> Absender: derekfulton@bigpond.com
Inspired by the title of this thread:
I have seen a lot of people complaining of GW's marketing policies, dumb
rules, expensive figures etc.
But I rarely, if ever have seen anybody complaining about my own pet GW hate:
The often gory graphic and bloodthirsty rhetoric of their publications.
Warhammer was first advertised with the headline "Let's smash skulls"
and it has gone downhill from there - see their recent Dark Eldar.
Like with other matters, your tastes may vary, but is it just me who prefers
his games in a language that would not make a Nazi Kriegsberichterstatter
blush?
Greetings
EXACTLY why I dropped their stuff with Rouge Trader. The rules were just not
good enough, and the background was just too bleak. And it seems to have only
gotten worse.
Michael Brown
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> On 13 Feb 2001 10:32 GMT KH.Ranitzsch@t-online.de writes:
> But I rarely, if ever have seen anybody complaining about my own pet
Karl, I have no idea what 'Kriegsberichterstatter' means in English or Spanish
but if it means tacky, demeaning extremely socially unsettling gore (And I was
in Nursing for 15 years) then yes. I just thought I was either 1) the only one
or 2)a hypocrite given that our hobby *is* war
games. But yes, what little GW materials I have read/handled can become
fixated on violence IMO. Inquisitor? The Spanish Inquisition was
'funny'? But I just downplay the more extreme rhetoric in my non-GW
world (see the Ralnai reference in my Sig <blush>) and try not to spend too
much time in the GW sourcebooks...
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