Free League Publishing has offered up an absolutely stonkingly good way to get stuck into Blade Runner: The Roleplaying Game as you can now swipe the Starter Set for this Sci-Fi RPG!

Blade Runner: The Roleplaying Game - Starter Set // Free League Publishing

Dive into the intense neon noir wonderland (a good way to describe it!) and play as a Blade Runner in the LAPD who has been sent out into the city to hunt down replicants and bring them in. The game is dripping with theme and features the awesome storytelling mechanics of the Year Zero Engine which has been used to great effect on the likes of Tales From The Loop in the past.

"As a member of the LAPD’s Rep-Detect Unit, you’ll face impossible choices and find beauty and humanity in the stubborn resilience to keep fighting. To persevere through pain. To agonize over itches you can’t scratch. To do questionable and extraordinary things, chasing after fleeting moments of love, hope, and redemption to be lost in time like tears in rain.

Other than that, it’s just a normal day on the force, so get to work and grab some noodles on the way. That stack of cases won’t crack itself. It’s a shame you won’t live long enough to solve them all. But then again, who does?"

As with all of their Starter Sets, this one for Blade Runner comes absolutely packed with ways to get you started.

• An 80-page condensed rulebook.
• The 56-page booklet Electric Dreams – the first full-length Case File for Blade Runners to crack.
• Four pre-generated characters to play.
• A huge full-colour map of Los Angeles in 2037.
• 26 full-colour evidence handouts for the players, including crime scene photos, data files, documents, maps, and more.
• A custom manila envelope for the players to keep their evidence in.
• A Time Tracker Sheet.
• 70 high-quality custom cards for non-player characters, chase manoeuvres and obstacles, and initiative in combat.
• Eight engraved, transparent custom dice – two each of D6, D8, D10 and D12.

Quite a lot! I love the fact that it comes with so many handouts that you can give to players and ways for them to gather evidence. It feels like Blade Runner is trying to break out of the box!

Blade Runner: The Roleplaying Game - Starter Set Contents // Free League Publishing

Having a big full-length adventure to give into also seems like a great starting point and because you've then got all of this setting information, it should be pretty easy to take things to the next level and start telling your own stories set in the world of Blade Runner.

I am a massive fan of Starter Sets for roleplaying games, even as someone who has run a lot and could probably get games off the ground with a core rulebook. They often walk you through the mechanics gently and also provide you with a lot of resources for really selling the game to your friends, at least nowadays anyway!

Could you be tempted by Blade Runner: The Roleplaying Game and this new chock-full-of-stuff Starter Set?