NPC Blind Vampire Hunter: feedback please?

[Tragak]

Gelendeb grew up in a forestry town plagued by vampires. After being forced by a vampire to kill his own living brother, who wasn't strong enough to be raised, Gelendeb gouged out his own eyes (and had them treated somehow to avoid growing them back when given healing spells/potions) to avoid ever being Dominated again.

He prefers saps to more lethal weapons, as he has found that knocking vampires unconscious and then staking/decapitating is more reliable than injuring them close enough to death in combat that they know to escape in gaseous form (also, Fast Healing only applies to regaining lost HP, not re-losing gained non-lethal damage, right?)

Mechanics:

Human, NG, Ranger 5 / Fighter 2
Undead +4, Human +2, melee, wolf, 2 1st-level spells/day

15 DEX, 14 STR, 14 WIS, 12 CON, INT 10, 8 CHA

Feats (Human 1 + Levels 3 + Ranger 3 + Fighter 2 = 9):
Track, TWF, Endurance
Blind-Fight, Skill Focus (Listen), Power Attack, Two-Weapon Defense, Improved Initiative, Improved Favored Enemy

Skill Points: 62
Escape Artist 10 (5), Handle Animal 5, Heal 10, Knowledge Nature 5, Knowledge Religion 10 (5), Listen 10, Survival 10, ??? 2

Equipment:
Silver Sap +1 (x2 = 4042 gp) for combat
Silver Handaxe +1 (2021 gp) for coup de grace
Mithril Shirt +2 (5100 gp)
Amulet of Health + Periapt of Wisdom (+2 each) (x2 = 8000 gp)
Holy water flask (x4 = 4 lbs)

Explorer's Outfit
Bedroll
Backpack
Waterskin

[Theoboldi]

Well, the most obvious problem is of course that vampires as undead are immune to nonlethal damage, so his favorite strategy doesn't work. Also, he doesn't seem to have anything that would help him at range, so a vampire using spiderclimb to go up the walls can safely snipe him away from a distance.

Edit: Except for those flasks, but he has only 4 of those and they do very little damage, so they won't help him much.

[Karnith]

He prefers saps to more lethal weapons, as he has found that knocking vampires unconscious and then staking/decapitating is more reliable than injuring them close enough to death in combat that they know to escape in gaseous form (also, Fast Healing only applies to regaining lost HP, not re-losing gained non-lethal damage, right?)
Vampires, as undead creatures, are immune to non-lethal damage, and can't really be knocked unconscious, so this strategy won't work. Regardless, fast healing works on both lethal and non-lethal damage (and in fact heals the latter first), so this wouldn't be particularly effective against enemies with fast healing anyway.

Gelendeb also has very little in the way of mobility, so a vampire can just spider climb or gaseous form away from him.

For someone who fights vampires, he doesn't seem to have a way to deal with negative levels aside from waiting them out, which is going to be problematic if he ever needs to deal with more than one at a time.

While being blind is cool and all, if you want your vampire hunter to be immune to the dominating gaze of vampires, you could just have him take the Vampire Hunter feat from Libris Mortis, which would make him immune and let him take a move action to determine whether there are vampires/spawn within 30 feet.

Looking at his equipment, he should probably have a bunch of garlic, some mirrors, and/or holy symbols to keep him from being attacked by vampires when he isn't ready for them.

Given how low his strength is, he may also have problems not getting grappled and having his blood drained by vampires in combat.

[Tragak]

Is "noobed" an accepted verb for when somebody missed something that basic (undead are immune to non-lethal)? :smallredface: :smallredface: :smallredface: :smallredface: :smallredface:

[Callin]

nah. usually its the simple basic stuff that is overlooked. i usually mess up on the simple and get the harder stuff right because i look at it more.