Editing Inquisitor (role-playing game) (section)

== Decline ==
After a good period on release where Inquisitor experienced relatively good popularity when compared with other games outside of Games Workshop’s main franchises (Warhammer 40,000, Warhammer Fantasy Battles), the game has slowly lost both appeal and support from Games Workshop.
 
For a time articles featuring Inquisitor were commonly featured in Games Workshop’s flagship magazine [[White Dwarf]] together with new miniature releases. Partly due to the introduction of Games Workshop's [[The Lord of the Rings Strategy Battle Game]], and the resultant use of the magazine space for articles relating to it, Inquisitor's coverage was later moved to the game's own magazine, Exterminatus. Exterminatus ran for a short period (10 quarterly issues), until Games Workshop grouped all of its "Specialist Games" range magazines into one larger magazine named 'Fanatic' (for much of its run, Fanatic was solely an online magazine), which was also later discontinued. Together with this, miniatures were restricted to online sales only, and some have since gone out of production, such as the Kal Jerico model. In 2004 the rulebook was made available as a free PDF within the specialist games section of the Games Workshop website.
 
The decline has also been reflected in the game's online support. In 2007 the game's online forum was removed from Games Workshop's servers (although a replacement is now hosted and run privately by fans at the-conclave.co.uk, where it still has a loyal fanbase).  At the same time, a considerable majority of the Fanatic online articles were taken down from the site. No "official" content has been released by Games Workshop since its site redesign, meaning that any new articles or updates for the game are fan written.

The final nail in the coffin, or perhaps the next stage in its life cycle, was the release of [[Dark Heresy]] by [[Fantasy Flight Games]]; though the miniatures elements are gone, Dark Heresy is a true role-playing game, with a company giving it proper support and a thriving online community.

But with FFG losing the licence, even Dark Heresy is now dead. We'll see how long [[Wrath & Glory]] lasts.

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