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Despite changing significantly between games, 40kRP always sold itself on the illusion of backwards compatibility. Why did this happen? Why did the avenue for changing the game and addressing its (significant) flaws close? Well, there are a lot of reasons, and they're the reason I want to cover this incomplete prototype document. But it crashed and burned completely, and was discarded entirely during the public playtest in favor of switching the game to 'effectively the same system, but with some updates from the later games in the line bolted into DH'. They even tried to fix them in this potential second edition.
#Dark heresy gear list pdf
The reason this PDF is interesting to me is because it helps answer, definitively, whether or not FFG was actually aware of the issues with the system. However, they were stuck with the original system, which was a worse designed and worse balanced WHFRP2e but with guns and heavy weapons and multiplicative stat scaling that could destroy the game's balance. It also faced an issue where FFG wasn't interested in space ratcatchers, and wanted to run much higher power games. Now, I liked the horror part and the focus on playing low level human-intel agents, but at the same time PCs were pretty incompetent and limited even compared to starting WHFRP adventurers, and 40kRP had lots of weird balancing decisions that ended up shooting it in the foot. It also suffered from the fact that Dark Heresy was very much a 'space ratcatchers get up to horror' game, rather than the 'play Eisenhorn/badass Inquisitorial Agents' game that many fans had expected and hoped for. But the system is flawed in interesting ways, because it was inherited by Fantasy Flight Games after being designed by some of the people who worked on WHFRP2e, and designed very close to (but notably worse than) WHFRP2e. If you've read my stuff about 40kRP, you know I take a lot of issues with the system. Specifically, in the way this PDF represents a road not taken, an interesting little footnote in RPG design. But one of them is found here, in the buy-in playtest for the 2nd edition of Dark Heresy. I don't anymore, for a combination of a lot of reasons. Why? posted by Night10194 Original SA post Dark Heresy Second Edition: Unpublished Beta Part 1: Why?