hi doyou play that the master rune of alaric the mad allows ward saves or not

Of course it allows ward saves. Playing that it wouldn't would be very, very strange.

I quote: "No armor saving throws allowed of any kind". Now, this might get you under the impression that it's no *saves* allowed of any kind. Which I thought the first time I read through the codex. However, there's a difference between a 'ward' save, and an 'armor' save.

I personally think that the wording of that rune should be revised =).

I suppose i always considered a ward save a form of armour but i see your point

I agree that some of the wording is a bit vague on some of the descriptions on certain runes but this one is pretty specific. GW have tried to make the distinction between the different types of save with some dodgy wording that can be open to abuse some times, with armour saves, magic armour saves, ward saves, invulnerable saves et al. Then you have various weapons that negate various types of armour save, and all the time GW are bringing out new ideas that over write old rules, for example a couple of armies now have weapons that negate even ward saves and armour that gives you a save even if the weapon description doesn't allow you one. There is a danger of bringing back the old arguments over magic versus mundane and the everpresent problem of newer army books trying to outdo the previous ones with all manner of nasties available. I would have hoped that a new dwarf rune would come along to negate ward saves, or even to negate all magic items within a certain radius as that would be in character with the anti magic fluff of the dwarf race, similar things are appearing in other army books and I find I am falling victim to separate attacks from heroes with one negating my magic items whilst the other hero still has all his magic equipment. Oh well.