Adepta Sororitas - Commonly known as the Sisters of Battle, this career path was introduced in the Inquisitor's Handbook and is recommended for veteran players due to the roleplaying challenges involved.
Tech-Priest - Skilled with machines and technology, they are members of the Cult Mechanicus.
Scum - Criminals, outcasts, thieves, and other miscreants, this class of rogues has a variety of useful skills involving stealth, infiltration and social interaction with less-honest members of Imperial society.
Imperial Psyker - This class represents an individual with psychic powers, able to channel the warp to accomplish a wide variety of things.
Guardsman - Although the name of this class usually brings to mind members of the Imperial Guard, it also applies to mercenaries and other soldiers they are skilled warriors who can also operate vehicles.
Cleric - Clergy of the Ecclesiarchy train in a wide range of abilities, but 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 upholding organisation, are effective both in investigative skills and combat.
Adept - A career path devoted to knowledge, logic, and analysis, though they are not very effective in combat and not always good in social interaction.
There are 8 career paths in the core rulebook, and more added in several sourcebooks. Career paths Įach player can pick a career path for his character, which is similar to a class from other RPG systems such as D&D. As the players work for an Inquisitor, most missions involve rooting out heresies or matters relating to them, but the breadth of the game allows for many other missions, including wiping out dangerous gangs, gathering evidence of corruption, dealing with alien threats or eliminating rogue psykers. Therefore, the Game Master can tailor his campaign to suit his player group. Depending on the type of mission, the gameplay can involve investigation, combat, intrigue, or a number of other genres. The players assume the role of a group of Acolytes working for an Inquisitor, who sends them on various missions. In Dark Heresy, the player characters are agents of the Inquisition. The Dark Heresy Second Edition beta is a complete, 337-page playable version of Dark Heresy Second Edition the only difference is that it omits certain art pieces and background lore that will be present in the final version. A second edition was published in 2014 under Fantasy Flight Games. Cover of Dark Heresy, the first book of the Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay seriesĭark Heresy is a role-playing game published by Black Industries in 2008 that uses the Warhammer 40,000 Roleplay system.