Also, one thing I noticed is that a lot of WoD players read VTM: Second Inquisition but not the H5 corebook because, well, they're VTM players. That's fine and totally acceptable, but it does frustrate me whenever I have a conversation about Hunters and the person I'm talking to is clearly talking ONLY about the Second Inquisition. That would be like talking about vampires and assuming that all of them are Sabbat shovelhead wights.
Player character Hunters (capital-H Hunters vs hunters) are almost never Second Inquisition (though it's natural for vampires to lump all hunters in that one category). Player character Hunters cannot be part of an org — org hunters (aka jobbers) are secondary antagonists of PC Hunters.
Why are the usually more competent, more well-funded, more threatening org hunters not the protagonists of Hunter chronicles? It's because they dispense violence as impersonal jobs. Once you've systematized and mass-produced the act of killing, then you become a monster too. Even if it is towards an "acceptable" and "evil" group. Sometimes especially if it's justified by saying it's towards a group that's inherently "degenerate." Do you see what I'm getting here? Why protagonists shouldn't be a part of literal government/church-funded witch hunts?
Even vampires don't deserve to be exterminated en masse. Some of them were just unlucky people, innocent people. But the SI wouldn't care about that because they have quotas to meet. An independent Hunter, on the other hand, can make that call for themselves.
