Brandon Sanderson could be a moderator all on his own. His experience from Writing Excuses really shows.

I just love listening to David Farland. He has a soothing, calm voice and really thinks about the questions and his answers.

"Oh, HI I'm Brandon Sanderson!"

Jim butcher AND Brandon Sanderson on the same panel?! I wish I could have been there. But unfortunately I work right across from the convention center they're in, and couldn't. :(

14:48 - Hahahahaha - "This guy can do these incredible things - you can't just have him living in a little hovel..." But that's EXACTLY what Butcher has done with Harry Dresden, and it works magnificently.

The Jack Vance work they're referencing around 36 min is the "Dying Earth" series.

Thank you for uploading this.

I loved this video, especially since I own most of these authors books.

Thank you so much for uploading these!!

Thank you so much for uploading all those panels! Keep up the great work! :)

I don't have time or money to make it to these events, thanks so much for uploading these :)

Thank You

Good grief, what a line up!!!

More thanks from over here.

Audio isn’t loud enough :(

Really interesting discussion I wish the sound was a bit louder

Tad Williams argument for less magic not more is important to good writing. Characters need to figure out things for themselves. Not with a magic spell.

Also Bigfoot = Trolls of old...

I have to disagree with David Farland on magical healing, in that I wouldn't make the blanket statement of "Don't do it." Granted, magical healing CAN take away dramatic tension, IF it's done like an RPG's healing. In my world, however, it's more like battlefield triage. It takes both the wounded person AND the medic out of combat during the healing. The medic needs the anatomical and magical knowledge, the adventurer's equivalent of an M.D., so there's not many who can do it properly. So really you'd only do it when the alternative is letting a party member die. So the fight's going so badly one of yours is in critical condition, AND ON TOP OF THAT your medic is out of combat to heal them, and can't defend themselves while they focus, AND ON TOP OF THAT the rest of your party is vulnerable without those two (or more). So instead of taking away from dramatic tension, the way I do magical healing in combat can actually be a SOURCE of dramatic tension. Plus, it's painful as heck, because the nerves are raw/super-sensitive, so even if the wounded person is awake, they ain't fighting during the procedure.

Whoever recorded this... Please, next time stand up or get a tripod to get the camera/recording device above the level of the audience. That girl at center foreground is an almost intolerable distraction what with the constant turning of her head and constantly drinking her soda or whatever is in that garish cup.

Too many Classes now packing too many of the SAME spells, especially concerning healing magic...

0:33 kind of said how she never finished introducing herself properly.

The audio in this is waaaaayyy too quiet, I can't hear crap at the gym

Who is the woman?

33:30 - how annoying that that woman cam and sat right in front of the camera...

Okay. Move the camera, the crunching of the person eating chips was so distracting. Loved it otherwise!