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Silly Newbie posted:Haven't watched it, so I don't know the quality, but Abnett answering 40k questions dope. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6aRPlfjNN0 have a new hire gun trailer.
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Silly Newbie posted:Haven't watched it, so I don't know the quality, but Abnett answering 40k questions This is a drat good watch. He had a lot of interesting things to say. I really loved what he said about hope in the 40k Universe. Basically there can not be "Capital H" hope or it would't be 40k, but there needs to be "lowercase hope" to tell compelling stories. I wasn't aware that the Horus Heresy was just a throwaway line in the original Titanicus game just to justify there only being one set of models in the box. He didn't address it specifically but he mentioned talking to various people about story and they threw around the word "Loremaster" a lot. Does anyone know if GW employ people in the role of Loremaster, as in someone who's full time job is to be a historian and continuity expert for a fictional universe? Blizzard employs a small team of them to keep continuity on all their properties an I've wondered if it was unique to that company.
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Bucnasti posted:This is a drat good watch. He had a lot of interesting things to say. I really loved what he said about hope in the 40k Universe. Basically there can not be "Capital H" hope or it would't be 40k, but there needs to be "lowercase hope" to tell compelling stories. The FFG RPG books had a "Head of Intellectual Property" listed (Alan Merrett). I suspect that in practice it's going to be more "Project Manager" (i.e. "No, so-and-so can't die at this battle because he's got to be alive to do this")* than "Keeper of THE BOOK OF THE UNIVERSE" though? *: Who's the Ghost that Abnett was talking about having been story-significantly-killed dead but nevertheless being alive later in the series a while ago on Twitter or something? Schadenboner fucked around with this message at 13:59 on May 8, 2021 |
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Bonin the Scout was mentioned as being killed off in Necropolis, but he'd not had much characterisation up til that point. He accidentally came back in the next book or two and then Abnett realised and worked it into his character, giving him a nickname and establishing that he'd miraculously survived a few times.
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My favorite part of the Abnett video is how he describes the throne room as this giant nuclear reactor that would basically vaporize any human who entered it. Also I loved him calling Magnus "a dick"
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No. 1 Juicy Boi posted:My favorite part of the Abnett video is how he describes the throne room as this giant nuclear reactor that would basically vaporize any human who entered it. Puts more context to how even Custodes have to be cycled out from throne room duty and how they feel being in there.
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a lovely king posted:Bonin the Scout was mentioned as being killed off in Necropolis, but he'd not had much characterisation up til that point. He accidentally came back in the next book or two and then Abnett realised and worked it into his character, giving him a nickname and establishing that he'd miraculously survived a few times.
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Not super surprised to hear that the leak was fake. Sigh. Someday, we will get our Eisenhorn show! Probably with a cast less awesome than that, though.
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MariusLecter posted:Puts more context to how even Custodes have to be cycled out from throne room duty and how they feel being in there. Crowle basically has an aneurysm and a heart attack from just a glance at the throne.
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DAD LOST MY IPOD posted:Not super surprised to hear that the leak was fake. Sigh. Someday, we will get our Eisenhorn show! Probably with a cast less awesome than that, though. The casting was a bit too good, not to mention chud rage inducing, to really feel legit.
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Schadenboner posted:*: Who's the Ghost that Abnett was talking about having been story-significantly-killed dead but nevertheless being alive later in the series a while ago on Twitter or something? There's a few of them. Lucky Mac' Bonin is the first one, where he "got better" from tumbling off the side of a 100 meter tall war machine into an army of about 60 million brainwashed Hive cultists. Next up is MkVenner, presumed dead during His Last Command and yet still alive, in some form, in The Armour of Contempt. But I think the twitter one is referring to some spoilers, so fair warning. Dalin and Yoncy Kolea were gender swapped between their initial appearance in Necropolis and in later appearances. after realizing this mistake, Abnett wrote the latter few novels with something being very, very wrong with Dalin and Yoncy, with them turning out to be sleeper agent woe machines planted into the Tanith 1st during the chaotic fighting on Verghast. Gol Kolea is killed embracing the blade daemon he thought was his daughter, and Yoncy, Dalin and Gol are all killed along with a lot of the Ghosts and their baggage train in a massacre behind the frontline. The other major one is Mkoll, presumed dead at the end of Warmaster but actually going on a one man assassination mission against Annakwenar Sek during Anarch.
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mkoll and mkvenner were deliberately meant to be teased as still alive. bonin is the one that he absolutely intended to kill off and forgot.
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Aw, and here I was hoping Bragg would get to try again.
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Arcsquad12 posted:But I think the twitter one is referring to some spoilers, so fair warning. going through Warmaster and Anarch for the first time was crazy, because I remembered yoncy being a different gender and suddenly the book was making a big deal about no, you're wrong idiot. God drat i wish I could erase my memory of it so I could get that first time WOAH feeling again
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Biplane posted:going through Warmaster and Anarch for the first time was crazy, because I remembered yoncy being a different gender and suddenly the book was making a big deal about no, you're wrong idiot. God drat i wish I could erase my memory of it so I could get that first time WOAH feeling again
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‘Of course. A good man. A heretic. A traitor. A murderer. A fool. My brother, the good man.’ So anyway. Brutal Kunnin is next. Weirdest thing, the audio book just appeared on my hard drive. Listening to the last half hour of Void Stalker as I type this.
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Silly Newbie posted:Haven't watched it, so I don't know the quality, but Abnett answering 40k questions Pretty neat, thanks for linking. Dan's beard makes him look ten years older than he is though.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riLSFr7WRJg This showed up in my feed.
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When discussing good ship names elsewhere, and specifically what makes a good ship name, I was trying to think of spaceship names I know of. Vengeful Spirit doesn't make any sense for Horus when he was a loyal member of the super secularist/anti-superstition Imperium. Doesn't convey the character or faction well at all. NikkolasKing fucked around with this message at 22:01 on May 12, 2021 |
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The Vengeful Spirit of the humans who were oppressed by xenos.
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Good lord is there anything similar Brutal Kunnin I could read once im done with Eisenhorn?
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In universe answer: the Vengeful Spirit was built by the Jovian shipyards, they used a bunch of weird hidden technology, and they gave it a superstitious name. Real answer: the name was made up before any of this fluff was established because it sounds cool.
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Skulk Hogan posted:Good lord is there anything similar Brutal Kunnin I could read once im done with Eisenhorn?
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I'd point out the Terminus Est but that one's a reference to another series.
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Skulk Hogan posted:Good lord is there anything similar Brutal Kunnin I could read once im done with Eisenhorn? Rites of Passage
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D-Pad posted:Rites of Passage I can't say how similar it is (haven't read BK) but I can confirm that Rites of Passage is pro-tier af. E: Also this. Arquinsiel posted:You've read Deff Skwadron, right?
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Skulk Hogan posted:Good lord is there anything similar Brutal Kunnin I could read once im done with Eisenhorn? Engine of Mork and Evil Sun Rising are propa orky.
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Read Mortis and it was really good. Appreciated the Enuncia stuff, and the whole Alpharius bit. Loved the Titan fights, and the bit with Perturabo and the Iron Lords. Going to be hard to go back to 40k where you're lucky to see a Knight in action after all this Titan maniples on Titan maniples insanity. Also lol at Psi-Titans being a thing. "Yeah we just weld dozens of psykers onto the chassis and have a Blank as the Princeps." Also there needs to be a book written from the Traitor Legions side about getting a Daemon into a Titan because it seems like it'd be quite the process.
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I've definitely read Deff Skwadron and it rules hard. I'll definitely have a look at the recs itt. I don't have an example of my own, but does anyone have a pet BL book that you secretly get pretty into but is unpopular?
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D-Pad posted:Rites of Passage It's great and everyone should read it but nobody teleports an Orc Wagon into a Titan in it so after Brutal Kunnin' it's going to feel fairly sedate imo.
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Skulk Hogan posted:I've definitely read Deff Skwadron and it rules hard. I'll definitely have a look at the recs itt. Daemon World by Ben Counter owns even though it's by Ben Counter.
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Ben Counter has written some absolute belters, despite himself. The first Grey Knights book is quite possibly the most metal thing ever written.
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Relevant Tangent posted:Also there needs to be a book written from the Traitor Legions side about getting a Daemon into a Titan because it seems like it'd be quite the process. Titandeath's got you covered for this in exquisite, gory detail.
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Relevant Tangent posted:Daemon World by Ben Counter owns even though it's by Ben Counter. That book is off the walls insanely good and they need to bring the main character back so he can gently caress up more poo poo.
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Relevant Tangent posted:Read Mortis and it was really good. Appreciated the Enuncia stuff, and the whole Alpharius bit. Loved the Titan fights, and the bit with Perturabo and the Iron Lords. Going to be hard to go back to 40k where you're lucky to see a Knight in action after all this Titan maniples on Titan maniples insanity. Also lol at Psi-Titans being a thing. "Yeah we just weld dozens of psykers onto the chassis and have a Blank as the Princeps." Also there needs to be a book written from the Traitor Legions side about getting a Daemon into a Titan because it seems like it'd be quite the process. Did you read titandeath?
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Telsa Cola posted:That book is off the walls insanely good and they need to bring the main character back so he can gently caress up more poo poo. The calvary owns so hard and they're such a minor part of the story.
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