And there is a lot of anti-replicant sentiment. But older model replicants are still not permitted on earth. The most recent replicants are permitted on Earth – there are even replicants in the RDU. That would be a pretty narrow roleplaying game, and so the Blade Runner RPG uses the RDU of Blade Runner 2049 (the game is set in 2037). The original Blade Runner was set in a time where replicants were not allowed to be on Earth at all, and the task of a blade runner was to find and ‘retire’ any who were. The RDU is tasked with solving crimes related to the synthetic humans known as replicants. Like the protagonists of Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049, the characters in the Blade Runner RPG are all blade runners – detectives who are members of the Rep-Detect Unit (RDU) of the Los Angeles Police Department (there technically exists a world outside of Los Angeles and southern California, but like in the movies it is not somewhere that the characters will ever go). So let’s talk about how the dystopian, neo-noir masterpiece translates to the tabletop in Blade Runner: The Roleplaying Game. The first of these I can’t help you with – you know and/or love Blade Runner, or you don’t. The second is whether the game can embody what’s distinctive about the license as something that’s fun as a game. One is a love (or at least a familiarity with) the license. Getting the most out of a licensed roleplaying game requires two things.
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