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Since 2005’s Elantris, Brandon Sanderson has step by step risen in prominence as one of many greatest (and busiest) fantasy authors working as we speak. And like different authors of comparable standing, Sanderson’s attain is step by step increasing exterior of books over to different industries comparable to video games. Although he’s stepped into the online game house with a VR recreation based mostly on his Stormlight Archive sequence and serving to to create the universe for final yr’s Moonbreaker, the creator has his eyes set primarily within the tabletop house.
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Based on Dicebreaker, Sanderson’s work is being tailored into an upcoming deckbuilding recreation. The title is in manufacturing over at Brotherwise Video games, finest identified for the likes of Boss Monster and Name to Journey. At time of writing, it’s unclear on which ebook sequence is being tailored, comparable to Elantris or Mistborn. Equally, it’s not identified who’s main the cost on this recreation—Brotherwise president Johnny O’Neal merely advised Dicebreaker it was being created by “a widely known designer.”
Brotherwise can also be at the moment at work on a tabletop RPG based mostly on Sanderson’s Stormlight Archive novels, which itself comes after the developer created a themed enlargement for Name to Journey. The TTRPG is about to hit subsequent yr, joined by the Horneater novella and that November’s Knights of Wind & Reality, the following mainline ebook within the sequence. The unnamed deckbuilder can also be meant to launch someday subsequent yr as properly, presumably earlier than the discharge of Knights. Miniatures based mostly on the franchise are additionally being developed by Brotherwise and reportedly gearing up for a launch in, you guessed it—2024.
io9 has reached out to Brotherwise for extra data on the Sanderson deckbuilder, and can replace when a response is given.
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