Editing Beast: The Primordial (section)

== Attempts to fix without throwing out the baby alongside the bathwater ==
Strangely enough, players have tried tying the splat with the "Inferno" blue book, since the splat shares a lot of terminology with said-book. This begs the weird comparison where Demon: the Descent v. Beast: the Primordial is like the Demons vs Devils [[Blood War]] in D&D. Does it fix the splat? Depends on who you ask, although it certainly makes it a lot easier to thematically play them as the wicked abusers they are.

Another, less malefic option is that you play as a guardian protector Beast who stays his darker nature by being around those less villainous kin. This is done by abusing the shit out of the "Family Dinner" mechanic, which essentially allows a Beast to never go hungry so long as they watch kin feed, e.g. Changelings harvesting glamour, Mages doing oblations, Prometheans fucking power outlets, etc. To be honest, it's not a half-bad metaphor, that all of us more vulnerable to our darker impulses when we try going at life alone. But, when surrounded by friends who care about you, who will stick by you through thick and thin, you can become something truly indomitable... at least until the metaphor carries on to Vampires and other sorts victimizing others to feed, and then it takes on the disturbing implications of a sadist basking in the misery of others or as an enabler who stands by while others are abused right in front of them.