Now only one way to kill a vampire?


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Scarab Sages

I was looking at the Vampire from pathfinder 2e and now . . . there's only one way to kill them off permenantly? And that's exposure to sunlight? Like, staking them takes them out of commission, but you can't kill them except for sunlight. In 1st ed, there were a couple of ways, like chopping off the head, filling it with something holy (holy water) and saying a prayer, or just stopping the vapor from reaching their coffin. Arguably, rules as written, a coup-de grace would kill them as that just was a save-or-die.

But as far as I can see, in PF2, there's nothing. No spell that 'emulates daylight' for a vampire, no nothing. Even desintigrate doesn't explicitly do it (it says it 'reduces the target to a fine powder, but then, I guess, at that point it's at 0 HP and just forms a dust cloud again.)

Anyone know any other ways to kill a 2nd ed vampire?


The whole chopping off their head and anointing it with holy water is still there, its the follow up to staking to them.


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Stake 'em, chop their head off and then pour holy water on them. Does the trick every time, of it doesn't be very worried.


Vampires also don't like Pyrokineticist too much. Solar Detonation and Ignite the Sun are pretty effective against them.

I can easily see Yoon action as a vampire hunter saying "Burn Monster! You don't belong in this world!"


YuriP wrote:

Vampires also don't like Pyrokineticist too much. Solar Detonation and Ignite the Sun are pretty effective against them.

I can easily see Yoon action as a vampire hunter saying "Burn Monster! You don't belong in this world!"

Those two sunright also effective against Iffdahsil... (but will manifest spell works for that, or is open-area ritual allowed?)

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