Does Anyone Care? (Cosmere RPG)

bedir than · 2026-03-14T15:39:50+0000

Number 2 RPG in Fall 2025

People will still insist no one cares?

Parmandur · 2026-03-14T15:54:20+0000

bedir than said:
Number 2 RPG in Fall 2025

People will still insist no one cares?

Nobody I know voted for Nixon, as they say.

It does seem the game is more converting Cosmere novel readers to game players and growing the hobby than getting existing hobbyists to play a Cosmere game.

mamba · 2026-03-15T03:53:04+0000

bedir than said:
Number 2 RPG in Fall 2025

People will still insist no one cares?

since this can be explained by the Kickstarter fulfilling… If you can say that after the biggest TTRPG kickstarter, this won’t change a thing

smcc360 · 2026-03-15T10:43:36+0000

My friend, a Sanderson fan, just got the game and is planning to run it. I have almost no experience with the novels (about 10% into The Way of Kings), so I'll be experiencing the setting unencumbered by preconceptions. I'm not the world's biggest 5E fan, but he tells me this is a much-improved version of it.

Parmandur · 2026-03-15T11:50:01+0000

smcc360 said:
My friend, a Sanderson fan, just got the game and is planning to run it. I have almost no experience with the novels (about 10% into The Way of Kings), so I'll be experiencing the setting unencumbered by preconceptions. I'm not the world's biggest 5E fan, but he tells me this is a much-improved version of it.

Sort of, it has a fair bit of 5E DNA, but a lot of Fantasy Flight Games Warhammer/Star Wars DNA as well (same designers that sjeed to work at FFG back in the day made this).

Parmandur · 2026-03-15T11:51:05+0000

mamba said:
since this can be explained by the Kickstarter fulfilling… If you can say that after the biggest TTRPG kickstarter, this won’t change a thing

All the evidence I have seen indicates it is selling beyond the initial Kickstarter (one of the few RPG products that got a "sold so many hundred copies in the last month" notes regularly on Amazon, for instance).

mamba · 2026-03-15T12:46:16+0000

Parmandur said:
All the evidence I have seen indicates it is selling beyond the initial Kickstarter (one of the few RPG products that got a "sold so many hundred copies in the last month" notes regularly on Amazon, for instance).

I expect it to sell in some capacity after the KS. I am not saying no one cares, I have no idea how many do.

My point was that when after the largest TTRPG Kickstarter ever you can claim that no one cares about it, then this #2 spot, which they mostly got from that KS fulfilling, won’t change that opinion. Maybe being on that list again next quarter will, it certainly makes the claim less defensible

Parmandur · 2026-03-15T12:49:14+0000

mamba said:
I expect it to sell in some capacity after the KS. I am not saying no one cares, I have no idea how many do.

My point was that when after the largest TTRPG Kickstarter ever you can claim that no one cares about it, then this #2 spot, which they mostly got from that KS fulfilling, won’t change that opinion. Maybe being on that list again next quarter will, it certainly makes the claim less defensible

The game is buzzing hard in Cosmere fan cjrcles (a couple million people strong), but less so in grgnard RPG hobby spaces.

zakael19 · 2026-03-15T12:56:28+0000

Most of my non-fora hobby spaces are non-grognard and I don't see any mention of Cosmere at all. The large (thousands of members) metro area meetup discord I'm in had (1) mention of somebody wanting to play it when it released. It's had folks forming DH / DS! / endless D&D / Shadowdark / PF2 / etc games in the last month.