Most credit goes to Jaedar, who agreed to take up the mantle of the GM and lead us through the trainwreck that is this system’s starting adventure. Since I assume many of you are not familiar with Dark Heresy, this will require some slightly detailed delving into the old system’s mechanics where necessary.Īs a final addendum to this already long introduction, I would like to thank all the prestigious community members who had a hand in the creation of this review. I will thus try to analyse the game mostly in relation to its predecessor. Whether Fantasy Flight Games managed to cherry pick some of the better additions from the previous supplements and offshoots. Whether the overall theme of roleplaying an inquisitor’s private retinue of investigators tracking down WITCHCRAFT, HERESY AND MUTATION was preserved. Whether it managed to fix some of the original’s glaring flaws The topic is the second edition of Dark Heresy, and the main questions are threefold:

Some of those came out better, some came out worse, many were completely insane and downright badly designed or thought through, but that is not the topic of this article. Just about all of these were created by Fantasy Flight Games, which took over the rights to Dark Heresy and the 40k roleplaying system shortly after its publication. The original Dark Heresy was created in 2008 by Black Industries, and over the years, the amount of supplements, sister systems (like Rogue Trader, Deathwatch, Black Crusade and Only War) and supplements to said sister systems literally piled up in dozens.

It goes without saying that it means something special to me. Dark Heresy and its offshoots are also probably the PnP RPGs that I’ve played the most, both as a player and a gamemaster, although much more often in the second role. However, Dark Heresy is a fairly popular system, mostly because of two key aspects – its pulpy Warhammer 40k setting, and its core mechanics, which were originally heavily rooted in the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay's second edition. And what better topic would there be to write about than the recently released second edition of Dark Heresy? RPG Codex doesn’t get nearly enough pen-and-paper-related content, so I decided to sit down and rectify that.

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