Monster Manual Design Changes! (MD 226)

5238.598 - 5275.292 Sean Merwin

thralls of a vampire who are humanoid, not undead, but humanoids, but who have this connection to the vampire and allow the vampire to do things through this familiar without actually being there. And so there are many times when we've told stories in previous editions of D&D, including 2014, where we sort of had to rely on the vampire spawn, which is okay except they're undead.