Blade Runner RPG Interview: Tomas Härenstam
The Blade Runner RPG is the latest tabletop game to adapt a popular property and drop it into a roleplaying setting. The highly-anticipated project was fully funded on Kickstarter in just 3 minutes, and it's since gotten over $1 million in contributions so far. Promising the sci-fi noir found in the films, along with themes found in the Phillip K. Dick novel upon which the movie was based, the Blade Runner RPG is already shaping up nicely.
Coming soon from Free League Publishing, the Blade Runner RPG is set to be the latest adapted tabletop game from the publisher behind games like The One Ring RPG, set in J.R.R Tolkien's Middle-earth, and the popular Tales From The Loop. In a world of Replicants and neon lights, the film Blade Runner has since been hailed as a classic, and a follow-up, Blade Runner 2049, was also well-received. For a world teeming with lore and complicated characters, it makes the ideal setting for a roleplaying game.
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The official Blade Runner RPG drops players on the streets of futuristic Los Angeles. They'll roleplay as titular Blade Runners with unique specialties, personalities, and even memories. Free League Publishing's Tomas Härenstam is the lead designer for the Blade Runner RPG, and he recently took time to discuss the project with Screen Rant.
Blade Runner is such a cool property for a tabletop RPG. Can you tell us how the idea of making a Blade Runner RPG came about?
Tomas Härenstam: Blade Runner is one of my all-time favorite science fiction properties. A few years back, we had a brainstorm about dream franchises to base RPGs on, and Blade Runner was a given on that list for me. Soon after, we pitched for both Blade Runner
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