Last year, Brotherwise Games published a set of three tabletop role-playing game books set in the world of Brandon Sanderson’s epic fantasy series The Stormlight Archive. The company quickly followed up the project by announcing an expansion to the Cosmere RPG based on Sanderson’s Mistborn setting, and the new books reveal the true scope of the company’s ambitions. The Mistborn Handbook, Mistborn World Guide, and Mistborn Legacy campaign are spread across two eras representing the two series Sanderson has written set on the planet Scadrial.
It’s also laying the groundwork for Sanderson’s next trilogy in the setting. They were able to add to the lore of how the godlike being Autonomy first became aware of Scadrial and established a secret organization called the Set. Let's go that way,’ or ‘I don't have a plan there.
Why don't you come up with something, and then I can tell you if that'll work or not?'” Moir said. Brotherwise co-owner and creative director Johnny O'Neal held weekly meetings with Dragonsteel to go over every piece of art in the books to ensure all the details were canonical and consistent. That’s especially important given the Mistborn World Guide is providing a first look at characters who will appear in AppleTV’s upcoming adaptation of Mistborn.
The Mistborn TTRPG books offer an enormous number of options for characters who can use 16 different metals for 32 powers, far more than the 10 types of surgebinding found in the Stormlight TTRPG books. For comparison, using Iron to pull other metal objects is represented with a seven-talent tree. There will be more, but we can’t reveal that,'” Moir said.
One of the cool things about our system is we can just add on trees if we need to later as more information is revealed.” The Mistborn rules also tease how worldhopping games could work if gaming groups want to explore the full breadth of the Cosmere. Burning Aluminum seems useless on Scadrial, but the art shows someone using it to negate the powers of a surgebinder from Roshar. Moir said the playtesting didn’t just focus on how the Mistborn abilities were balanced against each other, but how they would interface with the Stormlight books and other projects incorporating magic from Warbreaker and Elantris.
We can pull them back to Cosmere when Cosmere gets to its Space Age and we can customize it to be what Brandon Sanderson needs for telling an Isles of the Emberdark story.” The Mistborn TTRPG is available today. Brotherwise will announce its next Cosmere project at the Dragonsteel Nexus in December.
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