Any advice for running this RPG for a group of players who have never even heard of Stormlight?
I like Stormlight a lot, so I want to try this RPG, especially since I've heard it's really well made. However, while I have the pdfs, I haven't read through any of them yet, because I'm not sure if I'll manage to ever run it for anyone.
My group has never read the books and don't even have any idea what the series is like. One of the players is vaguely interested in reading it some day, but he has a large reading queue. My issue is: Roshar is a really unique and complex world in a lot of aspects, and it might be hard to introduce it to new people without overwhelming them. Also, from my brief skimming of the rulebook, I noticed it somewhat assumes the group is going to play in the time period after Oathbringer, which makes sense in terms of the availability of the Surgebinding, but it makes the already complex world even more difficult to introduce, when you have to add in a world-spanning war. On the other hand, I feel like running it in a different period would make it harder to let them use the magic system...
I just wanted to ask: does anyone have any experience or advice regarding running this RPG for people who know nothing about this series?