Materia System

[Sonic_the_Hedgehog]

It's not about you technically playing a part as a gatherer. It's whether or not you control a rate-limiting step in the process that people will demand.

For the battler, that power sounds like it lies not in their ability to make materia (trash) but in their ability to HQ a materia (win).
For the crafter, their ability not just to put the materia in the weapon (trash), but to put two of them in (win).
For the gatherer...they provide the catalyst? Trash? Win?
Gonna have to make it pretttttty rare for it to be win.

I guess I get what you're saying, but there could be multiple catalysts, some rarer than others.