I'm considering starting up a game of dark heresy for my group using the second ed rules. I'm fairly new to the system and 40k as a whole so does anyone have any advice when running this? I was recommended eisenhorn as reading to get into it to start.
Don't run it to intensely on the combat side of things. DH is best when it is mostly investigation broken up by a few combat encounters.
>>46729332
One way it was put to me was call of cthulhu in space so I'd probably run it similar to that.
>>46729048
> I was recommended eisenhorn as reading to get into it to start.
Don´t.
Abnett is garbage, he absolutely misrepresents EVERYTHING, he is just getting lauded overmuch for not being as shit as many other Black Library writers, but his stories and characters are criminally cliché, and his failure in adherence to the background is rarely topped.
If you want background read literally anything else, Shira Calpurnia -mostly the first book- is much more what you need. Jaq Draco is also much more representative of what you need for DH. They are written by people who have an interest in 40K, and clearly know the world, something Abnett even admits to not do.
>>46730208
Eh, even I find this advice useful.
>>46729048
Dark Heresy should be investigation heavy, yes. Your classic opponents can be multifold, Eldar, chaos cults, genestealers, plenty to pick from.
Combat in DH takes long especially if your players haven't done it before.
Also, the world is bloody grimdark, there are few happy go lucky, sheltered adults trying to preach world peace and being a xeno-loving cuck gets you executed at best. The entire Imperium is besieged by all sides and constantly under threat of being infiltrated. That gives a very paranoid mood.
>>46730208
>anything else
Even Goto?
>>46730208
Don't listen to this faggot. Eisenhorn is the only WH40k fiction that can be said to be marginally better than junior-high-school tier fanfic.
My advice on this game is to make two or three characters, with the assumption that the first is doing to die horribly.
>>46730208
Trash opinion, gaunts ghosts is fucking top tier compared with other BL stuff
>>46730208
Dan Abnett's books are absolutely amazing, you edgy purist faggot. Jaq Draco is also amazing, but from a different perspective.
>muh grimdankness
It's because trash like you the setting is currently time frozen.
>>46736509
>>46736297
>Not reading Ciaphas Cain
HERO OF THE IMPERIUM!
>>46729352
thats a good way to go about it. Just read the rulebooks, they should have enough fluff in them to get a feel for things.
Eisenhorn isn´t a horrible extension of it, since it was basically written alongside the old Inquisitor game, which was kind of the same thing as Dark Heresy.
>>46736509
hear, hear!
>>46736699
>wants to progress the story
fucking pleb detected.
The setting is galactic in scale for a reason.
So that it can literally be infinite in depth allowing for infinite new stories in roughly the same setting.
Why do you need to move forward, when we can move infinitely inward?
There is no one storyline in 40k. 40k is an infinite amount of stories of differing themes and degrees of awesome to expound upon and enrich and explore.
>>46737501
if you don´t want more things on the tier of the Eye of Terror campaign, you have no business calling others plebs
>>46737864
Not that guy, but I would have loved it if they'd have continued it from Eye of Terror. Loved it.
Ten years ago.
Today? With the writing and development staff they have now? Sweet Jesus, no.
>>46738352
That's.. a fair point.
I mean, andy hoare is still around, but he's only one man, not to mention currently handling the new specialist games stuff.
