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 Psienesis wrote:
There's all kinds of swear words in BL books that are suitable for a PG-13 audience. I'm sure more than one SM has let loose with a "Throne of Terra!" or "these/this/that Emperor-damned" on more than one occasion.

Those are swears in the same way as "heck" or "golly gee" It's like throwing out a 25mm base that you're proxying as your knight titan and saying it's pretty much the same thing


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 Squidmanlolz wrote:
I kind of agree with GW's stance on swearing. It helps give 40k the feel that the universe does. I feel that if GW were to lift the ban on swearing, the 40k universe would quickly begin to feel unnecessarily vulgar, do to the combination of the already over-the-top violence *and* swearing. The lack of real swearing, I feel, also helps the 40k feel more like a high fantasy setting.

You know what would give it more of a fantasy setting? Nuns. The S and F word could be used very VERY effectively without being over the top. You don't need space marines running around saying F, F, F, F,F,(several dozen more F's), but it could add a level of realism and not be trashy if done right


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 Keep wrote:
@MagicJuggler
indeed, that would be way more interesting, and i hope some novel in the future will include this.

You can only make a killing of a human beeing so much more painfull or drawn out. Dead is dead in the end. Drawing it out, doesnt make it incredibly more evil...
Horror is not the target of chaos. Horror is the thing that happens at the receiving end of chaos follower actions. War is Horror in on itself, yet you won't find a War Films/Stories in the Horror section.

While you are correct that is certainly not the view most chaos warriors hold. You need to read more wordbearers. They're like the dark eldar of chaos worshippers.

40k should be darker in general. Dark in 87 is not as dark now. We got all emo and broody in the west

While you are correct that is certainly not the view most chaos warriors hold. You need to read more wordbearers. They're like the dark eldar of chaos worshippers.

I dont' need to read it, because it's already in my head. That's what they do, i dont need to read about the explicit actions they do with their victims. It's implied and that is good enough for me.
If they started to write down those actions for chaos... they would feel mundane - because humans in RL did it as well already. And since Loyal Space Marines are equally boring, they get "awesomified" by acting like chaos (see greyknights sacrifising SoB and smearing their armor with their blood for example). Thus making Chaos Marines seem less evil in turn. It will go full circle, then everyone starts doing it and the problem is not solved. If Chaos Marines act like Dark Eldar, then Dark Eldar also "lose" their thing und they would be "boring" if we apply the same argument Wyzilla brought out.

Those are swears in the same way as "heck" or "golly gee" It's like throwing out a 25mm base that you're proxying as your knight titan and saying it's pretty much the same thing

The hobby is marketed to the under-18 crowd (or under-16 in some cultures) so, yes, that is the kind of swears you are most-likely to get in an official, GW/BL published work.

You're not going to get the effer in a BL novel. Some authors even invent new words to cover the usage of common English expletives, like "feth" and "gak".

I'm pretty happy with the swearing system used by GW, it's unlikely that English swears would survive that long in time; it adds a bit of depth to new terms used in 40k, while still being as child friendly as this genre can be while the murders and war are commonplace.