I'd fuck it.

I thought they looked like Carmen Sandiego.

Helsing vampires are a great deal creepier.

I'd be cool with it in any of my games.

They only seem to have one attack though. The High Kick In A Short Skirt That Somehow Shows No Panties.

>>3472134
She's wearing tights as well as stockings, genius.

I stopped watching that after Ep.5

Does it get any better?

>>3472134
you haven't watched the anime then.

But really a vampire looks like the person it was sans red eyes, fangs and paler skin in most settings. I mean maybe after 1000 years they start to look nosferatu esque.

>>3472154
No, shit's terrible.

I still love it though. I love a lot of terrible shit.

>>3472154
episode 10 was animated by gainex so it look pretty cool, but the rest was crap.

>>3472154
As awful as your mind will allow.

>>3472165
Yeah, a half decent episode of the anime has more panty shots than a good Agent Aika episode.

Also, this is what /a/ thinks a succubus looks like.

>>3472178
I dunno, i watched Shugo Chara.

I've seen awful with my own eyes.

>>3472194
YOU READ THAT NOT WATCH IT.

What animu is this?

>>3472204
Rosario to vampire

>>3472202
But it will still be about eggs...

>>3472192
No wings!? What's even the point without them?

Needs moar red coat and hat to be an /a/ vampire

>Shugo Chara
>stupid

Obviously, someone doesn't know the truth behind the show.

This is another one of those awful supernatural animu with lots of hot girls in it, right?

>>3472214
She's still got wings.

>>3472192
So it is even more ecchi than an Aika episode?
Damn! That must be a lot. An anime about pure pantyshots and nothing else.

>>3472224
I don't.
Explain.

>>3472233
It's yet another crappy harem anime.

1. Average Joe meets some really hot supernatural girl.
2. Miss Awesome is madly in love with the male lead for no real reason.
3. Other girls appear. Ditto.
4. Bonus points if Joe turns out to have SUPER SPECIAL AWESOME POWERS which he never uses unless it's to PROTECT these massively more capable women. Because they're women.

Rinse, repeat.

>>3472245
Little girls.

>>3472211
the manga focuses more on the character relationships and so one and less on the lol you laid eggz

>>3472233
human boy goes to monstergirl school, he proceeds to attract a harem by smelling like food.

>>3472245
Shugo Chara exists to give the PEACH-PIT girls more time to cobble together enough plot to make a third season of Rozen Maiden.

Is this the proper vampire?

>>3472266
So it only exists so I can have a third season of Rozen Maiden?
Woowoo?

>>3472233
It's a harem animu. A human dude somehow finds himself at a school for monsters and amasses a harem consisting of a bipolar vampire, a virgin succubus, a stalker yukionna, and a pedobait witch.

Shit is awful. I keep thinking how much cooler it would be if he had to constantly keep up a facade of being a powerful monster while talking Moka's vampire half into letting him take credit for her beatdowns just so the school won't figure out he's human.

>>3472266
they have more then enough plot with Tales

>>3472257
It's genius

>>3472269

>>3472243
...

well, okay, maybe less than a really good aika episode. Let's say more than a really shitty aika episode.

>>3472245
Shugo Chara is the heartwarming story about a young girl who has been infected by some mysterious parasitic creature that lives in her uterus and leeches nutrients out of her blood for purposes that remain unclear. All it seems to do is somehow manufacture what look like eggs of varying sizes; these are usually composed mainly of precious and semi-precious minerals such as gold, silver, diamond, etc. It also appears to be affecting both her natural bodily functions and her brain chemistry in ways that are as yet unclear.

>>3472257
The only time I've been able to stand that plotline was the original Tenchi series.

Hi guys, you talking about vampires?

Watch it for the facial expressions. And Amu's kickass outfits.

>>3472304
Edward cullen already showed up, we don't need any more twilight vampires.

THREE AGAINST ONE, IT'S NOT FAIR! THREE AGAINST ONE!

>>3472300
WELL GUESS WHAT JAPAN LIKES IT SO THEY WON'T STOP REMAKING IT THEY'RE WORSE THAN FUCKING HOLLYWOOD OH GOD SOMEONE JUST INVENT SOMETHING FUCKING NEW FOR ONCE

>>3472295
So... eggs....and parasites...

>>3472300
Because in Tenchi Muyo, the girls had personalities INDEPENDENT of Tenchi. Hell, you could easily imagine the losers going back to their normal lives when Tenchi doesn't pick them.

>>3472304
Go away, you. You distracted from what was otherwise a delightfully grim and dark storyline and the game would have been better off without you.

Do we even have stats for a Yukionna?

>>3472323
so do most girls in harem anime that actually ends.

>>3472317
Basically, little girl slowly goes insane while her uterus pumps out Fabergie eggs.

>>3472323
Beyond the fact that Tenchi marries all of them. Canon. Word Of Fucking God. He's the EMPEROR OF JURAI HE CAN HAVE AS MANY FUCKING WIVES AS HE LIKES

>>3472272
Sort of. But it is a win-win situation.

>>3472295
That doesn't sound very "heartwarming" at all.
In fact, it sounds more like Alien.

>>3472285
Considering all of Aika had more or less fixed amounts of ecchiness, I am more confused.
But don't bother to reply me. I will find out myself. Thank you for your help!

>>3472343
No, no. Not in Rosario Vampire. These girls have NOTHING TO THEM independent of their lust for Tsukune's cock.

....

This is about what vampires always looked like to me.

>>3472352
If Alien had a little girl who masturbated a lot and a whole lot less death, yes.

This is what a vampire looks like.

Truth.

Also, vampires are all about drinking tea and walking slowly.

Man, vampires used to be cool. Back in my day...


Honestly, though, the Rosario+Vampire one isn't _that_ bad. It's more that the show's a harem show. No idea how the anime works out, but the manga sort of plods along the usual clichés. Like someone else said already, the setting isn't all that bad, it's just that whoever's writing didn't bother to come up with any halfway decent/original plot. Just the usual harem anime plot.

The real shame here is that I find this shit better than some other harem shows I've seen, like Girls Bravo. I think it may be something about the male lead being just dull rather than downright stupid. And stupid plots. At least I haven't watched this show. I just wasted the time on 4chan instead.

>>3472352
Okay... it is very ecchi, but not EXTREMELY ecchi. They even censored about half the panties in season 2.

Just a tip, watch/read until they've amassed at least two waifus. If you haven't found a "mai waifu" yet, you may as well stop. I reiterate, R+V is terrible. Awesome art, cute characters, but pretty terrible otherwise.

>>3472377
>censored half the panties

That's a retarded anime studio ploy to get you to buy their shitty overpriced DVDs. The only show I've seen so far where the DVDs were actually "uncensored" in any way that mattered is Strike Witches.

WOAH WHAT THE FUCK NUDITY

>>3472375
>not that bad
Yes it fucking is.

>it's just that whoever's writing didn't bother to come up with any halfway decent/original plot. Just the usual harem anime plot.
This is why so much anime is so terrible. Anime is way, way, WAY too fucking reliant on its cliches, clings way too tightly to its tropes, and uses the same retarded chibification/demorphism shit over and over.

>>3472375
The anime whizzes pretty much all of the mango's plot. Fortunately, Ruby's intro arc isn't a rejected Captain Planet script anymore and is actually somewhat clever. In addition, shonen rejects like the outcast ayashi, the Aizen ripoff, and similar fags vanish allowing the various girls to turn their craziness up to 11.

It is just as stupid as the mango, but in different ways.

Also, Tsukune doesn't get the MARY SUE PUNCH to go with Moka's MARY SUE KICK, and all the COMPLETELY IGNORED FAKE-ASS DRAMA to go along with it vanishes in the transition to the animu.

Still, the animu's season 2 opening was a superbly animated disco dance number.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Rdn8RLk8ml8&fmt=18

>>3472375

Vahn of the Dawn+ I-no+Vampirism=THat Guy?

>>3472400
I just have to say that the show would be better off without the male lead.

Hell, MOST harem shows would be better without the annoying male lead. He's just annoying. A massive fucking self-insert by the creators.

>>3472333

...really? I personally liked Arcueid second best of all the characters (first was Akiha, though the incest made me wince so very much).

>>3472404

>>3472412
Arcuied has a strange kind of sexy going on.

Akiha is /a/'s beloved sister. /a/ is for Akiha. etc.

>>3472407
Show would be better if it was just Moka with the rosary off and no Tsukune.

Still, NONE of the girls have any character beyond their overpowering lust for tsukune's tiny penis. I can't see ANYTHING happening without Tsukune.

So if I wanted to watch Rosario+Vampire for fun, and not to find out the significance of life, I'll enjoy it?
Excellent.

>>3472425
If you can stand the usual shitty self-insertion male lead.

>>3472407

lesse

Tenchi was actually pretty cool when he wasnt being a fag. Like when he fucked up Kagato's shit

that was cool

THe dude from Vandread was pretty cool, though that was really more you're typical super robo lead with harem shit thrown on. But yeah he actually did shit.

and ummm

well thats all I got

>>3472420
>Arcuied has a strange kind of sexy going on.

Strange? Why? She's a beautiful, cheerful girl with enough physical power to punch a building into rubble - what's strange in finding that sexy? ;)

>>3472441
Vandread makes me cringe. Even if it turns out fairly good, the whole way it played out over the first season just seemed to me like a big "MEN AND WOMEN BELONG TOGETHER" bullshit from Japan.

>>3472420
/a/ cast out Type-Moon and Touhou. I'm afraid that Akiha is /jp/'s beloved sister.

>>3472394
>>not that bad
>Yes it fucking is.
It depends on what scale you're using. Considering what I've read of the manga (up to and including the first male "mary sue"-panch as someone else said) I'd say it's safe to say I ain't touching it anymore. If you compare it to the Girls Bravo anime, it's probably slightly better. There are degrees in hell.

There are better harem shows. I suspect, anyway. Luckily, I was never really that attracted to the genre - though I did like the original Tenchi Muyo OAV (also, Hand Maid May. Come for the dollsized girl, stay for the awesome guy in the purple suit and the octobot). Also, Urusei Yatsura, but that one's not really harem.

>>3472304
Why did I like that anime? It takes 13 episodes to do what amounts to a 5-oav-episode plot. Or 7 TV episodes. It was probably the opening. And that psycho vampire with the dogs. And Ciel. Huh.

>>3472432
So it's the Twilight of anime...

>>3472317
Shugo Chara is about the dreams you had as a child of what you wanted to be when you grew up.

The eggs are from your soul and give birth to a potential that you can become.

So if you wanted to be a fireman, your egg would hatch open a tiny you that looked like a fireman and floated around you all day. It's personality would be what you have secretly always wanted to be like. An example from the series would be the timid boy leader haveing a passionate world domination king egg.

The main character of the show has no clue what she wants to be, not even a tiny inkling. So she has many eggs compared to other characters.

Another large part of the show is attempting to live up to your dreams, which is shown by characters combining with their eggs and gaining powers from it. The timid boy combines with his world domination tyrant egg and gains a confident personality, and a scepter that can perform magical attacks.

The idea is that you can become anything you want to be when you grow up as long as you never give up your dreams.

That being said, it's marketed for 9 year olds and /a/ is a bunch of pedos for watching

>>3472448
She doesn't dress in stereotypically "sexy" clothes and doesn't really behave like a complete fucking slut.

>>3472457
BLASPHEMY

ALIEN PARASITE

>>3472412
It probably says something poor about my personality that my favorite character was Kohaku.

Anyway, nothing against Arcueid as a character, but the Far Side storyline was so much stronger that the whole Near Side seemed like it could have been dropped without the game losing much.

>>3472449

dude seriousl

2nd stage

fucking epic.

>>3472407
MAI HIME SUCKED

>>3472404
... Kind of. Black Blood Brothers is awesome though, as far as Vampire shows go.

"My vampiric power is turning everyone who gets my blood in their system into a (usually) mindless monstrous slave!"
"My vampiric power is fucking shit up!"

>>3472480
My Balls rules though.

>>3472480

the crazy lesbian chick was cool though

if only for bneing a crazy lesbian who went riding around on a hydra killing shit iwth a halbred

>>3472480
Seriously, you'd better be joking

>>3472480
Mai-HiME was actually pretty groundbreaking at the time. IT HAD A FUCKING HAPPY ENDING. WHAT THE SHIT. Also, Mai was the main character. Not Tate. What.

>>3472500
God, I hated Shizuru. Fucking fanbase.

>>3472515
THE TRUTH, The show is the same as all the other shit just with more gay. lesbians don't make anime better and never will.

>>3472492
It is a hilarious series.

>>3472454
There is no Shingetsutan Tsukihime anime. There is only a rather good soundtrack mysteriously released some time after it was not aired, and some weird set of MANFACE fanart of the Tsukihime cast.

But seriously, the only excellent thing about it was the music - everything else fails miserably when compared to the original.

>>3472407
Love Hina would like a word with you

>>3472534
I liked the Tsukihime anime. And you can't stop me.

>>3472526
>Mai-HiME sucked
>My Balls rules
ಠ_ಠ

>>3472539
Genderswap K1.

BETTER

>>3472109

As far as appearances go, Silver Moka doesn't look bad. Her other form, that one's a bit problematic.

>>3472154
No.

Just about all anime is complete garbage anyway.

>>3472540
We might not be able to stop you, but we can deny that you exist.

>>3472540
When did I say you weren't allowed to like it? I sort of like it myself, to tell the truth.

All I'm saying is that it fails miserably *when compared* to the original in all aspects barring music, which is excellent.

...and the manfaces do bother me somewhat.

wait

what the hell happend to this board

>>3472526
At least admit My-Otome was slightly better.
The soundtrack for that and My-HiME were the best I've ever heard in an anime.
In fact, I daresay the My- series are the best things Sunrise ever made or will make

>>3472562
I've seen the game. The game art looks bad to me.

>>3472554

>>3472554
Extreme truth.

Only anime worthwhile is when they seem to have some other-cultureboo going on, like Berserk and Middle Ageaboo. The rest is garbage and you are all raging faggots for knowing at all what you people are discussing.

>>3472574
>>3472577
Oh, and this.

This is what /v/ thinks a vampire looks like.

Thoughts?

This is what /a/ thinks tanks look like.

>>3472568
Otome was a crappy ripoff that couldn't decide whether to be SRSBSNS or LOLSCHOOLGIRLLESBIANS. The most retarded premise ever, backstory that doesn't know what the fuck it is and frequently contradicts itself, and shitty character reboots that are generally just fucking two-dimensional Flanderisations of their original characters.

>>This is what /a/ thinks a vampire looks like.

>>Thoughts?

Lacks that special... style..

>>3472603

>Flanderisations

I haven't heard this term in a while.

>>3472580
Closer than /a/'s vision.

And I support anyone who likes the even skankier Jeanette in that picture.

>>3472554
sturgeon's law: 90% of EVERYTHING is shit. there's a few good ones, but you have to LOOK for them. hard.

>>3472571
I wouldn't call a visual novel a game, but either way, the anime most fails by molesting the story and making some rather fffff-inducing choices in the adaptation.

Why does she run? And why in the park, rather than the apartment? And what's up with that half-assed SHIKI version, anyway?

The mango seems quite a bit more well thought out, if we're going to be talking adaptations.

>>3472614
FUCK YES Jeanette was hot.

A bit too much of a bimbo though. Velvet was pure sex.

>>3472577

huh

I actually kidna agree with this.

I mean I liek anime alot and have a pretty big dvd collection

but it's all shit that dosent really rely on being japanese. THings like Outlaw Star, Iria Lodoss War etc.

when I watch something I like watchign things that are good, regardless were their from. In this case they jsut so happen to be japanese

/a/ enjoys twilight

>>3472619
Like the F/SN anime. They wanted to please everyone. YOU CAN'T DO THAT WHEN YOU'RE ADAPTING A MULTIPLE-PATH H-GAME INTO A TV SHOW.

Just watched the first episode.

This shit is garbage.

>>3472596
more like this

>>3472624
FFFFFFFFF, Velvet's voice was perfect. I am not ashamed to say I fapped to both her and Jeanette.

>>3472640
This picture accurately sums up the F/SN animu.

Just so we're clear.

>>3472627

The primary reason that I watch anime is because there is a seemingly endless quantity of it available for free online, and I'm lazy enough that I enjoy entertainment which takes extremely low effort on my part to get and partake in. I wouldn't claim that most of it is actually good. If I trip over a good storyline once in a while, great, and for the rest of it I doubt I'd have spent those hours on anything better anyway.

>>3472643

Haha oh wow, that is just fucking stupid.

>>3472577
I think one of the guys who wrote MacHall summed up most problems with anime pretty nicely when he noted that as awesome as Cowboy Bebop was, the only thing the industry seemed to get out of it was Jazzy soundtracks.

>>3472671
;_;

I miss that comic.

I want to watch epic sci fi and fantasy adventures, not high school kids blushing

That's what vampire looks like!

>>3472698
Fuck yes!

You are all faggots.

>>3472686
www.threepanelsoul.com
?

This is what /a/ thinks a vampire looks like.

Thoughts?

>>3472745
FUCK YEAH INTEGRA

>>3472745
That's a bit more like it.

Also forgot about masochist witch

I mean when I was a kid Id watch stuff about a chcik whose more badass than Ripley, Sara Conner and Jill Valentine combined fight against this thing

and when I go to see whast popular now, its shit with goofily drawn school girls do nothing but sit around talking or going to stores and not buy anything

how is that entertaining?

>>3472762
Is that a corset with a fucking zip? Isn't that a bit pointless?

>>3472763
Japan has entered the era of "moe".

Like all fads, it'll disappear eventually, but not before shoveling the same characters and plotline down your throat until your brain melts

For a similar american example, see Reality TV

>>3472763

Most of the problem is that American productions look at anime and see 'this is kids stuff'. The REAL shit is hard to find and a hell of a lot more expensive 'cause it's better quality and not very popular in America.

Basilisk, Bubblegum Crisis 2040, Millenium Actress, Higurashi, all of the darker, plot-filled stuff is very irritating to the American companies because it's not for kids, and has a more limited market.

>>3472781
Big Brother is the worst thing that ever happened to TV.

>>3472787
I see your Big Brother and raise you a Rupert Murdoch.

>>3472787
Reality TV is the worst thing to happen to entertainment media period.

>>3472774
Easy access?

>>3472782
Hiragashi would be unshowable on american tv

The contrast is just to much to see a guy beating two girls two death with a bat and blood splattering everywhere, and then immediately a Moe school situation for half of the episode.

>>3472799
I assume you meant Higurashi?

what does /v/ think a vampire looks like?

a miserable pile?

>>3472820
It looks like a monster.
A monster that does not belong in this world.

>>3472820

thast a secret

>>3472806
yeah, I can't remember jap names for the life of me, let alone spell them

>>3472837
The unofficial American title is Kacey & Friends.

>>3472837
I almost hate yandere more than I hate moe-moe bullshit.

This is what...

Okay, I don't know who thinks vampires look like this. But they're awesome, nevertheless.

>>3472843

I hate the fact that I know what those terms mean

fuck this

Imma gonna go watch the Harlock subs I got from /m/ earlier

>>3472843
there was no dere, only crazy

>>3472849

well to be fair only Kain's a vampire

and he's awesome

VAY VICTUS!!!

>>3472840
oh u

Kain's awesoness has nothing to due with his vampirism (well thats important too) but its jsut that he gets shit done warrior style.

>>3472852
Rena has dere moments.

So does Mion, but she has no yan.

>>3472857
Vae Victus, you fucking imbecile.

>>3472852
ALL CRAZY ALL THE TIME

BRAIN PARASITES

>>3472881

Vae VicTIS

asswipe

That's what awesome vampire looks like!

>>3472902
Fuck, yes.

>>3472884

>>3472902 I'm gay for Bradstreet!
I love oWoD as much as anyone, but his art is facepalm worthy sometimes. Anything from the first release of World of Darkness and the horribly dated clothing, for one.

>>3472902
I would like to have a word with you.

>>3472902
What am I looking at, and why does it seem so badass?

>>3472909

>>3472763

I dunno, I find some of these highschool animes to be entertaining. Of course, thing is, storylines don't concern me much. I'm in it more for the characters. I liked Berserk not because "LOL grimdark" nor "Middleageaboo!", nor for the (laughable) plot. It's because I found the cast to be interesting.

And I happen to also find the cast in many of those "moe" animes interesting, in other ways. They're entertaining, and generally end up bringing a smile to my face (see: Yotsuba)

>>3472921
That's me, buddy.

watch Druaga

>>3472935
FUCK YOU JACK

YOU AWESOME BASTARD

In grimdarkness of 41st millenium there are only badass vampires.

>>3472945
ARE YOU GAY FOR JACK TOO?

>>3472927
That's not the sort of "moe" we're talking though; Azuma's work is generally cute and quirky, which is what gives it its charm. Moe-moe when used derogatively means shit that's cute for the sake of it, without any sort of substance to back it up.

>>3472954
Everybody is gay for Jack. Even women.

Fuck yes Paladin

Oh yeah, there is one more Harem anime... Where I like the male lead.

Pic related.

Also, Suffering to the conquered!

>>3472171
>I still love it though. I love a lot of terrible shit.

Explains why any of us ever return to /tg/

>171 posts and 60 image replies omitted
goddamnit

This thread goes from Vampires, to a children's anime about eggs, to tank lolis, to a discussion of Mai-Hime, to a discussion of Reality TV and Moe, Higurashi gets tossed in the mix somewhere in there, and ends with harem anime and a quote about loving shit.

|:(

>>3473883

So, good thread, then?

>>3473907
Seems that way.

Man, some of this crap around vampires. Vampires glittering, reverse-vampires...

I remember when it was just your average "curse of immortality and bloodlust", then Anne Rice fagged it up with the sequels.

(Actually, I remember Monster Squad, even). No, I don't remember when they were resurrected people who'd been murdered and buried at crossroads improperly, couldn't cross running water and had to count peas if you dropped them. I'm not THAT old.

I am so glad I decided not to get involved with this before

>>3473883

/tg/

Getting shit done.

>reverse-vampires...

I have not ever seen a reverse vampire in any form of fiction ever.

>>3473994
WITNESS YOUR DOOOOOOOM!

>>3474004
Does she burst into flame in the moonlight?

I'm probably one of few who have this problem. Blood: The Last Vampire? Awesome. (Wait, there's a live action now? This could be good.)

>>3474028
Blood+? Started out well enough. But then I found it starting to get really predictable somewhere in the 20ies of episodes. I just dropped it, couldn't motivate myself to watch more of it.

>>3474013
I have no idea. I do know that she needs someone to drink her blood.

>>3474035
>I have no idea. I do know that she needs someone to drink her blood.

So, Normal vampire + Reverse Vampire = Perpetual motion machine?

Anyway, little open question. How do you people prefer your vampires' bloodlust? They need it to survive, and will die if they don't, much like people need to eat; or do they technically not *need* it, but have a horrible addiction that makes them desire it and suffer withdrawal if they don't?

So how do you like vampires then /tg/?

I prefer mine loosely based to Bram Stokers Dracula:

Undead, but not immortal. Basically they age normally, but drinking blood prevents this. Drinking too much blood actually makes them younger as well as heals any and all wounds they have by "reverting the body to it's original state"

When becoming a vampire, they die. What this means, is that they lose their mortal personality and all memories and are reduced to nothing more then a "ghoul" that acts like a rabid animal with a thirst for blood.
As time passes, they become more and more cunning until they once again reach human level intelligence (obviously they don't regain their previous personality, they become a completely different percon)

So basically a fledgling vampire is an frenzied human with a taste for blood, a 50 years old vampire gains sentinence and starts experimenting with their powers and a 200 years old vampire has mastered vampirism and claims a domain of his own, usually a small village and it's surroundings.

>>3474050
A little bit of column A, a little bit of column B. They use it to power their vampire abilities, but otherwise don't need it.

>>3473240

I would watch an anime centered entirely around this man.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMEEEENNNNNNNNN.

>>3472304

?:3

>>3474053
I prefer them as oh my god why does everyone on this board focus on "races" instead of characters

not all vampires should fucking be alike, whether they're monstrous, very human or whatever

are you all closet racists or something, Jesus

>>3474089
Weird, I never knew women could actually say things vaguely intelligent.

>>3474089

Because not all races are playable...

>>3474111
>I've only ever played D&D and I think it is the only RPG in existence.

>>3474102
I see what you did there

>>3474111
See, I think this is why I don't like fantasy anymore...

>>3474118
>I like to write a backstory for every single person, animal an flower that ever lived.

I can greentext too, see?

>>3474124
Fantasy is what you make of it, modern or futuristic settings can be just as bad.

>>3474124
Nobody cares.

Please cease and desist polluting this board with your idiotic attention-whoring and sub-par trolling.

>>3474131
That doesn't make any sense, I never said anything even remotely like that. I am only pointing out that clearly you've only ever played D&D so you think you can only play certain races because that's what you get to do in D&D. Branch out more, try new RPGs you just might like a game that's more than a dungeon crawl.

>>3474089

Vampires are made out of death and magic.
They have traits that are defined by the nature of whatever creates them as vampires, be it the manner of their death (suicides being spit out of Hell for being too lame, demons posessing a dying lunatic, that sort of thing) or the nature of the magic. The nature of what animates this group of the living dead defines a broad range of their traits, such as weaknesses, instincts, and drives. A vampire that can only exist because it drinks the blood of humans that wronged it in life, like the suicide vampire, is going to act differently than a vampire animated by a gypsy curse that can get on just fine by drinking the blood of animals.
People have preferences for what makes their vampires tick.
Vampires aren't an actual race, they're more like androids, something else made them exist and made them what they are, in some stories they aren't even sentient, in others they are, in none of them are they an actual race that came into existence and reproduces naturally.
Bitching about people debating various stories of "what makes a vampire" is like complaining about people talking about hermetic as opposed to runic magic.

>>3474089
They're mixing up behaviour with some of the traits, I suspect.

Behaviour is more fluid, but if I say "vampire", I suspect most people would agree on them having the following traits:
* Fangs
* Pale skin
* Die/are severely hampered by getting stakes through their hearts
* Burst into flame from the touch of sunlight

And added stuff which may or may not fit some vampires:
* Not visible in mirrors
* Aversion to religious symbols (or faith)
* Hideous in appearance
* Sex on legs (or a metaphor for sexuality, whatev)
* Inhumanely strong, fast etc
* capable of limited shapeshifting
* unaging
* cast out from heaven
* demonic subrace
* weaknesses void when invited into house

And so forth. You CAN add behavioural stuff like "lust for blood", "mindless when newly made", "love garlic", and so on, but they don't _need_ to be there for a typical vampire.

This is a matter of prototypes, though - not everyone will view a "real vampire" with the exact same criteria, but most will agree upon something close to it. And, thanks to Twilight, we'll probably have a generation of fangirls whose prototypical vampire is dull, immune to sunlight and sparkles like glitterdust was applied to them.

There's a difference between "favourite type of vampire" and "typical vampire", though.

>>3474141
I'm not trolling, though if I were I'd appreciate that you arrived pre-butthurt to the thread

>>3474135
I know, but this mindset of "hey let's make THIS race with THESE traits!!" seems to overshadow, you know, interesting characters a whole lot of the time. A race doesn't inherently make a character interesting-- this is the problem with obnoxious people who think that vampires are cool. No, they are not cool. Individual characters with interesting personalities and histories are cool.

>>3474153
Differing vampire origins is not what I'm irritated by. That's perfectly fine, and sure, have mindless vampires. But even animals have personalities.

>>3474164
Yeah, I suppose that's my problem with it.

>>3474174
>Differing vampire origins is not what I'm irritated by. That's perfectly fine, and sure, have mindless vampires. But even animals have personalities.

I have to step in here and point out that even among animals, behaviours are reproduced. There IS fluidity, of course, but... Well, dog breeds are a good example: german shepherds are noted for being loyal and protective of their masters. This applies pretty much to any german shepherd you find, ranging from assertiveness to general paranoia on the dog's part.

As we go into humanoids, yeah, things get a bit more complicated, but there are still stuff people do. It's more subtle and mostly not applicable, I suspect. But with vampires - isn't there much "inbreeding", so to speak, so that some of the weirder things and behaviours reproduce?

tl;dr: Some behavioural inheritance among vampires can make sense, given inherited traits. Also, generic vampires are like generic people - feel free to flesh them out if you feel like sinking time into that.

>>3474179
Alrighty then. Might have gotten a bit on building sky castles in that last post. Last fram of picture related.

>>3474174

If you can accept that some people will think of vampires as mindless monsters, why would those people then need to think of individual characters for vampires in order to be allowed to think "vampires are awesome!"?

Would you require people to differentiate between individual zombies to think "zombies are awesome," or to differentiate between individual bears to think "bears are awesome"?

This is what I think a vampire looks like.

Thoughts?