Recent content by Parmandur

Journey before destination, as they say.

Another update today on the Kickstarter, as Mistborn fulfillment is going to start locking in with late orders and new addons. We have a premium dice set: "The Mistborn Metal Dice Set includes 8 dice based on the basic Allomantic metals! The highest face on each die has been replaced by the...

Sanderson posted the following on Reddit: "Hey, all! News has broken. Rather than post on all the threads, I figured I would do a new post here with some info and thoughts." "In May I flew to Hollywood to start looking for a new partner on the Cosmere. This is something I've done before, but...

If they can use it as a selling point...honestly people vastly overestimate folks willingness to pay for AI slop.

By Sanderson's own estimation, the slowdown for authors is by about 70, but I think he will keep going a bit longer than some because he has built a very robust system of writing habits. About 2040 is probably right for Stormlight, this is the schedule he projected a few weeks ago for the rest...

Well, now we have WotC offering a curated platform free of AI material... So the big corporations win again.

Heard that listening to the podcast this morning, very cool.

He is very regimented in his work schedule. He was projecting that he would publish around six or seven Cosmere novels in the next five years, but now we may only get four based on his recent updates.

Wouldn't agree that they did...? They did rebalamce things a bit, but all to the good, IMO...and new players won't know that the Spells were chanfwd when they buy the Starter Set.

The major drivers seem to have been to move away from embarrassing cultural anachoniama still in 2014 (Race, etc), to update the art style to appeal to teens of the 20s instead of teens of the Teens, to account for all the Sage Advice input of a decade (Crawford said as much), and to make a DMG...

That answer is true, but boring for a fun thread.

Pretty much true in all aspects of life.

Probably more like 2028, but the main thing is Hasbto investing in game products.