The Cosmere TTRPG Kickstarter just launched and holy fucking crap it costs $300 to run this game?! $200 minimum to play it?! Using the a la carte options you can get the costs down to $245 for running one adventure on bare bone materials but that's still so fucking expensive.

Dungeons & Dragons the minimum comes down to like $60 maybe $90 and ofc it's easy to just pirate PDFs of the bare minimum started rules and I think WOTC has like a $19 PDF for those and some free starter adventures.

And your favorite Indie is $50 tops.

$200?! and if you just want PDFs of only the lore books with ✨New Canon Lore✨ it's $60 which is not enough to play the game and doesn't contain all the other supposedly canon new details from the other books.

This feels like they saw the success of the secret project books and leatherbounds and went damn we can extort the fuck out of this fandom. Idek who I'd play a Stormlight TTRPG with I have like one single friend who is overlapping between plays TTRPGs and has read some of Stormlight. It's hard enough to get a campaign of anything going. But for $245?! and it's just a rudimentary D20 system with very little wiggle room for shared storytelling and diverging from the adventure book or adding to the world yourself since you're supposed to be having a Canonical Adventure...

Anyway who wants to make a Belonging Outside Belonging hack of an off-brand Roshar setting. We Have Stormlight At Home.

whoa yikes. thats highway robbery. I'm not familiar with Belonging but i also feel like Interstitial: Our Hearts Intertwined would lend itself rly rly well to a Cosmere setting. i think the Links system could take a minor tweak and really support the Spren relationship; the world-hopping that is core to Interstitial campaign stories could be via oath gates and/or you could jump around other worlds in the Cosmere; and of course the entire ethos of Interstitial is inspired by fanwork and the drive to tell your own stories with someone else's characters and settings