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[Dae]

And while DF vampires never age, they should still grow the nails and beards (even on corpses those tissues grow, and judging by how vampires probably will have regeneration, all the tissue growth stays).

I not so recently heard it was a common misconception ? That it was in fact because the rotting skin tends to shrink due to dehydration / putrification, making the hairs and nails appear longer ?

[Dakk]

EDIT: Wrong topic, kekeke.

[Pokon]

He didn't mean it literally. Oh god, please let him not have meant it literally.

To be fair, I would so dig a gargoyle-like stone by day, bloodsucking demon by night sort of vampire.

The sparkling just distracts you from the talons about to rip your windpipe out.

[EveryZig]

Now that I think about it, my vampires will likely be almost sparkling. By which I mean giving off sparks due to being on fire.

[Teneb]

Now that I think about it, my vampires will likely be almost sparkling. By which I mean giving off sparks due to being on fire.

Shouldn't they be melting, or something?

[Dae]

In several instances of eastern european folklore, vampires are in fact immune to heat and fire. And sun, too.

[Deon]

And while DF vampires never age, they should still grow the nails and beards (even on corpses those tissues grow, and judging by how vampires probably will have regeneration, all the tissue growth stays).

I not so recently heard it was a common misconception ? That it was in fact because the rotting skin tends to shrink due to dehydration / putrification, making the hairs and nails appear longer ?

Ahem.

and judging by how vampires probably will have regeneration

[Frelus]

Deon, you said "even on corpses these tissues grow", that was what he referred to....
I, for myself, really like vampires as described in Skulduggery Pleasant:
At day, your normal human, just faster, stronger and able to move very silently etc.
Still totally mortal.
At night, they rip off their "human" skin, are very pale, and behave like animals, the only instinct being to kill.
If they bite someone, and that person doesn't die, it becomes a "minion" for 2 days and nights, having to do whatever the one who infected it wants. Minions are not physically improved, but suffer less pain due to the infection having a effect quite similar to "zombiefication", yet suffer no sever problems in coordination and so on.
After th 2 days and nights, it is a "full" and independant vampire.
According to Skulduggery Pleasant, one of the two main protagonists, the most effective was to stop a vampire include guns and a lot of ammunition, generally they are killed by beheading, total incineration, and have a strong allergy against salty water, that, if it gets into their throat, makes it swell and suffocates the vampire.

I like this contrast to many other vampire stories and legends.

On topic:
I hope there won#t be Twilight vamps, but if there are, I will gladly make rooms, illed with candy spikes, that can flood with water and magma on the pull of a lever and have a cave-in funtion.
There is no kill like overkill, and I just want to be sure these suckers won't stand up again

[SirPenguin]

Toady preemptively tackled this idiotic "what is vampires?!" argument by randomizing the 'traits' that vampires get per world gen.

[Moron]

Dwarven vampires would only be interested in blood that had a high enough alcohol content.

[rex mortis]

The necromancers match my mental image of vampires rather nicely. I find that if their transformation involves a curse or some other involuntary stuff, they are not proper monsters. Perhaps if said necromancers had to consume souls of the living on a regular basis to maintain their powers. Sounds pretty "vampirey" to me.

I prefer my vampires total monsters.

[EveryZig]

[...]"what is vampires?!"[...]

What is a vampire?
A miserable little pile of secrets!

[Goran]

Modding shall give the ultimate solution to vampire woes.

Milkable vampire dwarves.

The only thing that can top this is dwarven vampire cheese.

[Frelus]

Modding shall give the ultimate solution to vampire woes.

Milkable vampire dwarves.

The only thing that can top this is dwarven vampire cheese.

Or simply making the vampire's blood contain a facemelting symptom that only works on vampires.
Or make the substance that transfers vampirism contain a facemelting symptom.
PROBLEM SOLVED

[MiniMacker]

Honestly, I'm imagining Vampire dwarves like this walrus.