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Okay, I am trying to get my dear vampire approved after the reset now. I have done a heavy overhaul of his profile. I've changed the name, sorry if Vincent appears anywhere, added in lots of description. Completely remade the history, stripped him of the evidentally disliked anti-sunlight bracelets, expanded on the weapon he has, detailed his class and racial abilities. And to add to his weaknesses without actually listing it I have not listed any feats. This is on purpose because a drow vampire monk with all of his natural abilities and a host of feats would be far too strong, as a part of that I have only supplied him with two magical items: his quarterstaff and ring. I assume that Malar and the Lolth (plus Selvetarm) have no real disputes and his mixed faith is not a real problem. Please Review!!!

Ah, I see.
Modified history slightly, split faith is now with Lolth and Malar. Chose to do this to avoid rewriting a portion of his history that I enjoyed creating. Added how he obtained Defiler, and listed a feeding slave.
Side question: Are all of the faithful of Selvetarm called the Selvetargtlin (I believe I spelled that correctly) or is that reserved for a specific portion of his worshippers?

Okay then. Modified split faith to be only to Lolth, changed history to change how the malarites died, and the cause behind their deaths being more drow like.

Ah, thank you for clarifying that matter.

I've been hoping Mr. Lapus would come and check on this one again since he had previously rated.

I haven't yet take a close enough look at all of the details, but if no mods come for 2nd approval in the next day or two I will give it a serious look and give it my stamp if all checks out.

Sorry about the delay on this Chem.

I do believe you have two approvals....check Quenthal's post on the first page. I may be wrong but by my count thats 2 approves.

Actually, Quen's approval was from when the character was in its original form (before the updated approval criteria) and has been altered significantly since then.

The only thing I question is the number of potential controlled vampire minions being 34 and those minions' 2nd generation spawns being unlimited.

While this might actually be in line with Libris Mortis or other D&D sources (I am not that familiar with vampire rules myself), it seems kind of unbalancing. Still, I will approve it with the understanding that the more minions your character ends up mastering, the more difficult it will be to maintain strict control over them such that one or more may inadvertantly break loose of their allegiance and possibly even turn on their master. If you want to argue this point, I'm open to discussion on it, but you can go ahead and use your character as approved even so because it's really just a hypothetical issue until that many minions end up being created.

So, after that mouthful, yes, [APPROVED]

But, be willing to cooperate on the minion issue if crew decide to hassle you about it. smile

(oh, one more unimportant thing... the monk abilities of resisting poison and disease seem kind of humorous given that this is basically a walking corpse we're talking about hehe, no need to change but just wanted to point that out)

I just realized something though... if he can command 32 immediate generation spawn, then that means in D&D terms he's got 16 d12 hit dice. This means, he's a level 16 monk... if you add +8 level adjustment for vampire template (if I recall right, I could be slightly off on the adjustment), this adds to ECL 24. Holy crap, he's tougher than a demon lord avatar!

Because it's you Chem, I figure you can handle it... but I personally wish that people would get in the habit of making ECL 5 characters as a standard, and if they have some reason, like making a boss character, I can only then see justifying even an ECL 12 or 13 at most.

Again, yours is legit because you can obviously handle it, but I want to encourage others not to follow this example. pirate