It wouldn't change shit the people you are talking about wouldn't even read the damn thing I literally deal with this shit all day. I have a big ass sign that says we don't provide this service. People still look at and ask do you do this?
This makes me think of a story I heard a long time ago. Where a psych ward had a group of guys thinking they were Jesus. So the put them all in the same room.
If I recall correctly, it resulted in two of them having breakdowns and all of them becoming dramatically worse. Ultimately, it was an interesting glimpse into the ways broken minds operate, how they take in data, interpret it, then twist it around to fit their maddened world view. One of them got just to the very brink of realizing his own condition by way of analyzing his fellow nutbars, but simply could not make the connection that he was doing the same thing they were even though he had all the data and seemed to be unconsciously aware of it. It ended in disaster, with the experiment ultimately causing their conditions to worsen, trust to collapse, and the very idea of such experiments to be called into question as unethical. Fascinating nonetheless. Honestly, drawing it back to WoD, it's kinda similar to how Mauraders operate, with their twisted world views corrupting any data they take in until it fits into the shards of their brain– minus the reality warping, of course.
Unlike that experiment, Mauraders can and have been know to work together. And even in shared madness can work together
It is a fairly decent splash screen, yes, but I can't help but notice it never actually outright says "some of this is compeltely made up," rather it says "this is an amalgam of editions." You can take that implication if you know corpo speak, especially the third to last paragraph almost says it outright, but it never quite gets all the way to saying that in plain english. The red text at the bottom is a decent touch, though this whole splash screen sadly clearly hasn't worked on many, nor do I imagine most pause to read this relatively small text when it pops up for a few seconds. Like I said, you can only idiot proof so much before the universe builds a bigger, better idiot, but a less corpo splash outright saying "some of this lore is entirely made up for this custom setting," would help prevent this from accidentally implying it's only a mishmash rather than a mishmash plus whole cloth inventions..............
HTR being non canon is fine, its the fans that take it as canon that may be a issue. I can respect going their own way with lore, but I don't vibe with it
I mean, I wouldn't say any of the current factions in how they work fit for it. Pentex is too evil/wyrm based where it would go... far worse then that shit. Union could but doesn't fit their themes at all. And those are the big two who could do it in terms of factions, smaller groups could but can't think of proper names rn.
The issue is Pentex would likely go far and I mean far into stuff that goes beyond what those corpoerats do. While the Union just isn't their style? By that I mean, magical lewd crests? Tentacles monsters? Well some of the progenitors might but the Union as a whole is hard to see using that one. Hypnosis or Cyberntics overide are more Union style
What about HMOFA? It's an entire genre that's blowing up lately regarding men and furry women. Also an unhealthy amount of femdom but that's just the reign of safe horny. Well that and the more obvious power differences between any child of Gaia and a normal human.
