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Vampire exists in other D&D editions see:

Vampire (disambiguation).

D&D 5e (2014) Varied ʰ 
SRD5, MM5, GGtR


Vampire Overview [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
 [2] 
Awakened to an endless night, vampires hunger for the life they have lost and sate that hunger by drinking the blood of the living. Vampires abhor sunlight, for its touch burns them. They never cast shadows or reflections, and any vampire wishing to move unnoticed among the living keeps to the darkness and far from reflective surfaces.

Vampire's Lair

[6] A vampire lair in defensible castles, fortified manor, or walled abbeys

Regional Effects

[6] Regional effects:

  • Bats, Rats, and Wolves
  • Twisted, Thorny Plants
  • Moving Shadows
  • Creeping Fog

If the vampire is destroyed, these effects end after 2d6 days.


 [7] 
A vampire is a creature from folklore File:Icon External Link.svg that subsists by feeding on the vital essence File:Icon External Link.svg (generally in the form of blood File:Icon External Link.svg) of the living. In European folklore File:Icon External Link.svg, vampires are undead creatures that often visited loved ones and caused mischief or deaths in the neighborhoods they inhabited while they were alive. They wore shrouds File:Icon External Link.svg and were often described as bloated and of ruddy or dark countenance, markedly different from today's gaunt, pale vampire which dates from the early 19th century.

Vampiric entities have been recorded in most cultures File:Icon External Link.svg; the term vampire was popularized in Western Europe after reports of an 18th-century mass hysteria File:Icon External Link.svg of a pre-existing folk belief in the Balkans File:Icon External Link.svg and Eastern Europe File:Icon External Link.svg that in some cases resulted in corpses being staked and people being accused of vampirism.[8] Local variants in Eastern Europe were also known by different names, such as shtriga File:Icon External Link.svg in Albania File:Icon External Link.svg, vrykolakas File:Icon External Link.svg in Greece File:Icon External Link.svg and strigoi File:Icon External Link.svg in Romania File:Icon External Link.svg.

In modern times, the vampire is generally held to be a fictitious entity, although belief in similar vampiric creatures such as the chupacabra File:Icon External Link.svg still persists in some cultures. Early folk belief in vampires has sometimes been ascribed to the ignorance of the body's process of decomposition File:Icon External Link.svg after death and how people in pre-industrial societies tried to rationalize this, creating the figure of the vampire to explain the mysteries of death. Porphyria File:Icon External Link.svg was linked with legends of vampirism in 1985 and received much media exposure, but has since been largely discredited.[9][10]

The charismatic and sophisticated vampire of modern fiction was born in 1819 with the publication of "The Vampyre File:Icon External Link.svg" by the English writer John Polidori File:Icon External Link.svg; the story was highly successful and arguably the most influential vampire work of the early 19th century.[11] Bram Stoker File:Icon External Link.svg's 1897 novel Dracula File:Icon External Link.svg is remembered as the quintessential vampire novel File:Icon External Link.svg and provided the basis of the modern vampire legend, even though it was published after Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's File:Icon External Link.svg 1872 novel Carmilla File:Icon External Link.svg. The success of this book spawned a distinctive vampire genre File:Icon External Link.svg, still popular in the 21st century, with books, films File:Icon External Link.svg, television shows, and video games. The vampire has since become a dominant figure in the horror File:Icon External Link.svg genre.

 [SRD3 OGL] [12] 
 3.5e lore 
Vampires appear just as they did in life, although their features are often hardened and feral, with the predatory look of wolves.

Like liches, they often embrace finery and decadence and may assume the guise of nobility. Despite their human appearance, vampires can be easily recognized, for they cast no shadows and throw no reflections in mirrors.


List of Vampires

6 Vampires

Monster Size Type Tags Alignment HP CR Habitat Marked Source
Drelnza (Individual) Medium Undead Vampire Lawful Evil 187 15 Urban Canon, Pointer Quests from the Infinite Staircase
Vampire Overview Overview Undead, Vampire Underdark, Underground, Urban Canon Varied, SRD5, MM5, GGtR
Vampire Medium Undead Shapechanger, Vampire Lawful Evil 144 13 Underdark, Underground, Urban Canon SRD-OGL v5.1, SRD-CC v5.1
Vampire Spawn Medium Undead Vampire Neutral Evil 82 5 Underdark, Underground, Urban Canon SRD-OGL v5.1, SRD-CC v5.1
Vampire Spellcaster Medium Undead Shapechanger, Vampire, Wizard Lawful Evil 144 15 Shadowfell, Underdark, Underground, Urban Canon Varied, SRD5, MM5
Vampire Warrior Medium Undead Shapechanger, Vampire, Warrior Lawful Evil 144 15 Shadowfell, Underdark, Underground, Urban Canon Varied, SRD5, MM5

Sources and Notes

  1. SRD5: ↑
  2. Christopher Perkins, et. al.. Monster Manual (5e) (5e 2014) (2014-09-30). Wizards of the Coast. p. 295. Licensed: © Wizards of the Coast. ↑ 2.0 2.1
  3. James Wyatt, et. al.. Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica (5e 2014) (2018-11-20). Wizards of the Coast. ISBN 978-0786966592. p. 223. Licensed: © Wizards of the Coast. ↑
  4. habitat - Dungeon Master's Guide (5e) p.302-305 ↑
  5. habitat (Underdark, Underground) - (unofficial) user:Rlyehable ↑
  6. Monster Manual (5e) p.296-297 (summarized) ↑
  7. Wikipedia - Vampire (excerpt, accessed 2020-04-04). Licensed CC-BY-SA. ↑
  8. Silver, A., & Ursini, J. (1997). The Vampire Film: From Nosferatu to Interview with the Vampire (pp. 22–23). New York: Limelight Editions. ↑
  9. "Dear Cecil" column from straightdope.com ↑
  10. Lane, Nick (16 December 2002). Born to the Purple: the Story of Porphyria ↑
  11. Silver, A., & Ursini, J. (1997). The Vampire Film: From Nosferatu to Interview with the Vampire (pp. 37–38). New York: Limelight Editions. ↑
  12. Wizards RPG Team. SRD v3.5 (3.5e) (2003). Wizards of the Coast. Licensed: OGL. ↑
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Monster data +

Vampire (Sort Text: Vampire AAA Common 5e, Size: Medium, Type: Undead, Subtypes: Shapechanger • Vampire, Alignment: Lawful Evil, HP: 144, CR: 13, Features: Shapechanger • Legendary Resistance • Misty Escape • Regeneration • Spider Climb • Vampire Weakness • Multiattack • Unarmed Strike • Bite • Charm • Children of the Night, Legendary: Yes, Has Lair: Yes, NPC: No, Canon: Yes, Pointer: No, UA: No, User: No, Sources: SRD-OGL v5.1 • SRD-CC v5.1)

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