Board Thread:Warhammer 40k General Discussion/@comment-14745711-20130821214539/@comment-7123746-20130905181308

The Blood Angels, thanks to their Red Thirst and Black Rage. (And Gold Chains!)

Now for a rant. Please forgive me:

I really don't like the Necrons allying with any other force, it seems very against the character that was established for them.

The Necrons despised life in all it's forms and wanted only to extinguish it, now they want to protect it for their own benefit?

The Necrons served the C'Tan as willing slaves and protected them while they slept to allow the Enslaver Plague to pass, now it was the Necrons who banished the C'tan to their long sleep and the Necrons are enemies of the C'tan?

That makes no sense whatsoever.

All of those changes, why? So you could give the Necron force a personality? Do the Tyranids need a personality?

I understand ret-conning to an extent, but how about you don't entirely erase the work of the great writers that came before you? I don't normally comment on the authors and lore-writers behind the fluff, but it's a disservice to the previous writers' work and to the fans that have followed this setting for years and years to remove an entire (popular and major) Race's background and replace it completely.

Rick Priestly(I believe I have the source correct) once said of lore-writing that one of the best things you could do when telling a story was to not make it too tidy. Always leave some threads hanging. Give yourself room to iterate on what came before... The idea was that amazingly deep stories could be told that way, new facets of old ideas could be explored. He sure as hell didn't say anything about throwing the entire piece of work out and starting over. That's just laziness.

I could care less about Matt Ward hate on message boards, but I think GW as a whole should be more cautious with it's intellectual property.

That isn't a Matt Ward problem, that's a Games Workshop problem.