Mana Project Studio and Don’t Panic Games will release the Ghost in the Shell Roleplaying Game and is currently in the final days of the Kickstarter campaign, which includes a retailer tier. The campaign is at $418,544 from 2,654 backers as of this writing. Trade release is planned for 2027.
The Ghost in the Shell Roleplaying Game will be based on the Production I.G. anime, which in turn was based on the Shirow Masamune manga. The producers plan to keep adding new material from the various Ghost in the Shell eras; the first books will be set at the dawn of Section’s 9 birth.
Players will take on the role of operatives specialized in counterterrorism in a future world that survived a global collapse. The Corebook includes the game system and all mechanics, adventure tips, mission cues, instructions for creating multifaceted characters, complete with Playbooks for each type of operative, Cyber Enhancements and Natural Traits. The game system is a hacked and modded version of the Forged in the Dark game system by John Harper, first published in Blades in the Dark RPG.
Don’t Panic Games and Mana Project Studio previously collaborated on the Cowboy Bebop RPG (see “’Cowboy Bebop RPG’”).
Source: ICv2
