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Jun 9, 2011 -- 4:29AM, Salla wrote:

Jun 8, 2011 -- 11:55AM, MiniatureGeek wrote:

Jun 8, 2011 -- 8:19AM, Salla wrote:

D&D needs to remember that it's a game, and thus all PC options should be playable.  A character drawback that makes it difficult to participate in the game is, by definition, bad for the game.  If nothing else, the fact that it is so easily circumvented (everybody owns a cloak) means they shouldn't have bothered to include it in the first place.

Yeah if it weren't for the fact that it was a Vampire I'd agree but since a big chunk of Vampire lore is they die in sunlight it seems necessary.  If you don't like it, you don't have to play a vampire. 

Depends on the lore and the vampire.  Most of the earliest vampire stores only had sunlight being a mild irritant at worst to the vampire (including Bram Stoker's Dracula).  Bursting into flames in sunlight is a rather new phenomenon.

Interesting comment, reminded me of one of my favorite series (I usually hate vampire related stuff but this series was something else (also it wasn't some 'dark/forbidden' romance crap)), christopher pike's last vampire series. Vampires weren't hurt by sunlight but it slightly dulled their sight (they had amazing eyesight, add sunlight to the mix and it's bound to be a little sore).

According to other posters about the whole vampire thing and sunlight being part of the mix, then why not add in garlic, crucifixes (or world appropriate religious symbols) and holy water (if this is already true I wouldn't know about it )? According to one poster, we shouldn't let ourselves be twilight fanboys, non-twilight CANON vampires according to popular lore are even more malleable, their only strength in the medium they're usually portrayed in is the aspect of surprise. Thinking the reason some people don't want vampires vulnerable to sunlight is because they're twilight fans is close minded, using the twilight fans thing to lower the weight of your opposition's argument is unprofessional and counter-productive (although I won't deny my being sarcastic in my last argument is also true of this )

EDIT: Something came to me just now: How would the fluff relate to a warforged vampire? Drinking blood I get, your system functions on blood to run the engines, how do you fluff away the sunlight thing? How do you fluff away the -reanimated- thing instead of rebuilt?