Quote Originally Posted by CN the Logos View Post
The problem with removing Disquiet and/or the Wasteland is that it drastically changes the tone of the game, to the point where you have to rewrite pretty much the whole thing, fluff-wise. The entire point of Promethean is that being a Promethean is so terrible that becoming a homeless mortal with no legal identity qualifies as a GOOD END for the character. This is mostly accomplished via Disquiet (people hate you) and the Wasteland (the world hates you). Without those things, you're an ugly, potentially immortal guy with superpowers. Which is cool, I guess, but doesn't come with much in the way of built-in conflict. There are people who'd hate Prometheans anyway, even with no logical reason, but those people hate a lot of humans too. So you end up with a NWoD gameline where the protagonists are better off than mortals in pretty much every way (even the ugliness only shows up if the character uses his or her powers). Even Geist had "and if you don't use your powers responsibly, a burglar will kill Uncle Ben ghosts will haunt you forever" to keep it from becoming a nonstop party that all the PCs are invited to. So what replaces the hate plague as a creator of conflict?
You don't need to manufacture conflict; the WoD is a ****ty enough place as it is that there really isn't a reason for it. If you want the Prometheans to be outcasts, you've really got to give them traits which give them a logical reason for being cast out.

Take Frankenstein's Monster in Frankenstein; he was smarter, stronger, and had a force of will much greater than any mortal man, but he also looked like a bunch of dead bodies sown together. He was hated and feared because humans were too small-minded to see past his monstrous appearance to the man beneath. That is literally 1/2 of the entire theme of the book. So why are Prometheans only ugly part of the time? Make them really look like monsters, they won't need Disquiet to be outcasts.

(Of course that means ditching the Galateans, but seriously screw Galateans. Just because it's a "mature" game doesn't mean you need every game-line to have a "sexy" bloodline; vampires and changelings, okay I can see it, but do we really need sexy Frankenstein's Monsters? What does that accomplish?)

Another thing they could do is the old standby "Instant Persecution Just Add Military." Have Task Force Valkyrie or the Chiron Corporation or the Seers of the Throne or some new group or all of them put together hunting the Prometheans. In our modern society, an organization with enough money and willpower can eventually find anyone anywhere unless they work to stay off the grid. There's no need for Wasteland when a watchlist does the same thing but less stupidly.