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Exclusive First Look at Stormlight: War for Roshar, the Massive Brandon Sanderson Board Game

Brotherwise Games has a strong track record as the exclusive publisher of tabletop games based on Brandon Sanderson’s epic, interconnected, galaxy-spanning Cosmere. From the Mistborn: Deck Building Game to the more recent Shards of Creation, and the still expanding Cosmere TTRPG system, fans of Sanderson aren’t lacking in board games. Now, it’s time for Stormlight Archive fans to feast as Brotherwise is getting set to launch the campaign for the latest of their Sanderson offerings, the War for Roshar. Being the biggest and most elaborate Cosmere board game yet, IGN had a chance to check it out and play against members of the team, and we are already chomping at the shardplate to play more. For those that may not have read the Stormlight Archive, I will give a very brief basic crash course of the nearly 6,000 pages that currently compose this series (so far). Among the lineup of Cosmere novels, perhaps the largest pillar of that work is the Stormlight Archive. It's set on the world of Roshar, where a powerful, never-ending storm circles the planet, and the humans of the world are in constant struggle against not only themselves but the other denizens of the planet. Magic comes in th

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Keith Baker is working on a new genre-hopping game Brotherwise Games teamed up with Brandon Sanderson in 2024 to launch the Cosmere Roleplaying Game, a tabletop game that allows players to have adventures across the prolific fantasy…

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Brandon Sanderson’s Cosmere RPG is getting new life from a D&D legend

Keith Baker is working on a new genre-hopping game Brotherwise Games teamed up with Brandon Sanderson in 2024 to launch the Cosmere Roleplaying Game, a tabletop game that allows players to have adventures across the…

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Exclusive First Look at Stormlight: War for Roshar, the Massive Brandon Sanderson Board Game

Brotherwise Games has a strong track record as the exclusive publisher of tabletop games based on Brandon Sanderson’s epic, interconnected, galaxy-spanning Cosmere. From the Mistborn: Deck Building Game to the more…

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