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Originally Posted by JoeGuardsman  I might be the only loser here who reads most of the articles in White Dwarf but if I'am maybe this will be fresh news to you. For about half a year now GW has been unwilling to recognize any mistakes made in the rules writing of their games. Well I really mean the mistakes in 40K, because it is the only game that doesn't have a foot to stand on as far as the rules go. GW's stance has changed reguarding rules interpretations and FAQs; where they were once willing to accept the expansiveness of their rule system and impossibility of writing a perfect system they now follow their RAW principle. RAW means (Read As Written), meaning to ignore common sense and spirit of the rule just so that they don't have to write an FAQ. I think that it is ironic that a principle that will be used by power-gamers to argue the rules for their advantage would have such a powerful acronym. I wish I didn't like the guard so much; maybe I could've just kept playing Fantasy and LoTR and not have to worry about theoretical scenery, preposterous exceptions and the ambiguous wording in every other sentence of the rulebook(seriously, look at my 40k rulebook; every other sentence is highlighted.) I have a degree in Linguistic abiguity and the sentences are scientifically ambiguous. |
well not strictly related to how abusive the RAW principal is, i also find it very humorous the number of tactica articles and battle reports that encourage illegal play!!!
honestly, you'd think they'd proof-read or at the very least check to make sure everything is good and legal before printing it!
case in point, the battle report in the canadian issue of WD300 between the blood ravens & orks; the space marine commander had 2 relics! (both the halo & mantle.) the number of smurf players afterwards who then argued that because it appeared in white dawrf, the 'offical' magazine, that they could take 0-1 of each artifact/relic was insane! (just to point out, the guy playing the blood raven army is well known for never reading the fine print!)
funniest of all was that US GT style battle report between the space wolves & LatD armies were
both forces were illegal!!!
as bad as the RAW ruling can be, i find this kind of misimformation even worse... the fact that they also ran that article about how killer all drop pod marine armies are was infuriating to say the least! gw goes on and on about how the game is suposed to be fun for both players, and they go on and encourage the extreamly power-gamey tactics of the plasma gun/assault cannon drop pod army?!!
okay, time to climb back into my cage and brood on how hypocritical gw is...
cheers!