So I’m trying out Affinity Publisher, and keeping a short-list of things to write up for Old-School Essentials and B/X D&D.
The first item I had on my list was to create a B/X version of the Dhampir race, which according to tradition is a half-human, half-vampire, usually of a human mother and vampire father. My first exposure in the D&D world was in Kobold’s Unlikely Heroes supplement for 5e, which I picked up a few years back.
So inspired by the recently published Advanced Fantasy Genre Rules by Necrotic Gnome, I figured I’d take a stab at writing this up as a race-as-class. I searched around a bit to see if anybody had done this exact thing, because no sense in duplicating the effort. The closest thing I found was a lovely write-up of supernatural races for OSR and D&D over at The OSR Library. I recall seeing this a while back. I borrowed a few of the traits as well as adding some from the OSE Drow and Duergar as I thought through what a B/X race-as-class Dhampir might look like.
Basically what seemed to work because of its half human roots is that the Dhampir is a more limited fighter with several supernatural abilities and a bite attack. Currently I have no idea how it’ll play since I haven’t actually tested it, but it looks to be fun as a monster-hunter type class. You have a fighter focused on monster hunting with concerns of losing control to bloodlust (or, as he’s more commonly known, Blade).
Here’s the basic write-up, with a PDF link at the end. Hopefully someone finds this useful. Continue reading “The B/X Dhampir”
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