Regash wrote:Ithilkir wrote:...but don't pretend as if they were never officially part of the game right up until BB2016 was launched.
Well according to Galak, who was in the BBRC, they were never greenlighted from GW, only from the BBRC.
If you download the CRP, they're missing, just as Pact and Underworld.
So, no, you're wrong.
They weren't allowed to go into the LRB due to the mini issue as stated above, but as per the quote in my post just before yours they were approved by JJ and the rest of the BBRC to be part of Blood Bowl, they were NAF legal (for all that's worth) so they are/were part of the game. This is a time when GW didn't give two shits about BB and left it in the hands of the players and the original game designer with their blessing to do what they wanted so long as it didn't conflict with GW interests or cost them money.
My argument is not whether they should be there going forward, if GW deems it a no, then it's a no and so be it. It's that Slann have been part of BB lore, background and there's been rules for them in every edition right up until today so we shouldn't bury our heads in the sand and pretend like they didn't exist.
Edit: Stepping out of this discussion as it's perilously close to going round in circles, I've presented my point of view with backup so I'll leave it there, to paraphrase JT-Y, folks can believe what they want.
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