Talk:Conqueror of the Sun (5e Race)

First things off... This is poorly conceptualized as a race. They can have any humanoid origin? So they aren't really a race. They are more like a curse placed on a race that modifies it. Even the Vampire (5e Race) needs a ton of writing to justify it as a race, and that is entirely lacking here.

Vampires are also naturally a high-level creature, not very suitable for level 1 PCs. The original race page on this wiki as a result puts a design disclaimer across the top. This doesn't take any of that into regard. It also is not that much weaker than the original page and seems like a total cheese.

Aside from that, let's look at this thing from a balance perspective:

• +4 ASI. Already above average. Most starting races get +3
• 40 movement speed and also effective climbing speed
• 90 feet of darkvision.
• 2 damage type resistances (races that have resistances usually have 1)
• Drinking blood restores HP. So this replaces the lack of ability to drink healing potions with something actually BETTER. You get at-will healing from draining something like a corpse and keeping blood around. Heck, you could drink from animals. You don't even need potions
• This bite attack also gives healing (geez) and it scales. Why does this daywalker have such strong natural weapons? "Attack mod" also is still not 5e terminology
• Claws has similar issue to bite in terms of scaling.
• "Mastered the skill of X and Y" isn't 5e terminology. I SORELY hope you mean proficiency.
• There is also weird language of things like "solar damage" which does not exist in 5e
• The polymorph feat is stronger than even the shapeshifter feat of the original vampire page. Not sure why that is if this is a weaker vampire.
• Animated bite is also stronger.

Overall, this page is a mess in conceptualization, terminology, and balance. Efforts made to address balance in particular have not been very faithful in terms of trying to balance this per first-party or even to the standard of the original.

I really don't think this should even be a race. If it has to be a race, it has to be more rigorously balanced to be remotely playable.--Yanied (talk) 00:52, 12 May 2025 (UTC)