There's An Altered Carbon RPG Coming

Based on the Netflix show and the novels of Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon is set in a Bladerunner-esque future where people can transfer their minds from one body to another, even after death. The RPG is coming from Hunters Entertainment, publisher of Kids on Bikes and The ABCs of D&D, in 2020.

Based on the Netflix show and the novels of Richard K. Morgan, Altered Carbon is set in a Bladerunner-esque future where people can transfer their minds from one body to another, even after death. The RPG is coming from Hunters Entertainment, publisher of Kids on Bikes and The ABCs of D&D, in 2020.


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Here's the full press release:

"Skydance Media has reached a multi-year licensing agreement with Hunters Entertainment to produce tabletop role-playing games set within the stunning sci-fi universe of the hit Netflix series, Altered Carbon.

Based upon the best-selling novels by Richard K Morgan, Altered Carbon is set centuries into the future when the human mind has been digitized and the soul itself is transferable from one body to the next. Takeshi Kovacs, a former elite interstellar warrior known as an Envoy who has been imprisoned for 500 years, is downloaded into a future he’d tried to stop. Netflix recently renewed Altered Carbon for a second season, with Anthony Mackie (Avengers) becoming the new Takeshi Kovacs as the series continues to explore his journey spanning hundreds of years across many different bodies and planets.

The long-term agreement calls for an ongoing series of tabletop RPGs drawing from the full scope of the Altered Carbon series, with direct tie-ins to the highly-anticipated second season from executive producers Alison Schapker (Fringe), Laeta Kalogridis (Alita: Battle Angel) and James Middleton. David Ellison, Dana Goldberg, and Marcy Ross serve as executive producers for Skydance.

“Altered Carbon is such a rich and expansive universe,” says Ivan Van Norman, CMO and Co-Founder of Hunters. “We look forward to producing an equally ambitious and inspired line of games for years to come.”

The games will begin with a crowdfunding campaign for the core RPG manual later this year, with plans for print and digital releases in 2020 through their global publishing deal with Renegade Game Studios.

The Skydance-Hunters licensing deal was brokered by Joe LeFavi of Genuine Entertainment, who will manage the license on behalf of Hunters and serve as an editor on the game itself. LeFavi is no stranger to tabletop, as he is currently managing the master tabletop gaming license for Frank Herbert’s Dune with Legendary and Gale Force Nine. Skydance Media is represented by Evolution."


Hunters Entertainment is the company which produced Outbreak: Undead, Kids on Bikes, and Overlight, as well as The ABCs of D&D children's book.
 

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dragoner

KosmicRPG.com
Not “we”. Just you. Everybody else understands that people will obviously create characters and adventure in the Altered Carbon universe. It’s only you who’s insisting that everybody will be playing Kovacs.

So like a supers RPG, where you can't play a Superhero?

I feel like I am the only one who has read the book.
 
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Morrus

Well, that was fun
Staff member
So like a supers RPG, where you can't play a Superhero?

I feel like I am the only one who has read the book.

*shrug*

So don’t buy it then, I guess. I’m not trying to sell you a book, and you’ve clearly decided it’s a game where everybody plays one specific character for some reason, and are so entrenched in that position that you won’t hear a word otherwise.

This might be one of the oddest conversations I’ve had on this forum, and that’s saying something! But sure, don’t buy it. :)
 

Eyes of Nine

Everything's Fine
So like a supers RPG, where you can't play a Superhero?

I feel like I am the only one who has read the book.

I think the problem is dragoner, is you have only read the first book. The other two books don't take place on earth; and are much more "team" books. Team books where many team members die - but then that sort of depends on the GM doesn't it?
 

dragoner

KosmicRPG.com
I think the problem is dragoner, is you have only read the first book. The other two books don't take place on earth; and are much more "team" books. Team books where many team members die - but then that sort of depends on the GM doesn't it?

That's cool, I also haven't watched the TV series also (which is probably where the big tie in with the IP is), if people have fun with it, more power to them. My comments are all "imo" really; I think if anything it's that Neal Asher's Polity has about the same trimmings as Altered Carbon, but is a much more deep and expansive Sci-fi universe, and would pay better for the effort involved for making an RPG out of. It doesn't have TV series tho', c'est.
 

Samloyal23

Adventurer
So, if you could swap bodies with other people, who would you want to possess? Would you just switch places with people to travel? Can you forcibly steal someone's body? Hmm, so many possibilities...
 

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