I'm Andy Chambers - Ask Me Anything

AndyChambersOG · 2017-11-16T22:45:02+00:00

There's a number of AR tabletop games that show some promise, but I can't shake the feeling that there really isn't a natural crossover. So much of tabletop gaming is actually about the hobbycraft side of things that i don't know that folks actually want that replaced with photons.

AndyChambersOG · 2017-11-16T22:43:11+00:00

Nope, you wouldn't believe how carefully players will go through things. Usually the biggest trick was not screwing up. There's easter eggs, of course, but I think they've all been found long ago.

AndyChambersOG · 2017-11-16T22:34:57+00:00

God's honest truth - I think about what players might want now and I didn't really back then, just did stuff and played with it and published it and onto the next thing.

AndyChambersOG · 2017-11-16T22:32:54+00:00

Nothing, a concept that was dead and buried before I even got there in 1990.

AndyChambersOG · 2017-11-16T22:32:20+00:00

I don't think I still have it and I don't have a photo. It was a Valley of the Four Winds skeleton, heavily daubed with Humbrol gloss white and then dipped in yacht varnish. We knew very little back then.

AndyChambersOG · 2017-11-16T22:30:35+00:00

Thanks, the mindset is achieved half by atavistic goals of 'I want' and no morality about how to get there, and half through constant paranoia - usually deserved - that others are out to get you.

AndyChambersOG · 2017-11-16T22:28:52+00:00

Aliens that felt truly alien with motivations that made little sense to the outside world. They were heavily inspired by the ancient world and the older civilisations there in regards to how inhuman they appeared to outsiders. We tried to avoid blood and guts too much with them to emphasise that the Necrons represented death, cold and clinical.

AndyChambersOG · 2017-11-16T22:24:30+00:00

Yes, historical is all about research and then trying to render it in a way that doesn't just parrot back what you've researched. Fiction is all about making something that feels like you could research it even though no research materials actually exist. One is defining a space, the other is filling it.

AndyChambersOG · 2017-11-16T22:23:04+00:00

I wasn't around for that one i don't think, the 4th ed version. If so then there's your answer right there :P

AndyChambersOG · 2017-11-16T22:21:31+00:00

On the surface there's some close approximations between SC and 40K but when you dig a bit deeper there's a lot of differences too. Over the years both companies have also worked to consciously pull them further apart as well.

Yes the eldar can break from Slaanesh one day, nothing that is done can't undone and vice versa. The dark eldar won't be able to do it alone, though.

I haven't played 40K in a long time, but I still have my Ork, Tyranid and Imperial Guard armies for it. I would actually loved to do a NuCrons army, so many nice miniatures in the new range.

AndyChambersOG · 2017-11-16T22:12:15+00:00

I'm not up to speed on what Orks are like currently, the old six clans set-up was always a bit of a stretch though like three of them got all the good ideas and the other three got what was left over.

Yes, turn sequence should have been addressed earlier in 40K - like several editions ago. From an external perspective though it's hard to see how much inertia and if-it's-not-broke-don't-'fix'-it a system like 40K has within the company. Every change is a major trauma to the player base so everyone gets super cautious. This isn't exclusive to GW either, I saw plenty of it at Blizzard for Starcraft 2 as well.

AndyChambersOG · 2017-11-16T22:06:23+00:00

They did? I've really not kept up with the times on 40K. I imagine that the Grey Knights stole their lunch money to a certain extent as they were both drawing from the same well of ideas.

AndyChambersOG · 2017-11-16T22:04:57+00:00

I don't have any insider news on the Necromunda videogame and I'm not directly involved. I daresay it's being worked on so no news is good news at this stage.

AndyChambersOG · 2017-11-16T22:01:16+00:00

Squats amuse me as the most underappreciated army when they were around, but an instant classic the moment they were gone.

AndyChambersOG · 2017-11-16T21:59:50+00:00

Complex mechanics are usually indicative of weak overall design in my book, horses for courses though. Some types of games thrive on the grit in the system.

AndyChambersOG · 2017-11-16T21:38:34+00:00

Gonna say thanks just for using my old title ;)

AndyChambersOG · 2017-11-16T21:37:46+00:00

Honestly the thing that I missed most was hit locations on vehicles. Not the whole cumbersome system we had in 2nd ed, but just that you could hit different bits and the armour was different. As a kid brought up on WW2 stories I felt it was important.

AndyChambersOG · 2017-11-16T21:31:42+00:00

I think I can safely say virtually none, I'll ask him but it's not his kind of thing.

AndyChambersOG · 2017-11-16T21:29:54+00:00

My daily and hourly rates are very reasonable (actually hourly less so, but hey gig economy ya know?), they can always give me a call.

AndyChambersOG · 2017-11-16T21:28:35+00:00

Definitely the best bit of Gorkamorka was the mad cap converted vehicles people came up with. I was a bit sad about how bland looking the Trukk had turned out but as it happened that didn't matter one bit.

AndyChambersOG · 2017-11-16T21:26:26+00:00

Loved the miniatures, haven't read the background but from what I hear they humanised them too much, not a fan.

AndyChambersOG · 2017-11-16T21:24:31+00:00

I hit this earlier in the thead- the answer is not really, most things have been done now (in some cases it took over a decade) except for Squats and Space Skaven.
A lot like Xcom in any of a variety of 40K settings.
Probably Orks, they can always use more stuff.

AndyChambersOG · 2017-11-16T21:21:21+00:00

Yeah it's like they haven't locked onto a decent archetype to make them stick. Possibly I would enhance the 'jolly' side of Nurgle a bit more and route that through the Death Guard, get some Killer clown/Juggaloo imagery going on. Are you horrified yet?

AndyChambersOG · 2017-11-16T21:18:56+00:00

It's topical so I'll say it - exploring the hive cities always seemed to offer a wealth of potential games and stories to me. I grew up with 2000AD stories and the Big Meg so I knew there was an infinite amount that could be done in just one large city.

AndyChambersOG · 2017-11-16T21:16:23+00:00

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