Reply To: Anti Shiny Syndrome League

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Sometimes rules need to be streamlined, such as 40K, which had become really bloated and unwieldly to play. Warhammer Fantasy was even worse and had to be killed off, as I don’t think they could streamline it without producing a poor rule system. So they killed it and by the look of it will rebuild from scratch, probably based loosely on the Sigmar rules.

I think streamlined and more complicated rule systems have their place, sometime I quite like to play a more complicated rule system as long as it’s not be made to be complicated for the sake of being complicated. Other times I’m happy to play streamlined easy to understand rules, which we must also remember that without those some people wouldn’t step into the hobby. If all rules were heavily complicated it’s likely to put off new players and push them away. I’ve been introduced to some games and at the end I’ve gone, Dear God that was painful, if I’ve done that after being a hobbyist since 83 what’s a newbie going to think lol.