

From the feral world warrior to the hive ganger, from the inducted Guardsman to the detached Sister of Battle. Holy fucking hell, did boiling bone marrow just turn my femur into a frag grenade? Fuck.Īll player characters are supposed to be human acolytes working for the Inquisition, although they may come from many different vocations.

Just start a campaign, wing it, and whenever anyone gets a good hit, roll on the critical hit charts. You don't even need the rest of the game (although it is all good, it's just a LOT). It has the best critical hit charts ever made. All kinds of worse things can happen - being eaten by xenos or hungry daemons, afflicted by Chaos mutation, and if you are especially unfortunate. It is to 40k as Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay is to Warhammer Fantasy Battle, and indeed uses a very similar system.īasically you're fucked like in WFRP, only instead of dying from blood poisoning caused by a dirty pitchfork you get to have your innards blown across the wall and then subsequently set on fire by a plasma gun (probably your own).

Dark Heresy is a RPG set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe.
