Blade Runner: The Next Million Dollar Kickstarter?

Free League's Blade Runner Kickstarter has just launched, and is tearing through stretch goals after funding in just 3 minutes. It looks very likely that this will be the company's second million dollar Kickstarter (following last year's The One Ring campaign, which raised over $2M). It will also be the third million dollar Kickstarter in the last month, following Matt Colville's Flee Mortals!, and Monte Cook Games' Old Gods of Appalachia.

Blade Runner was voted the Most Anticipated TTRPG of 2022 by readers of EN World right here.

Free League's other million dollar Kickstarter, The One Ring, did $521K on the first day and finished with $2M. Compared to the other million dollar campaigns in the last few weeks --

• Flee Mortals! did $788K on the first day.
• Old Gods of Appalachia did $679K on the first day.
• Only one campaign has done $1M+ on day 1, and that was Avatar Legends with $1.15M on the first day.

Check Out These Bladerunner RPG Previews

Free League has shared some previews of its Bladerunner RPG, which comes to Kickstarter next week on May 3rd and looks very likely to be the third million dollar Kickstarter in the last month.

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BLADE RUNNER – The Roleplaying Game

Walk the neon-noir streets of Los Angeles 2037 in the official BLADE RUNNER RPG from Free League Publishing and Alcon Entertainment.

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[MGibster]

Also, not a deal breaker, but I'm not really crazy about the custom dice in the Stretch Goals. Numbers are too small next to the image on each face.

I'm not overly fond of them either, but for the most part I support a KS based on the core product. A lot of times the stretch goals really don't add a lot in my opinion even when some of them are kind of neat.

 

[agrayday]

Terminator is also heavily lifted from Harlan Ellison's work. Cameron even admitted as much and was forced to pay Ellison.

ever see the movie Cyborg 2087? 1966 low budget terminator 2 before terminator 2...

 

[AverageMojito]

I'm getting noir vibes mixed with sci-fi vibes.

Yeah, that’s literal the point. Sci-fi noir.

That's what I was hoping for when they announced a Blade Runner RPG. I've played Cyberpunk RPGs before, and the Punk aspect of it doesn't talk to me anymore. So a sci-fi noir/cybernoir might be what I'm looking for a "near future" game these days.

 

[AverageMojito]

It's currently the 4th best ever first day funding, with plenty of the day left to go. Currently at $720K. Ahead of it are:

1) Avatar Legends ($1.15M)
2) Tanares RPG ($993K)
3) Flee Mortals ($789K)

Made it to Top 3 in roughly 12 hours. Another half day to go to try to beat Tanares. To be continued...

 

[overgeeked]

$803,000 at 15 minutes shy of 12 hours.

 

[Storyteller Hero]

BLADE RUNNER: BLACK LOTUS (2021, on Crunchyroll now) introduced a lot of anime/animation fans to the world of Blade Runner in the past year, so I guess now is a pretty good time to go for it while interest is still relatively fresh.

 

[overgeeked]

$855,000 at 16 hours. It's slowing down. Only $52,000 in the last four hours.

 

[Mistwell]

$867K and I'm headed to bed

 

[overgeeked]

$884,000 after 19 hours.

 

[Ilgiallomondadori]

I backed at the box set + sexy kickstarter exclusive hardcover level.
Unsure how adventures will roll, but I love Free League, I love Blade Runner, I love Philip K Dick, I love noir, and it all looks so beautiful.