@Warma-Sheen said in Missed Settings:
There’s an actual RPG for this. I haven’t looked into it cause I’m in the middle of the series and I don’t want spoilers, but this was also on the top of my list for settings/games I’d love to play.
Having just finished playing in a short run (6 games) of the Cosmere RPG (GMed by someone who regularly rereads the novels) with my tabletop group, I can say the following non-spoiler critique of the game:
It really really requires you to have a very good working knowledge of the novels or you’re just going to be confused a lot. Our group had a wide range of familiarity with the Cosmere setting ranging from never read anything Sanderson has written to people that have read all of his books multiple times at this point, and the takeaway was that only the people with the most working knowledge of the setting actually enjoyed it the most. Most of us stumbled through the cultural aspects of the story and just chose to focus on finding and defeating the bad guys and the mechanics of combat rather than trying to be part of the world.
(My knowledge of Cosmere is next to none, and I made a character that was super useful but mechanically monotonous.)