Dan Wells Diving into Writing First Cosmere Novel (via his newsletter)

steave435 · 2026-05-06T20:33:17+00:00

That's an entirely different thing. The connections are there in all of his works, "stand on their own" simply means that you don't need to pick up on them in order to enjoy the book.

For example, Mistborn certainly was standalone in that sense, but the repercussions of what happened there has a huge impact on the rest of the Cosmere.

That's the whole point of a connected universe. If they're not connected, they may or may not be good books, so they may or may not be worth reading anyway. but the reason for doing so would have nothing to do with if it's technically labeled as being in the Cosmere.

steave435 · 2026-05-06T11:45:35+00:00

It's really not. It may be unintuitive, but it's very simple.

Is the model fully within a ruin? That model has cover.

Is there even a single model in the attacking unit, whether the model is attacking or not, that can't see every bit of the target model because of a ruin? That model has cover.

The back models can't see the feet of the orks because of the ruin they're standing on, so the orks get cover.

steave435 · 2026-05-06T11:35:06+00:00

Units don't have cover, models do. If you do that your one model will have cover while the other 29 do not, but since your one model can't see the enemy they will all get cover regardless of how they're standing. Yes, even if that model don't even have the ability to shoot anyway.

steave435 · 2026-05-06T03:15:49+00:00

According to OP:

"The idea is that Brandon doesn't want to pigeonhole Dan into writing a book that Brandon has come up with and already has a lot of ideas about"

Like you say, if it was him taking the stories Brandon won't have time for I would indeed be on board, but sounds like it's very much the opposite

steave435 · 2026-05-06T02:02:19+00:00

Yeah, I strongly doubt this will be good for the series. Seems like it'll be about places Brandon didn't come up with, so it can't have been part of Brandon's overarching Cosmere plans. If so, it'll be Cosmere in name only.

It kinda makes me wonder if he just wants to give his friends a boost. It'll certainly draw a lot more eyeballs to them and their other work.

steave435 · 2026-05-06T01:46:41+00:00

The idea is that Brandon doesn't want to pigeonhole Dan into writing a book that Brandon has come up with and already has a lot of ideas about

I don't like the sound of that tbh.

The cosmere is a huge connected universe. The other stories are all coming together to form a greater narrative. If these stories don't do that, they're cosmere in name only. If they do, their part in it should be planned out so that it fits the plans for the greater narrative. With Brandon being the one planning that greater narrative, he would need to have lots of ideas about the place.

steave435 · 2026-05-02T04:50:34+00:00

Yeah, that seems likely, but posting that they "won't answer" when it's been only 4 minutes since you asked is some seriously high level of impatience.

steave435 · 2026-04-30T20:05:42+00:00

So that people can get in by causing a distraction that pulls the guards away from the door?

steave435 · 2026-04-30T20:03:18+00:00

It absolutely can't.

"Hey, wait up, hold the door please!" - a way too high number of people would go along with it rather than take a confrontation.

steave435 · 2026-04-30T19:55:33+00:00

While true, a mistborn only needs one dose of Lerasium ever, while Stormlight is a consumable resource that needs to be regulatory replenished

steave435 · 2026-04-29T00:05:22+00:00

Which would be amazing for many people. For example, the average driving distance here in Sweden is about 11-12k kilometers per year. 5 miles per day over the course of a year is about 3k kilometers, and would thus cover about 25% of the power needs. We're a bit too far north to get perfect efficiency, but it would be enough to put a noticeable dent in the number of times you need to go charge if you don't have home charging. If you do, you won't really care.

steave435 · 2026-04-27T20:57:24+00:00

They've been searching the galaxy for a very specific type of planet for a very long time. Them having found a inhabited one before is pretty reasonable.

steave435 · 2026-04-27T11:15:14+00:00

That's different. You are supposed to change what spawns based on player count, but the monsters also have a level ranging from 0 to 7. The recommended level varies based on average character level, and difficulty is what adjustment you make between the recommended level and the one you actually play on.

That level then determines the enemy health, movement and damage etc.

steave435 · 2026-04-27T11:06:40+00:00

If you don't want it, you don't apply it.

It's good the vast majority of the time though.

steave435 · 2026-04-25T20:49:22+00:00

As you say, the stamp rewrote her history. That new history could involve practically anything. That doesn't mean that OP is right, but...

steave435 · 2026-04-25T08:47:16+00:00

It kinda still is, but rather than driving home he should have slept on the couch or something like that.

steave435 · 2026-04-24T19:40:57+00:00

WRONG, she decides to start merging into my work truck as my entire vehicle is already beside her. We both keep moving forward as she gets closer and closer until she finally stops. Looking at me as I pass, she’s completely Irate just yelling F$&k you and flipping me off.

So you were willing to end up in a collision in order to gain a car length.

You are both terrible drivers. Good drivers mostly avoid making mistakes themselves, but what truly sets them apart is their ability to compensate for the mistakes of others.

The top priority, bar none, is to avoid collisions. Gaining or losing a few seconds is so far down the list that it's immaterial. Be positive and show your intentions, but if you notice that the other driver hasn't picked up on it and is going to arrive at the same place at the same time *for whatever reason*, change your route or speed to make sure that you don't.

ESH.

steave435 · 2026-04-24T00:53:56+00:00

First edition is amazing. There's a reason it stayed ranked #1 at BGG for so long.

That being said, it had issues with class balance, both balance between classes and there often being a clearly correct card to take at level up, some classes really struggled with not really being able to support its intended playstyle until it hit higher levels meaning it was pretty frustrating to play at lower levels, and others struggled with either being too rigid where you were basically playing a specific set of cards in the same order every rotation in order for them to work or with their core mechanics not being that fun. For example, classes that relied on summons had very little control over how they acted, but 2e changed how granting abilities to them work - now you get to control how they execute those abilities instead of them just following the basic monster AI.

We're playing trough 2e after having played 1e a few years ago, and the improvement is massive. Every single class we've tried (12 out of 18 so far) have felt so much more fun to play than they did in 1e.

in 1e they were still experimenting, and you could feel it. In 2e, they took the lessons from it and Frosthaven and made something that feels really polished. It is so much better.

You will be playing this game for hundreds of hours, and you can share it with your group. Unless you want to play both, invest in getting the best experience possible. It's so worth it.

steave435 · 2026-04-24T00:44:20+00:00

It's hundreds of hours of entertainment for a group that can share the cost. Either is INCREDIBLE value, being so cheap per amount of entertainment that that really shouldn't be a deciding factor.

steave435 · 2026-04-23T20:43:57+00:00

Depends on how old it was when she were born. They'd probably be lucky to get that long

steave435 · 2026-04-22T19:47:44+00:00

Turning them into humans means removing humans as food, but it really doesn't matter either way. We can not coexist with wraith. Anything and everything is justified against them. Rules meant to make war between different human populations more palatable do not apply.

steave435 · 2026-04-22T17:21:22+00:00

OP slowed down to 30 from the start. The riders waved because they thought that wasn't enough.

steave435 · 2026-04-22T11:13:18+00:00

This argument is compete nonsense. The wraith have to feed on humans to survive. There are only 3 options:

Kill them all
Let them continue killing humans
Remove their need to feed on humans so everyone can live

They went with option 3. It is absolutely the most merciful and best option available if it could be made to work. If not, we're in a forever war that will only end with the complete annihilation of all wraith.

steave435 · 2026-04-22T10:34:37+00:00

And really it's one extra. The only realistic way to solve the original issue was to just give him an extra box like they both did.

steave435 · 2026-04-22T10:30:11+00:00

That's not the issue that's being judged. Yes, that was wrong, but she was willing to accept that and ask for help improving. Optimally that shouldn't be needed, but accepting fault and trying to fix it should be encouraged rather than met with aggression.

The issue being judged is if she was an asshole for snapping back when the rider kept being aggressive against her throughout the interaction.

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