Do vampires give birth to baby vampires in your setting /tg/?
If so, how are their feed? Via breast feeding or via biting their mother's neck?
>>46575795
Vampires shouldn't be able to feed off their own kind. Any setting where that's allowed is shit-tier automatically.
Vampmom can feed vampbabby with a bottle of blood, or drag in some unconscious human for them to feed off.
If birth was possible it must be quite a status symbol for a vampire to be able to claim he/her was born rather than turned.
I can imagine it would be quite a logistic challenge if you have to feed baby vampires with blood. Hell how are they going to bite necks before they have teeth?
>>46575795
Yes!
They feed with the mother vomiting food inside the childs mouth - usually blood. The Child will look like an ordinary human until it loses its first set of teeth that will be replaced by it's own fangs.
>>46575795
Gonna have to say no to the first one. Vampires should be created, no sired. Perhaps there's a specific vampiric lineage, but it perpetuates itself by choosing candidates for turning, not siring.
Perhaps it's more to do with my own conceptions of the undead, and that to be undead means being pretty anathema to life. Birth being a pretty important part of life, it should rightly not be their gift to have, and death is the breaking of their undeath and a return to the natural order.
>>46575795
Is this what "Dhampires" are? Or was that just some homebrew class made for Strahd?
>>46575795
'Vampires' in my setting are actually the result of (yet another) fucked-up wizard using magic to warp and twist people into his own personal army; at least in this case, he went with his loyal soldiers rather than brainwashed slaves and POWs (like the Zeros, or the Changed, or the Marked, or...Yeah, this has happened a few times.)
As such, vampires are a bit different than your standard, classic fare. They are still on the upper end of strength, speed and durability, but not quite supernaturally so; they also have amazing night-vision, great echolocation and superb olfactory senses, but do have difficulty with sunlight and other bright lights (not in the bursting-to-ash sense, thankfully, just oh-god-my-eyes-are-bleeding and a tendency towards really bad sunburns). Their diet is also exclusively liquid-based - part of the drawback of their physiology, they can't handle solid foods; however, they can do just fine on soups, broths and the like, and only need blood (animal is fine) about once a week or so. However, they -do- gain a rather significant boost to their abilities and capabilities after consuming blood from a sapient being, to the point that drinking it is actually heavily addicting both physically and mentally.
As far as reproducing, vampires can have children like any other humanoid, and their offspring have about a 75% of being born vampiric as well if only one parent carries the trait. Related to that, however, a vampire can't create another vampire simply by biting someone - it just doesn't work like that.
>>46575795
>Do vampires give birth to baby vampires in your setting /tg/?
No. Vampires are undead - they're completely incapable of reproduction. Half-vampires, if I decide they exist, follow the Blade origin - pregnant mom gets vamped, baby is far enough along that it survives.
>>46575795
>>46577178
>Vampires
>Having a reproductive system
Get that fetish shit out of here.
>>46575795
I'm running a Nights Black Agents game using the Linea Dracula from the core book, and only decedents of the main line can be full blooded vampires. So yes, it works in the normal way. You fuck, and the kid is a vampire.
Sort of. The only way a baby can be born a vampire is if the father was a vampire and the mother was a normal human. The baby can breast feed and process normal food for the first year of life. If the baby then shows the telltale signs of vampirism it eventually is overcome with bloodthirst and drains its mother dry. There is also a 40% chance that the baby is completely normal.
>>46575795
Can vampires be religious? like christian (anne rice novels)? Can they be holy warriors or no?
>>46582630
Lancea et Sanctum motherfucker.
>>46575795
No a vampire can't have children, it's a fucking corpse.
>>46575795
My setting is Twilight.
Vampire "offsping" for the most part don't exist.
>>46575795
In my setting young Vampires are basically beasts that consume Human flesh and need to be commanded by a wizard to have any sort of chance to control their bloodlust. Older Vampires are floating Corpses stuffed with blood, essentially the eastern europe folklore version of Vampir. So no they don't breed.
>>46575795
Vampires are infertile.
>>46575795
You know, the whole tragic/gothic/dramatic element of vampires is kinda lost when their "torment of an existence" basically has no drawbacks compared to human life. At which point you lose the VtM and obtain Twilight.
>>46583973
>At which point you lose the VtM and obtain Twilight.
There was the childlessness thing, but Bella got to overcome it and be the specialist of snowflakes.
A couple of the Cullens were upset that they couldn't be real people. The background characters and their origin stories were actually the best thing about Twilight.
Vampire breeding would destroy whole point of vampirism and breeding vampires would soon replace humans. This is bad idea even as a fetish.
>>46575795
Vampires cannot sire vampires.
But they may sire dhampirs.
>>46587073
Wouldn't they try to police that themselves? If vampire-to-human ratio gets too high humans would catch on to what's happening and make their lives very difficult.
>>46575795
That largely defeats the point of vampires, if they aren't at least 51% horrible undead abomination inimical to human existence then they're just light-shy superheroes with fangs.
Removing the need to take a human and violently replace it with an evil bloodsucking mockery of it's former self in order to sustain their species removes most of the monster factor.
>>46587123
Unless these "vampires" are hilariously dumbed-down, there is some third force keeping them in check, or they didn't exist until after humans achieved modern technology, there is absolutely no excuse for vampires capable of breeding to not BTFO any human resistance and put them into blood camps should the vampires be so inclined.
>>46587123
More like vampires would do what sapiens did to neanderthals because they're much more powerful and when they can breed by themselves they have no need for humans.
Of course if breeding vampires suddenly came into existence during modern age things would be different, but still they couldn't really hide if they do breed like humans because it would be too hard to control, so it might end up them being destroyed or receiving minority status and wellfare bloodpacks.
>>46587190
>More like vampires would do what sapiens did to neanderthals because they're much more powerful and when they can breed by themselves they have no need for humans.
Assuming sapiens don't do to vampires what we did to neanderthals.
And then you have the backstory of Peter Watt's Blindsight.
https://youtu.be/3WdCvGDpM9k
I suppose related to this is how vampires actually turn humans. I've always felt that if every time they bite someone that person turns into a vampire then you would have a zombie apocalypse situation very quickly, only in this case the "zombies" are much worse.
But on the other hand if vampires can selectively choose to "bite to bleed out" or "bite to turn" that would also open up other problems.
If you section goes for the second option and yet can still explain why vampires are a secret society instead of ruling humans then you can probably also slot in vampire breeding without too much problem.
No. Ew.
>>46587344
I personally think idea of making vampires basically Illuminati could fix that. They would rule humans, but do so that in secrecy because they don't want immortality to spread.
Of course this wouldn't work out very well if you want vampires to be playable characters instead of baddies.
Does anyone have the link to the old Vampire Byzantium thread?
>>46575795
Vampires are functionally dead so no.
>>46575795
No, and nor should it anyone else's setting either. Undead things cannot create life, and its stupid how vampire fetishes make people forget this about their special snowflake undead
>>46587136
The other fact is that vampires are supposed to come with their quirky weirdness prepackaged, because it's the way they were as a human only taken to extremes. Vampires that are born that way (and having vampires age is stupid) won't have that, so you'll need to find an even stupider backstory for them to develop those strange behaviors.
>>46575795
>Do vampires give birth to baby vampires in your setting /tg/?
No, being undead, those parts haven't worked since they turned.
>>46575915
>Any setting where that's allowed is shit-tier automatically.
mfw bitch doesn't know about diablerie...
Vampires who take in a lot of blood can maintain almost human body-functions and it's very inconvenient.
Those who are determined to have children need a large supply of blood, and will have regular human children whoHave ridiculous blood generation, "my ears bleed regularly"-ridiculous. Very few vampires are aware of this
>>46575915
Really? I've always liked the idea of vamps feeding off of other vamps for increased power/ a "better' feeding.
>>46575795
Vampires can only still have children for a short time after becoming vampires, and the children will just be normal humans. Newly turned vampires are fully undead and still need to eat food too.
After that, the vampires might still look human, but they are too far down the path of undeath for their reproductive system to work. That said, even very old vampires still enjoy the act of it well enough.
Vapirism is spread via a curse rather than by blood in my setting, so there is no chance of it spreading from mother to child unless the vampire issuing the curse wished it so.
Infants and children generally do not survive the transition to undeath.
Vampires cannot feed off other vampires, or off creatures that aren't human.
A male vampire can mate with a human female only if he is well fed, even then there is a high chance the offspring will be stillborn and only a slight chance of producing a dhampir. Female vampires are unable to carry to term.
I hate the idea of humans turning into vampires. That doesn't make sense. Frogs turn into humans just because they're eaten by humans, why would humans be the exception when it comes to vampirees? No. In my settings vampires are a separate race from a different dimension. They eat life force, like humans do, cannot turn humans into vampires even if they wanted to, and breed like ants. Not at the same rate but they have group of vampire queens dedicated to producing more. When they feed on creatures they gain a small amount of the memory and genetic information of that creature, this can show up as different skin colors, horns etc. They offer up this genetic material to queen(s) every century or so. No two vampires are alike. The differences, in fact, become more pronounced with age. Vampire queens are born from other vampire queens, every five or so centuries. Killing this queen or any other does not kill any of her spawn. It doesn't effect their spawn at all in any way.
>>46577355
Dhampirs are half-vampires, which is usually explained as "woman gets knocked up by vampire" or "vampire feeds on pregnant woman and her baby turns weird".
>>46575795
>If so, how are their feed? Via breast feeding or via biting their mother's neck?
The umbilicus regenerates too fast to cut using normal means, and that is how the baby continues to obtain nutrients until the mother is killed.
>>46575795
Awwww man! Sure brings back memories of shitty forum RP. I never really got into the whole vampire RP thing anyway, but I've observed quite a few threads.
Usually, characters born as vampires were called "immortal vampires" (as opposed to the other kind of vampire? even though they were also immortal? idk mang) and because they never had the experience of being human it meant that edgy 14 year old boys had the excuse to act all like, "humans are trash, humans are food, I am the superior race to anything ever lelelelelel"
I still don't get how vampires were supposed to have babies. It makes no fucking sense to me. I always saw vampires as being sort of frozen in the state they were bitten - so their appearance does not change, nor do their other biological functions work how they used to. This also goes for eating, breathing, etc.
>>46582630
>not turning against your own kind in the name of the Burning Hate, the Baleful Eye, the Everflame, the Orb of Damnation, blessed be his rays of annihilation
>>46589365
Diablerie is not "feeding" in that sense of the term.
It's cannibalism, only instead of getting brain parasites, you get extra power and register as a depraved monstrosity... to vampires.
