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My wife is planning on running Carrion Crown, and like almost everyone else on these messageboards, I'm planning on running a Dhampir Inquisitor. My wife is open to 3rd party suppliments rules, and I found one that has it so that the dhampir, while not as keenly as his undead parent, has a need to drink the blood of his foes.
Different races have idiosyncrasies that open up interesting roleplaying opportunities. Gnomes often have an innate verbose loquacity that befuddles outsiders. Dwarves are well known as gruff, thick‐voiced ale‐lovers. Elves often appear as serene, aloof, even self‐aggrandized academics.
However, playing a dhampir brings its own unique challenge. Despite the fact that they eat normal food, dhampir feel a diminished version of the burning thirst for blood that drives vampires to kill and feed.
A dhampir can go for one week plus a number of days equal to his Constitution score without tasting fresh blood. After this time, the character must make a Constitution check each day (DC 10 +1 for each previous check) or become fatigued. A fatigued dhampir must continue to make additional daily Constitutions checks until he drinks at least one pint of fresh blood. If he fails a subsequent check, he becomes exhausted until he drinks at least two pints of fresh blood.
Some dhampir — those with the fangs alternate racial trait, the oracle’s vampiric blood drain revelation or the Thirst for Blood heritage feat — feel the thirst for blood more keenly than their fellows. Such individuals suffer a ‐1 penalty to their Constitutions check for each of the aforementioned conditions they possess.
Based on the rules above, if my character were to feed on someone for the purposes of sustaining himself to continue his fight against the monsters of the world, would that be an evil act? and if he were to fail his check enough, I was imagining a kind of blood rage, similar to what Seras (Police Girl) from the anime Hellsing underwent. How would something like this work, and what abilities would this bloodrage replace to balance it?
Suspicious much? anyway, I recently learned that according to the bestiary, vampires themselves do not even NEED to feed on blood, so niether should dhampirs. so much for that.
not suspicious at all, provided you wear a robe and wizard hat. something like pigs blood is par for the course for spellcaster wierdness.
Ask if they are going to make blood sausage?
Ask your party members, once you get to know them a bit better, if they would be willing to bleed into a tankard for a little bit. Drinking blood isn't an evil act, just one that(usually) lacks nutirional value.
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I just want to make a monster hunter period, but focus on vampires. He's trying to find hus undead father, and will kill any and all vampires (after interrogations of course) that he can until he gets to his sire. at the same time though, he has to deal with the fact that he is tainted by his undead heritage, and while it has perks, there are drawbacks, both physical and social. Like Abraham Van Helsing from Dracula (the book, not any of the movies), if he were half vampire. and a badass, instead of just bookish.
Well I'd recommend looking at the ARG Dahmpir feats, particularly Blood Drinker, Blood Feaster, Blood Salvage & Divers Palate(all at the bottom of the link).
Blood drinker allow you to mechanically benefit from your blood lust to give you a literal insensitive to feed. Then you have options. If you want to give into your Blood Lust, go with Blood Feaster & Diverse Palate to make you stronger as your draw on the blood as well as capable of nourishing from other creature types. If you're ashamed of your blood lust, take Blood Salvage since it allows you to feed from the dead. I don't know if I'd actually penalize a Dahmpir for not drinking... But they're turning down some really cool abilities if they do so.
Also, look up the Kinslayer archetype for Inquisitors since it seems right up your alley if you haven't already taken it. It should fit regardless of how you want to treat your blood lust and is in the same link up above.
Suspicious much? anyway, I recently learned that according to the bestiary, vampires themselves do not even NEED to feed on blood, so niether should dhampirs. so much for that.
Where in the bestiary does it say this?
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where in the bestiary does it say they do? Undead do not need to sustain themselves. Ghouls do not need to eat humanoid flesh any more than vampires need to drink the blood of the living, at least not for any physical reason. They may have a psychological compulsion due to their undead state, but it is by no means a necrological necessity, if you will pardon the expression.
The Bestiary makes mentions of most Dhampir having some kind of thirst for blood. However, I think it was in the context "they want to shed blood in battle and revel in the carnage" rather than "suck blood from someone's neck", but it still counts as a thirst for blood.
The Bestiary doesn't explicitly say vampires must drink blood.
Classic Horrors Revisited, which is campaign-specific to Golarion, does say vampires become emaciated and corpse-like if they don't feed enough, and overwhelming cravings for blood drive them insane, possibly irrecoverably so. That's paraphrased. It also says that vampires who have been pulled back from the madness before it consumed them have described the sensation as like dying over and over again every second without blood. Classic Horrors Revisited is Golarion-specific and Carrion Crown is set in Ustalav in Golarion unless she's planning to run it in a different campaign setting. Classic Horrors Revisited is closed-content fluff for the setting though so a link isn't readily available except to the book/PDF itself: Classic Horrors Revisited
I'd recommend the Blood Drinker feat from Advanced Race Guide as well. It does specifically say in its description that drinking blood from an unwilling target is an evil act. Blood Drinker feat allows for drinking blood from a single kind of humanoid target (other than dhampir).
The other feats Darth Grall listed expand the Blood Drinker feat's functionality. He linked to d20pfsrd. Here's the link to here on the Paizo PRD: Advanced Race Guide Dhampir Entry.