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<blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 8033043" data-attributes="member: 14159">White Wolf was particularly bad about that.&nbsp; I have no idea how their internal editorial process worked, but I quickly realized that either there was nobody trying to coordinate plotlines and canons and various authors were just trying to do it informally on their own, or that the efforts that were being made had a lot of stuff slipping through.Dirty Secrets of the Black Hand was one big example.&nbsp; It introduced into WoD metaplot a faction of vampires, the True Black Hand, that seemed to know an awful lot about other supernatural groups that keep things secret, AND introduced a HUGE retcon about the nature of vampires and vampiric disciplines, trying to say that some disciplines were actually infections by Lovecraftian abominations from the Deep Umbra, and that many vampires are actually not creatures of infernal damnation, but beings of cosmic horror, and only they know this truth and are trying to save the world, or at least themselves, from various extradimensional horrors that destroy minds and souls.(I love how the White Wolf wiki describes that book as essentially being the peak of the &quot;Superheroes with Fangs&quot; game style that became really common in White Wolf, it really was the book for &quot;Vampire Superheroes&quot; as it turned Vampire: The Masquerade into a Call of Cthulhu game with vampire PC's). . .then cue later Vampire works going out of their way to say that the True Black Hand was completely wrong about pretty much everything, and they're all wiped out and dead and nobody knows anything about any of the things they were totally wrong about or pretty much anything else they knew.THAT seemed like a wiki edit war.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="wingsandsword, post: 8033043, member: 14159"] White Wolf was particularly bad about that. I have no idea how their internal editorial process worked, but I quickly realized that either there was nobody trying to coordinate plotlines and canons and various authors were just trying to do it informally on their own, or that the efforts that were being made had a lot of stuff slipping through. Dirty Secrets of the Black Hand was one big example. It introduced into WoD metaplot a faction of vampires, the True Black Hand, that seemed to know an awful lot about other supernatural groups that keep things secret, AND introduced a HUGE retcon about the nature of vampires and vampiric disciplines, trying to say that some disciplines were actually infections by Lovecraftian abominations from the Deep Umbra, and that many vampires are actually not creatures of infernal damnation, but beings of cosmic horror, and only they know this truth and are trying to save the world, or at least themselves, from various extradimensional horrors that destroy minds and souls. (I love how the White Wolf wiki describes that book as essentially being the peak of the "Superheroes with Fangs" game style that became really common in White Wolf, it really was the book for "Vampire Superheroes" as it turned Vampire: The Masquerade into a Call of Cthulhu game with vampire PC's) . . .then cue later Vampire works going out of their way to say that the True Black Hand was completely wrong about pretty much everything, and they're all wiped out and dead and nobody knows anything about any of the things they were totally wrong about or pretty much anything else they knew. THAT seemed like a wiki edit war. [/QUOTE]

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