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PostPosted: Mon Aug 11, 2014 1:41 pm


They say he left back in May.

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So, no more of this.....

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PostPosted: Mon Aug 11, 2014 3:53 pm


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PostPosted: Tue Aug 12, 2014 12:32 am


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Amen brother. cool
PostPosted: Tue Aug 12, 2014 1:00 pm


And yet, things seem to have gotten worse since May...

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PostPosted: Tue Aug 12, 2014 1:16 pm


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And yet, things seem to have gotten worse since May...
Books are written up to a year in advance, not at the last possible moment.
PostPosted: Wed Aug 13, 2014 11:49 pm


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And yet, things seem to have gotten worse since May...
Books are written up to a year in advance, not at the last possible moment.
Even with GW? surprised Sometimes they seem like something that was passed around on a drunken Friday Night drawn onto an older version with a bunch of crayons.

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 14, 2014 9:20 pm


Do you think maybe he left because they told him they were going to delete all of his fluff from the last Grey Knights Codex when they release the new one?
PostPosted: Thu Aug 14, 2014 11:10 pm


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Do you think maybe he left because they told him they were going to delete all of his fluff from the last Grey Knights Codex when they release the new one?


That or GW finally having some common sense about their image-integrity
and decided to kick him to ensure product-sales.

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PostPosted: Thu Aug 14, 2014 11:35 pm


Or, I know this sounds weird, but he could have left the company by himself, to strike out on his own. This isn't that uncommon with GW as many before him have done the same.

His website describes him more as a fantasy author than a games designer and his personal preference goes out to fantasy over sci-fi. He did start out as their LotR guy before moving on to WHFB and 40K. He could've quit to resume (or start) his writing career writing fantasy novels.

Oh, as for the atrocious Grey Knights fluff, most of it has been novelised one way or the other, they even turned Draigo's act of carving his name onto the heart of Mortarion into an audio drama. Some of it may be retconned out of existence, but don't count on it.
PostPosted: Fri Aug 15, 2014 7:01 am


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Or, I know this sounds weird, but he could have left the company by himself, to strike out on his own. This isn't that uncommon with GW as many before him have done the same.
Stop bringing common sense and logic into this, you're derailing things again you cheeky ********. blaugh

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PostPosted: Sat Aug 16, 2014 1:52 am


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Or, I know this sounds weird, but he could have left the company by himself, to strike out on his own. This isn't that uncommon with GW as many before him have done the same.
Stop bringing common sense and logic into this, you're derailing things again you cheeky ********. blaugh
Heaven forbid! We must bring this down to the level of the Daily Mail or one of those horrid gossip magazines. emotion_facepalm
PostPosted: Sun Aug 17, 2014 2:20 pm


Yes! We must, we must!

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