and Damage ...............................................69
HT and Recovery .................................................69
Vampir...................................................................104
Vyrolakos
..............................................................105
Vampire Minions ....................................................106
Animals ..............................................................106
Human Minions..................................................110
6. C
AMPAIGNS
...........................111
The Vampire Campaign..........................................112
Types of Campaign.............................................112
Other Monsters...................................................112
Traditions of the Vampire Tale ...............................113
Horror .................................................................113
Vampires in Yrth .................................................113
Tragedy...............................................................114
Romance.............................................................114
Non-Humans and Vampirism..............................114
The Campaign World .............................................115
Destroying Vampires...........................................115
Mana Level and Magic.......................................116
Crossover Campaigns.........................................116
Tech Level ..........................................................117
Background ........................................................117
Campaign Themes..................................................118
Night Stalkers .....................................................118
The Fledglings....................................................118
The Immortals ....................................................118
Vampire Politics .................................................119
Urban Jungle.......................................................119
Historical............................................................119
The Quest ...........................................................120
The Outcasts.......................................................120
Race Wars...........................................................120
Dark Future ........................................................120
Generic Adventure Seeds....................................120
Setting.....................................................................121
Horror .................................................................121
Historical Adventure Seeds ................................122
Fantasy ...............................................................123
Medieval Transylvania Adventure Seeds............123
4. M
AGIC
.................................70
Mana.........................................................................71
Types of Vampire Magic ..........................................71
Aspected Magery..................................................71
Vampires and Demonology...................................71
Racial or Innate Magic .............................................72
Exorcism...............................................................72
Innate Magic for Vampires.......................................73
Innate Spells .........................................................73
Vampire Mages.........................................................76
New Spells............................................................76
Magic Items..........................................................77
Magic vs. Vampires ..............................................78
Vampires and Psionics..........................................78
5. B
ESTIARY
.............................79
Vampire Types..........................................................80
Scientific Explanations for Vampirism .................80
The Basic Vampire ...............................................81
Adze
.........................................................................83
Alien.........................................................................84
Astral
.......................................................................85
Baital........................................................................86
Ch’iang Shich
.........................................................87
Civateteo..................................................................88
Gaki
.........................................................................89
Ghul
.........................................................................90
Gothic
......................................................................91
Half-Vampire
..........................................................92
High-Tech
................................................................93
Human
.....................................................................94
Incubus/Succubus...................................................95
Lamia.......................................................................96
Lilitu
........................................................................97
Loogaroo
.................................................................98
Modern
....................................................................99
Nosferatu
...............................................................100
Penanggalen
..........................................................101
Strix
.......................................................................102
Ustrel
.....................................................................103
B
IBLIOGRAPHY
.........................124
Books......................................................................124
Fiction.................................................................124
Non-Fiction ........................................................124
Film ........................................................................125
Early Films .........................................................125
Hammer Films (1958-1974)...............................125
Other Modern Vampire Films ............................126
I
NDEX
....................................127
Contents
3
N
O
OTHER MONSTER
in fiction and myth is more enduring than the vampire. The vampire legend stretches from
the earliest roots of civilization to the pop-culture of the space age. It has a unique hold
upon our collective imagination, with the power to both horrify and fascinate. Perhaps this is
because the vampire is based upon the primal fears at the core of human experience: the
fear of death, of the predator, of the power of sex, of the night.
4
Introduction

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