Brotherwise Games

Brotherwise Games is a game publishing company founded by Chris and Johnny O'Neal in 2012. As of 2024, they are the official games partner working in collaboration with Dragonsteel Entertainment to create games set in the Cosmere universe.
==Collaborative History==
Prior to collaborating with one another, the team at Brotherwise were already fans of Brandon Sanderson. Notably, in a 2015 expansion to their game Boss Monster, they included a card based on Brandon. It depicts a cleric named "Branadin Wordblessed", a figure who looks Brandon, in flight with a glowing spear (spear and name being reminiscent of Kaladin Stormblessed) and a tasseled cloak (reminiscent of a mistcloak). The text on the card also references "inscribing... histories and magics on plates of copper", a nod to a plot point from Mistborn Era 1, and "he never stops writing...", a nod to Brandon's noted prolific-ness.
Later, in 2018, Brotherwise and Brandon announced their first official collaboration a Stormlight Archive themed version of their new Call to Adventure game, which, at the time, was in the midst of a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter. Originally announced as a separate release during the second half of 2019, Call to Adventure: The Stormlight Archive launched with a pre-order campaign in May 2020 and a full release several months later. As part of the development of Call to Adventure: The Stormlight Archive, Isaac Stewart, as art director at Dragonsteel Entertainment, and Karen Ahlstrom, as continuity editor, reviewed and made revision comments for over 120 separate illustrations. Brandon and the team at Dragonsteel enjoyed this process and were so impressed by Brotherwise through it all that for their next project together, Stormlight Premium Miniatures, they decided to go even deeper. Forming a true collaborative partnership rather than a slightly more hands-off, traditional licensing agreement. This increased integration led to depictions that, unlike the artwork created for Call to Adventure: The Stormlight Archive, are officially branded as "canon" and were created not only to support the modeling of the miniatures but as a way to support consistency in visual depictions across a variety of mediums and future projects. During the Kickstarter for these miniatures Brotherwise and Dragonsteel then announced yet another collaboration, a full Stormlight tabletop role-playing game, which was later revealed to be the Cosmere Roleplaying Game just prior to the launch of its own Kickstarter campaign.
==Cosmere Related Games and Product Lines==
; Call to Adventure: The Stormlight Archive: A tabletop game involving cards and the "casting of runes" which players use to create the story of a character, from their origin to their ultimate destiny, inspired by The Stormlight Archive. Released to retail as a full base game variant (rather than an expansion pack) of Brotherwise's Call to Adventure series in 2020.
; Stormlight Premium Miniatures: A series of 34 mm scale, unpainted miniatures featuring characters from The Stormlight Archive. Brotherwise Games worked in collaboration with Brandon, Isaac Stewart, and the team at Dragonsteel Entertainment to create canon designs and depictions for each character that were then adapted into sculpted figures. Crowdfunded in 2022 and later released to retail.
; Cosmere Roleplaying Game: A tabletop role-playing game where players can create their own characters and tell a story that takes place in the cosmere. First crowdfunded in August 2024, with planned releases of the Stormlight Campaign Setting in 2025 and Mistborn Campaign Setting in 2026.
; Mistborn: The Deckbuilding Game: A deck-building game where players can take on the roles of notable Mistborn and duel one another using cards to represent their various abilities. Released direct-to-retail in Q4 2024.
; Shards of Creation: A trick-taking game where players use a deck with suits themed for the Shards of Adonalsium. Expected to release direct-to-retail by the end of 2025. Initial release is planned to include eight of the Shards as playable suits, with the remaining eight, including many of those about which little is known, planned for an eventual expansion sometime in the future.
;Untitled "Epic Stormlight" Game: A strategy board game set on Roshar, similar to War of the Ring and Star Wars: Rebellion. Designed by John D. Clair with Hayden Dillard as Brotherwise's development lead. Players will play across the full map of Roshar, controlling the Coalition of monarchs or Odium’s forces by moving armies and champions. No title has been officially announced, however it has the working title of "Stormlight: True Desolation". Expected to be crowdfunded no earlier than 2026.
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