The Electric State RPG Coming To Kickstarter On December 5

Free League Publishing :

Free League Publishing today revealed that The Electric State Roleplaying Game is coming to Kickstarter December 5 (at 3 pm CET). The pre-launch page is already open for sign-ups, here.

The new tabletop RPG is based on the internationally acclaimed narrative art book The Electric State by artist and author Simon Stålenhag, soon to be adapted into a major motion picture by the Russo brothers (Avengers: Endgame), starring Millie Bobby Brown (Stranger Things) and Chris Pratt (Guardians of the Galaxy).

The Electric State RPG is written by Nils Hintze (Tales From the Loop RPG, The Walking Dead Universe RPG) in collaboration with Tomas Härenstam (Blade Runner RPG, Dragonbane, ALIEN RPG), Nils Karlén (Coriolis) and Mattias Johnsson Haake (Symbaroum), with graphic design and layout by Johan Nohr (MÖRK BORG), and published in partnership with Skybound Entertainment.

Using Free League’s award-winning Year Zero Engine, the game is about a group of travelers heading out on a journey through a strange America in an alternate 1997. The ruins of gigantic battle drones litter the countryside, heaped together with the discarded trash of a high tech consumerist society in decline.

Backers and retailers alike eager to enlist should visit the  Kickstarter pre-launch page to sign up to be notified the moment the campaign goes live. All backers who pledge within the first 24 hours will receive a bonus item soon to be revealed.

Details of The Electric State Roleplaying Game Kickstarter will be shared via Free League’s social media accounts throughout the weeks leading up to launch. If successfully funded, all backers will get early access to the PDF versions months ahead of the official release.  

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The Electric State Roleplaying Game press assets link
If you are interested in an interview with the design team, please contact Boel at: [email protected]  

The Electric State Roleplaying Game - Teaser trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAbUFxusK8k    

Free League is one of the most funded RPG publishers on Kickstarter, raising over $10M across 33 successful campaigns including Blade Runner RPG, The One Ring RPG, Vaesen - Nordic Horror Roleplaying, Forbidden Lands, and Tales from the Loop RPG.  

About The Electric State art book
 
In late 1997, a runaway teenager and her yellow toy robot travel west through a strange USA, where the ruins of gigantic battle drones litter the countryside along with the discarded trash of a high tech consumerist society in decline. As their car nears the edge of the continent, the world outside the window seems to unravel at an ever faster pace, as if somewhere beyond the horizon, the hollow core of civilization has finally caved in.
 
Read more here.  

About Simon Stålenhag
 
Simon Stålenhag (b. 1984) is the internationally acclaimed author and artist behind Tales From the Loop, Things From the Flood, The Electric State and The Labyrinth. His highly imaginative images and stories depicting illusive sci-fi phenomena in mundane, hyper-realistic Scandinavian and American landscapes have made Stålenhag one of the most sought-after visual storytellers in the world.

Tales From the Loop was ranked one of the “10 Best Dystopias” by The Guardian, along with such works as Franz Kafka’s The Trial and Andrew Niccol’s Gattaca. In 2019, his book The Electric State was shortlisted for the Arthur C. Clare Award and the Locus Award. The narrative art book was turned into a multiple award-winning tabletop roleplaying game and a boardgame by Free League. The Electric State is now in the making of becoming a film on Netflix directed by Anthony and Joe Russo. His first book, Tales From the Loop, was adapted into a tv show on Amazon Prime in 2020.
 
www.simonstalenhag.se    

Free League Publishing is a game studio and publisher dedicated to speculative fiction based in Stockholm, Sweden. Voted Fan Favorite Publisher at the ENNIES in 2020, 2021 and 2023, Free League has published a wide range of award-winning tabletop roleplaying games and acclaimed art books set in strange and wondrous worlds.

Our upcoming games include Zone Wars - A Mutant: Year Zero Wargame and The Walking Dead Universe RPG.

Our current game portfolio includes the fantasy RPG Dragonbane, the MÖRK BORG spin-off RPG PIRATE BORG,  the official Blade Runner RPG (winner of two Gold ENNIE Awards 2023), The One Ring™ (Gold ENNIE Award winner 2022), Tales From the Loop - The Board Game, the official ALIEN RPG (Gold ENNIE for Best Game 2020), the Gothic horror game Vaesen – Nordic Horror Roleplaying (winner of three ENNIE Awards 2021), the pitch-black fantasy RPG MÖRK BORG (winner of four ENNIE Awards 2020), the alternate '80s Tales From the Loop RPG (winner of five ENNIE Awards 2017, including Best Game), the retro-fantasy Forbidden Lands (winner of four ENNIE Awards 2019), the postapocalyptic Mutant: Year Zero (Silver ENNIE for Best Rules 2015), the science fiction games Coriolis - The Third Horizon (Judge's Spotlight Award 2017) and Death in Space, the dark fantasy game Symbaroum, the weird-fantasy game Into the Odd Remastered, the cyberpunky CY_BORG, and the new edition of the RPG classic Twilight: 2000 (Judges Award for Best RPG at UK Games Expo 2022).
 
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