DSNX2025

[#1 Taln Fan he/him]

If I haven’t met you yet, come say hi! Either pm me on discord or I’ll be at the 17th shard booth at 5 tmrw

[IcedOutPenguin He/Him]

Is anyone else super confused by Scadrial quest 8?

On 12/4/2025 at 5:39 PM, Ookla the Taln said:

If I haven’t met you yet, come say hi! Either pm me on discord or I’ll be at the 17th shard booth at 5 tmrw

I'll be there and will come say hi!

[#1 Taln Fan he/him]

56 minutes ago, Ookla the Penguin said:

Is anyone else super confused by Scadrial quest 8?

I'll be there and will come say hi!

I'll probably be in the exhibitor hall from around 10-11ish and probably at some point in the afternoon (I'll leave for the airport at 3, so I'll prob be doing a lap to say bye to peeps shortly before) I likely won't check my forums PMs much, but if ya don't have discord you can always ask someone at the 17th Shard booth to PM me if ya need to find where I am xD

[Use the Falchion]

And a fun time was had by all! I really enjoyed the convention this year. It wasn't perfect, but problems from last year were addressed, and the convention game was a lot of fun! I really hope that they keep letting players feel like they're part of the Cosmere (or Cytoverse, or whichever universe they choose to do in the future) in the future. 

Highlights: I asked Sanderson a question during the Spoiler Q&A and didn't get a RAFO!* (It was the question about Jezrien and Kaladin. I can provide slight proof, but I didn't record it this time.) 

I got a book signed by Will Wight, alongside a picture. This was big because I didn't know he even HAD a signing or was coming to Dragonsteel until it was too late. 

I got a signed hardcover copy of Book 1 of my favorite book from this year. (Iron Prince aka Warformed: Stormweaver Book 1 by Bryce O'Connor.) Next year I'll get Fire & Song! (And hopefully Book 3 if it's out.)

SECRET PROJECT 6!!!

 

Amusing Moments: Seeing Chaos and Argent and others who I assume are either Arcanists and/or Beta/Gamma readers hanging out alongside Peter Ahlstrom and Isaac Steward in the Hyatt Saturday night as I return from getting food...only to see them still there as I check out at 3 AM. Y'all are some serious night owls!

The parts of Intentionally Blank I saw. I didn't know what to expect of Tomi's personality beforehand, but I may just buy her books based on sheer vibes from now on. Tomi's hilarious, and I have several friends who are almost exactly like her, so I felt like I knew her. Also, Dan was so out of his element it was hilarious. (In a good way, for me in the audience at least!)

 

The Downsides: The convention game DID take up a lot of time, which meant I'd miss either parts of panels or entire panels I wanted to check out because I was waiting in line to get a sticker. I don't regret it, and I love the effort the game possessed, but I do wish there was a way to shorten the lines. (To be fair Dragonsteel tried! It just didn't fully work well.) 

 

My Hopes for Next Year: Newly released books by some of my favorite authors, so I can have them signed (Brian McClellan's new Godglass book; Peter Orullian's anthology alongside Songs of the Dead; Will Wight's LitRPG Isekai and hopefully my leatherbound version of Wintersteel will have arrived; Warformed Book 3 by Bryce O'Connor)

Will Wight (and by proxy, Brent Weeks) gets his own booth. He had a signing and was on panels but didn't have a booth. I find that kinda weird, to be honest. I think now that his books are in Barnes & Noble, having a booth will really help sales and publicity. 

Either a new Inter-realmatic Cosmere-based convention game, or a Frugal Wizard convention game. (Brandon, Dan, if y'all aren't ever going to write Frugal Wizard's Handbook to Surviving the Titanic, then at least let us play it! Or make it the Worldhoppers Ball adventure!)

I can finally convince some of my friends to come with me to Dragonsteel Nexus! 

[#1 Taln Fan he/him]

On 12/7/2025 at 7:56 PM, Use the Falchion said:

I got a book signed by Will Wight, alongside a picture. This was big because I didn't know he even HAD a signing or was coming to Dragonsteel until it was too late. 

 

Same, he's awesome. I actually ran into him a second time outside Roshar during a panel and got to chat with him and his brother a bit. Would love for him to have a full booth next year. Judging by how fast his signings sold out, he'd have plenty of buyers xD 

On 12/7/2025 at 7:56 PM, Use the Falchion said:

Amusing Moments: Seeing Chaos and Argent and others who I assume are either Arcanists and/or Beta/Gamma readers hanging out alongside Peter Ahlstrom and Isaac Steward in the Hyatt Saturday night as I return from getting food...only to see them still there as I check out at 3 AM. Y'all are some serious night owls!

 

Yeah it was fun running into various Dragonsteel employees randomly. I was chatting with folks in the Hyatt lobby a good bit, but I did not have the energy to stay up till 3 am xD I was always way too exhausted to stay up past midnight

My amusing moment was looking over and just seeing Peter with a plastic piece of cheese, holding it aloft and posing with it xD Very random

[AonEne he/him]

On 12/7/2025 at 6:56 PM, Use the Falchion said:

Amusing Moments: Seeing Chaos and Argent and others who I assume are either Arcanists and/or Beta/Gamma readers hanging out alongside Peter Ahlstrom and Isaac Steward in the Hyatt Saturday night as I return from getting food...only to see them still there as I check out at 3 AM. Y'all are some serious night owls!

If you go to bed then the convention ends!! Simply never go to bed and then you can hang out with friends indefinitely  

On 12/7/2025 at 6:56 PM, Use the Falchion said:

The Downsides: The convention game DID take up a lot of time, which meant I'd miss either parts of panels or entire panels I wanted to check out because I was waiting in line to get a sticker. I don't regret it, and I love the effort the game possessed, but I do wish there was a way to shorten the lines. (To be fair Dragonsteel tried! It just didn't fully work well.) 

I think an easy way to make it better would have been not sending people to wait in lines over and over again and just sending people to stations fewer times, or having more quests be "go to any station after", stuff like that. All the errors in the puzzles were also unfortunate. (And the fact that it said the story had been reviewed for continuity but apparently hadn't actually been? XD) The game really needed more playtesting/drafting, imo. The puzzles that did work were fun, though! And the exhibitor stamp situation was...still not ideal but it seemed better than last year! Having more space for the exhibitor hall likely helped with that.