Narrative Sites
The Narrative Forge at Goonhammer
There’s more to gaming life than the endless core gameplay loop of competitive and tournament play! In the Narrative Forge, Goonhammer explores Narrative Play, looking for ways to tell stories on the tabletop and enhance play experiences by creating narratives and weaving story elements into your games.
Going on Campaign
Going on Campaign is an unofficial rulebook and source guide for campaigns in Games Workshop’s Warhammer 40k. Basically guidelines, howto’s, and advice on how to structure your WH40k campaign no matter what style you’re interested in.
Narrative Labs
Here at Narrative Labs we believe that telling a story while playing miniature wargames is the best way to enjoy these wonderful games and so we’re fully dedicated to exploring narrative wargaming and having a lot of fun while doing it. We also believe that the best stories come from sharing great ideas and that’s why we let our viewers help drive forward the story, incorporating their ideas, where we can, and creating exciting narratives for all to enjoy.
KITBASHED
A fantastic resource for conversions, kitbashing, bits comparisons and more for the Warhammer 40k setting. Join them as they grow and explore Warhammer 40k and how best to integrate converting and kitbashing into your armies with view on use at events, display and more. – by Ricki Smith
Narrative focused WH40k Podcasts
Masters of the Forge
Masters of the Forge is a Podcast dedicated to Narrative Play in Warhammer 40k. Their site has links to their episodes as well campaigns, scenarios, and custom rules for you to use On Your Tabletop (such as Codex: Squat Warpnauts, Space Wolf Great Company Strategems, Zone Mortalis rules, and more).
Narrative Wargamer
The Narrative Wargamer Podcast is a non-competitive 40k podcast with a focus on fun and narrative gameplay, as well as hobby news and our latest hobby projects.
Ongoing Campaigns
War of Seven Fronts
The War of Seven Fronts is an ongoing, global, Warhammer 40k narrative campaign with a three year history that is optimized for use with Tabletop Simulator.
Aleph Sector 40k Campaign
The Aleph Sector 40k Campaign is Sheffield University Wargames Society’s, ongoing, narrative based campaign set in Games Workshop’s Warhammer 40,000 universe.
The Corvus Cluster
The Corvus Cluster is an ongoing narrative campaign set in the Warhammer 40K universe. The campaign is now half a decade old, and provides a sizable setting for wargaming adventures.
Tools & Resources
Map Making Tools
Here at TCRepo we’ve compiled a list of Map Making Tools that you can use when forming your own campaigns & adventures!
Krump Designer
An online tool, created by /u/Known-Plantain, to create Warhammer 40k missions/scenarios/battles that includes an easy to use Deployment Map builder and sections for: Briefing, Rules, Objectives, Setup, Deployment.
World Anvil
World Anvil is an online tool to create, and showcase, interactive maps & lore for your campaign.
Realm of Plastic: Warhammer 40k Character Name Generators
Realm of Plastic has developed a ton of name generators for the various factions (and often sub-factions) in the Warhammer 40k universe.
Dinomerguez.ovh
An online tool to convert WH40k Battlescribe .rosz files into attractive and easy to reference, printable, datacards! – dinomerguez
game-datacards.eu
An online tool, powered by Wahapedia’s data exports, that allows you to create customized, printable, datacards specific to your army needs and the actual relics, gear, traits you want it to show. – by Wiebbe
‘Eavy Archive
An unofficial collection of detailed and accurate paint schemes to help you achieve box-art results for miniatures from Games Workshop games including Warhammer 40k, Age of Sigmar, & The Horus Heresy. – by Infernal Brush