Does Anyone Care? (Cosmere RPG)

[plecostomus]

The main thing that indicates is that the RPG has not yet reached the full potential of juat Sanderson fans: which makes sense, the Stormlight novels alone have sold over 10 million copies, which divided by 5 is still representing something like 20 times greater than the number of people who backed the Kickstarter.

The even more successful "Secret Projects" novel Kickstarter got national news coverage, and Sanderson says he constantly meets people who love his books who say they never heard about the Kickstarter...and those books actually sold more copies in bookstores than they did in the crowdfunding.

Just because your DM didn't jump on the bandwagon doesn't speak much to the quality of the game, maybe more his not really hearing about it or maybe being skeptical about the results.

But we have the books now, and as game rules they are great.

Oh yeah, I did not mean to suggest anything about the quality of the game. I was more looking at that title question and the game's prospects- Does anyone care? Well my DM certainly doesn't. And that to me is really strange, because he loves ttrpgs and he loves Sanderson books. So something about this project has not spoken to him despite that.

 

[Parmandur]

Oh yeah, I did not mean to suggest anything about the quality of the game. I was more looking at that title question and the game's prospects- Does anyone care? Well my DM certainly doesn't. And that to me is really strange, because he loves ttrpgs and he loves Sanderson books. So something about this project has not spoken to him despite that.

I'd look at that the opposite way: that means the RPG hasn't maxed out it's audience yet before hitting retail. Maybe your DM just hasn't bothered really looking yet, but when the books are on the shelves of the FLGS...he might take a look.

 

[Thomas Shey]

IP games are generally a flash in the pan with fans buying them and that’s it.

Its hard to see to what degree that's really true, because the truth is a lot of rpgs are flashes in the pan. I'm not sure IP focused games do any worse than the hobby as a whole here.