That's like asking if I consider a certain cookbook part of the Food Network Culinary Universe: a cookbook is a tool to guide in making something, not Scripture.
Is Paizo selling that content in a publication...? Did WotC sell third party content in Dragon or Dungeon magazine...?
My point isn't exactly that it should or should not count, but that the situation is so different as to make the comparison inexaxt, apples to oranges.
But at this point, if...
Probably not hurting the total to combine them, though.
The biggest amount of interest is that the Books are very popular, and people want that absurdist style to play at the table.
Not at all. They can be followed, and successfully. They can be happily enough undershot, and you would have to be a psychopath to overshoot them, but you cna build and run a dungeon to 5E assumptions.
In fact, doing so is a pretty good horror experienxe, or at least an action experience with...
As a clarifying update: one of the stretch goals they flew by in day two was "all RPG backers get the Season Pass at all tiers", so even someone who just gets the Starter Set at the lowest $55 pledge gets the Season Pass as part of the deal.
I had the surreal experience of browsing the rule examples yesterday, and then starting the book for the first time in the evening and going "oh, hey, this is just the game they are making now"...
Brotherwise Games has put out a playtesters call for the forthcoming Cosmere Solo rules product:
"Life before death. Strength before weakness. Playtesting before publication!"
- The First Cosmere RPG Ideal
"We're seeking playtesters for the the Cosmere Solo Handbook! This book provides...
Brotherwise Games has put out a playtesters call for the forthcoming Cosmere Solo rules product:
"Life before death. Strength before weakness. Playtesting before publication!"
- The First Cosmere RPG Ideal
"We're seeking playtesters for the the Cosmere Solo Handbook! This book provides...
I'm not sure the book is to my taste fully, but enjoying getting into the first one now. Lit-RPG is one of the first things to give me real "Get Off My Lawn, You Darn Kids" energy, but I'm happy for the people who like it.
It will be fascinating to watch this play out. DC had more backers on day 1 and 2 than Cosmere, but smaller dollar totals, but the number of examples of TTRPG Kickstarters of this magnitude is just two, so how it legs out will be fun. The Backertracker spread currently is $7.5-$22.38 million...