SpiritOfWrath

Not really. The more versatile the players are, the less power the GMs have. It would be more frustrating if the GM wants to challenge the player, since they would have to go to great lengths to do so. Essentially, it would feel to the player as if the GM just told them that they just died, instead of giving them something they can overcome through wit or some other mechanism. (NO OTHER GMS IM NOT GRIPING ABOUT THE GREENSPINE) (TOTALLY)

If you will read the non-canon books, I would also draw your attention to Aether of Night, which you do request from these forums. ALSO HAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII how are you

Usually, the amount of powers are made to match the games. And in the games, versatility is so much more important than shear power. If the GMs want to pit a monster against you, they’ll pit one according to your power level. But if you have something that allows you to ignore the monster, or if you have something to negate the threat (redspine was beat with words, not blades!), then you don’t need firepower. Sure, steel compounding has versatility. You can move fast, and you can steelpush. effective flight n stuff. But… that kinda just lets you run. You negate the threat, and then the next thing, you can’t run from. You can’t go faster than you control, which means that compounding is only as useful as regular feruchemy for finer movements. And you can’t use it to multiply the force of attacks, cuz if you punch someone at 50 times speed, your arm gets the exact same impact, and would probably rip of / you would die. Aethers arent limited the same way. Aether user info from Aether of Night novel: The point is Both Roseite and Verdant aethers are just so extremely versatile a roseite is the equivalent to living shardplate + living shardblade A verdant is very powerful outside of and within combat. And while powers were allowed in previous games, they must be balanced (I know I just called steelcompounding balanced don’t hurt me), with the theme and with the players - these Aethers seem very difficult to balance and fit well into a game.

Kang nodded and followed the barkeep.

Kang nods to him. “Greetings.”

He takes it, but does not drink. Softly, he replies: “Be strong, saith my heart. I am a soldier; I have seen worse sights than this.”

Kang nodded to the other assassin (If we’re working together, I’m assuming that’s what you are? I think that’s what he would assume), but did not move.

Kang entered the bar, tucking his notes on the mark under his cloak. He wore his signature outfit (for reference, he has a mask that is one sided glass, and on the back of his cloak he has the yin yang), earning him strange looks. He took a seat near the back of the bar, where he could watch the masked man he was presumably meeting. @Kansas Stormcursed (Note I’m not gmodding by saying your character isn’t watching me - you can by all means react to my entrance)

The ant was highly, highly invested (based on Starlings comments on the ant after the bite) (edit: if I sound callous, know it all, or snobby, I WANT YOU SLAP ME ACROSS THE FACE BECUZL I AM NOT ANY OF THESE THINGS. … …) Correct me if I’m wrong, but these manacles are Dragonsteel, right? I think it would be very difficult to trick the manacles into being removed. Besides brute force overpowering their mechanism, there’s essentially no way to break Dragonsteel. Dragonsteel Prime spoilers: Dragonsteel and associated MoIs will be changed from the novel All this to say that dragonsteel without any added mechanism is scaaary. Really. Scary. It’s to the point that some people thought it was a GMetal for a time. With the combined knowledge of all dragons (possible because of dragon magic…), they devised a way to make it as impenetrable as possible. They’d definitely have put in a way to offset the cutting of the arms.

*nom*

*opens eyes* guys there at least 3 people that need nomming i will be accepting volunteers

Pyk nodded. “Exactly what I’m afraid of… but such complete control over it… it seems we must comply, for now.” The gnome grins. He nodded. “I guess… we must comply… for now.”

That’s fine WAIT WAIT WAIT @IcedOutPenguin IS THIS PERHAPS not arcane GACHIAKUTA? Anyways I started watching before I knew about the *cough* strange episodes (actually, I don’t know if they were even out…), it’s fine

Just a little bit

So, he’s like kinda traumatized by his first killing and so he doesn’t think very normally But his reasoning is that killing is a monstrosity, though he must do it, and it is only right to preserve as much of them as he can, and he wants people to know that their crimes are not all of them. Because in his opinion, they don’t deserve death, but their death works for the best of everyone. Sometimes, he would deliver the recordings to the family of his victims. Think speaker of the dead kind of writing.

“You’re really weird.”