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404GoonNotFound posted:Please, spoil me: Does TenSoon actually show up, or are the "Faceless Immortals" just mentioned offhand a couple times? I haven't read the whole thing yet... but from (very) quickly thumbing through I would have to say no, not that I can see
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Just finished TWoK. Man, what a fun read. A bit silly, but very enjoyable. I'm really looking forward to the next one. What's the current ETA? I know he's got about 80 thousand projects on his plate.
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# ? Oct 17, 2011 03:29 |
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Arcturas posted:Just finished TWoK. Man, what a fun read. A bit silly, but very enjoyable. I'm really looking forward to the next one. What's the current ETA? I know he's got about 80 thousand projects on his plate. The last Wheel of Time book should finish up sometime in the next month or so, then its off to the editor for review. Most likely at that point he will work on a few small sideprojects to recuperate. He started work on Scribbler (Now called The Rithmatist) but had to set it aside for other commitments, most likely this will get finished. The Rithmatist is Young Adult and is something like a cross between Harold and the Purple Crayon and Harry Potter. Aparently you draw poo poo with chalk and magic stuff happens. He may choose to work on another secret project after that (a Necromancer Pizza delivery boy concept has been tossed about) or he may dive head first into Stormlight Archive number 2. Either way, we should get the sequel to TWOK sometime next year, possibly right before or after the final WOT book. I don't think the WOT is going to come out untill next fall. Harriet (Jordan's widow and editor) has said she might take up to 6 months to edit this book since its the last and there will probably be lots of re-writes and fixes for Brandon to do. She felt that TOM got rushed out the door and had too many grammar and continuity errors. Either way, we should hopefully get a WOT book and a stormlight book next year. Of course you never know, Brandon may decide to take a vacation and write 2-3 Mistborn adventure books while sipping a corona on some white sand beach in the tropics. Cartoon Man fucked around with this message at 12:46 on Oct 17, 2011 |
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I read all 3 Mistborns! I am in awe of this man's story planning skills. Before I read it all I knew was "detailed magic" and "good action scenes" and, um, yeah, that has been handily verified. I thought the first book was fun if kind of fluffy, and got kind of worried with the angsty second one, but man was that 3rd one some nice juicy payoff. I don't really dig the way he writes dialogue, something about it is too technical and writer-y sounding to come out of people who are supposedly members of an oppressed, uneducated slave class. On the other hand I think I understand where goofy-clown-Mat from The Gathering Storm came from, he'd have fit right in Kelsier's crew. And I can't count the number of times I wanted to shake Vin and tell her stop whining you're a god-killing physics ninja or take out your goddamn earring. But this guy sure can plot. I guess I'll check out these ways of kings and elantrises and whatnot. My only question is why isn't there an Allomancer video game?
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# ? Oct 18, 2011 03:38 |
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Omnomnomnivore posted:On the other hand I think I understand where goofy-clown-Mat from The Gathering Storm came from, he'd have fit right in Kelsier's crew. According to Harriet, Robert Jordan actually wrote that scene. I thought it was Sanderson, too (as did pretty much everybody else), but it was apparently supposed to be Mat getting jumpy over having just gotten married.
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# ? Oct 18, 2011 06:44 |
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Omnomnomnivore posted:My only question is why isn't there an Allomancer video game? Sanderson decided to go the P&P RPG route first because he's that drat nerdy. Of course, this is also the guy who was willing to trade signed advance copies of Alloy of Law for sealed M:tG starter decks, so it's hardly surprising.
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# ? Oct 18, 2011 06:50 |
404GoonNotFound posted:Sanderson decided to go the P&P RPG route first because he's that drat nerdy. Unfortunately, the P&P RPG is loving terrible, if the preview released at gencon is anything to go by.
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# ? Oct 18, 2011 12:58 |
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NinjaDebugger posted:Unfortunately, the P&P RPG is loving terrible, if the preview released at gencon is anything to go by. How so? I pre-ordered it but haven't really looked over the preview yet
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# ? Oct 18, 2011 13:01 |
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Kreeblah posted:According to Harriet, Robert Jordan actually wrote that scene. I thought it was Sanderson, too (as did pretty much everybody else), but it was apparently supposed to be Mat getting jumpy over having just gotten married. I just choose not to believe this. I believe they told the crowds this because that scene in particular got a lot of critisism. LALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU.
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# ? Oct 18, 2011 13:13 |
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Cartoon Man posted:He started work on Scribbler (Now called The Rithmatist) but had to set it aside for other commitments, most likely this will get finished. The Rithmatist is Young Adult and is something like a cross between Harold and the Purple Crayon and Harry Potter. Aparently you draw poo poo with chalk and magic stuff happens. He may choose to work on another secret project after that (a Necromancer Pizza delivery boy concept has been tossed about) or he may dive head first into Stormlight Archive number 2. My To-Read list has just gotten a whole lot more awesome!
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# ? Oct 18, 2011 15:55 |
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Affi posted:I just choose not to believe this. I believe they told the crowds this because that scene in particular got a lot of critisism. LALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU. I suspect the RJ sections that had been written and not edited when he died may have been less critically edited after, since he wasn't around to agree or disagree with the edits and make his own changes. Trimming/redoing sections RJ wrote would make it less "his" novel.
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# ? Oct 18, 2011 16:33 |
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Ok... Which one of you goons did this? http://m24p.bandcamp.com/track/mistborn-creature-of-the-night
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# ? Oct 20, 2011 00:56 |
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finished Alloy of Law last night after a four hour marathon to get it done (i hit the avalanche at midnight and couldn't put it down) my feelings on the book today:
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# ? Oct 20, 2011 19:12 |
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treeboy posted:finished Alloy of Law last night after a four hour marathon to get it done (i hit the avalanche at midnight and couldn't put it down) Once again, drat yous Also, now that you're done, still no sign of TenSoon? (Once again, yes or no only please. Don't want to be TOO spoiled.)
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# ? Oct 20, 2011 23:12 |
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404GoonNotFound posted:Once again, drat yous Not that I could spot other than that passing reference to the Kandra in general. But that being said I have a feeling there's a ton going on that might not be explicit, so...no...but maybe? multiple read-through's required for this book in my opinion
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# ? Oct 20, 2011 23:33 |
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treeboy posted:finished Alloy of Law last night after a four hour marathon to get it done (i hit the avalanche at midnight and couldn't put it down) You son of a whore, you made me think it was out already!
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# ? Oct 21, 2011 00:50 |
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I'm just glad I'm getting it for free thanks to multiple Amazon deals lining up at just the right moment. Which is good, because my 360 just red ringed...
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# ? Oct 21, 2011 01:34 |
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http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product_info.php?products_id=95856&src=newsletter_cta Looks like a preview for the Mistborn RPG, also its free!
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# ? Oct 21, 2011 01:35 |
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Ulta posted:http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product_info.php?products_id=95856&src=newsletter_cta That's the same one you got for pre-ordering during Gencon. STILL waiting on NinjaDebugger to explain why, exactly, it isn't worth getting though.
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# ? Oct 21, 2011 01:44 |
404GoonNotFound posted:That's the same one you got for pre-ordering during Gencon. One line summary: The system is the worst aspects of Mother May I combined with the worst aspects of World of Darkness, with an extra layer of retardation layered on. Long summary: All characters have four basic blocks on their sheet. Attributes are Physique, Charm, and Wits. Standings are Resources, Influence, and Spirit. Traits are Fate-like aspects, you get five of them, one from each category. The categories appear to be Drive, Profession, Specialty, Feature, and Personality. Powers are where your magic goes, basically. You know how in World of Darkness games, people actively try to avoid combat because it's hard to resolve and takes forever and is generally no fun? Imagine -every single roll- being like that. All rolls are made with a pool of 2 to 10 d6. The GM chooses one attribute, standing, or power that fits your actions, then you add 1 die for each Trait that you can argue into applying, 1 die for a helpful item (or -1 if you're missing an important item), 1 die for helpful conditions (or -1 for adverse ones). Then the GM assigns a difficulty of 1 to 5, and you roll. Set any sixes aside. If the numbers on two or more of your dice match, the highest number shown on any matching set is your Result. If your Result equals or exceeds difficulty, you win! Otherwise, you fail! Then, you enter the SECOND phase of Mother May I, where you negotiate with the GM to use all those sixes you rolled to make your success even better. And this isn't even getting into the optional degrees of success/failure stuff, or the fact that any sort of conflict involves dice pools, and conflicts use the original L5R style initiative, where you go from lowest init to highest, declaring actions, and then go from highest init to lowest to resolve them, which makes combat take even longer.
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# ? Oct 21, 2011 12:54 |
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Sounds like I'll be running it Paranoia-style.
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# ? Oct 21, 2011 17:01 |
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I preordered Alloy of Law on my brady-spankin' new Kindle last night. I need to be careful with this thing. Hopefully my local library will start lending out Kindle books soon.
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# ? Oct 25, 2011 13:25 |
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pakman posted:I preordered Alloy of Law on my brady-spankin' new Kindle last night. It's pretty scary how easy it is to go through 5-6 books in a month when you can download whatever/whenever. Always be on the lookout for deals on books, it can save you a bunch.
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# ? Oct 25, 2011 13:52 |
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subx posted:It's pretty scary how easy it is to go through 5-6 books in a month when you can download whatever/whenever. I have a long commute every day, so this was crazy magnified for me. I went through 12 books in September. At least a lot of them were on sale. I found out Sanderson is doing a booksigning near me on 11/16, so I'm probably buying Alloy of Law in hardcover. I can't wait to read it. Come out already!
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# ? Oct 26, 2011 14:52 |
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I have a long commute every day, so this was crazy magnified for me. I went through 12 books in September. At least a lot of them were on sale. I'm reading Hero of Ages on the Kindle right now. For some reason I put over eight months between it and the last book, but i've decided to finish it before Alloy of Law comes out. It's pretty great so far.
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# ? Oct 26, 2011 22:45 |
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Here's a good blog by Brandon about why he added guns into Mistborn. http://torforge.wordpress.com/2011/11/01/my-14-year-old-self-might-take-issue-with-the-alloy-of-law/ Brandon Sanderson posted:An example may help. I have a friend who once claimed he loved anime. Oh Brandon, its ok to admit that this was you, we won't judge.
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# ? Nov 2, 2011 12:01 |
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"Good anime" yep he sure is a fantasy author!
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# ? Nov 3, 2011 03:09 |
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I only like watching the very roundest eyeballs vibrate for a half hour.
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# ? Nov 3, 2011 04:43 |
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Soon, Alloy of Law...soon...drat preview chapters on Tor had me drooling.
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# ? Nov 6, 2011 22:19 |
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mythicknight posted:Soon, Alloy of Law...soon...drat preview chapters on Tor had me drooling. I am not ashamed to admit I have been checking the order status on Amazon once an hour all weekend.
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# ? Nov 6, 2011 22:24 |
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mythicknight posted:Soon, Alloy of Law...soon...drat preview chapters on Tor had me drooling. I read the prologue and stopped after that because I didn't want to read 1/3 of the book and then suffer literary blueballs for weeks. I'm super pumped for my copy to arrive on Thursday, though!
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# ? Nov 7, 2011 00:48 |
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I preordered Alloy of Law for my kindle. What time should I be able to download this bad boy?
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# ? Nov 7, 2011 02:28 |
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The Kindle books I've ordered have usually been delivered a minute or two after midnight (Pacific time) on release day.
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# ? Nov 7, 2011 04:19 |
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Kreeblah posted:The Kindle books I've ordered have usually been delivered a minute or two after midnight (Pacific time) on release day. Mine also. I usually get overexcited and spam the server at like 11:59.
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# ? Nov 7, 2011 06:03 |
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It shipped ...is it tomorrow yet?
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# ? Nov 7, 2011 14:43 |
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404GoonNotFound posted:It shipped I don't know which book to read now. I may have to put down my current book on the Chciago Outfit as well as Memories of Ice by Steven Erickson to read Alloy of Law. Or I could just read all three at the same time. Also, I ordered it on my Kindle so I'll be getting it sometime...tonight?
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# ? Nov 7, 2011 14:52 |
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404GoonNotFound posted:It shipped MINE DID TOO! I'm so excited!
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# ? Nov 7, 2011 20:39 |
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What the hell, forgot about this release day. Time to get my kindle back to work and order this.
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# ? Nov 8, 2011 00:43 |
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Psh, I'm just gonna go to some book store, grab the book and read until finished.
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# ? Nov 8, 2011 00:53 |
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I'm gonna try some lesser known brick & mortar store around here. If I still can't grab a physical copy, I'll kneel to the kindle version
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# ? Nov 8, 2011 01:02 |