design by committee - what could go wrong?

[Jack Shrapnel]

From Faeit:

"Who is the author of the next upcoming codex has always been an issue, and a hard topic with the community. It has spilled a lot of unnecessary angst towards people, that I am sure is heartfelt by those that work on the books. This is being dealt with by Games Workshop in an interesting way, no longer will the codex have a single author listed for it.


Please remember that this is a rumor, although we are seeing this with the new Tyranid Codex release tomorrow.

via an anonymous source on Faeit 212
Also heard a bit about authorship of codexes, all future releases will be linked to the gw dev team rather than individual authors to alleviate prejudgement of upcoming codexes via leaks"

[Admiral Agrippa]

Honestly, that might be one of the more reasonable decision they've made in a while.

Though, if you find any fluff of Sisters being mutilated you can probably guess who is to blame

[thesanityassassin]

I think it's a reasonable move. All the guys have different strengths and weaknesses in terms of fluff and rules design, and it's always good to have multiple opinions on things. Might be worth it with them going to a fast release schedule to focus as much energy on each as possible before moving on.


Then again, could be a case of too many cooks.....

[Admiral Agrippa]

You know, the conspiracy side of me thinks they might just leae things as they are in terms of codex creation just instead of giving the credit to the actual author they just put down it was done by committee.