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Depends on how important that starting class is. If they do it the Saga way, i.e. starting skills and hitpoints are determined by starting class, then there are slight problems for hybrid concepts, but nothing that cannot be houseruled relatively easily. If they set some variable that can never...

Well, they don't have to be terribly careful to hide information, because the people who buy the preview books will invariably buy the Core books as well. If they have confidence in what they have done (and they better do, their job depends on the success of 4E), then they have no reason not to...

Not necessarily "herculean", as long as the number of powers are strongly limited (no one says it must be possible to have nothing but vampire powers), but it would definitely take additional effort that they most likely won't put in. But it would be possible and is possible in splatbooks.

Unless the player wished for something worthwhile, then it works in the way that's best suited to completely screw over the character.

Wow ... doesn't that mean SoD needs to fly right out of the window?

You do it the 3E way: Make it into everything at once. If you combine all the splat books, all major and some minor character archetypes can be done in multiple ways in 3E, I suspect 4E will be similar. Besides, didn't they say Prestige Classes are dead and replaced with "something similar"...

Yugoloth were barely even in 3E, so I don't think they will make the cut for the MM anyway. Probably scattered into latter MMs, filling roles that feel appropriate for the individual yugoloth. I don't think they will become a real faction again. The main advantage of the Blood War was an excuse...

In most vampire fiction, people who are much weaker than vampires get turned into vampires and thus become stronger. What happens if you are already stronger than them, why should you become stronger? In most stories, the heroes are the only ones who can compete with the vampires, and the heroes...

You cannot do that with stats enhancements. If you already have Strength 20, then I don't see why you should suddenly have Strength 26 instead, yet the lowly scholar with Strength 6 is now at Strength 12 and still no stronger than the average Orc. For the "vampires are suddenly a lot stronger"...

If you have special talent trees with requirements, you can do everything that prestige classes do and more. It's superior design in many ways, so like Squirrel, I expect this to be one of the materials that fills splatbooks. Chuck in some flavor about people who take talents from those talent...

You have a good point, but I believe you don't necessarily need the "8th level character turns vampire" -> "8th level character is now effectively 10th level" flavor. In vampire stories, it's more often the normal citizens who get super powerful by becoming vampires, not necessarily the people...

Just because Wizards tells me my opinion matters to them doesn't mean I believe it does, or should. I don't want them to build D&D as I envision it, I wouldn't buy something I could think of myself.

In the latest dungeon article, there are vampire NPC with class levels, so there are definitely some rules for combining vampirism with PC classes out there. If it's done cleverly, I could see "PCs as vampires"-rules detailed in one or two pages. Nothing fancy and nothing that could come...

I think the basic premise of this thread was to give the newly vampirised PC only very minor if any vampire ability, and let him pay for them just as he would for normal class/race abilities. There is nothing they absolutely need from a flavor perspective, except for disadvantages. Of course...

It heard it's kinda scary and painful to get your blood sucked out of you. And some people don't like turning into ash when exposed to sunlight. Some people believe turning into an undead monster makes you unpopular in your local village. Others think it's incompatible with their belief in the...

Why do something badly when you can do it well? And he loses his con bonus, along with the benefit of con buffs and con boosting items. For wizards and maybe rogues it's a fair (but not actually good) tradeoff, for everyone else it's a disadvantage. If that vampire character somehow ends up in...

I don't see where that belief comes from. Fighters could never heal, buff or control the battlefield, why should they now, when the roles are becoming more emphasized? I'm sure fighters can play a little more defensive or a lot more offensive, and wizards will probably still get some legacy...

Oh ... er ... sorry, never mind ... that was a pretty major case of reading snafu on my part then. I guess it's because I somehow thought Warforged don't have a con score, or something similar.

Why exactly should undead and constructs have no con score and all kinds of abilities tied to them? What design advantages do you get from dropping an integral ability score, creating all kinds of border cases? What if you want to make an undead or a construct without these immunities? If you...

Well, there is no good reason why all undead should have those two anyway, and I suspect they won't in 4E. Taking the con score away from undead created all kinds of minor annoying effects, like high level undead having very few HP. It's much more sensible to make them immune to tiring and the...