40K is a sci-fi wargame that began in 1987 with the first edition of the ruleset. Players build, paint, and collect armies of various human and alien groups, then pit them against each other in competitive battles, vying to control areas of a board or wipe out their opponent's forces Everything in the game uses standard six-sided dice to determine things like whether your attacks hit and wound an opponent, how far your units can charge into battle, or if one of your heroes can pull a stunt.
Games Workshop has created a lot of spinoffs from its work. There are small-scale skirmish games like Necromunda and Kill Team in the same 40K universe as well as an adjacent fantasy setting called Warhammer: Age of Sigmar, which has its own universe and spinoff titles. The series has slowly but surely expanded into a transmedia empire, with Games Workshop releasing its own novels and short fiction, and licensing out the series for comics, video games, and now TV and movies.
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