DARK HERESY RELEASE SCHEDULE
For previous releases, see the bottom of the page.
Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay: Blood of Martyrs — Fall 2010, 256pp, Hardcover, Price £20.00 • $39.95 US
Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay: The Apostasy Gambit Part 1: Black Sepulchre — Winter 2010, 64pp, Hardcover, Price £15.00 • $24.95 US
Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay: The Apostasy Gambit Part 2: Church of the Damned — Spring 2011, 64pp, Hardcover, Price £15.00 • $24.95 US
Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay: The Apostasy Gambit Part 3: Chaos Commandment — Fall, 2011, 64pp, Hardcover, Price £15.00 • $24.95 US
Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay: Daemon Hunter — Spring 2011, 256pp, Hardcover, Price £20.00 • $39.95 US
Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay: Book of Judgement — Summer 2011, 256pp, Hardcover, Price £20.00 • $39.95 US
Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay: Only War — Fall 2011, 256pp, Hardcover, Price £20.00 • $39.95 US
ROGUE TRADER RELEASE SCHEDULE
Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay: Into the Storm — 256pp, Hardcover, Price £30.00 UK • $44.95 US
Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay: Edge of the Abyss — Fall 2011, 256pp, Hardcover, Price £20.00 • $39.95 US
Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay: The Warpstorm Trilogy Part 1: Frozen Reaches — Winter 2010-11, 64pp, Hardcover, Price £15.00 • $24.95 US
Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay: The Apostasy Gambit Part 2: Citadel of Skulls — Spring 2011, 64pp, Hardcover, Price £15.00 • $24.95 US
Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay: The Apostasy Gambit Part 3: Fallen Sun — Summer, 2011, 64pp, Hardcover, Price £15.00 • $24.95 US
Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay: Battlefleet Koronus — Spring 2011, 256pp, Hardcover, Price £20.00 • $39.95 US
Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay: Hostile Acquisitions — Summer 2011, 256pp, Hardcover, Price £20.00 • $39.95 US
Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay: Xenos Compendium — Fall 2011, 256pp, Hardcover, Price £20.00 • $39.95 US
DEATHWATCH RELEASE SCHEDULE
Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay: Deathwatch Rulebook — Late-Summer 2010, 400pp, Hardcover, Price £35.00 UK • $59.95 US • $64.99 Can
Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay: Deathwatch Collector's Edition Rulebook — 400pp, Leather Hardcover, Price $120.00 US?
Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay: Deathwatch Games Master's Kit — Fall 2010, Screen & Booklet, Price £12.00 UK • $19.95 US • $25.99 Can
Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay: Rites of Battle — Winter 2010-11, 256pp?, Hardcover, Price £25.00 • $49.95 US
Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay: Mark of the Xenos — Spring 2011, 256pp, Hardcover, Price £20.00 • $39.95 US
Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay: The Achilus Crusade — Summer 2011, 256pp, Hardcover, Price £20.00 • $39.95 US
OFFICIAL NEWS
Rounding out the 40K Roleplay line, they've released a PDF for Deathwatch, here, and I've added it to the release schedule above.
FFG released two PDFs on their upcoming products for the Dark Heresy (here) and Rogue Trader (here) lines. You can see all the goodness in the release schedule above!
The big news is about the upcoming Rogue Trader supplement: Into the Storm (many thanks to the folks at The d6 Generation for the news). Included within its pages are quite a few good elements:
- 6 new homeworlds and a big expansion to the Origin Path system
- Lots of Alternate Ranks for customizing your character
- Usable Vehicle Rules — they've got to be better than the web supplement to Dark Heresy!
- 2 Xenos Careers, including the Ork Freeboota and Kroot Mercenary
The Space Marine chapters, which will apparently act similarly to Careers from the other games, for Deathwatch have been identified as:
- Space Wolves
- Ultramarines
- Dark Angels
- Black Templars
- Blood Angels
- Storm Wardens — a new chapter of FFG's own creation (data now in the Library)
Both the Deathwatch Forum and Deathwatch Page have gone live at FFG, and while we all knew that this was coming eventually, this is welcome evidence of progress!
FFG has continued to release information on Ascension for Dark Heresy, the most important of which is that it is due in March!
Other cool info includes:
- Vindicare Assassins will be one of the Careers, with Callidus Assassins possible in the future.
- Influence will become a statistic for your character, used for the political infighting within and without the Inquisition.
- Psyker powers will work in a similar manner to the system from Rogue Trader, with Safe, Standard, and Pushing.
- There will be Ascended Adversaries worthy of the name, including Alpha-Level Psykers, Dark Magos, Greater Daemons, and Eldar Exarchs!
- There will lots of new weapons, gear, and gear customization.
FFG released some interesting tidbits about the upcoming Ascension supplement. Characters will be Throne Agents, a step up from Acolytes, and some of the 12 new Careers include:
- Hierophant
- Primaris Psyker
- Adeptus Arbites Judge
- …and the ones already mentioned below.
The Radical's Handbook should be appearing on store shelves everywhere right about now, which is excellent news for those wanting a nice Dark Heresy Christmas!
FFG has given us more information about the upcoming "high-power" supplement Ascension. The pertinent tid-bits are:
- It will have Ascended Careers, which ought to be of equivalent power-level as those from Rogue Trader. Careers mentioned thus far include Crusader, Stormtrooper, and Vindicare Assassin.
- The addition of Paragon Talents and Mastered Skills
- Advanced Character Generation and transition packages to allow players to start at this level, or elevate their existing Dark Heresy characters.
The first news is the upcoming release of a Rogue Trader Games Master's Kit in the fall/winter 2009 timeframe.
Also, Ascension will include Inquisitors, Assassins (those from the Imperial Temples), and other much more powerful PC options.
FFG put 500 of the 1000 copies of the Collector's Edition of its upcoming Rogue Trader game on pre-order at their website, and it sold out within 48 hours. They will make the remaining 500 copies available to ditributors and retailers , but this book — along with its individualized Warrant of Trade — will surely be a sought after rarity!
Ross Watson of FFG did an interview for the fine chaps at Dice Like Thunder, in which he revealed a few key points about Rogue Trader:
- Even though the game is a separate entity from Dark Heresy, the two will be fully compatible.
- Starting characters from the new game will be equivalent to Dark Heresy Acolytes of 5000 XP.
- The equipment lists, to include the starships, will rock your world.
Besides the release of Haarlock's Legacy Part 1: Tattered Fates, which seems to be getting good reviews, FFG is releasing Forsaken Bounty, a teaser book for the Rogue Trader game. The latter will appear for Free RPG Day on June 20th.
Ross Watson of FFG was being interviewed at AdeptiCon by the fine chaps at 40K Radio, and confirmed that you'd be able to play a Space Marine next year: 2010. Though superficially this only confirms that Deathwatch will be produced, this is the first time that there's been a date attached!
Wow! After a long dearth of news, FFG has come through with the rest of their release schedule for Dark Heresy in 2009. Just look above for all the heretical goodness!
Note that they've split off the Rogue Trader material into its own line.
Disciples of the Dark Gods has finally hit the shelves at most Friendly Local Game Stores! Woo-hoo!
After a long dry spell, we actually have a couple items of news:
Game Trade Magazine has a preview illustration from Disciples of the Dark Gods here, as well as a PDF preview of Creatures Anathema here. Enjoy!
In addition to that, the release date for Creatures Anathema has been firmed up as January 2009.
Where to start on the news!? There's a bunch!
- By far the biggest news is that Rogue Trader — the second main game for 40KRP will be out for GenCon 2009!
- Second on the list is the announcement that Creatures Anathema, described as an Inquisitor's Handbook for radicals, will be out in October 2008.
- Next, the hardcover reprints of both The Inquisitor's Handbook and Purge the Unclean are out, and they have color art that had been grey-scaled by BI on the first editions.
- Also on the reprints front, the GameMaster's Kit, now with more durable cloth-paper covering, is now available.
Firebase Magazine, a 40K fanzine done by the lads at Warseer did an interview with Ross Watson where he announced the title of the next book for the 40KRP line:
Creatures Anathema will be a book about denizens of the Calixis Sector, including Xenos, Daemons, beasts, and a host of other goodies. I'm sure this is at least partially in response from the great demand to expand the scope of the game, and is a welcome addition to the game line.
FFG has welcomed Ross Watson as the new line editor for the 40KRP line, and he has put up a Design Diary that's well worth the read - including news on reprints and hardbacks!
The Inquisitor's Handbook and Purge the Unclean have now been released in the US as well as the UK, where they have already been available for the last month.
The shipment containing The Inquisitor's Handbook and Purge the Unclean, already released in the UK, has been delayed till June due to sea-freight difficulties. The reprint of the main rulebook, due later in the summer, will include errata corrections.
FFG has put up an official Dark Heresy page. Both The Inquisitor's Handbook and Purge the Unclean have been released in the UK. US customers will have to wait for the titles to arrive via sea freight, most likely at the end of April or early May.
FFG has opened both a W40K Roleplay Forum and a WH Fantasy Roleplay Forum to support the transferred BI games.
FFG has released a FAQ that deals primarily with their new acquisition of Dark Heresy. They have affirmed that they will release the books BI had in the pipeline, and will be supporting it with new offerings as well. They also dispel a number of unfounded rumors, such as changing the game system to d20.
Both The Inquisitor's Handbook and Purge the Unclean have been released in the UK, but those of us in the US will have to wait till late-April or early-May for our copies to arrive by boat.
It's been a real rollercoaster ride for Dark Heresy fans, and after learning that Black Industries would be shutting their doors in September of this year, we are now rewarded with the news that Fantasy Flight Games has picked up the license for 40KRP, WHFRP, and all the other games outside of Games Workshop's core titles, with the notable exception of Space Hulk. You can read the entire press release here. Although they have not set up an area yet, it's well worth setting up an account at the FFG Forums to let them know how happy we are that they've saved these excellent games.
The first printing of the Dark Heresy rulebook has sold out after being available for order for just over a month. The game's sales have far exceeded Black Industries expectations, and they will order a reprint. Note: this does not mean that the game will not continue to be available at your local game store for some time yet, just the Black Industries is out. So make sure you get your copy today.
The limited edition Collector's Edition of the Dark Heresy rulebook went on sale at Black Industries and sold out in a record 6 minutes! Also, the first copies have been delivered, allowing fans their first glance at the finished game!
Just made some minor adjustments to the release schedule, including the update that The Inquisitor's Handbook and Disciples of the Dark Gods will now be softcover releases. BI made the change for economic reasons.
Just check out the product release schedule above for updates on the line, including the new Deluxe Leatherbound Edition! See the announcement here
Black Industries has incredible news today, receiving their finished copy of Dark Heresy! See the interview with Mike Mason here.
...but that's not all, they've also put a character sheet up on the web on the 40KRP Game Aids Page!
Go check out the Black Industries Calixis Sector page for a listing of systems and some very interesting background information on the sector.
More news from Black Industries, coming by way of seminars they've done at the summer convention circuit. The Inquisitor's Armoury and Acolyte's Handbook have been combined into one massive tome: the 256pp Inquisitor's Handbook. They have also announced that Disciples of the Dark Gods will also weigh in at 256pp.
Some very interesting news concerning the core rulebook: the page count has increased from 320 to 400 pages. There's actually more news, but I need to wait for BI to make the official announcement...
Amazon just put up new cover images for the first four Dark Heresy releases: Dark Heresy Rulebook, Game Master's Kit, Character Folio, and Purge the Unclean.
Black Industries has given us desktop-scale maps of the Calixis Sector; you can get them here.
In other news, 40KRP demo games for GenCon sold out within the first 24 hours of registration opening!
Sadly, Black Industries has announced another significant delay in the release of Dark Heresy. You can read it here.
However, they have given us more information on the first few sourcebooks. Let's hope that this makes for a better game in the end…
Kate has let slip a few more bits of information about the combat system, which will include Pinning, Supressing Fire, and other "modern" elements such as Fully Automatic Weapons.
Kate Flack gave the 40KRP faithful a New Year's gift in the Forums in the form of a few answers to posted questions. In summary:
- Black Industries will begin fortnightly updates at their Blog
- The Dark Heresy gamebook will center on the Calixis Sector
- The time between the core-system gamebook releases will be 12 to 18 months, depending on a number of factors
Check out the 10 November 2006 entry of the Black Industries Blog for a playtest report on the new game system. Though it's been "cinematized," the careful reader can glean important workings of the system by reading between the lines.
Black Industries has revised their website, and announced that they will delay 40KRP till fall of 2007, with some pre-release copies available at GenCon 2007. They feel that more time for playtesting and editing will make for a better release, and in general, I concur. You can read the entire press release here.
A mock-up Cover of 40KRP found its way onto Amazon UK, and has also appeared officially at GenCon 2006 in August. Though not final, it looks very nice, capturing the feel of the 40K universe.
This press release of 18 July 2006 details the first few releases of the 40KRP line, and this one from 19 July 2006 talks about the first collection of adventures.
On the Black Industries Forums, one of the 40KRP design team (forum name tsluikart) has been dropping interesting tidbits of information concerning the game
Kate Flack, one of the game's developers, gave this "question and answer" interview from 24 April 2006
The first two pieces of "non-rumor" news released about the upcoming game...
This press release from 14 March 2006.
And this interview with Marc Gascoigne form 27 March 2006.
PREVIOUSLY RELEASED PRODUCTS
Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay: Dark Heresy Rulebook — 400pp, Hardcover, Price £35.00 UK • $59.95 US • $64.99 Can
Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay: Dark Heresy Collector's Edition Rulebook — 400pp, Leather Hardcover, OUT OF PRINT
Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay: Dark Heresy Games Master's Kit — Screen & Booklet, Price £12.00 UK • $19.95 US • $25.99 Can
Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay: Dark Heresy Character Folio — Booklet, Price £3.99 UK • $6.99 US
Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay: Purge the Unclean — 144pp, Hardcover, Price £20.00 UK • $39.95 US • $44.99 Can
Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay: The Inquisitor's Handbook — 256pp, Hardcover, Price £30.00 • $49.95 US
Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay: Disciples of the Dark Gods — 256pp, Hardcover, Price £30.00 • $49.95 US
Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay: Creatures Anathema — 256pp, Hardcover, Price £20.00 • $39.95 US
Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay: Haarlock's Legacy Part 1: Tattered Fates — 64pp, Hardcover, Price £15.00 • $24.95 US
Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay: Haarlock's Legacy Part 2: Damned Cities — 64pp, Hardcover, Price £15.00 • $24.95 US
Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay: Haarlock's Legacy Part 3: Dead Stars — 64pp, Hardcover, Price £15.00 • $24.95 US
Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay: Ascension — 256pp, Hardcover, Price £30.00 • $49.95 US
Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay: The Radical's Handbook — 256pp, Hardcover, Price £30.00 • $49.95 US
Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay: Rogue Trader Rulebook — 400pp, Hardcover, Price £35.00 UK • $59.95 US
Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay: Rogue Trader Collector's Edition Rulebook — 400pp, Leather Hardcover, Price $120.00 US
Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay: Rogue Trader Games Master's Kit — Screen & Booklet, Price £12.00 UK • $19.95 US • $25.99 Can
Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay: Lure of the Expanse — 144pp, Hardcover, Price £25.00 UK • $39.95 US