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Has anyone heard anything about the Dark Heresy RPG coming out?

It is coming out, I believe it is rather expensive, and it is based around Inquisitor warbands. There will be two other main books later (one for Rogue Traders, forget the other). You can go to amazon an see all the upcoming planned releases and pre-order.


It actually is out now, as either 100 or 200 limited edition leather bound copies were given away in a promotion in the UK. You can buy one here:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Warhammer-40K-Dark-Heresy-RPG-Limited-Edition-38-200_W0QQitemZ330205634230QQihZ014QQcategoryZ2547QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD2VQQcmdZViewItem?_trksid=p1638.m122

http://www.blackindustries.com/?template=40k

I will be running a game with some friends when this comes out. It looks good and will be something different than the d20/d10 we have all grown accustomed to

I too will run a game of it when it's released.

It looks like fun.

I pre-ordered over a year ago. Should only be a couple of weeks now.

My mate has bought the book and it looks awesome. I was round creating a character for our upcoming game and even that was great fun in itself.

A month or so ago we played the free mission and it played really well, although we did all die. lol.

I have the book. It seems awesome to me so far, and I have some experiance in rpg systems (Shadowrun 4e, D&D3.5e, D20Modern, Vampire the Masquerade so far, plus a couple of others looked at)

I got my copy today. The system is much crunchier than I'm used to (on par with d20 or Shadowrun), but it looks good. It's certainly a very pretty book.

I'm interested in it, too.

Glad it's out in February.

our store was supposed to get it today, but it didn't show up.

the 3rd book is Rouge Traders as far as i heard.

the second book is space marines. and I can't imagine at all how this could ever be any sort of fun.

Well if you don't like RPGs, then yeah.

My store had 3 copies come in yesterday, I got one. By noon today they were gone so I was lucky. The system is something i have yet to play (2d10), but it adds soo many more elements to game play than your standard WW or D&D game. There is a purpose of the group from the set up, and the warhammer world is not as "rainbows and flowers" as a D&D world is.

I will be rolling up an assassin or a pskyer depending on what I feel when it comes time to make a character

As I said last time this came up, I think playing in the 40k world would be great but IIRC this is based on the Warhammer Fantasy RPG which has a highly lethal system.

The problem with a lot of SF games is that weapons are so deadly you either go through characters like tissue paper or you just avoid combat and talk a lot.

In which case I can just live in the real world thank you very much.

So when someone plays it let me know how viable is seems as an RPG.

Well, I hope it has a high fatality rate. I think the
retinue concept is very interesting.

Kid_Kyoto wrote:As I said last time this came up, I think playing in the 40k world would be great but IIRC this is based on the Warhammer Fantasy RPG which has a highly lethal system.

The problem with a lot of SF games is that weapons are so deadly you either go through characters like tissue paper or you just avoid combat and talk a lot.

In which case I can just live in the real world thank you very much.

So when someone plays it let me know how viable is seems as an RPG.

The fatality rate is pretty low. One-hit kills are rare unless your opponent has a Lascannon or some such.

You have 10-15 wounds or there abouts. Most weapons do 1d10 +2 to 1d10 +4.

Once you run out of wounds you start taking increasingly bad critical damage. Once your critical damage reaches 7 or so points you'll die.

Some weapons like Heavy Stubbers can inflict multiple hits. The game is lethal enough that you need to think before charging blindly forward into a nest of cultists.

But isn't that part of normal combat training? Head towards
the source of enemy fire?

True Story.

I remember reading that this is actually going to be 3 seperate games, each released 18 months or so apart. The first game (Dark Heresy) is supposed to be fairly simple and streamlined with the 3rd game being much more indepth.

i've heard a similar rumor about a 3 game release, but it had nothing to do wit game complexity, it was about different setting, An Inquisitor based game first, followed by a Rouge Trader based game, and then eventually a Spave Marine based one to finish it off

I'm afraid we'll get the rouge trader one as the last. :(

After reading through the book a bit more, the more and more this game seems as though it will be a fun and exciting game to play. Just the range of things you can do with the game, esp since it does not only cater to the macho run and gun type folks makes it all the better to me. As a game master I can build plotlines and adventures around parties that need a tech priest or priest.

On top of that I like their skills/feat system much better because things are fleshed out better and the feats seem to be more in line with a "gamers" mind

Oh well, there goes that line of pleasure, taken from the http://theminiaturespage.com/news/793952/ website:

"Black Industries regret to announce that Dark Heresy: Disciples of the Dark Gods out in September will be the final product to be released from Black Industries.

Kevin Rountree General Manager of BL Publishing said ‘As a result of the continued and impressive success of our core novels business, which we have built around 40K and Warhammer, we have decided to focus all of our efforts on growing this part of our business. Black Industries has seen fantastic success, most recently with Talisman and Dark Heresy. This change does not take away from that achievement rather it allows BL Publishing to focus on producing the best novels we can. This is a purely commercial decision and will enable us to carry on the huge growth that we have recently been experiencing with our novels’

For the time being Black Industries will continue to post articles in support of the products on their official website, which is a fantastic resource for scenarios and gaming tools for GM’s and players alike. "

Wow...

That's like punching the guy in the gut who was going to blow into the sails of a beautiful ship before he even got to inhale...

Wow, that's seriously goofy.

Too bad. I wanted to see this work and expand.

reading more of the book during work, and found that fate points pretty much "remove" the die to 1 las cannon shot. Just like in the black library books hero's have the light of the emperor on them, in dark heresy your character can "burn" a fate point to literally cheat death.

hmm, sounds interesting. similar to fatze chips in deadlands? are there also rules for hanging and dueles

That's crazy. Dark Heresy sold out before it was even launched. It won't do much for the supplements when the line is already DoA.

Has anyone noticed they haven't included any examples of alien humanoids or any Chaos Marine examples(I know this is so people don't extrapolate characters from these) but it would be nice as it basically restricts you to play Ordo Hereticus and Malleus.

That's because playing non imperials (in any GW system) is in the eyes of GW a dirty little sin that should be punished with lack of rules or model support.

Indeed, Here's hoping they'll release some gak online and wont have to wait/pay for more

Is it just me or does it seem like a ripped version of Inquisitor minus the Models and TT terrain?
Hell even some of the Charts are Ripped (Hallucinogen grenades chart!)

I liked Inquisitor a lot, took me back to Rouge Trader days!
not sure if it will work as an RPG though.

Any one played a game yet?