i like to imagine a scenario where you buy the vampires property and then tell them their not welcome killing them in the process 

These are cool! :)

agreed

Stake to the Heart. The vampire is destroyed if a piercing weapon made of wood is driven into its heart while it is incapacitated in its resting place.

So...if you stake a vampire while incapacitated away from its resting place, that does not destroy it? 

.......................................hear me out, smash

I personally think that if a person casts a spell that does radiant damage or has a weapon that does, that should count. But of course always up to the DM

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"If a true vampire allows a spawn to DRAW BLOOD FROM ITS OWN BODY." Why would vampires have blood?

 I imagine they have stagnant blood from when they were alive, or else the blood the vampire drains from victims is used to create a new bloodstream for it. 

So, the Monster Manual says that the vampire spawn can become a true vampire by drinking the blood of a willing true vampire. 

My question as a DM: Does the vampire giving blood have to be the one that made the vampire spawn? In other words, could a vampire troll another vampire by "freeing" his loyal vampire spawn slaves? 

I know I can do whatever I want, but I would like my shadowy network of rival vampires to be plausible.

I allowed this once but that was because the party was on exceptionally good terms with the boss and the now undead bard was equally good at roleplay. I gave them a buff to strength, all the supernatural benefits and weaknesses, and they could make their own spawn (which they didn't do because they were doing their absolute best to not be a monster). 

One question: Is it possible for Vampire Spawn to become full vampires I am running a campaign with a vampire spawn and I was wondering.

Dude I'm hearing you, already done frr

Unfair, they made the vampire bad, iykyk

Ah yes, the weaker vampire. Honestly I feel like Dnd could have done a lot more with Vampires. At least give them lair actions. The only way to make a vampire live up to it’s cr is by playing it tactically- and you have to do that well.

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So, the Monster Manual says that the vampire spawn can become a true vampire by drinking the blood of a willing true vampire. 

My question as a DM: Does the vampire giving blood have to be the one that made the vampire spawn? In other words, could a vampire troll another vampire by "freeing" his loyal vampire spawn slaves? 

I know I can do whatever I want, but I would like my shadowy network of rival vampires to be plausible.

 As another DM, I imagine it is both possible, and the sort of petty game that rival vampires play all the time.

It might be a little difficult getting the spawn to drink if it's been forbidden, but I'm sure an old vampire can think of a way around it.

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Dawn says "each creature" in the radiance takes the damage, not just hostile ones. So if your party is immune to radiant damage, rock on, but if not you're going to burn right along with them.

 

“The Cleric casts fireball in an enclosed space.  What could go wrong?”

 Everything 

I mean, keep in mind Dawn is still a what 5th level spell? So you're expending a 5th level spell slot in order to pull off this check and 5th level spells aren't exactly your common run of the mil spells, they should be rather rare in a setting and being able to cast that requires 9 levels of a full casting class

same reason they would have, skin, muscles, hair, or any other organ.

It's a werecreature not a we're creature

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I would figure that being shoved through a door would constitute as a rather rude invitation, but an invitation nonetheless.

Clearly they want the vampire in such an area and are expressing it, therefore they've been invited in a sense to occupy that space.

...That and I'm not fond of someone abusing that and then doing something absurd like kill Strahd by taking a doorframe around with them to throw him through like a bloodthirsty basketball.

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I want to play a character that is a (modified) vampire spawn. I usually DM, so would anybody have any tips for creating this sort of character?

I'm currently playing a wizard vampire spawn in curse of strhad. If you want free will as a PC you're going to have to create a backstory that includes your vampire master being dead. For stats, I chose a race and rolled up stats like normal. I have all the restictions of a vampire spawn(Hurt by running water and sunlight, cant enter a house uninvited and i count as an undead). My DM allowed me to gain the ability to spider climb at will at level e3 (when you would normally get 2nd level spells.). I ignore the Dark desires, regional affects, and chained to the grave as those dont specify that they affect vampire spawn, only vampires. I dont need to breathe either. If i where to bite someone, they wouldnt become a vampire spawn and if a full vampire gave me thier blood id become a full vampire. My dm allows me to preform the bite action however, the hp gained is halved so im not too overpowered. My DM doesnt allow me to do multi attacks, regeration or the claw attack. Also another thing to point out is that as an undead creature, healing spells have no affect on you. To counter this, my Dm allowed me to gain hp by casting chill touch ( because its necromancy) on myself as a first level spell instead of a cantrip and  gain 1d8  hp. For all the actions that I preform, I use the stats I rolled up, not the stats for vampire spawn. for feeding rules, my dm created a system where I needed to feed on blood of any kind (human or animal ect) at least once a week. However, after day 5 of not feeding I begin to starve and will uncontrollably attack anything that is bleeding nearby me. By day 7, I uncontrollably attack anything whether or not its bleeding. I recommend playing a vampire spawn in campaigns without much sunlight like curse of strahd or into the abyss. You could also use the dhampir stats found in van richten's guide. Hopefully this was helpful and not completely long winded.

 I made a Vampire character that is just a vampire without forbiddance (Blood hunter) I put the race on community