While “Tales From The Loop” has only received one season (so far) on Prime, there’s still more coming in the form of a TTRPG from Free League Publishing. Free League Publishing has announced that its highly anticipated adaptation of Simon Stalehag’s narrative artbook, The Electric State, will be released on October 1 in the Free League webshop, hobby stores and digitally on DrivethruRPG. Pre-orders are available now.
Written by Nils Hintze (Tales From the Loop RPG, Vaesen – Nordic Horror Roleplaying) in collaboration with the Free League core team, and of course illustrated by Simon Stålenhag (including pieces created for The Electric State art book project but never published), The Electric State Roleplaying Game uses rules based on the acclaimed Year Zero Engine, used in award-winning games such as the ALIEN RPG. The standalone book contains all the tools you need to play and create short to mid-length campaigns in a society on the brink of apocalypse.
The story for the TTRPG takes place following the discovery of neuronics in the late 1960s, when technology diverged from our world. It is now the year 1997, and the world is on the verge of apocalypse. The ever-present Sentre corporation pushes neuronic technology to the population via cheap headsets. Civilization crumbles as something strange spreads through the neuronic net. People fail to turn up for work, basic services cease to function, and the government is rapidly losing control.
The Electric State is also slated to be adapted into a major motion picture by the Russo Brothers (Avengers: Endgame), starring Millie Bobby Brown (Stranger Things) and Chris Pratt (Guardians of the Galaxy).