Archetype Leisure, a subsidiary of Dungeons & Dragons writer Wizards of the Coast, introduced a tabletop role-playing recreation for its authentic 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 subsequent few years, Exodus’ second within the solar is shortly approaching.
Helmed by a staff of ex-BioWare builders, the studio behind video games like the unique Baldur’s Gate, Star Wars: Knights of the Outdated Republic, and the Mass Impact trilogy; Exodus was first introduced with flashy cinematic trailer launched by Matthew McConaughey at The Sport Awards 2023. The trailer promised a brand new spin on the sci-fi RPG style that centered 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 staff behind it filling the gaps on the Exodus recreation’s official web site and an in-universe novel by Peter F. Hamilton printed earlier this 12 months.
The tabletop recreation’s launch is framed as a “particular restricted time provide” for anybody becoming a member of Archetype’s “founders” electronic mail record; those that be a 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finest recognized for his work designing Baldur’s Gate 1 and 2, Neverwinter Nights, and Star Wars: Knights of the Outdated Republic. Except for a canopy picture and some basic bullet factors concerning the recreation like exploring the Exodus universe, turning into “the Traveler” and confronting time dilation; there’s no actual rationalization about what this recreation goes to appear to be or the way it will play.
Making a tie-in tabletop RPG has turn out to be 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 lots of 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 usually void.
Exodus can be launched on PlayStation 5, Home windows PC, and Xbox Sequence X. It has no launch window as of this writing.
