Renegade Game Studios is bringing Archetype Entertainment's sci-fi epic Exodus to the tabletop in August, beating the video game itself to shelves by a year. The Traveler's Handbook and Creature Catalog kick off the line in partnership with Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast, and the same creative team behind the video game is writing the books.
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Find events near youFor existing tables, the headline detail is that Exodus runs on the D&D 5E 2024 ruleset rather than a fresh system. Any group already running 5E can swap Player's Handbook for Traveler's Handbook and pick it up over a weekend.
Exodus is the long-rumoured "Mass Effect successor" from Archetype, the Wizards-owned studio founded by ex-BioWare lead James Ohlen and a stack of his old Mass Effect colleagues. Ohlen, for context, originally cut his teeth as a D&D dungeon master before turning his campaigns into Baldur's Gate, Knights of the Old Republic and Dragon Age: Origins. The video game, unveiled at The Game Awards in late 2023, is set tens of thousands of years in the future inside the Omega Centauri star cluster, and its central hook is near-light-speed travel. The more you skip between stars, the more time slides forward for everyone you left behind.
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Set up your group for freeThe Traveler's Handbook is the player-facing book and the Creature Catalog is the GM-facing bestiary, with both arriving in August. Bell of Lost Souls reports the books were shown to retailers at the GAMA Trade Show in March, and Renegade's release calendar has them locked in. Pricing has not been announced yet for the UK, but Renegade's recent hardbacks have landed around £45 to £50 at British retailers.
If Exodus the video game still slips to 2027, the tabletop version may end up the first time anyone gets their hands on this universe at all. Want to run an Exodus learn-to-play once it lands? Set up a session on Backseat Gamer and round up some sci-fi-curious players.
Sources: Renegade Game Studios | Bleeding Cool | Bell of Lost Souls
