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!

 

[Morrus]

At 30,000 backers printing costs are becoming more advantageous. Gets better with every additional 10,000 copies.

Yes, economies of scale are a big thing in book printing!

 

[Parmandur]

Yes, economies of scale are a big thing in book printing!

I suspect that is a big reason why they are doing Mistborn at the same time: as it stands this afternoon, they are going to their printer with over 100,000 books to be printed.

 

[Morrus]

I suspect that is a big reason why they are doing Mistborn at the same time: as it stands this afternoon, they are going to their printer with over 100,000 books to be printed.

Well it’s per book. You don’t add the different books together.

 

[Parmandur]

Well it’s per book. You don’t add the different books together.

True, but 6 orders of 20,000+ books could help their longterm relationship with a supplier.

 

[Parmandur]

They posted this new image from the Miatborn Era 2 portion of thst campaign setting, showing a pistol-toating Steelpusher in a flapper dress and par to the map of the main city campaign hub:

 

[Parmandur]

Full page piece of art from the Stormlight Campaign book:

 

[Parmandur]

Tonight, they dropped a bit of a Mistborn RPG design diary, detailing a bit how the basic "Heroic Path" careers will be different due to how different the Settings are (for example: no spirit-powered fabrials on Scadrial, so the Artifabrian magitech talent tree is replaced by the Inventor, a more science-y option also fitting as there is less classicla science on Roshar), and announced a Mistborn mini-Adventure pack for backers:

A sample of what an Allomancy talent tree looks like:

And a bunch of Mistborn art:

 

[Parmandur]

Today is the halfway point through the campaign, with $8.2 million they are on pace to pass Avatar Legends around Friday, possibly pass $10 million a few days before the campaign ends.

They talked in tonight's update about narrative Gosls, which ate the leveling up mechanic, and Rewards, which includes Items, Allies, Rank, etc. All physical backers will get 9 Spren cards as part of the item deck:

Some cool art and info:

 

[Parmandur]

Still on track to pass Avatar Legends around Friday, currently approaching $8.6 million. Up to the 4th Most Backed TTRPG KickStarter with 29k backing.

 

[Parmandur]

Tonight's update is that every backer who gets the dice set will get a third Plot die:

They also talked about the Artifabrian specialty for he Scholar career, and the crafting rules that will allow for the creation of custom magitech items: