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EDITORIAL·WHITE DWARF 376

Standard Bearer: Murder Your Darlings

April 2011·pp. 72–73

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Jervis Johnson adopts a writing maxim as a practical tool for design: decide what a project must achieve, then remove cherished elements that fail to serve it. He credits the approach with helping shape third-edition Blood Bowl and applies it to army choices, tactics and painting plans. Lelith Hesperax’s economical sculpt illustrates the same discipline, though Johnson stresses that cutting detail is a means to clarity rather than an objective of its own.

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