Editing Gav Thorpe (section)

==Why the controversy?==
To put it inoffensively and politely: Generally his writing is meh at best, like many of the BL books produced during [[Laurie Goulding]]'s watch. 

In particular, he's the guy behind the gloriously bad and cheesy ending to Storm of Chaos. He was quite terrible at the time, and he's always shown a very erratic understanding of even the most "historical" characters of Fantasy and 40k, as well as a sense of mystery, which others like [[Matt Ward]] also seem to lack. His [[Dark Angels]] work is also a point of contention, with some claiming it to be even worse than the [[Blood Angels]] series by the BAFTA nominated [[James Swallow]].

Another thing that drew the ire from many a fa/tg/uy is his usage of neopronouns (ve,vis,ver etc.) as opposed to the already gender-neutral “they” in his recent works, seen as pandering to the [[SJW|SJW]] crowd. Though apparently he was just sticking to new guidelines laid out by BL - neopronouns are considered more sci-fi.

While there are those who loathe his fluff writing, others praise his crunch work on the 6th edition Warhammer Fantasy army books. In particular, Hordes of Chaos (when all of Chaos, minus the [[Skaven]], was one faction) and [[Dwarfs]] are beloved to fans of those armies. On the OTHER hand, he was the Loremaster for Fantasy at the time, and he was far from light-handed with it, even at what was arguably the high point in his career, and a lot of the goofy bits from that era were his responsibility - such as the aforementioned Storm of Chaos [[derp|ending]], where despite getting beaten like a red-headed stepchild on the tabletop, Archaon and his army manage to escape total slaughter by way of... running away and hoping no one notices, or his [[bullshit|claim]] that [[grimderp|every god is just a tiny piece of Khorne, Slaanesh, Tzeentch, or Nurgle]].