Board Thread:Skyrim/@comment-124.185.0.131-20140601023305/@comment-5569775-20140611060124

If you want an interesting roleplaying experience and seeing how you don't have the DLC, I'd say Vampire. They are supposed to be feared, and the DLC making it to where people don't attack you for being a Vampire is rather boring.

If you want to play as an Illusion/Stealth Focused character, then Vampire. Also Vampires benefit from Necromage, which helps a lot more at higher levels than being a Werewolf. Also, with the Atronach perk and Standing Stone effect along with Necromage, you are pretty much immune to frost damage, and it also helps to mitigate the weakness to fire.

However, Werewolves can also work for Stealth focused characters since they move rather quietly. Mages can also benefit from being Werewolves as it gives them an option for close combat, if they don't use Bound weapons. It's a bit more beneficial for mages that use clothes and Mage Armor spells, since you have some natural armor as a Werewolf and still benefit from the Mage Armor spells. Fire and to a lesser extent Lightning Mages that wear Light or Heavy armor can just use Fireball/Chain Lightning in close range and not take as much damage, instead of needing to transform.