Editing Kindred of the East (section)

==Why no 20th Anniverary Edition or V5, WW/Onyx Path?==
{{Topquote|Go channel your Yin-Yang energies somewhere else, Grimaline Smith from Norfolk UK.|Markus, [[Hunter: The Parenting]], talking to a Huge Fucking Weeb}}
One of the main stumbling blocks that even the creative team had found about updating or streamlining Kindred of the East is the sheer amount of '''Orientalism''' prevalent in the lore and even the ruleset.  While acceptable in the late 90's, the way it dealt with Asian cultures in general -- being terribly essentialist by mashing everything into a mulch, then haphazardly blending in Kung-fu and Wuxia for flavor -- would result in endless amounts of controversy, several internet shitstorms, and at least one firing or forced resignation of everyone involved with it. 

And that's assuming White Wolf manages to restrain its tendency to handle touchy socio-political issues with the approximate care of dropping a thermonuclear warhead in a china shop, which [[Vampire:_The_Masquerade#Fifth_Edition:_Vampire_V|their]] [[Mage:_The_Ascension#Dreamspeakers|track]] [http://forum.theonyxpath.com/forum/main-category/main-forum/the-classic-world-of-darkness/mage-the-ascension/57656-regarding-the-wu-keng record] both recent and otherwise does ''not'' support.

In the end, it's a whole lot of work for little to no guarantee of a pay-off, so the Kindred of the East line had been left untouched, rules-wise. That's not to say that the Kuei-jin aren't still around -- there have been references to them in many V5 books -- it's just that they're not going to be playable barring homebrews anytime soon.

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