Wizards of the Coast's Archetype Entertainment to Publish Exodus TTRPG Based on Upcoming Exodus Video Game

Jensaarai · Mar 23, 2025

pukunui said:
@Jensaarai: Are you able to speak to the time dilation mechanics at all? That's the bit I'm most interested in.

Thanks also for the book order link. Unfortunately, I can't afford it. US$28.55 for the book, US$39.99 for shipping to NZ. US$68.54 = ~NZ$120.

Dang, that's not cheap... I hope they'll put out PDFs sometime soon; any sorta online play would basically require something like that I think.

And sure, I can go over the time dilation a little bit. There's a table right near the beginning of the book, that side-note caused a bit of surprised laughter at how far we were jumping in already with this book.

This lays it out in brief, and then there's a chapter later on that details the random life events that your Anchors (NPCs that your character has a personal connection to, and who help keep you tethered to your home as it changes more and more after each return) can go through while you're gone. It's a bit of accelerated narrative that I kinda like, kicks things forward in interesting ways if you come back and your kid is now an adult with children of their own, or suffered a life-changing accident, or become estranged because of a sense of abandonment.

Lots of narrative juice to be squeezed there, IMHO, and those events will compound and evolve as time passes for them, less so yourself. There's also events that can happen to your entire homeworld, encourage or facilitated by the actions you take with certain artifacts and factions.

Parmandur · Mar 23, 2025

Jensaarai said:
Dang, that's not cheap... I hope they'll put out PDFs sometime soon; any sorta online play would basically require something like that I think.

And sure, I can go over the time dilation a little bit. There's a table right near the beginning of the book, that side-note caused a bit of surprised laughter at how far we were jumping in already with this book.
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This lays it out in brief, and then there's a chapter later on that details the random life events that your Anchors (NPCs that your character has a personal connection to, and who help keep you tethered to your home as it changes more and more after each return) can go through while you're gone. It's a bit of accelerated narrative that I kinda like, kicks things forward in interesting ways if you come back and your kid is now an adult with children of their own, or suffered a life-changing accident, or become estranged because of a sense of abandonment.

Lots of narrative juice to be squeezed there, IMHO, and those events will compound and evolve as time passes for them, less so yourself. There's also events that can happen to your entire homeworld, encourage or facilitated by the actions you take with certain artifacts and factions.

I gotta be honest, pretty impressed with how much they put into this.

Parmandur · Mar 23, 2025

Jensaarai said:
There's also events that can happen to your entire homeworld

Do they have a set list of possible homeworlds, or is there a world randomization or building guide...?

Metroido · Mar 23, 2025

Reynard said:
It is still asking for a Founder's code. They are seriously only offering this to people who pre-order the video game?

You don't have to pre-order the video game. All you had to do was sign up to be on their mailing list. That's what makes you a "founder."

Jensaarai · Mar 23, 2025

Parmandur said:
Do they have a set list of possible homeworlds, or is there a world randomization or building guide...?

Yes, but also no? I'm gonna lean more 'no.'

There's a list of example Traveler Dynasties, which your character becomes a part of for the purposes of leveling. These Dynasties give a brief description and history of their leaders depending on the Era you are in (how much time has passed back home), along with a little mention of the world they're established on. Lidon and the Aslan Dynasty I think might get the most word-space, since it pops up throughout the book and IIRC is also where the game is going to be set at.

The book offers the idea of customizing or coming up with your own unique Dynasties, though I'm really expecting the "Encyclopedia" to go into much more detail on this, since it's referenced so often in the benefits that each Dynasty gives you. I'm also hoping it gives more info on the specific worlds mentioned, like Melayu. I have thoughts that "Chronicles of Melayu" will be either some sort of campaign book, or a more in-depth look at that world and its Dynasty in particular.

Nikosandros · Mar 23, 2025

Jensaarai said:
That link has the code in there already, for free use;

Underlined it for ya

edit; to clarify, I didn't preorder this game either lol, just got the book cause it looked cool

Thanks for the link. I just ordered the book. I haven't ordered the game, since I really haven't played any videogame in quite some time, but I'm interested in the tabletop version.

Reynard · Mar 23, 2025

Shipping is surprisingly expensive.

Yaarel · Mar 23, 2025

Jensaarai said:
I am certainly still more than a bit hesitant about the game. There's definitely tons of enthusiasm and dedication on display publicly from the devs and social media, but the bits of gameplay footage we got to see in some of those trailers didn't necessarily 'wow' me all that much.

But, then again, the initial gameplay trailers for something like Baldur's Gate 3 didn't 'wow' me either, and that turned into a home-run lol.

Exodus is a 5e setting. We can play around with it just like we can play around with any kind of D&D setting. We can add Elf and Orc if we feel like it, and planet Menzoberranzan.

The point is, this is a solid setting. The premise of diversity via time dilatations is robust and can handle many setting concepts.

Hopefully, Exodus will open up to DMsGuild when the video comes out, for people to create more adventures for.

Dire Bare · Mar 23, 2025

Yaarel said:
Exodus is a 5e setting. We can play around with it just like we can play around with any kind of D&D setting. We can add Elf and Orc if we feel like it, and planet Menzoberranzan.

The point is, this is a solid setting. The premise of diversity via time dilatations is robust and can handle many setting concepts.

Hopefully, Exodus will open up to DMsGuild when the video comes out, for people to create more adventures for.

I'm curious if Exodus will be added to D&D Beyond, and also opened up on the DM's Guild . . . it would make sense to me for both to happen, but we'll see.

Spectral Anomaly · Mar 23, 2025

Dire Bare said:
I'm curious if Exodus will be added to D&D Beyond, and also opened up on the DM's Guild . . . it would make sense to me for both to happen, but we'll see.

That would make a whole lot of sense...

Which probably means we can expect WotC to create a new division tasked with creating an entirely new character creation system/VTT/backend/storefront from scratch.

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