Humble Bundle: DARK HERESY

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**BrookM**

Link: https://www.humblebundle.com/books/warhammer-40000-dark-heresy-rpg-books

In short: $456 worth of books for just $18.

Pay $1 and you get..

Dark Heresy 1.0
Edge of Darkness
Tattered Fates - Haarlock Legacy book 1
Purge the Unclean

Pay $8 and you also get..

Damned Cities - Haarlock Legacy book 2
Blood of Martyrs
Ascencion
Disciples of the Dark Gods
The Black Sepulchre - The Apostasy Gambit book 1
Inquisitor's Handbook

Pay $15 and you also get..

Dead Stars - Haarlock Legacy book 3
Book of Judgment
The Church of the Damned - The Apostasy Gambit book 2
Creatures Anathema
Daemon Hunter
Game Master's Kit
The Radical's Handbook
Salvation Demands Sacrifice

Pay $18 and you also get..

The Lathe Worlds
The Chaos Commandment - The Apostasy Gambit book 3
Dark Heresy 2.0 core rulebook
Dark Heresy 2.0 Enemies Beyond
Dark Heresy 2.0 Enemies Within
Dark Heresy 2.0 Enemies Without
Dark Heresy 2.0 Forgotten Gods
Dark Heresy 2.0 GM Kit

**Elbows**

Looks like it may be worth a punt. I was shockingly underwhelmed by the recent 40K RPG by the same company (or was it just handed off to them after the fact?)

How does this rank as far as fluff/story/lore goes?

**Sacredroach**

These look like the old FFG rulebooks...different rule set and EXCELLENT fluff and story material. Totally worth the $18...except that I already own all the physical books...

**VictorVonTzeentch**

Elbows wrote:
Looks like it may be worth a punt. I was shockingly underwhelmed by the recent 40K RPG by the same company (or was it just handed off to them after the fact?)

How does this rank as far as fluff/story/lore goes?

The new RPG was a different company, these are much better than the new book.

**BrookM**

In my opinion it's not as good as the Rogue Trader setting, but the fluff in this stuff is still great.

This is worth is just for the complete Dark Heresy 2.0 collection, but this is all in all a great deal, be it for fluff or to game around with.

Pity it isn't Rogue Trader, but maybe next time..?

**Mad Doc Grotsnik**

Think I’m in for the full shebang....

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

Cheers for that,

I know i'm not going to use them, but all that background sure is tempting

**BrookM**

The sectors the two versions are set in are wonderful settings, fully fleshed out and a delight to read. Great sources of inspiration or tools for world building of your own.

**DrGiggles**

Elbows wrote:
Looks like it may be worth a punt. I was shockingly underwhelmed by the recent 40K RPG by the same company (or was it just handed off to them after the fact?)

How does this rank as far as fluff/story/lore goes?

As far as lore/fluff for inquisition or day to day lives of many people in the Imperium it is great. If I remember right Alan Bligh helped write it and I can't think of a project of he worked on that I haven't liked.

**schoon**

Yes, these are the FFG books, and are completely worth it at $18 for the entire lot of them!

**H.B.M.C.**

You should all pay the $18 to get The Lathe Worlds.

(/bias)

**A.T.**

For anyone looking to play the first edition :

Lathe worlds official expansion -
https://images-cdn.fantasyflightgames.com/filer_public/43/b8/43b81a38-3dbc-48cf-bfa5-9df9da3ee9ad/dhp01_the_lost_dataslate_web.pdf

Sisters of battle in ascension-
https://images-cdn.fantasyflightgames.com/ffg_content/dark-heresy/pdf/support/heresy-begets-retribution-low-res.pdf

Errata-
https://images-cdn.fantasyflightgames.com/ffg_content/dark-heresy/pdf/darkheresy-errata-v3.0-printable.pdf

**skrulnik**

I hope they do one of these for the Deathwatch RPG

**Slayer Dragonwing**

I'll definitely be picking up. I personally think it's worth it for Creatures Anathema alone. Hopefully if this one does well, it will motivate them to do the other games as well. I would love a chance to get the Rogue Trader books, and I am missing the Tome of Excess for Black Crusade.

**BrianDavion**

H.B.M.C. wrote:
You should all pay the $18 to get The Lathe Worlds.

(/bias)

that book was aweful, the writing was absolutely horrid j/k

*flees!*

**Phobos**

So this is the complete works then?

I really don’t like pdf books, but I think I might get these anyway.

**H.B.M.C.**

This does appear to be every DH1.0 and DH2.0 book.

The only missing items would be the Free RPG Day adventure that introduced everyone to DH, the Lost Dataslate for The Lathe Worlds, and things like that.

**Ancestral Hamster**

Thanks for the heads-up!

**Tyranid Horde**

Need to remind myself about this, good deal for all this!

**The Phazer**

Blimey, that's a fantastic deal just for the background. Definitely worth picking up.

**Ancestral Hamster**

Now that FFG and GW have divorced, is FFG created material still canonical? Regardless of whether GW says yea or nay, I will treat it as canonical, but I was wondering what the OFFICIAL GW position is.

**H.B.M.C.**

GW's position has always been "Everything is canon and nothing is canon."

There are very few examples of them wiping things away wholesale (like pre-2nd Ed 40K fluff).

**BrianDavion**

IIRC recent material has mentioned stuff from the FFG game.

**Snrub**

That'd be worth the $27AUD just for all the good reading.

Thanks for the heads up, Brook!

**AndrewGPaul**

BrianDavion wrote:
IIRC recent material has mentioned stuff from the FFG game.

Andy Hoare has been busily mining the material he wrote for the Rogue Trader RPG for use in Necromunda.

Phyrr Cats are from the RPG, for example, and the Xenarh Death Arc in the Book of Judgement.

**Ancestral Hamster**

Thanks for the replies.

H.B.M.C. wrote:
GW's position has always been "Everything is canon and nothing is canon."

There are very few examples of them wiping things away wholesale (like pre-2nd Ed 40K fluff).

Like how the Squats were an species and a playable army and got "squatted"? Or how there was an Imperial ARMY with mole mortars, rapier gun platforms, (IIRC, the Imperial Army had Landspeeders and jetbikes), which then vanished for a while and came back as the Imperial GUARD, but without the units previously mentioned? I do remember that Space Marines had jetbikes; for some reason "Mk 14 Bullock jetbike has stuck in my head from the RT era. Oh, and Zoats are gone. Well, maybe the Zoats and Squats can show up in a Blackstone Fortress expansion.

As regards Dark Heresy, Mr-Culexus is my favorite W40k fan artist. His art is passable, but I enjoy his comics and characters. If you visit his gallery and check out the folder titled "Verloon Hoop" he has 69 comics depicting a Dark Heresy game he was in. (Unfortunately, he has been busy and so although the game continued, the comics have not).
https://www.deviantart.com/mr-culexus/gallery/

**H.B.M.C.**

Ancestral Hamster wrote:
Like how the Squats were an species and a playable army and got "squatted"? Or how there was an Imperial ARMY with mole mortars, rapier gun platforms, (IIRC, the Imperial Army had Landspeeders and jetbikes), which then vanished for a while and came back as the Imperial GUARD, but without the units previously mentioned? I do remember that Space Marines had jetbikes; for some reason "Mk 14 Bullock jetbike has stuck in my head from the RT era. Oh, and Zoats are gone. Well, maybe the Zoats and Squats can show up in a Blackstone Fortress expansion.

Are you trying to make a point here, or something?

I specifically pointed out that the pre-2nd Ed stuff is an example of stuff being wiped out wholesale, and then you just came back at me and listed a bunch of RT-era stuff. So... we agree?

**Ancestral Hamster**

Yes, we do. Just making sure on my part that's what you meant. Sorry for confusing the issue.

H.B.M.C. wrote:
Ancestral Hamster wrote:
Like how the Squats were an species and a playable army and got "squatted"? Or how there was an Imperial ARMY with mole mortars, rapier gun platforms, (IIRC, the Imperial Army had Landspeeders and jetbikes), which then vanished for a while and came back as the Imperial GUARD, but without the units previously mentioned? I do remember that Space Marines had jetbikes; for some reason "Mk 14 Bullock jetbike has stuck in my head from the RT era. Oh, and Zoats are gone. Well, maybe the Zoats and Squats can show up in a Blackstone Fortress expansion.
Are you trying to make a point here, or something?

I specifically pointed out that the pre-2nd Ed stuff is an example of stuff being wiped out wholesale, and then you just came back at me and listed a bunch of RT-era stuff. So... we agree?

**Dysartes**

And Necromunda has already seen Squats starting to return - and it looks like Blood Bowl, of all things, sees the return of the Zoats...

**AndrewGPaul**

That's more of an introduction rather than a return, in the case of Blood Bowl.