Re: EDITORIAL: renaming GW special characters without making them "Gay" (part 1: Spoonfeds)

Posted by MortiS-the-Lost on Oct 12, 2010; 3:10pm
URL: http://the-lost-and-the-damned.71.s1.nabble.com/EDITORIAL-renaming-GW-special-characters-without-making-them-Gay-part-1-Spoonfeds-tp5620197p5627099.html

I think something that modern 40k (and WFB for that matter) lacks is a set of character creation rules for players to use.
Back in the WFB 3rd and Rogue Trader era (and earlier) the rulebooks contained rules so you could 'Roll up' your own special characters (and Monsters and Vehicles in some cases) D&D style. Unfortunately this sort of thing is no more and WFB and 40k are designed for competitive and tournament play (and to force you to buy the latest GW minis) the role-play game elements have been bred-out.

IMHO pre-generated characters should be examples to inspire players to create their own characters that fit their armies. after all no 2 armies are alike, so why should the same choice of fixed characters be leading them?