We’re building a new set of tools for the Necromunda community.

Welcome. Gyrinx is a new set of tools to help you manage your Necromunda gangs and campaigns, focused on ease of use and flexibility. We've in public Beta, meaning anyone can make an account and start trying things out!

We hope you’ll find Gyrinx exciting and helpful! We also hope you’ll find lots of errors, bugs, and areas for improvement.

Here! And don’t forget to read our guidance for Beta testing here and join our Discord here.

Gyrinx is be a fully-fledged tool for list building, gang management, and campaign arbitration.

We’re still perfecting our gang-building tools. After that, our main focus will be creating tools to let you fully customise Gyrinx to suit your needs: whether that’s house rules, bespoke characters, or even using the whole thing to run Mordheim for some reason.

Our key philosophy is that we see Necromunda as a sandbox: our tools will make it easier to use the game’s rules, but we’re not here to restrict you.

If you’ve arrived from YakTribe, you’ll notice we’re doing some things differently.

• Gyrinx doesn’t look conventionally Necromunda-ish. We love grime and hazard stripes as much as the next hive-dweller, but for some users they can make websites harder to use. We’re tried to focus on accessibility and being mobile-friendly.

• Fighters have a powerful “notes” section, where you can put rule reminders, lore, dietary requirements (mmm, corpse starch), and even pictures.

• We’re big on tracking. On gang and campaign screens, you can track the actions players have taken — making it easier to find out what’s been going on in your local group, and helping busy arbitrators make sense of things. 

• Integrated dice-rolling. No more pinging the group chat for a 2d6 roll — we’ve got built-in dice rolling across action tracking processes. That means you can roll up for things like lasting injuries with peace of mind (including for your arbitrator) that it’ll all be properly logged and handled. We can’t, unfortunately, guarantee your favourite model won’t get 66’d.

• Weapon accessories are bought directly for weapons, and “attached” within the user interface. So no more struggling to remember which pistol the infra sight is on.

• Buying pets, simplified. Once you buy an exotic beast as wargear for a fighter, the pet’s profile will appear as an attachment to their profile — there’s no need to manually add the pet.

We’re a small team of Necromunda fans: Louis (aka Goonhammer’s Manofwaaagh), Simon (aka 3_ogryns_in_a_trenchcoat, creator of Second Best Guides), and Tom (our resident engineseer).

We would love to be a bigger team. So if you have coding experience and want to get involved, please contact Tom! 

In short: yes. Like many members of the Necromunda playing community, we’ve relied heavily upon YakTribe’s tools for gang management in the past.

But the website’s content library is increasingly out of date, making it difficult for players who want to use newer rule sets. So we decided to do our own thing.

Plus, our plan is for Gyrinx to go beyond YakTribe’s powers, to offer support for fully-fledged custom content systems based around Necromunda’s core mechanics.

Right now our costs are low, but we expect them to ramp up and would highly appreciate any support you can offer.

We’re running a Patreon here. Backers can get unique badges on their profiles, and behind-the-scenes updates on the project — as well as our eternal thanks.

Currently our costs look like this:

• Google Workspace Business Starter
  £21 per month (3 accounts)
  Used for project-related email (e.g. hello@gyrinx.app), identity management for Google Cloud Platform and project planning documents.
• Google Cloud Platform
  Around £50 per month
  In order of cost: CloudSQL (~50%), Networking (25%), Artifact Registry (20%), Cloud Run (<10%), Compute Engine.
• Domain Names
  £4.50 per month
  We have gyrinx.app and gyrinx.com, and use the former. Both renew at around £55 annually.
• Email Sending
  $20 per month
  We use SendGrid Essentials 50K, their smallest plan that allows > 100 emails per day

Just imagine you never saw the word “Pulverise”.

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With special thanks to Danny Bonnar (@macromunda) for photography, and to Matt Thomason (Necromunda Index) for page references.