I've never really liked the idea of playing a vamp or ww, especially in a game where technically, you're the hero. To me vamp/ww are creatures, not player characters. They are dead or cursed and have no real control over their own minds.
Now if the game was about being a vampire, like Vampire Masquerade (where is the sequel to that?) then being a vamp is what it's all about.
Vampires/werewolves have no control over their own minds? And we do? Why do you "like" certain food and hate other kinds? There's absolutely no logical answer or explanation other than that's how you feel....I wouldn't call that control. Our minds spin logic around everything but logic has nothing to do with anything.....feelings determine everything. You might say that choosing to go to work or your career or whatever were rational decisions but were they? If you chose not to go to work you understand the very real possibility you'll end up without an income and all the rest of the consequences....how do you feel about that, did your logic determine the choice? Let's go to career....every person is different and different people have different levels of ability is specific areas.....I can't draw to save my own life but I have an ease with languages, no idea why, I just do. English is my third language and I didn't start to learn in until my late teens, can you tell? I never really felt like I put much effort into learning it. These things along with how we feel about certain people/environments/actions/etc. determine everything.
So yeah.....we're firmly in control.
