Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-130.156.1.78-20131205190455/@comment-6078851-20140304154538

...not to mention that the second vulture appeared any link to 40k canon went bye-bye.

i'd like to point out that when danny's 40k-lore-breaking-overpowered-characters started to appear they had a knock-on effect with the other rp players, which resulted in a whole slew of lore-breaking-overpowered-characters. i know that danny's characters are liked by a few of y'all (and i agree that he's a good storyteller), but for me there's far too many way-uber-overpowered characters as part of his respective forces for the stories to be believable in the context of 40k.

my favourite characters have been syndri myr and sorcerer du'un, not just for the characters themselves but because, with the exception of du'un's fight against vulture, they adhere to the rules of the universe they are in (mostly). i may be wrong but i think syndri bailed because he got sick of trying to point out how much lore-breaking was going on.

as for commoragh, has everyone forgotten that the dark city is the home of all dark eldar? commoragh will not fall to the forces in the rp (including the entirety of the sentinals) because, with the sheer scale of the city, the labyrinthine nature of the city and the fact that, in general, dark eldar are the best close-combat warriors in 40k, makes commoragh the single most defensible place in the galaxy! personally i think it would take every space marine chapter together to be sure of winning, in the lore of 40k anyways, but the rp will probably end with avian and his handpicked cadre of marvel superheroes walking through, and obliterating, the dark city.

i'm all for the suspension-of-disbelief, but such suspension requires a context, and in this instance that context is 40k. and while i enjoyed the rp's i've read (mostly), they inevitably start to deteriorate when lore-breaking spawns more lore-breaking in response.

@ danny: once again don't think that this is some sort of gripe against you, it most assuredly isn't. i really like the universes of 40k, aliens, marvel, pern and numerous others, but i like those universes to adhere to their own rules. believe it or not i do actually like most of your characters, but with the scale, mastery and variety of their abilities i just don't think they belong in 40k.