Black Industries was the role-playing game imprint of BL Publishing, the publishing arm of Games Workshop. It was announced on January 28, 2008 that it would cease operations after its products currently scheduled for release are published.
Its first release was the second edition of the Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay game. A fourth edition of the Talisman fantasy board game was released in October 2007. Black Industries also developed a Warhammer 40,000 role-playing game, Dark Heresy, but GW announced the termination of the imprint shortly before the rulebook came out, making it the final Black Industry product.
An agreement of licencing rights between Fantasy Flight Games and Games Workshop has resulted in former Black Industries products remaining in print and being expanded by FFG.
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