Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight Archives sequence of novels is getting an official tabletop sport, the writer introduced on Tuesday on YouTube. While the small print on the sport are scarce in the mean time, he revealed that it’s at the moment geared toward a 2024 launch window and that Sanderson and the crew behind it are at the moment referring to it as “Stormlight Role-Playing Game.”
Sanderson mentioned the sport on his YouTube present with the mission’s artwork director, Isaac Stewart, in addition to Brotherwise Games’ Johnny O’Neal. Brotherwise Games beforehand labored within the Stormlight Archives universe on a few completely different initiatives, together with the cardboard sport Call to Adventure: The Stormlight Archives. The firm has a number of profitable crowdfunding campaigns behind it, together with its present mission — a sequence of miniatures primarily based on Sanderson characters that has pulled in greater than $2.2 million from backers in a little bit greater than every week. The marketing campaign runs by by Oct. 13, with supply anticipated by July 2023.
Sanderson didn’t element what mechanics or ruleset the brand new RPG would use, however there’s precedent for this type of work. Sanderson’s novels have been beforehand tailored to tabletop with Mistborn Adventure Game, revealed by Crafty Games. While Stormlight Archives and Mistborn each happen within Sanderson’s huge Cosmere universe, Sanderson selected to not return to Crafty for this new sport.
The Stormlight Archives are a e book sequence by Sanderson that’s set contained in the Cosmere universe, the place a lot of his different books and sequence are set as effectively. The sequence began in 2010 with The Way of Kings and has had three entries since then with the newest, Rhythm of War, arriving in 2020. Sanderson plans to incorporate 10 novels within the sequence as an entire. Sanderson additionally launched a crowdfunding mission earlier this 12 months the place he raised $15 million for 4 thriller novels to be revealed later.
