Free League Announces Blade Runner TTRPG for 2022

Free League has announced a Blade Runner RPG, set for a 2022 launch. The game is set between the two movies, and uses Free League’s Year Zero Engine.

This follows on from the Swedish publisher’s recent successful Aliens RPG, and a million dollar The One Ring Kickstarter.

The official Blade Runner RPG will propel players into the streets of Los Angeles as Blade Runners with unique specialties, personalities – and memories.

The core game and its line of expansions will push the boundaries of investigative gameplay in tabletop RPGs, giving players a range of tools to solve an array of cases far beyond retiring Replicants. Beyond the core casework, the RPG will both in setting and mechanics showcase key themes of Blade Runner – sci-fi action, corporate intrigue, existential character drama, and moral conflict – that challenge players to question your friends, empathize with your enemies, and explore the poisons and perseverance of hope and humanity during such inhumane times.

The rules of the game are based on the acclaimed Year Zero Engine, used in award-winning games such as the ALIEN RPG, Tales From the Loop and Forbidden Lands, but further developed and uniquely tailored for Blade Runner.

 

[Egg Embry]

This will be cool!

 

[Dungeonosophy]

Added it to

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[sevenbastard]

It's only a true Blade Runner rpg if every few years they re-release a new edit of it.

 

[THEMNGMNT]

Should be great fun to play the most existentially depressing RPG ever.

 

[ART!]

There are very few movie- or tv-based rpgs that pique my interest, so i am abnormally interested in this. Part of it is curiosity regarding how they'll work the themes into the mechanics (I don't know much of anything about the system or its iterations thus far). Also, I wonder if they'll explore locations beyond L.A.

 

[Paragon Lost]

Very very excited for this. The potential is huge for what you could do with it. You could expand into a local area space ala Outland style. You could do Replicant military campaign on other worlds etc. So many possibilities.

 

[MGibster]

Holy cow! Free League is like the bully who takes my lunch money on a regular basis! Odds are good this is a sure purchase from me.

 

[ART!]

You could do Replicant military campaign on other worlds etc.

This really makes me want to know how they're working the themes into the mechanics or dynamics of the game. Can anyone here speak to this based on other games that use the same system?

 

[Marc_C]

This is the one I've been saving my money for !