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2016/03/11 18:54:28
Subject: Gav Thorpe's new AoS book, and his blog and thoughts on writing for the new setting
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Clousseau
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http://gavthorpe.co.uk/2016/03/06/warbeast-authors-notes/
The comments and discussion with Gav are very interesting in the comment section.
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2016/03/11 19:05:11
Subject: Re:Gav Thorpe's new AoS book, and his blog and thoughts on writing for the new setting
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[DCM]
Et In Arcadia Ego
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Must get round to picking this book up.
.. Always interesting to get a glimpse "behind the curtain".
Have to say that there is some validity to the idea that XX amount of people had/have already decided to hate the setting/game regardless.
Of course -- and Mr Thorpe et al do acknowledge this -- not all the criticism is unjustified or incorrect.
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The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all
We love our superheroes because they refuse to give up on us. We can analyze them out of existence, kill them, ban them, mock them, and still they return, patiently reminding us of who we are and what we wish we could be.
"the play's the thing wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king,
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2016/03/11 19:53:31
Subject: Gav Thorpe's new AoS book, and his blog and thoughts on writing for the new setting
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Clousseau
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Yeah. I've said that and think that myself; there is a large amount of people that decided to hate the setting and game upon release for many reasons:
* not competitive
* no points = hard for pick up games
* setting they liked is gone
* different type of game
And no matter if Gav and Co write the best story ever, they will still get a ton of hate coming their way for it.
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2016/03/11 20:17:22
Subject: Gav Thorpe's new AoS book, and his blog and thoughts on writing for the new setting
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Arch Magos w/ 4 Meg of RAM
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Just read all the comments - great read. I have a lot of respect for Gav (he wrote the Inquisitor game after all!) - people who have read my posts will know me as someone who both likes and criticises AoS. I may post a few thoughts to Gav and see what he thinks.
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Bye bye Dakkadakka, happy hobbying! I really enjoyed my time on here. Opinions were always my own :-) |
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2016/03/11 21:24:31
Subject: Gav Thorpe's new AoS book, and his blog and thoughts on writing for the new setting
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Powerful Spawning Champion
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Interesting read, though there weren't actually a lot of details in the article itself.
While I certainly didn't have the most positive feelings towards the new setting at the start, I really did try to give it a chance. And ultimately, it's not even that it's bad; it just holds very little interest for me.
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2016/03/12 00:17:59
Subject: Re:Gav Thorpe's new AoS book, and his blog and thoughts on writing for the new setting
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Longtime Dakkanaut
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I never liked his writing, I vastly prefer Aaron Dembsky Bowden.
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2016/03/12 01:15:46
Subject: Gav Thorpe's new AoS book, and his blog and thoughts on writing for the new setting
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Stern Iron Priest with Thrall Bodyguard
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gav Thorpe is a terrible writer look at kill team just horrible tripe.
Having him writing your books is a great reason to stay away.
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2016/03/12 01:21:38
Subject: Gav Thorpe's new AoS book, and his blog and thoughts on writing for the new setting
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Stubborn White Lion
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Yeah because all top class writers are queuing up to write Games Workshop novels. Do me a favour, it's always been tripe.
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2016/03/12 07:25:01
Subject: Gav Thorpe's new AoS book, and his blog and thoughts on writing for the new setting
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Hacking Proxy Mk.1
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Dai wrote:Yeah because all top class writers are queuing up to write Games Workshop novels. Do me a favour, it's always been tripe.
As mentioned Dembsky is rather good, as is Abnett. At one point they did have talent.
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 Fafnir wrote:Oh, I certainly vote with my dollar, but the problem is that that is not enough. The problem with the 'vote with your dollar' response is that it doesn't take into account why we're not buying the product. I want to enjoy 40k enough to buy back in. It was my introduction to traditional games, and there was a time when I enjoyed it very much. I want to buy 40k, but Gamesworkshop is doing their very best to push me away, and simply not buying their product won't tell them that.
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2016/03/12 08:20:49
Subject: Re:Gav Thorpe's new AoS book, and his blog and thoughts on writing for the new setting
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[MOD]
Anti-piracy Officer
Somewhere in south-central England.
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There is a prior thread on this topic so I shall lock this one as a duplicate.
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