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I've been a fan of Blade Runner since I first saw.  It had cool visuals, but it also had ethical and moral questions: what does it mean to be human, and who gets to make that decision? There's definite role-playing potential there, and Jonathan Hicks has chosen to explore it using Farsight Games' SKETCH system. This unofficial 16-page free PDF, which includes the SKETCH system, presumes the players and gamemaster have seen the movie and are acquainted with the setting. Being familiar with the novel it's based on, Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, is also recommended, and I assume knowing Dick's themes and tone of writing would be helpful as well.

As with all SKETCH settings it's intended for one-shot games, so it doesn't give any more than what you need: suggested character types, equipment lists, and some adventure hooks. If you try to look at this as a fully-formed Blade Runner RPG, you will be sorely disappointed. It's intended as an example of what can be done with the SKETCH system, how a gamemaster can use the format and simple rules to put together a game based on an existing film property. In that, it succeeds.


File available in "Files" section of group.


Farsight Games:  http://www.farsightgames.com/#/sketchsystem/4530546334  


Source:  http://unclebear.com/?p=2916 



Tue Feb 24, 2009 8:08 pm

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