>>720133097
Very different tone from VtM, while being in an annoying position where it is also not really its own splat and thus not easily divorced from VtM. Many, myself included found it rather immersion breaking that vampires exist in places far further removed from the theoretically middle eastern origin point than east Asia, such as the Americas and Sub-Saharan Africa. Kuei-Jin are the only real "alternate" to vampires out there, and I have always found it highly arbitrary that they are the only kind of creature like that that exists. Worse still, in official lore they mean no vampires in China period. Obviously you can write them out, it's a tabletop game after all, that's not what the issue is. The issue is there won't be a sourcebook for China because of them.
And of course you've recently had people like
>>720133186 who try to poison the well with statements like that, trying to paint everyone who disliked them as triggered SJWs, because that's why Paradox retconned them. But it's silly to claim that is the only possible problem someone could have with them.
In brief, tonal dissonance without an easy lore barrier is my major complaint. My secondary complaint is I find them to be a very arbitrary phenomenon (I understand it makes slightly more sense if you're into Werewolf-Mage spirit shit but again, that should be entirely optional in a game of vampire). Whether they feel "authentic" or not is a secondary, far more subjective take-away. Recent defenders have said they feel like hong kong action movies, but I really, genuinely, don't see it as a fan of the genre.
I believe /tg/ has the book if you want to read it for yourself and come to your own conclusion, in fact I encourage it.
