Char B1 bis wrote:
I concur wholeheartedly with MagnusIlluminus.
And, I'd like to pose a question. Why is it important to keep the core rules? If you're just fine tuning or even digging at this set, aren't you just putting lipstick on a pig if indeed the rules need changed? Or are you just creating to create?
Please understand I mean no malice here. I find these rules dear, think you've done wonderful work, and would hate to see revision make the matter worse.
Thanks,
Pat
Hi!
Well to be clear, since there may be confusion on this point, it bears repeating.
There will be no changing, replacing, or wholesale altering of the net epic gold rules.
The original promise was that Gold was to be the "stable version" of the rules. The "actual" net epic rules if you will.
Having said that there are some of us, whom are either bored with, like to tinker with or otherwise what to "re-arrange" things in line with our current tastes/whims/persuasion dictate. Since we understand that these kinds of changes ideas etc cannot change the "official" version of the rules, what is left is "variants".
Note these variants are just that, pet projects of one or more people whom wish to modify the rules in their own way. They in no way "override" or "replace" Gold. Sort of like variant army lists, there for those whom wish to use them and not important for those whom are not interested.
Platinum is one such version. The main goal there being modifying army construction to "modernize" it in the "40k" tradition. It will probably include some rules variants, but the focus is not that.
Evolution, is more about fusing movement and firing into a single activation, where most of the rules remain the same as in "stock" Gold. Having played it, I like what I have seen, but I personally want "more" change in some areas.
Then there is my own pet project of no name. I have done this before, so that is no surprise. Available to whom ever wishes to use it and no foul if no one does. I guess I've played "to much" of the stock game to find it challenging anymore. Kind of a weird attitude for the person whom runs all this, but I never said I wasn't weird.
So I wouldn't use the word "revision", since Gold remains "untouched". These projects are in effect their own rule sets, some with more common elements with Gold, some less, but their own thing.
The little that gets done in Gold is more along the lines of errata/mistake corrections and perhaps the infrequent "tweak". Other than that there isn't much going on with it.
Heck even a proposed amendment to the flier rules is still kind of kicking about and I considered that very trivial in effect and scope. Change just doesn't happen there. It is what it is.
After 18 years running net epic I have learned one simple lesson. People like the rules just the way they are warts and all. This is fine and good.
For those many players like this, they have Gold. Basically forever unchanged.
For the rest of us very familiar with its "shortcomings" we "make up" other projects and rule sets and give them impressive sounding names.
In the end there is a little something for everyone without having to take someone else's favorite thing and changing it.
So basically we're the ice cream shop of fan based endeavors. We always have vanilla (Gold), but some times people want other flavors.
Primarch
