Questioner
Do you plan on doing more lines of minis for your other series? Namely, Mistborn?
Brandon Sanderson
If something is successful, we are more likely to do it in the future. I'll borrow an answer from Mark Rosewater whenever he gets asked about things with Magic: The Gathering. We have no immediate plans. This comes down to the "do fewer things better." And we want to make sure that we're doing a really good job with the thing we're doing right now [Stormlight miniatures]. And then, if things are successful and people want them, we will move forward.
Brandon Sanderson
One of the very first things that I said when I was talking to Isaac and Johnny [with Brotherwise Games] about this is: fans really want a pen-and-paper Stormlight RPG. We have, with the wonderful people at Crafty Games, a Mistborn RPG; but we don't have a Stormlight one. And so I said to Johnny, "Can you guys help us make one?"
Brotherwise Games
Absolutely. Totally a dream project for us. With an RPG project, we've been in discussions with some big names and also some great new voices in the RPG space, so we are assembling a killer team of TTRPG writers and editors and, of course, illustrators. (The art aspect of this is huge.) But this is a huge project, so this is something that's gonna roll out over time. We're gonna be fairly quiet about it in the near future as we're working on that team, but we will absolutely be getting to a point where we go to the community for feedback and ask what you're looking for in this. That's gonna be a huge part of this.
Brandon Sanderson
We know nothing about it yet other than "we are going to do one." But we are going to do one.
Brotherwise Games
At this point, again, we're not gonna be able to answer too many questions about that. But we're already gonna start listening for what you want. So if a Reddit thread goes up talking about "hey, what do you hope to see in this," then we will be reading that.
Brandon Sanderson
So let us know what it is that you guys want. Again, we're in the pre-concepting stages. We haven't even sat down and talked about what I like in RPGs and things like that. We will definitely get there, but that's our next project with Brotherwise, probably.
Brotherwise Games
That's our next big one; I think the next one that would be crowdfunded.
Thokna jihad
Will the Stormlight RPG use the same mechanic system as the Mistborn Adventure Game?
Brandon Sanderson
These are two separate companies; they are unlikely to share mechanics. Is what I would say. But these are things that we want to hear. One of our biggest questions is: do we come up with our own system entirely? Or do we use one of the very popular game systems that are in existence already? Because there are ways to do both of those things. Would you, as a playerbase, prefer one that isn't compatible with d20 or something like that? Or would you prefer something that is? That's useful and relevant for us to hear.
Use the Falchion
Janci, how is the work on the post-Defiant Skyward books going? I thoroughly enjoyed your novellas and can't wait to see what you do next with the Skyward crew.
Janci Patterson
We accepted an offer on them! Yay! I'm so excited! That happened yesterday! So... big news.
Brandon Sanderson
The big holdup so far has been that I'm working on Defiant and because, as Janci mentioned --
Janci Patterson
I have to know what I'm writing.
Brandon Sanderson
There's lots of continuity involved in these sorts of things, and we had a plan, and then I write Defiant, and that's going to change some of the things we're thinking about.
Janci Patterson
So I have an outline that will shift but I think the story will basically be what's in the outline, but things will shift. And once those things have shifted and we're pretty sure we have exactly what it's going to be ultimately, then I can start writing hopefully in the next couple of months.
Brandon Sanderson
Which is really important because these are technically YA, they straddle that line. But this is going to be the only YA that I have for a while because Stormlight Five and the Secret Projects are kicking me in the head.
