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.
Yeah, that’s about what i would’ve expected. I’m also expecting this to have gotten better in 5th edition, at least this goes for VtM. I haven’t looked into the new edition of WtA yet, but the sales blurb reads like this:
Gaia is dying. The ices melt, while the seas swell. The heat rises, while the forests wither. Extinction threatens millions, in favor of the few.
Honestly, i’d absolutely play a game of “angry working class puppygirls blow up a pipeline in the Rust Belt” with my friends, the question is how easy it is to play it like that instead of “having antibiotics is weakening the gene pool.”
