Vampire (starting race in dNetHack) - Revision history

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 {{otheruses|the playable race in dNetHack, notdNetHack and notnotdNetHack|the race in other variants|Vampire (starting race)}}
 {{for|other instances of the term|Vampire (disambiguation)}}
-'''Vampires''' are one of the playable [[race]]s available to a [[hero]] in [[dNetHack]], [[notdNetHack]] and [[notnotdNetHack]]. A vampire hero will appear as {{white|V}} if the <tt>[[showrace]]</tt> option is set on, and is part of the [[Vampire (monster class)|vampire]] [[monster class]].
+'''Vampires''' are one of the playable [[race]]s available to a [[hero]] in [[dNetHack]], [[notdNetHack]] and [[notnotdNetHack]]. A vampire hero is part of the [[Vampire (monster class)|vampire]] [[monster class]], and will appear as {{white|V}} if the <tt>[[showrace]]</tt> option is set on.
 == Properties ==
 *Vampires may be [[Archeologist/dNetHack|Archeologists]], [[Anachrononaut]]s, [[Barbarian/dNetHack|Barbarians]], [[Binder]]s, [[Convict/dNetHack|Convicts]], [[Madpeople]], [[Noble]]s, [[Rogue/dNetHack|Rogues]] or [[Wizard/dNetHack|Wizards]].
 *Vampires are unbreathing and start the game with poison resistance, drain resistance, sleep resistance, flying and [[regeneration]]. They gain cold resistance at experience level 11 and [[polymorph control]] at level 21.

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+{{otheruses|the playable race in dNetHack, notdNetHack and notnotdNetHack|the race in other variants|Vampire (starting race)}}
-[[dNetHack]] offers a new playable [[race]], Vampire.
+{{for|other instances of the term|Vampire (disambiguation)}}
 == Properties ==

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 == Properties ==
-*Vampires may be [[Archeologist]]s, [[Anachrononaut]]s, [[Barbarian]]s, [[Binder]]s, [[Convict]]s, [[Madpeople]], [[Noble]]s, [[Rogue]]s or [[Wizard]]s.
+*Vampires may be [[Archeologist/dNetHack|Archeologists]], [[Anachrononaut]]s, [[Barbarian/dNetHack|Barbarians]], [[Binder]]s, [[Convict/dNetHack|Convicts]], [[Madpeople]], [[Noble]]s, [[Rogue/dNetHack|Rogues]] or [[Wizard/dNetHack|Wizards]].
 *Vampires are unbreathing and start the game with poison resistance, drain resistance, sleep resistance, flying and [[regeneration]]. They gain cold resistance at experience level 11 and [[polymorph control]] at level 21.
 **Note that as a vampire, uncontrolled polymorph will always shift you between your normal form and the form of a [[vampire bat]]. Vampire bats aren't really a good form, but this does make early game polymorph sometimes less threatening.

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 == Properties ==
-*Vampires may be [[Archeologist]]s, [[Anachrononaut]]s, [[Barbarian]]s, [[Binder]]s, [[Convict]]s, [[Madman (dNetHack role)|Madmen]], [[Noble]]s, [[Rogue]]s or [[Wizard]]s.
+*Vampires may be [[Archeologist]]s, [[Anachrononaut]]s, [[Barbarian]]s, [[Binder]]s, [[Convict]]s, [[Madpeople]], [[Noble]]s, [[Rogue]]s or [[Wizard]]s.
 *Vampires are unbreathing and start the game with poison resistance, drain resistance, sleep resistance, flying and [[regeneration]]. They gain cold resistance at experience level 11 and [[polymorph control]] at level 21.
 **Note that as a vampire, uncontrolled polymorph will always shift you between your normal form and the form of a [[vampire bat]]. Vampire bats aren't really a good form, but this does make early game polymorph sometimes less threatening.

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 *Vampires are weldproof, meaning they can wield or wear cursed items and remove them at will. This also removes the chance for cursed ammunition to slip, but does not affect the behavior of consumables or loadstones.
 **Note that this can have downsides, such as if you usually curse your weapon late-game to prevent it from being stolen.
-*Neutral gods are ambivalent about undead player vampires, and have a 10% chance to resent prayers directed at them. This makes prayer unreliable for neutral vampires.
+*Neutral gods are ambivalent about undead player vampires, and have a 10% chance of resenting prayers directed at them. This makes prayer unreliable for neutral vampires.
 *Vampires have two special abilities - the ability to [[turn undead]] similar to a [[Priest]], and the ability to raise undead vampiric minions.
 **Vampires can [[turn undead]] by focusing their "vampiric aura". This functions almost identically to the ability when used by a chaotic Priest, but with some minor differences. They can do so without having to worry about location or god anger status, since their abilities aren't divine, but cannot make turning instant by paying 30 power like a [[Priest]] can. In addition, undead pacified by your vampiric aura will become tame if possible.

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 **Corpses of blood-having monsters may be drained within a 3 turn window for some nutrition, albeit less than eating the corpse would have given.
 **Intrinsics and special effects may be obtained from draining a corpse. Draining a newt corpse may e.g result in feeling a mild buzz, while draining a bat corpse will stun you.
-**Vampires also have a special feeding attack that may trigger in melee, giving minor nutrition and draining a level from the enemy. This bite attack does not require that the target has blood. Feeding on a monster in combat does not confer any intrinsics or special effects.
+**Vampires also have a special feeding attack that may trigger in melee, giving minor nutrition and draining a level from the enemy. This bite attack does not require that the target has blood. Feeding on a monster in combat does not confer any intrinsics or special effects. The bite attack does not trigger when fighting opponents such as [[cockatrice]]s.
 **Tinning kits will make blood potions for vampires, with cursed blood potions providing the best nutrition of all options (3/5ths of corpse value). Blessed blood potions are congealed and inedible. Vampires will benefit from a ring of slow digestion.
 **A vampire's natural hunger rate gets halved at level 10, reduced to a third at level 20, and reduced to a quarter at level 30. This does not stack with slow digestion, and is in fact completely superseded by it.

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 *Vampires may be [[Archeologist]]s, [[Anachrononaut]]s, [[Barbarian]]s, [[Binder]]s, [[Convict]]s, [[Noble]]s, [[Rogue]]s or [[Wizard]]s.
-*Vampires are unbreathing and start the game with poison resistance, drain resistance, sleep resistance, flying and regeneration. They gain cold resistance at experience level 11 and [[polymorph control]] at level 21.
+*Vampires are unbreathing and start the game with poison resistance, drain resistance, sleep resistance, flying and [[regeneration]]. They gain cold resistance at experience level 11 and [[polymorph control]] at level 21.
 **Note that as a vampire, uncontrolled polymorph will always shift you between your normal form and the form of a [[vampire bat]]. Vampire bats aren't really a good form, but this does make early game polymorph sometimes less threatening.
 *Vampires need to feed on blood, preventing them from eating food normally. Note that a vampire also burns nutrition quite fast considering they start with intrinsic regeneration.
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 **Vampires also have a special feeding attack that may trigger in melee, giving minor nutrition and draining a level from the enemy. This bite attack does not require that the target has blood.
 **Tinning kits will make blood potions for vampires, with cursed blood potions providing the best nutrition of all options (3/5ths of corpse value). Blessed blood potions are congealed and inedible. Vampires will benefit from a ring of slow digestion.
-**A vampire's natural hunger rate gets halved at level 10, reduced to a third at level 20, and reduced to quarter at level 30. This does not stack with slow digestion, and is in fact completely superseded by it.
+**A vampire's natural hunger rate gets halved at level 10, reduced to a third at level 20, and reduced to a quarter at level 30. This does not stack with slow digestion, and is in fact completely superseded by it.
-*Vampires are silver-hating and holy-hating. This means they will take the standard increased damage from silver or holy items. They will also suffer penalties to their natural regeneration rate for silver or blessed items that touch their skin, with the message that you feel "itchy" or "itchier" when equipping the item, or "relief" or "relieved when unequipping.
+*Vampires are silver-hating and holy-hating. This means they will take the standard increased damage from silver or holy items. They will also suffer penalties to their natural regeneration rate for silver or blessed items that touch their skin, with the message that you feel "itchy" or "itchier" when equipping the item, or "relief" or "relieved" when unequipping.
-**This penalty is larger for silver than it is for blessed items, and it is cumulative. More applicable items will decrease the penalty additively.
+**This penalty is larger for silver than it is for blessed items, and it is cumulative. More applicable items will increase the penalty additively.
 **This only applies for items directly touching your skin, so for example a silver saber will not irritate you if you're wearing gloves.
 *Vampires are weldproof, meaning they can wield or wear cursed items and remove them at will. This also removes the chance for cursed ammunition to slip, but does not affect the behavior of consumables or loadstones.
-**Note that this can have downsides, if you plan on cursing your weapon late-game to prevent it from being stolen.
+**Note that this can have downsides, such as if you usually curse your weapon late-game to prevent it from being stolen.
 *Neutral gods are ambivalent about undead player vampires, and have a 10% chance to resent prayers directed at them. This makes prayer unreliable for neutral vampires.
 *Vampires have two special abilities - the ability to [[turn undead]] similar to a [[Priest]], and the ability to raise undead vampiric minions.
 **Vampires can [[turn undead]] by focusing their "vampiric aura". This functions almost identically to the ability when used by a chaotic Priest, but with some minor differences. They can do so without having to worry about location or god anger status, since their abilities aren't divine, but cannot make turning instant by paying 30 power like a [[Priest]] can. In addition, undead pacified by your vampiric aura will become tame if possible.
-**Vampires can also create vampiric minions with access to an appropriate drained corpse. The corpse must be fully drained, and cannot be of an untamable or unique monster. If successful, you will lose one experience level and the corpse will arise as a vampiric version of its former self.
+**Vampires with access to an appropriate drained corpse can also create vampiric minions. The corpse must be fully drained, and cannot be of an untamable or unique monster. If successful, you will lose one experience level and the corpse will arise as a vampiric version of its former self.
-***Vampiric monsters, regardless of previous status: become breathless, count as [[follower]]s, lose the ability to hide under items or on the ceiling, cannot be seen by infravision, gain sleep and poison resistance as well as cold resistance if they are at least level 10, and lose any weakness to unholy items while gaining a weakness to holy items.
+***Vampiric monsters, regardless of previous status: become breathless; count as [[follower]]s; lose the ability to hide under items or on the ceiling; cannot be seen by infravision; gain sleep and poison resistance as well as cold resistance if they are at least level 10; and lose any weakness to unholy items while gaining a weakness to holy items.
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