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THE STORMLIGHT ARCHIVE RPG LORE: Knights Radiant, Shardblades, and Beyond - RPGBOT.Podcast S5E103
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I created a #Discord #DiceRoller script for #YAGPDB for the #CosmereRPG plot die, feel free to use it or add it to your own sever.
https://gist.github.com/fadookie/e4d072edd5ecb85bd6d63478cca5ea17#StormlightRPG #StormlightArchive #TTRPG #Dice #Cosmere #BrandonSanderson
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CRAFTING THE COSMERE w/ Andrew Fischer and Lydia Suen: Adapting Brandon Sanderson’s Fantasy World into an Epic RPG - RPGBOT.Podcast S4E98
We talk to leade designer Andrew Fischer and lead writer Lydia Suen about the upcoming Cosmere RPG.
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I'm excited to share "A Man's Worth", an illustration I did for Brotherwise Games & Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere® RPG's Stormlight Archive campaign setting.
Check out the project over on Kickstarter. It's already raised over $8 million 😮👉 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/brotherwise/the-stormlight-archive-rpg
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Picking the Fall release 5e products best for you
Somewhat overshadowed by the release of several high-fantasy systems not based in 5e D&D is that Wizards of the Coast has two starter sets, a two-book/three-pdf Forgotten Realms set, and Eberron expansion coming out from September through the holidays.
Additionally, other 5e systems inspired by D&D are also cranking right now.
There’s a plethora of choice, right as genre TV’s most D&D related property is coming back — Stranger Things season 5 releases Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s in the U.S. Several of the early monsters based on Dungeons & Dragons are making a comeback.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKZyYdwS3Wg
Your normie (non-RPG) friends may be interested in the game again thanks to the combination of product releases, the Mighty Nein release, Stranger Things and the general zeitgeist around being big heroes with power in a world where that feels missing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7OCKYZjOcY
What game or books are the right system for them right now?
If you read Full Moon Storytelling it is likely that you are a DM/GM. It’s also likely that you lean towards 5e D&D. That will be the focus, with a small discussion of the other systems capturing attention (million dollar+ Kickstarters and the like).
Are you the GM/DM?
Go with what you like best, what fits your world, and be welcoming. Cut back on house rules and homebrew, at first, as the people who are new to the game can be overwhelmed with normal rule sets that can stretch to 1,000 pages.
Fold the new invitees into your world by asking them what they enjoy about high fantasy roleplaying. Finding out what your table’s Appendix N always helps, but it is the most helpful knowing what someone new (or returning from long ago) to the hobby wants.
If they want something simple, but familiar like the D&D of the 80s, but modern there are a few routes. Sticking with 2014 5e one can still get the older starter sets from Target or Amazon. Dragons of Strormwreck Isle is under $16 at Target online, and some physical stores may have it. Check with your local gaming store to see if they are offloading old product.
You can also intro them to 2014 via Kobold Press Tales of the Valiant Starter Set. It is under $14 at the time of publishing. The primary differences between Wizards of the Coast 2014 D&D and Tales of the Valiant lies in Tales having character creation that separates nature and nurture, luck replacing inspiration and the insertion of unique abilities on every monster.
I’d recommend Tales of the Valiant over 2014 D&D because of those changes, even if it doesn’t have the branding your friends expect. It also comes with minis! If Stormwreck Isle is 5.1 5e, ToV is probably 5.3.
Stranger Things: Welcome to the Hellfire Club
Maybe your friends didn’t get into D&D from Stranger Things season 1, or 2, or 3, or 4. Or maybe they did, but didn’t have the time, energy or mental space to play the game.
Welcome to the Hellfire Club uses Wizards of the Coast’s modern take on starter sets — lots of tokens, handouts, cards and a written approach that blurs the line between board game and roleplaying game.
modern take on starter sets — lots of tokens, handouts, cards
The presentation includes a look that borrows from 80s nostalgia as expected. The four adventure books include trade dress that would make Gary Gygax and TSR proud.
This is the second starter set built out of Stranger Things by Wizards of the Coast. Both lean heavily into using the voice of the character from the show that was the featured DM, lean into the mythology of the TV show with its ‘not quite D&D monsters, but monsters that middle/high schoolers would think are D&D monsters.’
The first Stranger Things set was rather linear in nature, which fit the times and works fairly well for people newer to roleplaying. Welcome to the Hellfire Club uses 2024 5e D&D rules.
D&D Starter Set: Heroes of the Borderlands
Similar to Stranger Things pulling out 80s nostalgia to pull people into its world, Wizards of the Coast uses Dungeons & Dragons most popular adventure from the foundational period to inspire its new general purpose Starter Set.
Keep on the Borderlands is now Heroes of the Borderlands, with three adventures. Using 2024 5e D&D’s rules, card-based character creation, tokens and maps, the intent of Heroes is to again bridge that gap between board game night and RPG night.
Because it is 2024’s rules rather than 1974s, the set is massive. Those three little folios that could fit in a small lunchbox are gone. Instead Heroes has more than 400 cards and tokens, a quick start, a set of rules, and three adventures.
The game of D&D is simultaneously more complex and more approachable than it was in the 70s and 80s. Being a more pervasive part of the culture is part of that. Also the decades of exposure to computer RPGs changes how one approaches teaching the game.
Forgotten Realms expansions
A massive two-book, three-digital book expansion coming with the brilliant marketing around “The Realms will know your name” these books aren’t necessarily great for first timers to tabletop roleplaying, unless…
You know people who were heavy into the lore of Baldur’s Gate 3 and/or D&D: Honor Among Thieves and/or the once dominant fantasy novels set in the Realms. Those legends exist within the expansion, but the point of D&D and RPGs in general is to tell your story.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06Oe-XtgScs
Only dive into this if you are being joined by people who absolutely love those non-tabletop versions of the Forgotten Realms. These expansions include 50 micro-adventures that fit an on-the-fly DM rather well (similar to those in the 2024 DMG).
Those playing with your classic group you need little guidance. If you are using the 2024 D&D rules, or at a table that permits a broad swath of 5e rules, the expansion is handy if you want to borrow factions, subclasses, new species and nuggets of lore to insert into your homebrew.
In total the Realms expansions add about 30% more character creation options while dramatically expanding the story through the lore expansions.
Eberron: Forge of the Artificer
High fantasy doesn’t have to take place in a world that’s pseudo medieval/Renaissance and Euro coded.
It can also include pervasive magic, spread widely among the populace in a world that echoes tropes related to early Industrialization with great Houses, lightning rails, elemental airships and a ‘war to end all wars.’
That’s Eberron.
Forge of the Artificer is a lightweight updated to the setting originally invented by Keith Baker.
Due to a product failure on the physical book, it is being entirely reprinted with digital and print now out 9 December, 2025.
Don’t get Forge of the Artificer unless you already have Rising from the Last War or you really want to have the magitech Artificers at your table or you are a completionist. I’ll be getting it for the first two reasons. I’m currently playing a goblin Artificer.
The Artificer in Forge is updated for 2024 with a brand new subclass as well. From what was in the Unearthed Arcana developing this coming version of the Artificer it looks to have the quality of life improvements I would expect.
Other RPGs
LevelUp
LevelUp is built on the 5.1 5e chassis, but advances it. This does make it a more complex version of high fantasy role playing. Some of the greatest improvements come from expanding the social and exploration pillars. This helps tell a wider variety of stories. Like every offshoot of D&D from the 5e era it separates nature and nurture.
There’s now a Starter Set available. Yes, it has tokens and multiple adventure, because that’s what modern starter sets do. EN Publishing’s Starter Set is an excellent way to try on a different version of the game you already know.
Cosmere RPG
If you enjoy Brandon Sanderson’s writing you might enjoy the Cosmere RPG. It is not based on 5e. It is the highest earning RPG kickstarter of all time.
Cosmere is beautiful, complex and the most extensive lore heavy game upon release likely ever.
Draw Steel
While not the level of Kickstarter success of Cosmere, Draw Steel was still a massive earner. The design team from MCDM is mostly people who produced wonderful 5e products, but are now releasing a system that emphasizes combat (tactical, heroic, cinematic) even more than D&D. The rules are crafted so that the feeling of conflicts is a reminder of watching a movie or TV show’s fight scenes.
Daggerheart
If Draw Steel is inspired by D&D, but wanting to be more combat, Daggerheart is inspired by D&D, but wanting to empower more story. Like Draw Steel and Cosmere, Daggerheart is a wholly new system. Most simply defined there is a Hope/Fear mechanic attached to the double-dice roll of players. Additionally it covers more ground about how to communally create the worlds and social interaction. Coming from Critical Role’s Darrington Press Daggerheart is designed to showcase the types of stories Critical Role excelled at.
Similar to Cosmere and D&D there is a wealth of media associated with it already — with more coming from the media arm of what was once a D&D actual play, but is now a multimedia company.
There are plenty of other games too — listing them all is foolhardy. Pathfinder and Starfinder, Legend of the Ring, Warhammer, Shadowdark and the list could go on.
But the zeitgeist right now seems to be focused on 2024 D&D versus a few upstarts with million dollar or more crowdfunding campaigns all coming out in the second half of 2025.
No matter what you choose — play more games.
#5e #Cosmere #Daggerheart #dd #DnD #DrawSteel #DungeonsAndDragons #LevelUp #PlayingDD #RolePlaying #RPG #StarterSets #TalesOfTheValiant #TTRPG
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This is a fan concept of thunderclast from Brandon Sanderson’s novel Stormlight Archive. 🌩️
This is the 1st iteration meant to serve as a base for variations to branch off from.
#stormlightarchive #thunderclast #cosmere #gamedev #indiegamedev #visdev #conceptdesign #conceptart #creatureart #creatureconcept #fantasyart #characterdesign
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Okay I’m caught up on all the #Mistborn era 1, #Elantris, and #Warbreaker books/stories. Do I dive into Mistborn era 2 or #StormlightArchive? #cosmere #BrandonSanderson
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so I’m almost done with Hero of Ages… do I go Warbreaker or Elantris next? #BrandonSanderson #Cosmere #Mistborn #Warbreaker #Elantris
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Ok I have skimmed a handful of profiles and think I'm ready to make #introduction draft 1.
Hi hi, I'm ⭐️ris (pronounce the star)!
I'm a 30-something year old #nonmonogamous #nonbinary person living approximately in #Seattle, #Washington in the USA.
I like fixing things whether that's #repair of stuff like furniture or vehicles or my friends' kids' toys, or #mending or altering clothes. I'm generally a #crafty dabbler into #DIY stuff. I've done knitting, crochet, embroidery, sewing, needle felting, cardboard construction, painting, digital illustration, carpentry, motorcycle and small engine repair, van/car maintenance... oh, and I like computer stuff too, it takes very little prompting to get me to make #spreadsheets for any given situation, and I've done a bit of programming in C, Python, and VBA for Microsoft office macros.I used to be conversational in Deutsch and 日本語, na hata sasa naelewa #Kiswahili and lately I've been semi trying to learn Tiếng Việt
I like #boardgames , especially cooperative or puzzle games, and #TTRPG s (I don't have a class main, but I do tend to play faces). I like to play some video games too, mostly RPGS, #sims (including some NSFW ones) and The Sims.
I like the #Cosmere and I'm currently reading/enjoying #TheLockedTomb series and #TheUnwanteds I mostly watch #queer family-friendly cartoons like #StevenUniverse and #TOH #TheOwlHouse
Right now I'm trying to follow Nicodemus's advice* and follow a bunch of people and tags and see what's out there to figure out what I'm doing on this platform
*https://docs.google.com/document/d/1D9gfeKg_-hlsU66R-dLEvUeyMsqEfyIx2pnfUeX0t_E/edit?usp=drivesdk -
Something something #introduction. Hi, I'm Auc, Elenyafinwe on #ao3, a simple hobbitdragon, that happens to be #queer and writes too many #fanfiction about gay Ninjas. Current fave pairing is Tobirama x Minato #TobiMina. You find links to my texts in the carrd linked in my profile. I talk about queer stuff, esp #trans and #enby, but also literature, #fantasy & #scifi, #games, my #birds, tv shows and random stuff. I also #knit & #crochet (you can throw money at me 😇)
Current fandoms are, among others:
- #Tolkien
- #Cosmere (or all of Brando Sando's works, esp #Stormlight)
- #Naruto (esp Founders)
- #GameOfThrones / #ASongOfIceAndFire / #HouseOfTheDragon
- #TheWitcher (game, books and show)
- #danmei in general (esp #mxtz, #mdzs, #TheUntamed, #FarawayWanderers, #WordOfHonor)
- #pokemon
- #StarTrek
- #FireEmblem / #fe3h
- and everything else, I'm reading, playing and watching atm#TransRights are human rights.
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Let me see...
We're also currently playing Lancer, which is fun but slow progressing.
Previously we played the Cosmere RPG, because a few of my friends seem to buy everything by Brandon Sanderson.
We played Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (4e). I was a priest of law in a party of vagabonds.
I ran Scum and Villainy (Blades in the Dark but sci-fi). I really liked running that system; I cribbed half the mission ideas from one Iain M Banks book.
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Let me see...
We're also currently playing Lancer, which is fun but slow progressing.
Previously we played the Cosmere RPG, because a few of my friends seem to buy everything by Brandon Sanderson.
We played Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (4e). I was a priest of law in a party of vagabonds.
I ran Scum and Villainy (Blades in the Dark but sci-fi). I really liked running that system; I cribbed half the mission ideas from one Iain M Banks book.
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Let me see...
We're also currently playing Lancer, which is fun but slow progressing.
Previously we played the Cosmere RPG, because a few of my friends seem to buy everything by Brandon Sanderson.
We played Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (4e). I was a priest of law in a party of vagabonds.
I ran Scum and Villainy (Blades in the Dark but sci-fi). I really liked running that system; I cribbed half the mission ideas from one Iain M Banks book.
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Let me see...
We're also currently playing Lancer, which is fun but slow progressing.
Previously we played the Cosmere RPG, because a few of my friends seem to buy everything by Brandon Sanderson.
We played Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay (4e). I was a priest of law in a party of vagabonds.
I ran Scum and Villainy (Blades in the Dark but sci-fi). I really liked running that system; I cribbed half the mission ideas from one Iain M Banks book.
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December 2025 art commission 🎨 Artist: @[email protected] 📖 Book: Wind and Truth ~ #spoilers #BrandonSanderson #Cosmere #StormlightArchive #WindAndTruthSpoilers #WindAndTruth
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CW: Wind and Truth spoilers
I’m almost done with Wind and Truth and god there is some silly writing in here. The part where Dalinar and the Stormfather are fucking around in Shadesmar. Roshar’s #1 man child is being advised by the warped simulacrum of Roshar’s previous #1 man child.
The flashback to where Tanavast betrays Ba Ado Mishram is great too. Rayse isn’t even playing 5D chess, he’s playing checkers while Tanavast is reading the rulebook.
#stormlight-archive #wind-and-truth #cosmere #Brandon-Sanderson #1 #1 -
CW: Wind and Truth spoilers
I’m almost done with Wind and Truth and god there is some silly writing in here. The part where Dalinar and the Stormfather are fucking around in Shadesmar. Roshar’s #1 man child is being advised by the warped simulacrum of Roshar’s previous #1 man child.
The flashback to where Tanavast betrays Ba Ado Mishram is great too. Rayse isn’t even playing 5D chess, he’s playing checkers while Tanavast is reading the rulebook.
#stormlight-archive #wind-and-truth #cosmere #Brandon-Sanderson #1 #1 -
October 2024 art commission 🎨 Artist: www.instagram.com/sanexiah/ 📖 Book: Wind and Truth ~ #spoilers #BrandonSanderson #Cosmere #StormlightArchive #WindAndTruth
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CW: Wind and Truth out of context minor spoilers
I can’t believe Brandon Sanderson wrote critical race theory Dalinar in WaT. King Racist of Racistville says racism is fake, to the first therapist ever. And then does nothing about it. This is the goofiest shit ever, especially since people who have finished the book tell me he never acts on this ever again.
Let me be clear, I’m glad Brandon is aware that Stormlight’s racial constructs are fucked up, but I think this is goofy bc it’s a watsonian solution to a doylist problem.
#stormlight-archive #cosmere #wind-and-truth #wind-and-truth-spoilers -
CW: Wind and Truth out of context minor spoilers
I can’t believe Brandon Sanderson wrote critical race theory Dalinar in WaT. King Racist of Racistville says racism is fake, to the first therapist ever. And then does nothing about it. This is the goofiest shit ever, especially since people who have finished the book tell me he never acts on this ever again.
Let me be clear, I’m glad Brandon is aware that Stormlight’s racial constructs are fucked up, but I think this is goofy bc it’s a watsonian solution to a doylist problem.
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Szeth is doing his math homework, and getting to DIVISION! #spoilers #BrandonSanderson #Cosmere #StormlightArchive #WindAndTruthSpoilers #WindAndTruth
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April 2025 bonus art commission 🎨 Artist: @[email protected] 📖 Book: Wind and Truth ~ #spoilers #BrandonSanderson #Cosmere #StormlightArchive #WindAndTruthSpoilers #WindAndTruth
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June 2025 art commission 🎨 Artist: @paintweaver.bsky.social 📖 Book: Wind and Truth ~ #spoilers #BrandonSanderson #Cosmere #StormlightArchive #WindAndTruthSpoilers #WindAndTruth
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May 2025 bonus art commission 🎨 Artist: bio.site/emily.e 📖 Book: Wind and Truth ~ #spoilers #BrandonSanderson #Cosmere #StormlightArchive #WindAndTruthSpoilers #WindAndTruth
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April 2025 art commission 🎨 Artist: @mushimallo.bsky.social 📖 Book: Wind and Truth ~ #spoilers #BrandonSanderson #Cosmere #StormlightArchive #WindAndTruthSpoilers #WindAndTruth
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April 2025 art commission 🎨 Artist: @mushimallo.bsky.social 📖 Book: Wind and Truth ~ #spoilers #BrandonSanderson #Cosmere #StormlightArchive #WindAndTruthSpoilers #WindAndTruth
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April 2025 art commission 🎨 Artist: @mushimallo.bsky.social 📖 Book: Wind and Truth ~ #spoilers #BrandonSanderson #Cosmere #StormlightArchive #WindAndTruthSpoilers #WindAndTruth
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Vent et Vérité (volume 1) sort aujourd'hui chez le Livre de Poche !
Traduit par Mélanie Fazi, c'est la 1ère partie du 5ème tome des Archives de Roshar, qui conclut le premier arc narratif de la saga.#brandonsanderson #cosmere #roshar #lesarchivesderoshar #ventetverite #windandtruth
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Hey, plus que 2 jours avant la sortie de la 1ère partie de Vent et Vérité, le 5ème tome des Archives de Roshar !
Toi aussi tu ne te souviens plus très bien du tome précédent ?
On t'a préparé un petit récap :)Le résumé express de Rythme de guerre, c'est par ici :
https://cosmere.fr/roshar/livres/rythme-de-guerre-2#resume-express#brandonsanderson #cosmere #roshar #lesarchivesderoshar #ventetverite #rythmedeguerre #windandtruth #rhythmofwar