The Allomantic Metalhead

I pre-ordered it... and Oathbringer... and... well, I like pre-ordering stuff.

1. Acquire other Chromium Compounder. 2. Make him store a truly insane amount of luck. 3. Make him compound it all. 4. Profit.

That would be storming awesome.

@The One Who Connects Point.

@The One Who Connects Awesome. No more losing stormlight when it isn't being used!

indeed

1. Good point. Thanks. 2. I said I wanted to avoid having him face something as noticeable and overpowered as a shard, but I think another compounder is a great idea. I'm also having him fight a Bendalloy misting in the first chapter, which goes on to explain why he hates sliders. (No amount of luck can cause him to hit someone who consciously moves out of the way of his bullets). 3. Great idea! Didn't think of that! He's probably fought coinshots/lurchers before, but I could make this one especially skilled. 4. Actually, that's a pretty good idea. The luck could also muddle his tracks a tiny bit, but there's only so much it could do, especially if it's doing ten other things that do the exact opposite of muddling his tracks. 5. Thumbs up to that. I think it might do some stuff for the long term (accidentally hitting a future serial killer he'd have to hunt down and fight in about a week), but that might cause problems in the short term (the man may have been planning murder, but as of right now, he was innocent. He'd have to deal with the man's family's grief, the town's uproar, and his own guilt for a few days/a week or until someone finds the body hidden under his floorboards and declares it was a lucky mistake). However, I love the idea of long-term luck and short-term luck conflicting like that. 6. I actually originally wanted a chromium compounder as the villain and an electrum compounder as the hero (I wanted to do a story that explores the limits of compounding), but I wanted more of a challenge, so the electrum compounder went to my mistborn adventure game character ideas folder. Thanks!

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That would be... ironic! Might work though. Coincidences/good fortune often happen to people without chromiuminds just as well as those with them. That may just be a good idea, though I think it would kind of be a Morton's Fork, because if he had them, he'd have so much luck that the hitman might just suffer a convenient heart attack or the gun would misfire or he'd just plain miss anyways, but I like this idea. Thanks.

Okay, so I'm working on this fanfic-ish thingy (I hesitate to call it a fanfic, no major characters are directly involved) set in the roughs, and the protagonist is a lawman/reformed petty criminal. He's also a chromium compounder, which is awesome, but also leaves me with a problem: how do I challenge him without pulling out all of the stops and making him fight a storming shard? Sure, I plan on having him lose his chromiumminds, but how would I even manage to do that realistically? He's a rusting god of good luck! I know for a fact that it's possible, nothing is impossible, but it's probably going to be very hard... Any ideas?

Odium + Honor?

Point

Okay, I have several, but here's my first: An adamantine koloss sword with a hilt made of dragon horn and wrapped in black leather, with beads of atium instead of gemstones at the pommel. I'd awaken it with the command "kill lots of evil things and be totally awesome doing it". (The one-upmanship of Nightblood ensues).

Yeah, I think part of it is that I already have a MAG group, so they might think they'd be redundant, but I haven't explained much more than the basics to them anyways, so maybe I can try to coax them... As for spoilers, it's actually a bit of a problem. My MAG group are all familiar with Mistborn (though two haven't heard of the Cosmere and one hasn't read second age yet), so we feel free to engage in wholesale canon mutilation, but it often comes with spoiler-laden scenes. Kelsier's death is the hardest to avoid. Thanks.

My dad bought Mistborn as an audiobook on audible.com when I was 11 or 12. I listened to it. We both agreed it was awesome, so he got a whole bunch of other books by Brandon. They were awesome. They're awesome. Especially Mistborn, Stormlight, and Reckoners. Mistborn, Stormlight, Reckoners. Also, I really liked the Emperor's Soul and Alcatraz. I'd say 7-8 10. Definitely 10. Any way to get my Pathfinder/D&D group to read Mistborn so we can play the Mistborn Adventure Game? If not, any ideas on how to play a MAG session without too many major spoilers?

Not all compounding: Aluminum Copper Iron Bendalloy Cadmium

Ishikk Laral Granite Joe David Charleston Rick Grimes

Rust and Ruin!

The Vision Bleak: Into the Unknown

You forgot twinborn. P.S. I'm the allomantic metalhead, so you can guess what I chose.

Hello and welcome to the 17th shard! I am also glad to be on a site with a community as crazy about the Cosmere as I am, and I'll think you'll fit right in. Tell me, have you read Mistborn, Elantris, Warbreaker, or any others or just Stormlight?

Why not both?

Great idea!

Okay this isn't really a theory, it's simple logic: A gold misting would make an excellent soulforger due to the fact that they have the allomantic ability to see their possible other pasts. Thus, reforging their soul would be a simple process of writing down what they saw in their gold shadow. Of course, it would take a few tries to get the "right" possible past for each essence mark, but that doesn't change the fact that it would work. It would also take a lot of effort to learn the art of forgery, but I think being an augur-forger would be worth it (partially because it's so damnation awesome). Thoughts?

Ok, so, for those of you who are unaware, nicrosil stores investiture. This is a poorly understood branch of feruchemy, and at first may seem about as useless as allomantic cadmium. However, it allows you to do some really weird stuff. So here's my theory: If a nicrosil ferring (or full feruchemist) were to become a surgebinder, they could use the stored up investiture in place of stormlight. Of course it might not be nearly enough (this is a very distinct possibility), which could be remedied by A: Storing up huge amounts of investiture, or B: Being a Nicrosil compounder (just get a bit o' the old nicrosil-lerasium alloy). It might also not work that way/not be the right type of investiture (which I very much doubt). However, if it did work, imagine the potential! Surgebinder-Nicroferrings could go anywhere in the Cosmere! Tell me if you think this theory is possible, and, if it is, what you'd do if you were a surgebinder (choose an order)/nicrosil compounder.