Some more griping. Sorry but this setting is just bad and bothers me a lot. I feel like I should be letting other people know about it and at the same time cathartically putting my gripes down. Eventually I'll read the rules and see how good they are.
Wednesday, August 14, 2013
Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Numenera
I've gotten a pdf of the core rules of Numenera and want to get my thoughts about it out here. I'm not so much interested in the rules because the people I game with tend to break them so it's a competition between DM and god-like beings so not worried about imbalance. What bothers me really is the story. It falls for a lot of the 'errors' I see in other settings. Let me explain:
Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Eldar Review: Part 1, The Eldar Warhost
This should be short and sweet. There aren't a ton of rules that the Eldar have for army-wide and the rules aren't that complicated. Which I wish I could say about Daemons but nonetheless here we are. Let's get started:
Monday, June 10, 2013
Been disappointed lately
Been spending a lot of time on modelling and trying to learn how to sculpt green stuff. I've been putting off reading the Eldar codex because of one thing and one thing only:
$115
That's the price in USD for the Eldar Wraithknight. The advertising campaign for it had the line, "And you thought the Riptide was big". For some reason reading that just shocked my system. It made my shake my head in...disgust. Really. I've spent a lot of money on this hobby. As a lot of the readers and other members of the hobby have. This number though bothers me. It made me realize that first and foremost GW is a company but more than that it's a company that actively ignores and dislikes its fans. I stress that last part: GW actively dislikes fans. Why? Well a few reason, fans like the books and like the fluff but they don't like blowing tons of money on new minis. So instead of making cheaper minis (as if their shit-tier quality is something that we should pay for) they've instead decided to make utterly OP models and charge you a ransom for them. Want to win tourneys? $115. Want to play the best unit? $115. Want to play 3? $345.
What I'm getting at is that GW has completely lost touch with new and old players alike. We like new things. We like new toys and we can all figure out how much they actually cost to make and how much you're marking things up. So, in essence, the fans know how much they are being robbed. In turn, GW has decided to see how much they can rob us and how quickly they can do it before we realize. Well, $115 made me realize. I feel like an idiot but that's what did it. I understand this hobby can be expensive. I understand that paints, bases, extra bits, dozens of models etc. can be expensive. But when I can look at a competitor like Flames of War or even after-market specialists like Scribor and see them making better products for less. You can get a whole army for less than $500. Name a GW army you can do that with without getting used. That kind of entry price is deterring new users and old users from starting into the hobby.
I think what I really want my readers to take away from this rant is this: GW is doing something wrong to it's fans. I understand it costs money to run a business, I'm no idiot, but markups at this level with a quality this low and growth and change in the game almost non-existent (other than to make new books automatically better) does not a hobby make. I'm done buying GW for a long time. I will only buy used from Ebay if that. I haven't bought a single new model or bit in over a year and I don't plan on changing that until GW changes it's absolutely stupendous price-gouging. We can wait GW out. GW can't wait out its fans.
And with that...I'll review the Eldar codex.
$115
That's the price in USD for the Eldar Wraithknight. The advertising campaign for it had the line, "And you thought the Riptide was big". For some reason reading that just shocked my system. It made my shake my head in...disgust. Really. I've spent a lot of money on this hobby. As a lot of the readers and other members of the hobby have. This number though bothers me. It made me realize that first and foremost GW is a company but more than that it's a company that actively ignores and dislikes its fans. I stress that last part: GW actively dislikes fans. Why? Well a few reason, fans like the books and like the fluff but they don't like blowing tons of money on new minis. So instead of making cheaper minis (as if their shit-tier quality is something that we should pay for) they've instead decided to make utterly OP models and charge you a ransom for them. Want to win tourneys? $115. Want to play the best unit? $115. Want to play 3? $345.
What I'm getting at is that GW has completely lost touch with new and old players alike. We like new things. We like new toys and we can all figure out how much they actually cost to make and how much you're marking things up. So, in essence, the fans know how much they are being robbed. In turn, GW has decided to see how much they can rob us and how quickly they can do it before we realize. Well, $115 made me realize. I feel like an idiot but that's what did it. I understand this hobby can be expensive. I understand that paints, bases, extra bits, dozens of models etc. can be expensive. But when I can look at a competitor like Flames of War or even after-market specialists like Scribor and see them making better products for less. You can get a whole army for less than $500. Name a GW army you can do that with without getting used. That kind of entry price is deterring new users and old users from starting into the hobby.
I think what I really want my readers to take away from this rant is this: GW is doing something wrong to it's fans. I understand it costs money to run a business, I'm no idiot, but markups at this level with a quality this low and growth and change in the game almost non-existent (other than to make new books automatically better) does not a hobby make. I'm done buying GW for a long time. I will only buy used from Ebay if that. I haven't bought a single new model or bit in over a year and I don't plan on changing that until GW changes it's absolutely stupendous price-gouging. We can wait GW out. GW can't wait out its fans.
And with that...I'll review the Eldar codex.
Monday, May 6, 2013
Games Workshop and US Copyright
I've been reading about copyright recently and wondering if it's okay to be posting some rules from various codexes and the main rulebook online.
Apparently it is. But! I cannot (or you cannot if you're going to do it too) post the rules verbatim you can say, "Furious Charge gives you +1S when you charge" but you can't use the exact wording as it appears in the core rulebook. This is known as expression of game rules and is registerable for trademark. Whether or not GW has registered this stuff, I don't know. I do know that I, or anyone else for that matter, can post their rules online as long as they don't use the exact wording as it appears in the rule book. That's why certain games have very similar knock-off versions that use the same rules; they're just worded differently. If you look at Dog-opoly, for example, it's almost an exact replica of Monopoly but each use different wording of the rules (and different square names) to create what the copyright office considers a unique enough game to avoid infringement. That's why you can have Dog Place and Dog Walk replace Park Place and Board Walk without infringement because even though they are essentially the exact same thing it's the wording that counts.
So, just to wrap it all up: You can post rules, just not with GW's wording. Neat!
For those interested in the documentation:
http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl108.html
Apparently it is. But! I cannot (or you cannot if you're going to do it too) post the rules verbatim you can say, "Furious Charge gives you +1S when you charge" but you can't use the exact wording as it appears in the core rulebook. This is known as expression of game rules and is registerable for trademark. Whether or not GW has registered this stuff, I don't know. I do know that I, or anyone else for that matter, can post their rules online as long as they don't use the exact wording as it appears in the rule book. That's why certain games have very similar knock-off versions that use the same rules; they're just worded differently. If you look at Dog-opoly, for example, it's almost an exact replica of Monopoly but each use different wording of the rules (and different square names) to create what the copyright office considers a unique enough game to avoid infringement. That's why you can have Dog Place and Dog Walk replace Park Place and Board Walk without infringement because even though they are essentially the exact same thing it's the wording that counts.
So, just to wrap it all up: You can post rules, just not with GW's wording. Neat!
For those interested in the documentation:
http://www.copyright.gov/fls/fl108.html
High Elves Conversion Idea
For those of you into Warhammer Fantasy there's a simple conversion you can do to save yourself a ton of money and still have mounted flying elves.
1. Get and Elf (and kind of elf mini works)
2. Get a balancing bird toy (example: Birds, same size for $4)
3. Glue them together.
4. Laugh about saving ~$50
And there you have it. Balancing birds are also pretty cool because you can glue them by the beak to a base and they won't fall over! :O
1. Get and Elf (and kind of elf mini works)
2. Get a balancing bird toy (example: Birds, same size for $4)
3. Glue them together.
4. Laugh about saving ~$50
And there you have it. Balancing birds are also pretty cool because you can glue them by the beak to a base and they won't fall over! :O
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Tuesday, April 30, 2013
GW's War on Customers
As a paying Warhammer customer I'm pretty amazed by all the recent moves GW has been making with regards to 40k and their properties. I'd like to discuss it here. It seems to me that the company, although they are doing 'well', is on the path of self-destruction.
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