However, Imperial law tends to be pretty permissive about brutal enforcement as it is, "always err on the side of harshness" being a sanctioned policy. By-The-Book Cop: Any Arbitrator class character who is played straight will necessarily be one.Brown Note: Komus, the Tyrant Star, whose appearance in a system has been known to drive entire planets insane.Leads to Explosive Overclocking when combined with Psychic Powers. Black Magic: Chaos rituals and sorcery, as described in Disciples Of The Dark Gods and The Radical's Handbook.Badass Abnormal: Some of the Ascended Career Paths lead to this, such as the Inquisitor, the Sage, and (especially) the Vindicare Assassin.Badass Normal: All player characters besides Psykers, Tech-Priests and those with Pure Faith abilities (mostly Sororitas).Then the Ascended options for high-level campaign. Background-Based System: Homeworld/Origin + Characteristics + Career Path +, then Advances (from path + from packages + Elite) + +.When the rulebook says that "a man might beggar himself to own one," it is not kidding. It costs four hundred and eighty Thrones to fire this gun for fifteen seconds. And that's before you get to the fully-automatic heavy bolter. If the GM is being stingy with the Thrones, even the iconic bolter can descend into Awesome but Impractical territory, since each individual bolt round costs the same as three hundred and twenty bullets-leaving the poor Guardsman to decide whether he wants to shoot the giant gribbly monster with his bolter, or eat for the next two weeks.Luckily, the plasma weapons included in the Inquisitor's Handbook have a bit more bite to them, and Ascension introduces the rules for "military-grade" plasma weapons included in Rogue Trader. Unfortunately, the ones in the corebook are also hideously expensive, slow to reload, prone to disastrous overheating, require time to recharge between each shot, and (as of Errata 2.0) only do about as much damage as a bolter. Awesome but Impractical: Plasma guns shoot miniature suns as ammunition.However, the Administratum is planning to levy heavier tithes that will change all that, and so Vess is planning to secede from the Imperium in a desperate attempt to keep his world from falling apart. Anti-Villain: Ascension gives us Imperial Governor Malaki Vess of Zweihan’s World, one of the few hive worlds in the Imperium that isn't a Crapsack World.The Inquisition as a whole considers itself type IV. At their worst, well, see Villain Protagonist. Anti-Hero: At their best, player characters will be type III.Arc Words: Not for the game as a whole, but the phrase "come and see" is obviously intended to be used as Arc Words in any storyline involving the Menagerie.Tropes used in Dark Heresy (role-playing game) include:
Nit to be confused with the death metal band of the same name. See also Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (its fantasy counterpart), and of course Warhammer 40,000, as Dark Heresy (unsurprisingly) shares a great number of tropes with its parent game.Īlso check out Adeptus Evangelion, a fan-made conversion for running games set in the Neon Genesis Evangelion universe. The first game of Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay series, also including Rogue Trader, Deathwatch, Black Crusade and Only War. So far Scourge the Heretic and Innocence Proves Nothing have been released. The novels star the "signature characters" used by the rulebook for its gameplay examples: former arbitrator Mordechai Horst, tech-priest Hybris Vex, sanctioned psyker Elyra Yivor, Redemptionist assassin Keira Sythree, and guardsmen Danuld Drake and Vos Kyrlock.
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Notable for having over five consecutive pages entirely filled with Critical Hit Charts.ĭark Heresy is also the basis for a series of novels written by Sandy Mitchell, of Ciaphas Cain (HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!) fame. It has the players assume the role of Acolytes of the Holy Inquisition in the grim, dark future of the 41st millennium, rooting out heresy among the Imperium wherever it may be arise. Dark Heresy is the first game of Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay series.