They also come in different rarities, which just determines how big the rocks used are.

FUCK YOUR HORSE OLD MAN

I'm really sold on this min-vigor challenge run now, this is fun as hell. Whats great is so many talismans that I never really found useful prior (ritual sword, ritual shield, blue dancer charm, even the blessed dew talisman) really get a chance to shine in a run like this. This is an aspect of Fromsoft's souls(likes) games that keeps me coming back, that sense that I can always make it MORE challenging for myself if I want to, and that the game already has the tools to allow me to do so!

I also have newfound appreciation for Radahn as a fight after this. Like in terms of lore and presentation, his fight is always 10/10, but going into this I totally thought I'd need to cheese him in some manner or rely on the summons etc, but like, nah! Radahn actually has a really cool moveset to maneuver around even when youre tackling him 1 on 1 and arent facetanking everything.