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Prelude<\/h2>\n

Spud:<\/strong><\/span> So did you hear the leaks for the Hordes colossals?<\/p>\n

Dan:<\/strong><\/span> Yeah, they sound okay. The Skorne one was a bit disappointing, though. It’s weird that they also just have, like… bigger<\/em> titans.<\/p>\n

Spud:<\/strong><\/span> What would you do instead?<\/p>\n

Dan:<\/strong><\/span> I dunno, but there are tons of options. Skorne capture all kinds of different creatures, so why couldn’t they find some totally different type of horrible monster out in the desert? Like a giant Starship Troopers<\/em> beetle that shoots acid goo, or another type of their dinosaur beasts? It could literally be anything. So it seems weird that in the faction known for huge beast diversity, they’d opt for “same, but bigger.”<\/p>\n

Spud:<\/strong><\/span> Fair enough.<\/p>\n

Dan:<\/span><\/strong> Or they could do something totally bonkers and make it, like, a giant Ancestral Guardian statue. Just a huge ****ing statue walking across the battlefield stomping on people.<\/p>\n

Spud:<\/strong><\/span> Hmm… that would actually be awesome, but I don’t feel like that would be a warbeast.<\/p>\n

Dan:<\/strong><\/span> Why not? Isn’t the Circle one just a huge Wold? And they made that<\/em> a warbeast.<\/p>\n

Spud:<\/strong><\/span> Sure, but Wolds are beasts to begin with, even the smaller ones. Ancestral Guardians are solos, so whatever’s going on with them, they don’t seem to “interact” with a Warlock in the same way a Wold does. So while I could totally see a badass giant Ancestral Guardian, my guess is that it would be a battle engine, not a colossal.<\/p>\n

Dan:<\/strong><\/span> I guess that makes sense.<\/p>\n

I have related this story back to Dan after the fact, and he does not remember the conversation. It did happen, though. So whether he remembers or not, all of this is squarely his<\/em> fault.<\/p>\n


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A History of Magnanimity<\/h2>\n

Every year at Christmas time, I spend a few months making presents for people I know. I pick different people every year, making something neat that I think they’d have fun with. After five years the list of these projects is starting to get pretty expansive:<\/p>\n