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Quote from: Dave1004 on October 26, 2011, 01:32:52 pm

Ohh, wait, your vampires are more of the "Sparkly, sexy suave and macho lady-charmers", right? The kind of gentlemanly vampires that'll go down on a girl having a period.

My mental image of vampires is based on Dracula from the book. Kind of creepy looking, but he was still able to pass as a human.
And also was a noble.

If vampires looked like bat-demons all the time, they would never be able to fool anyone without spamming illusions or mind tricks.

[edit:]
Hmm... A random though occurred.
There are bat based vampires and the occasional mosquito-based vampire, but it would be really creepy/awesome to have a spider based vampire.

Well, as long as your vampires are decently ghoulish, I can stop my raving. But I must say, "Ordinary" vampires (Moreso ghouls than anything else) are how I described. Pureblood vampires, the Nosferatu are as you described. If a Vampire drains a living, non-virgin human of it's blood, it becomes a ghoul. Ghouls will generally be subservient to the Vampire, acting on it's whim with little thoughts of their own. But, when a Vampire drinks the blood of a virgin, and gives them their blood, then they become a Nosferatu, or one of the "True Vampires." A good example is why a lot of fiction has child vampires, due to their pure blood. Still, if a Nosferatu fully drains even a virgin human, without giving some of it's blood itself, they become a ghoul.

Bram Stoker's (Or whatever his name is) "Dracula" is a good description of a Nosferatu. Powerful and deceitful, they lust for the life of the living and have control of the dead and dark magic.

Explanation good?

Quote from: Dave1004 on October 26, 2011, 08:26:27 am

Think of a hairless bat, in a human body.

Hairless bat?
Hmm.
They look like this.

Doesn't seem that ugly to me.

This. Without the hair. Wrinkle and tighten the skin, elongate the face, and kinda pointy ears. That's a vampire. I don't know what kind of fantasy setting that you get your vampires from, but where I get it, they are freakin' scary.

Ohh, wait, your vampires are more of the "Sparkly, sexy suave and macho lady-charmers", right? The kind of gentlemanly vampires that'll go down on a girl having a period.

Something else: The TinyPic captcha was "XVII oCours". Why does that make me think of final fantasy? Hmm...FF17: "New 3D graphics!"...

Not exactly dwarf fortress, but I had a dream that I was being attacked by a bunch of undead camels. Or, horses...Something like that. I wish I remembered more, but after I woke up, I promptly went "NOPE" and watched some anime to forget about the whole thing.

Vampire dwarves? What the hell is this crap!? Do you know how UGLY those would be?

Let's see...Dwarves...Short, bearded, filthy, smelly, huge noses, bugs in their hair....
And vampires...Gaunt, pale, no hair whatsoever, skin stretched extra tight over the body, big fangs and generally naked.

With our powers combined, we are Dwarvampire! The ugliest creature in existence! Plus, they sparkle!...

I don't know what you think a vampire looks like, but I know, I've fought them. Think of a hairless bat, in a human body. With a face that looks like an obese dude just crapped out a pile of extra-spicy tacos. They would be so hideous! AAARGH!!!

I went to a kind of country festival with my family, and there was this one old farmer sitting in a stall. It was rickety and brittle looking, just like the farmer. I noticed his epic beard, and the massive boulder beside him. This crazy guy had a hammer and chisel, and was hacking away at said rock. About two hours later when I was heading back home, I saw him still in the stall on the way out. I asked him "What the hell are you doing?", and he replies "Gittin' me a rock chair, so's I kin sit my butt on it."

I then bid him good day, went home, got a rock, and started making a chair. It didn't work out well, but I worked at it. In the end (About three months later), I had a weird looking, uh...I don't know. Let's just say it was a wombat or something. Anyways, I opened the local newspaper, and right there, in the middle of it...

"Farmer carves chair out of rock weighing seven hundred pounds."

The bearded bastard was sitting there, on his BADASS THRONE, drinking from a clay mug and smoking from a pipe. That was the day that I knew there was something to live for in this world. That was the day that I decided to become a dwarf.

GO AHEAD, call bullshit, whatever you want. But one day, ONE DAY I SHALL CREATE MY THRONE OF STONE, and I will make a whippit to put my foes in.

In the words of Athrogate: "Bwahahaha!"

Ugh. This feels like the time I was on Minecraft, and some kid posts on the forums "Do you think diamonds are cheating"?

I answer: NO. Also, to your question: NO. If it's implemented into the game, THEN IT IS NOT CHEATING. Jesus Christ!

On a side note: If the game you're playing isn't multiplayer, no matter what you do, there is no "Cheating." You are the god of Dwarf Fortress, and you can do whatever the hell you want. If I go on Minecraft and spawn myself a set of invulnerable diamond armor, am I cheating? If on multiplayer, YES. If on SINGLEPLAYER, no. No, no, no, NO.

I shall now go pet my kitty and stew in my rage.

I just dumped three kobolds into my plague pit. They slowly melted! It warmed my heart, melting those ugly scaly junk-snatchers.