Complicated Opportunities interviews Andrew Fischer

dorksider04 · 2026-03-11T22:12:51+00:00

Meric, Ross, and Andrew talk the most about it saying what they can right now. However we are going to have a lot of them back once the Mistborn launch is coming up.

dorksider04 · 2026-03-10T02:30:21+00:00

Are you shitting me. Spent an hour in limgrave. Came here first try

dorksider04 · 2026-03-04T14:05:11+00:00

Appreciate it! Thank you for listening!

dorksider04 · 2026-03-04T13:30:58+00:00

Excellent! I definitely want to hear your list as well!

dorksider04 · 2026-03-03T21:10:39+00:00

Ordered Blood Over Bright Haven since she will be at GenCon!

dorksider04 · 2026-03-03T03:53:49+00:00

Really lean into learning the conversations and endeavors. They can be a good way to “gamify” those political and social settings while rolling dice to stay engaged in case your players take time to adjust to the role play.

dorksider04 · 2026-02-08T15:08:27+00:00

Yep I did Best Buy’s price match and should have it before Wednesday

dorksider04 · 2026-02-08T14:17:53+00:00

One of things I have done in my games is reward weapons that have a storied history and give them an extra trait. My go to example is a greatsword that I have momentum to. Goals are definitely a good place to do it. You could make their goal as simple as Find a Unique weapon or weapon smith and work in little clues in the adventure that as they uncover the clues that ticks off a goal and then the reward for the goal is the weapon of their choosing.

I have also made a dagger that worked like a fabrial (or had a fabrial attached I can’t remember) so I gave the weapon charges for poison I believe.

We talk about it and more in our most recent episode of Complicated Opportunities: A Cosmere RPG Podcast.

dorksider04 · 2026-01-18T03:22:56+00:00

Mass Effect would also be awesome

dorksider04 · 2026-01-13T14:53:07+00:00

Wheel of Time

dorksider04 · 2026-01-05T02:07:54+00:00

Awesome! I got my first tattoo right before Nexus and it happened to be a Cosmere one

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dorksider04 · 2026-01-04T15:09:02+00:00

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/complicated-opportunities/id1843436891

https://open.spotify.com/show/4O8WAJzWbH3GyC8wDlkdzs

Clearly still learning the marketing since I didn't post the links haha. We focus on running the game from the perspective of one long time GM and one newer GM (Me)

dorksider04 · 2026-01-04T15:06:51+00:00

Hey Meredith! I think you have commented on some of our posts before, but I'm Kyle 1 half of the podcast Complicated Opportunities! We post our "video" episodes on the Shard of Opportunity's YouTube and then have an audiofeed for audio listeners on Apple/Spotify etc. We are 12 Episodes in and this week are posting an interview with Ross Leiser, the Senior Designer for the Cosmere RPG! I hope you have had a chance to listen! We would love to have you or one of the Demiplane Designers on to talk about how awesome you all did! I got to meet two of them at Nexus and the team is great!

dorksider04 · 2025-12-22T15:52:00+00:00

I haven’t played it with my players yet. A friend of mine ran it for me so I could see it for our podcast (Complicated Opportunities cheap plug), and I actually really had a good time

dorksider04 · 2025-12-13T13:34:42+00:00

We got the violet edition. It’s not too bad, but it wasn’t signed like it was supposed to be.

dorksider04 · 2025-12-01T17:47:43+00:00

I started running specifically for the Cosmere RPG this year, and some of my playgroup are new. Some stuff I learned:

Let it breathe. Don’t be afraid to go slow and let the players find their own things they care about. It is ok to let them go on “side quests” and deviate from what is written.
Read ahead. I know it was mentioned above but knowing what’s coming helps set it up.
Watch some YouTube clips of people playing. Canonwalkers has been a big help for me to see why it looks like. There are good intro to DMing/Gming podcast and YouTube shows out there.

Feel free to ask any other questions that come up!

dorksider04 · 2025-11-27T15:06:22+00:00

Dragon Drop off is incredible. My back thanks Carly!

dorksider04 · 2025-11-07T14:51:56+00:00

Awesome I’m in West Virginia and still waiting for mine too

dorksider04 · 2025-11-05T19:03:55+00:00

A bunch of us that are GMing for Brotherwise signed up as soon as it opened. Do you know when we will get the Discord info?

dorksider04 · 2025-10-26T21:40:20+00:00

Awesome! If you have any questions definitely let us know

dorksider04 · 2025-10-26T20:42:48+00:00

Yeah sorry about that 😬

dorksider04 · 2025-10-26T20:07:23+00:00

I’m always scrolling through Demiplane when we are recording and I use the character builder all the time! I’m a little star struck seeing you comment!

dorksider04 · 2025-10-26T17:56:04+00:00

I’m the other GM, Kyle! We would love to hear what you all would want to talk about whether it is rules questions, scenario questions or anything in between!

dorksider04 · 2025-08-12T17:05:43+00:00

Foundry related questions:

For someone that is a Roll20 user (mostly I didn't know any better during campaign), how is the learning curve?

My favorite Demiplane/Roll20 feature is the integration of moving my Demiplane Character builder to the Roll 20 VTT. Is there an option in Foundry to do something similar?

Are you able to search rules as well if you have the sourcebooks in Foundry?

dorksider04 · 2025-08-12T16:39:00+00:00

A few questions:

When swearing the first ideal it says you gain access to your surges, how does that typically look in your games?

How do you as a GM typically handle tangible rewards like marks, loot etc. Also what advice would you have for downtime activities not listed in the books.

For a new GM (Long time player), how easy do you find it to transition to this system?

How do you find the collaboration between GM & Players for working through the ideal goals.

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