Running water is a sizeable amount of water, enough for immersion, running naturally such as a lake, stream, ocean, waterfall, etc. Basic sprays, rain, simple splashes, puddles and such as would not count. If they did, vampires would be a pathetic joke.
Personally I would lose this trait in vampires. Water somehow having a different effect on a vampire by volume/movement makes no sense to me - water is water - and the idea of making all water harmful would be a serious nerf if vampires could die from a bit of rain. It makes them worthy of the CR so that you can't seriously harm or kill using a few low level water spells which makes them weaker than their CR suggests they should be. This is, however, homebrew.
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this actually comes from old vampire lore. "running water" like a river is seen in many cultures as holy or sacred. it's not about the volume or even movement persay. more about the symbolism. similar with things like garlic, it's not the bulb that makes garlic poisonous to vampires. garlic was seen as a holy flower but it got confused when bram stoker wrote it plainly as hanging garlic. vampires dont show up in mirrors because they are backed by silver, a metal know for its "purity". interestingly enough modern mirrors might show vampires due to useing cheep metals. wooden steaks should be made of oak or ash for their mystical properties. not just any wood will do. as a dm I would be as strick as to say most "moving water" even in " high volume" does not count.
Or if it’s cast in a barrel and kicked over washing up against a vampire? 🧛♂️
None of that is running water, and a vampire is only damaged by ending its turn in running water, so no on two counts.
Running water is a sizeable amount of water, enough for immersion, running naturally such as a lake, stream, ocean, waterfall, etc. Basic sprays, rain, simple splashes, puddles and such as would not count. If they did, vampires would be a pathetic joke.
Personally I would lose this trait in vampires. Water somehow having a different effect on a vampire by volume/movement makes no sense to me - water is water - and the idea of making all water harmful would be a serious nerf if vampires could die from a bit of rain. It makes them worthy of the CR so that you can't seriously harm or kill using a few low level water spells which makes them weaker than their CR suggests they should be. This is, however, homebrew.
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this actually comes from old vampire lore. "running water" like a river is seen in many cultures as holy or sacred. it's not about the volume or even movement persay. more about the symbolism. similar with things like garlic, it's not the bulb that makes garlic poisonous to vampires. garlic was seen as a holy flower but it got confused when bram stoker wrote it plainly as hanging garlic. vampires dont show up in mirrors because they are backed by silver, a metal know for its "purity". interestingly enough modern mirrors might show vampires due to useing cheep metals. wooden steaks should be made of oak or ash for their mystical properties. not just any wood will do. as a dm I would be as strick as to say most "moving water" even in " high volume" does not count.