Book of the Dead - Vampire PCs and “create food” spell

[Timothy Ferdinand]

Quoting the first line of the Create Food spell it states: “ You create enough food to feed six Medium creatures for a day. This food is bland and unappealing, but it is nourishing.”

Quick question - if a vampire archetype player (Book of the Dead) casts create food, would it create blood? The spell simply states that it creates enough food for six medium creatures, so on an RAW basis, it would seem to allow a vampire character to sustain themselves without the need to drink the blood of living creatures. The second sentence of the spell description (about the food being bland, unappealing but nourishing) might imply from a vampire’s perspective, that the food is like drinking animal blood rather than humanoid blood. - any thoughts?

[Errenor]

Good question, do we allow use of common in-rules means to solve a problem or deside it contradicts lore and make PC's problem more complicated?
I don't know. I guess it depends on GM and campaign.
Though personally I think that Revulsion and Sunlight vulnerabilities are already too much, and make characters for this game so limited based on traditional myths is not fun at all.

[Castilliano]

Since the food should function for any six Medium creatures, it shouldn't be blood, yet it should work for hungry undead too acting like blood, albeit it's bland and unappealing, so might not sate their hunger well even if it provides the nutrition. If undead need "soul stuff" in their food (as implied by the blood needing to come from a living source even though fresh blood of the dead is chemically the same), that could imply that such spells make food full of "soul stuff" too! (And contains most anything most any creature might need to consume, at least in essence if not actually...being magic and such.)
Not that I think the food needs to contain EVERYTHING, but it does act as a substitute for everything necessary to feed creatures, including in this case the blood of the living.

[The Raven Black]

Just feed your faithful living herd with the spell and sup on them.

[Ascalaphus]

It looks like it would work.

Now, sometimes when someone is playing a vampire, the moral struggle and drama of having to drink blood is supposed to be a big thing. In a game like that, you don't want to allow Create Food to work. But not all games are like that. Sometimes you just want Bob to be a vampire in a cool trenchcoat and get on with things.

I think this isn't too different from when the GM has a wilderness survival adventure in mind in a brutal desert with no food and the cleric pops out this spell. That one might also need someone to change their expectations.

I think this is one of the strengths of Pathfinder actually. You can play a vampire or do wilderness survival at low level and experience the hardship of getting sustenance. And then at some point (level 5 or so) you overcome that and start dealing with newer, higher level problems. You can see that you're a bigger kind of hero now.