Vampire Universal Enhancement Tree

**Lokeal_The_Flame** · 10-08-2019, 12:53 AM

To understand the relevance of the included video, please do skip to 8:30

Core 1-You've survived the draining kiss of a succubus and as a result have become a true vampire. You are damaged by positive energy, can only heal by negative energy and take 150% damage from light but your melee and unarmed attacks have a (10%) chance to heal you for 1d3 Negative Energy damage per level. You gain immunity to energy drain effects. Inevitables and good aligned enemies now deal 20% extra damage to you. You have +15% extra hit-points and gain the option of tricking enemies into thinking you are dead when at low health (Play Possum feat), +25 spellpoints and +5 negative spellpower per level. If you have wild shapes, you will no longer be able to use them, you are tainted and thus if you have any wild shapes you will be given negative healing alternatives with unique effects. Vampire form: Wolf-form, Mist-form, and Shadow-form.

(Note: Items like Healer's bounty, and positive energy regeneration effects will damage you if they come from your equipment, enhancement trees, past life feats, or epic destiny trees! Allies can not target you with positive energy healing effects!)

Core 2-+20 Negative healing amplification and +25 negative spellpower

Core 3-Dark Discorporation Guard.

Core 4-+20 Negative Healing amplification and +25 negative spellpower. If you have wild shapes, your vampire forms are upgraded to Wolfman-form, bloodmist-form, and Void-form

Core 5-Cursed Blows: Your melee and ranged attacks gain the effect of improved curse-spewing.

Core 6-Hunger Surge: For the next 5 minutes you enter a hunger surge, during this state you slowly leech health from any enemies within 15 meters of you. Additionally while in this state you project a 15 meter Aura a Menace, decreasing the saving throws, attack, and armor class of nearby enemies by 2. (8 minute cooldown).

Tier 1

****Succubus Companion: The Succubus that you survived a kiss from has decided to stick around and you are now able to summon her forth to fight by your side once per rest.
Cooldown: 20 seconds

This Succubus is a very strong ally to have with a level equal to your's. You can summon it in addition to any Summon Monster spell you might be using. Additional ranks in this enhancement increase her Damage, Attack Speed, Movement Speed, and Fortification. (Note: The Succubus companion can not be summoned along side the Skeletal Knight, The Druid Wolf Companion, or the Artificer Iron Defender as it is the same type of companion)

****Vampiric Arsenal: You gain proficiency with Bastard swords, Longswords, Daggers, Kamas, and Sickles

****Vampiric familiarity: You gain true seeing

****Light Evasion: You have a 15/30/50% chance to evade light type damage

****Fear Itself: You gain fear immunity

****+1 to physical and magical resistance for every two levels gained (Maximum of +15 at level 30)

Tier 2

****Blood Sword: Using weapons from your vampiric arsenal you are now able to perform a cleave attack embodying your vampiric fervor, you perform a cleave attack that heals 1d2 per character level and deals +1[W] damage.

****Succubus Companion II: Your Succubus companion gains a +2/+4/+6 Profane Bonus to Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution. Rank 3: You gain +1 Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution.

****Insatiable: Your melee attacks now deal 1 constitution damage on hit and +1d6 upon criticals

****Null Magic Guard: When you take damage, there is a [2/4/6]% chance that a burst of antimagic energy expands from your body. Nearby enemies are subject to a Dispel Magic effect, which may strip them of their magical protections, and will be rendered unable to cast spells and lose [2/3/4] Spell Resistance for [10/20/30] seconds.

****Uncanny Balance: You gain +5 to your balance skill, additionally 50% of your balance skill now represents your percentage chance to resist knockdown effects

Tier 3

****Blood sword II: The healing effect from your bloodsword attack now heals you for 1D3 per character level instead of 1D2 and your blood sword deals +2[W] damage.

****Succubus companion III: Your succubus companion gains +5/10/15 Profane Bonus to PRR, +3/6/10 to hit and damage, +2/4/6 Profane Bonus to AC, and its attacks bypass 10%/20%/50% of enemy Fortification and have a 10/15/20% chance to charm enemies to fight by your side instead of against you for up to 15 seconds.

****Insatiable II: Your attacks now deal 1D3 constitution damage per hit and 1D6 constitution damage on critical hit

****Multiselector: Choose one; SLA: Tensor's Transformation, SLA: Negative Energy Burst, or SLA: Evil Trap (As experienced from Ctenmilr from White Plume Mountain)

****Null Magic Strike: Nullmagic Strike: Passive Bonus: Offensive spells you cast, melee and ranged attacks have a [5/10/15]% chance to subject the target to a Dispel Magic effect, which may strip them of their magical protections, and will render them unable to cast spells and lose [2/3/4] Spell Resistance for [10/20/30] seconds.

Tier 4

****Blood Sword III: Blood Sword now gains the ability to remove stat damage, curses, and diseases upon usage transferring them onto the foes struck with the blade. Additionally your blood sword now deals +3[W] damage.

****Vampiric Finesse (Multiselector): You may now use one of the following to determine hit and damage, choose one; Dexterity, Intelligence, Charisma

****Succubus Companion IV: Your Succubus Companion gains +35% doubleshot, lesser displacement, and regenerates a small amount of health every 10 seconds

****Vampiric Fighting (Multiselector): Choose one; when Single weapon fighting with one of your vampiric arsenal weapons you gain +20 melee power, when dual weilding weapons belonging to your vampiric arsenal you gain +25% offhand doublestrike, when wielding a shield along side a vampire arsenal weapon you gain +20% attack speed

****Insatiable III: Your attacks now bypass 15% of enemy fortification and have a chance to reduce enemy armor class by 1d6

Tier 5

****Blood Sword IV: Your Bloodsword attack now additionally applies 1D20 stacks of vulnerable to the enemies struck with it and deals +5[W] damage

****Crimson Bond: Tendrils of blood seep through your flesh forming short thin tentacle like appendages that grip onto your weapon, giving you superior control over them. Until you unequip these items or rest, they deal +0.5[W] damage. (Cooldown: 15 seconds; Induction time: 2 seconds.)

****Improved Vampiric Arsenal: Your vampiric arsenal weapons gain an additional +5 to their weapon enhancement score and attacking with them has a chance to transfer any damage over time or debuff you are currently suffering onto the targeted enemy.

****Blood Of Vol Initiate (multiselector): You now gain +1 religious lore feat for every five levels gained, additionally you gain +4 Constitution, 100% Fortification, +10 to Fortitude Saves, and PRR and MRR equal to the number of Religious Lore feats you have, additionally your vampiric arsenal weapons now all count as favored weapons.

****Shadow Blade: If you have wizard or sorcerer levels and have spellswords, you now have access to an additional spellsword that deals negative energy damage. Additionally you may now use your nullification spellpower and spell critical chance to scale the damage of all spellswords if such is the highest compatible spellpower and/or spell critical chance.

**Annihilyght** · 10-08-2019, 09:23 AM

Yes, please.

**NemesisAlien** · 10-08-2019, 10:04 AM

Originally Posted by Lokeal_The_Flame

To understand the relevance of the included video, please do skip to 8:30

Core 1-You've survived the draining kiss of a succubus and as a result have become a true vampire. You are damaged by positive energy, can only heal by negative energy and take 150% damage from light but your melee and unarmed attacks have a (10%) chance to heal you for 1d3 Negative Energy damage per level. You gain immunity to energy drain effects. Inevitables and good aligned enemies now deal 20% extra damage to you. You gain the diehard feat, +25 spellpoints and +5 negative spellpower per level.

Core 2-+20 Negative healing amplification and +25 negative spellpower

Core 3-Dark Discorporation Guard

Core 4-+20 Negative Healing amplification and +25 negative spellpower

Core 5-Cursed Blows: Your melee and ranged attacks gain the effect of improved curse-spewing.

Core 6-Hunger Surge: For the next 5 minutes you enter a hunger surge, during this state you slowly leech health from any enemies within 15 meters of you. Additionally while in this state you project a 15 meter Aura a Menace, decreasing the saving throws, attack, and armor class of nearby enemies by 2. (8 minute cooldown).

Tier 1

****Succubus Companion: The Succubus that you survived a kiss from has decided to stick around and you are now able to summon her forth to fight by your side once per rest.
Cooldown: 20 seconds

This Succubus is a very strong ally to have with a level equal to your's. You can summon it in addition to any Summon Monster spell you might be using. Additional ranks in this enhancement increase her Damage, Attack Speed, Movement Speed, and Fortification.

****Vampiric Arsenal: You gain proficiency with Bastard swords, Longswords, Daggers, Kamas, and Sickles

****Vampiric familiarity: You gain true seeing

****Light Evasion: You have a 15/30/50% chance to evade light type damage

****Fear Itself: You gain fear immunity

****+1 to physical and magical resistance for every two levels gained (Maximum of +15 at level 30)

Tier 2

****Blood Sword: Using weapons from your vampiric arsenal you are now able to perform a cleave attack embodying your vampiric fervor, you perform a cleave attack that heals one d2 per character level and deals +1[W] damage.

****Succubus Companion II: Your Succubus companion gains a +2/+4/+6 Profane Bonus to Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution. Rank 3: You gain +1 Strength, Dexterity, and Constitution.

****Insatiable: Your melee attacks now deal 1 constitution damage on hit and +1d6 upon criticals

****Null Magic Guard: When you take damage, there is a [2/4/6]% chance that a burst of antimagic energy expands from your body. Nearby enemies are subject to a Dispel Magic effect, which may strip them of their magical protections, and will be rendered unable to cast spells and lose [2/3/4] Spell Resistance for [10/20/30] seconds.

****Uncanny Balance: You gain +5 to your balance skill, additionally 50% of your balance skill now represents your percentage chance to resist knockdown effects

Tier 3

****Blood sword II: The healing effect from your bloodsword attack now heals you for 1D3 per character level instead of 1D2 and your blood sword deals +2[W] damage.

****Succubus companion III: Your succubus companion gains +5/10/15 Profane Bonus to PRR, +3/6/10 to hit and damage, +2/4/6 Profane Bonus to AC, and its attacks bypass 10%/20%/50% of enemy Fortification and have a 10/15/20% chance to charm enemies to fight by your side instead of against you for up to 15 seconds.

****Insatiable II: Your attacks now deal 1D3 constitution damage per hit and 1D6 constitution damage on critical hit

****Multiselector: Choose one; SLA: Tensor's Transformation, SLA: Negative Energy Burst, SLA: Consume

****Null Magic Strike: Nullmagic Strike: Passive Bonus: Offensive spells you cast, melee and ranged attacks have a [5/10/15]% chance to subject the target to a Dispel Magic effect, which may strip them of their magical protections, and will render them unable to cast spells and lose [2/3/4] Spell Resistance for [10/20/30] seconds.

Tier 4

****Blood Sword III: Blood Sword now gains the ability to remove stat damage, curses, and diseases upon usage transferring them onto the foes struck with the blade. Additionally your blood sword now deals +3[W] damage.

****Vampiric Finesse (Multiselector): You may now use one of the following to determine hit and damage, choose one; Dexterity, Intelligence, Charisma

****Succubus Companion IV: Your Succubus Companion gains +35% doubleshot, lesser displacement, and regenerates a small amount of health every 10 seconds

****Vampiric Fighting (Multiselector): Choose one; when Single weapon fighting with one of your vampiric arsenal weapons you gain +20 melee power, when dual weilding weapons belonging to your vampiric arsenal you gain +25% offhand doublestrike, when wielding a shield along side a vampire arsenal weapon you gain +20% attack speed

****Insatiable III: Your attacks now bypass 15% of enemy fortification and have a

Tier 5

****Blood Sword IV: Your Bloodsword attack now additionally applies 1D20 stacks of vulnerable to the enemies struck with it and deals +5[W] damage

****Crimson Bond: Activate to attach your currently equipped weapons to yourself, giving you superior control over them. Until you unequip these items or rest, they deal +0.5[W] damage. (Cooldown: 15 seconds; Induction time: 2 seconds.)

****Improved Vampiric Arsenal: Your vampiric arsenal weapons gain an additional +5 to their weapon enhancement score

****Blood Of Vol Initiate (multiselector): You now gain +1 religious lore feat for every five levels gained, additionally you gain +4 Constitution, 100% Fortification, +10 to Fortitude Saves, and PRR and MRR equal to the number of Religious Lore feats you have, additionally your vampiric arsenal weapons now all count as favored weapons.

****Shadow Blade: If you have wizard or sorcerer levels and have spellswords, you now have access to an additional spellsword that deals negative energy damage. Additionally you may now use your nullification spellpower and spell critical chance to scale the damage of all spellswords.

Succubus Companion IV: Your Succubus Companion gains +35% doubleshot ??

True vampire dont get increase healing per level? Some true vampire...

**Ralmeth** · 10-09-2019, 05:53 PM

/No, unless a "Vampire Hunter" Paladin tree is added that is designed for and allowed to kill Vampire player characters. Oh wait, adding something for a Paladin isn't ever going to happen

**Kutalp** · 10-10-2019, 04:42 AM

Liked the idea.

(Just a note my humble knowledge about Succubi is they are Demon and Devil at different editions of D&D. Still, Vampiress is interesting since the Succubus and the Vampiress share a common specialty; being seductive even without enchanting poor male adventurers. Some common issue with with female villain/bad gurl archtype )

**droid327** · 10-10-2019, 10:11 AM

Undead with Diehard?

Undead dont get unconsciousness - they die immediately at 0 HP

**psykopeta** · 10-10-2019, 11:45 AM

Originally Posted by droid327

Undead with Diehard?

Undead dont get unconsciousness - they die immediately at 0 HP

that's what i said in some thread not long ago and lynnabel specifically said it's not that way anymore (iirc said something like when undead where incapaci****ed some weird thing was triggering to get that last damage til dead), didn't try tho

**Kutalp** · 10-10-2019, 12:57 PM

Originally Posted by droid327

Undead with Diehard?

Undead dont get unconsciousness - they die immediately at 0 HP

Well since this is D&D based live online game, anything could be flexed, elongated and shrinked thruugh the rabbit hole ?

Feat: Undiehard

An honorable developer changes the name of the feat with a decription;

Human translation from ancient Elvish : [ The necromancer hails the unforgiven and the unforgettable one who now enjoy his eternal rest. ' Oh ye beloved groom of whom that pays visit to your eternal restplace. Wakey wakey undying quakey ! Ye are the undying one. Time for ye to wake up and yawn for eternal life. Come now ye can kiss ye bride ! ' Animated groom moans in pain since the ugly bride had caused his heart failure that lead to death. Twenty years later he is pulled back from his eternal rest to get married once more ! Lightning strikes and evil laughter and such...]

and Elvish priest leaves the building...

**Lokeal_The_Flame** · 11-11-2019, 02:28 AM

Originally Posted by Kutalp

Well since this is D&D based live online game, anything could be flexed, elongated and shrinked thruugh the rabbit hole ?

Feat: Undiehard

An honorable developer changes the name of the feat with a decription;

Human translation from ancient Elvish : [ The necromancer hails the unforgiven and the unforgettable one who now enjoy his eternal rest. ' Oh ye beloved groom of whom that pays visit to your eternal restplace. Wakey wakey undying quakey ! Ye are the undying one. Time for ye to wake up and yawn for eternal life. Come now ye can kiss ye bride ! ' Animated groom moans in pain since the ugly bride had caused his heart failure that lead to death. Twenty years later he is pulled back from his eternal rest to get married once more ! Lightning strikes and evil laughter and such...]

and Elvish priest leaves the building...

Face it, powerful vampires are hard to kill, for Strahd we had to go through an elaborate ritual and even then, pushing him to 0 HP multiple times is proof enough......

How about something where the succubus that turned you wanting you to stay alive and thus bestowing "Stubborn Undeath" in which would have the same effects as Diehard?

**Lokeal_The_Flame** · 12-30-2019, 06:46 PM

I am currently using the falconry tree for a few buffs and the healing strike effect from the top tier!

I am also currently using the assassin tree for dexterity to damage and some buffs.

I am a full rogue Shadar-Kai rank 90

It would seem this tree I put together is deliciously versatile, I really wish it could become a reality!

**silinteresting** · 12-30-2019, 08:47 PM

Originally Posted by Annihilyght

Yes, please.

i could not of said it better myself.

i so want a shadow blade.

your friend sil

**Questdoer** · 01-01-2020, 12:07 PM

Hey this really good!

If you don't mind I kinda want to nitpick it now because that's what I do when I like a concept.

Core 1-You've survived the draining kiss of a succubus and as a result have become a true vampire. You are damaged by positive energy, can only heal by negative energy and take 150% damage from light but your melee and unarmed attacks have a (10%) chance to heal you for 1d3 Negative Energy damage per level. You gain immunity to energy drain effects. Inevitables and good aligned enemies now deal 20% extra damage to you. You gain the diehard feat, +25 spellpoints and +5 negative spellpower per level.

There aren't any enemies in the game that attack with positive energy.
Does this mean that your allies can hurt you?
Because I don't think that is really healthy for either player.

Core 2/4-+20 Negative healing amplification and +25 negative spellpower

This is quite a lot of power in one huge power spike.
Also what good does negative spellpower do you if you are not playing a caster class?
This is a universal tree right?
It should allow for all classes to at least work with it, even if they don't synergize very well with it.

What I would do is give you negative spellpower per AP spent, Negative healing amplification per core, and add inherent Death Aura SLAs that require some mini game to charge up.
Like hit enemies to gain charges, once you have X charges you get to cast death aura/lesser death aura for free.
Something like that.

Core 6-Hunger Surge: For the next 5 minutes you enter a hunger surge, during this state you slowly leech health from any enemies within 15 meters of you. Additionally while in this state you project a 15 meter Aura a Menace, decreasing the saving throws, attack, and armor class of nearby enemies by 2. (8 minute cooldown).

This is good, but as a capstone I think you should toss on a few passive stat increases to bring it in line with other similar capstones.

****Vampiric Arsenal: You gain proficiency with Bastard swords, Longswords, Daggers, Kamas, and Sickles

This is super nice and thematic but I just don't see people running around with Sickles due to their low damage profile and the lack of support for them in other trees.
I'm not sure how you could fix this to be honest.
Maybe give them special extra support scattered around the tree like rouge mechanic does for great crossbows?

****+1 to physical and magical resistance for every two levels gained (Maximum of +15 at level 30)

Nothing wrong here per say.
I just find level ramping stats like this a bit weird outside of Cores, or active abilities.

****Blood Sword: Using weapons from your vampiric arsenal you are now able to perform a cleave attack embodying your vampiric fervor, you perform a cleave attack that heals one d2 per character level and deals +1[W] damage.

Typo: Should say 1d2 per character level

****Blood sword II: The healing effect from your bloodsword attack now heals you for 1D3 per character level instead of 1D2 and your blood sword deals +2[W] damage.

1d2 to 1d3 is less than a 50% increase to the amount healed.
Seems just the slightest bit underwhelming for being a whole new spot on the tree.
Maybe 1d4 or 1d2+1 would be better?

****Multiselector: Choose one; SLA: Tensor's Transformation, SLA: Negative Energy Burst, SLA: Consume

Negative energy burst as a SLA is a bit much for a T3 enhancement.
And Consume really isn't that good without the rest of the Soul Eater tree to support it.

****Vampiric Fighting (Multiselector): Choose one; when Single weapon fighting with one of your vampiric arsenal weapons you gain +20 melee power, when dual weilding weapons belonging to your vampiric arsenal you gain +25% offhand doublestrike, when wielding a shield along side a vampire arsenal weapon you gain +20% attack speed

There should be a caster one for orbs/rune arms as well

****Insatiable III: Your attacks now bypass 15% of enemy fortification and have a

Typo: and have a... what?

****Crimson Bond: Activate to attach your currently equipped weapons to yourself, giving you superior control over them. Until you unequip these items or rest, they deal +0.5[W] damage. (Cooldown: 15 seconds; Induction time: 2 seconds.)

Maybe drop or change the wording of "attach your currently equipped weapons to yourself, giving you superior control over them."
It sounds a little too robot/flesh monstrosity to fit very well with the vampire theme.

****Blood Of Vol Initiate (multiselector): You now gain +1 religious lore feat for every five levels gained, additionally you gain +4 Constitution, 100% Fortification, +10 to Fortitude Saves, and PRR and MRR equal to the number of Religious Lore feats you have, additionally your vampiric arsenal weapons now all count as favored weapons.

4 Constitution, 100% Fortification, +10 to Fortitude Saves, is a bloody huge bonus for something that is always active.

****Shadow Blade: If you have wizard or sorcerer levels and have spellswords, you now have access to an additional spellsword that deals negative energy damage. Additionally you may now use your nullification spellpower and spell critical chance to scale the damage of all spellswords.

I don't think that requiring you to already have spellswords is necessary here.
Neither is the ability to use nullification spellpower and spell critical chance to scale the damage of all spellswords honestly.
Just give them a spellsword that deals 1d6 negative energy damage and mention that anything that effects the regular spellswords from the EK tree will also effects this one.

**Lokeal_The_Flame** · 01-01-2020, 04:55 PM