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Welcome to Gyrinx.

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

What is Gyrinx?

Welcome. Gyrinx is a set of tools to help you manage your Necromunda gangs and campaigns, focused on ease of use and flexibility.

I’ve already heard enough, where do I sign up?

Here! And don’t forget to join our Discord here.

What’s being built?

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

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.

Familiar, but different

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.

Who’s behind Gyrinx?

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), Chris (aka Shoto) and Tom (our resident enginseer).

If you have coding experience and want to get involved, please contact Tom

Wait, doesn’t YakTribe already do this?

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.

I’d like to support this project — can I donate?

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

How does a neural flayer work in full blast mode?

Just imagine you never saw the word “Pulverise”. OK they fixed this and ruined our joke.

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