Replicant Rebellion , The Blade Runner RPG ’s Next Expansion, Opens Kickstarter Late Pledges

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Replicant Rebellion, the massive new expansion for Blade Runner: The Roleplaying Game from Free League Publishing and Alcon Entertainment, is now accepting late pledges on Kickstarter. The campaign was fully funded in 12 minutes, and raised over $439,000 USD. All backers, including late pledges, will get the PDF version of Replicant Rebellion months ahead of the official release.
  Join the Rebellion with a Late Pledge here.
In the neon-noir city of dazzling lights and moral contradictions, Replicant Rebellion flips the famous script of the beloved Blade Runner universe. It’s you on the streets, wrestling with the hypocrisies of the justice system, the razor’s edge between reform and revenge, and the burdens of having too much to lose for a cause sacrificing it all. Yet regardless the price, the Rebellion must live on.

  THE REBELLION
  The streets are teeming with Blade Runners, attacking from every angle, even from within. Wallace Corp has LA under its private microscope, scalpel at the ready. The city is reeling from the return of Replicants just a year ago, and one controversy could spark an anti-Replicant brushfire, rallying the seething mobs into an outright civil war with humans and Nexus on both sides.

You are a member of the Replicant Underground, a decentralized network of independent rebels dismantling the machine one cog at a time. The Underground is everyone and no one. Human and Replicant. Soldiers, smugglers, street rats, senators, and saboteurs. Grizzled vets, off-grid ghosts, even a few born yesterday. Quite literally.

So, get ready to maintain your cover story as you conspire, reconnoiter, and sabotage throughout the city, unheard and unseen. Grapple with the cops, courts, and megacorps while keeping your record clean, so you can hit them where it hurts, then disappear without a trace. All in pursuit of miracles and a better future you’ll likely never see. Few ever know if they even made a dent in the grand scheme of things. But then again, who does?



Replicant Rebellion expands the scope of the 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 game, players explore the neon-noir wonderland from the opposite perspective.



The expansion flips the game setting on its head, allowing players to take the roles of Replicants and humans fighting back against those who exploit, abuse, and kill Replicants. It includes a deep dive into the underground world of Blade Runner, at least four new character archetypes, new rules for Covers and Heat, rules for playing and creating Operations, and at least three complete Operations to play.


  THE CREATORS
  The main crew from the Blade Runner RPG core game continues on Replicant Rebellion with Tomas Härenstam as game director and lead designer, Joe LeFavi as setting writer, and Martin Grip as cover artist, plus new recruits: Eren Arik (Dune) as lead interior artist and Johan Nohr (MÖRK BORG, CY_BORG) providing mind-melting interstitials as the subversive voice of the Rebellion.






  THE ASSET PACK This Kickstarter campaign also offers players an ASSET PACK for BLADE RUNNER The Roleplaying Game – playable with both REPLICANT REBELLION and the core game. It includes a host of physical and digital handouts and tools for the Game Runner to create their own Case Files and Operations. The items includes: Independent Sentinel front pages, location maps, crime scene photos, NPC mugshots, data sheets, Esper photos, and more. 


  CONTENT WARNING The Blade Runner franchise deals with dark and mature themes, and this roleplaying game is no different. The stories told in this game can be violent, distressing, and raise issues relating to personal morals. This is not a game for children.


  ©2024 Alcon Entertainment, LLC. All rights reserved.


  BLADE RUNNER – THE ROLEPLAYING GAME
  The Blade Runner RPG core game was released in 2022, earning multiple industry awards. The game pushes the boundaries of investigative gameplay in tabletop RPGs, giving players a range of tools to solve an array of cases far beyond just retiring Replicants. The rules are based on the acclaimed Year Zero Engine, used in other award-winning games such as the ALIEN RPG, Tales from the Loop, and Forbidden Lands, but further developed and uniquely tailored for Blade Runner.
  Review quotes:

"The Blade Runner RPG nails Ridley Scott’s vision, and adds pitch-perfect investigative mechanics." –Polygon

"Blade Runner: The Roleplaying Game blends sci-fi noir with corporate intrigue and is sure to bring out the existential detective in everyone." –Screen Rant

"I don’t like to use the word ‘perfect’ often, but I’m going there now. The Blade Runner RPG captures the themes and feel of the source material perfectly." –Wargamer
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  ABOUT ALCON ENTERTAINMENT
Alcon has financed and produced or co-financed and co-produced 34 films to date including the Academy Award Best Picture nominee The Blind Side which earned Sandra Bullock an Oscar for Best Actress; the critically acclaimed Blade Runner 2049 starring Ryan Gosling and Harrison Ford which won two Academy Awards for Best Cinematography and Best Visual Effects and received an additional three nominations; The Book of Eli starring Denzel Washington and Gary Oldman, among others. Alcon’s most recent project is an animated film adaptation of the beloved cartoon strip Garfield from director Mark Dindal (The Emperor’s New Groove) with Chris Pratt voicing Garfield and Samuel L. Jackson voicing Garfield’s father, releasing in May of 2024.

In 2015, Alcon created the subdivision Alcon Television Group whose projects include the hit sci-fi series The Expanse, a critically acclaimed space thriller which boasts a 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes; and the animated children’s series Pete the Cat, a co-production with Amazon Studios based on the best-selling children’s book series. Alcon Television Group is currently in pre-production on a live-action series titled Blade Runner 2099, starring Michelle Yeoh, for Amazon Prime.
  ABOUT GENUINE ENTERTAINMENT
Genuine is a leading producer and paladin for beloved entertainment franchises and fandoms, earning a sterling reputation and uncanny track record as a trusted consigliere, media matchmaker, and licensing luck dragon across all corners of pop culture. Providing 360° brand management and full-service product development support for licensors & licensees alike, we love to level up our favorite IP and companies through authentic adaptations, strategic business development, and best-selling, award-winning licensing & merch programs alongside best-in-class partners.

Our latest & greatest collabs include the ALIEN RPG with Free League; the Altered Carbon RPG with Hunters; the Apex Legends board game with GCU; the Batman board game with Portal Games; the Blade Runner RPG with Free League; the Blade Runner 2049 art books for Alcon; the Call of Duty board game with Arcane Wonders; the Diablo tabletop gaming program for Blizzard; The Dragon Prince master tabletop gaming program for Wonderstorm; the Dune master tabletop gaming program for Legendary; the Hello Neighbor party game with Arcane Wonders; the Lore Olympus licensing & merch program for Webtoon; the Munchkin video game with Dire Wolf; the Vampire: The Masquerade card game with Renegade; The Walking Dead Universe RPG with Free League; WEBTOON's licensing & merch program with Surge; the Wheel of Time tabletop program with Dire Wolf; and the World of Darkness comics with Vault. Come play at genuineent.com



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 releases include The Electric State Roleplaying Game based on the acclaimed narrative art book by Simon Stålenhag and The One Ring™ RPG: Moria™ – Through the Doors of Durin and The Lord of the Rings™ Roleplaying 5E: Moria – Shadow of Khazad-dûm™ based on the works by J.R.R Tolkien.

Our game portfolio includes the acclaimed fantasy RPG Dragonbane, the official Blade Runner RPG (winner of two Gold ENNIE Awards 2023), The One Ring™ RPG (Gold ENNIE winner 2022), the official ALIEN RPG (Gold ENNIE for Best Game 2020), the Gothic horror game Vaesen (winner of three ENNIE Awards 2021), the pitch-black fantasy RPG MÖRK BORG (winner of four ENNIE Awards 2020) and its two spin-offs CY_BORG and PIRATE BORG, the alternate '80s Tales from the Loop (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 new edition of the RPG classic Twilight: 2000 (Judges Award for Best RPG at UK Games Expo 2022), and the official The Walking Dead Universe RPG.

We have also published the art books Tales From the Loop, Things From the Flood, The Electric State, and The Labyrinth by the acclaimed visual storyteller Simon Stålenhag, as well as the illustrated editions of the Lovecraft classics The Call of Cthulhu, At the Mountains of Madness, and The Dunwich Horror by the praised artist François Baranger.
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