>>5350100hehe I am not a wargaming player. My first rpg was actually 1d100 WFRP 1e and later 2e, the ones with insane stats abbreviations like I Initative In Intelligence lol.
But in those days everything was heavily homebrewed and customised, getting rpg players together or even finding rpg inspiration was hard for me (think back to what the world was like before Harry Potter LOTR etc, there was not that much rpg fantasy lorebooks lying around for me)
My rpg knowledge and DM style came from gamebooks like Lone Wolf, Fighting Fantasy and later Dungeoneer.
I have never really technically played strict dnd, even though I know some of the 5e rules from season 1 and 100 season 2 episodes of Critical Role argh, and old 2.5e Bioware Baldur's Gate videogames etc
In terms of 40k I did absorb huge amounts of old lore, the Slaves To Darkness books on Chaos (hehe maybe the cursed flower wand feels akin to that), I read nearly every Dan Abnett novel from Gaunt's Ghosts, Eisenhorn, Ravenor, Bequin etc. and also his Horus Heresy stuff the Space Wolves one is well written. Dan Abnett incorporates some weird real world references too like Maze Undue (maison dieu, it is a reference to the Tower tarot card explained in his novels). Basically when I think of 40k I think of Dan Abnett. Then I understand GAW looked at their share price, decided they needed to actually get paid, and made sacrifice to Tzeentch or something and the Lord Of Change wrecked all the WFRP lore with Marvel comics Age of Sigmar noooooooo (I stopped following warhammer lore around then)
So in conclusion, I feel very old. Probably most of my 40k lore knowledge is outdated anyway now and there are better experts on /tg. But I would encourage everyone to check out that old 80s lore, a lot of it feels very different to what fantasy and sci fi are becoming these days.
