Black Industries

40k covers literally all genres, but if you like that tone, then you've got Alan to thank.

Calling this a fantasy flight RPG is also kind of in quotes here, because this, the first 40k RPG, was published by Black Industries, a subsidiary of Black Library, a subsidiary of Games Workshop, in January of 2008.

Black Industries shut down three days after this RPG was published.

Crazy.

Less than a month later, the license is transferred to Fantasy Flight Games.

So the first printing of this is Black Industries.

And then after that, it's Fantasy Flight.

And then they make additional materials and supplements and then eventually create a second edition for some of the lines.

offshoot company that did their role-playing games for a while themselves.

Black Industries.

The Black Industries?

I remember that, yeah.

Because one of the books I've got is printed by them.

Penelope, how dare you? So The System is Dark Heresy first edition from 2008.

The Black Industries slash Fantasy Flight Games series.

rpg where you play as inquisitorial acolytes here to save the imperium but let's be honest probably you're going to condemn a hive world uh to exterminatus and and hopefully and you know and you'll survive because you'll burn fate and get the out of it you know

and look i'm just gonna say two things can be true at the same time

But appears to be an in-house game.

Yeah, 'cause, like, they did that with the, was it Rogue Trader, I believe? The very first one was put out by Black Industries.

Mm-hmm.

Before it moved to, um, Fa- Epic-