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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mark Hope" data-source="post: 4018951" data-attributes="member: 27051">I have it on good authority from a family member who works at GW that they are the first UK company to have coughed up the $5000 for the 4e developers Kit.  WFRP and 40K will be rebranded as D&D 4e-compatible and relaunched later this year (I guess GenCon, but who knows.)  To be honest, I have been waiting for this news to break for a few weeks, but I guess this is the first public announcement.  I'd have thought GW would make their side of things clearer first, but there you go.Personally, I think that the Warhammer universe (fantasy as well as far future) are natural fits for the point-of-light setting.  Heck, WHFRP's Empire pretty much defined gritty fantasy gaming, so in a certain sense it's good to see the setting get the ruleset that it deserves.  Never was fond of the wonky percentile mechanics of WHFRP.  Too shackled to its 1980s roots imho.Of course, all of the above would be far more shocking if it were true.  As it happens I am making all of this up as I go along.  It's been a slow afternoon, what can I say?More seriously, I am a bit surprised by this move.  Is there any news on whether GW will be doing the rest of the projected games themselves?  It would be a real shame to see them fizzle away when the initial release was met with such enthusiasm.</blockquote>