Homebrew Vampire Species Details
Vampires are a curse and often considered terrifying from their look and thought. These beings are often races that have been bitten by another Vampire. The curse turns a kind hearted soul into a blood sucking murderer. These are beings are forced to suck blood from any living creature that either allows it or is incapacitated. They are tall or short, dark hair or dark brown hair, the traits of a normal elf could turn into a dark haired being. They tend to live to at least 1000 years, however the oldest to date known to man is 12,000, Norrix Nightgale. The creatures are often evil however some are good hearted at most.
Vampire Traits
Tall or short, black hair or dark brown hair, eyes of the dead stare back at you.Ability Score Increase
+2 to CHA, +1 to STR, +1 to any ability score based from your original race before the curse had inflicted you.
Darkvision
Darkvision: Accustomed to twilit forests and the night sky, you have superior vision in dark and dim Conditions. You can see in dim light within 60 feet of you as if it were bright light, and in Darkness as if it were dim light. You can’t discern color in Darkness, only shades of gray.
Sunlight Hypersensitivity
Due to your curse, you are naturally weak to sunlight. Upon revealing your skin to the sun, your skin will begin to simmer. During this you take 1d6 radiant damage when starting your turn in combat. Out of combat for every 30 seconds you will take the radiant damage.
Bite Attack
Because of your curse, your teeth have grown sharp fangs specifically around the k9's. Which can be used for bite attacks, when biting a creature the creature takes 1d6 piercing damage. Additionally you deal a point of necrotic damage that is based on your strength modifier. When attacking with this bite it uses your proficiency bonus plus your strength modifier. You do not add your strength modifier to the damage since its transferred into necrotic damage.
Undead
Due to your curse making you somewhat neither living or dead you have become undead. Thanks to this you gain immunity to necrotic damage, but their is a reason its called a curse. You gain weakness to radiant damage, and you must consume blood every 3 days or suffer a point of exhaustion, which eventually leads to death.
Alignment
Vampires are lawful creatures, they are most of the time evil as they kill innocent but try to respect others, acting orderly. However this is not to say some hate their curse and try to conserve how much blood they consume, either from animals or from willing people.
Features
These beings tend to range from a dwarfs height to a orc's height. They tend to be pale, due to the curse. Their hair usually turns black or a darker color from their born color. Also due to their blood curse they turn rather slim and rather light.
Age
Vampires afflicted from the curse are doomed to roam the realm for at least 1000 years along with their races maximum age. However if a vampire is powerful enough, it can choose to life for an eternity. They can still die however.