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Surprisingly apporate advice for Eastcon Games.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/LancerRPG/comments/1i7oj62/re_is_union_bad_discourse_exploring_those_flaws/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button

Like if you Ignore the Vastly different geo/astro political background between the two organizations, the Eastern Concordat is basically the First committee From Lancer.

Like one of Easton's main goal is to re-contact lost Cearns (colonies) by reconnecting them to the wider Moon Bridge network (Or Blink Gates).

And well the Eastern Concordat leadership getting taken over by more extremist/totalitarian elements of the garou like say the second committee take over is a real risk that the PC's should deal with.

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So assuming you intend on setting the scenario you laid out in WtE (Which I assume from the tag) then it would be kinda impossible in the default timeframe the game is set in, which is around the late 80's to early 90's. So he's either not born in the first place or he's just another crinos pup under the care of a Hearthbound coven. Not to mention that his purpose is kinda redundant after King Albecht's sacrifice to cancel the Apocalypse.

Though a game about the Hearthbound caring for the future garou Messiah is a good premise in it's own right. Or maybe you Move the playable time frame to say the 2020 where King Albecht's not so much cancel the Apocalypse rather delay it. Ultimately it's you're story to tell.

Werewolf the apocalypse hot take

Since the perfect crinos born garou would be in their 20s and appear to be in their 30s based on crinos born aging and the book they were born in being published in 1999 I have been thinking about how they would be as a full grown garou. I have come to the conclusion that a Gaian perfect crinos born should be a ronin running from his destiny while experiencing doubt and uncertainty in his purpose all Jesus as a (wolf)man style. Let him be encountered by the PCs as a mystery ally who helps out but is cagey about who they are before they wander on to their next adventure. Maybe have the PCs build a friendship with this mystery garou before the dramatic reveal that this tormented ronin is the perfect crinos born in whatever moment works best. Really play on that imagery of a savior who fears that they are actually a destroyer. Like don’t go so far as to have a secret BSD in the Caren put 30 silver bullets in him as an act of betrayal but then again a good ST could make that imagery work…

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You know what a subversion of the recent wave of more cynical western movies do have it's own appeal and to be fair it's more grounded than my furry matrix idea.

So if you received a pitch to write a W5 adventure that involves the player charter finding out the world of W5 isn't real and they have to escape to the real world (that takes more cues from the upcoming WtE) how would write that premise?

I would not make it so the W5 reality isn't real, because one of the benefits of W5 IS that it is a wide-open sandbox... with a baby cage around the PCs. Instead, I would have the PCs be from a distant corner where they just never encountered other garou but some ronin who lied to them about the Nation. Then the PCs hunt a bane and run into ACTUAL garou nation/any of the three groups in WtE. Doe this sound good?

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Like Kind of an understatement for ignoring the cultural consultant that was hired to look over said problematic in the first place.

So, Werewolf: The Apocalypse in past editions:

- Called Crinos-born Metis, after the name of a real indigenous group in Canada

- Declared Crinos-born to be born with various deformities and disabilities due to "cross-breeding"

- Says that the Thrall of The Wyrm compels Crinos-born to Rape Corpses

- names one of the 13 Tribes after a word you're Not supposed to say

- mechanically profiles characters of specific backgrounds including indigenous and east Asian characters by associating them monolithically with a specific Tribe, thus all East Asian Garou think the same way, all Indigenous Garou think the same way, all Celtic Garou think the same way

- makes it a point to persecute the W-word tribe for being angry and violent rather than forgiving and forgetting.

And yet despite all of that, it's 5th Edition that's the problem because of Karim Muammar being fucking weird to an indigenous writer behind the scenes, despite that having no actual impact on the portrayals of tribes in the game itself.