Exodus is a computer RPG from Wizards of the Coast’s Archetype Entertainment, and it’ll feature Matthew McConaughey. There’s a tabletop RPG to accompany both.
The computer game and novel series are set 40,000 years in the future, when humanity has evolved into post-human forms in various directions. The world was co-created by James Ohlen and British sci-fi author Peter F. Hamilton. Ohlen is ex-BioWare and known for Dragon Age, Baldur’s Gate and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.
We’ve some good timing, as Bronwen and I’ve just returned from a talk by Peter F. Hamilton on The Archimedes Engine. Geek Native contributor Sergio Salvador has just posted a look at Exodus’s journey from book to computer game.
In the Cymera panel, which Peter shared with Adrian Tchaikovsky, Peter F. Hamilton admitted that he had never played a game of D&D in his life, and yet it was Wizards of the Coast’s money that was paying for Exodus. He and Tchaikovsky both worked on the Exodus TTRPG. According to each, despite the NDA, they were able to determine that the other was involved in the Exodus project by identifying each other’s writing styles.
You can use the code TRAVELER to get in the queue to buy the Exodus Traveler’s Handbook. The code box is on a subdomain 12072023.exodusgame.com, which may well turn out to be an Easter egg or clue.
There’s a free Exodus character sheet (PDF), and it’s not 5e. As a result, Exodus is the first non-5e TTRPG the Hasbro family of brands has signed off on since Essence20 with Renegade in 2021.
The checkout page asks for $33 for the Exodus TTRPG, and while I’d like to see if Peter F. Hamilton and Adrian Tchaikovsky’s names appear in the credits, I’m afraid Geek Native’s research budget does not stretch that far. I’ll take the authors at their word.
The pitch for the Exodus TTRPG is that players get to explore the dangerous worlds of the new setting and become travellers out to steal alien weapons and technology from the Celestials. The game features Time Dilation, and the choices made in one game might reshape the future of generations.
Tempted? Archetype Entertainment says they have limited stock.
