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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
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[Vampires] Can you kill a vampire with the splinters of shattered IKEA furniture? Or does it have to be solid wood? Can you kill it with something else pointy, like a railroad spike?
gpt
Yes... in some cases.

The issue is that "vampire" is more of a *genus* than a singular *species*. Surely you've heard of some vampires that are monstrous and some that are beautiful. Some that have two sharp canines and some that have a mouth full of sharp teeth. Some that can turn into bats and some that remain in a human form and need to take a boat or plane.

There are differences in their appearances and powers, and also differences in their weaknesses. Did you know that there are some vampires that can walk around in sunlight and will survive a wooden stake through the heart? And yet there are some that can't cross bodies of running water.

Because of this, the answer to your question is unfortunately "it depends."

For those kinds of vampires that can be killed by a stake through the heart, that broken piece of IKEA furniture will absolutely work. In these cases usually even a metal rail spike or a kukri knife will also work. And even if they didn't work, if used while the vampire is sleeping they would succeed in pinning the vampire and allowing you to behead them (a much more reliable killing method across several vampire genera).