Actually, if you did Vampire: The Masquerade you weren't at all limited to angsty-emo types.
No, you weren't, but the game tended to attract those types in droves.
Especially the LARPs. Oh god. the LARPs.
The only one I willingly attended was one that A) friends were running so I knew it would be at least well run and B) was a Dark Ages setting so none of this Masquerade crap.
A whole bunch of the angsty emo types showed up for that game too, but when they tried to play in their usual ways with the typical mincing subtle insults, one got his head immediately lopped off by a greatsword. Followed by another's throat getting ripped out and a third being thrown out a window. All by one NPC. The look on their faces was priceless.
True.
*shudder*
That's why I eventually stopped playing. Still, there were a few good times along the way so I regret nothing. Well, except maybe not following through on some of my more... creative... threats, but as the Evil Overlord List says, shooting
is good enough for my enemies.
Sounds like we had much the same thing in mind with our characters. That's why I stuck to Brujah, Tzimisce, Lasombra, and the occasional heavily psychotic Malkavian. My favorite character (same one that involved in the IED story) actually threw one of the other PCs into a bonfire because the guy (Tremere Anti, IIRC) was playing like it was a Cammie game and wouldn't stop jibing about how much better he was than my filthy, crude, uneducated Brujah. I got bonus XP for it.