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Author Topic: WH40K discussion thread: [loading grimdark, please wait]  (Read 1053143 times)

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Re: WH40K general discussion thread: A comparative biology of Beastmen.
« Reply #10170 on: February 27, 2018, 11:20:55 am »

Well, I mean, for the first part they could be just recoloured Primaris with chaosey rules or something. It's not like everyone spontaneously grew spikes and horns during Horus Heresy.

No, just many of them.
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Re: WH40K general discussion thread: A comparative biology of Beastmen.
« Reply #10171 on: February 27, 2018, 12:35:42 pm »

Maybe the Primaris are immune to spikes.
Maybe they'll continue looking pristine and perfect forever.

And Fulgrim will have them all.
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Re: WH40K general discussion thread: A comparative biology of Beastmen.
« Reply #10172 on: February 27, 2018, 09:52:31 pm »

You know what would be a neat twist? If it's discovered that the Primaris Marines are inherently flawed. Maybe they start dying off like normal humans from age and disease. That would be cool. Plus it would throw the Imperium into even more o a grimdark state since it's bold, bright heroes are succumbing to their own imperfections
Space Marines can die of old age probably. Sigismund at least was deteriorating because he was so old.
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Re: WH40K general discussion thread: A comparative biology of Beastmen.
« Reply #10173 on: February 28, 2018, 11:19:30 am »

Old age for them is like +800 years. I guess it varies from chapter to chapter and marine to marine, stuff like he quality of the geneseed and whatnot.
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Re: WH40K general discussion thread: A comparative biology of Beastmen.
« Reply #10174 on: February 28, 2018, 11:58:27 am »

I seem to recall the lore on this has changed. Because I swear in my 2e Angels of Death Codex, Dante was stated to be almost 10,000 years old. But that number has been gradually getting smaller with every revision.
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Re: WH40K general discussion thread: A comparative biology of Beastmen.
« Reply #10175 on: February 28, 2018, 12:00:06 pm »

By the way, there's a Black Library open submission until April. I've been working on something else, but I'll be writing mine soon.
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Re: WH40K general discussion thread: A comparative biology of Beastmen.
« Reply #10176 on: February 28, 2018, 12:05:14 pm »

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Has... has BL actually read any of the books they publish?

I like the themes on offer anyway. 40k heist story! That's a new one, but I kinda love it.
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Re: WH40K general discussion thread: A comparative biology of Beastmen.
« Reply #10177 on: February 28, 2018, 12:08:26 pm »

Dante over a thousand years old ATM, and that's setting aside the traitors which tend to remember Horus Heresy. Tbh, in theoretical sense they could probably live forever, considering the magical stasis ability of theirs, but I'd guess their natural death is something nearly inachieveable considering the way they live, something like 2000 years.
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Re: WH40K general discussion thread: A comparative biology of Beastmen.
« Reply #10178 on: February 28, 2018, 12:13:02 pm »

Has... has BL actually read any of the books they publish?
Given the exact wording, I think that means they don't want "And then Stkrak the Violator stuck his spinning chainsword into the youth's abdomen, flesh parting way as blood splattered the floor and ceiling to his screams and the intestines wrapping around the hilt gave Stkrak amusement and even arousal at the torn gash of war inflicted against yet another victim."

"They shot the guardsmen" is probably fine.
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Re: WH40K general discussion thread: A comparative biology of Beastmen.
« Reply #10179 on: February 28, 2018, 12:15:44 pm »

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Re: WH40K general discussion thread: A comparative biology of Beastmen.
« Reply #10180 on: February 28, 2018, 02:25:07 pm »

Pretty standard practice when it comes to these things. Remember getting pissed off about the same thing a while back, can't remember who exactly had the competition. It's essentially farming out potentially good ideas and masking it as a competition. They might be greedy bastards, but they're not the first ones to do it afaik
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Re: WH40K general discussion thread: A comparative biology of Beastmen.
« Reply #10181 on: February 28, 2018, 02:27:16 pm »

Pretty standard practice when it comes to these things. Remember getting pissed off about the same thing a while back, can't remember who exactly had the competition. It's essentially farming out potentially good ideas and masking it as a competition. They might be greedy bastards, but they're not the first ones to do it afaik
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Re: WH40K general discussion thread: A comparative biology of Beastmen.
« Reply #10182 on: February 28, 2018, 02:30:55 pm »

I hate to say it, but there are solid legal reasons for doing it that way. What if someone writes a crappy short story, then a few years later some BL author writes a book that is superficially similar, having never read said short story? What if the author of the short story has an over-inflated ego and then sues for "obviously" having stolen his "masterpiece"?

Like I said, solid legal reasons.

Now, actually using that clause for anything else is pretty scummy, but you really can't tell if they will try that or not.
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Re: WH40K general discussion thread: A comparative biology of Beastmen.
« Reply #10183 on: February 28, 2018, 02:38:19 pm »

Now, actually using that clause for anything else is pretty scummy, but you really can't tell if they will try that or not.
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Re: WH40K general discussion thread: A comparative biology of Beastmen.
« Reply #10184 on: February 28, 2018, 02:42:30 pm »

This is Games "wanted to trademark Space Marine" Workshop we're talking about here you know :V
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