Vampires in Ravnica?

[Citadel97501]

Hello all, I was just wondering if anyone has any suggestions for playing one of the two subspecies of playable vampire races in the 5e books? Currently I know there are playable vampire races in the Plane Shift: Zendikar & Plane Shift: Ixalan books. I am thinking of playing a a member of the Dimir clan due to the Moroi vampires from the fluff but I was hoping some suggestions from you all?

I know I am interested in playing a caster class, and am going to avoid the ridiculous armor class of 20. I have been aggravating my DM with lately, 20 AC has just been excessive, and he is rightly getting irritated with how often he has trouble hitting the party.

[furby076]

20 ac is excessive? what level? my paladin had 22 ac (not the entire party, just him) so he was harder to hit, but not excessively harder. If he got surrounded by 3 orc barbrians, each with 2 attacks...well, 6 attacks and some will hit and take him down. Then there is spell casting. Then the DM can give some boosts to his NPCs (increase their reward worth too).

[Citadel97501]

The issue is that out of 3 players, 2 of us had AC 20 at level 5, and the other guy only had a 14. So if the DM used things that could hit us, they kersplat the other guy.

[Daithi]

I have friend that played a "vampire". She was actually a feral/variant tiefling as described in the Sword Coast Adventure Guide. Technically she was a tiefling, but most respects she played a vampire. Appearance wise she had milk white skin, fangs, no shadow, and cast no reflection. She was an Enchantress and the spells she took were the "vampire" spells --- gaseous form, polymorph, vampiric touch, fear, charm, etc.