Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24534644-20170213012304/@comment-25936766-20170220023439

SpiritedDreaming wrote: Can you explain the differences between Aetherial Forge and Aurasmith to me? .....Holy crap, the similarities are stunning. Should've checked beforehand.....I think I still see some differences though.

-With Aurasmith, the user can destroy the weapon to recover the Aura used to create it. With AF, the user cannot; instead, the user detonates them.

-Aurasmith has a hard limit on the number of weapons created: 8. AF allows the user to create items as long as they have the Aura for it.

-At the same time, AF has a hard (max) duration for how long the items last: 30 mins. Aurasmith's weapons seemingly last indefinitely, and do not degrade over time.

-Aurasmith seems to only be able to create weapons. AF can create other objects.

-From what I understand of the last bit of the description, with "mastery", Aurasmith allows the user to create a weapon just by picturing it, without them necesarily having seen it before. In other words, the user could create something "new". AF is restricted to reproduction.

-At the same time, Aurasmith requires the materials to be known, AF only requires the item to be seen. If one knew the materials but had not seen the actual object, AF wouldn't be able to create it.

-Visual cues are completely different. And so are the creation time: Aurasmith's take up to 5 seconds tops, AF's can take far longer than that.

-Aurasmith can't create functional guns unless the user knows the internal mechanisms, and apparently cannot fire any sort of projectiles whatsoever by default otherwise. With AF one can make functional guns, and while it does not copy the ammo, the ammo in itself can be created (which doesn't seem to be possible with Aurasmith, which seems to be restricted to weapons), and even if it isn't Aura projectiles can be fired instead.

They share the "create weapons" and "complexity-cost ratio" aspects, though they seem to still differ quite enough.