CoGs, OTTers, Backstagers….Happy Sunday to you all.
Of course lore matters! If you want to see if this is true or not get a space marine army and a genestealer force and use OPR rules and your brain will translate it into 40K lore. Get mantic enforcers and chaos Marines and your brain just can’t get emersed in the story.

Lore is a thing of opposing viewpoints. If the gaming environment has lore I’ll likely scramble through and select what I like according to the game world. In this instance I’d take it according to aesthetics of the faction models. I fell in with the 2nd edition Miners&Steamfitters Union of the Arcanists for Malifaux for the steampunk that it gave. I find myself, however, gravitating to miniatures agnostic games, like SAGA for example, because I’m afforded the freedom to assemble an army as I want from the ground up and write the associated lore for why I selected models. Various… Read more »

Starwars legion has no lore based gaming. It’s just a competitive slog. I wanted some more fluff based with scenarios and story telling so I use other rules

The only lore that anyone needs is the history of one of thec Judges in Mega City One

Talking of WW2 fantasy are you thinking of Wessex Games Panzerfauste?

Oh I shouldn’t have paused. You got there yourselves

It was I sent abusive messages to Ben, containing Skaven PDF’s

Is it lore or is it more atmosphere. I don’t mind the rules to Age of Sigmar but I’ve never liked the game because I can’t work out why this conflict is happening (AoS isn’t alone in this). Franchise and historical already have there ground work done, but new games/workds have a lot to do. One of my favourite games is Carnivale which started with little to no lore, but the Venice setting was so rich it just flourished. Infinity had a bit more work when it started but the mega Corp Animie feel just worked. Now take AoS (when… Read more »

Happy Sunday plastic junkies?

While watching this I’ve been painting Poxwalkers for the Darktide tabletop game. Other than “it’s 40k” I don’t know the lore of the game at all. That’s fine though, it’s a self-contained game and looks simple enough to play with the lad. Once that’s done I’ll get back to some Turnip28, which AFAIK has little more than the setting. I’m not arsed about the lack of lore, the aesthetics are superb and I think that’s what appealed to me more. Then I’ve Trench Crusade, which is going heavy on the lore and it’s brilliant IMO. After that it’s 40k minis… Read more »

Is that book the one you took from the desert @avernos ??

I have a suggestion for your hefylumps Gerry I’ll stick on discord for you ??

HAPPY SUNDAY!!!

It’s not F.A.Q. now John it’s W.T.F. additions from G.W.?

Yes Lore brings the game an characters to life in my head to keep the interest alive for me anyways.??

Happy Sunday.
I’m still waiting for my Moonstone stuff, I’m sure it’ll arrive any day now, any day….
Although I find it nice for a rules system to come with some background but for me I’m much more about the actual rules as a selling point. Games like Five Leagues From The Borderlands where a lot of things are generated on tables and the background it’s almost an emergent property are great.

Black Sails is a great show Ben.?

Fantastic button winner’s?

Love the show guy’s ??

Hot Sunday 00:00 YES, it does matter! 00:25 “Oh” – that says all. 02:30 “A sick car” – and I was wondering when the car would appear as hobby on the XLBS. GREASEMONKEYS UNITE! @johnlyons 05:00 limpy huffs 07:00 On Show Shopping! 11:00 “It’s not that much” – what like that is what she said. 13:00 Making all the notes! 16:00 playing with painted minis? WEIRD! 25:00 uwu? oO 27:00 one box fits all – isn’t that just boardgames? 29:00 that’s how 40k/AoS has worked for years 30:00 Post Nut Clarity 33:00 hardware violation! 34:30 MAWM tempting people – I… Read more »

I have fully painted armies. I’m a full-kit w*nk*r! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! ?

I have to admit, lore in general (or new worlds and lore) does not matter to me that much, because I only play in a few settings that are already established and which I grew up with – like the Warhammer Old World, Middle-Earth and the world of Conan and King Kull.

So, as Gerry said, I don’t care about Pannithor, but I will use ‘Kings of War’ as a ruleset to play a campaign in the Old World.

Bam ?

The lore not having any relation to the rules is why I dislike 40k. I might as well play OPR and stop pretending there is a background to any of the armies or units. (but then OPR is adding more lore to its rules these days so it’s no longer the blank canvas it used to be) I need there to be just enough to get me hooked, while the rules/game itself still respect the lore. So a game that says “character A hates character B” but then still allows them to work as a team annoys me. Imagine creating… Read more »

My first thought was YES LORE MATTERS IT’S ALL THAT MATTERS, but on second thought it’s more of a delicate balance. Like Ben says, lore really helps me get into a game and explore its world. Also, if I don’t feel attracted by the lore I’m more likely to not get into a game. That said, sometimes the atmosphere is enough for me to get tempted by a game, like Sludge or the Doomed (for which I can’t find other people to join me unfortunately). Sometimes I do get ‘distracted’ by the lore so much that I will only field… Read more »

Lore matters, but I won’t stick with a poor ruleset because of it. I have a lot of fondness for the 40k setting but GW’s offerings don’t do it for me because the game itself just doesn’t look fun to play. I am more drawn to Mantic games for their rules, I only really have an elevator pitch level of knowledge about the various factions. Enough to get the vibe of the setting but I haven’t felt inclined to pick up a novel. The setting needs to be eye catching but it does not necessarily need vast depth. Miniatures agnostic… Read more »