Community Voting - The next version of Chapter Approved.

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**danjbrierton**

Hello!

Do you remember back in the day when Chapter Approved was a thing? People all across the 40k community submitted rules to White Dwarf/GW and they published them for all to use. All kinds of cool stuff came out of it, like Vehicle Design Rules, B'Jorn the Fell Handed, Speed Freaks, etc. I'd like to re-kick that community involvement, and it starts here.

Here's my vision.
1) Anyone on the forumn can nominate someones work (could be their own). A simple reply in this forum with a hyperlink is sufficient.
2) I will compile all of the nominations in the first post of this thread. Individuals are encouraged to review other peoples work, and submit input for revisions.
2) After an established deadline, all of the nominated items will be put up for a vote. The voting will determine if the work is fair and balanced for 40k play.
3) After the voting deadline, any work considered fair and balanced will be submitted to GW. We will do this en masse.

If you think this is a good idea, we need to hash out the details.

First, you can vote on the poll for the deadline time frame.
Second, you can make suggestions on what the criteria the rubrics for the nomination will look like.
Third, you can dig through this section to find rules you think are worthy, or create your own!

Nominations should be broken into the following categories:
-Formations
-Detachments
-Codices (Armies that don't exist)
-Codex Re-Write's (for Armies that do exist)
-FAQ and Errata's
-Data Slates (AKA new units)
-Missions
-Play Modes
-Terrain

I'm pretty excited about this, and I hope you are too.
-DB

**AnomanderRake**

Does GW have any actual interest in doing this?

Also if this does take off I recommend a category (or categories) for missions/play modes/terrain rules.

**danjbrierton**

Added more categories as requested.

If good rule sets inspire people to purchase more models, GW will pay attention. They have lots of avenues now to make material we produce legal - the re-launch of White Dwarf, their daily blogs, and rules downloads direct from the black library in the form of Data Slates. With enough momentum, their is no reason for them not to listen.

And if they don't, we can put out a packet of "Dakka Approved" rules for gaming communities and tournament holders to utilize.

**Helvost**

What about redesigning the vehicle design rules? Is there already an updated version?

**AnomanderRake**

Helvost wrote:
What about redesigning the vehicle design rules? Is there already an updated version?

There isn't an official one, but a fellow called Lythrandire has a decent homemade updated one at http://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/634211.page

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My current project is a bit outside the scope of this (the links in my signature are out of date as of this posting, ignore them), but I'll see what I can do.

**curran12**

I'm not a fan of web-based polls for something like this, as they are incredibly easy to fake, and supports not the best rule but the loudest.

**jade_angel**

Might work with better authentication, actually, though really doing that right is a cast-iron pain in the heinie.

**JNAProductions**

I'd post my own homebrew here, but it's both unfinished, not really fitting in the setting, and based on another IP.

But still, this seems cool.

**danjbrierton**

Alrighty,

It looks like most people are leaning towards Quarterly nominations with voting lasting a month.

The only thing we are really missing is a rubric to grade nominations, and then we can begin the process.

Here's a rough draft I came up with. I think it's important that raters have the option to do only the fluff portion, only the gameplay/ruleset portion, or both.

FORMATION / DETATCHMENT / DATASLATE / FORTIFICATIONS

Fluff (2 points per bullet, max 6 points)
0 - Not at all / Somewhat
1 - Mostly
2 - Entirely

1. Does the type/composition of the ratee accurately reflect officially published background/stories? Provide justification.

2. Does the options of the ratee accurately reflect officially published background/stories? Provide justification.

3. Does the stats/special rules of the ratee accurately reflect officially published background/stories? Provide justification.

Gameplay/Ruleset (Max 6 points)

1a. Compare the ratee to another entity of the closest official ruleset. List all of the advantages of the ratee with respect to its comparative. (Examples: points, options, special rules, etc.)

1b. Compare the ratee to another entity of the closest official ruleset. List all of the disadvantages of the ratee with respect to it's comparative. (Examples: points, restrictions, special rules, etc.)

1c. How do they compare? Provide justification.
0 - The advantages far outweigh the disadvantages
1 - The advantages slightly outweigh the disadvantages
2 - The advantages and disadvantages are about equal
3 - The disadvantages outweigh the advantages

2. Consider how the ratee affects others (friendly and enemy) in a legal gaming format. What are the results? Provide justification.
0 - The ratee causes game-breaking combinations / hard counters the majority of armies.
1 - The ratee causes strong combinations / counters many other armies.
2 - The ratee causes neutral & fair combinations / has as many counters as it counters.
3 - The ratee is underwhelming / can be easily countered.

Conclusion:
All rubrics submitted shall be collectively tallied and averaged. In order for the ratee to meet community approval, it's average must score 4 points in each category (Fluff + Gameplay/Ruleset).

EXAMPLE:

Spoiler:

-DB