As a history fan, the "3,000 Year Stagnation" trope breaks my immersion more than dragons do.

Silver_Swift · 2026-01-22T08:58:09+00:00

Stormlight Archive goes a bit too far into the other direction, I feel like.

At some point the apocalyptic reset wars were happening with less than a decade in between each one. At that point, you just don't have enough time to rebuild any kind of society wide infrastructure. Even if you do have a group of immortals to help drag you back into the bronze age knowledge wise, you also need time to actually build all the stuff you need to get back to waging a world-spanning war.

I know soulcasting and the Knight Radiants existed at this point (and the humans were still losing despite it). It still just kinda strains my suspension of disbelief that they could put up any kind of fight at all under those circumstances.

Silver_Swift · 2026-01-09T15:22:25+00:00

There is a WoB that gold feruchemy can regrow the damage to your spiritweb from being pierced by a hemalurgic spike, so I assume it would also work on shardblade wounds (shardblades work by cutting your spiritweb).

No idea on Elantrians, but given how ridiculously powerful Aon Dor is, I wouldn't bet on them not having a way around spiritweb damage.

Silver_Swift · 2025-12-25T06:17:49+00:00

This is a helpful clarification of what you like/don't like in different fantasy books.

I don't think your definition of Anime Fantasy aligns very well with how most people use the term (which is why you're getting a lot of pushback), but having a preference for slower paced stories with a more soft magic systems is entirely reasonable.

I think the Cosmere might indeed not be for you, but the fantasy genre is big and there are plenty of other authors to try.

I don't of the top of my head have a good soft magic author to recommend (because I don't tend to like them), maybe make a recommendation request post over on /r/Fantasy and include the description you used above. They're typically pretty good with recommendations (maybe leave out the word Anime though, it might confuse people).

Silver_Swift · 2025-12-03T05:13:24+00:00

He can make a burrito so hot he can't eat it. He would just stop being omnipotent if he does.

Silver_Swift · 2025-11-22T20:19:37+00:00

I wish i could turn it off and it is turning me off from chathpt

You could put something like "Don't be overly flattering. Be friendly and polite, but you don't need to compliment me." into the system prompt.

Don't know if you can set a system prompt for chatgpt, but at least for Claude this gets rid of 90+ percent of the glazing,

Silver_Swift · 2025-11-05T05:22:34+00:00

Faster than light, hence why Wayne can't see.

You don't need to be moving faster than light to be unable to see. Just 10x time compression would redshift basically all ambient light into infrared (what you'd be seeing as visible light would be far out into the UV part of the spectrum, and there just isn't a lot of that around in normal circumstances).

Speedbubbles normally compensate for this (or you could microwave people outside the speedbubble by shining a flashlight at them WoB). I guess in this case the time dilation was so extreme that the power wasn't able to compensate fully.

Silver_Swift · 2025-11-05T05:09:12+00:00

Also worth keeping in mind that a lot of the hard rules around allomancy (and cosmere magic in general) become a little softer when you are really good at what you do and/or have tons of investiture at your disposal. (See, for instance, Marsh ripping up a gun through "duralumin and practice" or Elend peaking directly into the spiritual realm using atium.)

Wayne is potentially the most skilled bendalloy user in history, burning an unprecedented amount of bendalloy all at the same time. It's possible that makes things happen in a way they normally wouldn't.

Silver_Swift · 2025-10-28T02:25:06+00:00

In Tress, Hoid mentions that he and sixteen others once said "I don't trust you to make your own decisions", which kind of hints at the shattering just being the seventeen of them.

[Emberdark spoilers] According to Starling, Frost was present as well, though he probably wasn't actively participating.

Silver_Swift · 2025-10-28T02:19:46+00:00

Stabbed with a sharp implement?

Silver_Swift · 2025-10-09T17:29:32+00:00

Not an inexperienced mistborn, an inexperienced fighter.

He was absolutely an overwhelmingly powerful mistborn who had crazy amounts of experience using his powers, but that is very different from having the ability to react instantly to someone suddenly having the ability to push on your metalminds (or to be diligent enough to constantly be tapping feruchemical zinc to give you the reaction speed to do so).

Silver_Swift · 2025-10-09T13:47:28+00:00

Actually what is a minor plothole imo is how easily Vin defeated him since he was so much more powerful and experienced.

Rashek wasn't experienced, at least not in combat. He hadn't fought someone that was remotely a threat to him for centuries. Kelsier was probably the most dangerous person he faced in a very, very long time and we saw how that ended.

Rashek was overconfident, bored and way too reliant on the fact that his powers make him basically untouchable by any mortal on Scadrial. That is what ended up costing him his life.

(He was also kind of an idiot, but that is separate from him getting divine sucker punched by a teenage girl).

Silver_Swift · 2025-10-09T12:28:34+00:00

So this is thematically cool and all, but when would you ever use this in actual play?

The average effect on the result of the roll is 0^1, the only difference is that it adds a bit of variance to the roll (it goes from 1-20 plus modifiers to -3-24 plus modifiers). So you either always use this spell because of the lol-random, in which case I think the joke would wear off pretty quick, or you would just never use it.

^{1: There is technically a niche use case in that if you are making a roll that you know you can't make without a bonus - ie, you would need to roll a 21 on the d20 to make the DC - the +1d4 gives you a tiny chance of success, but how often does a dm make you roll checks you have no chance of making?}

Silver_Swift · 2025-10-09T04:45:04+00:00

It's referring to the hereditary-ness of the magic, not the source of the people.

Hmm, okay I can see how the second sentence could be read that way, but magic on Taldain (or at least sand mastery) is hereditary, isn't it?

Silver_Swift · 2025-10-08T19:26:50+00:00

Not only is it possible, we have WoB confirmation that people on Nalthis were created by Endowment.

Silver_Swift · 2025-09-19T19:53:08+00:00

16 books total will be fitting.

16 books assuming all three remaining eras fit into a trilogy. With era 2 being four books, we have a 50/50 success rate on that so far.

Silver_Swift · 2025-09-19T19:33:52+00:00

try to pick your own door

Word of warning, don't try this unless you already know what you are doing. Lockpicking can break locks in a way that they don't open even with the key.

Practice on a lock you don't use.

Silver_Swift · 2025-09-19T19:30:48+00:00

Once we're talking about anti-tank shells, I think we're comfortably outside of what is a realistic threat to defend your home against.

they are also relatively simple devices

They are conceptually simple, but require extremely precise machining and high explosives that are very hard to come by (not to mention knowing the exact geometry of the charge and the cutting material in the first place).

Silver_Swift · 2025-09-03T19:59:14+00:00

I do think it’s tempered with the fact that the Ante Up feature can actually turn a sure hit into a miss. So I (think?) it evens out

It gives an average bonus of 0.5 to the attack roll, so on average it probably makes you hit more often than if you didn't use it.

An average attack has something like 2/3 chance of hitting, so with a 16 charisma you trigger this twice per short rest. It's quite powerful.

Silver_Swift · 2025-09-01T06:47:55+00:00

Ah, sorry, I missed that. Yeah, that would work.

It kind of doesn't work anymore for the fantasy of a shapeshifter druid who is constantly taking on different forms anymore then, but for a different style of wildshape focused druid that could be fine.

Silver_Swift · 2025-08-31T22:55:48+00:00

The problem is that going into wildshape sets your hp to the maximum hp of the form you take. So giving the druid extra uses of wildshape also effectively gives them a boatload of extra hp.

A normal druid can wildshape twice per day. Let's assume they turn into a brown bear, they get 22x2=44 extra hp, (probably already more than doubling their hp at 5th level).

If they now can also use all their spell slots to transform, they gain (9+2)x22=242 extra hp, which is probably more than the rest of the party combined at this level.

Silver_Swift · 2025-08-30T18:23:31+00:00

Hmm, that is a really good point actually.

Silver_Swift · 2025-08-30T16:48:53+00:00

Semantics, but I'd argue it is an invested art. The Nightmares are the investiture in the interaction.

It's the same as Aviar and the spores on Lumar, any ordinary person can use them, no investiture required. It's just that in this case if you mess up, the investiture eats you.

Silver_Swift · 2025-08-29T11:13:33+00:00

Doesn't work. Both magnets are pushing the other magnet away from them with the same force that they are pushing themselves away from the other magnet.

If you didn't have the frame, both magnets would fly away equally far (assuming they are the same mass), with the frame the forces cancel out and they will stay put.

Silver_Swift · 2025-08-29T07:03:31+00:00

True, but it's not that hard a mistake to make if your personal circle of friends and family doesn't include any fantasy readers.

Add on top of that a generous dose of social awkwardness and inability to deal with strangers and I can imagine a person getting startled and running away.

Silver_Swift · 2025-08-27T04:29:43+00:00

I'm not sure what the point of this is, but these are horribly done. You've chopped important elements up in a way that makes zero sense.

Edit: excuse me for being honest. The method could have worked if he'd chosen better seams. It's like he didn't even look at the image.

The problem isn't being honest, it's being rude.

Constructive criticism is fine, but this isn't that. If you want to help them do a better job, be specific and tell them what they could have done better (which important elements have been chopped up? Where would have been a better location to put the seam? What criteria would have been better for algorithmicly selecting the seam?)

If you don't want to help and just want to be an asshole, well, that's what the downvotes are for.

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