I hate when people call Warhammer background "lore"

It makes it sound like it's more than just a setting for creating your own stories and armies through playing games and doing conversions and painting. People treat it like it's real history, unable to be changed in any way and some objective truth when it's not. And "lore YouTubers" definitely don't help, since they're the ones pretty much directly telling people that it's a fixed story.

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Longpatrol · 31-35, M

I mean generally the "lore" is the various novels that have been released to flesh out the universe etc

The way Star Wars treated it was that it was solidly trumped by anything George Lucas produced.

So my take on Warhammer "lore" is that the actual tabletop material and Codex trump whatever is in the Black Library novels

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Longpatrol · 31-35, M

@KiwiDan yup. Forget the lore stuff. It's fun to deep dive and world build but if it's getting in the way of using your imagination and having fun what's the point?

Maybe they should treat it more like dnd rules

KiwiDan · 31-35, M

@Longpatrol I don't know how DnD rules work, but they should treat it like it is, not the faux-historicism they seem to believe it is.

Longpatrol · 31-35, M

@KiwiDan if our world does devolve into sci fi theological barbarism at least we know who will be the ecclesiarchy lol

shakemeup · 36-40

That does sound annoying.
I think with any universe whether game, literature, film, anything with a story....there will be people who want to be creative, create, and imagine more to it. And there will always be people who are predisposed to the opposite and only want to recreate what they see as canon. Anything else is inconceivable to that mindset. 😆

Don't let the sticks-in-the-mud folks get you down.

MethDozer · M

The "lore" and media is the best part of the setting IMHO. The in game universe history and ways is by far the most interesting and exciting part. The books and media are awesome and surpass the game itself.
For the game it is what makes it immersive and gels everything together.

Anyway, that's the thing about 40k. Some are I to the table top, some are more into the model building, some are just into the setting and "lore" the media and stories.

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