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2015-08-30, 02:39 AM (ISO 8601)
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Spoiler: I love this crossover
Spoiler: Then again, they already did it in canon...
Spoiler: Twice
Spoiler: Er... Three times.I run a Let's Play channel! Check it out!
Currently, we're playing through New Vegas as Gabriel de la Cruz, merchant and mercenary extraordinaire!
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2015-08-30, 02:59 AM (ISO 8601)
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Wow, the discussion on the thread has really taken off. I'm really enjoying all this d&d setting stuff (and I'm glad that I sorta kicked off this particular bit of discussion). I don't have any additional thoughts at 4 am, unfortunately.
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2015-08-30, 03:01 AM (ISO 8601)
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Glad to hear it. And of course, I'd love to get in on whatever game you end up making.
More like you have to get an eulogy. Or perhaps the ancient greek version of you have to be properly sent off, but it's not exactly a mystical ceremony.
Spoiler: Friendship stuff/Flash stuff
The problem with Flash isn't his lack of personality, or rather underdeveloped personality. It's Twilight's inexplicable attraction to said personality. Now it's a well established part of Rarity's personality to fall in love at the drop of a fashionable hat, but Twilight? Not so much.
So her attraction to Flash is just...weird. It feels out of character because as far as I know/can tell (I still haven't watched the first movie, I have no desire to do so either) is there isn't really a good reason for it. It just sorta happens. And then it just sort of lingers on.
The relationship itself is underdeveloped, and Flash has received next to zero character development. And honestly, it seems that he's an entirely superfluous character. His role could have easily been dropped in the first one/folded into an expy from Equestria (from what I've heard), and in the second one, I really don't see why he was in the film at all. He could have been removed entirely and the story would have stayed exactly the same.Spoiler: I'm a writer!Spoiler: Check out my fanfiction[URL="https://www.fanfiction.net/u/7493788/Forum-Explorer"here[/URL]
]Fate Stay Nano: Fate Stay Night x Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
I Fell in Love with a Storm: MLP
Procrastination: MLP
Spoiler: Original FictionThe Lost Dragon: A story about a priest who finds a baby dragon in his church and decides to protect them.
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2015-08-30, 04:11 AM (ISO 8601)
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Spoiler: Not even spoilers at this point
The only thing Flash and Twilight have ever done is bump into each other, in both movies. No other conversation, no nothing. So yes, what you said is all correct.
"It's not right! It's not a good canon shipping! Twilight's supposed to be dating MY OC!"
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2015-08-30, 04:18 AM (ISO 8601)
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That's not the only regrettable legacy from movie #1, which objectively isn't very good. Sunset's heel-face turn also just sorta happens, and then it also just sort of lingers on. Few ppl question it simply because her new waifu personality is more preferable, and movie #2 was simply better.
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2015-08-30, 05:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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Yeah, I was wondering how combat in a PbP game would work at anything but a continental drift pace. There has to be some way to pull that off. At least 5e is rather simple. You get one Action, one Move, and if you have anything that can do it, one Bonus Action, but otherwise not. And things like drawing or sheathing a weapon can be done virtually for free. So an advanced turn could be something like "I cast Thunderous Smite as my bonus, Move to the prone Orc, and use Attack at +5 with Advantage" Then you roll two d20 and if either hits, the weapon damage.
Apparently, 5e has very, very few modifiers. It's just Advantage (2d20 use the better one), Disadvantage (2d20 use the worse one), Weakness (x2 damage) and Resistance (x½ damage), meaning that a player will be able to act without everything needing DM approval beforehand or needing to keep track of a lot of little +1s and +2 here and there. So, basically, this doesn't happen.
And yeah, I'm +6 hours compared to US Eastern here in like Narnia or something. I'm just a night owl. Feels like whenever I'm allowed to my sleeping pattern drifts by two hours daily until I become nocturnal. It gets a bit annoying at times.
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2015-08-30, 05:50 AM (ISO 8601)
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On S3 E7, Wonderbolts Academy training site:
Look at its shape right after the theme song. You only see its shape for a very short time, and it's partly covered by clouds, which is why I missed it before. It's just implausibly high with steep walls compared to its size.
And I hear Nutella is also banned in the US. Sounds like a strange alien land.
And that is exactly why archeologists like Daring Do and detectives are so important heros. They unearth information about the secret and undocumented lives of deceased ponies, until we know them so well that we can weep for their deaths. This may also be why Princess Celestia and Princess Luna write a diary, so that the part of their lives that the public doesn't know about would be remembered.
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2015-08-30, 06:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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Yeah, I'm DEFINITELY never playing 5E. Getting rid of bonuses and replacing them with a method that adds more randomisation1. Under the guise, one presumes, of "simplification." *sigh* You see this sort of thing in bad wargames rules all the time. The emphasis on "make the rules be simple" over "actually consider what the rules are going to do." Gamist over simulationist, too.
1Yes, more randomisation. Two dice doesn't make it more likely as you're still WELL instead statistics of small numbers issues. Yes, it theorhetically statistically gives you twice as much chance to obtain a result. But as the degree of randomisation increases, the actual spread of obtained results drastically increases. The reason Accelerate & Attack has an average dice table (for 10 to 100) is that I ran an analysis and we discovered that taking the average of the tens and rolling the remainder actually gives you more randomisation than rolling all the dice. But in order to get to that point, you need a large sample size. Two dice is not it.
As a further example, in AccAtt, you can get Torpedoes in Class from 1 to 10. A Class 2 Torpedo does the same damage as two Class 1s, and has the same accuracy. But, in practise, the accuracy is of multiple class 1s in modally much more accurate, since you will roll a lot more dice per round. (Salvos of 3-4 per vessel and 2-3 vessels per squadron is not uncommon.) The same issue applies to Bolts (though they have some other advantages at higher classes). Whereas most other weapons roll one dice per class, Bolts roll one per weapon. Which means that a fleet armed with Bolt 6s is a lot less scary than one armed with Beam 6s, since the former is a very swingy weapon. Sure, it'll hit hard when it does hit... But the chances of you having a bad day and rolling low is much, much higher, since you're rolling six times less dice.
Now, if 5E's system was to give you additional extra D20s instead of modifiers, I could see the point, maybe. (By the time you get to rolling four of five D20, you're actually be making something of a difference.)
But it's a silly trade-off to avoid using basic maths otherwise for "playability."Last edited by Aotrs Commander; 2015-08-30 at 07:10 AM.
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2015-08-30, 06:56 AM (ISO 8601)
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Warning: This posting may contain wit, wisdom, pathos, irony, satire, sarcasm and puns. And traces of nut.
"The main skill of a good ruler seems to be not preventing the conflagrations but rather keeping them contained enough they rate more as campfires." Rogar Demonblud
"Hold on just a d*** second. UK has spam callers that try to get you to buy conservatories?!? Even y'alls spammers are higher class than ours!" Peelee
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2015-08-30, 07:30 AM (ISO 8601)
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I'm still reading up on it, but it seems that 5e has been designed with speed in mind, over granularity. For instance, there are no degrees of advantage, it is wholly binary. If you have Advantage, you have Advantage, no matter if it's from one or multiple sources, it's 2d20b1. Same with Disadvantage. And they cancel each other out. Even if you have 5 sources of Advantage and one source of Disadvantage, you end up at neutral.
There's also only one score you need to use, your Proficiency Score. If you're +3, your attack bonus is Ability+3, your chosen skills are Ability+3, your magic effect DC is Ability+3, and each of your abilities have their own saving throw, with Ability+3 on the ones you are proficient with. And that score ranges from +2 at first level to +6 at 20th.
It is most likely the exact opposite kind of game from the type you'd like, in other words.
For a PbP game, though, it just might work.
Oh, I like that. Not exploring ruins and the past for your own glory and gain, but to put the forgotten souls that reside there at rest. Of course that makes villains like Ahuizotl somewhat more sinister, as they're not just looting ruins, but potentially robbing souls of their rest. That... is kind of a dark turn, but one that actually fits in with Equestria as-is.Last edited by McNum; 2015-08-30 at 07:46 AM. Reason: Missed a post...
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2015-08-30, 08:04 AM (ISO 8601)
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As somepony in America, we do indeed have Nutella, as well as several competitors that just miss the mark. Though I have yet to try Hershey's attempt, and they make GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO*GASP !*OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO*HUFF, PUFF*OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD chocolate products.
Also, the fic was sweet and adorable, though I'm AppleDash to the core. Blame Fall Weather Friends.
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2015-08-30, 09:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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Zim was a weird show, but I used to watch it often through streams because I like weird. Tak's episode was by far my favorite one. Lots of good character interactions in that one.
LOL! +200 xp for the PERFECT series of image responses. XD
Huh, I didn't know that. Wow, we got a lot of threaders who've done big things. I'm standing among giants. o.o
In the playground.
I know that feeling. XD
Aww, but you could have totally pretended it was 3600 anyway and I wouldn't think any less of you. Still don't, but I like the idea of 3600 hours put into testing a game. Well, dunno if I'd do that personally...
And now, a moment of heretical evil: I've never heard of Kill La Kill before.
Oh snap, I have to put effort into this game too, don't I? XD
Better find my folder of "Campaign Ideas" and see if there's anything in there. Probably is, given the folder still exists.
It's like internet character attraction... but Equestria has no internet...
The simplicity helps speed things along I think. I tried a 3.5 game online and it died on the first combat because modifiers could not be straightened out between posts. Bonuses Fall, Everyone Died.
Errr... ^^;
I was only kidding, but to be fair I sometimes am that kind of person that needs to look these things up.
Oh we have Nutella in the USA. I can buy it by the Quart.
Simplicity in that there are fewer variables to keep track of. Useful in my opinion for a PbP, but overall the best way to run PbP is to cut back on combats and run things more in the RP category. Not saying it's objectively better than other systems, just that for its own merits it is good for what I want to do with it in this instance. :3
Wrong?
Which is a little odd in my opinion. Going by the binary comment, I would see it like +1s and -1s. Add them all together and you should still net an advantage out of that example with four net Advantages.
At this point I think my notes look less like notes and more like the framework for a Fanfic.
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2015-08-30, 10:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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I can see that happening, when I played locally, even then a full round of battle could take a while, mostly because few of us actually knew the rules. We had a lot of takebacks, including weapons magically becoming a different one as we realized that we built the characters wrong and they could only wield a shortbow, not a longbow... And then the dwarf got mauled by a bear. To death.
I kind of guess you were, I just liked the idea of Denmark being "like Narnia or something". We don't have divine lions here, but we might be able to deliver on the snow queen part.
Awesome. I don't buy Nutella anymore. It has a habit of disappearing. With a spoon at times. So I removed the temptation.
Yeah, the right tool for the right job. Some systems lend themselves well to PbP, some don't.
Yeah, I get why they want to make it yes or no, and not adding it up, just for simplicity. But it does create some amusing edge cases. Take an invisible man, you cannot see him, but you know he's right next to you, so you swing a sword in his general direction. You have Disadvantage on that swing, for obvious reasons. The invisible man drops prone. You have Advantage on prone enemies in melee, so they cancel out. Conclusion, it is easier to hit an invisible man when he is sneaking around on the floor than when standing perfectly still next to you.
This is where the game needs a DM to go "No. Just no."
Ah, I have George Lucas syndrome at times. I can spin up details for worldbuilding at the drop of a hat, and will keep doing so if encouraged... but I cannot tell a story well. I'm good with why, not so good with what.
The alicorn issue stands unresolved, though. It's difficult to come up with a good way of doing them so they make sense in an RPG setting while still keeping it Noblebright as My Little Pony leans that way.
It's not the usual "Darkness with specks of light" setting, it's "Light with specks of darkness". And that darkness can be terribly dark at times, with children lost in the woods with a literal monster, sibling rivalries threatening the apocalypse, and of course there are ponies who become evil and genuine threats to the world as well. And of course that detail that ponies are not always the most mentally stable creatures. They might not be evil, but they sure can cause trouble.
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2015-08-30, 10:43 AM (ISO 8601)
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Can bears maul you any other way?
Florida bears don't seem to have any other mode.
I stopped because I made the mistake of looking at the Nutrition Information chart.
Hilarious!
I dunno... guess some kind of uplifiting... or evolution... something something a wizard did it... I dunno.
Having it as a mystery is nice though.
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2015-08-30, 12:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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Warning: This posting may contain wit, wisdom, pathos, irony, satire, sarcasm and puns. And traces of nut.
"The main skill of a good ruler seems to be not preventing the conflagrations but rather keeping them contained enough they rate more as campfires." Rogar Demonblud
"Hold on just a d*** second. UK has spam callers that try to get you to buy conservatories?!? Even y'alls spammers are higher class than ours!" Peelee
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2015-08-30, 12:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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2015-08-30, 12:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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4e wasn't bad because the numbers though, it was dull because everything was the same. Having played 5e, it runs smooth, very smooth, while still keeping the variety and flavour of older editions.
Now if you're a fan of Super-Simulationist Number Cruncher 9000, then it might not be for you, it has been streamlined and things have been sacrificed for that. But overall it works pretty well I think.Devoted artificer of the church of Scorching Ray.
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2015-08-30, 12:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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2015-08-30, 12:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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Jurai, DigoDragon: thanks, than at least that rumour about the strange new world was false.
Question. Angel combs Fluttershy's mane in Equestria Girls and in a dream in S5 E13. Did she do that any other time in the show that these are trying to call back?
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This moment from Hurricane Fluttershy might be the reference. It's kinda hard to see the comb, since it's pink, but it's there.
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Yes, the other curse of Nutella. It tastes good, and it bad for you, relatively speaking. That combination is all too popular these days.
There is value in explicitly not explaining it. Maybe it's unique from alicorn to alicorn. A journey of self-discovery, long and hard studying and training, gaining the favor of an existing Alicorn. Point is, it's very special and something that can only happen if the DM and player think it's something that should happen to their character. Then work out the details.
Mechanically, it makes the Alicorn an acquired template, much like Vampires and Were-whatevers, at least in 3.5. Gain the special traits of the other races, and boost your original trait seems like it might work. A unicorn gets even better at magic, a Pegasus becomes even better at flying, an Earth Pony grows in size, or something like that. And yes, I just head-canon'd Celestia as an Earth Pony before becoming an Alicorn. Maybe Luna was a Pegasus, like Cadance.
Totally baseless speculation, but it would be nice if the pony kept some dominant traits of the original race.
I haven't actually played 4E, but yeah. 5E definitely took a step away from simulationism compared to 3.5, which also abstracted things quite a bit. I still kind of wish that the basic Attack action had some variants to it, you can only swing a sword at a basic opponent so many times before it becomes a little stale.
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2015-08-30, 01:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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Never fails-- start mopping the floors, and every sedentary organism in a city block starts wandering the halls constantly.
We got plenty of rumors as is.
And it's probably something that occurs at higher levels as well. After much experience and learning, and journeying andmurder-hoboingfriendship-making. Which ties nicely into it being about plot points than just handing over 96k in gold bits for a magic spell cast or finding magic item #1701 in the dungeon. :3
Spoiler: Eh-neeek-chock
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2015-08-30, 02:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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Wow, that's right. In S2 E22, Angel is combing her hair. Thank you!
Ok, so I know it's been months since I sort of paused re-watching old episodes in sequence, but here I've been watching S2 E8: The Mysterious Mare Do Well, so here are my observations.
- In the opening, I thought Rainbow Dash was only observing the fan club meeting in secret. She's not: she actually speaks up and tells what they should call her.
- My favourite background pony, Tornado Bolt is not in the fan club, but she's there at the well and when Rainbow Dash stops the baby carriage.
- It's not clear whether Rainbow Dash could have saved the balloon if Mare Do Well hadn't come. She flies into the fabric of the punctured balloon, but maybe she could have been able to hold up the whole balloon by that.
- The part where Rainbow Dash is looking for ponies in danger, but can't find anything, is a bit similar to the one in S2 E3 when Twilight is looking for friendship problems.
- Mare Do Well not only fixes the dam, but also apparently helps Rainbow out of the river by holding a log? I didn't notice that before.
- I wonder if the Mayor, or someone else organizing the thank you parade, knew the identity of the Mysterious Mare Do Well.
- Mysterious Mare Do Well's costume completely cover her mane and tail and eye all the time. After the dam is fixed, you can even see that the tail isn't just covered by the cape. I agree that it's a great costume.
- This is one of those episodes that are really hard to follow from just the sound. All the heroic acts happen only on the screen, with nobody explaining them.
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For the record, I love the simplicity of 5e. Trading off some of the simulationist abilities of the system are completely worth it to be able to make a character from scratch in less than 30 minutes (without encyclopedic knowledge of the system), and run 3 combat encounters in the time it would take to do 1 in 3.5.
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Warning: This posting may contain wit, wisdom, pathos, irony, satire, sarcasm and puns. And traces of nut.
"The main skill of a good ruler seems to be not preventing the conflagrations but rather keeping them contained enough they rate more as campfires." Rogar Demonblud
"Hold on just a d*** second. UK has spam callers that try to get you to buy conservatories?!? Even y'alls spammers are higher class than ours!" Peelee
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That's the curse of so many action games though. Looks awesome on the screen, not on the table. Every Star Wars game when it comes to the big lightsaber duel, every pirate scenario, Knights, Robin Hood, Highlander, samurai... You name it, all that flashy swordplay with the stirring music always plays out as "my attack roll is x, my parry is y".
I've tried doing some sort of action system off-and-on in the past, but it always either bogs down or still doesn't quite capture the flavour. Not long after Magic came out and all the me-too's appeared I did wonder if a 'sword duel' card game would emerge as on the face of it that could work... But it never did and again none of my old hacks worked!
I sometimes think going full Monkey Island and do insult fighting might work tge other option is to embrace cinematicism and hand out bonuses (or lower DC's) for 'cool' descriptions and actions (which I tend toward anyway in swashbuckling styles like WEG Star Wars) but it still lacks a certain satisfaction...
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The new comics #33 and #34 were really good. But poor Applejack, though.
Spoiler: applesTHE ONE TIME the town gets invaded by sentient, evil apples she does nothing at all to help stop them. It's all Twilight and Fluttershy and even Pinkie.
The most spectacular moment was where Applejack was all, "I need to go undercover and infiltrate the apples. It is the role I was born to play" and Twilight's like "Yeah, nah, we're sending Pinkie Pie instead".
It was hysterical but it just kind of summarises how no one seems to know how to, or want to, write Applejack.
Seriously. In an episode about the invasion of the apples how do you give the apple horse less dialogue than any other horse?
The comic was great though, I got some real laughs out of it. "Wouldn't want to overstep our authority. That way lies anarchy."
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Applehorse needs more love. Like srsly.
Spoiler: Actually spoilery stuff regarding Season 5 Act 2
The next 3 episodes are all Rarity episodes, which I am very happy with, especially because I love Rarity she is the best pony 5ever, and one of them is a Rarity/Applejack episode; but come on. Most AJ episodes aren't that great and even then I'm pretty sure she has the fewest episodes dedicated to just her or focusing largely on her.