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Alright, now I understood your point.

Good idea, design feats to give the Dhampir more vampiric powers.

I am still having trouble defining the basic power for the Dhampir. I tried to give him a lesser version of the Dominating Gaze, but that ends up looking like the Half-vistanni Evil Eye ...

I can't wait til the Forgotten Realms Player's Guide comes out, because of the introduction of a "multiclass only" class. I'm dying to see what that entails, though I've got a pretty good idea of what that might mean. I bring that up because that might be a good way to have a Dhampir PC.

Make a ...

Someone on the board suggested to put the Dhampir as a playable race for 4 edition. I discussed with my group and we all liked the idea.

Now comes the hard part, how to design it. It must be balanced with the other races on PHB.

Thats what I was able to come up so far:
Ability Scores: +2 con, +2 ...

I liked the 2nd edition idea in which each class had its own Fear, Horror and Madness. That being I will use on my 4th edition campaign something like that. The check would be an attack vs the defense (fear, horror, madness).

The classes bonuses would be:
Cleric: +1 Fear, Madness
Fighter: +2 Fear ...