Free League’s Blade Runner RPG Live & Funded On Kickstarter!
May 4, 2022 by fcostin
The Blade Runner RPG from Free League Publishing is now live on Kickstarter, taking less than 3 minutes to get funded and already surpassing one million USD!
BLADE RUNNER RPG Kickstarter Trailer // Free League Publishing
Players will be headed out to Los Angeles, settling into their role as Blade Runners in 2037 optimising the Year Zero Engine. Taking investigation to the forefront, players will be on the hunt for Replicants, which will place them on the ground amongst mystery. Players will not be focusing on combat or adventure specifically - the title will focus on cases that are waiting to be cracked and explored.
The Starter Set Preview // Blade Runner RPG
As part of the campaign, players will be able to get their hands on a Starter Set. Which will include everything a player needs to set off into a corporate hungry, paranoia filled universe. Including a condensed rulebook, pre-generated character sheets to jump right in and the first case to crack, entitled Electric Dreams. Plus there will be a ton of handouts included in the set, providing players clues to decipher whilst progressing through one case at a time.
Core Rulebook Preview Spread // Blade Runner RPG
There are several different pledges you can tap into - including a digital-only pledge for £25 to bolster your digital library, and all the way up to a deluxe pledge for roughly £106. Which will contain a Kickstarter Exclusive rulebook, Rulebook, Starter Set and PDF digital copy of the rules.
Available Stretch Goals // Blade Runner RPG
If you are pledging, there are Strech Goals unlocking at a ridiculous pace, adding the likes of a fill colour map of 2037 LA to explore alongside a wealth of many different resources and handouts, bonus character archetypes, custom dice and two more unlocks raring still to go.
All Pledgees will receive access to the content prior to the official release via a digital medium too. Claiming that the book is almost complete, and that Free League will be sending over PDF versions months before release day, allowing players to dive in before anybody else if they'd pitched into the crowdfunding... that's pretty soon considering the release is in November.
Available Add-Ons // Free League Publishing
If you did want to pick up some other Free League titles whilst you are dipping into the Blade Runner RPG, copies of their other titles are available to purchase as add-ons. Including Twilight 2000, Alien, The One Ring and many, many more.
You have until May 26th to get your pledge in if you are interested in investigations within the world of Blade Runner. 22 days left on the clock, ready for fulfilment at the end of 2022.
Are you tempted by the Blade Runner RPG from Free League?
"Players will be headed out to Los Angeles, settling into their role as Blade Runners in 2037 optimising the Year Zero Engine. "
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Interesting looking game.
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The RPG is set between the two movies. Personally this does not interest me much as the second film, and the direction they decided to take the setting, were garbage.
what sequel ?
there isn’t one … 😉
Agreed 🙂 And there are only four Star Wars movies as well 🙂
I love Bladerunner but I don’t really see what this is bringing to the table. Just use Cyberpunk 2020 or even the Infinity RPG. It feels like a licensed game for the sake of a license.
Same could be said of their Alien RPG … and yet there’s a surprising amount of depth to that one. There are alternative rpg’s for Alien too, so again … there isn’t any real need for ‘official’ support in that setting either. AFAIK the focus on investigation and the ‘noir detective’ style are what it will bring to the table. I know Gumshoe & Nights’ Black Agents have done something similar before, so it will be interesting how this one does it. However while I would agree that Cyberpunk 2020/Red has the tech level required to run a Bladerunner style… Read more »
To give the Aliens rules a bit of defense, I think it probably did have some unique features making it worth playing, even if it did lean on a license for sales. With this, I just don’t really see how you couldn’t do a Bladerunner style game with existing rules. Or even an actual Bladerunner game if you really wanted to. You can easily run slow, thoughtful, noir games using Cyberpunk Red, Cyberpunk 2020, Shadowrun, Infinity RPG and a number of other games Literally the only thing I can see this book bringing to the table is the Bladerunner world,… Read more »
You can run slow thoughtful noir games in D&D or any OSR clone … You need a heck of a lot of work and a hook for the players to not default to the murder hobo mode, but it can be done. And that is where (IMHO) Bladerunner can work as an IP based RPG. It can do the legwork of selling the theme to players. Cyberpunk needs players who are familliar with the concept to work … and even then you still need a bit of work to sell the setting to them (especially in terms of cybertech and… Read more »
I’ve done Noir in Shadowrun. I’ve done heists and cons in Shadowrun. I’ve done gun and run in Shadowrun. It requires nothing more than a GM prepared to write an adventure that plays on those themes. I think, of all the systems capable of asking the question of what is human, Shadowrun might be the best precisely because there ARE non-human, sentient humanoids – replicants by another name. However Cyberpunk and Shadowrun have both been asking the questions of what it is to be human since their inception, it’s a core concept of the cyberpunk genre. Whether it’s bioengineered replicants… Read more »