Episode 73 - Dark Heresy

The Independent Characters | Warhammer 40k Podcast

Carl Tuttle

Workshop, Marine, Space, Tyranid, Warhammer, Eldar, Leisure, Hobbies, Forge, Ork, 40k, World, Games

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 23 February 2013

⏱️ 189 minutes

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Summary

Episode 73 of The Independent Characters sees us exploring the dark corners of an even darker universe as we delve into Dark Heresy the Role Playing Game! Much of our background comes from roleplaying games and we have waited quite awhile to cover this game. We were fortunate to get one of the former authors of the game, and former host of the Dice Like Thunder Podcast, Mack Martin, to run us and a few friends through an adventure to add to our experience with the game, prior to recording.

Dark Heresy is a roleplaying game based upon the universe of Games Workshop’s Warhammer 40,000. In Dark Heresy players take on the roles of Acolytes of the Inquisition, aiming to uncover and combat the enemies of mankind, be they aliens, heretics or mutants!

On top of our usual Workbench and Games Played segments, we discuss the setting and background of Dark Heresy, give an overview of the rules, and talk at length about the product line and support that Fantasy Flight offers. If you have enjoyed the writings of Dan Abnetts Inquisitor series of novels, then this might just be the roleplaying game for you.

And as if that wasn't enough! We finally have our Forbidden Lore segment on John French's, Ahriman: Exile! Major spoilers in this bit, so if you haven't read it yet - you may want to end the show before we get to this point.

We hope you enjoy!

Show Timestamps

Show Overview and intro - 00:00:00
The Workbench & Games Played - 00:06:15
Dark Heresy Part 1: Background, Concept and Rules - 00:49:00
Dark Heresy Part 2: Combat and Product Support Overview - 01:46:10
Final Thoughts and Show Closing - 02:23:50
Forbidden Lore on Ahriman:Exile - 02:28:55

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Independent Characters, Episode 73. This is Carl and this is Jeff.
0:23.8	And today we're going to be talking about Dark Heresy, which is the role-playing game of the 40K Inquisition, which was originally put out by Black Industries, which was a subsidiary of Black Library,
0:39.0	and then when they closed shop, it was picked up by Fantasy Flight games
0:43.2	and has a tremendous amount of support from them, and it's a fantastic role-playing game
0:48.4	that ties into the Warhammer 40K Universe.
0:51.8	So if you've read the Black Library stories of Eisenhorn and Ravener and now Beckwin,
0:59.3	you're going to really, really enjoy what this game has to offer and probably be interested
1:03.7	in what we have to say.
1:04.7	If you're into role-playing games, this is probably the episode for you.
1:08.5	If you're not, maybe you want to turn off after the workbench.
1:13.3	The workbench.
1:14.3	And then maybe if you're interested in Aramon Exile, you could join us at the end of the show.
1:18.2	But speaking of Aram in Exile, we're doing a forbidden lore on Aramon Exile by John French.
1:23.5	At the end of this show, after our closing music. Remember that there are spoilers.
1:28.0	This is a book club style segment, not a review.
1:32.7	So if you're interested and you have read Aramon Exile, then stay tuned.
1:38.3	A couple other things to announce really quick.
1:40.3	First is recently I was just shown from, I mentioned them before, but I was on the something awful forums.
1:46.1	This guy has done these battle reports that are really kind of unique.
1:50.2	What he has done is, and he's still working out the intricacies of it, but basically what he's done is done time lapse footage of the game as it plays.
2:00.8	And then he goes back edits the video talks at
2:04.6	the beginning about here's the armies I played or he videotapes with the guy at the time here's
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