News Roundup: Cosmere RPG Devs Preview Plans for 2026

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Brotherwise Games Previews the Future of Brandon Sanderson’s Cosmere TTRPG

Cosmere TTRPG publisher Brotherwise Games hosted a panel at Dragonmeet last week, and posted a 10-minute summary containing all the big news from the event.

There was quite a bit of news to come out of it, and you can watch the presentation above.

• The Stormlight Archive TTRPG is now available in bookstores and physical vendors; a major step for the TTRPG

• We got an early look at Mistborn, which is the next big setting. This includes a lot of new rules related to the heroic paths, the unique magics of the setting as well as the early 20th-century aesthetics that contrast Mistborn with Stormlight.

• Mistborn will have a Handbook, a World Guide, and “Mistborn Legacy”, a prewritten adventure in the setting from levels 1-6 across two of the world’s eras. Lots of new lore for long-time fans

What comes after? The company wasn’t able to confirm what came next, other than it was working on content for the Elantris, Worldhopper and Warbreaker settings. Sanderson would have to be the one to determine which property got love from Brotherwise next.

The company is also hoping to expand Plotweaver (its setting-agnostic system) into a separate ruleset that will allow third-party creators to use it for their creations outside of Sanderson universe. We’re not going to know much more about that until 2026, when the company hopes to reveal more.

Brotherwise seems to have quite a bit of momentum planned for the Cosmere TTRPG, especially a year after the extremely successful Cosmere TTRPG crowdfunder. Will that momentum continue? I honestly don’t know. But they’re quite confident.

Trailers for Wizards of the Coast’s “Warlock” and “Exodus Premiere at The Game Awards

Geoff Keighley’s Game Awards were hosted on Thursday. While the big news was the well-earned Top Game Award for Expedition 33, Dungeons and Dragons fans were greeted with two new properties from Wizards of the Coast.

First was WARLOCK, a video game set in the D&D setting. The project is being developed by D&D: Dark Alliance developers Invoke Studios. It focuses on the character of Kaatri, who has found herself empowered with dark magics to fight villains. Kaatri will be played by Tricia Helfer of Lucifer, Battlestar Galactica and Burn Notice.

"Warlock is a third-person action-adventure game built around immersive, expressive magic where you use spellcraft to solve challenges and take down monsters — and you do it all in your own creative way across all facets of the game," said Jeff Hattem, creative lead at Invoke Studios.

We are supposed to get gameplay footage next summer and the game is scheduled to release in 2027.

The aesthetics scream Raven Queen, and the metal vibes are pretty hardcore. Does the trailer look good? Yes. I will admit skepticism, however. Dark Alliance was not a very well received product among D&D fans and it was later delisted from digital storefronts in 2025.

The second was Exodus: The Rise of Jun Aslan. This is a new sci-fi property being pushed by WOTC as something they are heavily invested in. We did get a TTRPG adaptation of it from WOTC earlier this year, although the book didn’t get much love at release and is sold out.

I’m personally confused by WOTC’s plans for this property as it’s gotten a lot of hype but it seems to center more on the video game than on the TTRPG. Is it indicative of WOTC’s video game focus going forward? I hope not.

MCDM’s Draw Steel Followup Crowdfunding Campaign Offers Fans a Year’s Worth of Content

Matt Colville and his D&D alternative, Draw Steel, saw massive success in 2024, raising millions of dollars. The game launched its core rulebooks this summer, and now MCDM is presenting its next vision for the game in CRACK THE SUN, its latest crowdfunding campaign.

The company is funding seven new products through this campaign:

• A third core rulebook titled Encounters providing plenty of encounters for players to use

• Between Sun and Shadow, which adds new ancestries for the game.

• The Beastheart, a new class for the game focused on a hunter/ranger archetype.

• Four new adventures, including Crack the Sun, an epic campaign exploring the setting of Draw Steel’s Orden in a five-act campaign.

A lot of these products will be shipped throughout 2026, providing Draw Steel fans with a year’s worth of new content. It’s a pretty big initiative to try for MCDM. At the same time, they’ve proven themselves capable of publishing and sending out books on a regular basis. It’s also a different approach to releasing new content, where fans back and receive content for the games they love on a regular basis (in comparison to the semi-regular release schedule of games like Pathfinder and Dungeons and Dragons.)

The campaign has already raised more than $1.7 million as of this story’s publishing date, and I imagine that it could end up the most successful TTRPG crowdfunding campaign of 2025 by the end.

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