Free League Publishing announced today two major expansions to the award winning official Blade Runner The Roleplaying Game – the Fiery Angels deluxe case file module, and the Replicant Rebellion sourcebook. Fiery Angels will be available for early access and pre-order via the official website in Q3 for a planned Q4 release, while Replicant Rebellion is slated for release in 2024.
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More information regarding both expansions is listed below. Regular news updates will be issued via the game’s official website during the run-up to the release.
Following the same deluxe format and packaging as the award-winning Case File #01: Electric Dreams, included in the Blade Runner RPG Starter Set, Case File #02: Fiery Angels is a boxed set featuring a new thrilling investigative scenario and a host of in-world handouts, photos, maps and more.
This new investigation starts off with the Blade Runners assigned to question a suspect arrested while trying to infiltrate the Wallace Corporation Memory Vaults. The case leads the team down a perilous path that explores the boundaries of Replicant technology and its consequences. The player characters need to contend with an array of physical, mental, and moral challenges.
Though Fiery Angels is a stand-alone adventure, users who have played Case File 01: Electric Dreams will experience a continuation of story elements from that narrative. This new boxed Case File module will include:
- A beautifully illustrated and detailed scenario book with locations, characters, events, and leads to follow
- A manila envelope containing around 20 handouts, including a variety of in-world artifacts and Esper photos
- Half a dozen full-color, double-sided maps
- Price point: $34.99
- Target Release: Q4, 2023
REPLICANT REBELLION
Replicant Rebellion expands the scope of the core game, allowing players to join the ranks of the Replicant underground in the Los Angeles of 2037. The characters are an independent cell loosely organized under Freysa Sadeghpour’s leadership, and undertake a variety of operations – from helping fugitive Nexus-8 Replicants elude capture to sabotaging installations of the Replicant industry. This beautifully illustrated hardback sourcebook will include:
- An overview of the history and organization of the Replicant underground, charting its presence throughout the Blade Runner timeline
- Detailed guidelines on how to play a Replicant underground campaign, including several new player character archetypes
- Half a dozen complete Operations (i.e., complete adventures) to play for a cell in the Replicant underground
- Price point: $49.99
- Release: 2024
ABOUT BLADE RUNNER – THE ROLEPLAYING GAME
A neon-noir wonderland that’ll take your breath away ― one way or another. An evocative world of conflicts and contrasts that dares to ask the hard questions and investigate the powers of empathy, the poisons of fear, and the burdens of being human during inhumane times. An iconic and unforgiving playground of endless possibilities that picks you up, slaps you in the face, and tells you to wake up. Time to live. Or time to die.The official Blade Runner The Roleplaying Game propels players into the streets of Los Angeles as Blade Runners with unique specialties, personalities – and memories. The RPG showcases the key themes of Blade Runner – science fiction action, corporate intrigue, existential character drama, and moral conflict.
After a record-breaking Kickstarter earlier that year, The Blade Runner RPG Core Rulebook and Starter Set were released in December 2022 by Free League Publishing in partnership with Alcon Entertainment. The game was shortlisted for the Origins Awards this year and the Starter Set won both the Judges’ Choice and People’s Choice awards at the UK Games Expo.
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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 upcoming projects include 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.
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 for Amazon Prime.
Alcon Television Group’s other past projects include the Grammy-winning and Emmy-nominated four-part documentary The Defiant Ones on NBCUniversal’s Peacock; Amazon’s animated holiday special Pete The Cat: A Groovy New Year starring Elvis Costello and Jacob Tremblay; and the Emmy-nominated HBO documentary Sinatra: All Or Nothing At All from Oscar-winning director Alex Gibney which remains one of HBO’s most successful shows in the 50+ demographic.
About Genuine Entertainment
As a leading producer and paladin for beloved entertainment franchises and fandoms, Genuine has earned a sterling reputation and uncanny track record as a corporate consigliere, media matchmaker, and licensing luck dragon across all corners of pop culture. We help our favorite IP and companies to level up through strategic business development, authentic adaptations, and premium licensing & merchandising programs alongside best-in-class partners. Providing 360° brand management, financial advisory services, and full-service product development support for licensors & licensees alike, we’ve paved the way for landmark deals, millions of units sold, and a growing library of best-selling, award-winning stories, games, and geekery for the latest & greatest IP.
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 Cortex acquisition for Fandom; 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 RPG with Free League; WEBTOON’s licensing & merch program with Surge; and the World of Darkness comics with Vault. Come play at genuineent.com
About Free League Publishing
Free League Publishing is a game studio and publisher dedicated to speculative fiction based in Stockholm, Sweden. We have published a wide range of award-winning tabletop roleplaying games and acclaimed art books set in strange and wondrous worlds.
Our upcoming games include Dragonbane, PIRATE BORG, The Walking Dead Universe RPG, and Zone Wars – A Mutant: Year Zero Wargame.
Our current game portfolio includes the official Blade Runner RPG, The One Ring™ roleplaying game and The Lord of the Rings Roleplaying for 5E, Tales From the Loop – The Board Game, 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), 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 Into the Odd Remastered, the cyberpunk RPG 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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