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One could describe it the most "calm" of the games, and if your GM is able to bring subtle horror into the game this game line is perfect for you. Think of Sherlock Holmes with a touch of Cthulhu. While having a different rule set, especially for character creation, both editions focus on a special Inquisition cell doing the investigative work for an Inquisitor. These games include:ĭark Heresy 1st / 2nd edition. In that regard they are still the gold standard. However I have to admit: they nail the atmosphere and style of WH40k perfect. It is usable, but nothing more, and in some cases it is a unnecessarily complicated, especially for new groups. As they concentrate each on one single theme and power level they tend to provide deep lore/fluff and mechanical systems to support the intended level of the game, but it can be problematic to combine them and would require a lot of work in the details. They were released one after another and sometimes builds upon each other. While every FFG game uses a 1D100 mechanics, its implementation is always a bit different. Whatever you do: only use the C7 version.ĭark Heresy, Black Crusade, Only War, Deathwatch & Rogue Trader from BI/FFG There exists now two distinct versions of W&G: the old (and bad ) Ulisses version with a Space Marine in yellow PA on the cover and the new (and good) C7 version with a Space Marine in white PA on the cover. The rule/mechanics are light, more in line with storyteller games, unlike the more mechanically complex nature of the FFG games. You can at least in theory do everything within Wrath & Glory, but your GM will need to improvise a a lot. As such the lore and background is not deep, but encompasses almost everything a bit.
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It uses a D6 dicepool system for all levels of gameplay, from T1 Hive Scums and Imperial Guardsmen to T4 Inquisitors, from Humans to Eldar and Orks, from Chaos cultists to Imperial clerics as player characters.
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It is currently the only official Warhammer 40k RPG. The corebook (reworked and vastly improved) was just released a year ago, together with some splatbooks (Forgotten System, Redacted Records, soon Church of Steel). Right now there exists only one single active game line, called Wrath & Glory from Cubicle 7 (and the incomplete version of W&G from Ulisses Spiele before that) and an inactive game line (as in "no longer developed / supported) from BI/FFG with multiple different games. That question is a bit more complicated to answer, as there are multiple companies and RPG lines involved.