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So, I have a disclaimer and a some additional factors to consider if you are trying to crack Time Bubbles. The disclaimer is that Time Bubble functionality is almost entirely Plot driven concerns over functional logic, and so far at least the instances where it breaks physics are handwaved as the Spiritual Realm filling in the energy balance gaps. Both the deflection of bullets and the lack of Doppler Shift irradiating folks are results of those Doylistic concerns per WOB. The air pressure changes, oxygen depletion, etc are likely to fall into the same boat. Also, an object is either inside or outside of the time bubble with no half-way state possible, depending on whether the object views itself as inside or outside the bubble. So some of the issues with the transition randomizing the movement and/or forces is due to that step-change blinking into different time-frames.

Im not sire why? He's mostly been in prison since then, or under cover, or loosing his cool and ill-advisedly attacking powerful beings with Nightblood. He's also mentioned specifically that his Highspren seems shy and rarely reveals itslef, so without any reason or opportunity to set Nightblood aside Im not sure why he'd force his Spren to manifest. Per Pattern Shallan needed to swear more Truths before she could use Soulcasting at will. Ivory said the same thing to Jasnah about full Elsecalling (in the bonus chapter from her POV when she gets trapped in Shadesmar. Gravitation was one of the first Surges Kaladin used, specifically using the Reverse Lashing on the Bridge to draw Arrow away from himself. He was technically doing that before he actually even learned the actual words of the 1st oath (though I think he made the needed internalised Choice when he decided not to Jump that time).

The Emperor never actually Died, he just received significant Brain Damage. They didnt know how to repair it but that's thats more because their version of "Healing" isnt spiritual in nature, but Regrowth or F-Gold, etc could have fixed him just fine. That's the difference between Forgery and Awakening forgery uses Investiture to effect a temporary modification of a Spiritweb, Awakening uses it to make an artificial Spiritweb to make an Object act as if it were alive, and thats what it would take once a person actually Dies and goes Beyond.

As far as we know all Orders that get Blades and/or Plate (ie not Bondsmiths) get them at 3rd and 4th respectively. Some orders gate specific surges behind different levels, and Skybreakers offer less than most at the 1st oath with their almost-mandatory Squire stage. It might be relevant that the Orders we know Gate their Surges are also the least limiting of the Ideals (Skybreakers, Elsecallers, and Lightweavers are noted to be the most adaptable/compatible Ideals). In the case of Szeth, he's said that his Highspren rarely makes itself known. And he has Nightblood so a) he's had no need for a traditional Shardblade thus far, and b) his Spren is likely keeping it's distance from the Investiture sucking monster from another world that could Eat him if he's not careful. As far as the other Skybreaker masters, they we've never seen them even try to fight, only when they were testing their potentials, so I assume we'll get blade confirmation when they actively take the field on stage.

4th, Compounding grants the Feruchemical form of the metal, and By the wording of the relevant charts Nicrosil stores the Ability to Use Powers, not the Raw Investiture (that's Hemalurgic Nicrosil). Compounding Bronze, for example, would let you multiply your power as if you had multiple spikes and gaint he ability to pierce copperclouds, or ditto Zinc to be able to control Koloss. But you'd still have to then burn the relevant metals to activate the power and you'd still only be Invested while maintaining a Burn. 5th, Compounding that much would inevitably move you down the path to Savantism, which is supposed to always suck at least a little bit.

Other than overall size, the only real Shardblad limit is that it has to be a single piece so it cannot form anything with actual moving parts, though flexible parts (and purely magical fabrial functionality) are on the table. In the family of Shardshovel: Shardtrowel, ShardAxe, Shard-Pick, ShardSpade, ShardScythe, Shard-chisel, Shard-gemcutter, and (my favorite) the Shard-Claycutter that just looks like a non-cutting Garrot to most people but cuts with a potter's Intent. Shard Tuning Fork Shard-glove (for Invested protection and punching). Shard-scalpel (WOB says very careful spiritual surgery might be possible with training, though I think you might need some kind of spiritweb sense or hyperLuck to pull it off).

White rebuilds with a single tower that occupies the space to two. The Skyboard Rook is promoted to "Skyscraper", it occupies the corresponding spots of both boards. It moves like a Checker's King on the Skyboard or a traditional Rook on the main board, and it can take any enemy pieces on the corresponding spots of either board.

My King's Rook moves upward to the skyboard. Your move.

I cant make any firm time commitments but Im interested. Can you add some wishlist items to your list for a place to get started, otherwise you'll get an unhelpful grab-bag stuff from different worlds.

As far as Im aware, that's the less horrifying option, yes. The alternative is that it's realmically closer to the Fused where a Cognitive Being fully OverWrites an existing mortal's body, killing them in the process; that would mean each "subject" represented Two victims, one spren and one mortal (probably a corruption of the Radiant Bond that Forcefully Bonded the two way more closely together).

The crucial distinction between Anti-Investiture and Anti-Matter is anti-matter is actually different thing than Matter fundamentally, while anti-Investiture is just Investiture that has been tuned out of phase. If you drop Anti-Investiture somewhere without a corresponding Investiture for it to react with, it will itself just be Investiture. But Im honestly not sure how to reconcile that fact with the WOB you posted, where he seems to be leaning way more in to the Anti-matter analogy than RoW did.

Its the symbol for Silverlight mercantile, the group behind the interplanetary postal service. https://coppermind.net/wiki/Silverlight_Mercantile

No, not really. Anti-investiture works on the wave cancellation principle, same as noise cancelling headphone tech. But it requires that the anti-wave perfectly match the one to be cancelled, with a small phase shift in the timing. "UnKeyed" investiture is less complex and so it would be a simpler wave-form to cancel it, but the mechanism cant do a true Universal Anti-Investiture.

No, you cant Forge somebody back to life after they've properly died, and getting turned to stone (or Fire, etc) via Soulcasting is lethal, the resulting stone has become an Object, along the same lines as how a shardblade phases through living things but then cuts the body once it's just meat&chiton. The statue is easier to Awaken, though.

I dont have quotes offhand but it's discussed in the era1 books, in the context of the differences between allomantic and feruchemical Tin (though no specific Tin twinborn tricks onscreen). By their current understanding, Allomancers Cant enhance only a single sense to they have to deal with a lot of diverse over-sensitivity issues when using or especially flairing it; Feruchemists by contrast Require different Metalminds for each sense and have to Tap&store them separately, but are generally capable of tapping and storing different attributes at the same time. Together those two "limitations" will logically counter each other quite nicely. I think it's more about a threshold level of Investiture being shoved into the Perception sector of your spiritweb thats getting overloaded and breaking the system, the same way atium does in this WOB: Sanderson has said he tried to make sure the major shardworld magic systems would have all the basis covered for magical effects, for when the magics become more mechanized and scientific (and we're assuming War breaks out between factions). So from a doylist standpoint I suspect all the Allomantic and feruchemcial metals will prove to be way more versatile than the current scadrians realize, and will use increasing complex magic devices to pull off nearly anything we've seen from other magic systems (just like AonDor or Surges&fabrials).

The biggest downside of A-tin is that it enhances all the senses all at once, and potentially to the extreme. So a big part of the power of a TinTwin is that they can store all the other sense and get Just the one supersense they want, either with an active burn and active storing or with a controlled burn at some past point and lots of Tapping. To the OP, Allomantic tin is fundamentally different by being a magical sense rather than enhancing the physical (which is why A-tin sees through Mist but F-tin does not), so with enough stored or enough Duralumin on the burn and you're likely to run the risk of piercing the realms a but and having a Seeing the Stars moment kinda like the super Atium Burn (though it'd take a massive amount to rival that). Reaching Further out into pure speculation, This WOB implies that Pewter is actually activating more of a Mind-Over-Matter state for the body which could be trained to do more than the default effect it has and closer to the Returned. If , as another Physical metal, Tin operates similarly for senses, then there's a possibility that A-Tin could be trained to grant and/or Heighten their senses to get things like Perfect Pitch or Perfect Color Recognition.

He could be that or he could just be the convenient prop of an out of control priesthood. Endowment is known to be erratic, and the Intent itself is very much about a Hands-Off approach to most things (or at least a "Cast the Dice and see how they land" sort?)

That's a fair point and you are entirely right. So on that note, please indulge me in a tin-foil tangent: If it's purely a matter of Time Held to gain that level of invincibility, could a hypothetical Dawnshard (not even Sig specifically) artificially accelerate themselves with an application of a speed bubble to accelerate his subjective Timeline and probably some cognitive protect to survive the process without going mad (enforced magical sleep, maybe?). Or is it like Savantism where actual USE of the power is the key factor rather than simple Influence-over-time

The least "awaken" tanavastium we know of is probably either broken/depowered chunks of shardplate, or Honorblades. If by some means you managed to chip off a piece of an honorblade, for completely totally hypothetical example, that might be closer that anything else we have to what you want. The other thing would be to try and refine it from something else, like Cultivation's shardpool, or possible from Crem (one day in the distant future) since it's implied to have a magical component from the Highstorms. EDIT: There may be some realmic differences but I'd expect that whatever process is used for Purified Dor could be made to work on Storm/Life/Voidlights.

Yup! The Coppermind wiki has a Time Machine function that lets you revert it back to the state before various books were released: https://coppermind.net/wiki/Special:TimeMachine

I mean, as a former Danwshard Hoid is nigh unkillable even to a Shardblade, so probably. But "The Right Circumstances" can be pretty esoteric and hard to arrange, and as the last line points out he's (in some ways) incredibly limited right now compared to even compared to the average worldhopper.

So, Im biased, but I slot this one into my theory that the tale of Queen Tsa is (also) a story about Cutlivation temporarily giving her Shard to another, almost getting tricked out of it, and instead instigating some sort of dalliance with Tanavast that led to both a Child and to him going Mad (the Honor Shard not letting him live with any form of infidelity). WOB confirms Vessels can have children, and that such a child would have special traits. I think that Child became one of the UnMade, specifically BAM and that's why their ability to Connect and provide Voidlight was such a late development in the Desolation cycle.

I agree with your stance, and with #1, but not with #2 since Harmony specifically stated that what he did in the Catacendre Stunted Scadrian development a lot longer than it should have needed to reach their Era2 level. And for #3, Im not exactly sure what you are getting at? It sounds like you are assuming that the Scadrians are the primary aggressors in the Era4 Conflict, but even with the new sample chapters we have no clue what the shape of the war is, or that their motivations trace specifically back to the Catacendre events (in some way distinct from the way Desolations motivated Roshar?) Sorry, could you elaborate a little on that piece?

I would quit my job, look at the massive pile of unfinished creative projects I have, and pick a short list of ones I care about enough to want completed to outlast me.

DnD lives and dies by the group of friends that you have around you, so finding a group and a Vibe that everyone enjoys is the real trick. But to get your feet wet with the general system and methodology, or to get your friends to see the fun of it, Baulder's Gate 3 is DnD in videogame form, and does a pretty good job of introducing the system. Neverwinter Nights was a similar attempt made 20-ish years ago. Also, the DM is really the core of the effort, the are the narrator and director that holds it all together, and it's a lot more work than you expect to do well. So lacking that Passion for the effort, definitely consider using the pre-written modules rather than building your own campaign from scratch.