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I'm currently running the Mistborn Legacy adventure and in chapter 1, >!Specifically, after the party retrieves an aluminum urn in Urteau and then returns to Luthadel. My players are immediately interested in using the aluminum urn to protect the Eternity Spike. I have so many thoughts and questions and would love others' input. Does aluminum block the allomantic pulses from the Eternity Spike if it were stored inside of it?!<

More broadly, what could players do with aluminum in Era 1, specifically at the beginning of Legacy, where it has only been a year since the Lord Ruler died? It's not like they'd have forges that worked on it and I'm not sure if any metallurgists would be familiar enough with it to forge it. I know aluminum is harder to forge in medieval times because it doesn't change colors when heated to show when it's malleable.

I was surprised how much I loved the First Step. I thought it would be a neat way to learn the character sheet, but it's honestly my favorite way to build a character now.

It was so cool to figure out what you wanted to play as you were presented with choices, and from the GMs side, it was a great intro into figuring out how to support your PCs.

I do try and keep on top of news, but I know I miss things. Does anyone know of there are plans to have a Mistborn equivalent to the First Step (level 0 character creation/tutorial). I'm specifically hoping for one that would lead naturally into Mistborn Legacy, but I'd be happy with anything.

I hope that all the worlds get one honestly, but that's really thinking ahead.

Hi all! I haven’t played the initial Cosmere RPG because I’ve only read the Mistborn books thus far (Stormlight Archive is up next) so I’m new to the system and looking to run the Starter Box into the Mistborn: Legacy Campaign.

My question is about Cultural Expertises. I’m building my wife’s character sheet as practice before I invite everyone over for session zero.

We’re building her a Brass Misting. We’re choosing Luthadel as her Cultural Expertise.

Do I just write Luthadel and she gets bonuses on all things relevant to that, or do I need to get more specific? I’ve played City of Mist that uses tags like this but I just wanted to confirm since it doesn’t blatantly say “put X on your character sheet.”

Thanks and sorry if this is a tired question!

Hi All,

I’m running my first Cosmere RPG as GM. We’re playing the bridge nine before opening up into the greater world of Roshar.

I usually like having factions for the player characters to interact with, befriend or piss off. (Think of Waterdeep: Dragon Heist or Dungeons of Drakenheim for D&D modules). The Cosmere has so many awesome factions with varying goals and methods. I think I need some help with coming up with some factions to build into the world a bit. I’m having trouble which ones to pick because there are so many.

I’m thinking of having about 5 factions. Let me know what your thoughts are. Thank you in advance!

Looking for some advice and one of my players in an upcoming Cosmere game is really interested in having an effect be part of their backstory and i can't find this lore anywhere.

To Sum up: my player is remembering somewhere in the lore that if one uses a soul caster over and over the person will slowly turn into the material they are casting. (Specifically they remember someone turning into Smoke and someone else turning into grain?)

They want to make their PC an artefabrian and specifically their reason for adventuring and researching soul casters is that their childhood friend is slowly dying (or has already died) and they want to find out how it happened and stop it from happening again.

I will be running Stonewalkers and while we don't need to resolve their goal completely i am perfectly happy to weave it into the story and have them make progress in that research while they play the campaign. EXCEPT. i cannot find lore, background, info, or anything regarding this outcome for using soul casters anywhere.

We are a group trying to stick to the lore fairly closely and i don't want to just make something up with no basis in the written books. I can't find this and am hoping someone else can point me to the page and book so i have something to go off of before i try and invent rules and characters into the story for them.

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I wasn't vibing that much with my previous character so I made a new one! She's a big goof - even if small - who is on an adventure. She wants to uncover mysteries while not risking her own life. If she's dead, who will remember her?

We kicked off the Mistborn Legacy campaign last night. We usually play 1-2x per month, and our sessions run 3-4 hours. 6 players. We did the Stonewalkers campaign earlier this year, and we covered most chapters comfortably in a single session. I was hoping to run ~one chapter per session for the mistborn campaign but the chapters seem much denser than in Stonewalkers (not in a bad way). It was clear last night how difficult it will be to cover a full chapter in a single session for Legacy (the rest of the chapters seem equally dense as the first, if not more).

Wondering about opinions and ideas out there on how to break up chapters. I like structure so I'm not crazy about "play until a good stopping point" (though I know that works well for others). Thank you!

If you wanted to set a campaign in the modern day of the Stormlight setting it seems like there's only 1-2 years of space to set it in right? Spren didn't start forming bonds again until several months to a year after the events of the first book. And in the last book Retribution largely makes the radiants powerless. The tight timeline feels fairly restrictive as some campaigns/stories have the potential to last for years of in world time. I know there are thousands of years of "prehistory" a campaign could be set in but it feels like Roshar would be an entirely unfamiliar place 2000 plus years ago. The political map, fabrials, and even the names of some countries would be entirely different. Many cities in the modern day wouldn't even be around, let alone be as they're described in the modern day. I guess a campaign could go into the setting as it's ruled by Retribution and have a guerilla warfare/behind enemy lines feel to it. Task the players with finding some way to access usable Light again?

I'm looking at the "Weeper's Eyes" encounter, and have some questions regarding the mechanics of pursiut endeavors.

If I have multiple PCs chasing the spy, do they each have a separate distance to track? Or do I assume the party chases him as one unit?

For each "round" of pursuit, does each character get one skill check?

Does that include the spy in that case?

And is this true for both opposed checks (which the rules recommend) and normal checks?

So, assuming the party moves as one and each character gets one check per round, it would play out like this:

Round1:

PC1: "I run as fast as I can!" - Athletics vs athletics(?)

PC2: "Me too!"- athletics again.

PC3: "I'll cut him off by going around!" - Deduction vs Stealth (maybe?)

PC4: "I'm calling for the crowd to stop him" - Leadership vs Persuation

Spy: Weave through the crowd. Agility vs perception (of the PC with the highest maybe?)

Round2:

etc...

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So potentially +4 successes for the PCs, and one for the spy? This seems to skew the odds heavily in the PCs favor, but maybe that is intended?

Or are opposed checks meant to give one success to whomever wins it, either the spy or the PCs?

Joining a campaign on thursday for mistborn legacy, but I just cant find any character portraits I like. Tried googling, only got ai services, tried looking up character portaits from rpgs like bg3 and the like, but still nothing fit. Anyone got a good source?

When Stormlight was released, it included a scenario called Bridge Nine, designed to help me players find their feet in the system.

I'm trying to introduce a new group into the Cosmere, but would like to start with Mistborn. I've seen scenarios being released, but they seem to be on another level as Bridge Nine.

I can't seem to find anything related to a Mistborn-setting intro though. Is there anything or there? Should I come up with a scenario myself?

EDIT for clarification: these are people with some board and pc RPG experience, but no TTRPG experience to speak of.

Kind of lore oriented kind of mechanics talk, but anybody got any fun ideas for Feruchemy/Medallion shenanigans? Going to be a Feruchemist in era 1 and aluminum will be referenced in our campaign so there is the opportunity for silly things. Doubt we'll get any Nicrosil before Era 2 but that still means I can share metalminds with a fair amount of people? Not as easy as Era 2 but I figure there's still plenty of Ferring blood around the world

Hi I want to buy mistborn ttrpg for foundry but is it only module with the pdf on foundry or I can do get the pdf without extra ?

Thanks

World guide and mistborn rulebook

Hi! I'm setting up to run a game set on scadrial and I was wondering if anyone knew of any high quality maps of both era 1 and 2 scadrial that i could use as a vtt background? I thought I'd get one when I got the world guide because of the pictures on the Drivethrurpg store page but I guess not? so yee, I'd love to know what yall've got!

Edit: was able to get ones from the Nexus world guide, though I think they're still a bit grainy so if anyone knows of any others I"d still love suggestions

I absolutely love plot die manipulation talents, so I had to build a mastermind in Talent Scout eventually, and I figured why not make them a Kandra too!