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Using your example, if someone got into DMC because they liked that show, I don't want them in the same community as me; I don't much like sharing the same air with them, to be honest. Fake fans don't improve the community's health, they're a cancer only slightly less terminal than malicious idiot owners. I don't think HtP fans are anywhere near that bad, but they are already producing a deluge of people who think they're experts on a setting they've come into with a number of false impressions about. If they want to play HtP themed games amongst themselves, write HtP fanfics, or what have you, more power to them, but when they come in and start being authoritatively incorrect to tables playing real canon or their own bespoke tablecanon, then it can and does create issues.

I'm sure plenty of them will go on to educate themselves about their new interest, learn the proper lore, and become worthwhile members of the community; however, I've already seen many that display no interest in actually integrating and want to force the setting to comply to their misimpressions rather than appreciating it for what it is. Not the worst I've seen, but it could easily be partially alleviated (nothing is ever truly idiot proof) by adding a simple blurb to that dark pact splash screen more clearly explaining the show's lore is based heavily on headcanon rather than itself merely not being a canon product (there is a difference; every session anyone's played is noncanon, but they could be canon-compliant or noncanon-compliant on a case by case basis, and the current splash screen does not make this difference clear).
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?

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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.
 
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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 rhe 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
 
Not the worst I've seen, but it could easily be partially alleviated (nothing is ever truly idiot proof) by adding a simple blurb to that dark pact splash screen more clearly explaining the show's lore is based heavily on headcanon rather than itself merely not being a canon product (there is a difference; every session anyone's played is noncanon, but they could be canon-compliant or noncanon-compliant on a case by case basis, and the current splash screen does not make this difference clear).
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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.
 
Lol, that isn't what anyone has said so far .And honestly is quite a stench from what people are getting at
 

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