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| Designers | Grate Lane |
|---|---|
| Publishers | Steve Jackson Games |
| Publication | 1995 |
| Genres | Horror |
| Systems | GURPS 3rd edition |
GURPS Blood Types (ISBN 1-55634-113-X) is a 128-page soft-bound book compiled by Lane Grate and published in 1995 by Steve Jackson Games as a supplement for the third edition GURPS role-playing game system. It contains biographies and gaming statistics for 23 vampiress, vampire-like beings, and guidelines on creating more for various campaign settings.
The three broad types
GURPS Blood Types breaks vampire and vampire-like beings into three broad types:
Mortal Vampires--Living beings who have become vampires through some pact or deal. Generally they are not undead.
Undead--Once living beings who have come back from the dead to feed on the living
Spirit and other worldly beings--Otherworldly parasitic beings that masquerade as a member of a mortal race.
Vampire Types
Those with a ^ can be active in daylight
- Adze^, supernatural entity vampire from central Africa mainly Ghana and Togo.
- Alien^, otherworldly vampire--may or may not be supernatural in nature.
- Astral^, mortal vampire (sorcerer) found around the world. Some examples are Bebarlang of Southeast Asia and Philippines and the Chordewa of Bangal hill tribes.
- Baital^, supernatural entity vampire from India.
- Ch'iang Shich, undead vampire from China.
- Civateteo^, an undead vampire of Mesoamerica. Another variant of this from the same region is the Langsoir.
- Gaki^, supernatural vampire-like being from Japan--may either be animated corpse or otherworldly spirit
- Ghul^, Mortal vampire (flesh eater) from Arabian folktales
- Gothic, undead vampire made famous by Dracula and most of the movie variants inspired by it
- Half-Vampire^, Mortal vampire that is usually a servant or slave to the Gothic type
- High-Tech^, Mortal vampire created via super science
- Human^, Mortal Vampire who feels the need to drink another's blood
- Incubus (Demon)/Succubus^, supernatural vampire-like entity that drains life via sexual contact rather than blood
- Lamia^, undead/supernatural entity from ancient Greece.
- Lilitu^, supernatural entity vampire from ancient Mesopotamia. Given their name an nature they may have connection to Adam's first wife (Lilith).
- Loogaroo^, Mortal vampire (soul pact) of Haiti
- Modern, Updated version of Gothic vampire type
- Nosferatu, In the context of GURPS Blood Types it is the vampire seen in the film Nosferatu
- Penanggalen^, Female mortal vampire (soul pact) of Malay Peninsula. Male counterpart in Berma is the Kephn Can only feed at night
- Strix, Mortal vampire (witch) of ancient Rome
- Usrel, Undead child vampire of Poland. If not properly destroyed can rise again as another type.
- Vampir, Traditional undead European vampire of the Slavic nations. Usually attacks in astral form and is more likely to be a peasant than nobel
- Vyrolakos^, Traditional undead European vampire of the Balkan nations. Usually attacks physically and in the legend would often take human mates and have families. Tympanios is a precursor variant that was less insane and did not depend on blood