https://www.drivethrurpg.com/product/124387/Feed
https://www.amazon.com/Feed-Vampire-Mythos-Roleplaying-Game/dp/1492726125

(Decided to spin this off from the Evangelist thread.) Feed is a rules lite RPG that provides a toolkit for running games about vampires, similar in intent to the old GURPS Blood Types. It is very toolkit: there are rules for inventing your own vampire strain with whatever properties you desire, freeform character traits rather than fixed lists of attributes/skills/etc, four sample settings with wildly different takes on vampirism are provided, and one chapter discusses the various trends in vampire fiction over the last two centuries and how to emulate them.

The rules do have one mechanic that applies regardless of setting or strain: a humanity mechanic. Before you leave, hear me out: characters are described using 16 freeform abstracted traits sorted into 4 categories (with the equivalent of an unskilled penalty being rated as 4 general traits). These start out as human traits like "assistant cake decorator" or "excellent nightvision", but as characters alienate these traits during roleplay they can lose them and replace them with vampiric traits that represent superpowers and social connections. Vampiric traits are just better and cooler than human traits, but the downside is that gaining them makes a character more susceptible to hunger and (for roleplay purposes) less able to interact like a normal person.

There's no alignment system or anything like that. One of the sample settings is about playing evil b-movie vampires, and here human traits are valued only as cover for the character's activities. (Yes, you can play as Jerry Dandrige right out of the box.)

It's not for everyone and the abstracted nature of the rules may be off-putting to certain tastes, but I've gone through a number of systems for vampires specifically and this is the one that appealed to me the most. Unfortunately, there's no community for it. After the dev released the book, he stopped providing further support and interest seems to have petered out.

I've had the book for quite some time now and I know some people in a vampire fiction Discord channel that have been reading it and designing stuff for it.  If you are interested, I bet we could get a few of us together to some online sessions.

Quote from: Batjon on February 01, 2022, 02:18:31 PM
I've had the book for quite some time now and I know some people in a vampire fiction Discord channel that have been reading it and designing stuff for it.  If you are interested, I bet we could get a few of us together to some online sessions.

Are you talking about Maven of the Eventide's discord?

Quote from: BoxCrayonTales on February 01, 2022, 06:40:51 PM

Quote from: Batjon on February 01, 2022, 02:18:31 PM
I've had the book for quite some time now and I know some people in a vampire fiction Discord channel that have been reading it and designing stuff for it.  If you are interested, I bet we could get a few of us together to some online sessions.

Are you talking about Maven of the Eventide's discord?

Yes indeed.

I've made conversions adapted from Nightlife, White Wolf, and Everlasting. From there I don't have a lot more ideas besides picking various vampire movies/books and adapting those. I haven't adapted C.J. Carella's WitchCraft yet. From what I understand, those vampires are a kind of revenant, but apparently can also be "seduced into undeath by another Vampyre."