08 December 2024

Blue Planet Recontact - looking good

Photo of the two Print-On-Demand test copies of the Blue Planet Recontact core books. They both show stunning underwater images in the oceans of Poseidon with humans swimming above and menacing eel-like creatures below.
Looking gorgeous.

Possibly my most anticipated game for 2025 is the final offset print version of the new edition of Blue Planet, Blue Planet Recontact. The team producing the new edition just shared the picture above on Kickstarter in an update. It's not the final offset printing, but preparation for a POD version on DriveThruRPG. However it just shows how gorgeous this looks. The interior is just as good, as they've shared sneak previews of that too and now there are PDFs available to backers.

I did some playtesting on this edition and then revisited it with a follow on scenario at another convention. It plays really well, and the Synergy systems is similar to that in Blue Planet v2 but thoroughly modernised. I do intent to offer an episodic campaign once the final books arrive. One of the things they added in this edition was a set of campaign frames to make it easy to kick off a game (as the level of lore in Blue Planet often had people wondering how to go at it). I ran the Red Sky Charters frame and it felt like the kick off to a TV series.

I do recommend this as a great product; there's enough in these two books for more than one campaign, it's beautifully created and very unique.

Recommended!

8 December 2024




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