Does Anyone Care? (Cosmere RPG)

[Cergorach]

Heaven forbid that cool popular things appeal to people...

The reality TV show Big Brother has been popular for 25+ years, but we don't need a pnp RPG for that either...

You can like something, that there's a pnp RPG for your like is great for you! You just don't need to push it like it's the best thing since sliced bread! Nor do you need to justify yourself for backing something you like and then proclaiming "Everyone likes it!", while some of us say "No we don't! Most of us don't!"... In the same way a LOT of us have no interest in Daggerheart. No need to get defensive...

If you look at any actual reviews oft he game, it is actually quite good design from a pure TTRPG side. I feel pretty comfortable with he grognard marker here.

The problem with that is that it's either reviews by outlets like IGN or by diehard fans, which have a very different perspective. It's like reading reviews about whiskey by alcoholics... None of my regular pnp RPG 'reviewers' have posted anything about this game and I wonder if some of them ever will. The RPG.net review database has no reviews for example. The DTRPG reviews of 'Cosmere RPG | Stormlight Handbook' are unhelpful at best, after 8 months there are only 5 5-star ratings and one written review that's no more then "A great Evolution of the D20 system, with a boundless classless system. It's great."... Sorry, but that's just not credible to me. OR should we take the one written review for 'Cosmere RPG | Stormlight World Guide' from a fan? They rated it a 2 out of 5 stars...

Not to mention that those PDFs of the books are rated as 'Platinum' on DTRPG, which means that in 8 months they sold only 1001-2000 copies. The Demiplane (Electrum) and Roll20 (none) versions sold even less on DTRPG... 'Legend in the Mist - Core Book' sold better (Mithril, 2001+) on DTRPG, in 7 months it's been available. Which had just over 8k backers during it's KS...

Note: Availability on DTRPG I looked at the "Added to Catalog" date, which Morrus noted is not the actual date folks can start buying the product...

 

[Parmandur]

It's like reading reviews about whiskey by alcoholics

I would not want a whiskey review from a teetotaler.

Not sure how familiar you are with this at all, nor sure why you seem so angry about it...?

 

[Cergorach]

Not sure how familiar you are with this at all, nor sure why you seem so angry about it...?

I'm not angry about it, just realistic, the OP was asking the question of 'anyone'... I think I qualify as 'anyone'?

Where I do get annoyed is when folks say "If you look at any actual reviews oft he game...", which ones exactly? Which reviews are actually good and not viewed through fan glasses? As opposed to what you want to hear and push?

I do see that the Dice Tower posted a video on Cosmere review a couple of hours ago, but I don't go to the DT for my pnp RPG reviews... If Tom Vasel did a review, I would probably watch, but keep in mind that Tom is a big BS fan...

 

[Parmandur]

I'm not angry about it, just realistic, the OP was asking the question of 'anyone'... I think I qualify as 'anyone'?

Where I do get annoyed is when folks say "If you look at any actual reviews oft he game...", which ones exactly? Which reviews are actually good and not viewed through fan glasses? As opposed to what you want to hear and push?

I do see that the Dice Tower posted a video on Cosmere review a couple of hours ago, but I don't go to the DT for my pnp RPG reviews... If Tom Vasel did a review, I would probably watch, but keep in mind that Tom is a big BS fan...

The question was not "does anyone not care?" Plenty of people don't care all sorts of things.

There have been plenty of reviews out there, if you care to look. The game is quite good, aside from the connection to the novels. Personally, I'm looking forward to the generic version because this game has much bigger potential than just as a Cosmere emulator.

 

[Aldarc]

I think it has excellent penetration amongst fans of the series as you noted, I’m just not seeing it splash in the wider TTRPG realm much.

This is really the issue. I am not invested in the success or failure of the Cosmere TTRPG. However, the only people I see hyping this game up are Sanderson fans, and generally only Sanderson fans who play TTRPGs. That may be a lot. I don't know. Purely anecdotally, on the Knights of the Last Call Discord, which has a number of people who play all sorts of different TTRPGs across the spectrum outside of D&D 5e and f20 games, there's not much talk at all about the Cosmere TTRPG. The game has even been covered by the channel on YouTube too.