Apparently there's a plot point that involves Gaia creating the Ratkin to eradicate humanity's "surplus population" through disease, which has some very uncomfortable implications, especially in the light of the gross indifference to human life that the ruling class has exhibited in the wake of Covid-19.

I realize this is hinged on a lot of assumptions (that this information is accurate in-universe and that Gaia, as the personification of the Earth, serves as a mouthpiece for the creators' environmentalist views), which is why I'm asking.

  • BeamBrain [he/him]
    hexagon
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    1 month ago

    oWoD had a ton of problematic shit like this, we're talking about a universe were an entire vampire clan is one giant antiziganist stereotype.

    Oh, yeah, I've heard they have some very, uh, interesting portrayals of nonwhite people (mostly in the "magical minority" vein).

    • AcidSmiley [she/her]
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      1 month ago

      In some cases, it's a lot worse than that, clan Ravnos was made up mostly of Sinti and Roma people and their clan weakness was literally "you compulsively commit crime". They axed that part in 5th edition, which is at least aware of a lot of the criticism around the old stuff, but the new version of the clan isn't exactly stellar for other reasons.

      • BeamBrain [he/him]
        hexagon
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        1 month ago

        clan Ravnos was made up mostly of Sinti and Roma people and their clan weakness was literally "you compulsively commit crime"

        jesus-christ