The Dark Reign of Lord Mordheim. (An Interview With Dark Reign's Creator)
What is it like to hit the big time? What is it like to work for Games Workshop (GW)? That was the question put to Mordheim (Dark Reign (DR) creator) last night in DR’s first ever interview on its new IRC chat.
Mordheim worked in GW HQ in Lenton from 1999 to 2000 as their web designer and created the “two stone columns,” site for them, where he made it "‘less sh***’ (that's a quote 
)” This of course did not sit well with the US team “that developed the hideous, archaic forum that the UK website used.”
During his time at the “Ivory Tower” as Mordheim called the Lenton Design Studio, he worked with some of the biggest names in the 40k universe like “Andy Chambers, Rick Priestley, Alessio, Gav, Karl Kopinski, the Fat dude” which, as he is a fan boy like our selves, gave him a “geekgasm”. In his time at GW Mordheim also “organised and refereed a couple of GamesDays, wrote articles for Town Crier (Mordheim)... worked on Lords of the Ring (for the website)” among other project. Then it happened, Dark Heresy(DH, Fantasy Flight Games (FFG)) arrived on the scene.
Like many of us old gaming farts Mordheim loved the “40K universe and had waited for a DH rpg(Role Playing Game) for 25 years.” Mordhiem’s first love was Call of Cthulhu (Chaosium Publishing) which he believes DH encompasses with his other love of Delta Green (Pagan Publishing), as “DH is Delta Green in space” As we all know of course DH was almost lost for ever as Black Industries (BI) was shut down which “shocked” Mordheim because he “couldn't belief GW would abandon the hottest property (after D&D).” This was one of his main reasons for starting up the DR site as he “didn't want for the great BI community to fragment and disperse” which brings us to where we are today.
Today DR is the biggest fan site for DH on the net, working together with FFG in play testing and development of new product and will be receiving a “‘special thanks’ credit” in a future book. In the future the DR “community” and “content” will only grow stronger with its connections to FFG and DH, and may even have some content crossovers.
On the game its self Mordheim does admit it is not with out its faults, sighting problems with the d100 system making “bigger than life heroes and villans” harder to create and the “minutae” of counting rounds as something that puts older gamer off.
I feel we have to thank this “Empire Strikes Back” and “The Illuminatus Trilogy” loving Savour of DH. With out him I don’t know if there would still be a DH and we would be resigned back to the days of making it up as we go. And on that infamous GW Christman party. We have finally got an admission from Mordheim to seeing “GW celebs strip on tables and french kiss eachother.”