“With any license, the first thing you want to do is identify what is unique about it, and then how you can translate that into the game,” Green Ronin founder and president Chris Pramas told Polygon.

In Jemisin’s apocalyptic world, humanity must band together into tight-knit comms in order to survive a seemingly never-ending series of natural disasters.

Players will create characters based on the Broken Earth trilogy’s strict caste system, which divides workers from creators and even from those tasked with raising the next generation.

Embedded within that rigid caste system are the secret orogenes, powerful magelike figures who are persecuted — and, in the books, often shunned out of comms — as others fear their titanic abilities.

[...] Credit to Ronin for being proactive [on these issues],” said co-designer Tanya DePass, founder and director of I Need Diverse Games, a not-for-profit advocacy organization.

DePass, who is close friends with Jemisin, said that she is relishing the opportunity to translate a series with which she is so intimately familiar to the tabletop — a space where players can explore, but also be introduced to Broken Earth potentially for the first time.