Race as Class in 4E?

[vito]

The upcoming Heroes of Shadow supplement for fourth edition will feature vampires as a character class.
Vampires as a character class.
Vampires.
As a character class.
As a D&D Essentials style character class.

This is an idea I hope they explore further. It seems to me that racial classes done in a D&D Essentials style could be pretty interesting. It seems like a good way to do monstrous characters anyway.
I think I just might homebrew my very own dragonborn class.

[bluskreem]

But wil you still have a race? (Human Vampire, Elf vampire, etc)

[vito]

I'm not sure. They haven't released any detailed previews for it. They just said that vampire will be a class.

[snorri]

After all, vampire : The mascarade was a class-based game in the D&D tradition

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