Brandon Sanderson's Stormlight Archive TTRPG Makes $1M In Under An Hour

The highly anticipated Stormlight Archives TTRPG Kickstarter--now renamed the Cosmere RPG--broke the million dollar barrier in under an hour, joining the million dollar Kickstarter club.

Published by Brotherwise Games, the game encompasses Brandon Sanderson's entire universe of novels. It includes a world guide, a rulebook, and an adventure called Stormlight Stonewalkers. It's a new game system, based on a d20 mechanic with talent trees and skill-based magic.

The question now is whether it can beat the Avatar Legends TTRPG's almost $10M record? Avatar hit the million dollar mark after the first few hours, so--at least at this point--the Cosmere RPG is tracking ahead of it. Brandon Sanderson already holds the Kickstarter record for the most funded project ever--his novel series made over $40M on Kickstarter in 2023!

 

[Parmandur]

Currently has the biggest first day in TTRPG crowdfunding history, and the day just started.

 

[darjr]

Demiplane has a Nexus up for it already.
Free to try and a free adventure!

Demiplane already has a Cosmere Nexus where you can try it free.

Cosmere Roleplaying Game NEXUS - The Official Digital Toolset for the Cosmere Roleplaying Game

Cosmere Roleplaying Game NEXUS enhances your game, with features such as a digital reader, rules and lore compendium, character builder, and interactive character sheet, as well as a playspace with matchmaking and video chat where all the other features are fully integrated.

app.demiplane.com

 

[Parmandur]

$1.75 million from 5,779 backe4w at just under two hours.

 

[Distracted DM]

Thank goodness it's not dnd5e-compatible.

 

[Parmandur]

Thank goodness it's not dnd5e-compatible.

Per their FAQ, they wanted a non-Class based progession, so while this is heavily 5E ("d20") based (Advantage/Disadvantage, etc) they are making something quite new here.

 

[Reynard]

Fantasy Grounds support too.

 

[Baumi]

Is this related to Mistborn or another world with other magic?

 

[Cergorach]

This just hit $2 million, Brotherwise Games has never done an RPG before, just board games and minis for the BS universe. Don't know how much trust I would put into that. But it's BS, so it's gonna sell extremely well! I think they'll blow past that $10 million mark. Especially with a $385 collector pledge and a retailer pledge, all aboard the hype train!

The previous Mistborne RPG was by Crafty Games (of SpyCraft fame/infamy) from 2011, back when BS wasn't all that popular, like he is now...

I see the list of 24 people working on it and I don't recognize one name. But that isn't that strange, I don't know a lot of modern designers these days...

 

[Parmandur]

Is this related to Mistborn or another world with other magic?

This Kickstarter is for two worlds, Stormlight and Mistborn, and they are planning to use the same underlying system for other Sanderson worlds in the future.