Blade Runner The RPG Kickstarted to the Tune of Almost $1 Million
Blade Runner – The Roleplaying Game launched on Kickstarter yesterday, raising nearly a million dollars in the first few hours of its launch.
What does it mean to be human? That’s the question at the heart of Blade Runner. Well, one of them, anyway. Arguably the real question is Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. But, while you were pondering the answer, Free League launched their Kickstarter for Blade Runner the RPG. And before its first day ended, the neon noir RPG raised almost a million dollars.
via Warner Bros.
At press time, the Kickstarter had raised $832,273 of its total $10,101 goal, thanks to a scant 8,094 backers. Making this already a huge success. What do you get for backing? Let’s take a look.
Blade Runner the RPG – Kickstarter Campaign
This is the Blade Runner Roleplaying Game. A neon noir wonderland that will take your breath away, one way or another. An evocative world of conflicts and contrasts that dares to ask the hard questions and investigate the powers of empathy, the poisons of fear, and the burdens of being human during inhumane times. An iconic and unforgiving playground of endless possibilities that picks you up, slaps you in the face, and tells you to wake up.
Time to live. Or time to die.
There’s a reason the Blade Runner RPG was voted EN World’s most anticipated RPG of 2022. People love a good noir. And if it’s in the near-future? In the neon and rain-soaked streets of a future LA? Sign me up.
The official Blade Runner RPG uses the Year Zero Engine from Free League. It’s a character-focused RPG system that gives characters reasons for all sorts of scenes. From combat, to investigation, to downtime to decompress and relieve the stress of the jobs. Action, casework, existential drama–all of these await you in the Blade Runner RPG.
In the Kickstarter you can get your hands on a boxed Starter Set that includes a condensed rulebook, pre-gen characters, and Electric Dreams. The latter is a starter adventure for new Blade Runners to crack.
Or you can back for the core rulebook. Which features more than 200 pages of Blade Runner lore alongside the ruleset.
By press time, the Kickstarter campaign had blown past most of its initial stretch goals. So in addition to all of this, there are Foundry VTT modules, new locations in both the box set and the core rules, and as the weeks go on, there’s plenty more to play with.
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Don’t let this one pass by, like tears, in rain
