No, it wouldn't. It hasn't been out that long and nothing GW has since done with the game that gives any indication they having any understanding of the (not that many) problems with the game. There is a very good chance that all they'd do would be: 1. Burn off all the people who already paid to buy one HRB and really aren't interested in another. And. 2. Fix some things, not fix the things they need to fix, and intoduce new problems.

A boxset would at least show the game is supported (that matters a lot to store-playing/store-buying types) and avoid messing with all the things that actually work so well about the game.

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A 2nd Ed. may not be wanted, but a boxed game being randomly released would be inconsistent. What would the mini-rulebook in the set be like? Would it be exactly reprinted? Would they just fix some typos? Would it be updated, from clarity or simplification in definition of rules, or just plain rewritten in some parts? If so, would playing WotR officially require that updated rulebook, the mini-rulebook released with the boxed game?

IF Games Workshop is going to release this random boxed game within the next year, I would find it laughable if they did not take the chance to correct typos or make rule definitions clearer to understand...making it, effectively, a 2nd Edition, which would out date the older, hardback rulebook. Now, it doesn't make sense that GW would restrict obtaining a copy of the rules to the purchase of a boxed game, rather than their usual options of either a boxed game or a hardback rulebook. Effectively, they would NEED to release a hardback rulebook based on precedent and consistency.

Now, this logic, combined with your logic, Xelee, is what makes this rumor so entirely unbelievable.

I've seen other popular rules-sets release new versions of rule books without going to an entirely new edition. Leave everything costed as it is, continue being down-right 'fortune cookie' on the rules clarifications (love that Witch-King one), and just clear up some typos and paragraphs where the text in the hardcover does not reflect their intentions at time of writing. Then update the errata accordingly. Sure one version is now more up-to-date than another, but in the age of the internet people find a way to go on. The changes are going to be pretty minor anyway, the vast majority of the book already works fine as it is.

Still, I'm not taking any position on the 'rumour', I just think a 2nd ed makes absolutely no sense.

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Lol, yeah, probably.

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