Blacksad: The Roleplaying Game

A project in Madrid, Spain by Nosolorol
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A roleplaying game based on the noir fiction of the Eisner-award comic by Juan Díaz Canales and Juanjo Guarnido.
Backers: 297
Average Pledge Per Backer: €58

Funded: €17,220 of €5,000
Dates: Feb 3rd -> Mar 4th (30 days)
Project By: Nosolorol
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Latest News

Thank you!

March 4th - via: kickstarter.com
Thank you to every and each one of you for supporting this project. We've funded the physical English edition of Blacksad: The Roleplaying Game and four new cases to be included in the book! All of it thanks to you! We'll open the backerkit for... (Read More)

Last 6 hours!

March 4th - via: kickstarter.com
Only 6 more hours before the campaign ends! And we keep adding more and more cases to the printed edition of Blacksad: The Roleplaying Game! For now we've unlocked four new cases: Unlocked! 7,500€ - The Price of Love We will add more stories for... (Read More)

Last 24 hours! - Another stretch goal reached!

March 3rd - via: kickstarter.com
We're so close to the end. Only 24 hours more before the campaign ends. And we're going with a bang! We have unlocked a third case for all of you! Unlocked 12,500€ - The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy A third case will be translated into English The... (Read More)

48 hour Warning!

March 2nd - via: kickstarter.com
Our campaign is coming to an end! We’ve already unlocked two stretch goals, but it’s time for a last push so we can get some more cases for our detectives! At 10,000€ - Black Leather & Red Blood For the second case, we will translate into... (Read More)

Last 5 Days!

February 28th - via: kickstarter.com
We're getting closer to the end of the campaign. We have only 5 more days to go. We’ve already unlocked the first two stretch goals, but we still have time to unlock some more and get some extra cases for our detectives! How can you help to make... (Read More)

Sceneries

February 27th - via: kickstarter.com
The sceneries are a vital part in any noir story. Sometimes they’re characters themselves. As game master, you bring the scenery to life, describe it and make it real in the players’ minds. This is something so important for the story as building... (Read More)

Blacksad: The Roleplaying Game Quickstart!

February 26th - via: kickstarter.com
You've been asking about it, so Blacksad: The Roleplaying Game Quickstart is available in PDF right now. This quickstart includes everything you need to play: the basic rules to create your own characters and all the systems needed to tell your own... (Read More)

Combat

February 25th - via: kickstarter.com
One of the most important elements in the Blacksad stories is combat. Violence is one of the key ingredients in the noir genre, and in the Blacksad roleplaying game we have opted for a quick system in order to represent this. This system is born from... (Read More)

Second Stretch Goal Unlocked!

February 24th - via: kickstarter.com
Thanks to all of you we have unlocked a second case! Unlocked 10,000€ - Black Leather & Red Blood For the second case, we will translate into English Black Leather & Red Blood, a story written by Pablo Claudio Ganter, that originally... (Read More)

Iconic characters 2

February 21st - via: kickstarter.com
The world of Blacksad features so many interesting characters that we want to share all of them with you. The characters from the comic books pages can be your allies, your enemies or the suspects in your cases. Or you could play any of them in your... (Read More)

Health

February 20th - via: kickstarter.com
In the violent stories of film noir, the lives of characters always hang by a thread. An argument can unleash a violent bar fight with broken bottles and a chase can culminate into deadly gunfire. The violence in Blacksad becomes very present and,... (Read More)

First Stretchgoal Unlocked!

February 19th - via: kickstarter.com
We’ve reached our first stretchgoal. A new case to solve:  Unlocked! 7,500€ - The Price of Love    We will add more stories for Blacksad: The Roleplaying Game. For the first case, we will translate into English The Price of Love, a case... (Read More)

Spread the word!

February 18th - via: kickstarter.com
We've reached the midpoint of our campaign, and this Kickstarter keeps growing thanks to every and each one of you. It will be nothing without our backers. So, how can you help to make it even bigger? Share it with your friends, any fan of Blacksad... (Read More)

Aspects

February 17th - via: kickstarter.com
Every Blacksad character has shades that make them unique, and not only because they’re anthropomorphic animals, but also because they have a series of singularities that talk about their background. This is represented as aspects. These aspects... (Read More)

Add ons!

February 14th - via: kickstarter.com
If you already are a Blacksad: The Roleplaying Game’s backer, perhaps you should take some time to take a look to our add-ons. If you want any of these additional rewards, simply increase your total pledge amount by the value indicated. We will... (Read More)

Is there something new in this edition?

February 13th - via: kickstarter.com
Some of you are asking if there is something new in this edition of Blacksad: The Roleplaying Game, the first one in English. This is a revised edition of the corebook. If you have the original edition (in Spanish), you’ll find some tweaks and... (Read More)

Morality

February 12th - via: kickstarter.com
The fight with oneself, the conflict between doing the right thing or taking the easy road is one of the main themes in noir fiction. How Blacksad: The Roleplaying Game explores this struggle? The Conscience stats are a scale for the character’s... (Read More)

Funded!

February 11th - via: kickstarter.com
Thank you! Thanks to all of you! We have funded the printed edition of Blacksad: The Roleplaying Game, but that doesn’t mean our investigation has ended. What now? Now that we’ve reached our main goal it’s time to unveil some stretchgoals.... (Read More)

Every detective needs a crime...

February 10th - via: kickstarter.com
Every detective needs some mysteries to solve, so Blacksad: The Roleplaying Game corebook includes several cases so the players can get to the bottom of them: An Indian’s Luck is a full fledged story where the characters are contacted by a gambling... (Read More)

Iconic Characters

February 7th - via: kickstarter.com
One of the most attractive features of Blacksad comics is its carefully developed characters. Here, nothing is black or white, everyone has a complex morality in nuanced shades of grey. From the moral ambiguity of Blacksad himself to racist chiefs of... (Read More)

Aquelarre English edition by Nocturnal Media!

February 6th - via: kickstarter.com
Our friends of Nocturnal Media have just launched the English version of Aquelarre (one of our most mythic games in Spanish), you can read their announcement on their Kickstarter campaign page:... (Read More)

Character Sheet

February 6th - via: kickstarter.com
In Blacksad, all characters are represented by a series of game features. In the case of playing characters, this information is presented on the character sheet. The character sheet has the following features: - Concept: A one-phrase summary of the... (Read More)

Examples of Play

February 5th - via: kickstarter.com
Thanks to all of you, we have already funded more than 55% of the project! And this is just the beginning! So now it's time to a little peek to Blacksad: The Roleplaying Game. The "How to Play" section of our campaign already stats the basics of... (Read More)

The Animals of Blacksad

February 4th - via: kickstarter.com
In Blacksad, the animals might look like they have been picked randomly but if we take a closer look we’ll see that they have a predominantly narrative purpose. They are a metaphor of the role they are going to play within the story. This enables... (Read More)

Welcome to Blacksad: The Roleplaying Game

February 3rd - via: kickstarter.com
These are the troubling years between the Second World War and the Cold War. The world is a noir film where anthropomorphic animals play the role of weary detectives, brutish goons or mischievous femme fatales. Welcome to the world of Blacksad, the... (Read More)

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