I played Vampire back in the day (either right before the new stuff came out or it came out and we just didn't buy it, I don't remember) when I was in high school. Good memories. We were actually rather underpowered compared to the world around us... we were really just total scrubs, pothead vampires getting mixed up in stuff that was way over their heads. I played a pyromaniac Malkavian with a katana and an uzi. I am not joking. I didn't hit a lot with that uzi in my left hand. It was not really all angsty and goth, it was actually more like a vampiric version of Boondock Saints. It's supposed to be like this huge deal in the game if you actually kill other vampires, but we did it all the time... they kept trying to kill us! And then they kept sending more vampires to kill us for having killed other vampires, so we just kept it up. I think at one point we drank vampire blood because someone was going to kill us if we didn't or something, so we were in trouble for that, too. It was ridiculous, but we always managed to escape, leaving a trail of fire and destruction in our wake.
And the Craft skill saved my life.