Warhammer 40,000 Thread

[Mecha82]

That is interesting question considering that Chaos Gods in 40k and other Warhammer (Fantasy and AOS) are heavily based on Lords of Entropy from Michael Moorcock's books (notably Elric Saga). Sadly I don't know enough about Outer Gods to be able to answer that.

[MissKittyFantastico]

Okay, the thread I feel old in... Third Edition was my time. I actually played Space Hulk quite a bit much earlier, first edition, and dabbled in the world outside Terminators and 'stealers a bit around then just for fun, but only really got drawn in around the tail end of 2nd Ed and Necromunda. But the introduction of 3rd got me playing 40k proper - repainted my old Blood Angel Terminators to go with the plastics from the 3rd box for a new chapter, although I spent more time writing backstory than actually playing the damned game (I was young, so it was all very cliched and cringeworthy).

The marines were the only force I ever really amassed a playable army from, just because the plastics for them were so high quality (for the time) and cheap to collect en masse, whereas everyone else really only had metals, and I'd just get single blister packs of three or four, paint them, then get interested in something else and never get around to building larger squads. Technically I also had Craftworld, Dark Eldar, Sisters, Chaos, some Guard (I basically conscripted my old Escher gang), but really the marines were the only army I had decent options to pick a viable force from. The local shop used to run 1500pt tournaments, I used to do decently with them.

I did become fairly well acquainted with Paul Sawyer while he was editor of White Dwarf, via a private email group we were in with a handful of other players - writing jobs occasionally got farmed out there, and I wound up doing the Index Astartes for the Emperor's Children (thankfully I'd gotten better at storytelling). Not sure if the original is still in print, but I gather it's been expanded on, rather than superseded, by the Heresy novels and later articles and so on, so that's nice. I also snuck a reference to my chaos commander in there, so she's canon.

Ended up drifting away from the hobby after I finished my degree, and wasn't hanging around uni with other players anymore. Nowadays I just very occasionally pop into the shop to check if there's a new Ciaphas Cain book around, and see how good the sculpts and how ridiculous the prices have become.

[Madner Kami]

I also snuck a reference to my chaos commander in there, so she's canon.

Nice, congrats

[Mecha82]

I did become fairly well acquainted with Paul Sawyer while he was editor of White Dwarf, via a private email group we were in with a handful of other players - writing jobs occasionally got farmed out there, and I wound up doing the Index Astartes for the Emperor's Children (thankfully I'd gotten better at storytelling). Not sure if the original is still in print, but I gather it's been expanded on, rather than superseded, by the Heresy novels and later articles and so on, so that's nice. I also snuck a reference to my chaos commander in there, so she's canon.

Ah yes, Paul Sawyer aka Fat Bloke. I remember him from that era of WD. It's nice to read that you got to have your own impact on 40k lore involving one of most underrated traitor legions and you even got your own chaos commander there.