Does Anyone Care? (Cosmere RPG)

[Retros_x]

(except that he hated the Wheel of Time series and worked quite hard to help it fail)

Thats quite the accusation and I am pretty sure its not true. Same as Brian Johnson does not hate Star Wars. But fans tend to project a lot when the relationship with their beloved franchise is disrupted.

I was originally quite disinterested in the Cosmere RPG because I first heard about it being described as "5e clone", but from what I've read here and elsewhere it actualy does quite a lot different than 5e. Are there some free rules similar to D&D or a test read available?

 

[Ruin Explorer]

I count "pretty good" as "got well over what they asked for" not absolute amount. If you don't need a lot, asking for a lot makes no sense.

Nothing is going to get those high end assigns unless they have a popular IP or are hooked to a creator with a very strong presence. I don't think that has anything to do with what I was talking about.

LOL obviously it does. Trivially obviously.

I don't think comparing absolute value is necessary. If you do, that's on you but I'll thank you to not be insulting because I have a different view of it.

Come on.

Obviously it's a bigger deal if something which thousands of people spent millions on vanished without a trace than if it's something only dozens or hundreds of people cared about in the first place. A TTRPG that makes $10K is fine to make what they want, but you then claiming that has "vanished without a trace" is laughable, because every single person who owned it might be playing/running it and we still wouldn't because that's a very very small number of people!

And I don't agree. I think you've essentially trying for a tautology.

Well you certainly haven't even slightly disproven my point. All your examples show is "something few people were interested in the KS of was still that way after the KS!", not that this is common generally.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Thats quite the accusation and I am pretty sure its not true. Same as Brian Johnson does not hate Star Wars. But fans tend to project a lot when the relationship with their beloved franchise is disrupted.

Yeah same with The Witcher tv series. We got two ridiculous narratives out of that, firstly that Cavill was a nasty and hateful person to the rest of the crew, which seems to have been made up by a guy with like 50 followers on Twitter (and zero connection to or knowledge of the show), and then alt-right psychos flipped this around and said Cavill "rightfully" hated the "Woke" (lol?!) show and was in huge conflict with the showrunners . Neither has any supporting evidence, and both a ton of evidence against them, not least that people who worked on the show, even the showrunner, spoke fondly about Cavill, but awful Witcher fans/haters (I mean, is there a difference?), to this day, repeat both as if they were gospel truth. It all seems to stem from an intentional misrepresentation of a comment from one of the writers or the showrunner after S1 that Cavill sometimes came to them with lore tidbits that he thought should be included or modified in the script (which is, like, pretty normal).

(There's also the claim that he got fired because he was bad/quit because the show was too far from the books - both of which seem implausible. Whereas we know from actual reporter-done reporting that Cavill was told by his then-manager, The Rock's ex (I forget her name) who was on good terms with The Rock (then a "big deal" in the DCU thanks to the Black Adam movie, not yet a flop I believe), that he'd got the part in a new Superman movie, that it was a done deal, a fact, just hadn't been done on paper yet (Hollywood!!!), and he needed to make time in his schedule for that, and that's exactly what the timing on when he quit is right for. Hell The Rock's claim via his ex may even have been true! But when Gunn got appointed to head of the DCU just months later, well before that film went into production, obviously that changed and we got a totally different Superman movie. This is all quite a while ago now given Gunn's Superman movie came out! And shortly after that, Cavill fired The Rock's ex as his manager, perhaps unsurprisingly.)

Sorry just a random example that seemed very apposite to this point!

 

[Vendral]

Plotweaver RPG will probably mostly serve to allow DMs to weave Elf Wizards, Dwarven Clerics, computer hackers, and non-IP infringing Jedi into their campaigns.

This part intrigues me. I knew nothing about Cosmere before reading this thread and the only books I read from Sanderson is Skywards series.
Could Plotweaver be a good chassis to play a Shadowrun-like world in?

 

[Parmandur]

Thats quite the accusation and I am pretty sure its not true. Same as Brian Johnson does not hate Star Wars. But fans tend to project a lot when the relationship with their beloved franchise is disrupted.

I was originally quite disinterested in the Cosmere RPG because I first heard about it being described as "5e clone", but from what I've read here and elsewhere it actualy does quite a lot different than 5e. Are there some free rules similar to D&D or a test read available?

The basic rules and a character builder are up on Demiplane for free:

Demiplane

Find Your Next Adventure On Demiplane - Matchmaking, Video, Voice, Shared Journaling, And Much More To Come!

app.demiplane.com

 

[Parmandur]

This part intrigues me. I knew nothing about Cosmere before reading this thread and the only books I read from Sanderson is Skywards series.
Could Plotweaver be a good chassis to play a Shadowrun-like world in?

Yes, I would say so: the next series Sanderson is working on, the Ghistblood trilogy, is actually going to be a 1980s tech level secondary world fa easy with a cold war and computers plus magic, and eventually he plans to do a Cyberpunk Fantasy sequel series too.

 

[Parmandur]

I'm very intrigued by this and have no concept of what Sanderson's about (except that he hated the Wheel of Time series and worked quite hard to help it fail).

Honestly, Sanderson bent over backwards to help the Wheel of Time TV show with the WoT fandom.

 

[Neonchameleon]

I was originally quite disinterested in the Cosmere RPG because I first heard about it being described as "5e clone", but from what I've read here and elsewhere it actualy does quite a lot different than 5e. Are there some free rules similar to D&D or a test read available?

There's some quick start material and an online character creator on Demiplane. Quick version is it's mostly the Genysis (Star Wars FFG with custom dice) RPG on a d20 chassis

 

[BrokenTwin]

Yeah, "Sanderson hated WoT" is a weird take I've never heard before. Dude's a plenty successful author on his own, he wouldn't have done the WoT work he did if he didn't want to.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Yeah, "Sanderson hated WoT" is a weird take I've never heard before. Dude's a plenty successful author on his own, he wouldn't have done the WoT work he did if he didn't want to.

They mean the TV series, not the books, but it's equally implausible. I'm not sure Sanderson actually hates anything, let alone that he has enough time with churning out implausible numbers of pages per year to get mad about TV shows.