Smash bros Cosmere: sign-ups

[AonDorSmiteThisGuy She/her]

On 2/4/2026 at 4:05 PM, Frustration said:

So, would you be interested?

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1. Adonalsium-will-return - Judge
2. Akimikoisthecutest - Judge
3.  Immortal platypus - Judge
4. Frustration - Either
5. Coder Dragon - Either
6. Ashkaloda - Either
7. Born of Mist - Player
8. Argenti - Either
9. Qianweilian - Either - weight class 1&2
10. Kaladinsenseofhumorspren - Either - weight class 2
11. Trusk'our - Judge
12. Panlin - Judge

 

I’d like to be a player!

[CoderDrag0n8 He/Him]

On 3/7/2026 at 2:33 PM, Frustration said:

Yes

 

Okay I'm seeing this in a few battles so I thought I'd make a post about it.

To the players, your judge will give you a description of your opponent, that is all the information you will receive before the battle starts. I recommend planning for other magic users with the equipment you take before that point.

I'd also like to reemphasize the example post

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I drink my vial of metals and push myself into the air, using the trick inquisitors use to see all nearby metal sources. Burning steel, pewter, tin, and bronze, and launching a spray of coins at my opponent.

Support: [Insert WoB here]

 Magic currently being used: Steel, Tin, Bronze, Pewter

Next move: I plan to duralumin burn steel and launch a metal nugget at my opponent

 

Other than that have fun and enjoy your battles, we should have another one ready here shortly.

I would like to no longer be a player, in fact, judging is much cooler instead.

[Through The Living Grub He/Him]

On 2/4/2026 at 6:05 PM, Frustration said:

This is probably the most unique idea I've ever had on the shard. It is also possibly insane.

I'm not making this to try and code Cosmere characters into Smash bros. That was just the best title I could come up with. My actual goal is to place various cosmere powersets in fights with sharders acting as each one, in an almost RP sort of way.

Now, why is this in the Cosmere discussion and not the RP thread?

The main reason is that I will be placing all of the results into a massive dataset which I will post here at the end of the event for our analysis.

 

How this will work:

Anyone interested can volunteer and will fill one of two rolls: players, or judges. Individuals might be asked to serve in both rolls should they wish to or simply depending on how many volunteers we have.

Two players and three judges will be assigned to any particular matchup, each player will be assigned one character, and each player will be assigned one judge to argue for them, and one to mediate.

Play will work as so:  The player will be contacted via PM by their respective judge and given a character. At this point they are to give a physical description of their character and any resources and materials they have(Subject to review by the judges). This description will be all that their opponent will know about their character before combat begins.

Combat will take place in turns that will go as follows:

1. Each player in a private PM with their judge writes out what action their character will take, as well as what action they intend to take next turn. They will also include any supporting information WoBs or other stuff at this point.
2. Both judges will copy the posts into a different PM that will include only the judges. At this point the three judges will debate and decide upon the most likely outcome from the actions taken.
3. At this point the third judge will write up a narration of what occurs which the other two will send said narration back to the PMs with the players
4. Back to step 1 and repeat until one player has victory
5. The lead judge compiles all narrations, edited as necessary and posts it on this thread.

 

When a players intended next action is the action they take on their next turn they are assumed to have priority over the other player. Likewise players are required with each post to include information about all powers they are currently using: such as metals being burned or tapped, current lashings strengths and directions, illusions currently in play, etc. This is for affects like bronze, or other similar abilities. Players using future sight like Atium will be allowed to see what their opponent intends to do.

 

Obviously I cannot do this on my own, so I'd like to ask for your help, which is the main purpose of the thread. We need a minimum of seven individuals but the more the merrier obviously.

 

So, would you be interested?

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1. Adonalsium-will-return - Judge
2. Akimikoisthecutest - Judge
3.  Immortal platypus - Judge
4. Frustration - Either
5. Coder Dragon - Either
6. Ashkaloda - Either
7. Born of Mist - Player
8. Argenti - Either
9. Qianweilian - Either - weight class 1&2
10. Kaladinsenseofhumorspren - Either - weight class 2
11. Trusk'our - Judge
12. Panlin - Judge
13. AonDorSmiteThisGuy

 

Still room for more? I'd like to be a player.

Edited March 16 by Xiahida

[Frustration]

15 minutes ago, Xiahida said:

Still room for more? I'd like to be a player.

Of course

On 3/14/2026 at 11:51 PM, Through The Living Coder said:

I would like to no longer be a player, in fact, judging is much cooler instead.

Noted

[Frustration]

Update: Our second battle is in Awakener vs. 3rd ideal Edgedancer

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A Theylan Edgedancer with a bag of spheres and a ghet stood opposite of an Awakener with two wooden hilted daggers and preprepared dead rats.

The Edgedancer burst with stormlight and slid around their opponent, while the Awakener grabbed a rat. "Bite people who aren't me," They said releasing the new lifeless.

The Awakener grabbed their knives and prepared a commend, but it was too late. Sliding along the ground the Edgedancer sidestepped the rat and swung their shardblade through the Awakener's chest.

Edgedancer wins

 

Edited March 17 by Frustration

[Trusk'our he/him]

Third battle was Unoathed vs Mistborn.

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A short blonde Scadrian man wearing a cloak had a plethora of items: an aluminum gun at his hip, a stick of dynamite in his trouser pocket, several tungsten spheres, a silver knife, and a camelback full of suspended metal dust.

Across from him in the sandy arena stood a tall Alethi man with dark hair and pale eyes, a sizable quiver slung across their back.

 

The fight begins as the Mistborn quickdraws their gun while slurping metals from their camelback, firing at the Alethi man- only for the soft aluminum bullets to plink uselessly against a suddenly conjured suit of armor. The Mistborn's attempted Steelpush against the arrowheads of the Unoathed is disrupted by the sudden wall of condensed Investiture, failing.

The Unoathed surged towards the cloaked man, only to see a blur of movement as the Metalborn created a speed bubble, thew coins around the battlefield, then dropped the bubble only to use a duralumin enhanced Steelpush to send a 1-inch diameter tungsten ballbearing hurtling into their Plate, cracking it and launching the Mistborn back hundreds of feet.

The Mistborn slows their decent with one of the scattered coins after ingesting another mouthful of metals, burning bronze in conjunction to Seek out any hidden uses of Investiture. They're tipped off by a weak, brief Invested Pulse as the Unoathed recovers and hurls their Blade towards them, and they dodge out of the way. The man in Plate begins charging to close the distance, quickly halving it as the Mistborn slings out another tungsten sphere to slam against their foe.

The Mistborn crops up a speed bubble and back away a little more, then drop the bubble and burn duralumin alongside pewter and steel, using a few coins lodged in the ground as anchors to fire another tungsten ball at the Unoathed. The projectile smashes into their chestplate and cracks it, causing luminescent mist to seep from the cracks.

Replenishing their metals again, the Mistborn take advantage of the Unoathed's brief stumble to erect another speed bubble and line up their final tungsten sphere for a duralumin-enhanced shot, dropping the bubble and using the force of the attack to fling themselves back again as the metal sphere badly damaged the left pauldron of the Unoathed.

The Mistborn dropped to the ground and flared pewter, switching directions and charging the Unoathed as they burn tin, steel, and bronze to keep an eye out for incoming attacks or unseen tricks. The Unoathed flings their Blade again at only two-dozen paces away, but bronze and pewter let the Mistborn slide to the side as the distance closes between the two combatants- only for the Unoathed to lurch forward with arms outstretched, ready to pin their smaller opponent.

A split second before being grappled, the Mistborn flares pewter and creates another speed bubble, allowing them to step to the side and extinguish their pewter and Bendalloy as they slapped the Unoathed across the chest as they burned chromium and duralumin.

The glowing light from the Plate's cracks disappears as most of the Stormlight is Leeched out of the damaged metal, and the Unoathed feels a sluggish weight fall over them. 

The Mistborn replenishes their metals and burns chromium and flares pewter as they grab the arm of the Unoathed to restrain them, Rioting and Soothing to confuse and disorient them. The Unoathed's helmet blocks the emotional attacks, but the severely damaged chestplate explodes into a shower of molten metal and light as the Allomancer fires a few rounds into them.

The Unoathed tries to summon their Shardblade and strike their opponent, but the chromium prevents them from doing so and the Mistborn gets three aluminum rounds off into their chest, dropping them and ending the fight.

[Qianweilian He/him]

11 minutes ago, Trusk'our said:

only for the Unoathed to lurch forward with arms outstretched, ready to pin their smaller opponent.

A split second before being grappled, the Mistborn flares pewter and creates another speed bubble, allowing them to step to the side and extinguish their pewter and Bendalloy as they slapped the Unoathed across the chest as they burned chromium and duralumin.

I was unaware that the opponent was using a speed bubble, I was under the impression that I was fighting a double steel Twinborn.

If the bubble is large enough to allow the Mistborn to step to the side, and the Unoathed is "a split second" away, that implies a very high level of mastery, almost savantism, in the ability to sculpt bubbles.

Honestly, after reading your description, I suspect the Mistborn would've lost without either the ability to sculpt bubbles, or at least make them very small, or the camelback. There are several moments where the Mistborn uses bubbles and replenishes metals in very close quarters.

Also, I don't know how I feel about the arena just being a sandy floor. I wonder if we should add terrain of some sort.

[Trusk'our he/him]

1 hour ago, Qianweilian said:

I was unaware that the opponent was using a speed bubble, I was under the impression that I was fighting a double steel Twinborn.

If the bubble is large enough to allow the Mistborn to step to the side, and the Unoathed is "a split second" away, that implies a very high level of mastery, almost savantism, in the ability to sculpt bubbles.

Honestly, after reading your description, I suspect the Mistborn would've lost without either the ability to sculpt bubbles, or at least make them very small, or the camelback. There are several moments where the Mistborn uses bubbles and replenishes metals in very close quarters.

Personally I felt it was fairly achievable for the Mistborn to keep the Unoathed out of speed bubbles since they're typically not that big anyway and there usually was a fair distance between the two combatants. 

I did add some RNG for the final one though since I felt it could go either way, the but given their mobility the favor was still in their court.

1 hour ago, Qianweilian said:

Also, I don't know how I feel about the arena just being a sandy floor. I wonder if we should add terrain of some sort.

I have to agree with you there. I realized right after stating that the Mistborn’s coins flew "across the entire arena" that I should have made and stuck with a more consistent size and communicated that.

A more complex arena would also be more interesting, so I'll add something more for the next fight I run.

 

In the end I also wasn't happy with how I ran the Mistborn’s use of chromium, as it's already a quick burning metal, so duralumin doesn't affect nearly as much as some other metals. That plus after I thought about it more, a suit of Shardplate is basically 1,400 lbs. of Godmetal Metalmind. Realistically it shouldn't have been so strong given how they could struggle with Compounders, who would probably have less Investiture. 

Though, I would probably also have had the chestplate be broken entirely by the 3rd duralumin-enhanced attack as well, since the Unoathed took no precautions to dodge or block and it's the easiest piece to hit.

[Qianweilian He/him]

9 minutes ago, Trusk'our said:

n the end I also wasn't happy with how I ran the Mistborn’s use of chromium, as it's already a quick burning metal, so duralumin doesn't affect nearly as much as some other metals. That plus after I thought about it more, a suit of Shardplate is basically 1,400 lbs. of Godmetal Metalmind. Realistically it shouldn't have been so strong given how they could struggle with Compounders, who would probably have less Investiture. 

Yeah, possibly. WoB says that a leecher would have a hard time getting that much out of a shardblade and, while plate is less invested (afaik), it might have been harder to do so than portrayed. I do note that, as I thought the opponent was a Twinborn, I thought the loss of Stormlight was more due to the damage the plate had taken.

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Questioner

What would happen if a chromium compounder were to come in contact with a Shardblade? Like, touch it?

Brandon Sanderson

Well, touching a Shardblade is never a good idea. What do you think would happen?

Questioner

I’m unsure if it would drain the spren entirely, like how Nightblood does, or it would revert the spren back to spren form.

Brandon Sanderson

I think that the Shardblade, you’re gonna have trouble getting much out of the Shardblade, that’s what I think.

Now, compounding is gonna… boy, this is a tricky one. I think that this is really dangerous to try and could be devastating to everyone involved.

Dragonsteel Nexus 2025 (Dec. 5, 2025)

 

12 minutes ago, Trusk'our said:

Though, I would probably also have had the chestplate be broken entirely by the 3rd duralumin-enhanced attack as well, since the Unoathed took no precautions to dodge or block and it's the easiest piece to hit.

I mean, perhaps. Depending on what angle it hit it at, hard to tell.

Honestly, I wonder what would've happened if I just brought an aluminum turret gun or something given the enhanced plate strength.

[Frustration]

2 hours ago, Qianweilian said:

If the bubble is large enough to allow the Mistborn to step to the side, and the Unoathed is "a split second" away, that implies a very high level of mastery, almost savantism, in the ability to sculpt bubbles

TLM showed that as long as someone is touching a bubble they count as inside of it. They could have just had a finger on and it would have worked.

[Qianweilian He/him]

1 minute ago, Frustration said:

TLM showed that as long as someone is touching a bubble they count as inside of it. They could have just had a finger on and it would have worked.

Doesn't the bubble have to be centered on them? But yeah, I forgot. It's been a while since I read TLM.

[Cephandrious Maxtori Fae/Faer]

I'd be very interested, if sign-ups are still open, and I have no particular preference with regards to power.