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With more such YouTube interviews popping up on my feed, and them proving rather interesting in terms of the history of GW, this is intended as a single repository for them.
It’s not really intended as a discussion topic as such. Just somewhere handy to get them all in one place for future reference, and ease of linking to as and when info they contain might crop up in other chats.
For example? Andy Chambers on Specialist Games, where he confirms Epic 40,000 did indeed drive away existing players, and failed to attract new ones, and so is seen as a mistake. Often claimed, often disputed. But horse’s mouth confirmation here. Amongst other things. Like Gorkamorka being developed in 8 weeks.
So that’s three to kick it off. Please keep conversation about the contents to a minimum in this thread, as it really is just meant as a single “make them easy to find” resource.
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So Epic 40k killed the game, presumably becasue it added xenos?
Second Edition Space Marine had xenos, Epic 40k is third edition and according to a podcast I heard with the creator of NetEpic, they had an inside source at GW who was leaking the Epic 40k stuff via ICQ, so NetEpic was made in response to what the community saw as a wrong direction.
Meant to post that Jordan series yesterday, but I kept listening to more while I painted.
Here are a few more:
Alessio:
Robin Dews and John Stallard hawking their book:
The Andy Chambers interview (previous post above) is good, but all his interviews tend to be.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Another one with Andy (with a view of his shelf full of GW stuff). This interview covers more of his whole career, both GW and afterwards:
11:19 for virus bomb discussion:
An old 1996 interview with Andy shot with a potato-cam
And the emperor himself, Rick Priestley:
Another with bits about LotR SBG
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1980ms BBC Local News chat about D&D, with Ian and Steve
lol I am absolutely here for this
Sort of on topic: has anyone read the Talking Miniatures book by Dews and Stallard? Seems nice enough, but I’m hesitant at the price tag (though I understand they printed it themselves (?)).
1980ms BBC Local News chat about D&D, with Ian and Steve
lol I am absolutely here for this
Sort of on topic: has anyone read the Talking Miniatures book by Dews and Stallard? Seems nice enough, but I’m hesitant at the price tag (though I understand they printed it themselves (?)).
I read it. It was quite interesting and entertaining. I didn’t expect some of the interviews with people I wasn’t familiar with to be compelling, but they all were. Lots of nice photos of old gaming stuff too.
Quite impressive for Jordan Sorcery to have lined all these up so quickly.
Definitely. I particularly taken with his approach. He’s just letting the person being interviewed, y’know, talk. No agenda being pushed, no particularly leading questions or arguments/assumptions/conclusions in search of supporting evidence.
Respectful, but not fawning.
The dude is a natural interviewer!
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I feel old seeing old Andy Chambers. My mental image was always the younger long haired Andy Chambers from years ago.
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Rick Priestley and Alan Perry on Chaos Dwarfs 4th Ed
I’d like to add that I massively appreciate how willing those being interviewed are to be interviewed.
For many, their GW days are long behind them. And they’re under no obligation to do these. That’s a dedication to the fans I think we can all appreciate.
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