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Blue Planet: Recontact Quickstart

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WELCOME TO BLUE PLANET: RECONTACT

This booklet is the quickstart primer for the new Recontact edition of the acclaimed BLUE PLANET role playing game. It provides all the setting and rules information needed to play, as well as a campaign archetype, a ready-to-run adventure, and four pregenerated characters.

BLUE PLANET offers hard sci fi adventure on the ecologically wild, sociopolitically contentious frontier of Earth’s first extrasolar colony world: a distant waterworld named Poseidon. The first edition was published in 1997 by Biohazard Games, and a second edition was produced by Fantasy Flight Games in 2000. Steve Jackson Games published GURPS BLUE PLANET in 2003, and FASA Games published the revised second edition in 2012.

BLUE PLANET has received broad acclaim, particularly for it’s deep, detailed, and realistic setting; the game has remained well regarded since its original publication.

However, that publication was over 20 years ago; in the intervening decades, all versions have gone out of print and game design has evolved dramatically. Excited at the prospect of giving the game system an overdue upgrade—and the opportunity to offer BLUE PLANET to new generations of gamers—the original creators at Biohazard Games have teamed up with Gallant Knight Games to produce BLUE PLANET: RECONTACT, the third edition of the classic game.

RECONTACT features a modern evolution of the second edition mechanics with fully updated technological, scientific,and sociological worldbuilding. Recontact is the in-game term for the fateful day in 2165 when the UNSS Admiral Robert Perry entered orbit around Poseidon, reconnecting the colonists with Earth 69 years after they were abandoned. Since more than two decades have passed since the publication of the first edition, RECONTACT seemed a fitting subtitle for the new version of the game.


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Elijah R August 16, 2023 2:02 am UTC
so where's the full game?
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Christian F April 19, 2021 3:29 am UTC
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Blue Planet Kickstarter has been up for 2 weeks as of my writing and is here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1875712273/blue-planet-recontact?ref=ksr_email_backer_project_update_registered_users_discover_project_similar_3

Already made my pledge.
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Maximilian K March 27, 2021 3:35 pm UTC
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Any news on updates?
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Derek V February 08, 2021 1:56 am UTC
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I think I found an error on page 48 of the quickstart rules. It describes how a failed trauma test with an action value better than -5 means they bleed out and die in 10 + action value minutes, ignoring the negative sign. The following example then shows an NPC failing their test with an action value of -2 and only having seven minutes to live, showing the math of 10 + [-3] = 7.

Even if -3 was the trauma test action value, shouldn't that be 13 minutes to live?
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Derek V February 06, 2021 10:58 pm UTC
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How the heck have I never heard of this game. This sounds dope as hell. I think this'll be the first game I tackle when I eventually start my podcast.
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Erik G June 03, 2020 2:58 am UTC
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Any idea of the eta for seeing more BP 3rd ed material?
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Patrick S May 29, 2020 8:15 am UTC
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I could say that i'm surprised that BP is kind of dead. Again. But unfortunately i am not.
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Alan B May 29, 2020 2:07 pm UTC
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Hey! Nothing is dead! We're still writing and progressing on the new edition, and a POD version of the quickstart is coming for folks (we've been working on it regularly!)
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Brian V September 23, 2020 4:19 am UTC
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Aside from following you here, is there a mailing list or something like that for news about Blue Planet?
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Unai M January 09, 2020 10:20 pm UTC
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Just by chance found out about the new edition today. It felt like a late Christmas present, and a most welcome one at that!
Looking forward to see it in Kickstarter!
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Patrick S November 27, 2019 1:56 pm UTC
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Any news regarding the Kickstarter?
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Agustin T September 06, 2019 9:26 am UTC
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hi.. reading the paper.. I think there is a mistake at the beginning of chapter "Synergy evolved" page 37, the text begins talking about the zion islands. regards!
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Ewald G August 27, 2019 10:20 am UTC
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Looks great! Quick question, do you plant to update the timeline with more modern views on the ecological future of our planet? Seems like climate change and a genedrive/gene edited plant virus (as the Blight) would be a great fit.
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Maximilian K August 10, 2019 8:48 pm UTC
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Quite eager to see this on Kickstarter! One of my favorite RPG games ever!
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Eirik B August 06, 2019 11:22 am UTC
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I just found out about the new edition today, and I was overjoyed. Blue Planet is easily one of my favorite science fiction settings, and I'm very happy to see it return.

There are mentions of some updates to the rules and setting. The rules looks great, but what about the setting? Has there been updates on the setting's lore and history, for example? If so, any examples? :)

Can't wait to get the finished book in my hands, and I'm hoping for a long line of new Blue Planet releases!
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Tom T August 03, 2019 4:45 am UTC
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I love this! It is absolutely my favorite campaign setting, but I have been hesitant to play the previous editions due to not being a fan of the rules of those systems. The rules on Reconnect look original and very easy to use. I can't wait for the final product to be done because this is a game I will definitely bring to my gaming group.
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Tom T August 03, 2019 5:53 am UTC
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*Recontact
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VALENTINOS K August 02, 2019 9:52 pm UTC
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I am liking what I am seeing so far and yeah my affair with Blue Planet has been an ongoing one of 20 years now.

Any plans for a physical copy of the QSR?
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Alan B August 05, 2019 8:22 pm UTC
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Yes!
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VALENTINOS K August 07, 2019 3:36 am UTC
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Details as to when? ^^
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Patrick S August 02, 2019 6:45 am UTC
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This is my all-time favourite RPG. I was very excited for this new version and a little bit nervous to have a look inside this Quickstarter.
But i will brave this challenge, those reviews are good ... :)
Very looking forward to the Kickstarter. This will be an all-in, i guess.
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Patrick S August 04, 2019 7:16 am UTC
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Read it, like it. A very good blend of a streamlined V2 and some modern and slightly narrative stuff.
Bring the Kickstarter on!
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