Wizards of the Coast's Archetype Entertainment to Publish Exodus TTRPG Based on Upcoming Exodus Video Game

Archetype Entertainment is publishing a new TTRPG based on their upcoming video game.

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In something of a surprise, a video game division of Wizards of the Coast has announced plans to publish EXODUS Traveler’s Handbook, a new tabletop RPG based on their upcoming video game. Archetype Entertainment, a division of Wizards of the Coast, announced plans to publish the new rulebook, with details about the upcoming release found on Archetype's website. The book is being made available to followers of the upcoming game first, starting on December 11th. Details on how to get a copy of the limited quantity book can be found here.

EXODUS Traveler’s Handbook was designed by James Ohlen, who created Exodus and was previously designing tabletop RPG books via his Arcanum Worlds imprint prior to joining Wizards and Archetype Entertainment. Arcanum Worlds had published a 5E third party supplement called Odyssey of the Dragonlords and several D&D 5E supplements on the DMs Guild.

Exodus is a new sci-fi video game that deals with human space colonists fighting against the antagonistic descendants of humanity known as Celestials. The game involves time dilation in space travel, which is why there are both humans and their evolved futuristic descendants in the same game.

Currently, it is unclear whether the TTRPG version of Exodus will use some version of Dungeons & Dragons 5E or if it will be a bespoke new game system. EN World has reached out to Wizards for clarification.

A description of the new RPG can be found below:

• Celebrate with Us – This special FOUNDERS TTRPG edition was created by James Ohlen, the creative visionary behind the highly anticipated EXODUS video game.

• Explore the vast world of EXODUS – Face the challenges of this dark and dangerous futuristic world, set in the expanded universe of the EXODUS video game.

• Become the Traveler – Your destiny is to lead the Travelers, in the hunt to steal alien weapons and technology from the most powerful enemy in this universe – the Celestials.

• Confront Time Dilation – Choices you make create consequences changing the fate of those you love most – and reshaping the future of your entire civilization for generations.
 

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Christian Hoffer

Christian Hoffer

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Well, it looks like not-Mass Effect 4, so I suspect it will have similar gameplay. Action CRPG with pause.

Looking at current trends, the authors, and the general hatred towards co-op in the Mass Effect games (didn't the enhanced edition strip it out of 2&3?) my guess it will be single player, and you will play a particular character (like Shepard or Geralt).
Not my preference, but I liked Mass Effect 1 & 2.
 

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reemul

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Doesn't WotC already have enough of an exodus? A few more comments about monetization of the fans, replacing the remaining artists with AI, and another warehouse or two of unwanted garbage MtG cards should mostly max the category.
 


Parmandur

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Not my preference, but I liked Mass Effect 1 & 2.
Yeah, not really too jazzed for the video game as video game yet: they haven't really shown anything to speak of. But the Setting is interesting, and hot on the heels of loving the novel (my wife said it is the happiest she has seen me reading a book in quite a while), and the track record of Ohlen with TTRPG material along with his definite enthusiasm the Setting...the TTRPG is very exciting to me right now.

Maybe he video game will be when we see something lol
 
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But the celestial aren't a monolithic faction then this could mean lower advanced civilitations could be used as pawns in some proxy war.

If the system will be not leveling up like in d20 then players wouldn't worry too much to find a right power balance when they added their own homemade ideas, and these could borrow from other franchises, for example the mind-upload and digital inmortality of Transhumanism genre, for example Eclipse Phase RPG.

Let's imagine the implications of transhumanism and time-dilatation. You are a traveler and when you return to home your family is dead... but their minds were uploaded to new bodies, and there a digital memory of your other self with the memory of living with your original family.
 






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