Blade Runner RPG is a Sci-FI Masterpiece
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- Professor DM reviews Blade Runner TTRPG Starter Set and Core Rulebook!. (Ep. 418)
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Basically love everything published by Free League
yeah! free league is amazing! I got hooked on them by twilight2000 :) but im thinking about to get blade runner
Alien RPG its amazing
I love Dragonbane and Coriolis! Oh, and Tales From The Loop! Free League is absolutely amazing!
Forbidden Lands, if you want an old school post apocalyptic fantasy game. Interesting twists on traditional DnD races.
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I love Free League games. I don't get to play enough of them. About a year ago I was at a con and got into an Aliens RPG game. Tons of credit to the guy who ran it (he was brilliant) but that system was so clean. It was the best con game I have ever been in
Alien is fun although every multi session Alien game has experienced a stress cascade. We either die horribly or are afraid to do anything that requires rolling stress dice, which gets old.
@@samflory Yeah I think Alien is a great game for shorter stories or perhaps a mini-campaign of a few chained stories. Trying to run longer campaigns with it gets a bit... well the games strengths becomes it weaknesses then.
@@Eirath It certainly make you afraid of the Aliens and it does horror well.
@@samflory yeah I can see where that would get rough to play over time. As a one shot it was damn near perfect
I find the Free League games tent to be short lived in my group. They do one big dang scenario, but they are harder to turn into a campaign.
Deathbringer's last comment was awesome!
Everything Free League is stellar!
Makes me want to dig out Cyberpunk... a true classic.
As far as TTRPG adaptations goes, this one is the best I've played. They did such a great job to introduce every mechanic that makes a proper Blade Runner story (not a Cyberpunk story! Different beats!). And the game is really easy to pick up, is fast, exciting. The campaign I made, 3 interwoven Case Files, quickly became my favorite campaign as a GM ever.
I almost picked this up at the local store yesterday. It's on my Christmas wish-list.
I have Vaesen and The One Ring. The material quality is attractive, but the real strength of Free League is that they design the rules to fit the setting and type of game that goes with that setting instead of making a catch-all system that can be used for any game, but not nearly ass effectively. This really adds to the role-playing and world-building aspect.
Ah nice, just finished the last video where you say come back wednesday for the Blade Runner review... and yes, it's a great game!
"Who killed whom"* Prof (Eng lit) xx
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Love the review. Can't wait for more painting videos, running the game videos, and of course my favorite: real campaign updates from the Professor! All these Dungeon Craft videos are so great
I've been looking forward to this review! Blade Runner is such a cool setting, and to have it so nicely done as an INDEPENENT TTRPG is even better!
I feel lucky to be around for this feast of quality gaming products... I started playing in the age of Red Box D&D
font size and type is often one of my biggest complaints about a lot of TTRPG's. And if the fonts are slightly smudged for any reason (like in lots of the DnD phb's) than it's very hard for me to read
The Deathbringer quote at the end
It looks absolutely gorgeous. I've been curious about it for a while, but haven't had a chance to look it over closely at my FLGS. Thanks for the review!
I've been playing roleplaying games for 36 years and one of the most memorable encounters ever was while playing the Blade Runner Starter Kit's scenario Electric Dreams.
The module with the plot graph, handout materials and multiple endings look simple to run and amazing to play in but makes me think that writing your own adventures for this game requires some serious effort, time and writing talent.
Significantly more than the heroic fantasy I'm familiar with, to the point that it seems that printed adventures are the only way to play.
You can start a dnd campaign with "here's a cave, explore it". While this game 1st adventures requires a flowchart to be run.
Maybe I'm just dnd-brained but the amount of moving parts I can come up with and keep in mind is not that high.
I was thinking very close to the same thing.
The dungeon is a flowchart and is a point-crawl. I think with a little effort and practice you could do it easier than u think. An investigation could lead to an abnondaned building where the gang of criminals are (dungeon lair), or to the corporate laboratory (wizard's tower). I agree, a pure mystery investigation is the toughest to come up with from nothing,
but I have run and played in sci-fi that was just reskinned from fantasy.
Maybe it's just me, but I am always thinking how to re-skin an adventure for sci-fi or cyberpunk. I find it a great creative exercise.
Really enjoy those reviews! You just have a way of making me want to be in this world. Keep going Professor ❤
Nice. Love playing/running the Cyberpunk TTRPG and this seems like it would be a good source of inspiration. Especially for Cop based campaigns.
Great overview. I also appreciated how concise it was. You did a great job of focusing on all the main points.
Great video. If we can ever get away from fantasy RPGs, might give this a try.
This is a "how to" of review videos. Excellent quick run through. Made me feel like I want a product that I don't think I actually want.
love learning about new games on the channel!
dude 3:30 in I'm all in! Love Blade Runner, old enough to have seen it in the flicks. Thanks for the heads up!
Seems cool. Nice to see a pre-made adventure have awesome handouts. Sets the bar real high. Nice
Of course it is, it's published by Free League.
I ran the starter set adventure, took 3 sessions with 3 players. It was an incredible experience and ended in an appropriately bleak Blade Runner way!
Bladerunner is amazing! I've had the starter kit for a while, it's incredible
The lore alone is motivating me to get this book. Hopefully I can get it to the table as well
I just bought FLP's Alien core book. Going to run Chariot of the Gods. I will say the book is super high quality, maybe the highest quality TTRPG book I've ever owned, other than the special edition of the 3.5e DMG.
This game is on the list to try in the future!
I'm on a Starter Set hunt right now. I guess this one is going on the list. Sounds like a very nice intro to the game and the world.
I love every game by free league. Dragonbane (a fantasy rpg world), Symborium (a dark fantasy world), and Lord of the rings ( the non 5th edition reskin) are all great.
Dungeon Craft is the best! Everyone on RUclips should see this.
Ha! Just finished a run of Electric Dreams couple days ago and starting a new one next week. Awesome ruleset, even better scenario, highly recommended, on a sale it's ridiculous value!
Agreed that is a great actual play on Me Myself and Die. Picked it up afterwards.
Thanks for the review PDM, and I have to say: Based on your review I'm mightily tempted to pick this up. Most of Free League's stuff is outstanding, seems this is no different. Appreciate the vid!
The channels Me, Myself and Die (Trevor Duvall); and Upturned Table have great actual plays of Blade Runner.
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Even though I don't have a group to play with I want to order this set for the lore and art alone.
Always good to see different RPGs in the spotlight. Not sure about the longevity of these branded settings though. I found I could run Alien with Mothership and expect there are other systems (Cyberpunk?) that give the Bladerunner experience.
After playing cyberpunk 2077, id definitely play this. I really enjoyed that game with it's dark moments and moral dilemmas
The book is gorgeous. Amazing art and design.
I love the Blade Runner RPG. I need to get a group running with it
Thank you for covering this!
I quite like the Year Zero Engine. Maybe I'll have to pick this one up. My only issue with Aliens RPG is the limited number of creatures. Having some more stat-blocks would make it easier to homebrew my own monsters (for variety).
Thanks for the review PDM.
Thanks for reviewing this! Can't wait for Replicant Rebellion.
Great video, I play it currently. The first game I have played where seperating the party is part of the core mechanic. The gun balancing seems off and the players feel more like cops than blade runners. But the dice system is great and the book is also a great read. Either you are police, or you are little people! ^^
I generally don't go for handouts, but these are excellent.
Man I still haven't gotten a chance to play Coriolis and now this game is out too!!! Agghhhh!! I need multiple parallel lives just to have time to play the Free League games! They make top shelf ttrpgs.
Will give it a try! Thank you professor.
Looks great. If I played sci-fi this is what I’d start with.
More different games and publishers for the people to see!
Great sponsor. I look forward to playing Broken Empires in the future.
I love cyberpunk and the tech noir of Blade Runner. Free League has some great games. I think this one and the Alien RPG are probably their best. It's interesting that Free League's games that use their Year Zero Engine a D6 dice pool (Alien RPG) or "Step Dice" (Blade Runner) but both end up have the same mathematical probabilities. Well, at least according to some related videos I watched. I'm certainly no statistician.
I think Deathbringer would make a problematic Blade Runner. He'd retire all of the replicants, but probably all of the humans also. I can hear Deathbringer replying to his captain, "How exactly is this a problem?!" (Are all of his rolls 20s?)
Really like this stuff more than covering 2024 D&D bashing/drama... There's enough of that on other channels.
Good video. Keep 'em coming.
I have the starter set but haven't had a chance to run it yet. I must gather a team.
I love ALL Dungeon Craft videos!
Great game, the first 2 cases are awesome and the Starter Kit is great, just like every Free League Starter Kit.
It sounds to me like it will be a lot of work to build additional adventures for this system. And you didn't mention the core rulebook having much in the way of gm tools for doing so.
This is for sure on my to-buy list. Just haven't gotten to it, yet.
Would love a One Ring review!
Love your Tudor watch!
This looks Fantastic! Thanks for the Review!
Read the inspiration, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick. It has some interesting aspects the movies don't have, though I do like the movie better.
Custom dice are a deal breaker for me.
totally loved this video, I would love to be a part of this game or the aliens one both are a win win.
I love Free League but really struggle to get into their home system, so only really enjoyed Dragonbane so far. Interested to see what you say here...
Free League knocking it out of the park once again :)
I love all Dungeon Craft videos. I'm liking Free League games
6:35 in, added to cart done!\
hi professor, I noticed the video came out at 1:36 PM here, I suppose it was made public manually in youtube studio and thst it wasnt scheduled for publishing in advance. If I'm correct, I'm curious why. Does it help with the algorithm? Is it because you publish videos as soon as they are ready? You have demonstrated before that you know a lot about the algorithm. I'm curious and I dont expect a reply, but if you take the time to reply I would appreciate it a lot.
Dice mechanic sounds a little like Savage Worlds.
Great Review as always DungeonCraft!
Free League makes lovely books.
Cool review, would love to get this game but don't have players who would want to play it :(
Free League makes some great coffee table art books....but basically no one plays those games.
Awesome! More RPG reviews please.
Sounds a lot like the twilight 2000 mechanics. Free league rocks!
is it though? What are your options for any scenario? either the replicants, the corporations or a combination of both did it. that's it. It's just too small of a property to really do much with it. you're better off reworking the adventure for cyberpunk or Shadowrun
While the game looks great, I watched the kickstarter for the game, Imho, the setting seems very confining as it seems the only thing you can do is being a blade runner in LA. And I'm a big fan of the movies, it just seemed like a 'no go' for me. Maybe with some additional material later on.
The sad thing about this game is that its systems and pre-written scenarios are cool, but there are people with no interest in Blade Runner who will pass on it, because of the setting.
Dang it Professor!😅Stop showing me good games to spend all my money on. I think I am not alone, when I ask that you please start showing bad games that no one is interested in, so we can save our money.
Please just once, show us some bad games🙏
I am a free league fan, but this was on the bottom of my list to collect all the main core books, almost there now. And even though I liked the movie and the book, it had yet to really spark my interest. I do like that they are using a fusion of the Twilight 2000 and MYZ mechanics. Also after running the Alien RPG scenarios, I really loved the sandbox nature of this style of free leagues official scenarios. I dont know if I can make these investigations type scenarios as well as them, so I hope they release more. Also hopefully they have some mystery building tools like in Vaesen.
I guess this goes on the Black Friday list.
Totally agree, a truly awesome game !
Finally I can roleplay Ryan Gosling (He's literally me.)
Mr.Gosling, I know you have a big ego and actors like roleplaying games, but you cant roleplay yourself. That's not playing a role.
YES!!!! Been waiting for this video!!!
TY, gives me interest
Sounds fantastic!
2.5 hours... wow.. I have ran it 3 times taking 4, 3hours sessions each time.. (with 3-4 bladerunners)
I love the layout and design of the free league books, but the fonts are too small.
I am annoyed that A, B, C, and D being used instead of dice named. If we are doing proprietary dice, why not put the A, B, C, and D on the max value of the die?
Nice! Freeleague is always good
Great video!
Thx for the review!
Did they iclude elements from "Soldier" movie from 1998 with Kurt Russel?
On my want list.
First... GREAT video.
Second... are you changing the entire focus of the channel to independent games?
And, finally...
I think this game looks amazing but I think creating scenarios would be incredibly time consuming, laborious, and every single adventure you run would be fraught with overpreparation.
You create twenty NPCs connected to your story and the players only interact with four... for instance...
You create frames from a crime scene photo that they never look at...
Can you elaborate on the adventure prep?
This looks great
how in depth are the core rules regarding making your own adventures/campaigns?