The troll shambled closer. He was perhaps eight feet tall, perhaps more. His forward stoop, with arms dangling past thick claw-footed legs to the ground, made it hard to tell. The hairless green skin moved upon his body. His head was a gash of a mouth, a yard-long nose, and two eyes which were black pools, without pupil or white, eyes which drank the feeble torchlight and never gave back a gleam.

This is going to be a short and to the point mechanical article about my homebrew redesign of vampires in Basic Fantasy. As well, because Halloween is coming up I thought I’d cover a couple monsters and give them some hefty overhauls. In standard Basic Fantasy, vampires are an extremely dangerous foe to fight, having access to Level draining and being immune to all non-magical weapons. This makes them very deadly but somewhat one note, they are what some might call a trick monster, they are nasty to fight unless you know their weakness or singular trick they do.