How would you go about playing an interesting vampire PC without

VtM. I played Hobo Jezus (malk). He tried to help out whomever he could. Didn't survive very long. Got eaten by another PC.

>>51054622
Someone seeking a cure? (Assuming one exists within your setting?)

>>51054622
But vampire PCs in games not designed around them ARE snowflakes.

>>51054622
Maybe some kind of scientist or archaeologist?

He could have decided to become a vampire in order to expand his lifespan, so that he can do more research.

>>51054622
>Dress like a normal person
>Don't be brooding
>Don't kill people just 'cause, but also: don't deny you need the blood
>In other words: be ok with your vampirism, but don't revel in it
>Don't use a katana
>Don't use blood magic
>Have some companions and/or friends
>Have a laugh when you can
>Shed a tear when moved to
>Be a normie

>>51055085
Also: be a Bard

>>51054622

Yes. The important thing is to reek of desperation. Wild-eyed desperation. Desperation is never edgy, especially if you behave like a guy who's caught in a trap and is desperately seeking a way out. Jump at every chance at a cure.

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>>51054622
I played a vampire once. It's pretty hard to get around the edgy when you have to sneak into bedrooms to drink blood. I just played him as a honestly good guy who was eccentric and more than a little grandiose as well as being behind the times who never drank enough blood to kill anyone.

>party meets another vampire that's killing people
>it was all about him having to feed due to a greater curse so he was literally draining people
>they call him a liar and accuse him of doing it for pleasure because they know from me that the blood has to be from a pure and beautiful maiden
>my face the entire time

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The solution to your dilemma came to me long ago, OP. It was when I discovered three fourths of my hospital staff were vampires.

Thank you Dwarf Fortress.

So ... play a doctor. Just have a care with talking shop, and who you mouth off to.

Unfortunately, we've passed the media saturation singularity past which every attempt to play a character is cliche and every attempt to play it differently is the cliche of trying to avoid the cliche. The only way to do it is to play them as a completely normal, boring person, but that's also the cliche of trying to avoid cliches.

>>51054622
Take a look at Regis from the Witcher 3. Very good example if you're looking for interesting without edge

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>>51054622
you've just gave me an excuse to post this

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>>51054622
Based Devlin

>>51055367
that actually reminded me of that one time Stalker had a "vampire" who turns out he had a blood addiction and started murdering other stalkers to drink their blood. He was a doctor that disappeared after you met him for a while

>>51055452
I think you need to take a break from roleplaying games

>>51054622
Took a hefty amount of inspiration from Horst Cabal. Turned out pretty okay.

Play them like the characters of What do We do in the Shadows

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>>51054622
I made it absolutely hammy

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Just be like this guy

>>51055504
I'm way too casual for DF, but I always enjoy reading the stories about it.