The ‘Blade Runner’ RPG Launches, Inviting You to the Neon-Soaked Streets of LA, ca. 2037
Get out your origami unicorns and get ready to dream of electric sheep. The Blade Runner RPG is here at last.
We’ve been excited about the Blade Runner RPG for a while now here at BoLS HQ. What with its promise of neon noir mystery full of cases that need investigating, and questions about humanity that need, if not answering, then at the very least asking.
And now, the game is finally here. Powered by the Year Zero engine, the game casts you as Blade Runners on the trail of Replicants. You might be a human, you might be a Replicant, but either way, you’ll face impossible choices and hopefully, along the way find beauty and humanity for your trouble.
It might not be c-beams glittering in the dark near the Tannhauser Gate, but it’s the promise of a different sort of tabletop adventure just the same. And releasing alongside the core book is a Starter Set for those looking to jump right in. Take a look at both below.
Blade Runner RPG Core Rulebook – $50
The official BLADE RUNNER RPG propels you into the streets of Los Angeles as Blade Runners with unique specialties, personalities – and memories. The game pushes the boundaries of investigative gameplay in tabletop RPGs, giving you a range of tools to solve an array of cases far beyond retiring Replicants.
Beyond the core casework, the game showcases the key themes of Blade Runner – sci-fi action, corporate intrigue, existential character drama, and moral conflict. It challenges you to question your friends, empathize with your enemies, and explore the poisons and perseverance of hope and humanity during 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.
Set in the year 2037, the game begins shortly after the Wallace Corporation debuts the new Nexus-9 Replicants on Earth, giving you the choice to play as either human or Replicant Blade Runners with different specialties, personalities, and memories.
Want to learn more about the game? Check out our chat with Free League CEO Tomas Härenstam here. We get a closer look at what Blade Runner is, and what the future holds in store.
Blade Runner Starter Set – $46
The official BLADE RUNNER RPG is a neon noir wonderland that will take your breath away, one way or another. Walk the mean streets of Los Angeles 2037 as a Blade Runner in the LAPD Rep-Detect Unit. Enter 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.
This boxed Starter Set contains everything needed to start playing:
- A 80-page condensed rulebook.
- The 56-page booklet Electric Dreams – the first full-length Case File for Blade Runners to crack.
- Four pre-generated characters to play.
- A huge full-color map of Los Angeles in 2037.
- 26 full-color evidence handouts for the players, including crime scene photos, data files, documents, maps, and more.
- A custom manila envelope for the players to keep their evidence in.
- A Time Tracker Sheet.
- 70 high-quality custom cards for non-player characters, chase maneuvers and obstacles, and initiative in combat.
- Eight engraved, transparent custom dice – two each of D6, D8, D10, and D12.
