Imperial Psyker - This career represents an individual with psychic powers, able to channel the power of the Warp to accomplish a wide variety of things.Guardsman - Although the name of this career usually brings to mind members of the Imperial Guard, it also applies to human mercenaries and other soldiers such as members of a Planetary Defence Force they are skilled warriors who can also operate vehicles.Cleric - A Priest of the Ecclesiarchy trained in a wide range of abilities, but who excel at motivation and leadership.Assassin - These skilled killers excel in both combat and stealth skills.Arbitrator - Members of the Adeptus Arbites, the elite Imperial law enforcement organisation, are effective both at investigative skills and combat.Adept - A career path devoted to knowledge, logic, and analysis within the Imperial bureaucracy of the Adeptus Terra, though they are not very effective in combat and not always good in social interaction.
There are 8 career paths in the core rulebook, with several further added in subsequent sourcebooks. In Dark Heresy, the players pick a career path for their character which is similar to a class from other RPG systems such as Dungeons & Dragons. With some actions, the amount by which you succeed or fail can determine degrees of success or failure, allowing the Game Master to further detail the result.
Subsequently, Fantasy Flight Games acquired the license for the game, and eventually expanded it with a short-lived Dark Heresy Second Edition which was set in the Askellon Sector before Games Workshop withdrew the license for all Warhammer 40,000 RPGs from the company in February 2017. This sector lies adjacent to the Scarus Sector, the famed setting of Dan Abnett's Eisenhorn trilogy. Though the game eventually spawned four other core rulebooks covering different areas of the Warhammer 40,000 universe including Rogue Traders, the Deathwatch Space Marines, the Imperial Guard and the servants of Chaos, the initial releases concentrated on the Acolytes of the Inquisition.īlack Industries chose to set the game in a previously undefined sector of Imperial space, the Calixis Sector, within the Segmentum Obscurus. Dark Heresy is a tabletop role-playing game first published on Januby Black Industries that uses the Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay system and is set within the same dark, Gothic universe as the Warhammer 40,000 tabletop miniatures game.