So in the PRD vampires are listed as having Vampire Weaknesses, but I cannot find out exactly what they are.
Can anyone advise?
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So in the PRD vampires are listed as having Vampire Weaknesses, but I cannot find out exactly what they are.
Can anyone advise?
Weaknesses: Vampires cannot tolerate the strong odor of garlic and will not enter an area laced with it. Similarly, they recoil from mirrors or strongly presented holy symbols. These things don't harm the vampire—they merely keep it at bay. A recoiling vampire must stay at least 5 feet away from the mirror or holy symbol and cannot touch or make melee attacks against that creature. Holding a vampire at bay takes a standard action. After 1 round, a vampire can overcome its revulsion of the object and function normally each round it makes a DC 25 Will save.
Vampires cannot enter a private home or dwelling unless invited in by someone with the authority to do so.
Reducing a vampire's hit points to 0 or lower incapacitates it but doesn't always destroy it (see fast healing). However, certain attacks can slay vampires. Exposing any vampire to direct sunlight staggers it on the first round of exposure and destroys it utterly on the second consecutive round of exposure if it does not escape. Each round of immersion in running water inflicts damage on a vampire equal to one-third of its maximum hit points—a vampire reduced to 0 hit points in this manner is destroyed. Driving a wooden stake through a helpless vampire's heart instantly slays it (this is a full-round action). However, it returns to life if the stake is removed, unless the head is also severed and anointed with holy water.
edit:That info is in the monster stat block in the PRD. It just says weakness instead of "vampire weakness".
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Weaknesses: Vampires cannot tolerate the strong odor of garlic and will not enter an area laced with it. Similarly, they recoil from mirrors or strongly presented holy symbols. These things don't harm the vampire—they merely keep it at bay. A recoiling vampire must stay at least 5 feet away from the mirror or holy symbol and cannot touch or make melee attacks against that creature. Holding a vampire at bay takes a standard action. After 1 round, a vampire can overcome its revulsion of the object and function normally each round it makes a DC 25 Will save.
Vampires cannot enter a private home or dwelling unless invited in by someone with the authority to do so.
Reducing a vampire's hit points to 0 or lower incapacitates it but doesn't always destroy it (see fast healing). However, certain attacks can slay vampires. Exposing any vampire to direct sunlight staggers it on the first round of exposure and destroys it utterly on the second consecutive round of exposure if it does not escape. Each round of immersion in running water inflicts damage on a vampire equal to one-third of its maximum hit points—a vampire reduced to 0 hit points in this manner is destroyed. Driving a wooden stake through a helpless vampire's heart instantly slays it (this is a full-round action). However, it returns to life if the stake is removed, unless the head is also severed and anointed with holy water.
Edit: Gah ninjaed by 1 second, is that some kind of record?
Sunlight is listed in my last post, in the last paragraph..
" Exposing any vampire to direct sunlight staggers it on the first round of exposure and destroys it utterly on the second consecutive round of exposure if it does not escape"
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Something else they're weak to: Throw some things on the floor like apples. They'll have to stop and count them all.
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Does this mean that a vamp can walk around normally in sunlight if they have clothes and a big floppy hat on?
No. Vampire and other creatures that dont like sunlight, are not protected by clothes.
I believe there are some magical items around that can protect them, however.
I believe there are some magical items around that can protect them, however.
There is a spell that can do it, as well as the darkness spell according to the vampire book.
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Does this mean that a vamp can walk around normally in sunlight if they have clothes and a big floppy hat on?No. Vampire and other creatures that dont like sunlight, are not protected by clothes.
Can you provide a resource for that? I have a vampire player who is traveling in daylight unaffected because they say their clothing is protecting them from DIRECT sunlight.
Can you provide a resource for that? I have a vampire player who is traveling in daylight unaffected because they say their clothing is protecting them from DIRECT sunlight.Does this mean that a vamp can walk around normally in sunlight if they have clothes and a big floppy hat on?No. Vampire and other creatures that dont like sunlight, are not protected by clothes.
How about mentioning that if all it took for vampires to ignore daylight was some bulky clothes, then they all would do it? Also, it would probably make mention of it in the rules.
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How about mentioning that if all it took for vampires to ignore daylight was some bulky clothes, then they all would do it? Also, it would probably make mention of it in the rules.Can you provide a resource for that? I have a vampire player who is traveling in daylight unaffected because they say their clothing is protecting them from DIRECT sunlight.Does this mean that a vamp can walk around normally in sunlight if they have clothes and a big floppy hat on?No. Vampire and other creatures that dont like sunlight, are not protected by clothes.
His reply would be they probably all do, do it. We just dont know about it.
Something else they're weak to: Throw some things on the floor like apples. They'll have to stop and count them all.
One... Two... Three...
I feel like this is referencing something but I'm not sure what.
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I feel like this is referencing something but I'm not sure what.Something else they're weak to: Throw some things on the floor like apples. They'll have to stop and count them all.
One... Two... Three...
Can you provide a resource for that? I have a vampire player who is traveling in daylight unaffected because they say their clothing is protecting them from DIRECT sunlight.Does this mean that a vamp can walk around normally in sunlight if they have clothes and a big floppy hat on?No. Vampire and other creatures that dont like sunlight, are not protected by clothes.
You are the GM. If he is going to argue that is the rule make him prove it. Does he really think vampires walk around naked? O_o
Otherwise it is a silly rule. If a vampire is in sunlight he is toast.Now the vampire splat book does say they can hide inside of a darkness spell, and there is also a low level spell that protect creatures from sunlight. Who would go around casting spells if they they can just wear clothes to bypass it?
The game also does not say "direct" sunlight. It says "exposure" to sunlight which means in the area of sunlight. It is no different than being in the area of a fireball spell. The fire might not directly touch your skin if you have armor and thick clothes on, but you are still subject to an effect if you are in the area of the effect.
I am sure his eyes(which are exposed) are not covered or he would be blind, so no matter how much he tries to get around the rules his vampire is done if it goes out during the day.
PS:How did he get a vampire.
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Can you provide a resource for that? I have a vampire player who is traveling in daylight unaffected because they say their clothing is protecting them from DIRECT sunlight.Does this mean that a vamp can walk around normally in sunlight if they have clothes and a big floppy hat on?No. Vampire and other creatures that dont like sunlight, are not protected by clothes.You are the GM. If he is going to argue that is the rule make him prove it. Does he really think vampires walk around naked? O_o
Otherwise it is a silly rule. If a vampire is in sunlight he is toast.Now the vampire splat book does say they can hide inside of a darkness spell, and there is also a low level spell that protect creatures from sunlight. Who would go around casting spells if they they can just wear clothes to bypass it?
The game also does not say "direct" sunlight. It says "exposure" to sunlight which means in the area of sunlight. It is no different than being in the area of a fireball spell. The fire might not directly touch your skin if you have armor and thick clothes on, but you are still subject to an effect if you are in the area of the effect.
I am sure his eyes(which are exposed) are not covered or he would be blind, so no matter how much he tries to get around the rules his vampire is done if it goes out during the day.
PS:How did he get a vampire.
Its a class choice in the campaign Way of the Wicked. He was bitten, died and now he is risen.
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Its a class choice in the campaign Way of the Wicked. He was bitten, died and now he is risen.Can you provide a resource for that? I have a vampire player who is traveling in daylight unaffected because they say their clothing is protecting them from DIRECT sunlight.Does this mean that a vamp can walk around normally in sunlight if they have clothes and a big floppy hat on?No. Vampire and other creatures that dont like sunlight, are not protected by clothes.You are the GM. If he is going to argue that is the rule make him prove it. Does he really think vampires walk around naked? O_o
Otherwise it is a silly rule. If a vampire is in sunlight he is toast.Now the vampire splat book does say they can hide inside of a darkness spell, and there is also a low level spell that protect creatures from sunlight. Who would go around casting spells if they they can just wear clothes to bypass it?
The game also does not say "direct" sunlight. It says "exposure" to sunlight which means in the area of sunlight. It is no different than being in the area of a fireball spell. The fire might not directly touch your skin if you have armor and thick clothes on, but you are still subject to an effect if you are in the area of the effect.
I am sure his eyes(which are exposed) are not covered or he would be blind, so no matter how much he tries to get around the rules his vampire is done if it goes out during the day.
PS:How did he get a vampire.
From the PRD: Exposing any vampire to direct sunlight staggers it on the first round of exposure and destroys it utterly on the second consecutive round of exposure if it does not escape.
Note "direct"
also this post gives thoughts
http://paizo.com/threads/rzs2o7iv?How-can-a-vampire-survive-in-the-sunlight #1
things like
Canopy, Travel
Source Legacy of Fire Player's Guide
Aura faint evocation; CL 7th
Slot none; Price 750 gp; Weight 3 lbs.
DESCRIPTION
This 5-foot-square cloth canopy is brightly colored with gold fringe around the edges, something a slightly foppish sultan might use while resting on the seashore. When you speak the command word, the canopy unfolds and floats 3 feet above your head, positioning itself to keep you shaded. The travel canopy cannot hold any weight. It reverts to its 1-foot-square folded form at your command, or automatically when it is out of the sun for more than 1 minute.
Note "floats 3 feet above your head, positioning itself to keep you shaded."
Also I believe others have noted Parasols or Umbrellas state protection from direct sunlight. Isn't there a pressure suit? What about traditional religious clothing like a Paranja, Niqaab, or Chadari?
I guess the real question is what is safe? If a vampire in a coffin made from wood planks is OK then is the same vampire ok in a wagon? How thick does the covering need to be? does it have to be under ground?
I call a lot of these things, "movie plot solutions" (hat tip to Bruce Schneier). Sure, you saw that one dumb movie where that vampire chick was able to be out in the sun if she wore dark clothing head to toe or had a veil or a wide brimmed hat or a parasol or wore sunglasses or a thick layer of sunscreen (loved that one from Master of Mosquiton). Once you start getting to the point of Bill Clinton-esque nit-picking minutia of what constitutes "direct" and "sunlight" you can get wrapped up in all kinds of craziness.
Vampire characters receive huge bonuses that are contingent upon having a few very real and very crippling disadvantages: Sunlight, running water, wooden stakes, garlic, holy symbols, and obsessive-compulsive counting.
If you have a vampire player character and they're outside and the sun is out and they don't have darkness or protective penumbra some other rules-based-not-movie-based protection, you no longer have a vampire player character--you have a pile of ash. Hand them a new character sheet. Done.
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I believe Macgreine asked for a resource.
The items I listed are from:
Legacy of Fire - Travel canopy
Parasol / Umbrella - Ultimate Equipment
Pressure Suit - Distant Lands
So ignoring all movie / book / tv references what does PF say about "Direct" sunlight and covering or shade. Darkness and Protect Penumbra reduce light by putting someone in a shadow.
Moonlight is reflected Sunlight and stars are distant suns. By your logic, even a vampire walking around at night would be making an ash of himself.
No.
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A recoiling vampire must stay at least 5 feet away from the mirror or holy symbol and cannot touch or make melee attacks against that creature. Holding a vampire at bay takes a standard action. After 1 round, a vampire can overcome its revulsion of the object and function normally each round it makes a DC 25 Will save.
There's a feat somewhere that boosts the effect of the symbol etc
Note the hat. ;)
Something else they're weak to: Throw some things on the floor like apples. They'll have to stop and count them all.
One... Two... Three...
Please tell me what 'vampire splatbook' that is. I'm interested in an official source saying how darkness interacts with natural sunlight.
Exposing any vampire to direct sunlight staggers it on the first round of exposure and destroys it utterly on the second consecutive round of exposure if it does not escape.
Please tell me what 'vampire splatbook' that is. I'm interested in an official source saying how darkness interacts with natural sunlight.
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The Pathfinder Player Companion: Blood of Night contains a small blurb in the Moroi (standard Pathfinder vampire) section under the "Secrets of the Moroi heading".Spells like darkness and protective penumbra (see Ultimate Magic) provide temporary respite from the dawn...
Moonlight is reflected Sunlight
What part of "reflected light" implies "direct exposure" to you?
By nature being exposed to a reflection of light is indirect exposure.
I feel like this is referencing something but I'm not sure what.Something else they're weak to: Throw some things on the floor like apples. They'll have to stop and count them all.
One... Two... Three...
X-Files Bad Blood episode?
I call a lot of these things, "movie plot solutions" (hat tip to Bruce Schneier). Sure, you saw that one dumb movie where that vampire chick was able to be out in the sun if she wore dark clothing head to toe or had a veil or a wide brimmed hat or a parasol or wore sunglasses or a thick layer of sunscreen (loved that one from Master of Mosquiton). Once you start getting to the point of Bill Clinton-esque nit-picking minutia of what constitutes "direct" and "sunlight" you can get wrapped up in all kinds of craziness.
Vampire characters receive huge bonuses that are contingent upon having a few very real and very crippling disadvantages: Sunlight, running water, wooden stakes, garlic, holy symbols, and obsessive-compulsive counting.
If you have a vampire player character and they're outside and the sun is out and they don't have darkness or protective penumbra some other rules-based-not-movie-based protection, you no longer have a vampire player character--you have a pile of ash. Hand them a new character sheet. Done.
If I recall correctly, Dracula walked around in daylight all the time.
Also, leather is less porous and would work better both functionally, and stylishly. Black leather.