I first got into WoD when I played Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines. The first clan I chose was Malkavian because I thought that they would be cool, and by their descriptions, none of the other clans had anything against them. The Brujah and Gangrel hate the Ventrue and the Ventrue reciprocate, the Nosferatu and Toreador hate each other, everyone hates the Tremere, but no one cares about Malkavians, so I decided to go with them. When I got into the game, I couldn’t understand what I was saying so I restarted as a Toreador and was going to play the next game as a Malk. The Toreador didn’t feel right either but I decided to go with them anyway because they were the most sociable and therefore making friends in this strange new existence would be that much easier, right? Boy did Bertram and Gary inform me otherwise. Then I played through again as a Tremere instead of Malkavian because the blood magic appealed to me. I found my clan, and the rest is history.
After Bloodlines, I got into the books and found out just how poorly the Malkavian player character was portrayed. I also found out about “fish” Malks and how difficult it is to accurately play a genuine Malkavian. They were my chosen clan at first, but Tremere is my chosen clan now.