In the Dark of the Night...

But first, on earth as vampire sent,
Thy corpse shall from its tomb be rent,
Then ghastly haunt thy native place,
And suck the blood of all thy race;
There from thy daughter, sister, wife,
At midnight drain the stream of life;
Yet loathe the banquet which perforce
Must feed thy livid living corpse.- Lord Byron, The Giaour

Vampiric Origins

Vampires have existed for hundreds of years, maybe even thousands. They have many locales and stories, and very few vampires are exactly alike (unless they've been roommates for hundreds of years). In addition to your Background, consider the following tables to help flesh out your fledgling Vampire.

DM Note: Multiclassing into this Class

There are many reasons a character would like to become undead; never aging, a wide variety of abilities, supernatural powers. But it is not a task that should be undertaken lightly. The class presented in this book is meant to fulfill a function I, the creator, felt was lacking in the current RPG landscape; the ability to play a vampire on an equal playing field to a monster. Therefore, the act of becoming a vampire should have the appropriate weight and reverence behind it. The character is giving up their mortality in order to become what many view as a monster. Rituals, curses, blood rites, all are methods of becoming a vampire; the one thing your character should not do, however, is be able to pass on the curse through a single Bite. This should be arranged between You and your DM. I have left methods of creating Spawn as a Blood feature later in the class description, but if you wish to save the life of a friend via your curse, consider the Dhampir lineage as an alternative, otherwise you may find your fellow adventurers as dead as you are!

Sanguinare Vampiris

When you select this class at 1st level, you count as an Undead creature for all spells and abilities that affect or detect the undead. You do not need to eat or breathe and you do not age. Under the influence of Vampirism, you have the following effects:

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Weaknesses:

• If you are hit in the heart by a weapon that deals piercing damage, you are paralyzed until it is removed. Your heart has an Armor Class equal to your AC + your Constitution modifier. If an attack misses your heart, it deals no damage to you. While you are paralyzed in this way, you have resistance to all damage except psychic.
• If you end your turn in running water, you take acid damage equal to your level. This cannot be reduced in any way.
• You may only cross the threshold of a home if you are invited in by a resident.
• You find natural bright sunlight painful. While in direct Sunlight or until the end of your turn after taking radiant damage, you have disadvantage on attacks and Wisdom (Perception) checks. You gain a level of exhaustion for each hour you spend in bright sunlight. You cannot gain more than 4 points of exhaustion in this way. Staying in dim light or darkness for 2 hours can remove additional levels of exhaustion above 1 gained in this way.

Blood Pool

Starting at 1st level, you have a pool of Blood Points that you may sacrifice to fuel your Vampiric Powers. Your Vampire level determines the number of points you have, as shown in the Blood Pool Points column of the Vampire table. You can spend these points to fuel various vampiric features.

Choose 1 feature from those listed and for which you fulfill the requirements. When you finish a long rest, you may swap one feature you have chosen for another that is available to you. This represents you honing your vampiric abilities to focus on certain areas. You may spend Blood points to use those features as directed. You learn an additional Blood Pool Feature at 2nd, 6th, 9th, 12th, 15th , and 18th levels. The level prerequisite refers to Vampire level, not character level.

Unless otherwise noted in the Feature Description, spending BP is an action on your turn. If the cost of the Feature is 0, it is a passive feature that is always in use. When you use a BP feature, you can spend up to your Proficiency Modifier in BP, where specified. At 10th level, you gain 1 additional Blood Point while Feeding. This bonus increases to 2 at 15th level.

You do not recover Blood Points after a short or long rest; you only recover them by Feeding or using your Bite attack.

Feeding Rules

You can take a minute outside of combat to
Feed on a willing, charmed, or incapacitated
creature that isn't an Undead or Construct. When
you Feed in this way, the creature takes no damage,
but instead loses Hit Dice without rolling them.
You recover a Blood Point for each Hit Die lost in
this way; humanoids restore twice as much Blood
Points. When you feed on incapacitated or otherwise unwilling targets, you choose the number of hit dice lost
in this manner; willing creatures determine the Hit Dice.

When you Feed on a creature, you regain hit points equal to your Vampire level plus one roll of the creature's hit die.
In addition, you also regain a number of hit points equal to your Constitution modifier (Minimum 1) for every hit die the creature lost when you Fed on it.

At the end of each day, you lose one Blood Point if you have not consumed blood in the last 24 hours. If you have zero Blood Points, you instead must make a Wisdom save (DC = 10 + the number of days since you last consumed Blood) or enter a feral rage for 1 hour. While you are in this state, you must attempt to attack and drain any living creature you can find.

If you stay in your trance for longer than 24 hours, you instead lose Blood Points at a rate of one per week. This interval becomes one month at level 10, and one year at level 20. If you leave your trance after staying in it for longer than 24 hours, but have not completed at least one full interval, you lose one Blood Point immediately, with the normal consequences if you have none remaining.

Title

At 3rd level, you choose a Title to claim. You can choose between The Beastial, The Impaler, The Mystical, or The Refined. This title grants you features at 3rd level and again at 7th, 11th and 17th.

Ability Score Improvement

When you reach 4th level, and again at 8th, 12th, 16th, and 19th level, you can increase one ability score of your choice by 2, or you can increase two ability scores of your choice by 1. As normal, you can’t increase an ability score above 20 using this feature. Using the optional feats rule, you can forgo taking this feature to take a feat of your choice instead.

Extra Attack

At 5th level, when you take the Attack action on your turn, you can Attack twice instead of once.

Sanguine Talons

Starting at 6th level, your unarmed strikes, including your Bite, count as magical for the purpose of overcoming resistance and immunity to non-magical attacks and damage.

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Detect Life

At 10th level, you may spend a Blood Point as an action to focus your will across the nearby domain for 1 minute. During this time, you can sense the location of all of the creatures of a particular type within 1 mile of you, choosing from the following list: Beast, Celestial, Dragon, Fey, Fiend, Giant, or Humanoid;. You can spend additional Blood Points to expand the type of creatures you can detect, to a maximum equal to your Charisma Modifier.

As an action, you can detect all Undead within the same range, without spending a Blood point.

Unearthly Will

At 13th level, your vampiric will is stronger than most mortals can comprehend. You gain proficiency in Wisdom saving throws and you have advantage on saving throws against being Frightened or Charmed. In addition, you are immune to effects that would Turn Undead.

Additionally, when you consume blood from a target with Spell Slots and/or the Innate Spellcasting trait, you have resistance to magical damage dealt by that targets' spells (not magical weapons they wield), and advantage on spells that require you to make a saving throw cast by that target.

Night Cloak

At 14th level, you can summon bats to shield and hide you. As a bonus action, you can spend 4 Blood Points to summon a swarm of bats from the darkest reaches of the night. These bats grant you temporary hit points equal to twice your level plus your Charisma modifier. While you have these temporary hit points, all attacks have disadvantage against you, and you gain a plus 10 bonus to Stealth checks.

Once you use this feature, you cannot use it again until you finish a short or long rest.

Undaunted Shadowalker

At 18th level, your connection with the Shadowfell draws darkness towards you. During your long rest, the area around you for five miles begins to become overcast, as if you had cast Control Weather. A deep gloom settles over the land, and all outside light is dim, allowing you to walk freely during the day without gaining any levels of exhaustion. If you leave this 5 mile area, the gloom and clouds disperse after 3 hours and the sunlight returns.

Vampire Lord

At 20th level, you gain the ability to unleash your full power as a Master Vampire upon your foes. Your Strength, Dexterity and Constitution scores increase by 4, to a maximum of 20 if they are not already higher.

Once per day as an action, you gain the following benefits for 1 minute:

• You gain a flying speed of 60 ft.
• You regain 10 hit points at the start of each turn, provided that you have at least 1 hit point. If you take Radiant damage, this trait does not function until the start of your next turn.
• Your unarmed strikes (including your bite) deal an additional d8 necrotic damage.
• As a bonus action on each of your turns, you may choose one creature within 60 feet of you. That creature must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or be charmed by you until this effect ends. A charmed creature will regard you as a friend and do its best not to harm you or your allies. If you or your companions deal damage to that creature, it can repeat the saving throw, ending the effect on a success. If someone attempts to use Greater Restoration or similar magic to cure the charmed effect, they must roll a spellcasting ability check against your Blood Point DC. If they succeed, the charmed effect ends and that creature is immune to all your attempts to charm them for 24 hours.

The Beastial

The Beastial
Blood Features:

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The Impaler
Blood Features:

The Mystical

The Mystical Blood Features

Hemorrhagic Casting

At 3rd Level, you regain an extra Blood Point when you feed on sleeping, Charmed, or willing Humaniod targets. This increases to 2 at 7th level, 3 at 11th level, and 4 at 17th level.

When you cast a damage dealing Cantrip, the spell deals additional Damage equal to your Charisma Modifier.

Royal Lineage

At 7th level, you have an additional 5 Blood Points. This increases to 10 at 14th level for a total of 30 BP at 20th level.

You gain the Beguiling Gaze Blood Pool feature if you do not have it. This feature does not count against your total Blood Features.

Phantom Fangs

At 11th level, if a creature you can see is Charmed by you, or not at its' maximum Hit Points, you can make your Bite attack as a Ranged Spell attack against that creature from up to 30 feet away. You regain Blood Points and Hit Points as normal.

Blood of Lazarus

At 17th level, once per day, when you drop to 0 Hit Points, you can revive yourself with half your total Hit Points. When you do this, you lose all your remaining Blood Points, and cannot regain any until the end of your next turn. Once you use this feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

The Refined
Blood Features:

The Refined Spell List

Decompose

Necromany Cantrip

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: Touch
• Components: V, S
• Duration: 1 minute
• Spell Lists: Cleric

You reach out and touch the corpse of a creature. Over the next minute, the corpse begins to rapidly decompose, sprouting fungus and moss as it begins to degrade into compost and mulch. An odd-colored flower or two may also spring from the corpse in this time. Applicable requirements for resurrection are unaffected by this decomposition.

Grave Scythe

Necromancy Cantrip

• Casting Time: 1 action
• Range: 5 feet
• Components: S
• Duration: Instantaneous
• Spell Lists Cleric, Warlock, Sorcerer, Wizard

You conjure a spectral scythe made of ghostly green energy and swipe out at a creature within range. Make a melee spell attack against the creature to harvest their essence. On a hit, the target takes 1d10 necrotic damage, and you gain a number of temporary hit points equal to your Proficiency Bonus, which last until the beginning of your next turn.

At Higher Levels: This spell’s damage increases by 1d10 when you reach 5th level (2d10), 11th level (3d10), and 17th level (4d10).

Dispersal

1st level transmutation

• Casting Time: 1 reaction, which you take in response to being targeted by an attack by a creature within 60 feet of you that you can see
• Range: Self
• Components: V, S
• Duration: Instantaneous
• Spell Lists: Druid, Ranger, Warlock

You attempt to avoid an attack by transforming into a mass of small or tiny creatures, such as crows or snakes, for a few moments.

After you cast this spell, the triggering attack has disadvantage. If the attack misses, you may teleport to an unoccupied space that you can see within 15 feet of you, where you reform from the mass of creatures.

Bloodthirsty

Prerequisites: Hemorrhaging Claws, 9th Level
Blood Cost: 1

By spending a Blood Point as part of your action when you make an unarmed attack against a target that has been damaged by your Hemorrhaging Claws feature, you can make the attack with advantage. You spend this BP each time you make this part of your attack action.

Booster-Shot

Prerequisites: 3rd level
Blood Cost: Varies

You can use a bonus action and spend Blood Points to infuse a companion with some of your undead ichor. When you do so, choose a friendly creature who can see or hear you. That creature gains temporary hit points equal to the Blood Points spent + your Charisma modifier.

Children of the Night

Prerequisites: 3rd Level
Blood Cost: 1-5

You can use your Blood to summon a number of animals to you. You spend Blood Points equal to the number of animals or swarms you are trying to summon (Maximum of 5). You can summon swarms of bats, rats or ravens, or a wolf. You may spend a bonus action on each of your turns to command any animals or swarms you have summoned with this feature; if you command more than one, you must give them all the same command. You may either choose what the creatures will do on their next turn, or give a general command. The called creatures act as allies and obey your spoken commands to the best of their ability. The beasts remain for 1 hour, until you die or are knocked unconscious, or until you dismiss them as a bonus action.

Create Spawn

Prerequisites: 15th Level, Create Thrall
Blood Cost: 0

Once per week, when you kill a humanoid with your bite attack, you can bury the body. The following night, the body rises up as a Vampire Spawn under your control.

Your Vampire Spawn counts for your total number of Thralls. You can free a Vampire Spawn to create a full Vampire by feeding them some of your Blood. The newly created Vampire is under no obligation to serve you, but will attempt to assist you as best it can if properly motivated.

In order to create a Spawn, you must maintain this feature for the entire process.

Create Thrall

Prerequisites: 9th Level
Blood Cost: Varies

You attempt to control the mind and actions of a Humanoid target using your Blood. You spend a number of Blood Points equal to the CR of the target you are trying to control, to a maximum of your current level (minimum 1). If the creature consumes your Blood, it must succeed on a Wisdom saving throw or become charmed by you for the duration. On a failed save, the charmed target regards you as a trusted friend to be heeded and protected.

Although the target isn't under your direct control, it takes your requests or actions in the most favorable way it can. You can issue any command you choose, short of an activity that would result in certain death. Should you issue a suicidal command, the control ends. Your Thrall is a willing target for your Bite attack. You do not have to spend BP on Draining Bite against your Thralls. The effect lasts 24 hours, until you are killed or knocked unconscious, are on a different plane of existence than the target, or you take a bonus action to end the effect. A remove curse, greater restoration, or wish spell also ends it.

As long as you are on the same plane of existence as a Thrall, you can telepathically send them commands from up to 10 miles away. If you leave this range, the Thrall continues to act normally and awaits your return until the effect wears off, having only a hazy memory of who you are and what happened to them.

You can expend Blood Points to increase the duration against a lower CR target; the duration increases to 10 days with 3 BP, to 30 days with 6 BP, to 180 days with 9 BP, to a year and a day with 12 BP, and it becomes permanent with 18 BP and can only be removed by the spells named above.

You may only Create one Thrall at a time. When the previous one expires or is killed, you may create a new one. If you permanently create a new Thrall, you may create a new one. You may have a maximum number of Thralls equal to your Charisma Modifier.

Creepy Crawler

Prerequisites: None
Blood Cost: 0

You can climb difficult surfaces, including upside down on ceilings, without needing to make an ability check.

Draining Bite

Prerequisites: None
Blood Cost: 2

Immediately after you take the Attack action to deliver an unarmed strike on your turn, you can spend 2 Blood points to Bite the target as a bonus action, regardless of the normal restrictions of your Bite attack.

Echolocation

Prerequisites: None
Blood Cost: 2

By spending Blood Points as an action, you gain Blindsight and Tremorsense for 30 feet for 1 minute. You cannot detect creatures behind full cover with this Blindsight

Fearful Aura

Prerequisites: 10th Level
Blood Cost: 2

You spend these BP as a bonus action. For one minute after you spend these BP, creatures that enter into a 10 foot radius around you for the first time make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, they are frightened until the start of their next turn. On a success or after this effect ends, they are immune to this fear effect for 24 hours.

Frightening Strike

Prerequisites: 7th level
Blood Cost: Varies

When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, you can spend Blood Points to attempt to frighten the target. You add the Blood Points spent to the attack’s damage roll, and the target must make a Wisdom saving throw. On a failed save, it is frightened of you until the end of your next turn.

Greater Blood Magic

Prerequisites: 7th level, Blood Magic
Blood Cost: 5

You may prepare a 3rd level Enchantment, Illusion or Necromancy spell when you finish a long rest. Casting this spell costs 5 Blood points. You may take this Feature multiple times to prepare multiple spells.

Hemophillia

Prerequisites: None
Blood Cost: 0

Whenever you spend Blood Points, you recover 1 Hit Point. This does not stack with the amount of BP spent.

Hemorrhaging Claws

Prerequisites: 7th level
Blood Cost: 2

When you make an unarmed attack, you can spend your Blood Points as part of your attack action to have the target make a Constitution saving throw at the start of their turn. On a failed save, the target takes Necrotic damage equal to your Charisma Modifier at the end of each of their next turns for one minute.

Healing Saliva

Prerequisites: 3rd level
Blood Cost: 0-1

Your vampire saliva heals non-undead creatures, ensuring you can feed from them later. You can take an action to lick a wound; the creature gains 1d4 + your Charisma Modifer in Temporary Hit Points. By spending a Blood Point, you can convert those into regular Hit Points. You can do this a number of times equal to your Charisma modifier. Once you have used all uses of this Blood Pool feature, you can't use it again until you finish a long rest.

Knock Off

Prerequisites: 5th level
Blood Cost: Varies

When you hit a creature with an attack, you can spend Blood Points to attempt to disarm the target, forcing it to drop one item of your choice that it’s holding. You add the Blood Points spent to the attack’s damage roll, and the target must make a Strength saving throw. On a failed save, it drops the object you choose. The object lands at its feet.

Misty Escape

Prerequisites: 3rd level
Blood Cost: 2

When you are targeted by an attack from a creature that you can see, you can use your reaction to turn into mist, gaining resistance to the attack's damage and teleporting away to an unoccupied space that you can see up to 30 feet from you. You may also use this ability as a bonus action, but you gain no resistance to damage.

Mist Form

Prerequisites: 5th level, Misty Escape
Blood Cost: 2

You can use an action to turn into a Medium Mist by spending 2 Blood Points. While in Mist form, you can't take any Actions, speak, or manipulate Objects. You are weightless, you gain a flying speed of 20 feet, can hover, and can enter a Hostile creature's space and stop there. In addition, if air can pass through a space, you can do so without squeezing, and you cannot pass through water. You have advantage on Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution Saving Throws, and are reisitance to all nonmagical damage, except radiant damage.

Necrology

Prerequisites: None
Blood Cost: 0

You are immune to disease, poison, and the poisoned condition.

Nightstalker

Prerequisites: None
Blood Cost: 2

You can spend your Blood points to gain advantage on Dexterity (Stealth) checks for 1 hour.

Nimble Movement

Prerequisites: None
Blood Cost: 2

You spend these Blood Points as a Bonus Action; you can take the Dash, Disengage, or Dodge action as part of this Bonus Action on your turn after you spend these Blood Points.

Parry

Prerequisites: 5th level
Blood Cost: Varies

When another creature damages you with a melee attack, you can use your reaction and spend Blood Points to reduce the damage by the number of Blood Points spent + your Dexterity modifier.

Riposte

Prerequisites:
Blood Cost: Varies

When a creature misses you with a melee attack, you can use your reaction and spend Blood Points to make a Claw attack against the creature. If you hit, you add the Blood Points to the attack’s damage roll.

Sanguine Shield

Prerequisites: 3rd level
Blood Cost: 2

As a reaction to an attack, you may expend 2 or more Blood Points, up to your proficiency bonus. You gain a bonus to your AC equal to the number of Blood Points spent until the beginning of your next turn, including against the triggering attack.

Shapechanger

Prerequisites: 9th level
Blood Cost: 1

As an action, you can transform into a Tiny Bat or a Medium Wolf. While in bat form, you can't speak, your walking speed is 5 feet, and you have a flying speed of 30 feet. In wolf form, your speed is 40 ft, and you can't speak. Your statistics, other than size and speed, are unchanged. Anything you are wearing transforms with it, but nothing you are carrying does. You revert to your true form if you die.

Shoving Attack

Prerequisites: None.
Blood Cost: Varies

When you hit a creature with an attack, you can spend Blood Points to attempt to drive the target back. You add the Blood Points spent to the attack’s damage roll, and if the target is Large or smaller, it must make a Strength saving throw. On a failed save, you push the target up to 15 feet away from you.

Sparkly

Prerequisites: 6th level
Blood Cost: 2

You grow a strange covering over your skin that glitters in light. For each hour you spend in sunlight, you must spend Blood points to force yourself to resist the effects of sunlight. Each time you spend these Blood points, you sparkle dramatically for 1 minute, gaining disadvantage on Stealth checks.

Spies in the Night

Prerequisites: None
Blood Cost: 1

Once per short rest, you summon a Bat. Bats summoned by this feature can telepathically communicate with you and share their visual or auditory senses while they are within 1 mile of you. If you summon another Bat, the previous one vanishes.

Summon Gargoyle

Prerequisites: 7th Level
Blood Cost: 2

Once per long rest, by spending 2 Blood Points, you can summon a Gargoyle to fight for you. The Gargoyle is friendly to you and your companions for the Duration. Roll Initiative for the Gargoyle, which has its own turns. It obeys any verbal commands that you issue to it (no action required by you). If you don't issue any commands to the Gargoyle, it defends itself from Hostile creatures but otherwise takes no Actions. The Gargoyle disappears after 1 hour or if you dismiss it early.

Summon Servant

Prerequisites: 5th Level
Blood Cost: 1-5

You can animate an undead servant as an action. Select a pile of humanoid bones or a humanoid corpse within 10 feet, and spend a Blood Point; it becomes either a skeleton if you chose a pile of bones, or a zombie if you chose a corpse. The undead remains animate for up to one hour. At the end of this hour, you may spend a Blood Point as an action to reassert control of it; otherwise, it reverts to an inanimate corpse.

You may spend a bonus action on each of your turns to mentally command any undead you have created with this feature within 60 feet; if you command more than one, you must give them all the same command. You may either choose what the undead will do on their next turn, or give a general command, such as guarding a particular area. Once given a command, the undead will follow it until it has been completed.

An undead with no given command will do nothing but defend itself against hostile creatures. Starting at 11th level, you may select up to 3 corpses, spending 3 Blood Points to animate them all simultaneously. You may also choose to animate any of these corpses as ghouls rather than skeletons or zombies; it costs 3 Blood Points to reassert control over up to 3 ghouls, and you increase the number of zombies or skeletons you can reassert control over with a single Blood Point to 3. Additionally, at this level, you can instead spend 3 Blood Points to convert a single corpse that died within the last minute into a Vampiric Mist; this consumes the corpse. A Vampiric Mist remains under your control for only 1 minute before permanently dissolving, and this duration cannot be extended.

When you reach 15th level, you may spend 5 Blood Points to select up to 5 corpses when animating zombies, skeletons, or ghouls. You may instead animate only two corpses for the same cost in order to animate them as ghasts or wights. It costs 5 Blood Points to reassert control over up to 2 ghasts or wights; at this level, you may also reassert control over up to 5 skeletons or zombies using a single Blood Point, or up to 5 ghouls for 3 Blood Points.

Supernatural Reflexes

Prerequisites: 7th Level
Blood Cost: 1

Your vampiric agility lets you dodge out of the way of certain area effects, such as a blue dragon's lightning breath or a fireball spell. When you are subjected to an effect that allows you to make a Dexterity saving throw to take only half damage, you can spend a Blood point as a reaction and instead take no damage if you succeed on the saving throw, and only half damage if you fail. This point may be spent after you roll, but before the effects of that roll take place.

Supernatural Resilience

Prerequisites: 9th Level
Blood Cost: 0

Your vampiric curse strengthens your physical prowess. You gain resistance to bludgeoning, piercing and slashing from non-magical attacks.

Temporary Servant

Prerequisites: 7th level
Blood Cost: 3

When you drop a creature to zero Hit Points, you can spend Blood Points to temporarily gain control of its corpse. Choose a target that you can see. The corpse rises up, walks up to its movement speed to a space within attack range of the target, and makes a single attack from one of its available actions, after which it drops back down on the ground, lifeless once more.

Transfusion

Prerequisites: 6th Level
Blood Cost: 1

As a bonus action, you can spend a Blood Point to roll one of your Hit Dice and recover Hit Points as if you had rolled it during a short rest.

Undead Fortitude

Prerequisites: 11th Level
Blood Cost: 1

When you are reduced to 0 hit points, you can expend 1 Blood Point (no action required) to have 1 hit point instead.

Vampiric Agility

Prerequisites: None
Blood Cost: 0

Your long jump is up to 25 feet and your high jump is up to 15 feet, with or without a running start. Your Base speed increases by 10 feet.