All right, welcome to our maiden voyage of the McLaughlin Group, D6 Generation.

We're going to ask a series of questions, cover a series of issues, and Russ Wakeland with me today,

and Rafe Granger on assignment in Concord are going to offer responses.

Issue number one.

Gavin Thorpe, leaving games workshop.

Is this a good thing or a bad thing?

Gav Thorpe has a serious body of work.

He's got the fluff from the Chaos Space Marine Codex that just came out under his belt.

He did the Tomb King's Army book, The Last Chances Novel, one of the Dark Angels novels. Russ, Deccamouse, Rock the House. What do you think? Well, Gav has been a very influential figure, but he's also been a very controversial one. There's been a lot of things swirling around him and past. Some people love that. That's somewhat enough of that. Ray Fibb, backwards, buzzwords. What do you have to say? Who's Gavthorpe and what? Wrong! This will all end badly. He's going to end up disappearing and then resurface it, Privateer Peres who will come out with an entire army of Egyptian undeadscorn warjacks, and we'll spell the beginning of the end of the domination of the war machine. Issue number two. Bad attitudes in gaming.

Recently on the Nets, this has been covered several different people at the private

press conversation groups have been complaining about bad attitudes.

On games workshop tables, you see min-maxing, vague rules, interpretations,

and personality issues constantly cropping up.

Private Air Press, you have the dreaded page five.

Is he going to play like he's got a pair?

Like he's got a pair of what?

Certainly not a pair of painted models when you look at half these kids

and what they put on the table.

Now, Rusty the Red 2 phone booth, what do you have to say? Well, I think some people overstate the bad attitudes of gamers. I mean, those are the ones you remember at tournaments. Great Viki, Tiki, Georgia, scorcher! Enough with your laughter. I love page five. Page five is the way to play. It's the only way to play.

Wrong. All gamers are social misfits who are moving little pieces of metal and plastic over railroad tables pretending to kill other little pieces of metal and plastic.

Their issues range far larger than good attitude or bad attitude.

Issue number three, 40K fifth edition is coming out this summer. They're coming out with new models, a new focus. Is this just in time, or is it too late to save the big behemoth? Russ, the Dieman-Wyclan! I think it might be a matter of wrong direction too late. I think they're really into rethink their whole direction. Interesting, Ray, the Evalad Bouspad. I actually do agree with Rusty Wakeland over there. I think it's a little too late, a little too little. Unfortunately, you're both correct. It is too late for a quick fix. Only a real change in direction is going to change this game for the better and make it more competitive. Otherwise, it will just continue to fade. Issue number four. Gaming events. Are they going up? Are they going down? We've got Games Day. It's been developing and it's been spreading like the plague. Adepticon gets bigger and

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