Blade Runner: The Next Million Dollar Kickstarter?

Charles Dunwoody

Legend

• May 3, 2022

• #2

The Blade Runner kickstarter is live. Four stretch goals down already.

 

Charles Dunwoody

Legend

• May 3, 2022

• #3

 

Morrus

Well, that was fun

Staff member

• May 3, 2022

• #4

Backed! Couldn't resist--it looks so pretty.

Easy million dollar campaign here. The only question is how long that will take. Any bets on first day?

 

Charles Dunwoody

Legend

• May 3, 2022

• #5

Six stretch goals

 

Espadadelaaurora

Explorer

• May 3, 2022

• #6

New stretch goals added!

 

Grendel_Khan

Hero

• May 3, 2022

• #7

Morrus said:

Backed! Couldn't resist--it looks so pretty.

Easy million dollar campaign here. The only question is how long that will take. Any bets on first day?

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I don't know if the day-one art print is enough to make it happen. Then again, this does seem like a property where fans just haven't had much opportunity to spend money on it. Could be a bit of an Avatar effect--folks buying to buy. If they did enough marketing, they could grab those folks right away.

Not hating on that buying style at all, btw. And if any company's going to give you the goods as a collector, it's Free League.

For me, I'm just really excited that they took the Twilight 2000/Forbidden Lands direction for the dice mechanic. If you did want to use this as the basis for a larger/different sort of cyberpunk campaign--including possibly taking it off-world--I bet you could easily port over combat mechanics from Twilight 2000.

 

Reynard

Legend

Supporter

• May 3, 2022

• #8

It sure does look pretty but I am still struggling with what an official BladeRunner RPG might offer that most any cyyberpunk game plus a wiki wouldn't provide. It is such a narrow setting to license a whole game for. I guess you could say the same about Alien, although recent films have expanded on that universe (and yes, i know they are sort of the same universe).

 

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John R Davis

Hero

• May 3, 2022

• #9

Yeah. Me too. Don't really see the appeal, and their is very little "game in the system". I'm sure it will do amazing numbers.
There books are very nice to look at

 

Grendel_Khan

Hero

• May 3, 2022

• #10

Reynard said:

It sure does look pretty but I am still struggling with what an official BladeRunner RPG might offer that most any cyyberpunk game plus a wiki wouldn't provide. It is such a narrow setting to license a whole game for. I guess you could say the same about Alien, although recent films have expanded on that universe (and yes, i know they are sort of the same universe).

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I think part of the potential appeal is what they do to mechanically dig into the setting and themes, like Alien did with its rules for panicking, synthetics, and xeno attacks. In this case they've mentioned that pushing rolls has different effects on humans and replicants, and one of the first stretch goals was related to setting up a key memory for your character--a huge part of the Blade Runner movies, at least for replicants.

In other words, I don't think the Alien RPG has been so well-received because it collects Alien setting lore. That game is a master class in aligning rules to setting/themes. It's not just a generic skill system and a combat system, like so many games are.