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by Bengt Petter
Sat 09 Oct 2021, 16:06
Forum: General
Topic: What's next (after Colonial Marines Manual)?
Replies: 23
Views: 7930

Re: What's next (after Colonial Marines Manual)?

Corporate secrets and conspiracies are cruisal to this setting. I think tools for creating such stuff on your own should be included in a revised version of the basic rules. It could also be avaliable through a PDF. Actually, I would rather have a tool for corporate secrets than what’s now the campa...
by Bengt Petter
Sat 09 Oct 2021, 15:06
Forum: General
Topic: Tomas spills some secrets about the RPG
Replies: 52
Views: 8141

Re: Tomas spills some secrets about the RPG

Byrax, it’s certainly true that you can run a bar or some other business (maybe a boxning club or a small hotel could be cool as well?) as a group. And yes, you could get inspiration from base building concepts in the other YZ games. As you probably know, there are tools for running your own busines...
by Bengt Petter
Fri 08 Oct 2021, 15:02
Forum: General
Topic: Memories as game features
Replies: 3
Views: 1871

Re: Memories as game features

I actually didn’t think about the Alien agenda concept at all when I posted this. My idea is more about conceptualizing something that’s specific for Bladerunner. Memories really tell us who the characters are. I think it’s something very beautiful and poetic in the movies. However, giving this idea...
by Bengt Petter
Thu 07 Oct 2021, 20:57
Forum: General
Topic: Tomas spills some secrets about the RPG
Replies: 52
Views: 8141

Re: Tomas spills some secrets about the RPG

Vader, I agree. There is a lot in this setting, but it’s kind of hard to deal with from a game point of view. You can’t create a new RPG without answering a very fundamental question: what are you supposed to do in the game? Without a good answer, the game will be a mess. And if you just say ”but yo...
by Bengt Petter
Thu 07 Oct 2021, 13:28
Forum: General
Topic: Tomas spills some secrets about the RPG
Replies: 52
Views: 8141

Re: Tomas spills some secrets about the RPG

I think that Tomas mentioned ”Baker Street - roleplaying in the world of Sherlock Holmes” as an inspiration. But is Bladerunner really about looking for clues? I get that it’s something playable and such a premise might be interesting. Still, I’d prefer a more Marlowesque approach. I’d like to see c...
by Bengt Petter
Thu 07 Oct 2021, 08:05
Forum: GM Only
Topic: History of the ALIEN Universe
Replies: 9
Views: 2021

Re: History of the ALIEN Universe

Of course, the history of this universe CAN be written as you just did. Your version is as valid as any other. But what is the point from a game point of view? Would this universe be interesting to explore if we really got the entire big picture? I’d rather say that Alien is about the opposite: the ...
by Bengt Petter
Wed 06 Oct 2021, 13:32
Forum: General
Topic: Bladerunner rpg
Replies: 9
Views: 2373

Re: Bladerunner rpg

As said before, this will be a game with slightly smaller casts and there will be room for playing with just one player + GM. However, I think you can emphasize noir tropes also with a more or less tight unit of Bladerunners. And the femme fatales, a staple of the genre, could come in many shapes an...
by Bengt Petter
Wed 06 Oct 2021, 12:45
Forum: General
Topic: Blade Runner Inspiration: the novels? Comics? Other?
Replies: 14
Views: 2339

Re: Inspiration: the novels?

I doubt that the sequel novels are considered canon, but I guess that you could still mine them for ideas. Is there anything specific that makes them interesting? If so, I would look for characters, technology and details about L. A.. Of course, Philip K. Dick’s original novel is interesting, even t...
by Bengt Petter
Mon 04 Oct 2021, 21:36
Forum: General
Topic: Tomas spills some secrets about the RPG
Replies: 52
Views: 8141

Re: Tomas spills some secrets about the RPG

Yes, I agree that just focusing on Rep-Detects and Replicants only would be too limited. But how would it be possible to expand further without loosing the core of the setting? Well, I’d bet my money on L. A. as a neon noir metropolis. That’s actually a third more or less mandatory element in the Bl...
by Bengt Petter
Mon 04 Oct 2021, 16:30
Forum: General
Topic: Tomas spills some secrets about the RPG
Replies: 52
Views: 8141

Re: Tomas spills some secrets about the RPG

There wasn’t a lot of noir styled content in the YZ Elysium game. And the stuff we find there doesn’t really tell us what to expect from the upcoming Bladerunner RPG. It will certainly be a game in another genre. Vader, I think most people would agree that film noir is what you just described. But w...
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