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Indeed they have had special treatment of some sort pretty much since 7th . One of the few good things AoS First Edition (and most of Second, which was much better) did was give us a break from them... but from the end of Second onwards it's been a Vampirefest

 

Query. Is there any vampire fiction from any medium (movies, tv shows, video games, wargames, etc.) that you actually enjoyed, or do you universally hate them across the board?

 

I enjoyed Van Helsing and Dracula Untold, but partly because both of those involved fighting the taint of Vampirism more than anything.

I'm just not fond of them as a whole... I find them to be an overused trope in literature (the Twilight fetish of the early 2010s probably influenced my feelings in part here but there are other offenders as well) and generally they're used pretty unimaginatively. GW's renewed obsession with milking all the usual tropes revolving around them lately have revived that flame of disdain.

 

Here is a 'The Hobbit' miniature for you



Again with Orcs though

Grrr, !mrahil

 

A good model, and about time they made one of those, but it's Forge World Resin so it's going to be crazily expensive and maybe a pain to make if the resin warps. A shame, because the sculpt really is good...

 

Imho, the biggest problem is that GW tries to milk the traditional tropes of haughty arrogant nobles that constantly bicker, while still claiming they are a coherent faction united by Nagash. They can't even really get the tropes right.

 

Could something like a Saurus, Skink or Kroxigor be turned into a Vampire? Surely not a Slann.

 

What I heard, but should be taken with a spoonful of salt, is that while lizardmen are tailor made to be as resistant as one can possibly be to Chaos, other forms of corruption still have potential to corrupt them. Vampirism included.

If there are any canonical mentions of such events, I would imagine that they would be more likely to be in the earlier editions, when the lore was still very much in flux.

 

Whilst it's possible for lizardmen to be brought back as skeletons or zombies (and thus quite likely as Wights as well), with nothing to say of a certain 1st-Gen slann who willed himself back into his own corpse after he died, there's not really any supporting literature to suggest that lizardmen can be subjected to vampirism, though that's also not evidence of absence in itself.

 

Depends if the Vampire was able to perform their unique Blood Kiss upon the captive Lizardman. Good luck with that if you're trying to do it on anything other than a Skink...

 

Meh, in between their magic and their superhuman strength, not to mention an endless supply of zombies and skeletons who can be sacrificed in the process, it should be doable to hold a lizardman down for long enough to bite him.

Really, with sufficiently powerfull magic there really aren't any targets that you couldn't bind long enough to bite.

 

Vampire: Nwa ah aaah... Yes, my saurus friend, now I shall give unto you the blood kiss.
Vampire: Leans in to bite the saurus
Saurus: Leans forward and bites the vampire first, ripping out his trachea with naught but his teeth
Saurus: Anybody else want to give me a kiss?
Other Vampire: No... I'm really not into that sort of thing.

 

So if the Lizardmen race(s) are not immune from the curse of vamparism, is there any race in the Warhammer fantasy universe that is?

 

Tomb Kings?

 

Demons as well.
Basicly anything that doesn't have blood I suppose.

Orcs maybe? Or are they not fungus in WHF?

 

I might attempt to kiss a saurus. And then find out what ground beef feels like

 

Wouldn't a vampire ogre just be a slightly magical ogre? Ogres are already driven by a blind hunger, adding onto that a blood curse doesn't really change anything.