No. There are only two significant vampires I can think of, though there may be others, Strahd and Jander Sunstar. Jander was "created" by Strahd, but there isn't in official lore any sort of vampiric "society" like the storylines you're referencing. I mean, you could in your own game, I'd say the Domains of Dread guidance in Van Richten's Guide to Ravensloft would be worth looking at if you wanted to go that route.
I think vampires have a much more dominant control over their spawn, so you don't have the generational tension you have in the vampire sagas and chronicles you're talking about. I think if the main vampire is killed, the spawn come into their own as vampires, but they're almost literally the vampire's puppets up to that point.
In D&D Vampires are monsters, not a race (even Damphyr's aren't a race they're a lineage ;)
I'd say the Domains of Dread guidance in Van Richten's Guide to Ravensloft would be worth looking at if you wanted to go that route.
Agree with MidnightPlat about checking out VRGtR for additional ideas and inspiration. Taking that thought a step further, I know that the Ravenloft 3E/3.5E products had alternate versions (bloodlines?) of vampires based on various D&D races. For example, they had elven and dwarven vampires, which had some of their own unique powers and weaknesses based on being a non-human version of the standard vampire. They were about as close to official D&D lore that I can recall concerning alternate "bloodlines" of vampires.
However, official lore or not, I wouldn't think that it'd be too hard to modify the core vampire into a few variations if you wanted to have more diversity in your campaign setting. Perhaps, your original vampire created vampire spawn that eventually diversified and spread out to create their own bloodlines.
I'd call Artor Morlin a significant vampire if you play in/around Waterdeep. He was featured in a 3-part adventure in Dungeon Magazine 126-128 and is a main character in a good chunk of the DDAL-08 Adventure League season adventures.
But no, no real lineages, i think its because they're kinda puny in the grand scheme of things. When you look at other stories like Twilight, vampires are the biggest-baddest things around and one lineage can survive 1,000 years because they're at the top of the food chain...not so in D&D. Even in Strahd, he's epically powerful because everything else in the domain is significantly weaker than he is. Anywhere else, the reaction to him would be 'meh, CR15....get 'em boys'.
You can also use the planeshift bits which were/are the D&D/MTG crossover so you have the various vampires form magic the gathering to draw on, Innistrad is likely the easiest one with lots of lore, links to the wiki and pdf downloads here: https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Plane_Shift
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Just revisiting this thread and was totally going to bring up Innistrad, so just going to ditto Rob76. I'd actually say that's probably a good foundation (and a free one) for adapting "vampire society" mythos into 5e moreso than Strahd (though VRGtR would give you good guidance on making the world "your own").
The Planeshift stuff is cool, some players sniff at it because it's said it hasn't been as rigorously playtested to be integrated into "official D&D", but they're completely sound lorewise, and a decent DM could easily eyeball that stats for the PC races and monsters unique to Innistrad and figure out how to tune them into your game (since they're Planeshift, you'll have to homebrew that stuff into D&D Beyond anyway, so just be open to tweaking it).
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No. There are only two significant vampires I can think of, though there may be others, Strahd and Jander Sunstar. Jander was "created" by Strahd, but there isn't in official lore any sort of vampiric "society" like the storylines you're referencing. I mean, you could in your own game, I'd say the Domains of Dread guidance in Van Richten's Guide to Ravensloft would be worth looking at if you wanted to go that route.
I think vampires have a much more dominant control over their spawn, so you don't have the generational tension you have in the vampire sagas and chronicles you're talking about. I think if the main vampire is killed, the spawn come into their own as vampires, but they're almost literally the vampire's puppets up to that point.
In D&D Vampires are monsters, not a race (even Damphyr's aren't a race they're a lineage ;)
Jander wasn't created by Stradh, he was from Forgotten Realms originally.
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Jander wasn't created by Stradh, he was from Forgotten Realms originally.
There you go, so even those two don't constitute a lineage. Of course, you could take Jander's "multiversal" configuration in VRGtR and say "why not?" and say it happened, somewhere.
In fact, now I'm thinking Jander's VRGtR's "nature" was one of WotC's early harbingers of its present multiversal trajectory.
Nothing official from what I have seen, the closest thing we have that you could play with is the dhampir, beyond that most of the time it's more of a master/slave relationship with vampires and their spawn until the master is done away with thus leaving the spawns as independents.
D&D often flirts with this concept in Monster Manual supplements. I'm thinking specifically of previous editions where they would introduce a core concept vampire in MM1, which was a blood drinker, and then in MMs 2 and 3 they would add life drinkers and emotion feeders and flesh eaters, etc. Why do you ask?
In 5e you've got blood drinkers in the Monster Manual, blood drinkers and psychic vampires in Guildmaster's Guide, and Strigoi in Van Richten's... Other than that you'll have to make your own...
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Are there any vampiric bloodlines in any of the official lore. As an example think of WOD, Underworld, TES, and kinda Twilight.
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No. There are only two significant vampires I can think of, though there may be others, Strahd and Jander Sunstar. Jander was "created" by Strahd, but there isn't in official lore any sort of vampiric "society" like the storylines you're referencing. I mean, you could in your own game, I'd say the Domains of Dread guidance in Van Richten's Guide to Ravensloft would be worth looking at if you wanted to go that route.
I think vampires have a much more dominant control over their spawn, so you don't have the generational tension you have in the vampire sagas and chronicles you're talking about. I think if the main vampire is killed, the spawn come into their own as vampires, but they're almost literally the vampire's puppets up to that point.
In D&D Vampires are monsters, not a race (even Damphyr's aren't a race they're a lineage ;)
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
Agree with MidnightPlat about checking out VRGtR for additional ideas and inspiration. Taking that thought a step further, I know that the Ravenloft 3E/3.5E products had alternate versions (bloodlines?) of vampires based on various D&D races. For example, they had elven and dwarven vampires, which had some of their own unique powers and weaknesses based on being a non-human version of the standard vampire. They were about as close to official D&D lore that I can recall concerning alternate "bloodlines" of vampires.
However, official lore or not, I wouldn't think that it'd be too hard to modify the core vampire into a few variations if you wanted to have more diversity in your campaign setting. Perhaps, your original vampire created vampire spawn that eventually diversified and spread out to create their own bloodlines.
I'd call Artor Morlin a significant vampire if you play in/around Waterdeep. He was featured in a 3-part adventure in Dungeon Magazine 126-128 and is a main character in a good chunk of the DDAL-08 Adventure League season adventures.
But no, no real lineages, i think its because they're kinda puny in the grand scheme of things. When you look at other stories like Twilight, vampires are the biggest-baddest things around and one lineage can survive 1,000 years because they're at the top of the food chain...not so in D&D. Even in Strahd, he's epically powerful because everything else in the domain is significantly weaker than he is. Anywhere else, the reaction to him would be 'meh, CR15....get 'em boys'.
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You can also use the planeshift bits which were/are the D&D/MTG crossover so you have the various vampires form magic the gathering to draw on, Innistrad is likely the easiest one with lots of lore, links to the wiki and pdf downloads here: https://mtg.fandom.com/wiki/Plane_Shift
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
Jander wasn't created by Stradh, he was from Forgotten Realms originally.
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There you go, so even those two don't constitute a lineage. Of course, you could take Jander's "multiversal" configuration in VRGtR and say "why not?" and say it happened, somewhere.
In fact, now I'm thinking Jander's VRGtR's "nature" was one of WotC's early harbingers of its present multiversal trajectory.
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Nothing official from what I have seen, the closest thing we have that you could play with is the dhampir, beyond that most of the time it's more of a master/slave relationship with vampires and their spawn until the master is done away with thus leaving the spawns as independents.
D&D often flirts with this concept in Monster Manual supplements. I'm thinking specifically of previous editions where they would introduce a core concept vampire in MM1, which was a blood drinker, and then in MMs 2 and 3 they would add life drinkers and emotion feeders and flesh eaters, etc. Why do you ask?
Because if there were I was going to put them into the homebrew word I'm building with some minor adjustments in order for them to fit in.
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In 5e you've got blood drinkers in the Monster Manual, blood drinkers and psychic vampires in Guildmaster's Guide, and Strigoi in Van Richten's... Other than that you'll have to make your own...