Well, from *our/my *folktales. Not this modern fiction stuff with sparkly vampires and such.
I don’t believe I even mentioned the abomination that is the sparklepire, I’m talking the classic Hollywood (Stokerian) interpretation, perhaps the “Revenant/Modern Vampires” version
Or in the White Wolf LARP-verse I’d see myself as Gangrel/Brujah, but no prissy Toreador or crazy Malkavian…
Well, if dusting myself in glitter and trying to pass myself off as a modern
metro-hematophage wont work…
Wooden stake to pin it in place and then lop the head off with a khukri.
Actually a lot of the traditional folklore vampires are ravenous sexual monsters. Some female types even have fangs in their vaginas.
Sorry that was meant as a reply to Post #60
Well, I suppose in a way with our/my folklore, since the act of drinking the blood is often called out as organismic. But few of us would think of that as “sex”.
Stooges-style poke in the eyes, then switch between saying “Abracadabra”, “Hocus Pocus”, “Pocuscadabra”, and Abracapocus" until he runs out of the house screaming.
“Newport News.”
Lots of garlic, crosses, crucifixes and rosaries. Being Catholic=payoff!
I move that we adopt a Whedonverse vampire ruleset.
I vote for Brahm Stoker. 
I’ve got a bunch of garlic on top of the refrigerator, a Bible in the closet, and a shillelagh by the front door. Plus, if I need to decapitate it once it’s down, a sword in another closet. I should probably be OK.
Can you put vampires to sleep with Brahm’s Lullaby?
I doubt it, they sleep all day long.
See Stephen King’s excellent 'Salem’s Lot for an interesting discussion of this.
Poor Father Callahan…
Have any of you seen me when I’m awakened at 3 am??? No? Well trust me, that’s enough to scare ANY vampire.
However, if it’s a blind vampire, I have a basket of fresh garlic on the kitchen counter, minced garlic in the fridge, garlic powder in the Costco size in the cupboard and a sizeable cross I purchase and had blessed when I visited Medjugorge. He couldn’t see that, being blind and all, but I could bop him in the head with it or something.
I’m a reasonably devout Catholic. I attend mass about once a month. God might decide I’m worth a save.
Well I have a Katana handy. Unfortunately, I know it’s not silvered, and the blacksmith at the Ren faire never mentioned anything about it being magic. And sadly my class feats all revolve around computer programming, and aren’t likely to help very much.
So I’d basically need to crit to overcome his damage reduction enough to even scratch him.
I got ordained several years ago (Universal Life Church represent!), so I’ll be packin’ holy water in my supersoaker.