In addition, you may choose to spend up to one-fourth of your hit dice (minimum of one) to deal extra necrotic damage to the target by drinking their blood. If you hit with it, you deal piercing damage equal to ld4 + your Strength modifier, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike. Your set of fangs is a natural weapon, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. For every ten days you go without drinking blood, you suffer one level of exhaustion.

Instead of food and drink, your new form requires blood to sustain itself.

You do not need to eat or breathe, but you can ingest food and drink if you wish. Instead of sleeping, to gain the benefits of a long rest, you can spend all 8 hours doing light activity. Raised from the dead as a being of undeath, you count as an undead creature for all spells and abilities that affect undead. Racial FeaturesĪs a vampire, you gain the following additional racial features: Undead This is a racial template meant to be applied to an existing playable race at your Dungeon Master's discretion. 'The world seems full of good men, even if there are monsters in it.' - Bram Stoker, Dracula

5th edition playable races