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Just wanting to throw something out there... Speculation if you will.

I just want to know people's opinions on the fluff behind the two Daemonology Psychic Power tables (Malefic and Santic) and if GW is playing on the fact that Daemon incursions are becoming more regular as the end time approaches.

Personally, I see these new tables as a great option.

Daemons (and Chaos in general) are the 40k universe's main antagonists, IMHO.

I see the new powers emphasising this a great deal.

I also see that with more Daemons, the Grey Knights are going to get a more prominent role in the galaxy. I think with the more incursions that occur, the GK are going to become the underdogs.

Does anyone else have any theories or speculation they'd like to throw about?

Speculation:

GW these days is a bunch of money grubbing, drooling, mouth breathing, barely sapient, incompetent, ugly, hamfisted, out of touch, underevolved, unseemly, and idiotic monkeys slapping the keyboard with their butts to print rules and fluff.

There is nothing more to Daemonology other than a cash grab to make everyone buy Daemon models.

Noone forces you to employ demonologists and buy daemons. If you don't want - you don't need to buy anything new.

"Bad GW produced something and wants to sell it. MONEY GRAB ROBBERY!!11"

 Kain wrote:
Speculation:

GW these days is a bunch of money grubbing, drooling, mouth breathing, barely sapient, incompetent, ugly, hamfisted, out of touch, underevolved, unseemly, and idiotic monkeys slapping the keyboard with their butts to print rules and fluff.

There is nothing more to Daemonology other than a cash grab to make everyone buy Daemon models.

Speculation:

The rules aren't out for several weeks and people still speculate that the sky has already fallen in.

MarsNZ wrote:

 Kain wrote:
Speculation:

GW these days is a bunch of money grubbing, drooling, mouth breathing, barely sapient, incompetent, ugly, hamfisted, out of touch, underevolved, unseemly, and idiotic monkeys slapping the keyboard with their butts to print rules and fluff.

There is nothing more to Daemonology other than a cash grab to make everyone buy Daemon models.

Speculation:

The rules aren't out for several weeks and people still speculate that the sky has already fallen in.

I've been saying GW is a bunch of dribbling subhuman idiots since at least the Tyranid Codex and the disaster that was the new version of apocalypse.

It would be nice to have more of an emphasis on Chaos being the big bad with an actual indication of its means and methods.

More than likely though it will be as Kain says.

I'm just concerned about the fluff implications. Hopefully Santic is for goodies, used for banishing and sanctifying, and we already know about the baddy options.

Personally, I'm of the mind that this won't impact that fluff a great deal. It's just an ingame ability that GW decided to toss in, probably to sell more Daemons, rather than a fluff-driven change.

As for the fluff behind the Daemon summoning itself, I assume it could/will be fluffed as an act of desperation or recklessness on the part of the psyker doing the summoning, or just standard fare if they're Chaos-aligned.

 Pilau Rice wrote:
It would be nice to have more of an emphasis on Chaos being the big bad with an actual indication of its means and methods.

More than likely though it will be as Kain says.

I'm just concerned about the fluff implications. Hopefully Santic is for goodies, used for banishing and sanctifying, and we already know about the baddy options.

I wouldn't be surprised if GW releases a genestealer cult codex that is overpowered so that everyone has to buy it, and is an inquisition style detachment for every army.

Because at this point I think they'd gleefully goose-step into a synagouge while shouting in german if they thought it'd make them more money.

So Kain.. tell me what you really think about Deamonology!!

Is daemon summoning in the fluff all ready? I am assuming so? I mean.. I don't read it much but it's pretty much every GW video game story line!

bodazoka wrote:
So Kain.. tell me what you really think about Deamonology!!

Is daemon summoning in the fluff all ready? I am assuming so? I mean.. I don't read it much but it's pretty much every GW video game story line!

It's dumb as all hell when sworn enemies of chaos like Grey Knights and Eldar can do it.

Because Draigo being BFFs with Skarbrand is as stupid as Draigo dickboxing Mortarion into submission.

It's not quite as dumb as unbound (which I will now call "unintelligent") but it's close.