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 Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 9:42 pm
(This is actually a copy and paste of my post in the forums on a subject of the same name. I felt that you all would be far more likely to answer my questions as my topics often times go ignored in the forums, lol.)
Okay, so I happen to be a frequent player of tabletop roleplaying games (namely dungeons and dragons) and I am currently in the process of doing research for a character. The people I play with, typically try to stick close to the legends of the actual monsters used in the stories and I am doing research to make a character a monster/vampire hunter. I was hoping for help in research of certain items and objects that, in folklore and legend, contain a magical property of some kind in warding off monsters. (In particular, undead or vampires, or anything that could possibly be used as one's minions.)
To give you a general idea of what I am talking about, and what I have so far in regards to a list of items my character would need to actually fulfill this mission. Some of these are magical and some are not, but I have been comprising a list based upon what I've read seems to work well against vampires/monsters in folklore and literature:
The kit as it stands so far:
* Holy Water
* Eucharist Wafer
* Garlic
* Salts
* A crow as a pet (possibly)
* Cross or holy symbol of some kind
* Mirror
* Daggers
* Pistols (Specifically black powder, wheel lock)
* Crossbow
* Hammer
* Wooden Stakes
* Torches
* Wooden box with a cross or holy symbol upon it (to contain the smaller religious or magical accouterments)
* Bible or holy text
* Silver bullets (For the wheel lock pistols)
* Vial(s) of Acid (Not really supernatural, just a personal preference)
* Iron horseshoe with 7 nail-holes
* Wolfsbane
Okay, so that's finished with. Now, as I said before, my main aim here is to focus upon old legends and folklore regarding the creatures and I am doing research for a game. I am hoping to obtain some input from others who might know certain legends regarding the magical properties of mundane items that might ward off certain creatures (of any variety, I am trying to immerse myself in all of the knowledge I can acquire.) Any help and input is greatly appreciated.
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Posted: Sun Jun 26, 2011 9:49 pm
To give you some perspective on the matter, the setting of the game is in the early to mid 17th century. As for the character I am playing (for those who are familiar with tabletop rpgs or DND) the class is to be cleric. I wanted to portray him as sort of somewhere in between Abraham Van Helsing and Solomon Kane (with a bit of my own personality sprinked in, of course).
As for the setting itself, if you are familiar with ravenloft from AD&D it is something similar to this. If you are not, the setting is basically situated in the middle of either an alternate dimension controlled by an evil vampire (and his servants) or a distant land within the actual world that is controlled by the same.
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