Quick and completely unplaytested rulesetlet I ran up for the season.
The intention is to have this act as an overlay for an otherwise standard DW game in which all players are playing vampire characters. Feedback and notes from anyone able to try it at table very welcome!
Dungeon World Vampires
1. Characters can be assumed to be much stronger, faster and tougher than normal humans, see well in the dark and have enhanced senses. This should be reflected in the fiction.
2. While characters may attack with weapons, they may also attack with claws and fangs with no drawbacks other than range.
3. The Make Camp rules work as usual with one exception:
Characters do not regain hit points upon rest. Instead, vampire characters must drink the blood of the living which functions as a Cure Light Wounds(1d8). Unwilling victims require an appropriate Defy Danger roll to feed from and partial successes and failures may endanger the victim if appropriate. (Progressive advanced moves may allow feeding to act as Cure Moderate, and Cure Critical respectively).
4. Being exposed to Sunlight automatically triggers a Last Breath Move.
5. Characters have a natural 2 Armor against all normal attacks, this stacks with additional armor. Magic penetrates this resistance as does all fire which additionally does double normal damage.
6. Characters must also Defy Danger (with Charisma) to abide an uncontained fire or fire wielded as a weapon, or flee as quickly as possible from the source.
7. A character may also be incapacitated by an opponent wielding a wooden stake. This may either be represented by a coup de gras when the character has been reduced to zero hp, or as a hard move in combat when appropriate. While incapacitated the character can perceive everything that goes on around them but is completely paralyzed and unable to communicate so long as they are staked through the heart.
8. A vampire character can only be permanently destroyed through exposure to sunlight, fire, ritual, or beheading. Even if the character is otherwise completely dismembered they will rise again the next night Hungry, at 1 hp. A hungry character must roll Defy Danger (again with Charisma) to resist feeding on the nearest available target.
9. A character may heal others by allowing them to drink their blood, acting as the above move, even for mortals except the character will loose the amount of hp gained by the drinker. Hirelings can be bonded in this way with the new cost: Blood.
