1001 vampire or other undead slaying tips.

[Duke Malagigi]

Any undead slaying tips or tricks you can think of can be posted here. But first my tips on slaying vampires.

1. This is for fighting vampires only. Take a bag of holding and start filling it with large quantities of small pebbles, grain, rice or any thing else incredibly small. When you face the vampire or a group of vampires throw the bag of holding at one of the vampires, as long as he or she has a bladed weapon. If you're lucky, the vampire will try to stop the bog of holding by swinging his or her sword/other blade. If all goes according to plan the vampires will spend their time counting individual pebbles or what ever other contents of the bag instead of attacking you or innocent bystanders giving you ample opportunity to slay them without much of a fight. Just make sure you have a dedicated bag of holding with the words "against vampires only" stitched on it.

How does this work? According to some Romanian folk lore vampires have an instinctive drive to count large quantities of small objects and other symptoms of obsessive compulsive disorder. Talk about unholy compulsions. :D Also if you rupture a bag of holding from the outside, all of its contents spill out instead of being lost.

2. Rearrange the vampire's belongings. See, when someone becomes a vampire his or her very soul is warped and twisted causing descent into evil and mental illness. And to be more specific, obsessive compulsive disorder.

[Renx]

2. Rearrange the vampire's belongings. See, when someone becomes a vampire his or her very soul is warped and twisted causing descent into evil and mental illness. And to be more specific, obsessive compulsive disorder.

Well, um... wouldn't this only result in the vampire falling into an inarticulate rage? Resulting in a low-level party-wipe?

[Cogwheel]

3 - Always bring a Small Thermonuclear Device, it helps. Failing that, bring a cleric, it has pretty much the same effect either way.

[Kyle]

4.

Portable Hole - 20,000 gold pieces
16,909 Flasks of Holy Water - 422,725 gold pieces
Bullrushing a vampire into a portable hole filled with holy water and closing the top - Priceless.

[Nerd-o-rama]

Bleach your hair. Vampires can't resist blondes (of either gender), and they'll be hopelessly distracted.

[Jarlax]

5. bring a bludgeoning weapon, the number of times PCs in my campaigns have been overpowered by skeletons because they didn't add a club to their inventory is staggering. it doesn't even cost anything!!

[Kurald Galain]

Garlic.

Eat it, wear it, bathe in it.

Vampires won't be able to stand you. Then again, neither will anybody else, but that's a small price to pay to avoid being bitten.

[SpikeFightwicky]

How does this work? According to some Romanian folk lore vampires have an instinctive drive to count large quantities of small objects and other symptoms of obsessive compulsive disorder. Talk about unholy compulsions. :D Also if you rupture a bag of holding from the outside, all of its contents spill out instead of being lost.

This also happened in a very memorable episode of the X-Files

7. Cover up one of your party member's faces, let the vampire bite her, then reveal that the party member he just bit was Mialee. The vampire will likely kill himself.

8. Keep a backup shield that has a polished mirror on its front. Should help keep the vampire at bay.

[Afraidofsharpie]

9. Be a Cleric
9a. For added affect specialize against the undead.

[Falconer]

If you're a spellcaster, try to get the spells Command Undead or Control Undead.

I'm no expert on D&D, so I'm not sure how well either would work against vampires, but just a thought.

The ironic thing is that I was watching the black-and-white version of Dracula just last night, so you may want to try wolfsbane as well.

[Kiroho]

Make sure your party names are Buffy, Willow, and Xander. A mentor named Giles is just gravy.

[blackspeeker]

4.

Portable Hole - 20,000 gold pieces
16,909 Flasks of Holy Water - 422,725 gold pieces
Bullrushing a vampire into a portable hole filled with holy water and closing the top - Priceless.

How long would a party need to play to aquire that much wealth, becausse thats my next longterm party goal.

[de-trick]

find wildroses and touch the vampire with it fort or die

[kemmotar]

10-when all else fails...throw potions of cure X at the vampire...especially if you cant bypass his DR with your weapos!!Tried and true technique...though a healing domain cleric would do a quicker job of him

P.S. works against all undead...even multiple undead(maximized, empowered mass cure critical wounds )

[psychoticbarber]

11. Give it a Fenix Down.
11a. After it sits there, confused, beat its head in with a club and stab it through the heart with any wooden object. It should explode into dust.

[daggaz]

How does this work? According to some Romanian folk lore vampires have an instinctive drive to count large quantities of small objects and other symptoms of obsessive compulsive disorder. Talk about unholy compulsions. .

I believe "Sesame Street" predates Romania by a good 700 years..

[Mr. Moogle]

4.

Portable Hole - 20,000 gold pieces
16,909 Flasks of Holy Water - 422,725 gold pieces
Bullrushing a vampire into a portable hole filled with holy water and closing the top - Priceless.

Or fill a 'hole with water diverted from a river and have your cleric cast bless water 16,909 times .

[jjpickar]

12. Use a whip.
13. Use magic silver weapon of some sort.
14. Use a sling shot and holy symbol shaped holy water grenades.
15. Throw it a new source book for Vampire: the Brooding for a distraction.
16. Convince your DM that crossbow bolts are just very aerodynamic stakes.
17. Throw a river at it.
18. Whack it with the Sun.

The last two are impractical but fun to imagine.

[Chronos]

Or fill a 'hole with water diverted from a river and have your cleric cast bless water 16,909 times

Same cost. Holy water is sold for the same cost as the silver powder needed to make it, since good temples are happy to help folks destroy undead.

19: The gnomish method. Rig up about 50 mirrors to reflect sunlight through all of the twisty passages of the vampire's lair into its sanctum.

[Renrik]

20. Use a cleric, and turn the damned thing.
21. Bring an Anne Rice fan into its lair, The stupid fangirl will be so busy writing crappy goth poetry and love stories and trying to molest the vampire that it wont have time to notice you sneaking up behind with...
22. Maxwell's Silver Hammer

[Collin152]

23. Make the cleric bite it, it'll turn into a mama's boy.

[Wooter]

Any undead slaying tips or tricks you can think of can be posted here. But first my tips on slaying vampires.

1. This is for fighting vampires only. Take a bag of holding and start filling it with large quantities of small pebbles, grain, rice or any thing else incredibly small. When you face the vampire or a group of vampires throw the bag of holding at one of the vampires, as long as he or she has a bladed weapon. If you're lucky, the vampire will try to stop the bog of holding by swinging his or her sword/other blade. If all goes according to plan the vampires will spend their time counting individual pebbles or what ever other contents of the bag instead of attacking you or innocent bystanders giving you ample opportunity to slay them without much of a fight. Just make sure you have a dedicated bag of holding with the words "against vampires only" stitched on it.

How does this work? According to some Romanian folk lore vampires have an instinctive drive to count large quantities of small objects and other symptoms of obsessive compulsive disorder. Talk about unholy compulsions. :D Also if you rupture a bag of holding from the outside, all of its contents spill out instead of being lost.

Wouldn't it still work and also be cheaper if you just used a regular bag?

[Felius]

24. Be an epic cleric with the sun domain. And specialize against undead. Nothing short of a draco-lich or a demi-lich will be able to stand against you.

[Duke Malagigi]

Wouldn't it still work and also be cheaper if you just used a regular bag?

Yes, but could you fill a regular bag with 12,000+ tiny pebbles? Now do you understand what I'm saying?

[Mewtarthio]

find wildroses and touch the vampire with it fort or die

I though wild roses just prevented it from leaving the coffin.

8. Keep a backup shield that has a polished mirror on its front. Should help keep the vampire at bay.

19: The gnomish method. Rig up about 50 mirrors to reflect sunlight through all of the twisty passages of the vampire's lair into its sanctum.

This sounds like something out of The Legend of Zelda. Get the Mirror Shield after beating the miniboss, then go through a series of complex light-reflecting puzzles...

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25) Plane Shift to the British Empire. The sun never sets there.

[ocato]

Disintigrate: Vampires have no constitution score and therefore automatically fail fortitude saves that they aren't immune to, like poison or death. So Disintigrate is pretty much an auto-win. I think... is that right?

[Collin152]

Arent undead immune to everything that requires a fortitude save?

[Duke Malagigi]

Arent undead immune to everything that requires a fortitude save?

Undead are immune to anything requires a fortitude saving throw unlees it affects objects. Disinergrate still works.

[SurlySeraph]

26. If you think you have enough stakes for all the Vampire Spawn, buy another.
27. Get a powerful vacuum cleaner. You'll thank me when they try to use Gaseous Form to escape.

[Mewtarthio]

Disintigrate: Vampires have no constitution score and therefore automatically fail fortitude saves that they aren't immune to, like poison or death. So Disintigrate is pretty much an auto-win. I think... is that right?

Any living creature has at least 1 point of Constitution. A creature with no Constitution has no body or no metabolism. It is immune to any effect that requires a Fortitude save unless the effect works on objects or is harmless. The creature is also immune to ability damage, ability drain, and energy drain, and automatically fails Constitution checks. A creature with no Constitution cannot tire and thus can run indefinitely without tiring (unless the creature’s description says it cannot run).

Nothing in there about auto-failing Fort saves that it's vulnerable to. Of course, being undead, vampires have lousy Fort saves. Disintigrate's still powerful against undead.