Editing Vampire (section)

====Deadlands====
In [[Deadlands]], vampires first appeared in the story/adventure module combination "Dime Novel" series, where the third volume "Night Train" featured the Great Rail War getting bloodier because evil Voodooist Baron LaCroix has gathered up a bunch of [[nosferatu]] and allowed them to set up shop in trains he's smuggled onto his rivals' tracks, allowing them to ravage the [[Weird West]]. The second major source was "Rascals, Varmints & Critters 2", which reprinted Nosferatu stats alongside states for Cinematic Vampires, Penanggalans and Ustrels. It also provided stats for Dracula himself and rules for playing a vampire in the Deadlands Classic system. Finally, "The Great Maze" introduced the [[Jiangshi]] and issue #3 of the official magazine "The Epitaph" finished the deal with Nachtzehers, Shtrigas and Upirs.

Vampire strains known to exist in the Deadlands universe consist of the following:
* [[Nosferatu]] (with a more powerful variant called the "Ancient Ones")
* Cinematic Vampire (your Gothic Horror style vampire, also a playable "race")
* [[Jiangshi]]
* [[Penanggalan]] (spelled with two Ls here)
* Ustrel (a child vampire born from a child who died of neglect, which prefers to feed on animals and has a voracious appetite)
* Nachtzeher (a fangless, ghoul-like vampire that chews on corpses to extract blood and which is marked by its heavily gnawed extremities, a result of its initial hunger upon rising)
* Shtriga (a female witch who feed on blood to fuel her magic and preserve her youth, characterized by her tendency of gorging herself until her belly bloats up like a pregnant woman's and she messily vomits up what she can't fit near the site of her kill)
* Upir (powerful vampires who prefer to strangle their prey before feeding from their tongue)