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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TsuQ" data-source="post: 9547031" data-attributes="member: 7049237">VTM allows you to acknowledge the darker aspects of humanity by playing a vampire who is struggling to hold on to the humanity that seperates them from the beast - a primal survival force within them that threatens to take over their conscious control and restraint. It's rooted in holding on to your humanity as best as you can despite no longer being human.The most troublesome aspect of the previous editions for me would be that the political climate caused extremists to interpret the representation of certain very real, dark aspects of modern society as either support for them, or persecution of them. After all vampires are not good people, but the PCs have to try to be. In part it does this through a tenents system that allows you to define immorality for your group such that the system punishes it.As VTM is a conduit for confronting the darker aspects of humanity, I believe that including them in the materials can only be for the best if their presence in our society is a real and pervasive aspect of it. If you wait for reality crash down on you before you acknowledge it, you'll just end up crushed - while everyone who isn't effected yet, follows your example and pretends everything is fine.</blockquote>