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 The fifth and not the last level was my first brush with AI-generated art. I've already talked about it in my other blog post. I've got zero skills in drawing, so an opportunity to write something I see in my mind and receive it or something similar for my own use is somewhat wonderful. It also enhances the vibe of the book. Of course, it must be used only for my home games, nothing except that.  

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 The fourth and not the last thing is establishing NPCs and places in my own game world. So now I have not only characters from the rulebook and Electric Dreams but also my own. This same is true with places, but in this case, Blader Runner RPG discord has a couple of nice surprises. I used their VooDoo club as an alternative to everyone's favorite Snape Pit. So I use them and expand on them. But if I find a game scene when I don't know what place it will be I've used Augmented Reality from Geist Hack Games - everything You need to generate whole cyberpunk or in this case Blade Runner City.

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 Another one of my points about playing Blade Runner RPG in my solo mode.

The fourth and not the last thing is establishing NPCs and places in my own game world. So now I have not only characters from the rulebook and Electric Dreams but also my own. And now I can use them also in my normal games. 

This same is true with places, but Blader Runner RPG discord has a couple of nice surprises in this case. So I use them and expand on them. Like VooDoo Restaurant - an alternative to a nightclub that everybody knows. 

But if I find a game scene when I don't know what place it will be I've used Augmented Reality from Geist Hack Games - everything You need to generate whole cyberpunk or in this case Blade Runner City. Cannot praise it enough. 

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Another important topic I've encountered during my solo play in Blade Runner RPG.

The third thing is that when You play in solo mode in a new game, You can take Your time and read the rules as many times as you need. It is important, that you've got that whole time. Playing with real people searching for some particular rule can kill the momentum, your immersion, and players' engagement. So this is my time to learn the mechanics of this game. So now I know how to run it more appropriately than three months ago. Also, I've got time to since in the atmosphere of that book, and by gods! there is a lot of atmosphere on that pages. So You can sometimes waste your time during play just to stare at one illustration of the page. 

As for illustration for this post, I'm giving You an A.I. rendition of a Police Tower at sunset. Two versions. Don't know which one is better.

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Here is my other post about solo roleplaying in Blade Runner RPG. 

Second, an essential thing is consistency.  For the first time for me, I was coming back weekend after weekend to see what was going on. Solo Roleplaying is somewhat different from regular games. When You play with other people You must be on time, You have to be prepared, even if You are a Player, with solo RPG it is difficult because You always say to Yourself: Maybe I will play tomorrow? but in many cases that tomorrow never comes. So consistency was the thing that killed almost every other attempt of solo RPG in my case. The sheer love of the setting and both films (the first one more of course) was the trigger the glue that stuck me to this game for so long time. OR maybe the fact, that even from the start, when I created those two Player Characters, I wanted to know what was their story, what was their relationship with themself and with the world around them. So when Saturday was coming, I just couldn't wait to sit with books, dices, character sheets, and my laptop, to write another part of their story. 

P.S. I've already edited my 47-page document. Now I'm working on graphics for a couple of places they went during this investigation. Here is one, the Ripple.

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For the last 3 months every Saturday and Sunday morning, I played my solo Blade Runner RPG game for at least an hour each. Last Saturday I ended this story. It was a great game on many different levels. So let me share with You my experience in the next couple of blogposts.

First, I would never have started playing in such a thing if I had never stumbled upon this page. From there I learned some tricks on how to play in Blade Runner RPG without any rules. So I've spoken with the author of this site on Blade Runner RPG discord. From there I gleaned some of his tools for playing solo. With my own rulebook and quickstart rules and of course, new characters I've created for this game and no chances for normal gameplay (my young one still is going to sleep between 11 p.m. and midnight) what else can I do? So I went straight ahead. First of all, I've read the whole thing and I'm still doing it on the page I mentioned above. And with the tools that the author gave to those on Discord, I've started playing. It wasn't easy, but in the end, it paid off. 

Here You got a Midjourney rendition of my two main characters:

It isn't adequate from the original pictures, because I've created them with another A.I. graphic site. 

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During waiting for more favorable times for the game of Blade Runners RPG Electric Dreams in Meat Space, just for fun and for learning mechanics with one on one game, I've created from tables in the rulebook little scenario, set just after the Stress test of Fin Anderson. In the meantime, I've also surfed the net in search of inspiration and more case files. In that search, I found Blade Runner RPG Discord it is a place with many great resources for that game. In one particular insane idea I found their Deckard badge and using Ms Paint Foo I decided to make for my characters also one. So here are they:

Meg's badge.

Fin Anderson's badge

Spade's badge.

All three of them. Nothing fancy. A little Paint, a color printer, and a laminator.

Do You Like Our Owl?

At last, I've received Blade Runner RPG from Free League Publishing. In my last letter to one of my correspondents, I wrote that I do not want new systems because I do not want to learn new mechanics. Live and my Friends corrected my way of thinking. Now I have to learn not one but two new rules systems. Dune and Blade Runner. It's I'll be challenging but also so much fun! In my other news, I'm finishing NPCs for the Heroes of Rura-Tonga campaign and going in two limbo with that project for now. I'm going back at the start o the summer months.

Here is Our owl... It isn't artificial or even an owl...

Here is Starter Set in all its glory.

Here is the rulebook and GM screen.