1- You used his comment about generating Dispel Dice as a retort to someone else suggesting it, but only after making comments about how you shouldn't use fluff at all as the reasoning behind anything to do with the list.
Somehow trying to back up the ruling that included fluff explanations by mentioning it yourself, while saying that you shouldn't use fluff explanations for suggestions or ideas. All the while it's still obvious that the people writing the list are indeed looking at things that make sense in the fluff as well as from gaming aspects.
My point is that it's irrelevant if Kevin uses fluff justifications because I'm not Kevin, and I've never come out and supported his fluff explanations either. I base my suggestions on point costs and unit comparisons from actual GW books, and I'm sure they're doing the same thing. He just used fluff to justify the 4-dispel dice rule for the army, but if you look deeper, you'll see that this was done because Demonsmiths do not generate dispel dice, and his intention was so that you could field a list with magic defense without having to take mages to get it. There is a big difference in between implementing an army-wide special rule and trying to create a one-off situation where ONLY Chaos Dwarfs lose out on access to dispel scrolls. At the end of the day, guess what? Gameplay > Fluff, and I've told Kevin the same thing.
2- There's nothing the least bit insulting in anything I said in that sentence. Like you I also reserve the right to disagree with other people, but I don't insult them.
If you choose not to look past the sporadic insults (which weren't even directed at you) to the substance of the posts and the legitimacy of what I'm saying, than it's your loss, not mine. The insight is there, and being willfully naive does you no good.
Now, someone, anyone, give me a good reason as to why Dispel Scrolls are so game-breaking that CDs shouldn't be able to field them on Heroes, when even DEMON LEGION HEROES and VAMPIRE HEROES and DWARVEN HEROES can get them, and we can talk. I think you'll be hard-pressed to fight the precedent of 100% of all armies having Hero-level access to the Common Magic Item List, arcane items included.
- Larry