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Dark Heresy (1st edition) is a tabletop roleplaying game set in the universe of Warhammer 40,000, in which the players take the roles of an Inquisitor’s acolytes rooting out heresy across a grim, dying empire. Though long out of print, it is still played by many — its mechanics a little clunky, but the dread of its setting captured like few others.
Dork Heresy is a free, non-commercial project built by a single dedicated hobbyist. After a few years away from the game, I started playing again — and the sheer volume of calculations and situational modifiers made the old pen-and-paper sheets cumbersome. So I started building a tool to carry that weight.
Despite a long career in software, I badly underestimated how much work modelling the system would take. What began as a tool for my own group, after many thousands of lines of code and many more hours, became something worth sharing.
This is a fan tool, unaffiliated with and unendorsed by the publishers of Dark Heresy or Warhammer 40,000. Game mechanics are not protected by copyright, and I have deliberately avoided reproducing any copyrighted text, artwork or descriptions from the source material. If you have any concerns, please get in touch — happily. :)
Pekka Astala
Technology Consultant · Hobbyist
A decade and more in software development, latterly as an entrepreneur and contractor. Dork Heresy is what happens when that habit collides with a love of grimdark dice.
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