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Can't be. Kasper Hawser was neither a Remembrancer nor a poet, nor does Bjorn's description mesh at all with anything to do with Hawser.
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I just finished Pariah. Major blue balls here, I didn't know it was a trilogy.
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PantsOptional posted:Can't be. Kasper Hawser was neither a Remembrancer nor a poet, nor does Bjorn's description mesh at all with anything to do with Hawser. Yeah, it was the only person who came to mind but the description didn't stick, it is to deliberate a reference for ADB to not be referring to a specific character.
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PantsOptional posted:Can't be. Kasper Hawser was neither a Remembrancer nor a poet, nor does Bjorn's description mesh at all with anything to do with Hawser. They kind of make a big deal throughout the book about how he was the only remembrancer to get an ok from the wolves. Unless you're making a crack about how he went by Ibn Rustah or whatever...
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No, he's explicitly not a remembrancer, he's a conservator. There's a flashback early on where he has to navigate the political bureaucracy of the Administratum and he makes it clear that he wants the Conservatory to be a completely separate entity from the Remembrancer Order - in fact I'm pretty sure it operates independently of the Administratum as a whole.
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PantsOptional posted:No, he's explicitly not a remembrancer, he's a conservator. There's a flashback early on where he has to navigate the political bureaucracy of the Administratum and he makes it clear that he wants the Conservatory to be a completely separate entity from the Remembrancer Order - in fact I'm pretty sure it operates independently of the Administratum as a whole. I'm sure the author realises that a 10,000 year old space marine in a walking coffin would make such a distinction. He's referring to Hawser, unless you know of some other mortal who features heavily with Bjorn is previous novels
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Bjorn specifically wouldn't bother to distinguish or even know the difference at all because 1) the Space Wolves don't have remembrancers or conservators; they just have skjalds; also, 2) rather than explaining the differences between Remembrancers and Conservators, Hawser himself responds, "Something like that," when a random imperial guard dude asks him if he's a Remembrancer; likewise, he probably didn't spend a lot of time trying to explain the difference to the Space Wolves while they were just lumping him in as a skjald and threatening to eat him.
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Sep 7, 2016 16:06
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Moose-Alini posted:I just finished Pariah. Major blue balls here, I didn't know it was a trilogy. Good news, it's not. 
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Sep 7, 2016 22:03
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Peztopiary posted:Good news, it's not. Why did he drop them? I'm really sick of space marine books, but need some imperium fix.
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Sep 7, 2016 22:30
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Moose-Alini posted:Why did he drop them? I'm really sick of space marine books, but need some imperium fix. Same reason he dropped Gaunt's Ghosts. Games Workshop is poo poo.
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Sep 7, 2016 22:47
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Moose-Alini posted:Why did he drop them? I'm really sick of space marine books, but need some imperium fix. The Guardians of the Galaxy script probably came across his desk shortly after Pariah was released.
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Sep 7, 2016 23:25
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Are the later Gaunts Ghost books better? I liked the first one okay, but was disappointed the baddie had to be chaos instead of just people fighting against a brutal repressive regime. I thought it was pretty good but not enough to convince me to go out and buy some more.
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Sep 8, 2016 00:46
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Moose-Alini posted:Are the later Gaunts Ghost books better? I liked the first one okay, but was disappointed the baddie had to be chaos instead of just people fighting against a brutal repressive regime. the entire series is a treasure which doesn't really hit its stride till book 3-4
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Moose-Alini posted:Are the later Gaunts Ghost books better? I liked the first one okay, but was disappointed the baddie had to be chaos instead of just people fighting against a brutal repressive regime. oh you sweet summer child the imperium is the brutal repressive regime that we all know and love
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The Iron Rose posted:oh you sweet summer child I was excited about the rebels the ghosts are fighting until turns out they are all corrupted and mindless chaos thralls instead of freedom fighters. That's the kind of stuff I really want to see. Normal people with normal motivations in this horrible universe.
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Sep 8, 2016 01:15
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So... uh... I just saw an ad for this on tv 
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Moose-Alini posted:I was excited about the rebels the ghosts are fighting until turns out they are all corrupted and mindless chaos thralls instead of freedom fighters. That's the kind of stuff I really want to see. Normal people with normal motivations in this horrible universe. Sorry, the opponents in all the books are chaos. Arguably, the antagnoist of the books is the brutal, uncaring Imperial war machine
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Demiurge4 posted:Same reason he dropped Gaunt's Ghosts. Games Workshop is poo poo. He dropped them because Marvel pays way better. Guardians of the Galaxy is gonna pay the bills better than pulp paperbacks, as good as his are.
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Sep 8, 2016 03:24
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So he's officially said he's done with GW stuff? 
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Moose-Alini posted:Are the later Gaunts Ghost books better? I liked the first one okay, but was disappointed the baddie had to be chaos instead of just people fighting against a brutal repressive regime. The first few novels are off an on from decent to good, but from Traitor General onwards, they are really loving good.
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Pendent posted:So he's officially said he's done with GW stuff? No, he's just writing more lucrative stuff. He's still writing for BL intermittently, he did the first Beast Arises anywho, and I saw him when I was at Warhammer World back in April.
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Moose-Alini posted:I was excited about the rebels the ghosts are fighting until turns out they are all corrupted and mindless chaos thralls instead of freedom fighters. That's the kind of stuff I really want to see. Normal people with normal motivations in this horrible universe. It gets to a point later where the mindless chaos thralls actually get character. In Traitor General you get a really cool look at society on a chaos world along with characters who are chaos aligned out of weird nationalism almost rather than corruption.
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Arquinsiel posted:So... uh... ah gently caress me. no US delivery. i should have expected as much
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The Iron Rose posted:oh you sweet summer child 40k is that Mitchell and Webb "Are we the baddies?" sketch but instead of running away at the end, a giant insectoid velociraptor alien shows up and they go "oh, right." and go back to fighting.
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Arquinsiel posted:So... uh...
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DirtyRobot posted:Hm, why does it feel as though GW will try literally anything except pay proven authors to produce more good stories. Because they don't need to do that, idiot hams will buy anything they poop out.
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I was bored enough to watch the fan film Damnatus. I know it was low budget but wow a hive setting is perfect for filming in dorms/abandoned warehouses.
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Dapper_Swindler posted:ah gently caress me. no US delivery. i should have expected as much
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mango sentinel posted:40k is that Mitchell and Webb "Are we the baddies?" sketch but instead of running away at the end, a giant insectoid velociraptor alien shows up and they go "oh, right." and go back to fighting. The "Are We The Baddies" sketch where the other army is marching under the banner of a rat's anus.
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chiasaur11 posted:The "Are We The Baddies" sketch where the other army is marching under the banner of a rat's anus. My god.
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chiasaur11 posted:The "Are We The Baddies" sketch where the other army is marching under the banner of a rat's anus. Holy poo poo  It's canon
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Does anybody have the forum quote about how dark and metal traveling through the warp is? I remember a long time ago somebody posted a great, hyperbolic description of it and I can't find it. I asked for it in the PYF thread and nobody came through.
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https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2016/9/9/a-new-path-forward/ From the Dawn of War III thread. Games Workshop has cut ties with Fantasy Flight Games.
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Arcsquad12 posted:https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2016/9/9/a-new-path-forward/ Huh. Leave it to GW to throw away free money.
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Sweet! This means FFG isn't under the restrictions for putting out their own ground based minitures combat game (I think that's why IMPASS is technically a board game?)
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Uroboros posted:Does this mean GW plans to take over that material? I doubt that - I'm sure that FF wouldn't give up the games they created so GW could take charge and make all of the money. GW might be concerned about IP confusion (i.e releasing BB under FW and some people getting confused as to why their game looks nothing like the miniatures game) but I'm sure GW wanted a larger stake, and FF was unwilling to take a smaller cut for doing all of the work.
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D-Pad posted:Does anybody have the forum quote about how dark and metal traveling through the warp is? I remember a long time ago somebody posted a great, hyperbolic description of it and I can't find it. I asked for it in the PYF thread and nobody came through. I'm guessing that was TheCosmicMuffet; he was pretty good at just coming out of the woodwork and posting some absolutely insane poo poo then disappearing for another six months. Arcsquad12 posted:https://www.fantasyflightgames.com/en/news/2016/9/9/a-new-path-forward/
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bunnyofdoom posted:Sweet! This means FFG isn't under the restrictions for putting out their own ground based minitures combat game (I think that's why IMPASS is technically a board game?) It's the other way around. FFG has a license for Star Wars miniature games. Hasbro got a little pissy about ImpAss being too board-gamey which they have the SW rights for.
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