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Dhampir, an Original Race for D&D 5e $1.95
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Dhampir, an Original Race for D&D 5e
Publisher: Dungeon Masters Guild
by Garrett P. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 04/27/2018 19:04:00

Overall a very good choice. About as powerful as an elf with the subclasses to compare it with as well. All is fine and well, the subclasses lightly gimmicy but not in a bad way. Except for the Feral Dhampir, it is wildly overpowered level one.

Because +2 Con, +1 Str, this encourages the Barbarian Playstyle out the gate. So at level one you can use your feral claws ability. This gives you a level one mind you, 1d12 magical weapon plus your strength modifier. This is Absurd. I recomend you instead make the claws do 1d(Half PC Level) instead of Class Hit Die. This keeps your ability in check and ready for when you need magical weapons in mind. As this is almost always late game or mid game for players.

Now aside from that one take away, this is a fun class with its pros and cons and I respect it a bunch. I don't know if I'd play it but I'm allowing it in my campaigns now for play testing. I'll post more if and when that happens but I'm happy with it.



Rating:
[4 of 5 Stars!]
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Dhampir, an Original Race for D&D 5e
Publisher: Dungeon Masters Guild
by Luc C. [Verified Purchaser]
Date Added: 05/01/2016 03:51:39

Awesome Book, really like how this ended up, definitely gonna use this in my campaigns. the only reason i gave it 4 out of 5 stars is simply because it lacks of a way for the dhampir to regenerates its hit dices. usually a player uses the hit dices to surges thru his hit points. but with the race using the most of the hit dices it means it has no way to regenrates life based on it. and since hit dices regenerates only half of it of them after a long rest, that means the dhampir is stuck with only half hit dices all the times. all of those makes the race really really weak mechanically. they already have sunlight sensitivity which sucks badly on its own. also there is one mecanic that the dhampir is missing, and thats his bloodlust or bite attack to drain blood. because dhampir do have the curse of the bloodlust. so as a way to counter act the problem of hit dices, i'd have them have a bite attack, that if sucessfull on a creature, they can use their action to drain hit dices from the victim and add them to their own.

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  • great stuff, but missing a crucial mechanic. that is the bite of the dhampir to regain hit dices.


Rating:
[4 of 5 Stars!]
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