It depends on what kind of board. I've never really wanted to join a vampire rpg, so I don't look for them, and therefore I have no idea how many there are. But when people bring vampires onto other boards like Harry Potter, I can understand it, but one member joined, made his character 456 years old or something, and then said "he felt like going back to Hogwarts." And then he made a friend join, and made her make a vampire as well. And it's not as if they did anything vampire-like, except for say that they were over 300 years old. So it's like; what's the point in that? They weren't canons characters either, they were both original. So yeah. I put 'sometimes' xD

I rarely say things are overdone, because if you do it in an original and creative matter, it doesn't matter if there are a dozen other sites who feature vampires. The way you approach the idea makes all the difference in the world!

But that's the main problem for me. XD Because I don't see the appeal in vampire rpg's, I only see them on HP roleplays. And it just gets tiring, because the ones I see just say that they're really old, and that's the only thing they really talk about.

I don't often do Harry Potter RPGs, but I never understand vampires in them... because the way I saw it, they weren't very Anne Rice/Twilight-y in nature. (and people love those types of vampys..) I don't recall them going to Hogwarts, either... hehe.

But I s'pose that even that couldbe done in an innovative way, if someone was creative, a good writer and was dedicated to making it different. ^^

The only vampires that would really be able to Hogwarts would be an 11-18 year old son/daughter of a vampire. xD I wouldn't have accepted the guy who registered unless he changed his character's age. It's not as if the school would make the mistake of letting a 400 year old vampire into a school full of eighteen year olds. <<

We had to put a block on new vampires on my site for a time. It was simply getting over-run. However, some of them have left now and I am more than happy to accept vampires again. I think that a lot of fiction deals with them and there seems to be something very popular every decade that really brings them back.

Buffy did it in the 90s
Twilight has done it in the 00s

Like a few other people have said, it depends on how you do it. I think there is just way too many Twilight based boards out there, that no one wants to come up with some original idea for a vampire based board, and the few that are original l either don't get enough member or advertising or whatever, so no one knows about them. I would love it though if someone came up with a half-way original idea for a vampire based board, not something based off of Twilight.

I voted for "yes" and "sometimes."

"Yes" because vampires are so overdone and people seem to be afraid to break from the confinements of vampires and "sometimes" because there still is the possiblity for people to think of something unique and scary. But I have a feeling that those will be once in a blue moon.

I think sometimes they're over done.

No: sometimes books about them are amazing, as well as movies. They're written amazingly and you kind of forget that there's so much vampire stuff out there.

Yes: when someone does, in fact, have an amazing work of vampiric proportions, there's an explosion of fandom around it which usually involves boards, books about the work, etc. Then it's just killed...

I've never been a fan of vampires. The very concept bores me.

However, I keep getting pestered into joining a Vampire: The Masquerade game a friend wants to run, and I must admit that Vampires in the World of Darkness are pretty neat.

So I dunno. I guess in general they're overdone and boring. It just depends on how they're done.

Yes, vampires are a bit overdone. Because really, they're just an attractive concept to a lot of people. Seductive and deadly. But they're fun to roleplay, so it doesn't matter to me how many vampire roleplays are out there; it doesn't make them any less desirable.

I don't think vampires as a whole are overdone, but Twilight ... oh hell yes.

Yes. I only say so because of the twilight craze. I think twilight is a decent book series but it's really upped the whole vamp thing a bit much for my tastes.

I don't think that Twilight makes a good role play. Vampires are definitely overdone at times with people trying to bring them into all sorts of different role plays. I have an original vampire role play site as I think there are too many of the others. What I find very annoying about vampires in when people say that they are one. It drives me mad. I'm sure that if vampires do exist they are highly unlikely to go around telling everyone about it. IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE A SECRET. I don't really believe in vampires but I do dream that they exist.

"Yes" and "Sometimes"
It's easy to find a cheesy plot around vampires, but it's hard to find a good one. I think Twilight is overdone; and should go away. However, I think an RPG around Buffy or Angel would be welcomed, at least by me.
An apocalyptic vampire/human RPG has been done, but could still be fleshed out better.