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.
I was just talking about this earlier with some folks from my TTRPG group. White Wolf publishing got in shit from their parent company over dogwhistles in both Werewolf (I.E. A werewolf’s body would reject gender affirming care) and VtM (a given example of a Brujah backstory was 'Nazi officer)
World of Darkness always attracted edgelords, and it seems to have gone the way that always goes.
In fairness I could totally imagine running a campaign where a bunch of Brujah communists band up to take down some True Brujah fascist cosplaying as a philosopher king. But I’m pretty sure that’s not what they’re going for.
Yeah, that makes sense. Edgelordery is a fascist magnet, I’ve noticed. They delight in “I’m going to say/do all this gross horrible shit, and if any of it upsets you then you’re just a cuck snowflake SJW.”