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AndyElusive posted:Just found out that Graham McNeill is going to be signing books at my local GW store on Friday. I don't tend to go to book signings but I think it'd be kind of rad to get him to sign Thousand Sons and a few other HH books I have. Thing is it's not like they're special editions or even hardcovers, they're just the small format paperbacks. So I don't even know if it'd even be worth it to get him to scribble in them. Bring a copy of The Reflection Crack'd, that one is special enough.
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AndyElusive posted:Just found out that Graham McNeill is going to be signing books at my local GW store on Friday. I don't tend to go to book signings but I think it'd be kind of rad to get him to sign Thousand Sons and a few other HH books I have. Thing is it's not like they're special editions or even hardcovers, they're just the small format paperbacks. So I don't even know if it'd even be worth it to get him to scribble in them. Unless you're doing it to resell the books, who cares!?!? If you think it's rad (which it is) and you have the time, go do it!
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Jul 27, 2022 18:01
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I remember the Necron Lord of Kronus in Dark Crusade was still somewhat personable, though his Pariah did most of the talking and he was pretty sarcastic.
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Jul 27, 2022 18:11
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Angry Lobster posted:Bring a copy of The Reflection Crack'd, that one is special enough. I’d bring a copy of The Reflection Crack’d if I knew I was going to see Graham McNeill, though not to get him to sign it.
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Jul 27, 2022 18:13
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I though that even before the Necrons got their glow up that the higher ranked ones still had personalities similar to the Tomb Kings
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Jul 27, 2022 18:28
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depends upon if you mean the 9th ed glowup or the 5th ed glowup
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AndyElusive posted:Just found out that Graham McNeill is going to be signing books at my local GW store on Friday. I don't tend to go to book signings but I think it'd be kind of rad to get him to sign Thousand Sons and a few other HH books I have. Thing is it's not like they're special editions or even hardcovers, they're just the small format paperbacks. So I don't even know if it'd even be worth it to get him to scribble in them. Xenomrph posted:If anyone else knows of any old lore examples of Necrons talking, they’d be fun to throw in this other guy’s face lol
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DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:I’d bring a copy of The Reflection Crack’d if I knew I was going to see Graham McNeill, though not to get him to sign it.
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Jul 27, 2022 18:40
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Arquinsiel posted:Claim it happened in Digganob. gently caress all people will even know what that is. Now I want to know what that is
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Jul 27, 2022 18:48
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Xenomrph posted:Now I want to know what that is Necrons were originally introduced in Gorkamorka, to which Digganob is a supplement.
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Jul 27, 2022 18:52
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Nah, they were introduced in the Christmas 1997 issue of White Dwarf, which came with a free metal Necron Warrior figure. Digganob just decided that the planet that Gorkamorka takes place on is also a tomb world and added them into it for some extra spice. They were wildly over-powered for the game.
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Jul 27, 2022 19:16
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Arquinsiel posted:Nah, they were introduced in the Christmas 1997 issue of White Dwarf, which came with a free metal Necron Warrior figure. Digganob just decided that the planet that Gorkamorka takes place on is also a tomb world and added them into it for some extra spice. They were wildly over-powered for the game. Aye, they got some basic rules for 40k with stats for the lord, warriors, immortals and scarabs, pretty barebones stuff iirc, I may have that WD lying around somewhere. Gorkamorka was such a wild game btw. DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:I’d bring a copy of The Reflection Crack’d if I knew I was going to see Graham McNeill, though not to get him to sign it. Same, but with Dead Sky, Black Sun.
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Jul 27, 2022 19:59
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Arquinsiel posted:Ditching this was honestly the best part of the retcon. Everything else was just "yes, and" but that poo poo had to go. Turning it into a I wouldn't mind a couple things being C'tan plots or whatever but, yes, there was waaaay too much poo poo implied to be them and it got kinda silly after a while. I would love some lore on the Void Dragon now that it has a model though
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"yes, human that's what they wanted us to think!" is the best outcome.
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The Laughing God tho is in fact puppet mastering everything. BAAAAZINGAAAAAAAAA(ETERNAL LAUGH TRACK ECHOING THROUGH THE WARP)
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Still thinking about the ending to dark city days later Just a gem of the genre.
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Improbable Lobster posted:I wouldn't mind a couple things being C'tan plots or whatever but, yes, there was waaaay too much poo poo implied to be them and it got kinda silly after a while. I would love some lore on the Void Dragon now that it has a model though
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euphronius posted:Still thinking about the ending to dark city days later 
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Just finished Dark City. huh HUH Gonna need to take a moment here.
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Arquinsiel posted:The worst thing about the Void Dragon is that it's just a dude. The C'Tan of Just Being A Dude Is C'tan supposed to be a pun on Satan
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Weirder than finding “titbit” in Dead Men Walking I also noticed what I think is the first time I’ve seen human ethnicity described in contemporary terms instead of talking about heritage of the “nordafrik enclaves” or being of “albian” descent or whatever there’s a bit where a Krieg guard says “we’re looking for a caucasian female”.
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0konner posted:Weirder than finding “titbit” in Dead Men Walking I also noticed what I think is the first time I’ve seen human ethnicity described in contemporary terms instead of talking about heritage of the “nordafrik enclaves” or being of “albian” descent or whatever there’s a bit where a Krieg guard says “we’re looking for a caucasian female”. ... Yeah.
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Since finishing The Dark City I've been thinking more and more about how it really seems that all the scattered revelations, plots, and hints over the last few years seem to be building to something. We know with GW's new management that came around in '15/'16 they started planning much further ahead and that they saw the success of the heresy series and how big events or storylines drive revenue. I think they see the imminent end of the Heresy/SoT series and have been dropping breadcrumbs about the next big event. I don't see how exactly, but I think all of these things are independent stories but with connections that will be exploited later: - Failure of the golden throne explored in the Vaults of Terra trilogy - The you know what revealed so far in the Bequin trilogy - The golden child/star child plot started in the latest Dawn of Fire book - The Horusian War series stuff about creating an uber-saint/possible emperor reincarnation - Whatever revelations we end up getting at the end of Siege of Terra about what really happened, the golden throne, perpetuals, etc - The great rift and subsequent psychic awakening - Tons of hints about more returning Primarchs It just seems like all the really major releases coming out of BL deals with similar stuff that could all be tied together into something big. Like GW saw how Marvel handled the first big arc of the MCU starting with Iron Man and ending with Endgame and seeks to emulate it. We know that GW is no longer wedded to the idea that nothing changes in the setting. Guilliman returning, primaris, and everything that has happened is a huge shakeup to the setting and has been immensely profitable for them. What exactly this is leading too I don't know. The most obvious answer would be the resurrection or reincarnation of the Emperor, but I do feel that is probably a bridge too far. As somebody who drowns themselves in the lore I just can't help but feel something big is coming after SoT ends.
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moonmazed posted:holy poo poo they're doing star child stuff again? Yeah I was just as surprised, but there wasn't enough revealed about it by the end of the book to see how much it borrows from the old star child lore. Throne of Light spoilers: Basically the Hand of Abaddon is on a big quest to find this "golden child". Supposedly everything in the warp has been whispering about it and it's a really big deal. He even summons and binds Kairos Fateweaver to make them tell him about it. Of course you never get a straight answer from Kairos but it's heavily implied it is related to the emperor (repeated reference to a golden being standing up from a throne) and of such importance that even Kairos doesn't know or can't reveal the child's location, and that it is either the death or triumph of Chaos. There are two very short vignettes that show the child to already be born and located on a paradise planet. The Inquisitor trying to track down and stop the Hand believes it's all tied to the recent resurgence in the Cult of the Star Child popping up all over the Imperium. That is basically it, but it's pretty clear this will be the main macguffin going forward in the Dawn of Fire series. Unfortunately, DoF has been pretty underwhelming so far but BL really seems to want to make it a big deal but all their big hitters have been busy with all the other stuff I referenced. As those stories come to a close we may finally see those authors start writing DoF novels. It's possible all of this will come together into the DoF series plotline and that will be the big post-SoT push or maybe they'll close it out relatively soon and it will be something new after that. I really think in a few years though we will look back and see that all the really big stuff released since 17/18 had breadcrumbs and connections throughout that we weren't really seeing at the time.
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D-Pad posted:Since finishing The Dark City I've been thinking more and more about how it really seems that all the scattered revelations, plots, and hints over the last few years seem to be building to something. We know with GW's new management that came around in '15/'16 they started planning much further ahead and that they saw the success of the heresy series and how big events or storylines drive revenue. Yeah also add the very suspicious delays we've seen with the Bequin and Horusian Wars series. Horusian Wars had a regular entry once per year and a collection of shorts, but then just as it got to the part of the story that would (potentially) link together all these other arcs from 30k and 41k, the series just disappeared into complete radio silence. The penultimate novel of the series came out in 2018. It reminds me of how inbetween the release of Pariah and Penitent a whole bunch of books came out that recontextualised how we would read Penitent, I think that delay was completely purposeful, a chance for other writers to catch up with Abnett. At the time the last Horusian Wars novel seemed to me like a cool story that I expected would just get reset at the end like a sitcom, but now I'm looking back on it, and thinking...they might actually do the thing. Brendan Rodgers fucked around with this message at 11:48 on Jul 28, 2022 |
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I always thought the delay of Penitent was because there were problems between old GW and Abnett.
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Chemtrailologist posted:I always thought the delay of Penitent was because there were problems between old GW and Abnett. 
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Chemtrailologist posted:I always thought the delay of Penitent was because there were problems between old GW and Abnett. I'd bet it was first one then the other Improbable Lobster fucked around with this message at 14:44 on Jul 28, 2022 |
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Improbable Lobster posted:The C'Tan of Just Being A Dude
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Chemtrailologist posted:I always thought the delay of Penitent was because there were problems between old GW and Abnett. Wasn't he also diagnosed with epilepsy and slowed down his writing around the same time?
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Arquinsiel posted:He's a big floaty dude with wings and no face, but still basically a humanoid figure. I was hoping for something cooler like an actual dragon made out of the little tiles or something. I don't mind the design, but something weirder would have been cooler, agreed
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Improbable Lobster posted:I don't mind the design, but something weirder would have been cooler, agreed basically this but the entire leagues of votann so far
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Yeah, it's perfectly cool, but is it as cool as a dragon? No, it is not.
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Improbable Lobster posted:The C'Tan of Just Being A Dude Oh man I've always read it as "kuh-tan" but if it's pronounced "see-tan" then dang nice catch.
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I'm listening to The First Heretic and every time Argel Tal appears my brain goes "Argel Targel"
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Improbable Lobster posted:I'm listening to The First Heretic and every time Argel Tal appears my brain goes "Argel Targel" Glad I’m not the only one.
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Reading Perturabo and loving the Hrud. Is there more about them anywhere?
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Relevant Tangent posted:Reading Perturabo and loving the Hrud. Is there more about them anywhere? As far as I know there are only some short stories. They may feature at one point in an HH novel but not as the main bad guy. Maybe look up their wiki articles and see what books are referenced in the footnotes?
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