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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5562057" data-attributes="member: 19675">Yes, it did, but 4Ed and 3.X handle classes in RADICALLY different ways.&nbsp; In the Arcana Unearthed refinement, you didn't have to take any levels associated with your &quot;monster race&quot; if you didn't want to.&nbsp; You could take the base level of that race and be capped there, or you could mix &amp; match freely, just as if it were a regular class.&nbsp; Under the AU system, you could be a vampire (if someone designed a monster class for it) AND be a powerful wizard.In 4Ed, however, your primary class rules all, and you can only dabble in classes after that.&nbsp; So the &quot;Vampire as a class&quot; thing means you'll never be the kind of vampire depicted in some legends or games: a powerful mesmerist, arcanist or some such; a rival to those who are fully living.&nbsp; IOW, he ain't never gonna be Strahd.In addition, as I recall, there is no Hybrid rule for the Vampire in the book, so that option is completely out.(FWIW, the way 4Ed handles classes is one of my chief dislikes about the game, and I've said enough about it elsewhere, so I won't discuss it further here.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 5562057, member: 19675"] Yes, it did, but 4Ed and 3.X handle classes in [I]RADICALLY[/I] different ways. In the Arcana Unearthed refinement, you didn't have to take any levels associated with your "monster race" if you didn't want to. You could take the base level of that race and be capped there, or you could mix & match freely, just as if it were a regular class. Under the AU system, you could be a vampire (if someone designed a monster class for it) AND be a powerful wizard. In 4Ed, however, your primary class rules all, and you can only [I]dabble[/I] in classes after that. So the "Vampire as a class" thing means you'll never be the kind of vampire depicted in some legends or games: a powerful mesmerist, arcanist or some such; a rival to those who are fully living. IOW, he ain't never gonna be Strahd. In addition, as I recall, there is no Hybrid rule for the Vampire in the book, so that option is completely out. (FWIW, the way 4Ed handles classes is one of my chief dislikes about the game, and I've said enough about it elsewhere, so I won't discuss it further here.) [/QUOTE]

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