Character Encyclopedia

[Jukkiz]

2 hours ago, HeadlessCross said:

I agree and disagree. In a sense, it's a super low effort product to sell in most instances since we all know the characters and it isn't actually introducing anything we can't Google. 

 

" It´s like GW sells rulebooks but i can google them for free, so why i would i buy?"

[HeadlessCross]

4 hours ago, Jukkiz said:

" It´s like GW sells rulebooks but i can google them for free, so why i would i buy?"

There's several reasons to not buy GW rules, to be fair. 

[Magos Takatus]

8 hours ago, HeadlessCross said:

There's several reasons to not buy GW rules, to be fair. 

Adeptus Mechanicus in 10th says Hi. No way I was going to support that financially. 

[Frogian]

15 hours ago, HeadlessCross said:

. In a sense, it's a super low effort product to sell in most instances since we all know the characters and it isn't actually introducing anything we can't Google. 

 

well that’s certainly... a take. doesn't that apply to nearly every non-fiction book out there? I think you are massively undervaluing the merit of well curated and assembled information on a topic, not to mention not everyone just wants to stare at a screen all the time

 

as someone who doesn't read 40k novels, and gets their lore mainly from rulebooks and warcom/WD articles - i'd love a decent character book with a good page of text for each one - but that doesn't mean i want to scroll through overly comprehensive and expansive 40kwiki/Lexicanum articles detailing every action they've ever taken. but this one from DK doesn't have nearly enough info, and seems more like a photo gallery than anything else. 

[Magos Takatus]

1 hour ago, Frogian said:

well that’s certainly... a take. doesn't that apply to nearly every non-fiction book out there? I think you are massively undervaluing the merit of well curated and assembled information on a topic, not to mention not everyone just wants to stare at a screen all the time

 

as someone who doesn't read 40k novels, and gets their lore mainly from rulebooks and warcom/WD articles - i'd love a decent character book with a good page of text for each one - but that doesn't mean i want to scroll through overly comprehensive and expansive 40kwiki/Lexicanum articles detailing every action they've ever taken. but this one from DK doesn't have nearly enough info, and seems more like a photo gallery than anything else. 

I agree. You don't need a dossier on everything about Commissar Yarrick, including his favourite breakfast cereal, but having a paragraph or two on these characters seems really underwhelming. If some of the lore on the characters was a bit light, it would have been a good opportunity to create some new lore as a hook for older collectors. As it is there's only enough space to scratch the surface on who each character is. It is disappointing but I suppose I'm not the target audience.

[AppleCrumble]

Sorry to bump old news, but just incase it was absent from anyone’s stocking, the book is currently available on Amazon for ~£14 in the UK (and apparently about the same at ASDA). 

Edited Sunday at 07:10 PM by AppleCrumble

[roryokane]

On 1/4/2026 at 7:09 PM, AppleCrumble said:

Sorry to bump old news, but just incase it was absent from anyone’s stocking, the book is currently available on Amazon for ~£14 in the UK (and apparently about the same at ASDA). 

I got it - it was perfectly cromulent. I'd forgotten I'd ordered it, and the fact that it had Lieutenant Titus inside, so as far as I'm concerned it was a nice thing to open. Nothing truly ground-breaking in there, but nice to have as a book!

[Grotsmasha]

I've now seen this out in the wild in OZ too, at QBD

[Valkia the Bloody]

There is even a GERMAN version in the German bookstores.

But since I can speak English fluently, I had ordered the English version as soon as it came out.....