Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay
What Nice Flagellations You Have – a Dark Heresy actual play
On Friday night, I got to play some Dark Heresy at last (tick another geek resolution off the list). Dark Heresy is the Warhammer 40,000 (commonly abbreviated to 40k) roleplaying game and I’ve been a big fan of the setting, if not the wargame rules, since high school. For the uninitiated, it’s basically a gothic horror sci-fi game set in a universe where everyone is fairly horrible – there’s lots of nasty demons, corrupt officials and generally bleak outlook. While none of the other players had ever played 40k before, luckily for me one player had done enough playing of the PC 40k game Dawn of War to get a sense of the setting which helped. In the RPG, you play ‘acolytes’, the agents for an Inquisitor who tasks you to seek out heresy, corruption and alien influence largely though extreme violence. Most of this is going to involve a fair amount of ’40k-speak’ I’m afraid so bare with me and I’ll provide links where I can. › Continue reading