Off-Topic III: The Revengening!

[eldargal]

I have a pen and paper group, don't get to paly with them a lot anymore though.

Oh I forgot, even the eldar themed novels have been crappy. The craftworld eldar Path of... series was good even if teh ending was a bit crappy, the Dark eldar series started well but the ending was a ****ing disgrace and also killed off the only two women characters who had any character development.

[Anthrax ion pusscabe]

All I want is a character in anything be it tv, book, movie or game that has autism that the producers don't constantly respond to the question of does this character have ASD with no (Sheldon on Big Bang theory is a very accurate representation of someone with autism but the producers regularly put out official statements that he doesn't have it as if it being confirmed would ruin the show to most people)

[eldargal]

Yup non-neurotypical characters are rare and positive depictions are even rarer.

[Deadlift]

I bought Super Dungeon Explore, not opened it yet. I'm waiting until I get to Canada next month. But the models look great fun to paint, the rules seem easy enough to follow and there is a good mix of characters and expansion packs. My kids will be able to play it which is a bonus.
I did get another copy of Space Hulk too, that's going to be more than enough 40k action for me and the clan and for £70 the minis are fantastic.
But as for playing 40k, it just ain't happening. Painting on the other hand. That's soon going to be daily

[Psychosplodge]

Yeah that looks like an awesome game.

[eldargal]

On the plus side, Lelith seem to have pretty great rules.

[Anthrax ion pusscabe]

I'm planing the final stage of my undead army and have the savings to progress towards it but my hobby area is in complete disarray because of some renovation work, so I have to wait a few weeks before I can get the stuff to finish my army's core choices off, and now I'm thinking of converting a giant zombie spinosaurus aegytiacus for use as a varghulf

ALL HAIL THE MIGHTIEST CARNIVOROUS DINOSAUR WITH ITS NONE TINY ARMS AND MASSIVE JAWS AND RADIATOR BACK

[Darren Richardson]

ha, I'll think I'll take the #winning part, I haven't played a game of WHFB since 1996 and 40K since 1992!

Yeah I still buy the figures and model and paint them, because I enjoy it, but playing the game, I have to agree the games have gotten far to bland lately, and bloated too rules wise, they really need to redo the whole system for both games from scratch like Wizards did with 3rd ed from 2nd ed D&D.

By streamlining and consildating the system, and using Black Library writers to fill out the rule books fluff wise, they could revamp the games in a big way.

Or of course they could go the print on demand and re-release all the old figures that way for their "Specialist" games and throw out the rule books as free (or very cheap IE £5 or less) downloads, get the older fan base back into the fold.

[Gotthammer]

What's a 40k?

[Mr Mystery]

I think it's an American Pension?

[url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-29457044]Well this is interesting, and promising[/url]. Wonga to write off a large amount of debt - £220,000,000 to be precise, following discussion with the FCA (Financial Conduct Authority, not the Ferengi Commerce Authority)[url]

While it's bad things got to this stage, it is interesting to note that this is a voluntary decision by Wonga, albeit one feels the FCA might have leaned on them quite heavily.

So we have easily the biggest single short term lender in the UK being a least a little bit proactive in it's approach. Could be too little too late for many, but it's still heartening to see change in progress, and it being lead by a big player in the industry.

Big props to the FCA for being effective in this area, and respek to Wonga for not fighting the regulator every step of the way.