Da Boss wrote:
It's alright. The Emperor is never going to wake up - he is nothing more than a braindead near corpse upon that throne.

 Da Boss wrote:
Ah, but was that Emperor the man, or the slowly forming warp God caused by the fanatical worship of the untold billions of humans in the Imperium? Is that being truly the Emperor Girlyman knew, or a daemon aping him?

(I am sure given how terrible the new background is it is unambiguously the Emperor, which makes me sad. Even the fact that the Emperor communicated with Girlyman is lame. And him coming back is bad fanfic to me. Oh well.)

 Da Boss wrote:
I am really not a fan of the entire concept of this sort of thing being in "official" material for a game setting.

 Da Boss wrote:
To me, a game setting is a place to make your own stories. The older background was ambiguous, it was never clear what was true about the Emperor, Guilliman, Horus or any of the rest of it. The Black Library was a mysterious place and no one knew what was in there. Everything was filled with mysteries, and this was on purpose, because it was supposed to inspire you to create your own stories, and therefore your own version of the setting.

Your own answers to these questions will always be more satisfying for you than answers written by someone else, especially if you "made" those answers through playing the game.

I think the modern fiction answers too many questions, is too unambiguous and lets us see too clearly the motivations of characters in the galaxy, and this reduces the mystery and interest in the setting to me and closes off creative avenues that should have been left open. It also shrinks the galaxy down to a small cast of characters when it used to be this enormous place.

I could go on, but yeah, I really dislike these changes to the setting as a creative decision, even if they are technically executed well in terms of the written fiction.

 Da Boss wrote:
To me, a game setting is a place to make your own stories. The older background was ambiguous, it was never clear what was true about the Emperor, Guilliman, Horus or any of the rest of it. The Black Library was a mysterious place and no one knew what was in there. Everything was filled with mysteries, and this was on purpose, because it was supposed to inspire you to create your own stories, and therefore your own version of the setting.

Your own answers to these questions will always be more satisfying for you than answers written by someone else, especially if you "made" those answers through playing the game.

I think the modern fiction answers too many questions, is too unambiguous and lets us see too clearly the motivations of characters in the galaxy, and this reduces the mystery and interest in the setting to me and closes off creative avenues that should have been left open. It also shrinks the galaxy down to a small cast of characters when it used to be this enormous place.

I could go on, but yeah, I really dislike these changes to the setting as a creative decision, even if they are technically executed well in terms of the written fiction.

I made a thread about it a while ago, if you want to have a read:
https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/0/780995.page

 Da Boss wrote:
but I am really not a fan of the entire concept of this sort of thing being in "official" material for a game setting.

 Darkseid wrote:
Aren't the origins of the current Imperial Creed, what Lorgar was preaching before turning to chaos?

Oh, the irony.