Archetype Leisure, a subsidiary of Dungeons & Dragons writer Wizards of the Coast, introduced a tabletop role-playing sport for its unique AAA sci-fi RPG Exodus on Wednesday. With Hasbro CEO Chris Cock’s current assertion to Bloomberg about placing out one to 2 video games per 12 months over the following few years, Exodus’ second within the solar is rapidly approaching.
Helmed by a crew of ex-BioWare builders, the studio behind video games like the unique Baldur’s Gate, Star Wars: Knights of the Outdated Republic, and the Mass Impact trilogy; Exodus was first introduced with flashy cinematic trailer launched by Matthew McConaughey at The Recreation Awards 2023. The trailer promised a brand new spin on the sci-fi RPG style that targeted on the price of time dilation in cosmic journey, constructing on the decade-long curiosity in Christopher Nolan’s Interstellar (therefore the McConaughey cameo). Since then, eagerly-awaiting followers have seen comparatively little details about the sport itself, with articles concerning the transmedia property’s worldbuilding and the crew behind it filling the gaps on the Exodus sport’s official web site and an in-universe novel by Peter F. Hamilton printed earlier this 12 months.
The tabletop sport’s launch is framed as a “particular restricted time provide” for anybody becoming a member of Archetype’s “founders” e mail record; those that be part of by Dec. 10 solely obtain a “likelihood to buy” an early version of of rulebook. The one concrete element concerning the Exodus TTRPG is that it’s designed by Exodus developer James Ohlen, finest identified for his work designing Baldur’s Gate 1 and 2, Neverwinter Nights, and Star Wars: Knights of the Outdated Republic. Apart from a canopy picture and some normal bullet factors concerning the sport like exploring the Exodus universe, changing into “the Traveler” and confronting time dilation; there’s no actual clarification about what this sport goes to appear like or the way it will play.
Making a tie-in tabletop RPG has develop into a standard follow with massive, IP-based video games trying to drum up hype for his or her crowdfunding or preorder campaigns, such because the Neopets RPG which raised a whole bunch of 1000’s of {dollars} earlier than placing any mechanics on their Kickstarter web page.
Whether or not this AAA gamble will repay has but to be seen, however as WoTC’s first non-Dungeons & Dragons tabletop RPG since Gamma World, proper now the universe of the Exodus TTRPG is generally void.
Exodus might be launched on PlayStation 5, Home windows PC, and Xbox Collection X. It has no launch window as of this writing.
