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9 hours ago, Cygnia said:

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Wont lie:

 

I used to play a _lot_ of GW stuff over the years; I thoroughly enjoyed a great deal of it, to include the original Warhammer FRPG.

 

Then they came along with Warhammer 40k-- or as my wife calls it: "Catholic Traveller"-- and I didnt much like it.  The lore was the biggest turn off, honestly, official or otherwise.  Then the board game- him, I mean, tactical miniatures far-future science fiction warfare simulation game (the "Crusades" for Catholic Traveller), and I liked that even less.

 

I kept thinking "well, let's see what they come up with next."  That turned out to be lore up on lore upon lore, and they essentially put all their eggs in that one basket, and I have come to the point that I just dont like eggs anymore.  :(

 

I don't expect that to change: it is clearly making money for them, as the fans love to buy, assemble, paint, and battle their yugi-o fight--uh, miniatures, and let's face it: if you want a gloriously-painted mini, you take it to a warhammer guy, period.

 

 

still, I do miss seeing Games Workshop printed on a box and that excitement it used to bring me, and how quickly I would snap up the box to read the back.

 

Now I am happiest that the logo is so bold and vibrant: it's like a caution sign telling me to leave it alone.

 

now when I hear someone menrion them at a game store I like to ask "Oh-- aren't they the guys that killed White Dwarf?"

 

The very rare chuckle from someone in the shelves is always worth it.

 

;)

 

 

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11 hours ago, Cygnia said:

 


Interesting video. I don’t think some of those Red Flags are quite Red Flags. And in some ways I thought their responses were Red Flags. The comments on DM stifling their creativity even though they said as long as you and DM were talking was fine. I don’t know but just sorta rubbed the wrong way. And can we just all admit that if you can put your stats where you want and you always put them in the most advantageous array then thats a form of Meta gaming? And I dare say Power gaming? Let me go on the record and say that it isn’t bad or wrong but it is still Meta gaming.  And the troll example, that is still meta gaming if the pc shouldn’t know that trolls are susceptible to fire then it is.  Roleplaying can include playing “dumb” for the character. 

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