Ulfgeir
Hero
I mean, that kind of fits the theme, in a Call of Cthulhu "play to find out how you're going to lose" way.
There was an optional rule as far as I gathered that you could for some rolls at least, look at the size of your dice-pool, and then instead of rolling get a certain number of automatic successes. So that avoids some of those messes that the crits (both the good and the bad) cause. And if your humanity was too low (I think 7 or below), then you had problems appearing alive, even with the use "blush of life" (the use of which of course cost blood and risk raising your hunger even more)