WarSeer Official Discussion of the 'leaked' 6th Ed Rule Set

[Commissar Merces]

Me too. I was exceptionally impressed with "pancake edition" rules when they were first leaked, so I'm at least hopeful that they were an early playtest version and that 6th edition evolved from it. If it was all just someone's pet-project, then I'll be very dissapointed, and I question the GW designers' ability to do as well.

Valerian

If that was just someone's pet-project... they desperately need to get laid. The amount of work and effort that was put into leakhammer is staggering and the product is pretty damn good. That said this person (male or female) probably spent months working on it. If that is your job, that's one thing. If you did that for fun (and are not getting paid for it mind you), you need to get laid.

[Valerian]

If that was just someone's pet-project... they desperately need to get laid. The amount of work and effort that was put into leakhammer is staggering and the product is pretty damn good. That said this person (male or female) probably spent months working on it. If that is your job, that's one thing. If you did that for fun (and are not getting paid for it mind you), you need to get laid.

So Merces, you've never met a gamer who desperately needed to get laid?

[kendaop]

I don't believe for one second that it wasn't a product of GW. Definitely early playtest or something, so the final product will probably significantly different. But I don't see how it could be anything other than from GW.

[RandomThoughts]

Sorry if this has been answred before, but where does the name "pancake edition" come from?

Regards
RT

[RedemptionNL]

The leaked PDF was first distributed in a zip archive that had the password 'pancake'. Hence, pancake edition.

[Commissar Merces]

Now I want pancakes...

anyone willing to bet this was a 1st or 2nd playtest rulebook? I am starting to think this is the real deal, but an earlier edition of the final product.

[Iron Puritan]

I think that's likely. It would be interesting to learn more about how 6th edition come about. If it is in fact the real deal, it would be fun to see whether or not suggestions for improvements made on the various forums where this was being discussed found their way into the rules. I have this really weird feeling that this has been watched. It's all rather obvious that there would be people within the community that would dissect it and talk about it in detail.

What strikes me as odd, if this is a hoax, that it was given away. Publishing ventures are much easier undertakings now, especially in digital formats. The level of effort on display here could have very easily been leveraged into some kind of business venture.

[Glabro]

If that was just someone's pet-project... they desperately need to get laid. The amount of work and effort that was put into leakhammer is staggering and the product is pretty damn good. That said this person (male or female) probably spent months working on it. If that is your job, that's one thing. If you did that for fun (and are not getting paid for it mind you), you need to get laid.

A fan of Freud's, are we? Well, there's a world of hookers out there...
But no, you've got a point, a lot of people are motivated by it (libido) when you get down to it. Not everyone needs to, however.

Anyway, I wouldn't bet on someone having done this unprofessionally for fun. Someone could have gotten hold of an early version and edited a bit to troll people, however.
But speculating at this point (as earlier) is pretty much pointless, a bit more than a week and we'll all know.

[RandomThoughts]

If that was just someone's pet-project... they desperately need to get laid. The amount of work and effort that was put into leakhammer is staggering and the product is pretty damn good. That said this person (male or female) probably spent months working on it. If that is your job, that's one thing. If you did that for fun (and are not getting paid for it mind you), you need to get laid.

Let's all take a pledge:

Whenever the author of pancake edition comes forth, we will do our best to get him or her laid, no conditions. Provided he or she can bring forth convincing evidence of his or her authorship.

You all in?

[prowla]

If anything I would say the Tau benefit quite a bit from what we've heard. The ability to fire rapid fire twice at 30" would be massive for them. Also, very fluffy, the Tau keeping a marked distance from the enemy, gracefully cutting them to ribbons with superior firepower.

Stand and Shoot is probably going to be pretty good to you guys, too. Plus random charge distances may mean you get charged less. Not to mention the idea that you can glance vehicles to death.

Fortifications and overwatch are probably not bad for Tau either..

[Commissar Merces]

Let's all take a pledge:

Whenever the author of pancake edition comes forth, we will do our best to get him or her laid, no conditions. Provided he or she can bring forth convincing evidence of his or her authorship.

You all in?

As long as they are not a GW employ. Like I said, you would have to be crazy or have too much time on your hands to start and finish something of that magnitude and detail ALONE and UNPAID. IF it is someone who worked on their own and not writing it for GW, then yes we as a community should try to get them laid.

[Azazel]

If one person wrote the whole pancake edition getting laid wouldn't solve their problems. Perhaps a lobotomy instead.

Personally I think that it was an early play test.

[xerxeshavelock]

So we happy to officially say this was fake yet?

[RandomThoughts]

If one person wrote the whole pancake edition getting laid wouldn't solve their problems. Perhaps a lobotomy instead.

Personally I think that it was an early play test.

While I agree it was most likely an early play test, and have said so for a while, I think you're a bit cruel regarding the hypothetical author.

[Konovalev]

Why does anyone think leakhammer is the work of a single person???? It seems to me that its a compilation of ideas a group of people had, not the work of some singular driven-insane-by-the-price-rises hermit.

And I've seen more unpaid work put into a petproject by a small handful of people before. Like say, any fan-translated import game, novel, comic, visual-novel, tv series, homebrew OS, total conversion mod for a game, even entire games being created and not charged for.

Leakhammer doesn't stand out at all against any of this. It is by no means too large, complex or professional to have been fan work.

[Rick Blaine]

I would think that the authors would have come forward by now to claim their fame, though.

[Theocracity]

It was mentioned a while back that some people (including Harry I think) knew who the creators of this were, but refused to divulge.

Now that we know it's not valid...can the secret be revealed?

[big squig]

I'm pretty glad the fake rules are indeed fake. I was not looking forward to playing them. There are a ton things that could be done to make 40k better, but I wasn't very fond of the direction these rules took.

[Charax]

"fake" is a little harsh. They're not fake rules, because they are rules - they're just not the ones that got released. Then again, it was very unlikely they ever would be.

They seem like a legit early playtest version before the direction shifted to less radical changes, and if that's the case, then in what way are they "fake"?

I doubt we'll ever know for certain. Some things panned out, others didn't, at the very least we got something to mull over, and maybe house rule (really wish bidding had made it!)

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[Sami]

Does this still need to be stickied?