Dragonsteel Nexus | State of the Cosmere RPG Recap

[@xintrosi6829]

"We thought it would be around 200 pages and we landed around... 382." Sounds aligned to the spirit of Sanderson!

[@Cremspren]

It's great to see everything on track. I can't wait to find a group in my new town and start exploring the Cosmere.

[@John-lo2wn]

Tried playing at Dragonsteel, really enjoyed it. The fast and slow turns added surprising depth to combat, but the plot dice stole the show. I just hosted my 5e curse of strand game last weekend and added the plot dice in as a mechanic. Players loved it. Once my current campaign wraps up (2027 probably) this is the next one.

[@clockworktuba]

Not me pausing to read every word of the Stoneward pages... Cannot wait to get these books in my hands.

[@TLhikan]

No WaT spoilers but, after finishing the book, I’m really excited to see how some things get translated to the RPG.

[@benjaminrollins4400]

Thanks for sharing! Very much looking forward to all this RPG unfolds in the Cosmere. I can't wait to start hosting both digital and in-person games this time next year!!!

[@dylanbeazer2506]

Thanks for the update for those of us who couldn’t make it to the con. Is there a plan to post the full video potentially? I think I’m most excited for Worldhoppers (or whichever one lets me play with aethers).

[@Cyd_Goblin]

I hope we get as much access as possible to quality images of the art! It's really gorgeous and I want to make cool tokens and splash/landing pages for my players on VTT

[@saul94923]

So so so so happy to see the vigilant stance changes and the fact that stances are 1 cost now. Goes to show that you guys are listening!

[@fuurinkazan164]

Warbreaker is 100% the one I want most (after Mistborn and Stormlight of course).

[@lordultimus559]

I'm hoping the Worldhopper comes out sooner than others, just because I want to see if it includes all the bits in the Cosmere we haven't seen yet.

[@obviousalias132]

I love the attention to canon. I recently got an Assassin's Creed TTRPG and the fact that it is in canon limbo does put a slight damper on my enjoyment of it (also makes it really hard as a wiki editor to deal with).

[@Doc_sun]

Hype! First! That Blured Aon Dor.... also not that copy of GammaWorld on the shelf... omg memories.

[@GreatDood5]

Man I cant wait to get my hands on all the merch I ordered with the Kickstater

[@robertdebroeck8291]

Thank you so much for the video! Super excited for stormlight and mistborn and whatever comes next for the Cosmere RPG

[@MosesBirmelin]

Very exciting! Thanks for the update

[@EricMesa]

So excited to get my goodies next year

[@Storm-Shard]

I am so ready for this!!! Thank you for the updates!

[@Vixielicious]

I am vibrating with excitement. Is it September 2025 yet?

[@Radiant_Veil]

i need this so bad

[@temporary67315]

Trying to keep to canon while making our own new adventures sounds challenging but interesting, like in Pendragon and Runequest where players couldn't interfere with major NPCs, especially in the former

[@John-lo2wn]

Any chance you will publish that stoneware pdf? I need to know my next ideal!

[@BrotherwiseGames]

We'll officially publish it when the digital version comes out.

[@towinandsave1520]

If I pre order digital edition when I can expect to see them? :D Amazing work as always

[@BrotherwiseGames]

Summer 2025!

[@towinandsave1520]

@@BrotherwiseGames Fantastic! Thanks :D

[@TLhikan]

Can't wait to play as the Shadow Money Elantrian Gang (we love casting Aons)

[@Qbone15]

Warbreaker!!!!

[@yvjlvyu]

That combo of the willshaper special dodge talent with the talent to automatically past transportation talent checks looks incredibly strong. Is the intended balance on it the investiture cost?

[@RossLeiser]

Hi, Cosmere RPG core design team member here! The important thing to note with that combination of talents is that you can't have both until you've spoken the Third Ideal, which requires you to be at least level 8, so level 9 to then take Realmwalker as early as possible. And even then, having both the Third Ideal and Realmwalker talents requires 7 talents of your 11 total at level 9. 7 talents allows you to do very powerful things in every path, including the non-Radiant ones. All that to say that while the combination of Realmic Evasion and Realmwalker is very potent, at the point in the game you can get to it other characters will be able to do equally powerful different things. Hope that answers your question!

[@olmanjoshuabulatorres]

How would you manage the sage effect of burning metal? It would be an "ultimate perk" that you earn to consider copper sage or something like that?

[@EricMesa]

Wolfgang Baur, head of Kobold Press, mentioned in 2025 they are worried about tattoos prices on printed materials. Any danger is that affecting stormlight RPG?

[@IamMullet]

Wait does that mean there will be no Era 1 in the Mistborn books?

[@RossLeiser]

Hi, Cosmere RPG core designer here! Both eras of Mistborn are fully supported; there's just a bit more content for Era 2 because of all the technological advances and Twinborn

[@RossLeiser]

But you'll absolutely still be fully able to run Era 1 campaigns!

[@sbrevoltuion5]

Hearing that night blood was removed is so sad

[@RossLeiser]

Don't worry! All backers will still be receiving Nightblood at no additional cost, just in a different thing than Stonewalkers

[@GuillaumeStraatjes]

You could still add it into your own stonewalker campaign or any future stories. They just removed it from the standard stonewalker experience to make it canonical. Happy they did that!

[@SirJerric]

Wait? Why would all guns have Pierce? Armor is great at stopping bullets. Bullets are tiny; they move fast, but they don't have the momentum to follow through when they impact a hard surface. Unless one uses larger bullets, which is where armor piercing rounds actually come into play. In real life, people do wear armor to gun fights. Conquistador breastplates are shaped for deflecting musket fire. And riot cops have mixed kevlar and steel vests to stop bullets. Scadrians avoid armor because Coinshots and Lurchers can toy with you, not because it isn't effective. Lurchers even wear armor in Alloy of Law.

[@BrotherwiseGames]

Like many game mechanics, this is an abstraction designed to reinforce a genre of storytelling rather than to perfectly simulate real-world physics. Mistborn Era 2 takes place in a timeframe that's close to the real-world 1920's. And while armor did exist in the early 1900s, it was pretty specialized (like armor worn by WWI trench fighters facing mortar fire). Perhaps in the Ghostbloods era we'll have kevlar-style armor that ignores the Pierce trait of conventional ranged weapons, but for now the Pierce mechanic is working well to reinforce one of the differences between guns and arrows.