Vampire Lord (3.5e Class)

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Vampire Lord allows you to play as a vampire from first level.

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Vampire Lord

Everyone can become a vampire, but only a few can become a Vampire Lord. Vampire Lords are vampires that try to gain complete mastery over their curse rather than ignoring it. Some of them do this because they want to break free from their vampirism, but most are just vampires obsessed with power.

Making a Vampire Lord

Vampire Lords make excellent tanks because of their immunitys, damage reduction and fast healing but they can still take down enemies relatively easy because of their Energy Drain. Vampire Lords are great if you have a cleric in your party that can channel negative energy or a necromancer. It's not a good idea to mix them up with a paladin.

Abilities: Physical stats are important, but high charisma and wisdom can help.

Races: Only humanoids and monstrous humanoids can become a Vampire Lord.

Alignment: Any Evil

Starting Gold: 4d10×10 gp

Starting Age: As rogue. Even a ten year old human can become a Vampire Lord.

Table: The Vampire Lord

Hit Die: d12

Level	Base Attack Bonus	Saving Throws			Special
		Fort	Ref	Will
1st	+1	+0	+2	+2	Vampirism, Slam, Resistances, Spider Climb, Blood Drain, Energy Drain, Bonus Feats
2nd	+2	+0	+3	+3	? Attribute Boost, Bonus Feats, Vampiric Skills
3rd	+3	+1	+3	+3	? Attribute Boost, Coffin Sanctuary, Gaseous Form, Resistances, Dominate
4th	+4	+1	+4	+4	? Attribute Boost, Alternate Form, Vampire's Hide, Vampire Skills?
5th	+5	+1	+4	+4	?
6th	+6/+1	+2	+5	+5	?
7th	+7/+2	+2	+5	+5	?
8th	+8/+3	+2	+6	+6	?
9th	+9/+4	+3	+6	+6	?
10th	+10/+5	+3	+7	+7	??
11th	+11/+6/+1	+3	+7	+7	?
12th	+12/+7/+2	+4	+8	+8	?
13th	+13/+8/+3	+4	+8	+8	?
14th	+14/+9/+4	+4	+9	+9	?
15th	+15/+10/+5	+5	+9	+9	??
16th	+16/+11/+6/+1	+5	+10	+10	?
17th	+17/+12/+7/+2	+5	+10	+10	?
18th	+18/+13/+8/+3	+6	+11	+11	?
19th	+19/+14/+9/+4	+6	+11	+11	?
20th	+20/+15/+10/+5	+6	+12	+12	?
Class Skills (8 + Int modifier per level, ×4 at 1st level) Appraise? (), Balance (Dex), Bluff (Cha), Climb (Str), Craft (Int), Decipher Script (Int), Diplomacy (Cha), Disable Device (Int), Disguise (Cha), Escape Artist (Dex), Forgery (Int), Gather Information (Cha), Hide (Dex), Intimidate (Cha), Jump (Str), Knowledge (Int), Listen (Wis), Move Silently (Dex), Open Lock (Dex), Search (Int), Sense Motive (Wis), Sleight of Hand (Dex), Speak Language (None), Spot (Wis), Tumble (Dex), Use Magic Device (Cha), Use Rope (Dex).

Class Features

All of the following are class features of the Vampire Lord.

Weapon and Armor Proficiency: A Vampire Lord is proficient with all weapons and with all armor (heavy, medium, and light) and shields (including tower shields).

Vampirism: Your character becomes undead and gains vampire template. Since this class aims to make vampires playable your character doesn't gain any of its bonuses but, gains all of the weaknesses being a vampire gives.

Slam: Vampire Lord retains all the attacks of the base creature and also gains a slam attack that deals 1d6 damage (Medium-size) if it didn't already have one.

Resistance (Ex): At 1st level, Vampire Lord gains cold resistance 5 and electricity resistance 5. When he reaches 3rd level, each of these resistances increases to 10.

Spider Climb (Ex): A Vampire Lord can climb sheer surfaces as though with a spider climb spell.

Blood Drain (Ex): A Vampire Lord can suck blood from a living victim with its fangs by making a successful grapple check. If it pins the foe, it drains blood, inflicting 1d4 points of permanent Constitution drain each round the pin is maintained.

Energy Drain (Su): Living creatures hit by Vampire Lord's slam attack suffer 1 negative level. At eighth level and every fourth level after that negative levels bestowed increase by one.

Bonus Feats: At level one Vampire Lord gains Alertness and Dodge even he if doesn't meet the prerequisites. At level two Vampire Lord gains Improved Initiative, Lightning Reflexes even if he doesn't meet the prerequisites.

Attribute Boost: At second level Vampire Lord gains +2 bonus to strength. At third level Vampire Lord gains +2 bonus to charisma and +2 bonus to dexterity. At fourth level Vampire Lord gains +2 bonus to strength.

Vampiric Skills: At 2nd level, a Vampire Lord gains a +2 racial bonus on Bluff, Hide, Listen, Move Silently, Search, Sense Motive, and Spot checks. This bonus increases to +4 at 4th level, to +6 at 6th level, and to +8 at 8th level.

Coffin Sanctuary (Ex): If reduced to 0 hit points or lower, a Vampire Lord automatically assumes gaseous form and attempts to escape. It must reach its coffin home within 2 hours or be utterly destroyed. (It can travel up to nine miles in 2 hours.) Once at rest in its coffin, it rises to 1 hit point after 1 hour, then resumes healing at the rate of 5 hit points per round.

Gaseous Form (Su):' As a standard action, Vampire Lord can assume gaseous form at will, as the spell cast by a 5th-level sorcerer, but can remain gaseous indefinitely and has a fly speed of 20 feet with perfect maneuverability.

Dominate (Su): Vampire Lord can crush an opponent's will just by looking onto his other eyes. This is similar to a gaze attack, except that the vampire must take a standard action, and those merely looking at it are not affected. Anyone the vampire targets must succeed at a Will save or fall instantly under Vampire Lord's influence as though by a dominate person spell cast by a 12th-level sorcerer. The ability has a range of 30 feet.

Alternate Form (Su): Vampire Lord can assume the shape of a bat, dire bar, wolf, or dire wolf as a standard action. This ability is similar to a polymorph self spell cast by a 12th-level sorcerer, except that Vampire Lord can assume only one of the forms listed here. It can remain in that form until it assumes another or until the next sunrise.

Vampire's Hide: Vampire Lord gains natural armor +2 at fourth level.

Ex-Vampire Lord

If a Vampire Lord somehow manages to break free from the curse of vampirism, he exchanges all of his Vampire Lord levels with another class.

Epic Vampire Lord

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