Rating: [ 6.88 / 10.00 ]

Game Info

Title  Deathwatch Core Rulebook
Author  Ross Watson
Book Type  Core Rules
Rank: [ 129 / 4196 ]
Genre  Science Fantasy
Setting  Warhammer 40K
Awards 
MTV Geek (Top RPG Product #9, 2010)
Golden Geek RPG (Best Artwork/Presentation Finalist, 2011)
Golden Geek RPG (Game of the Year Nominee, 2011)

Game Summary

From the publisher's website:
Welcome to the front lines, Battle-Brother!

Deathwatch is a roleplaying game in which you take on the role of a member of the Adeptus Astartes - the devout, bio-engineered super-soldiers also known as Space Marines. After many years of exemplary service within your own chapter, you have been singled out and selected to join one of the most unique and specialized collectives of Space Marines - the Deathwatch.

Only the most exceptional candidates from the fighting forces of the Adeptus Astartes are invited to join the mysterious Deathwatch; to take on a new oath to safeguard the Imperium from the darkest of threats. You will now be called into service to hunt down and destroy hostile xenos forces, to seek out and crush the root of heresy and sedition, and to continually fight against the foul daemon menace that crawls forth hungrily from beyond the Warp. You are at the fore of Mankind's war for survival against an extremely hostile universe.

For centuries, the Deathwatch have maintained their silent vigil over the ancient ruins of the Reach, but now you find yourselves on the front lines of a grand Imperial Crusade that has been launched to reclaim this vast region of space from darkness and heresy.

The fate of billions rests in your hands!

Game Editions

Notes on Editions
There are 2 editions of Deathwatch Core Rulebook. Click on an individual title, below, for more information on that edition.

Game Editions

Comments & Reviews

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5 + 4JordanMillward_1. The Deathwatch Core Rulebook helps to prove to those cynics, like I used to be, that despite what they think, roleplaying as a Space Marine can be fun, interesting, and not just all about combat.
5 + 4Razorboy. This brand new addition to the Warhammer 40.000 line of role-playing games by Fantasy Flight Games offers a larger-than-life experience, but at a price.

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7 / 10TrippyHippyIn some ways the best of the W40K rpgs to date as the character creation allows for different backgrounds and different roles - which creates more PC alternatives. The Space Marines are iconic too, and just as flexible in terms of investigation/heavy combat as previous 40KRP premises. The xenos and chaos threats are escalated up a notch too.

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