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Originally Posted by Hedgehobbit
There is a book called "Vampires: Burial and Death" which explores vampires legends and relates them to how a real human body decomposes. While its interesting (especially where it relates how "staking" started), its disappointing to learn how silly early vampire legends were and little the real vampire stories relate to modern vampire. The author talks a bit about Bram Stoker and speculates on why he changed various things.
Because of that book, all my vampire knowledge is pretty jumbled up and its hard to remember where I first heard of various bits of vampire lore.
Aaron
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You are totally right, the original vampire is /nothing/ like the modern one. They are more like ghosts or zombies, haunting their former loved ones and all that, which from a roleplaying perspective, is kind of lame.
However, I like your vampire gangster idea, it definitely has some merit.