Improvements to Arcanum

[RShara]

@Mestiv has made some trial improvements to Arcanum.  Please tell us what you think!

 

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Questioner [PENDING REVIEW]

What was your favorite world to make?

Bernard Sandorson [PENDING REVIEW]

Probably Roshar, because there was the most space for me to plan, the most complexity to work with.

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What idea for a book you loved didn't work?

Banakin Sandwalker

Yeah. It happens all the time, absolutely happens all the time. There's one that I did some readings from, that I got a scene written, where I wanted to do this cool book where I had this setting. The pitch on it was, what if viruses and bacteria evolved to give people magical talents when you caught the disease. This idea that a bacteria doesn't actually want to kill you, or a virus doesn't want to kill you. It wants you to live and spread it. You getting sick is a side effect. What if the side effect is, you got the common cold, all the sniffles and everything, but you could fly as long as you had the common cold? What would that do to society? What happens when someone invents penicillin and can wipe out half of these magical talents? What happens if people start catching a disease that makes everything they touch start on fire. So it was a story about basically fantasy Jack Bauer, who's a member of the fantasy CDC, who tries to stop diseases and things like this. But in order to do his job, he has to keep his immune system terrible, like this weakling who can barely get up the steps, so that he can quickly catch diseases to get the powers he needs to deal with outbreaks of these things. It's just a really cool concept that I've never been able to gel into an actual story. It hasn't worked every time I've tried to write it.

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[Lord Mistborn Bondbreaker]

2 hours ago, RShara said:

@Mestiv has made some trial improvements to Arcanum.  Please tell us what you think!

 

 

I think it’s April 1st.

[RShara]