It’s Ween again, my friends! Joyous Ween to you all! But sadly this year White Ween was simply out of the question. So we searched far and wide for a suitable replacement, and settled on a company that we already had two horror books from! Surprising indeed! Come along with us, won’t you, on a tour of the Palladium take on Call of Cthulhu sort of, packed with bizarre, ineffectual character classes and z-grade psychic powers. It’s Old Ween on System Mastery!
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What did White Wolf do?
Political controversy. Nothing interesting here
What controversy?
After some cursory googling, the only thing I found is a thing where somebody claimed Vampire V5 “caters to neo-nazis” because it mentions that Brujah can be that (like every other edition also does). The company denied that accusation but apparently they didn’t deny it hard enough or something. I think it’s safe to say this “controversy” is about literally absolutely nothing – like most controversies these days are.
A blogger alleged that they were courting neo-Nazis in the latest VTM edition. https://www.polygon.com/2018/7/13/17565898/vampire-the-masquerade-white-wolf-neo-nazi-accusations
Really? Two intelligent guys like Jeff and John useot by such obvious fake outrage?
Having read the V5 corebook, I can provide some context. The “Who are the Brujah?” section in the book (page 65) lists “…the neo-nazi claiming to be ‘alt-right’…” as one example of how the clan’s desire for rebellion can reach too deep. This edition takes the stance of playing a monster as one of it’s core tenants, and is very careful to draw a line between character beliefs and player beliefs. The game doesn’t promote neo-Nazi or ‘alt-right’ thinking, and in fact, condemns it. Appendix III, “Advice for Considerate Play” talks about this, sexual violence in play, and a number of very good safety calibration techniques. From the section on “Facism in Play”: “Vampire: The Masquerade is not a fascist-friendly game. If you are a neo-Nazi, ‘alt-righter’, or whatever you’re calling yourself nowadays, we urge you to put this book down and call someone who you trust to talk about where you went so wrong in your life.” The section goes on to discuss the story-based redemption possibilities for fascist characters and non-player characters.
Palladium is far from the second fantasy RPG. Tunnels & Trolls in 1975 is more likely and probably three or four more between that and Palladium. Palladium may have been the second widespread in North America one though. TnT did really well in Japan where Polyhedrals were hard to find.