Homebrew Easier Vampire Species Details

As a Vampire you gain the following traits. 

Age

Vampires reach maturity at age 25 and then stop physically aging. As long as you feed regularly, you do not age and cannot be magically aged.

Hunter's Darkvision

You have 60 ft of Darkvision. Thanks to your vampiric instincts, you can detect the body heat of living creatures. This is revealed to you through a pulsing yellow light, giving you an advantage on perception checks while trying to spot living creatures in the dark.

Light Sensitivity

As a creature of the night, vampires have disadvantage on perception checks based on sight in direct sunlight (bright light) and advantage on the same check in darkness. 

Picky Eater

You require blood to survive. 

If the creature's blood is carrying an illness or poison, you will begin to experience the side effects. You can detect a living creature's diet, possible illnesses, allergies, poison, etc from the taste of blood.

 

You can drink the blood of an animal but while your hunger will be saturated, your appetite won't be satisfied until you have drunken the blood of a humanoid. 

 

Living Donor

A living donor will result in more benefits for you. Their blood can heal you and grant performance benefits.

However, your donor will experience symptoms of blood loss (disorientation, fatigue, etc) that increase in severity the more you drink.

The size of your donor, as well as their state of health, will affect the severity of their symptoms.

Bloodlust 

 A Vampire must feed on another humanoid once per day. For how to feed, see Bite.

For everyday you do not feed you gain one level of exhaustion, which can only be removed by drinking the blood you have missed before. 

Bite 

 2d4 piercing damage + 1d8 necrotic damage

You regain hp equal to the necrotic damage. 

Easier Vampire Traits

Needs to feed on blood every day