What it is
An original system by Brotherwise Games. It starts from familiar d20 bones and then changes three things that matter.
- The plot die
- A second die that turns a flat pass or fail into a story beat. It brings Opportunities and Complications to the table, and it is why a Cosmere RPG combat reads differently from a d20 combat even when the numbers look similar.
- Paths, not classes
- You build a character out of talent trees rather than picking a class and following it down. Multipathing is the norm, not an exception you pay for.
- Magic as a skill
- Invested arts are tested like anything else, which puts the weight on approach and degrees of success rather than on a spell list.
- An open licence
- Brotherwise is releasing Plotweaver under an open game licence aimed at indie publishers. Their own line: content you create using your own IP is yours to share and monetise without limitations.
Why it matters for the Cosmere RPG
Most of the Cosmere RPG is really Plotweaver wearing Roshar or Scadrial. Fast and slow turns, focus as a spendable resource, the three defences, the plot die, talent trees eight deep — none of that is Cosmere-specific. It is the system, and the setting books sit on top of it.
Where it is up to
- Open Alpha
- Live since 5 August 2026, with three playable settings now in it.
- Erstwild (August)
- Original fantasy — spirits, old magic, and ancient dangers in a world you build your own path through.
- Splinterlight (September)
- Science fiction — a galaxy-spanning government has collapsed, and you're one of the people rebuilding from what's left.
- Hexbeat (October)
- Urban fantasy — magic is returning to a modern Earth that was never built to hold it.
- Earthborne Rangers RPG
- An official adaptation with Earthborne Games, bringing their cooperative card game to the tabletop as a Plotweaver game. Expected in 2027.
- Infinite
- A new genre-hopping setting from Keith Baker (Eberron) and Jenn Ellis of Twogether Studios, built to showcase Plotweaver.
- Plotweaver Setting Search
- A submissions contest for an original setting, judged by Keith Baker, with the winner published by Brotherwise. Opens for entries in early 2027.
- System Reference Document & crowdfunding
- An SRD is expected ahead of the crowdfunding campaign, still slated for Q2 2027.
Status as of 16 October 2026, from Brotherwise's Gen Con 2026 announcements and plotweaverrpg.com. Full setting write-ups are on their Worlds page; pre-launch dates move, so check their news page for anything more recent.
plotweaverrpg.com
The system, the licence, the Open Alpha download, the mailing list and their Discord. Start here.
Open the site OfficialPlotweaver news
Announcements as they land — partnerships, the setting contest, campaign timing.
Read the news OfficialPlotweaver on Bluesky
The quickest signal that something has changed.
Follow alongThe rest of the family
The official sources for the game and the books.
The Cosmere RPG
The official home of the game. The downloads page carries free character sheets, quick-start rules and pregenerated characters — worth knowing about before you buy anything.
cosmererpg.com Official digital toolsetCosmere RPG Nexus
The rulebooks as a searchable digital reader, on Demiplane. If you own the books, this is how you read them at a table without carrying them.
Open the Nexus Brandon SandersonDragonsteel Books
The novels themselves, plus leatherbounds, art prints and the rest. The Cosmere starts here and the RPG follows it.
dragonsteelbooks.com