So, About Vampires....
My first real post on this blog, almost a year after I made it... And just in time for Halloween. I love vampires, but I'm not a fan of the vampire as it's presented in Dungeons & Dragons. It's a fairly decent representation of a specific sort of a vampire, specifically Bram Stoker's Dracula (and likely, even more specifically Bela Lugosi's portrayal). While that's an iconic vision, vampires have evolved past that interruption; we now have the literary works like those Anne Rice, other role-playing games like Vampire: the Masquerade, and even in Japanese media like Vampire Hunter D and Castlevania. Then there's the infamous mechanic of energy drain. I don't like it. At all. For one, it doesn't feel something all that vampiric. I suppose if you think hard enough, you could make the argument that it's the act of a vampire draining their victims blood but it still feels sort of wrong. I also feel that it's largely an unfair mecha...