1. When have you found a large reboot of a rules system or game setting has worked? It could be the setting, rules, some rules, but it also must not be something with a slight change(s) from edition to edition. For instance, there wasn’t a huge difference between D&D 3rd edition and 3.5. Likewise, some of the editions are samey with 40k. That’s all, then. Go, tell me!

I’ve never stuck to any game that long to have a massive change of rules. The only thing that comes close is X-Wing V2 and that was something needed to happen but also pissed of a lot of people. Including me. And just judging by my guts the game suffered greatly. At least in my part of the World.

2. When has something happened in a game’s story that really made you facepalm what a character did, was needless pandering, how something was written, or how something broke the spirit of something already established and cool? My one caveat is don’t mention Age of Sigmar. Its been discussed to death across the internet and won’t add to the conversation.

midi-chlorians. ’nuff said. *mic drop*

3. I need a more positive question here, haha. Uhhh…. Does weathering necessarily make a paint job better? Or can it be a lazy shortcut when taken to an extreme? Is less more?

No it doesn’t and yes it can be. Also: it depends. Weathering makes the paint job better if it makes the painted object fit better in its environment or scenery. Grim Dark Armies or war dioramas would look weird without weathering.  Giving everything a slight “used/in use” look adds to realism but not everything needs to leak oil. I don’t do it very often or very much because I always feel like I’m ruining the carefully applied paint job. Maybe I didn’t find the right model for it yet.

1. Rogue Trader to 2nd Edition of 40k.  My friends and I didn’t have a clue about Rogue Trader, we would have been early teens and it was just far too complicated for people who had only played Heroquest before (and probably played it wrong as well).  2nd edition was far easier to build into and follow.

2. The 40k universe was far better in Rogue Trader.  When you had more adhumans, Squats, Beastman Imperial Guard units, Imperial Guard jet bikes and even half-Eldar Ultramarines… The Imperium was a more interesting place.

3.  It depends, yes, it depends.  Weathering some people are good at it, some people don’t have a clue.  Weathering gives your model history and tells the story of where the model has been and what it has been doing .  It can enhance a paint job or ruin one.  It can be used to hide many sins.  Less can be more, but in some contexts more is better.  You could argue that the vast majority of models are probably under-weathered for what would be realistic for the stories that these models should be telling but they would be far less pleasing to the eye.

Greetings fellow lead pusher (could be worse it could be lead paint licker)!

So this week I pretty much achieved bugger all on the hobbit side of things, shame on me, but current work and hunt for the next one kinda took a toll. Oh wait yes I did paint some bolters for my Space wolves (just did the base color).

1) Well… let’s face it, it is easier to go to the path of the “it was better before”

2) Well there is that old world that sudden,….. oh wait 😛

3) I don’t know, I guess you could think “well as I’ll weather the cr@p out of it I won’t bother to do a clean base and clean shade and highlight. But thinking about it it’s not something I do personally. Even when doing weathering I tend to do the base work well and then go on the weathering road of destruction. Compared to some I don’t go too crazy on it usually, a few scratch and some dust and maybe mud, but I shall try to work more on this side.

Music!

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I better think my pledge through better than the last time!

I’ve been away. Now I’m back.

Well, actually, I’ve been back a while – and I didn’t really go *that far* after all; but I’ve been busy working on side-projects that have seriously curtailed my hobby time, but I hope to free up more of it in coming weeks.

In answer to the questions, here we go…..

Blood Bowl 3rd edition was quite a departure from the original “roll, add modifiers, look up result” mechanic that worked quite well early on. Then it got bogged down with all the additional rules for skills for different characters and character types. I haven’t yet played it, but seeing the run through for Blitz Bowl, it looks like the fast-paced, sports-like rumble that Blood Bowl should have been – will be interesting to see if that keeps the new slimmed down games mechanics, or whether that too will get bogged down with modifiers and additional rules.

Super Cluedo Challenge really shook things up with their “lift a flap to reveal a corner” change of rules; but it fundamentally broke the game for me, rather than improve it, so maybe we leave that one alone.

It may be slightly contentious, or maybe even taking the question in the wrong direction…. but Citadel Contrast with their “one thick coat” has pretty well smashed apart the established painting ruleset of the last 25 years!

The Game of Life pandered very much to a wholesome-living US audience in the 50s and 60s, to reflect living the American Dream. The original was a very different game indeed! https://www.vox.com/2015/1/28/7924487/game-of-life-history

Tastefully done, weathering can take a nicely painted mini to the next level. I’ve never quite had the confidence to do it – because, when done in a haphazard kind of way, it can also ruin a mini. While I’m no expert painter, I’ll often get a nice clean mini to a point I’m happy with; I haven’t the confidence to risk ruining it with weathering myself!

@dawfydd : I think you meant to refer to @sundancer … I don’t collect every single Star wars toy/gadget/game like he does.

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I think it is telling what kind of audience X-wing attracted and how it was handled by FFG.
Compared to the amount of money that is obsolete after every update to 40k the system ought to be dead instead it managed to survive.

Heck … the change from WHFB to AoS didn’t exactly destroy the community. Instead it appears to have been the much needed kick in the behind that the setting needed despite (a few) loudmouthed fanboys claiming how they’d boycott the ‘new’ system ….

Pledge.

I’ve no idea.  I do need to tidy the shed.  I also need to finish another dice bag and I got some very tiny fighting men this week, so I will start on them as well.

Music

These are the only two songs I can think of that are about sharks 🙂