Black Industries was the

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imprint of

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, the publishing arm of

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. It was announced on January 28, 2008 that it would cease operations after its products currently scheduled for release are published.

History

In early 2003, after James Wallis shut down

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, the rights to ''

Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay ''Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay'' or ''Warhammer Fantasy Role-Play'' (abbreviated to ''WFRP'' or ''WHFRP'') is a role-playing game set in the ''Warhammer Fantasy'' setting, published by Games Workshop or its licensees. The first edition of ''WFR ...

'' reverted to

; a year later Games Workshop planned to publish a new edition of ''Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay'' using their

division and created the subdivision Black Industries as a new roleplaying imprint for the game. Games Workshop hired

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in 2003 to produce a second edition of ''Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay'', and also a line of supplements which would be sold by Black Industries. A fourth edition of the ''

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'' fantasy board game was released in 2007. Black Industries also developed a ''

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'' game, ''

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'', first as a collector's edition and then released the mass-market version on January 26, 2008; just two days later, on January 28, Games Workshop announced that they were closing down Black Industries, claiming its role-playing game products sold poorly compared to the fiction from the Black Library. Games Workshop gave a new license to

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, and the last product from the Green Ronin version of ''Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay'' was the ''Career Compendium'' (2009) produced by Fantasy Flight Games.

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