(Moscovian @ Apr. 03 2007,11:19)
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Why not do the whole thing yourselves? The information is out there. You have an ample pool of volunteers who are disgruntled over the process. There seem to be plenty of people here who are willing to spearhead the project (or are there?).
Run through all the threads on SG and here, compile the list of everything that needs to be changed, make the editorial changes, adjust the layouts and maintain the artwork (which is okay to do per GW as long as you do not profit from the endeavor), make editorial changes, send it to the forum for inspection, and then put it out. Correct all the spelling and grammatical errors while you are in there too, please.
I think that you are being too pessimistic. There are plenty of tournaments where 'unofficial' lists have made it in. AMTL, Dark Eldar, various CW lists, Necron, etc. All those lists are at various stages of 'acceptability' but they have all made it to tournaments.
As for the rest.
1) The book isn't editable. Now I have the software somewhere on a cd/old pc for hacking it and ripping it to pieces to rebuild it, but technically it may be illegal. So anyone wanting to do something with it has to do a lot of work first and buy/pirate ?100's (if not over a 1000) worth of software.
2) No one outside the ERC knows what the changes are. Sure there are discussion threads but what was accepted and what wasn't? Even with an editable main text you don't know what to edit in.
Now even a plain converted-to-pdf-.txt file would do. Anything setting out what changes will occur. Then everyone could be set loose as much as they are able!_________________
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