Blade Runner: The Next Million Dollar Kickstarter?

aramis erak · May 17, 2022

Fenhorn said:
Regarding what you can play. FL have said in interviews that you can play replicant, human but also a human that may be a replicant (the player doesn't know). In Alien RPG they solved this by letting the player use all the rules for being human until it is known that he isn't human. The same could be done here.

Unlike Alien RPG, you can't (as far as I know) play a replicant that hide his nature for the other players but he himself knows it. That would be PvP and that kind of play works better in Alien RPG.

Many YZE games are set so PVP is possible.

Alien especially so, for the cinematic modules. Also note: the Alien rules also note that once a "hidden" synthetic reveals, it no longer has a stress total. The involuntary ways include any hit that opens the skin... and they cannot turn it back on in the cinematic adventure (which is really a mini-campaign each, in my experience of 4 runs of the Cinematics; 3 of Chariot, 1 of Destroyer.

T2K 4e can easily support PVP, but the setting really is a bit harsh for players to want PVP...

The base assumptions in most YZE games include everyone has an in-party rival and in-party buddy.

Fenhorn · May 17, 2022

aramis erak said:
Many YZE games are set so PVP is possible.

Alien especially so, for the cinematic modules. Also note: the Alien rules also note that once a "hidden" synthetic reveals, it no longer has a stress total. The involuntary ways include any hit that opens the skin... and they cannot turn it back on in the cinematic adventure (which is really a mini-campaign each, in my experience of 4 runs of the Cinematics; 3 of Chariot, 1 of Destroyer.

T2K 4e can easily support PVP, but the setting really is a bit harsh for players to want PVP...

The base assumptions in most YZE games include everyone has an in-party rival and in-party buddy.

In alien an androids looks different on the inside, a replicant doesn't. A replicant can get injured without revealing that he is a replicant. In BR it is apparently very hard to detect a replicant, inside or outside, so hard that it takes a special test to do it (at least in the first movie).

You have a rival in Alien, a game that does support PvP, even though the concept of rival has nothing to do with PvP, it is just a feature to promote roleplay. In other YZE-games have, the characters have a buddy, best friend and you sometimes write a sentence what you think of the person.
The only other (English) game FL make use of PvP is Mutant: Elysium.

MGibster · May 17, 2022

Fenhorn said:
In alien an androids looks different on the inside, a replicant doesn't. A replicant can get injured without revealing that he is a replicant. In BR it is apparently very hard to detect a replicant, inside or outside, so hard that it takes a special test to do it (at least in the first movie).

I prefer the term "Artifical Person" myself. In the first movie, you could get clues from the physical actions the replicants performed. Leon and Roy's feats of strength as well as Pris removing the egg from boiling water with her bare hands with no apparent harm. But, yeah, they're hard to tell from humans. I guess because they really are human.

overgeeked · May 17, 2022

Do we have any reliable estimates of the U shape of Kickstarters and where they end up? I know KickTraq and it’s not reliable. Was it something like about 1/3 in the first few days, 1/3 over the long saggy middle, and 1/3 in the last few days…roughly?

Morrus · May 17, 2022

overgeeked said:
Do we have any reliable estimates of the U shape of Kickstarters and where they end up? I know KickTraq and it’s not reliable. Was it something like about 1/3 in the first few days, 1/3 over the long saggy middle, and 1/3 in the last few days…roughly?

Ish, yeah. Bit more weighted to the start than the end.

payn · May 17, 2022

Looks like Roll20 support is on the stretch goals now.

Morrus · May 17, 2022

payn said:
Looks like Roll20 support is on the stretch goals now.

That’s interesting. Roll20’s ToC forbids content from being a stretch goal, IRC. We ran up against that.

Yora · May 17, 2022

MGibster said:
I prefer the term "Artifical Person" myself. In the first movie, you could get clues from the physical actions the replicants performed. Leon and Roy's feats of strength as well as Pris removing the egg from boiling water with her bare hands with no apparent harm. But, yeah, they're hard to tell from humans. I guess because they really are human.

Leon always gave me the impression like he's meant to be a meat forklift.

Makes no economic or technological sense, but that's kind of the defining feature of Philip Dick stories.