This is probably unlikely, but it might be worth considering because Sanctuary is a very undead-heavy town, and the Underdark is the ideal vampire habitat.

What traits could the vampires have so they'd be interesting but not imbalanced?

Fighting 1 vampire in a DM spiced quest was hard enough. If there is a PC one It's abilities will be abused even if they are lowered.

A PC vampire would be stranded in an OOC area. >.>;

I don't know.

PC vampires and vampire spawn means that if they attack players, they might become vampires too.

Would cause one of the greatest times of strife lower has even known O.o

A pandimic to see what happens to them all if they cannot act properly.

Then again, you could still have the advantage over a vampire char, seeing they cannot chase you over the many streams in the underdark. Or follow you through alot of the buildings ment to be private in lower. (Though they can easily follow you through buildings.)

But for now, if vampirism were to start spreading, it would most likely start at the easiest source of food, like the goblins or kobolds in the sewers, hmm?

Personally, I would think this unlikely. The primary enemy of vampires, the Sun, is no where to be found. This takes away a significant weakness of the undead. My belief is it would cause too much trouble. But those are my thoughts.

AL

Yes, but you forget the vast amounts of running water. Also Sun and holy spells. You could hold our a small palm mirror and the vampire could do nothing to you. (But you cannot attack, since it takes your attacking round against a vampire.) You could also get in melee range with a stake and...

While it's an interesting discussion, something like this is not really going to happen in EfU. Balancing something like this would be a nightmare, and the amount of work it would take to implement anything like this would likely far outweigh any possible benefit it could bring (spoken by the guy who knows zip about NWN scripting so your mileage may vary).

I'm pretty sure running water isn't a big problem. That does, however, bring up the interesting question of just how many different things would have to be scripted to get vampires to work in any sort of approximation of their PnP version.

I think the Regeneration would have to go, and the damage reduction be reduced to that of a Lycanthrope. Positive energy would damage rather than heal, thus making it very difficult for vampires to get healing, which is already quite a balancing handicap.

In addition undead are quite set in their ways and unadaptable, so vampires may be unable to multiclass, which nerfs them further as the multiclasses commonly seen (eg fighter/rogue or fighter/bard) have quite a few advantages over keeping to one class.

More likely than a vampire, methinks, would be a vampire-like race unique to the setting. I've tried the whole undead PC thing before and was shut down, being told that such a PC would never show up on EfU.

Frankly, I think there's plenty of living races to choose from, and even races which are neither living nor dead. Animatron, anybody?

Somebody should totally app for a Revenant(sp?).

Arto Thensbane the Vampyre mocks you all.

Arto.

Ah, memories.... :twisted:

A powerleveler's hero.

LTS, is RPing an animatron even possible?

They ain't sentient beings. They're just like... glorified coffee machines. They only work when a button is pressed.

Everyone is going to play the gritty, chaotic good animatron that lucks out. The one out of every thirty seven million that has consciousness and is self aware enough to kick ass and rebel against the system.

Buxom animatrons will surely follow.

Yeah and not long after that, Goblins will move into sanct..... oh... well. Nevermind. *walks away with his head down*

Sounds like the plot of that really crappy film that I can't remember the name off.

Has a robot in it. And other robots like it. And it makes a human friend.

It's a disgustingly bad film, I'm not even sure why I mentioned it.

The Little Animatron That Could.

I remember now.

Short Circuit.

But 9lives' idea is better.