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There was a thread on the subject a few weeks ago.

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Pre-Contact Meso-America would be an interesting setting for a home game - I would not want an official game, as there is no way it would not be problematic.

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That sounds very interesting. My favorite take is one set in the 1920s, where WWI never happened. The old empires still dominate Europe, and its all got a feel similar to the old Universal and Hammer horror films....

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(shrugs) That neither adds to, nor subtracts from, the over all malaise, misanthropy and malice in which the WoD percolates. There are no good people, just different degrees of bad people. The best vampires tend to be worse than many of the worst human, if for no other reason than their beast and hunger for blood. By its very nature, the WoD ncannot produce good hearted hunters. They would not fit into the mood and themes of the setting....

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The American Civil War, though I still that would be better suited to MtA.

Also, alt histories explored.

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There is an argument to be made that they cannot be good to fit in with the World of Darkness.

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I'm not familiar with these names, but I will check them out. This sounds like good news.

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* The person goes on to establish White Wolf.

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Most probably have to do so - few are going to have the power and resources (and points to spend in retainers and minions) to utterly avoid dealing with humans. Even Ballard probably deals with humans on the regular. It would take someone like Hardestahdt to have the power to really avoid people, and we see where his personality got him.

Edit: But back to the actual subject of the thread, too many people still enjoy playing some variation of Vampire Harry Dresden to kill all the Tremere....

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I find the Salubri Antitribu really interesting, and disappointed so little has been done with them....

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I like to think part of the creature escaped to the Plateau of Leng....

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I'm often struck by how small bits of plot business can nearly take over so much of what is going on. The Baali takes a lot of space in the Saulot narrative, House Carna takes a lot of space in the Tremere narrative...

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It's an interesting theory. And it goes with my theory that Dispater (a Giovanni Patron) was the Shadow of Cappadocius - which is to say, something like a different personality. Come to that, which part of the Ravnos Founder died?...

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Yes, this is the core of it. That some supposed feminism has taken over the narrative is surprising, because that is - at most - a secondary issue in the subtext. House Carna went its own way because the existing power structure of Clan Tremere did them no favors and never would. That is from an in world, or Watsonian perspective. From an out of game, or Doyalist, perspective, House Carna (the the other factions) make the Tremere dynamic and useful to players....

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Too many people enjoy the Tremere for them to be wiped out. By comparison, the Ravnos were destroyed (to some degree) because they were the least popular clan. The Tremere are just be remade to some degree, rather like the Giovanni into the Hecata.

Also, simply destroying the Tremere would mean we missed out on all the entertaining outrage by fans who are entertainingly offended by House Carna. And I would not want to miss that outrage, its too entertaining.