Join the ‘Replicant Rebellion’ – New ‘Blade Runner RPG’ Expansion Launches on Kickstarter Today
Free League wants you to join the Replicant Underground in a massive new Blade Runner RPG splatbook Replicant Rebellion, Kickstarting now.
The world of Blade Runner is fraught. Tensions arise between the Replicants and the people who created them. It’s a sci-fi masterpiece, but we often only get to see things from the perspective of the Blade Runners. Have you ever wondered what it would be like to fight the power? To aid the Replicant Underground? To help that turtle lying on its back get out of the blazing sun?
A new expansion for the Blade Runner RPG ponders that exact question. I’m a big fan of it. I think it’s an interesting concept and one that shows how an RPG can really sink its teeth into the meat of a setting. In Replicant Rebellion, players take on the role of rebels and provocateurs. Switching sides, sort of, to be a part of the Replicant Underground. As part of the Rebellion, they’ll be on the run from Blade Runners and have to work in the shadows of the cities.
You can Kickstart it now, and get your hands on some exclusive rewards!
Blade Runner RPG: Replicant Rebellion
From Free League’s announcement, we get an idea of exactly what the new book has to offer:
Replicant Rebellion massively expands the scope of the critically acclaimed tabletop RPG, recruiting players to join the ranks of the Replicant Underground in Los Angeles 2037. Set at the same time and place as the Core Rulebook, players explore this neon-noir cityscape from the opposite perspective – now running from Blade Runners in an evocative cat & mouse race of provocateurs and powder kegs lit to explode, expose, and oppose the establishment, one way or another.
For the Rebellion, players will run their own independent crew who must undertake a variety of operations, all while attempting to maintain their cover and keep their records clean. Are they helping fugitive Replicants evade capture? Sabotaging the Replicant trade? Grappling with the cops, courts, and megacorps? Clashing with warring crews and syndicates? Smoking out moles in your midst?
In this big city of dazzling lights and moral contradictions, Replicant Rebellion flips the famous script of the beloved Blade Runner universe and dares you to explore how much you’re willing to lose for a cause that’s sacrificing it all. Yet regardless the price, the Rebellion must live on.
I mean, what more do you want out of a Blade Runner story? The new expansion will “flip the script,” as they say. In Replicant Rebellion, there will be a whole suite of new player options. The most exciting stuff seems to revolve around the “underground” part of the Replicant Underground.
With new Player Archetypes, there’ll be a lot to play with. You can see the Street Rat above. Alongside those, new mechanics for evading the authorities, like maintaining a cover identity or dealing with increased Heat as the law closes in.
Free League also promises several complete “Operations” (their word for adventures) to help illustrate what a campaign should feel like. You can see for yourself in the Kickstarter campaign, linked below.
