This guy walks up to you in the club and accuses your gf of heresy what do you do? You are then set loose, often with no proof of your authority as part of the Inquisition in order to keep you as disposable as possible, and told to get it done. Your boss gives you a job, such as finding the source of an illegal relic trade, hunting down and unearthing a cult or covering up all trace of some alien sighting. The general loop is that you are a group of Inquisition goons called Acolytes, the most disposable and lowest rung on the Inquisition ladder. We don't really get much more than that, other than the occasional snippet about life on planets where war is happening.ĭark Heresy not only explores what life is like on planets where there are no massive wars with beefcake space marines being heroic and Imperial Guardsman dying by the thousands for silly war goals, it also gives a framework for running proper adventures in them. The fiction there paints the Imperium of Man as an impossibly vast fascist dictatorship where trillions toil in obscurity, corruption is rampant and life is cheap. What I find most compelling about Dark Heresy and to a lesser degree the other Warhammer 40k tabletop RPGs is that they showcase parts of the Warhammer 40k setting that are for obvious reasons completely unrepresented in the most popular part of Warhammer 40k, the tabletop wargame. This can range from going undercover in the local populace to eliminate a cult plotting to assassinate a high ranking official and summoning a demon, to delving into a freshly unearthed alien ruin found on an Imperial world to stop some ancient awakened doomsday machine from activating. The Inquisition is diverse as it is powerful, but in general works to uproot threats that can not be detected or properly dealt with by military might alone. I touched a bit on its origins in my Wrath and Glory post and I'm not going to bother repeating myself here, but for the uninitiated Dark Heresy is a game about working for the Imperium of Man's shadowy Inquisition, an organization with essentially unchecked power tasked with protecting the Imperium from insidious threats both within and without. If you know anything about the Warhammer 40k Tabletop RPG scene you almost certainly know what Dark Heresy is.
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