My Little Pony LXXXVI: Too Suggestive for Ponythread!

[Trixie]

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Trixie's Great and Powerful Guide v2.0!
Suggestive Edition

Brief Introduction

MLP: Friendship Is Magic is a reboot of the MLP franchise by Powerpuff Girls artist Lauren Faust, currently viewed by (almost) the entire Internet, not only the intended audience. Here is a place where we discuss the joy of friendship.

> My Little Pony? Seriously?

It's a clever show. It has excellent writing, character dynamics, humor, animation, and generally treats kids seriously rather than condescending to them. It has every right to be a 20 minute corporate committee designed infomercial, but it's not.

> Isn't this a show for little girls?

Pixar technically makes shows for little boys, and produce some of the best animation in the world.

> Okay, fine. I'll give it a try. Where do I start?

No Brony could ask for more. I recommend watching the episodes in order. They're all up on Youtube. Unusually, Hasbro seems fine with having the entire series up in public because they've made no move to bring down any of the episodes. Search for "Friendship is Magic Episode 1" and you should find the series pretty easily... Or search for "Sharing is Magic" Google Doc. That is all.

> Okay, I'm going to watch it but this had better live up to the hype!

Whoa, calm down there. The show is light hearted, optimistic fun but it's not for everyone. It's good fun, the community is good fun, and everyone can do with a reminder that friendship is magic but if it doesn't gel for you we'll love and tolerate you anyway. Plus, you might hit the wrong episode. Ask first?

> Iron Hoof/Fan Theories/Shipping/Binding

All in good fun! If it's not your cup of tea, skim it, but this show has triggered a great creative outpouring from the Internet. Pony themed fan-art is abundant and often excellent. See below for some examples.

> Derpy Hooves/Doctor Whoof

Two minor background characters who were adopted as emblems of 4chan. Derpy Hooves is so named due to an animation error in the first episode that had her eyes facing in different directions; 4chan has assigned her the role of Ponyville's mailpony, and her only line so far has been "Muffins". The show's animators are aware of Derpy's popularity and she's shown up a few times recently with her eyes obviously derped. Currently made canon in Feeling Pinkie Keen and in Faust's picture showcased below, Derpy was deemed important enough to appear in storyboards for Season II.

Dr. Whoof is a pony with an hourglass cutie mark; he and his kin save time and space very quietly off camera.

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General Links

Pony News: Equestria Daily (http://www.equestriadaily.com/) | My Little Pony News‎ (www.mylittleponynews.com/‎) | Derpynews (http://derpynews.com/)
Discussion Forums: Ponychan (http://www.ponychan.net/chan/) | Allspark MLP (http://www.allspark.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=76678&st=0&start=0)
Pony Emotes: FiM Emotes (http://kefkafloyd.imgur.com/J8S59) | MC's Emotes (http://gitpmcerberus.imgur.com/ponymote) | GD's Emotes (http://gadora.imgur.com/seekret_pony_projekt_1/1)
Pony Images: Ponibooru [RIP] | 20% Cooler (http://twentypercentcooler.net/) | Derpibooru (http://derpibooru.org/)
Know Your Meme: Ponies! (http://knowyourmeme.com/search?q=pony)

Art Links

OC Pony Creation Guide:

>How to make OC Pony (http://ponibooru.413chan.net/_images/048648773b808749ecbcd93b7825d545/22629%20-%20original_character_tutorial%20tutorial.png)<
>How to clothe a Pony (http://img.ponibooru.org/_images/10448a8bf5139a93e47ee0ab2185d577/23650%20-%20Touhou%20artist%3Awhy485%20drawing_guide%20fash ion%20guide%20pony%20tutorial.png)<

Deviant Art Links:

Lauren Faust (http://fyre-flye.deviantart.com/)

14 Bis (http://14-bis.deviantart.com/)
ButterSS (http://buttersc0tchsundae.deviantart.com/)
Csimadmax (http://csimadmax.deviantart.com/)
DonKoRR (http://don-komandorr.deviantart.com/)
Irving Zero (http://irving-zero.deviantart.com/)
Johnjoseco (http://johnjoseco.deviantart.com/)
Kloudmutt (http://kloudmutt.deviantart.com/)
Palestorm (http://palestorm.deviantart.com/)
Shinepaw (http://shinepawpony.deviantart.com/)

>Awesome Great and Powerful Trixie (http://kp-shadowsquirrel.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d49ccgo)<

Tutorials:

How to Draw Luna (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1YoOgNwPp4)
MLP Art Guides (http://s1208.photobucket.com/albums/cc361/DJPon-3/)
MLP Colour Guides (http://kefkafloyd.deviantart.com/)

Kloud TV (http://www.livestream.com/kloudmutt)

Concepts:

On the Design of the Mane Cast (http://sucs.org/~drspangle/Ponibooru-All-Safe/122%20-%20Posey%20g1_sparkler%20artist_Lauren_Faust%20twi light_sparkle%20g3_to_g4%20rarity%20lauren_faust%2 0rainbow_dash%20fluttershy%20pinkie_pie%20Firefly% 20g1_to_g4%20applejack%20Surprise.jpg)

Concept art by L. Faust:

AJ/AJ (http://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_THRVNyZ8xf0/TZPZtv1PUCI/AAAAAAAABPg/aTDHM_vJ3Ek/Applejack-08.jpg)
Pinkie/Surprise (http://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_THRVNyZ8xf0/TZPZtjpEWrI/AAAAAAAABPc/vlcKpVmK1FY/Pinkie_08.jpg)
Rarity/Sparkler (http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_THRVNyZ8xf0/TZPZuba65VI/AAAAAAAABPo/o7oJ1OI4bcE/Rarity_08.jpg)
Twilight/Twinkle (http://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_THRVNyZ8xf0/TZPZuS8XZtI/AAAAAAAABPs/9CPSE6Je1Y0/Twilight_08.jpg)
Derpy/Ditzy (http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_THRVNyZ8xf0/TZPZtusFdII/AAAAAAAABPk/4VbhxajIt1o/Derpy_11.jpg)

Group Shot (http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-zPGxLKSxqsI/Tet-724kmrI/AAAAAAAABoc/74J43JjtvVc/mlplegroupruff.jpg)

Some Nice Pictures:

TG&P Trixie 1 (http://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_THRVNyZ8xf0/TYlPoSj31bI/AAAAAAAABKc/yhAESX1bWDU/129879022202-fim_thebestmagic2.png) 2a (http://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_THRVNyZ8xf0/TYevesc6Z3I/AAAAAAAABJE/wqYR1YU8-xM/129878791125-Magic_for_Friendship.png) 2b (http://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_THRVNyZ8xf0/TYlPoV0tFSI/AAAAAAAABKg/UIrpK2_XUDk/345%20-%20filly%20flower%20Magic%20noel%20Trixie.jpg) 3 (http://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_THRVNyZ8xf0/TYevn1UZNyI/AAAAAAAABJI/JQaTPZ7u9kk/1295392718493.png)
Twilight Sparkle 1 (http://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_THRVNyZ8xf0/TYlQKpEFW1I/AAAAAAAABKo/PJmzRBt_g0o/twilight-%28n1298746506900%29.jpg) 2 (http://lh6.googleusercontent.com/_THRVNyZ8xf0/TYgEWabUv0I/AAAAAAAABJg/S1emWO9FjbE/1297919269027.png) 3 (http://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_THRVNyZ8xf0/TYlQAwKvFvI/AAAAAAAABKk/08Q9f1BaGa0/1298478186234.png)
Rainbow Dash 1 (http://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_THRVNyZ8xf0/TY-tuXX0V5I/AAAAAAAABOE/vPLwNGpCsU8/rainbows_are_awesome_by_adamrbi-d3awtkv.jpg) 2 (http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_THRVNyZ8xf0/TY-tugAF4JI/AAAAAAAABOI/RYGrQCZySJo/1298478713223.jpg) 3 (http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_THRVNyZ8xf0/TY-tutzFrYI/AAAAAAAABOM/QP22FdlygtA/1299129766866.png) 3.6 (http://lh4.googleusercontent.com/_THRVNyZ8xf0/TY-vxE-8GgI/AAAAAAAABOY/ktOwjPQ3eiI/130057856759.png)
Fluttershy 1 (http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_THRVNyZ8xf0/TZPZiSMaDSI/AAAAAAAABPQ/FNLXj6WE0ss/yofluttershybyarborishd.png) 2 (http://lh5.googleusercontent.com/_THRVNyZ8xf0/TZPZiUXQlvI/AAAAAAAABPU/SCs7qzer-6E/129860262040.png) 3 (http://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_THRVNyZ8xf0/TZPZiWhyIWI/AAAAAAAABPY/r6ClIhygmw0/1297113141466.png)

Pony Games

The most recent one. (http://www.yoyogames.com/games/168448-mlp-fim-the-way-home#)
Pacderpy (http://www.derpyhooves.com/games/pacderpy.html)
Two very similar dash based (http://www.derpyhooves.com/games/dashattack.html) cloud gathering sidescrollers (http://www.derpyhooves.com/games/rainbowdashmini.html)
Pony generator I (http://www.derpyhooves.com/games/custompony.html)
Pony generator II (http://derpyhooves.com/games.php?id=3)
Pony generator III (http://generalzoi.deviantart.com/art/MLP-FiM-Pony-Creator-Beta-210228500)

New: Pinkie licks cupcakes. (http://yeaka.deviantart.com/art/MLP-FiM-Flash-Game-202202384?q=boost%3Apopular%20max_age%3A8h%20frien dship%20is%20magic&qo=22) And a playthrough for it, too. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUy1UtuNet0)
Collect Cupcakes, Lick Ponies! 2.0 (http://yeaka.deviantart.com/art/MLP-FiM-Flash-Game-TWO-202342576)

Media

Official:

Equestria Girls Extended Promo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTPqjKk_xCo) | Hub Summer Promo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rKjBViIt-y8) | Hop-Skip-Jump [original] (http://soundcloud.com/dannyimusic/mlp1-hop-skip-jump-song) | Smile, Smile, Smile! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFf_rGavnFk) | G3 Christmas Songs 1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHLqc8BSQMg) & 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCpBYLHIEuI)

Rainbow Rocks:

Trailer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wM8sPzdqyNk) | Music to My Ears (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qh7j1qUaGOc) | Guitar Centered (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fg46129oPIs) | Hamstocalypse Now (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BniijKHywXM) | Shake Your Tail! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XF_k2aqwv0) | Pinkie on the One (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iTmZ3UEpkBs) | A Case for the Bass (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7z8TEpYMYs)

Foreign Songs:

Art of the Dress [PL] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clm3GjqncJs) | At The Gala [FR] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQSmihuY5ms) [PL] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlVRN-qePmA) | Fluttershy's Lullaby [FR] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmDxuMvnehs) | So Many Wonders [FR] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tbt-Z2RwfM) | The French and Powerful Trixie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcpeVg7yMv8) | Winter Wrap Up [PL] (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfqIEGb2s5w)

AMVs:

Always (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhgzpnTYCXQ) | Communism is Magic (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJHZ4E9tRHM) | Derpy Cardcaptor (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWG0KLSJi8g) | Freeze Ray (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMXhEXQSXSw) | I can go the distance (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYonN9in668) | Last Unicorn (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwT7V_LsRQo) | Lunasong (Not Your Night) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krcJa44GWq8) | Muffins & Bubbles (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gR_y8uRYI8Y) | Pinkie's Brew (EE) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=682pneYoP0c) | PonyCraft 2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJbAT1wzS8U) | Still Alive (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=za9f1c93FHY) | The Stars Will Aid In Her Escape (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rV_0n5gp1fE) | The G&P Heretic (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4szgPK9Rufw) | Ponies (That are British) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOi3StWmG7A) | Ponies! (http://ponyvspony.com/)

Comics:

CSImadmax (http://csimadmax.deviantart.com/gallery/27895270) | Metaponies (http://gavalanche.deviantart.com/gallery/29877487)

ED Fics:

Twilight Sky Over Canterlot (http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/04/story-twilight-sky-over-canterlot.html) | Sidelines / Midnight's Tale (http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/04/conversion-bureau-compilation.html) | World Without Rainbows (http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/05/story-world-without-rainbows.html) | Luxury Lotus Spa Follies (http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/04/story-luxury-lotus-spa-follies.html) | How Lyra Met Bon-Bon (http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/02/story-how-lyra-met-bon-bon.html) | Letters from Bubbly (http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/01/story-letters-from-bubbly-1-10.html) | Swayback Mountain (http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/01/story-swayback-mountain.html) | And Life Goes On (http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/01/story-your-greatest-fan.html) | The Three Notes (http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/03/story-three-notes.html) | TGaP Trixie (http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/04/story-great-and-powerful-trixie.html) | Antipodes (http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/03/story-antipodes.html) | Progress (http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/05/story-progress-luna-versus-microwave.html) | Bubbles (http://www.equestriadaily.com/2011/03/story-bubbles.html) | Pony Drinking Game (http://buttersc0tchsundae.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d3cng5n)

GitP Fics:

AmishPirate (http://www.equestriadaily.com/search/label/Author%3A%20TheAmishPirate) | Darth BC (http://www.equestriadaily.com/search/label/Author%3A%20Bobcat) | Deadly (http://www.equestriadaily.com/search/label/Author%3A%20Adcoon): Trollestia 1 (http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/200/0/b/trickster_goddess_nr_1_by_adcoon-d40tt3d.png) 2 (http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/201/a/4/trickster_goddess_nr_2_by_adcoon-d414fzw.png) 3 (http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/214/1/3/trickster_goddess_nr_3_by_adcoon-d42h2hx.png) 4 (http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/229/0/d/trickster_goddess_nr_4_by_adcoon-d46vksj.png) | DigoDragon (http://www.fimfiction.net/user/Digodragon) | EsperDerek (http://www.equestriadaily.com/search/label/Author%3A%20EsperDerek) | Grif (http://www.fimfiction.net/user/Grif) | Juntao (http://www.fimfiction.net/story/103601/from-equestria-with-love) | PhantomFox (http://www.equestriadaily.com/search/label/Author%3A%20PhantomFox) | PhoeKun (http://www.equestriadaily.com/search/label/Author%3A%20Phoe) | Raz Fox (http://www.equestriadaily.com/search/label/Author%3A%20Raz_Fox) | Thanqol (http://www.equestriadaily.com/search/label/Author%3A%20Thanqol)

Same Old Ponymotes:

Original Batch
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MCerberus
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Crazy!Twi
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Kyouhen Series feat. Ninja Pinkie!
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Misc:

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Seekrit Pony Projekt
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XXXVI - Superponies Everywhere!
XXXVII - We Should Have Learned [Something] By Now!
XXXVIII - Nopony Expects Sponish Pinquisition!
XXXIX - There is no Pegasus Mafia!
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[Metahuman1]

So, when are they just gonna break down and do a proper pony form movie and make Equestria girls an ongoing series?

[Rater202]

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[DigoDragon]

So, when are they just gonna break down and do a proper pony form movie and make Equestria girls an ongoing series?

EQGirls 3
Heh, that's the question of the year. Maybe we might know after Season 5 runs its course?

[Trixie]

14 II edition? Check.

SFW Irony? Check http://i.imgur.com/N2nfK.png

And before Digo asks, the source was actually their SFW blog ._.

Some other arts that didn't quite made the cut? Che...

You know what, since most were *ahem* suggestive have some Trixie instead :smallamused:


http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2013/071/b/0/mlp_trixie_02_copy_by_innocenttazzlet-d5xs40i.jpg
https://derpicdn.net/img/view/2015/2/12/827199__safe_solo_equestria+girls_trixie_artist-colon-aztarieth.jpeg

[zimmerwald1915]

Just announced: Equestria Girls 3!
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lSoiNItnO6Q/VN4A60OrDvI/AAAAAAAAAeM/uSwpRUtD4-4/s1600/Capture.JPG
Starring all your favourites! As long as your favourites don't include Rarity or AJ!
There's something to be said for a less crowded poster. A better solution, however, might have been to have the Shadow Bolts looming in the background or to have the Wonder Colts in two rows rather than one.


Okay, I'm gonna take a wild guess and say that the three next to Twilight are going to be antagonists in the nxt film, and that those are toy box modles.

Prediction-following the trend from Rainbow Rocks, Twilight Sparkle isn't going to have a pretty minor role and the film will be more about Sunset Shimmer-Twiligt will be the Celestia to Sunset's Twilight, though she will still make an appearance just because she's the main character of the mothership series.

prediction only applies to pony Twilight. Human Twilight subplot is probable.
In re the strange girls: they're posed under a building that looks similar to Canterlot High, and they're captioned "Shadow Bolts." No bet.

In re Twilight: An exchange between Twilight and Applejack in Rainbow Rocks comes to mind.

"Applejack: Don't suppose we could join you this time around?"
"Twilight Sparkle: Better not. It could make things pretty confusing if Canterlot High all of a sudden had two of all of you."


Uh... okay.
Shadowbolts huh? Well... okay I could buy that. Guess we're moving from a music band to skating. Gotta sell those accessories, right? :smallamused:
I've heard "field hockey" myself.


So, when are they just gonna break down and do a proper pony form movie and make Equestria girls an ongoing series?
Friendship is Magic: the Movie was announced for 2017. No word on whether Equestria Girls will be moving to the small screen.

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Just rewatching them and as an adult, noticing that they're generally all a round damn fine people. Morticia is everything I should be in life. Though I'm more Gomez/slash normal people who have to exasperatedly deal with Gomez.

Occasionally a li'l granny frump or fester, as my proclivities decide. XD

The details you had on how Gomez was played as he was. Anything like that for the rest of the cast? Insights seen but not yet placed in word form?
I'm afraid John never told anything about the way Carolyn Jones, Jackie Coogan, etc. prepared their roles in the same way he did his own. As far as performances go, I know the cast members were very open and available to each other, especially John and Carolyn.


I do believe that was the point of the television program.

they're strange and a bit creepy, but they're some of the most genuinely nice people you'll ever see(and, by the standards of the time, were the ideal family)


Hell, there a good family by modern standards. Notice that both Parents are heavily involved in working with the Cousin and Fester, and all adults are heavily involved with rearing the children.


That's the neat thing about the Addams Family. They were weird, but they loved it and didn't care what others thought. And heck if they weren't such a happy family. Even when Pugsley and Friday attempted to murder each other it was fun to them. O.o
Friday's from Robinson Crusoe, Digo :smalltongue:

The thing about each Addams is that they are a whole package. By which I mean that it is impossible to separate what make Gomez, Morticia, Fester, Thing, etc. excellent people from their eccentricities. That, in turn, makes them subversive.

[Topaz]

Topaz' Traditionally Tardy List of Pony tabletop RPGs:

Complete Games --

D20 Based:
Courage is Magic (Brand New 1.18 edition!) (http://littlelunamoonmatron.deviantart.com/art/Courage-is-Magic-1-18-A-Pony-Tabletop-Game-502623622) (Very Heavily Modified D&D4 based)
Heroes of Equestria (http://torturedartist745.deviantart.com/art/Heroes-of-Equestria-MLP-FIM-RPG-300487764) (D&D-ish)
Pony Tales: Aspirations of Harmony (http://ponytales.forumotion.com/) (d20 meets Final Fantasy style)

D6 Based:
My Little Pony: Roleplaying is Magic, Season Four (http://www.roleplayingismagic.com/) (New Update!)
- And Rater202's Capricorn race for RiM Second Edition (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vkwAQqg9LwjTepXqu-jZn87m7JgbHcAeKunpwZPRDFI/edit?pli=1)
Pony Tales the RPG (http://catspaw-dtp-services.deviantart.com/gallery/39628312) (Open d6 based)
Ponies & Parasprites (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Ponies-Parasprites/210068732375744) (D6 total based)
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, The Roleplaying Game (https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2zrjqXYhlMcN2Q0M2VmNmMtY2I4Mi00YjA1LTg3NDctYzQ2Z GZiMDQ3ZGFk/edit?hl=en_US&pli=1) (Older game using a D6 dice pool)
A different My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, The Role-Playing Game (https://sites.google.com/site/mymlprpg/) (2D6 based, meant to be run for younger players)
Puzzles and Ponies (http://puzzlesandponies.deviantart.com/) (Simple 1d6 game)

D10 based:
Sereg's Pony RPG (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KyPWVXT93Zz8LiZawFxl6kUy0OrdlQYcBBXo-Sv6GKw/edit?pli=1) (D10 dice pool)

D100 (percentile dice) based:
Fallout: Equestria PNP (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fsNLwKTWEt0pawFWLRzBtEPfvDQGitGPh8NN3Zk0xo4/edit?pli=1#)
Fallout: Equestria RPG (http://foerpg.blogspot.com/)
Older, different Fallout:Equestria RPG (http://foerpg.wikia.com/wiki/Fallout:Equestria_RPG_Wiki)

Multiple die type based:
My Little Heroes AKA Hooves of Heroes (Original ODT file) (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-UYVjBngS1bbkZPZURZeEo2M28/view?pli=1) (PDF version) (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9S4SDvgQOFZWXNmeHFabXA5MzA/edit?pli=1)
Ponies: The Roleplaying Game (http://msfhwraith.deviantart.com/art/Pony-RPG-First-Draft-289542812)

Playing card based:
Friendship is Magic, the Tabletop RPG (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=192468) (GitP forum)

Supplements for existing systems --

Roleplaying in Equestria for D&D Fifth Edition (http://cheezedoodle96.deviantart.com/art/MLP45E-Dungeons-and-Dragons-With-Ponies-490872927) (Updated!)
Ponies for D&D 4e (http://tradwiki.foxxtrot.net/index.php?title=Pony)
Pony Races for Pathfinder (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MTe-vJ44LNepZAT3Eqta5qkxntS8nefLDBpNAf4lFMI/edit)
Ponyfinder thread on Paizo forum (http://paizo.com/forums/dmtz52pj?Prisons-and-PoniesPonyfinder-Feedback-needed#41)
Dungeons & Dragons: Friendship is Magic (https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B-OfetQXp_GcWW5ZZk91d3NOb1k/edit?usp=sharing&pli=1) (Ponies for D&D 3.5)
Pony Races for D&D 3.5 (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=182994) (GitP forum)
Ponies! My Little Pony: D20 adaptation (http://brilliantgameologists.com/boards/index.php?topic=12296.0)
The Conversion Bureau (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1XTIaphB0TEF-lqfJpNpPv_-aJ2Al-GErMtVEKEX8FxQ/edit?pli=1) (uses Microlite 20)
The Savage World of My Little Pony (http://giftkrieg23.deviantart.com/gallery/30436047) (uses Savage Worlds)
My Little Pony meets Exalted tumblr (http://tabletop-friendship.tumblr.com/)
NightmareRun by Digo Dragon (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LOuIkf_znWXX8ThyW9h9C_hmiHKNSvNWpSuyhBh5KVg/edit?pli=1) (uses Shadowrun 4e)
Friendship is FATE rules (https://www.dropbox.com/s/b9eolg1mjad55z9/pony-fae-playtest-001.pdf) & Discussion Blog (http://juneplaysgames.headpigeons.me/tagged/friendship-is-magic) (uses FATE Accelerated)
The Mane Six for FATE Accelerated (http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?692218-%28FAE%29-Pimp-My-Our-FAE-Characters!&p=16879846#post16879846) (RPGnet forum)
MLP:FiM for Burning Engine/Mouse Guard (https://docs.google.com/document/d/1N_EM9zHOwJ3VL2WY5DsQ0kf8STuNi6n_4t6jsSMkNEY/edit?pli=1) (Discussion on RPGnet (http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?709683-Mouse-Guard-BW-MLP-Litany-of-Responsibilities-o-Winter-Wrap-Up-Winter-Wrap-Up!-o))
Unknown Ponies: Failure is Awesome (http://lurkingrhythmically.blogspot.com/p/unknown-ponies-failure-is-awesome.html) (uses Unknown Armies)
Don't Rest Your Hooves (http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Don%27t_Rest_Your_Hooves) (uses Don't Rest Your Head)
Don't Hate Your Friends (http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?648876-DRYH-My-Little-Pony-FIM-Don-t-Hate-Your-Friends) (Don't Rest Your Head hack, RPGnet forum)
My Little Legend (http://www.ruleofcool.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/My-Little-Legend.pdf) (uses the Legend RPG (https://s3.amazonaws.com/det_1/Legend.pdf) from Rule of Cool RPGs)
Ponies for Oz (http://fdouglaswall.blogspot.com/2013/04/adventures-in-equestria.html) (uses Adventures in Oz: Fantasy Roleplaying Beyond the Yellow Brick Road)

Further contributions and updates welcome!

[DigoDragon]

And before Digo asks, the source was actually their SFW blog ._.

The interesting things we find in SFW blogs. :smallbiggrin:



You know what, since most were *ahem* suggestive have some Trixie instead :smallamused:

https://derpicdn.net/img/view/2015/2/12/827199__safe_solo_equestria+girls_trixie_artist-colon-aztarieth.jpeg

That's... kind of scary.



I've heard "field hockey" myself.
Friendship is Magic: the Movie was announced for 2017. No word on whether Equestria Girls will be moving to the small screen.

Field hockey? Hmm, that actually sounds more fun than simple skate racing. Okay, I'm in!

Pony movie for 2017? I must of missed the announcement or forgotten it under all this hiatus. :D
But thanks for letting me know!



Friday's from Robinson Crusoe, Digo :smalltongue:

I wrote Friday instead of Wednesday, didn't I? Ah guess we know what day of the week I prefer... :smallbiggrin:

http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs11/i/2006/252/6/d/Wednesday_Addams_little_pony_by_Woosie.jpg

[Forum Explorer]

Not much to say so have some pony

https://derpicdn.net/img/2015/2/4/821039/large.jpg


https://derpicdn.net/img/view/2015/2/13/827859__safe_shipping_lesbian_traditional+art_lyra _bon+bon_mouth+hold_flowers_lyrabon_valentine.jpeg

[DigoDragon]

Not much to say so have some pony

D'aww, Lyra is sharing a snack with Bon Bon.


Time flies!
http://th05.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/f/2015/040/a/5/a5a4c2ea32ae061b015797b1ed0e7ce1-d8hcqe8.png (http://left2fail.deviantart.com/art/Time-Flies-WeLoveFine-Contest-512876960)

[Juntao112]

Digo, I am outraged that the proper picture is not in this thread. You know the one.

[DigoDragon]

Digo, I am outraged that the proper picture is not in this thread. You know the one.

Yeah, but I didn't want to chance pushing our luck and angering a Mod. :x
But hey, you get kudos for the title!

[Madcrafter]

More Season 5 trailery goodness! (http://www.equestriadaily.com/2015/02/another-season-5-trailer-appears.html)Not too much new here, a couple new shots and jokes. Villain pony seems to be a powerful magician in her own right.

[DigoDragon]

More Season 5 trailery goodness! (http://www.equestriadaily.com/2015/02/another-season-5-trailer-appears.html)Not too much new here, a couple new shots and jokes. Villain pony seems to be a powerful magician in her own right.

Super-Ultra-Mega S5 Spoiler
In the quick scene with the villain powering up that big ball blast, you can see that the residents with the Mane6 all have their cutie marks back. Twi and Dash appear to have theirs as well so... :smalltongue:


Edit:
Sparity animation (http://www.equestriadaily.com/2015/02/animation-evening.html#more) I found cute. The off-model look is pretty cute.

[zimmerwald1915]

Super-Ultra-Mega S5 Spoiler
In the quick scene with the villain powering up that big ball blast, you can see that the residents with the Mane6 all have their cutie marks back. Twi and Dash appear to have theirs as well so... :smalltongue:
Was there ever any doubt?

[DigoDragon]

Was there ever any doubt?

S5 Spoiler
Not really. I just wanted a little suspense intact before the premiere. XD

[MLai]

There's something to be said for a less crowded poster. A better solution, however, might have been to have the Shadow Bolts looming in the background or to have the Wonder Colts in two rows rather than one.
Looking at the trite poster base entirely on the toy models, I get this feeling that this is the 3rd time where Hasbro basically issues a mandate from on high: "Okay studio, for the 3rd movie I want the girls' hobby to suddenly be *this*, because that's our new toy line and accessories. I don't care how you do it. I don't care if it syncs with movie #2. You got until Fall."


In re the strange girls: they're posed under a building that looks similar to Canterlot High, and they're captioned "Shadow Bolts." No bet.
I think Human Twi will be a Shadowbolt?! Drama!! Oh and motorball.

[SiuiS]

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say the off-model characters, the busy colors, the building pulled straight, quote literally, from the back box of, and the title mocking hunger games... This is a hoax designed on the Monster High chassis. The character designs don't for EqG and do for monster high, as does the general aesthetic form. Color, shape, composition, number, shape of characters even...

But hey. Who knows?

[otakuryoga]

Just announced: Equestria Girls 3!
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lSoiNItnO6Q/VN4A60OrDvI/AAAAAAAAAeM/uSwpRUtD4-4/s1600/Capture.JPG
Starring all your favourites! As long as your favourites don't include Rarity or AJ!
anyone else notice that they all have normal eyes except for Twilight?



In re the strange girls: they're posed under a building that looks similar to Canterlot High, and th
[spoiler=EqG3]I've heard "field hockey" myself.

you dont wear roller skates for Field Hockey though....

oh and traipsing through Pony aisle at WalMart last night....Two new Princesses
one paired with Fluttershy and one paired with Pinkie Pie

take that for what you will..................

[Forum Explorer]

You know it occurs to me that ponies have a very old sort of lifestyle. They don't seem to really have much if any sort of communication system beyond dragonbreath letters and pegasus delivery. There is a train, but no cars. And we have entire villages isolated in a swamp.

So why is this? We've seen video games, giant dams, and massive animal dryers. As well as many feats of magic that seem more difficult. But nothing on the communication front.

https://derpicdn.net/img/2014/5/19/631383/large.png

[SiuiS]

Less need. Your every desire can usually be handled on town and if not, the trip is half the fun.

Progress makes life easier, right? What happens when life is easy enough?

[Dexam]

Uh... okay.
Shadowbolts huh? Well... okay I could buy that. Guess we're moving from a music band to skating. Gotta sell those accessories, right? :smallamused:

*Crosses fingers for roller-derby*

Because that would be awesome.

[zimmerwald1915]

*Crosses fingers for roller-derby*

Because that would be awesome.
Awesome, you say? (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAyxWKCqVgU)

[Forum Explorer]

Less need. Your every desire can usually be handled on town and if not, the trip is half the fun.

Progress makes life easier, right? What happens when life is easy enough?

But we see other towns order Apple Family pies (presumably by pegasus mail) and getting to those towns certainly wasn't convenient.

Besides that we've seen situations multiple times where one of the Main 6 was in the situation where they might have to move away for whatever reason, and the other ponies were dismayed by that. When with easy communication, such a problem actually isn't that big of a deal. I mean if I were to move across the country I could communicate with my friends just as easily as I do today. Actually look at this forum. We talk to each other all the time, forming friendships and having fun, and we are scattered across the entire world.

I'm still trying to think of a serious theory on the matter.

[SiuiS]

But we see other towns order Apple Family pies (presumably by pegasus mail) and getting to those towns certainly wasn't convenient.

Easy access to a commodity makes it less valuable as a commodity when it's value is directly based on uniqueness and scarcity.

In our modern world of being able to literally print prosthetics to fit, hand-made custom jobs are still a market.


Besides that we've seen situations multiple times where one of the Main 6 was in the situation where they might have to move away for whatever reason,

We've seen the mane cast chased by manticores, dragons, dragons, hydras, and centaur ape thaumovores. This does not mean pony society must or should take into account manticores, dragons or Tirek.


such a problem actually isn't that big of a deal.

Exactly.

Unless you believe Pinkie Pie can for serious outpace the best flier in Equestria, you have no reason to believe dramatic moments are there to be solved with technology instead of character growth. They're contrived.

[Forum Explorer]

Easy access to a commodity makes it less valuable as a commodity when it's value is directly based on uniqueness and scarcity.

In our modern world of being able to literally print prosthetics to fit, hand-made custom jobs are still a market.



We've seen the mane cast chased by manticores, dragons, dragons, hydras, and centaur ape thaumovores. This does not mean pony society must or should take into account manticores, dragons or Tirek.



Exactly.

Unless you believe Pinkie Pie can for serious outpace the best flier in Equestria, you have no reason to believe dramatic moments are there to be solved with technology instead of character growth. They're contrived.

I don't think apple pies are (or at least should be) valued due to their rarity.


But they do. Monster territories are generally avoided, they have sirens for dragon (and presumably other monsters) attacks, they have heroes to handle attacks, and magical artifacts + super prisons to defeat and hold Tirek.


I think I'm misunderstanding something there. Are you saying the reason we don't see any sort of communications technology is so the Mane 6 can face problems with long distances? :smallconfused:

[Trixie]

You know what, now I think the SPOILER name should have won :smallcool:


Just announced: Equestria Girls 3!
Starring all your favourites! As long as your favourites don't include Rarity or AJ!

Found them!

https://derpicdn.net/img/view/2015/2/14/827892__safe_fluttershy_rarity_applejack_equestria +girls_toy_flash+sentry_merchandise_derp_doll.jpg

They're just hiding http://i.imgur.com/N2nfK.png

Hmm, looks like human Twilight is all but confirmed.


So, when are they just gonna break down and do a proper pony form movie and make Equestria girls an ongoing series?

EQGirls 3
Heh, that's the question of the year. Maybe we might know after Season 5 runs its course?
Um...

https://derpicdn.net/img/view/2015/2/13/827654__safe_logo_my+little+pony+movie.png


There's something to be said for a less crowded poster. A better solution, however, might have been to have the Shadow Bolts looming in the background or to have the Wonder Colts in two rows rather than one.
Better version of picture:
https://derpicdn.net/img/view/2015/2/13/827655__safe_twilight+sparkle_rainbow+dash_pinkie+ pie_fluttershy_princess+twilight_equestria+girls_s unset+shimmer_shadowbolts_spoiler-colon-friendship+games.png

They are not WC. Note what is on Twilight's belt dun dun dun http://i.imgur.com/N2nfK.png

Looks like they were going for contrasting both groups, with Sunset being leader of WC team.

Hmm, possibly full Shadowbolt team?

https://derpicdn.net/img/view/2015/2/11/826411__safe_twilight+sparkle_clothes_princess+twi light_equestria+girls_bow_doll_obtrusive+watermark _arrow_archery.jpeg
https://derpicdn.net/img/view/2015/2/13/827766__safe_equestria+girls_doll_spoiler-colon-friendship+games_friendship+games_sour+sweet_sunny +flare_lemon+zest.jpeg


anyone else notice that they all have normal eyes except for Twilight?
Hmm? :smallconfused:

Do you mean Twilight/Dash glasses? I see nothing wrong otherwise...

[Manga Shoggoth]

Found them!

https://derpicdn.net/img/view/2015/2/14/827892__safe_fluttershy_rarity_applejack_equestria +girls_toy_flash+sentry_merchandise_derp_doll.jpg


The worrying thing about that is that Flash looks rather like a Thunderbirds character.

EDIT: Thanks, Trixie...

[Trixie]

Psst, you might want to fix that bottom spoiler tag http://i.imgur.com/N2nfK.png

From new leak: Shadowbolt team consist of Twilight Sparkle, Sugarcoat, Sour Sweet, Lemon Zest, Indigo Zap and Sunny Flare. Hmm, I wonder who is who? :smallconfused:

6 members, looks like pony TS might be absent this time then.

[Aotrs Commander]

You know it occurs to me that ponies have a very old sort of lifestyle. They don't seem to really have much if any sort of communication system beyond dragonbreath letters and pegasus delivery. There is a train, but no cars. And we have entire villages isolated in a swamp.

So why is this? We've seen video games, giant dams, and massive animal dryers. As well as many feats of magic that seem more difficult. But nothing on the communication front.


I'm still trying to think of a serious theory on the matter.

This is called: Earth, prior to the late the 20th century.

Seriously. It's not at all surprising. You forget how much the world has changed in the last human lifetime. I was chatting to a bloke only ten tears older than my Dad who remembers the milkman still using a horse-and-cart. Even a major construction like the Hoover dam was pre-WW2.

As I've observed before, pony technology is very consistent with about up to 1930-1940 (maybe a decade or so later, but you're streching a bit by that point) or possibly further back to the top end of the 19th century. We've got dams, refridgerators, industrialised equipment, airships, trains as the primary form of transportation (cars were something of a luxary item during that period, and furthermore ponies are more suited to taking themselves, so the need for them to have developed them is much lower), the aforementioned dams, sewing machines... All the sort of things that were around in that time period.

The only thing they don't have - that we've SEEN - is a telegram/telephone system, but that is easily explicable as just not having had the one person to invent it yet - and they in theory have an equivilent in dragonfirw; as again, not everyone during that time period would have had access to telephones or telegraphs, aside from public systems. (This is likely in reality a deliberate decision by made the writers because rapid communitication is one of the ways to disrupt stories and it's easier to not have it than write around it..! But it's still not actually implusible or anything.) It may well be that some places have a dragonfire (actual or artifical) network o an actual magical or electrical powered telegram system, but it's only used for government or industrial functions because it's too expensive to install everywhere.)

[b_jonas]

So Heavenly Nostrils (http://www.gocomics.com/phoebe-and-her-unicorn/2015/02/12) got envious of Pinkie Pie and Peachy Pie (and Negro Caballo) and learned to skate.

Shadowbolts huh? Well... okay I could buy that. Guess we're moving from a music band to skating. Gotta sell those accessories, right? :smallamused:

No, it's just that Heavenly Nostrils is so popular that all of Canterlot High immediately copies her.


Actually look at this forum. We talk to each other all the time, forming friendships and having fun, and we are scattered across the entire world.

Hooray!

[DigoDragon]

I think Human Twi will be a Shadowbolt?! Drama!! Oh and motorball.

EQGirls 3
That would be pretty cool and explain where human Twilight has been. Though we may have Sunset vs. Twilight again.
But hey, maybe Sunset can win this time. ;)



you dont wear roller skates for Field Hockey though....

EQG3
Maybe it's one of those indoor roller rinks then.



oh and traipsing through Pony aisle at WalMart last night....Two new Princesses
one paired with Fluttershy and one paired with Pinkie Pie
take that for what you will..................

I honestly don't put much stock into those anymore. Half the time all it is are OCs the artist team throws in just to add some variety. :smallsmile:



You know it occurs to me that ponies have a very old sort of lifestyle. They don't seem to really have much if any sort of communication system beyond dragonbreath letters and pegasus delivery. There is a train, but no cars. And we have entire villages isolated in a swamp.

So why is this? We've seen video games, giant dams, and massive animal dryers. As well as many feats of magic that seem more difficult. But nothing on the communication front.

It may be that magic and pegasus delivery are so commonplace for communication that no one can justify the expense of creating a telegraph/telephone system.



*Crosses fingers for roller-derby*

Because that would be awesome.

EQ Girls 3
That would be fun. Dash certainly would be good at that. I'd love to see Fluttershy use that bow depicted in the previously shown poster.



I don't think apple pies are (or at least should be) valued due to their rarity.

Why would Rarity command the price of apples?
http://40.media.tumblr.com/5ca70195cab741654648ba2a9c83da72/tumblr_njlmwfeS2Y1tlqckyo1_500.png

http://40.media.tumblr.com/e815921e46d73f49dd6ce98045819315/tumblr_njjyxueLew1tlqckyo1_500.png

http://41.media.tumblr.com/a86b0f878d2f1bfb0c62140c781f6602/tumblr_njhg49Vtkd1tlqckyo1_500.png



Found them!

Heh, they were off doing a thing. :smallbiggrin:



Um...

Yeah, I mentioned earlier that I must have forgotten that announcement previously. :)



The worrying thing about that is that Flash looks rather like a Thunderbirds character.

Thunderbird Flash? Heh, okay I see what you mean now. XD
http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/259/4/5/thunderbird_icon___fluttershy_by_spikeslashrarity-d4a02oi.png



6 members, looks like pony TS might be absent this time then.

Good. :3

[Rater202]

There is a train, but no cars.

It's on my to do list.

[DigoDragon]

It's on my to do list.

Just need to invent a portable internal combustion engine, drive train, and a clutch. :)

[Rater202]

It's. On. My. To. Do. List.
I'm done now.

[otakuryoga]

Better version of picture:
https://derpicdn.net/img/view/2015/2/13/827655__safe_twilight+sparkle_rainbow+dash_pinkie+ pie_fluttershy_princess+twilight_equestria+girls_s unset+shimmer_shadowbolts_spoiler-colon-friendship+games.png




Hmm? :smallconfused:

Do you mean Twilight/Dash glasses? I see nothing wrong otherwise...

well, in the better picture you can see she is wearing glasses/goggles
that wasnt very clear in the one first shown


It's. On. My. To. Do. List.


well get cracking!
we want to see ponies out on the open road enjoying the feeling of multiple horses under them
i am perfectly aware of what i did there......

[Forum Explorer]

This is called: Earth, prior to the late the 20th century.

Seriously. It's not at all surprising. You forget how much the world has changed in the last human lifetime. I was chatting to a bloke only ten tears older than my Dad who remembers the milkman still using a horse-and-cart. Even a major construction like the Hoover dam was pre-WW2.

As I've observed before, pony technology is very consistent with about up to 1930-1940 (maybe a decade or so later, but you're streching a bit by that point) or possibly further back to the top end of the 19th century. We've got dams, refridgerators, industrialised equipment, airships, trains as the primary form of transportation (cars were something of a luxary item during that period, and furthermore ponies are more suited to taking themselves, so the need for them to have developed them is much lower), the aforementioned dams, sewing machines... All the sort of things that were around in that time period.

The only thing they don't have - that we've SEEN - is a telegram/telephone system, but that is easily explicable as just not having had the one person to invent it yet - and they in theory have an equivilent in dragonfirw; as again, not everyone during that time period would have had access to telephones or telegraphs, aside from public systems. (This is likely in reality a deliberate decision by made the writers because rapid communitication is one of the ways to disrupt stories and it's easier to not have it than write around it..! But it's still not actually implusible or anything.) It may well be that some places have a dragonfire (actual or artifical) network o an actual magical or electrical powered telegram system, but it's only used for government or industrial functions because it's too expensive to install everywhere.)

Huh, this is really interesting. It's so easy to forget how short of a time that we've actually had common technologies.

[DigoDragon]

It's so easy to forget how short of a time that we've actually had common technologies.

Yeah. Also, certain tech require a wide leap in thinking for their creation to come about.
Such going from vacuum tubes to semiconducting solid-state transistors, or from a magnetic tape cassette to a laser-read compact disc. :smallsmile:

[otakuryoga]

have a valentine Ponythread
http://th05.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/f/2015/038/6/e/pinkamena_valentine_by_zacatron94-d8h1hyh.png

valentine couple
http://th03.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2015/038/b/1/beauty_and_the_geek_by_anibaruthecat-d8h3t33.png

Operation: Rescue Lyra
http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2015/043/2/3/es__oc_shorts_032____bon_bon_to_the_rescue____by_e stories-d8hodol.png

Korra as pony
http://th06.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2015/034/c/c/legend_of_korra_poster_by_drawponies-d8gilyn.png

Commodore..have you seen this guys artwork (http://sakimichan.deviantart.com/)?
he does alot of different stuff like Pokemon, Naruto, etc..like a ScoobyDoo below
http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2015/002/2/b/velma_by_sakimichan-d8cctx4.jpg

[Kd7sov]

The only thing they don't have - that we've SEEN - is a telegram/telephone system, but that is easily explicable as just not having had the one person to invent it yet - and they in theory have an equivilent in dragonfirw; as again, not everyone during that time period would have had access to telephones or telegraphs, aside from public systems. (This is likely in reality a deliberate decision by made the writers because rapid communitication is one of the ways to disrupt stories and it's easier to not have it than write around it..! But it's still not actually implusible or anything.) It may well be that some places have a dragonfire (actual or artifical) network o an actual magical or electrical powered telegram system, but it's only used for government or industrial functions because it's too expensive to install everywhere.)

They do, apparently, have something along those lines, though we've never seen it directly. Recall Scootaloo's "Miss Granny Smith? Telegram!" disguise, or the legit telegram from Applejack in Last Roundup. (Curiously, I can't think of any appearances of the system outside Season 2.)

[Balmas]

have a valentine Ponythread
http://th05.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/f/2015/038/6/e/pinkamena_valentine_by_zacatron94-d8h1hyh.png

http://40.media.tumblr.com/c76345e6926594ba8cc7edd15feb0455/tumblr_njrnzriClw1rgii3fo1_500.jpg

[Aotrs Commander]

Three down, last one to go...



Plus side of panto, this year: far, far, FAR too busy to have to actively avoid exposure to Valentine's day gubbins. Bonus!




Huh, this is really interesting. It's so easy to forget how short of a time that we've actually had common technologies.

Indeed. Fun equine-relate fact: even as late as World War II, the majority of army supplies were still moved by horse and cart.


They do, apparently, have something along those lines, though we've never seen it directly. Recall Scootaloo's "Miss Granny Smith? Telegram!" disguise, or the legit telegram from Applejack in Last Roundup. (Curiously, I can't think of any appearances of the system outside Season 2.)

I had forgotten those. So, yes, there we go. Pretty consistently early 20th century-level technology (plus or minus variance for being a different world.)

(We probably don't see many things like obvious telegraph poles because, well, we know what Equestria is like, you probably can't keep them up for very long without some monster bumbling into them without constant maintenance.)




Commodore..have you seen this guys artwork (http://sakimichan.deviantart.com/)?
he does alot of different stuff like Pokemon, Naruto, etc..like a ScoobyDoo below
http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2015/002/2/b/velma_by_sakimichan-d8cctx4.jpg

Can't say as I have (but then again, I don't tend to go lookinh for fan art, so tha's hardly surprisng.)

Neat.

[Tiki Snakes]

So, I succumbed to the urges and bought Sunless Sea.
I will of course toy with the idea of a vaguely ponified playthrough, depending on how applicable that is.

The game assures me that my first captain will almost certainly die, so I'll provide a character for that. Submissions are welcome, however. Writeups may follow, but are not guaranteed.

Apparently, our captain was either an urchin, a poet, a priest, a veteran, or a philosopher.
Lacking a surfeit of appropriate Ponies to set out on the Unterzee, who to go with? Crepuscular Corruscation lacks established personality. Robo-Ponithid lacks the cognitive capacity to captain a ship in any meaningful way. Guess that means Captain Bleakmane gets the vote.

She's definitely more philosopher than anything else. Her particular theories on blood, time and starlight have brought her down to the cavern where "Fallen London" resides. London was a town near Trottingham of course, until it was stolen by bats which I can tell you was quite an upheaval for the occupants. It now resides in a cavern the size of europe, complete with it's own black, sunless sea. These theories have now taken her out on the Unterzee.
Being a philosopher gets her a bonus to detection and perception, and her first act as captain is in hiring Plausible Surgeon. Which is a strange name, but he assured her that during amputations he almost always gets the correct limb and that's good enough for us. To top this off, her goal is to gather interesting stories, write a masterpiece and become the most venerated explorer in Fallen London, then hopefully retire before something unfortunate happens to her.

Simply put, she's just down there for the bragging rights. Silly Pony.
Also, apparently the ship's mascot is a near-comatose, nihilistic Ferret.


EDIT - Voyage the First.
I fear I may have made a terrible mistake.
Alright, not so very terrible because if I do croak on this particular plane of existence that's not really going to leave a dent in the wider scheme of things, but it'd be rather embarrassing to go out so quickly and I've already come so very close.

Let me explain.
I set out in high spirits, just me and the entirely Plausible Doctor, along with ten or so earth ponies with little else to do and few enough sense to agree to set out for what pittance they're going to get out of this. It all went rather well for about a day or so, until the undead gentleman I'd agreed to ferry north to the Tomb Colonies started eating all our cheese and wine. I resisted the urge to throw him overboard on the spot, but all that earned me was further thefts as we sailed. A brief respite with a trio of wonderfully creepy sisters topped up our supplies in exchange for me amusing them with small-talk and idle gossip for a while, but the rotting little sod was at it again by the time we set off. A brief exchange of views with a passing steamer in the lee of a tiny outcrop proved simple enough, no match for the tactical genius of yours truly, and so things continued.
There wasn't much cheese left at all by the time I managed to dump the ungrateful shambler at his destination, and we were rewarded with little more than further vague errands from both the rotter in question and several of his fellow townsfolk. We followed the coast north, stocking up our dwindling and unconvincingly restocked food supplies with the broken corpses of the vicious bats that apparently plagued the area. Delicious little things, thick with other peoples blood. Lovely. The crew don't seem to share my enthusiasm for them, but it's that or cannibalism by this point so it's Bats for breakfast, Bats for dinner and winged-rat surprise for supper.

The surprise is that it's Bats.

We spent the next several days being chased by a sentient iceberg, only to realise that not only had we finally managed to dock in a town full of deliberately obtuse mysterious strangers, but they also didn't really want anything we had to sell and that we were running low on both fuel and food. And, I noticed, money. Oops. Had to sell most of the Bats we had left and nip out to hunt some more just to buy enough fuel to limp back in the right direction with any chance of survival, trailing murderous icebergs all the way. I won't lie, things got pretty bleak there for a while and we may have kind of maybe tried praying to any dark god who was paying attention, (with mixed results). Eventually we resorted to throwing bats directly into the furnace and though the smell was unholy, it kept the our little steam-tramp moving long enough to avoid the ignomy of getting towed.

I may kind of have accepted a loan from the mafia. On the plus side, that means enough fuel and food to have a shot at this nice little smuggling job I managed to arrange. I also fired Plausible Surgeon on the spot, on account of him refusing to re-train as the ship's cook. Really, you'd think he'd never sewed up a deliberate blood-sacrifice before, this stitching is awful and itches incessantly. On the downside, the money I used to secure the services of our new doctor might have been better saved for fuel, but his hooves only shake noticeably if you leave him in the dark and he's probably not insane. He might be haunted, but he's almost certainly not insane.

I'm sure everything is going to be much smoother on my second voyage.

[Aotrs Commander]

Aaand done for another year.

Knackered, since it rather takes it out of you...

(Korra, as you may have surmised, may well be on a mini-hiatus until I can crib together enough mental facualties..)

Be my 25th panto next year... I've now been doing it as only a few scant month less than I've been gaming...

[Madcrafter]

Teeheee, I can't stop laughing at Brad doll. He's just so hilarious looking.http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OunXf0NfFU0/VN8XNnYj2wI/AAAAAAACJeY/hVoTx9ZLgo0/s1600/Capture.JPG

[Ravian]

So, I succumbed to the urges and bought Sunless Sea.
I will of course toy with the idea of a vaguely ponified playthrough, depending on how applicable that is.

The game assures me that my first captain will almost certainly die, so I'll provide a character for that. Submissions are welcome, however. Writeups may follow, but are not guaranteed.

Apparently, our captain was either an urchin, a poet, a priest, a veteran, or a philosopher.
Lacking a surfeit of appropriate Ponies to set out on the Unterzee, who to go with? Crepuscular Corruscation lacks established personality. Robo-Ponithid lacks the cognitive capacity to captain a ship in any meaningful way. Guess that means Captain Bleakmane gets the vote.

She's definitely more philosopher than anything else. Her particular theories on blood, time and starlight have brought her down to the cavern where "Fallen London" resides. London was a town near Trottingham of course, until it was stolen by bats which I can tell you was quite an upheaval for the occupants. It now resides in a cavern the size of europe, complete with it's own black, sunless sea. These theories have now taken her out on the Unterzee.
Being a philosopher gets her a bonus to detection and perception, and her first act as captain is in hiring Plausible Surgeon. Which is a strange name, but he assured her that during amputations he almost always gets the correct limb and that's good enough for us. To top this off, her goal is to gather interesting stories, write a masterpiece and become the most venerated explorer in Fallen London, then hopefully retire before something unfortunate happens to her.

Simply put, she's just down there for the bragging rights. Silly Pony.
Also, apparently the ship's mascot is a near-comatose, nihilistic Ferret.


EDIT - Voyage the First.
I fear I may have made a terrible mistake.
Alright, not so very terrible because if I do croak on this particular plane of existence that's not really going to leave a dent in the wider scheme of things, but it'd be rather embarrassing to go out so quickly and I've already come so very close.

Let me explain.
I set out in high spirits, just me and the entirely Plausible Doctor, along with ten or so earth ponies with little else to do and few enough sense to agree to set out for what pittance they're going to get out of this. It all went rather well for about a day or so, until the undead gentleman I'd agreed to ferry north to the Tomb Colonies started eating all our cheese and wine. I resisted the urge to throw him overboard on the spot, but all that earned me was further thefts as we sailed. A brief respite with a trio of wonderfully creepy sisters topped up our supplies in exchange for me amusing them with small-talk and idle gossip for a while, but the rotting little sod was at it again by the time we set off. A brief exchange of views with a passing steamer in the lee of a tiny outcrop proved simple enough, no match for the tactical genius of yours truly, and so things continued.
There wasn't much cheese left at all by the time I managed to dump the ungrateful shambler at his destination, and we were rewarded with little more than further vague errands from both the rotter in question and several of his fellow townsfolk. We followed the coast north, stocking up our dwindling and unconvincingly restocked food supplies with the broken corpses of the vicious bats that apparently plagued the area. Delicious little things, thick with other peoples blood. Lovely. The crew don't seem to share my enthusiasm for them, but it's that or cannibalism by this point so it's Bats for breakfast, Bats for dinner and winged-rat surprise for supper.

The surprise is that it's Bats.

We spent the next several days being chased by a sentient iceberg, only to realise that not only had we finally managed to dock in a town full of deliberately obtuse mysterious strangers, but they also didn't really want anything we had to sell and that we were running low on both fuel and food. And, I noticed, money. Oops. Had to sell most of the Bats we had left and nip out to hunt some more just to buy enough fuel to limp back in the right direction with any chance of survival, trailing murderous icebergs all the way. I won't lie, things got pretty bleak there for a while and we may have kind of maybe tried praying to any dark god who was paying attention, (with mixed results). Eventually we resorted to throwing bats directly into the furnace and though the smell was unholy, it kept the our little steam-tramp moving long enough to avoid the ignomy of getting towed.

I may kind of have accepted a loan from the mafia. On the plus side, that means enough fuel and food to have a shot at this nice little smuggling job I managed to arrange. I also fired Plausible Surgeon on the spot, on account of him refusing to re-train as the ship's cook. Really, you'd think he'd never sewed up a deliberate blood-sacrifice before, this stitching is awful and itches incessantly. On the downside, the money I used to secure the services of our new doctor might have been better saved for fuel, but his hooves only shake noticeably if you leave him in the dark and he's probably not insane. He might be haunted, but he's almost certainly not insane.

I'm sure everything is going to be much smoother on my second voyage.

Hmm... Looks like fairly bad luck on the RNG there. Tomb colonists can get annoying and your only option is to put up with it since they're difficult to replace.

Remember to get a good supply worth of fuel and food. Fuel is the more important one though since you consume it faster than supply (and I find supply is easier to acquire if you can fight a bit.)

I suggest you head out East a bit. The West and South Coasts are set in stone but once you get further out everything is semi-randomized. Once you know your immediate surroundings you can start to plan out course. Keep an eye out for the Salt Lions. (Trust me you'll know them when you see them) if they're close enough you can make a pretty good profit hauling stone back and forth.

Items on your shopping list.

1. Good weapon- You'll want to generally avoid combat with anything bigger than a steam pinnace at first. With a good weapon (I recommend a hell-thrasher from Caminus yards. They're pricy, but the best you get in London.) Once you have something like that you can start to challenge the occasional sea monster)

2. Decent Engine- Not a huge priority, but maneuverability is just as useful for combat as a gun. In general your best strategy is to move backwards while continuously firing on your foe.

3. A good surplus. Nothing is worse than running out of echos while out on the zee. Fuel and Supply are actually fairly easy to come by if you know where to look, but they're always expensive. If you keep a thousand or two in reserve, you can nearly always eliminate any resource problem.

...Eventually. A new ship. I won't lie, the Steamer can last you for ages. But you will still want to eventually move on to something better if you want to move on to a strategy other than frantically fleeing from everything scary looking. (And even that can't save you from some of the biggest things.) I recommend a Corvette. They have more than twice the HP, don't sacrifice space for cargo like the cutter, and are still fairly cheap compared to most ships.

...Even further down the line. Get a house. Once you have that, write a will. Convert every captivating treasure you find into heirlooms. That sets up a nice little fund for your inevitable next captain. Every new captain, when you have a house, write a new will, every time. It makes the early game so much easier. (To the point where it's actually not a bad idea to go with the house before the ship simply because it makes subsequent games so much easier.

Also stop in at the admiralty, they can give you missions to get some much needed early game cash and will buy your port reports for echos and fuel.

Stone, Storm and Salt bless you on your voyages.

[Tiki Snakes]

The further voyages of the daring and ill fated Zee Captain Bleakmane.

The second journey passed in much the same way as the first, albeit with less drama and no need for invoking the dark gods or any such sillyness. Gains were made, enough to set out to see again at least and so we did. The wonders that ocean has to offer, oh I cannot begin to recount them. Week turned to month, time passing relentlessly. We battled pirates and flying jellyfish. They terrify me, charging so swiftly at the ship and giving up pursuit so unwillingly. We dealt with wonders and horrors, but upon returning once more to the fallen city I finally made an acquaintance at the university, an excitable unicorn of uncertain gender. I regaled them with stories and was lavished with coin. Artifacts I had found in my possession from misadventure or dark boon became small fortunes, and with the backing of the admiralty and full stores of fuel and food, we set out to finally pay off the Cheerful Mare's assistance, to get these arcane geegaws off my ship before the customs officers finally found them. They'd come too close a number of times, but the burning mountain where our contact awaits was so very far away. It was the recruitment of an engineer that finally stilled my mind, the old tub suddenly ran so much smoother and wasted so much less fuel.

And all was well. The sea held no further horrors for me, my arcane might and well crewed ship saw us safely to that distant peak, but not before discovering quite by accident the mysterious facility that had requested delivery of a coffin-like object (left for my ship at the docks without paperwork). There I watched as an acolyte at that strange facility carved up the cadaver secreted within, to remove a metallic object that had apparently grown within the body long prior to death. Fascinating. Our eventual goal turned out to be some kind of portal straight to hell. The payment was excellent and with a direct line on so much flammable material, the fuel flowed cheaply. We restocked, but food was less plentiful. I had heard of a port at which a great reward awaited in the same general area, so we ventured further on, hoping to restock on edible materials at that point.

That far flung port remained elusive. We found instead an eerie crystal castle, and though rewards awaited us amongst the people settled nearby, there was no market and no restock. Still, with a decent supply of fuel and an almost full compliment of crew, I was sure that the food situation could...stretch itself out across our journey, given some hunting along the way. Things began to get tight when we hit a prolonged quiet spell, no bats nor mega-crabs to be seen, stomachs began to rumble and eyes began to get shifty. Fuel was spending rapidly, it became clear that we would need a resupply, but when we returned to that port with it's cheap fuel it became clear we had nothing they wished to buy. The devils were not overwhelmed with generosity. We set sail, hungrier and no heavier in the hold. I spent the night in calculations, another barrel, maybe two would see us into safe waters and maybe even back as far as home, or at least to a port more amicable to trade. Once again, we turned to the Dark Gods.

They demanded one of three things. Secrets, Blood or Lives. Would that I had butchered my crew. Their idiot faces looking to me with trust and fear behind their eyes. We pledged blood, but were rewarded with inflammable riches. No help in getting them home from that, of course. I chose to be merciful, and whispered a secret to the wind. It heard us and it answered, everything went black. When we awoke; Despair! We find ourself many miles from familiar waters, anchored by some cyclopean ruin and surrounded by hostile waters. The Gods do not hear our pleas, terror ran rampant amongst the crew. I lost my mind, but oblivion didn't follow.

In the morning, I will sacrifice as much of the crew as can be spared to the other. Fuel enough to limp to safety will be our reward, I am sure of it. I shall not die here in this grim and distant corner of the unterzee. I will prevail against the odds, limp home. I'll sacrifice all that I need to, just to escape this trap the Gods have cornered me in. I'll show them, you'll see. I'll wipe that smirk from their faces yet! They have not seen the last of Captain Bleakmane!

...

None of the crew were ever seen again. Bleakmane's Journal and her precious zee-charts were delivered some time later to an acquaintance in Fallen London. They were heavily waterlogged and discoloured by huge amounts of Jellyfish slime.
Lacking any suitable volunteers, her mildly obscure second-in-command shall be taking up the captaincy in her honour.
http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2012/228/3/8/joyreaper_transparency_by_mister_cope-d5bcqop.png We'll see if her Iron will succeed where Bleakmane's guile failed.

[Ravian]

The further voyages of the daring and ill fated Zee Captain Bleakmane.

The second journey passed in much the same way as the first, albeit with less drama and no need for invoking the dark gods or any such sillyness. Gains were made, enough to set out to see again at least and so we did. The wonders that ocean has to offer, oh I cannot begin to recount them. Week turned to month, time passing relentlessly. We battled pirates and flying jellyfish. They terrify me, charging so swiftly at the ship and giving up pursuit so unwillingly. We dealt with wonders and horrors, but upon returning once more to the fallen city I finally made an acquaintance at the university, an excitable unicorn of uncertain gender. I regaled them with stories and was lavished with coin. Artifacts I had found in my possession from misadventure or dark boon became small fortunes, and with the backing of the admiralty and full stores of fuel and food, we set out to finally pay off the Cheerful Mare's assistance, to get these arcane geegaws off my ship before the customs officers finally found them. They'd come too close a number of times, but the burning mountain where our contact awaits was so very far away. It was the recruitment of an engineer that finally stilled my mind, the old tub suddenly ran so much smoother and wasted so much less fuel.

And all was well. The sea held no further horrors for me, my arcane might and well crewed ship saw us safely to that distant peak, but not before discovering quite by accident the mysterious facility that had requested delivery of a coffin-like object (left for my ship at the docks without paperwork). There I watched as an acolyte at that strange facility carved up the cadaver secreted within, to remove a metallic object that had apparently grown within the body long prior to death. Fascinating. Our eventual goal turned out to be some kind of portal straight to hell. The payment was excellent and with a direct line on so much flammable material, the fuel flowed cheaply. We restocked, but food was less plentiful. I had heard of a port at which a great reward awaited in the same general area, so we ventured further on, hoping to restock on edible materials at that point.

That far flung port remained elusive. We found instead an eerie crystal castle, and though rewards awaited us amongst the people settled nearby, there was no market and no restock. Still, with a decent supply of fuel and an almost full compliment of crew, I was sure that the food situation could...stretch itself out across our journey, given some hunting along the way. Things began to get tight when we hit a prolonged quiet spell, no bats nor mega-crabs to be seen, stomachs began to rumble and eyes began to get shifty. Fuel was spending rapidly, it became clear that we would need a resupply, but when we returned to that port with it's cheap fuel it became clear we had nothing they wished to buy. The devils were not overwhelmed with generosity. We set sail, hungrier and no heavier in the hold. I spent the night in calculations, another barrel, maybe two would see us into safe waters and maybe even back as far as home, or at least to a port more amicable to trade. Once again, we turned to the Dark Gods.

They demanded one of three things. Secrets, Blood or Lives. Would that I had butchered my crew. Their idiot faces looking to me with trust and fear behind their eyes. We pledged blood, but were rewarded with inflammable riches. No help in getting them home from that, of course. I chose to be merciful, and whispered a secret to the wind. It heard us and it answered, everything went black. When we awoke; Despair! We find ourself many miles from familiar waters, anchored by some cyclopean ruin and surrounded by hostile waters. The Gods do not hear our pleas, terror ran rampant amongst the crew. I lost my mind, but oblivion didn't follow.

In the morning, I will sacrifice as much of the crew as can be spared to the other. Fuel enough to limp to safety will be our reward, I am sure of it. I shall not die here in this grim and distant corner of the unterzee. I will prevail against the odds, limp home. I'll sacrifice all that I need to, just to escape this trap the Gods have cornered me in. I'll show them, you'll see. I'll wipe that smirk from their faces yet! They have not seen the last of Captain Bleakmane!

...

None of the crew were ever seen again. Bleakmane's Journal and her precious zee-charts were delivered some time later to an acquaintance in Fallen London. They were heavily waterlogged and discoloured by huge amounts of Jellyfish slime.
Lacking any suitable volunteers, her mildly obscure second-in-command shall be taking up the captaincy in her honour.
http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2012/228/3/8/joyreaper_transparency_by_mister_cope-d5bcqop.png We'll see if her Iron will succeed where Bleakmane's guile failed.

Oohh... Yeah I forgot about the jillies, avoid the jillies, even the smallest are quite annoying, especially when you're without sufficient firepower..

Did you choose to keep the map as a legacy then? I'd be careful about that in subsequent playthroughs. Maps might seem nice, but you don't get fragments from finding things already on your maps, and those are a big source for your secrets on your captain. Generally I always go for a new randomized map, since rediscovering things is half the fun.

Generally for legacies I prefer to keep money or weapons. Weapons primarily because it lets me start with a special little number my ancestor acquired which goes for at least one thousand even if you can't use it yourself. Essentially, everything can always be rediscovered by your descendents, but money is too precious not to start with.

[Tiki Snakes]

Oohh... Yeah I forgot about the jillies, avoid the jillies, even the smallest are quite annoying, especially when you're without sufficient firepower..

Did you choose to keep the map as a legacy then? I'd be careful about that in subsequent playthroughs. Maps might seem nice, but you don't get fragments from finding things already on your maps, and those are a big source for your secrets on your captain. Generally I always go for a new randomized map, since rediscovering things is half the fun.

Generally for legacies I prefer to keep money or weapons. Weapons primarily because it lets me start with a special little number my ancestor acquired which goes for at least one thousand even if you can't use it yourself. Essentially, everything can always be rediscovered by your descendents, but money is too precious not to start with.

Bleakmane was basically broke, and had no none-default weapons. It was not one of the smallest Jillies that got her.

[MLai]

Teeheee, I can't stop laughing at Brad doll. He's just so hilarious looking.http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OunXf0NfFU0/VN8XNnYj2wI/AAAAAAACJeY/hVoTx9ZLgo0/s1600/Capture.JPG
His shirt is vacuum-sealed.


The only thing they don't have - that we've SEEN - is a telegram/telephone system,
Manehattan's pretty advanced.
https://pmctvline2.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/mylittlepony_madmen_2.jpg

[DigoDragon]

valentine couple
http://th03.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2015/038/b/1/beauty_and_the_geek_by_anibaruthecat-d8h3t33.png

Aww, this one is actually cute, and I love the geek angle. :D



Operation: Rescue Lyra
http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2015/043/2/3/es__oc_shorts_032____bon_bon_to_the_rescue____by_e stories-d8hodol.png

Ouch. Very ouch. :x



http://40.media.tumblr.com/c76345e6926594ba8cc7edd15feb0455/tumblr_njrnzriClw1rgii3fo1_500.jpg

Whoa, that's creepy.


(We probably don't see many things like obvious telegraph poles because, well, we know what Equestria is like, you probably can't keep them up for very long without some monster bumbling into them without constant maintenance.)

Could be a magic telegraph. Tap one unit in the pair and the other responds, like quantum entanglement.

[zimmerwald1915]

Could be a magic telegraph. Tap one unit in the pair and the other responds, like quantum entanglement.
M'Lai's picture contains a standard rotary telephone, though. By which I mean it literally conforms to turn-of-the-century AT&T standards.

The ponies probably just buried the cables.

[DigoDragon]

M'Lai's picture contains a standard rotary telephone, though. By which I mean it literally conforms to turn-of-the-century AT&T standards.
The ponies probably just buried the cables.

I guess that could work too. I just like the idea of magically entangled devices. :smallsmile:

[MLai]

I guess that could work too. I just like the idea of magically entangled devices. :smallsmile:
But if it's a magic telephone, it'd be more trouble than it's worth for pegasi and EPs.

The Equestria Games has me curious. What sort of sport would require skates, archery, and wings? Notice only the winged members carry the bows. I don't know how Earth Twilight has wings...
That's no sport we know. Maybe EqG Earth is a darker place than we thought, LOL.

[Rater202]

Earth Twilight presumably might have wings for the same reason Earth Dash and Shy have wings-because their pony selves do.

[MLai]

Earth Twilight presumably might have wings for the same reason Earth Dash and Shy have wings-because their pony selves do.
No, I think EqG2 movie explained that the fact the girls get horsey ears and wings and hair-tail is due to EoH magic that was brought in by the crown. Otherwise somewhere in the world, human Sunset should be freaking out right about now because there's a set of horsey ears on her head.

I don't doubt that human Twi would get pony-powers at the end of the movie when she becomes a convert to Friendship Is Magic. But that doesn't explain why she would have that EqG3 equipment before then.

[Ravian]

Bleakmane was basically broke, and had no none-default weapons. It was not one of the smallest Jillies that got her.

Geez... Well that sounds about right for most first time run-throughs on Sunless Sea. :smalltongue:

Word to the wise, Palmerston (the place the smugglers send you for that mission) tends to be somewhere North, though once again that's fairly randomized, so the exact position is unknown. It's a great place for resupplying though, cheaper fuel than in London, and supplies are only slightly above the normal. (Ironically Supplies used to be much more expensive there relatively before they increased the cost of supplies across the board)

[Rater202]

No, I think EqG2 movie explained that the fact the girls get horsey ears and wings and hair-tail is due to EoH magic that was brought in by the crown. Otherwise somewhere in the world, human Sunset should be freaking out right about now because there's a set of horsey ears on her head.

I don't doubt that human Twi would get pony-powers at the end of the movie when she becomes a convert to Friendship Is Magic. But that doesn't explain why she would have that EqG3 equipment before then.

Becuase the Shadow Bolts Cearly have magic of their own that they can share with their Teamates to get a thingy, and you'll note that all of the Humane 7 have traits that match their pony selves traits.

So, Human Twi given pony magic would have the same traits as Human Form Pony Twi.

Logic!

[MLai]

Becuase the Shadow Bolts Cearly have magic of their own that they can share with their Teamates to get a thingy, and you'll note that all of the Humane 7 have traits that match their pony selves traits.
So, Human Twi given pony magic would have the same traits as Human Form Pony Twi.
Logic!
I wonder what is giving the Shadowbolts their magic?
In the show, they're just constructs from Nightmare Moon...
GASP!!!!!!!!!!

[SiuiS]

I don't think apple pies are (or at least should be) valued due to their rarity.


Apple Family brand apple pies baked with Sweet Apple Acres apples and delivered fresh from an Apple Family Oven on the otherhoof, is in fact unique enough to be a commodity.

Think Cinnabon versus a roll of sweet bread with glaze.

[QUOTE=otakuryoga;18820315]
well get cracking!
we want to see ponies out on the open road enjoying the feeling of multiple horses under them/QUOTE]

OTHER CHANNEL

[MLai]

well get cracking!
we want to see ponies out on the open road enjoying the feeling of multiple horses under them
OTHER CHANNEL
Wait until ponies invent motorcycles.
I wonder what the motorcycles will be made to look like.

[DigoDragon]

But if it's a magic telephone, it'd be more trouble than it's worth for pegasi and EPs.

And this is an issue unicorns have to address? :smallbiggrin:
http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2013/055/f/8/the_squad_at_ihop_by_tzelly_el-d5w5mnn.jpg


The Equestria Games has me curious. What sort of sport would require skates, archery, and wings? Notice only the winged members carry the bows. I don't know how Earth Twilight has wings...
That's no sport we know. Maybe EqG Earth is a darker place than we thought, LOL.

EQGirls 3
Maybe it'll be like Quiddich? Two teams of skaters kicking a ball into goal posts and each team has one archer to shoot down the equivalent of a golden snitch.

[Rater202]

Wait until ponies invent motorcycles.

Once more, it's on Gear's to do list.

[DigoDragon]

Once more, it's on Gear's to do list.

I'm more curious about this other channel with ponies sitting on some horses.

[Emperor Ing]

I wonder what the motorcycles will be made to look like.

If they're like anything else in Equestria, like motorcycles :smalltongue:

[Fable Wright]

I'm more curious about this other channel with ponies sitting on some horses.

I think the implication here was that the other channel was too suggestive for Ponythread not advisable discussion material.

[DigoDragon]

I think the implication here was that the other channel was too suggestive for Ponythread not advisable discussion material.

Yes. I'm just playing along with the joke. :3
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-MQqeqU6ZFto/VN9BP7VR-MI/AAAAAAAB9YQ/PHxhoR9D-Ag/s650/CommissionPancakeTime.png

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-W_sKw7tZO0s/VN8-zuAV0HI/AAAAAAACJfM/es2wRp-_8iA/s1600/6.jpg

[Rater202]

I like how Cadance has Shining Shipped with a Random Male Guard.

[DigoDragon]

I like how Cadance has Shining Shipped with a Random Male Guard.

Yes, that's the best part. XD

[SiuiS]

I'm more curious about this other channel with ponies sitting on some horses.

Ponythread IRC channel had a short lived (ish?) "after dark" variant for whenever someone went above pg13. It got to the point where it became a joke; discussion of, say, what to do on valentines day coming up, would get responses like "well, maybe we could—" "OTHER CHANNEL".


I think the implication here was that the other channel was too suggestive for Ponythread not advisable discussion material.

P much!


I like how Cadance has Shining Shipped with a Random Male Guard.

Huh. I wonder if I could use this as the basis of that pony romance novel I wanna work on.

[b_jonas]

No, I think EqG2 movie explained that the fact the girls get horsey ears and wings and hair-tail is due to EoH magic that was brought in by the crown. Otherwise somewhere in the world, human Sunset should be freaking out right about now because there's a set of horsey ears on her head.

I don't doubt that human Twi would get pony-powers at the end of the movie when she becomes a convert to Friendship Is Magic. But that doesn't explain why she would have that EqG3 equipment before then.

Oh, I remember this! When the Rainbow Rocks movie was not yet released but the toys were already in the shops, I was confused why the toys had pony ears. (http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showsinglepost.php?p=18016232&postcount=1402) Then the movie explained how they got pony ears when they played music.

So this time I'd say, wait for the movie, it will probably explain some parts of the appearance of the toys. Not all, mind you, because I still don't understand how Cheerilee got a Rainbow Power. Maybe she'll get that in Season 5 or something.

[Aotrs Commander]

His shirt is vacuum-sealed.


Manehattan's pretty advanced.
https://pmctvline2.files.wordpress.com/2013/12/mylittlepony_madmen_2.jpg

Ah, there we go, then! Well located, that pony!

Pretty much confirmed, then for early 20th century tech level; we both have the right technology, and the approximate rarity (no pun intended, for once) of said technology consistent with that time period.

Makes, sense, really. It gives Equestria the advantages of having useful technology (i.e. medical equipment, househod equipment) without having to be too industrialised or introducing any game-changing technoogy (like information age stuff that is much harder to write around, e.g. mobile phones). Naruto seems to have a similar sort of level of technology (little more advanced in that they do have computers), for similar reasons, one assumes.

[DigoDragon]

My daughter pointed out that there's a winter storm named Octavia.
I don't even.


Ponythread IRC channel had a short lived (ish?) "after dark" variant for whenever someone went above pg13. It got to the point where it became a joke; discussion of, say, what to do on valentines day coming up, would get responses like "well, maybe we could—" "OTHER CHANNEL".

Ah. Guess I should go visit more often then ;)



Huh. I wonder if I could use this as the basis of that pony romance novel I wanna work on.

Answer will always be 'yes.' :smallbiggrin:



Pretty much confirmed, then for early 20th century tech level; we both have the right technology, and the approximate rarity (no pun intended, for once) of said technology consistent with that time period.

I just hope they don't make those x-ray booths where you stuck you feet in one and it supposedly measured them for a fine shoe fit.

Edit:
Awkwarrrrrd...
http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2015/043/8/0/miss_cherilee_lunch_by_henbe-d8hq5eq.jpg (http://henbe.deviantart.com/art/Miss-Cherilee-lunch-513502946)

[zimmerwald1915]

EqG3 spoilers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM6IgemLrm8)

[DigoDragon]

EqG3 spoilers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM6IgemLrm8)

My Little Pony,
I use to wonder what income could be
My Little Pony,
Until your merch took it away from me...

Mightnight Sparkle huh? That certainly invokes antagonist ideas, and I'm okay with that. :smallbiggrin:
Motorbikes though... heh, so where are the children's card games? ;)

Huh, they're doing the Zapper code that's on the LPS merch now with pony.

Dang, that Canterlot Castle playset. D: Daughter saw it. I'm doomed.


Also, that link has a possible Season 5 Spoiler:
The antagonist pony leader of that town appears in her toy form at about the 4:33 mark. Interesting cutie mark she has.
Is that a giftwrapped box with magic dust coming out?

4:46-- Hey, Coco Pommel is a toy now! And Babs Seed! Sweet!

[HalfTangible]

I vote Starswirl the Bearded gain the title 'The wizard who did it'.

All in favor?

...

Also, if Starswirl didn't understand friendship at the end of Magical Mystery Cure, how did he befriend Scorpan? ... They just had to shoot my entire 'Starswirl was an a-hole' headcanon in the foot there, didn't they...

[Gamerlord]

I vote Starswirl the Bearded gain the title 'The wizard who did it'.

All in favor?

...

Also, if Starswirl didn't understand friendship at the end of Magical Mystery Cure, how did he befriend Scorpan? ... They just had to shoot my entire 'Starswirl was an a-hole' headcanon in the foot there, didn't they...
Time travel. :smalltongue: More seriously, could have just been at different phases in his life.

[Aotrs Commander]

Bloeakbane Watches (for the only time this week...!)

4:
Yeah, this is definitely better. Evil Uncle is at least been SHOWING some level of cleverness (rather than just magically having Things Happen) and he isn't magically Better Than Everyone At Everything. Korra and co were able to smack him around a bit; which means his eventual defeat won't be so obviously deus ex machina. Also, what I like about this series is - for ONCE - when the protagonist goes and does something rash, it DOESN'T always unilaterally end up being bad. (Actually, Korra seems to have GREAT instincts - she seems to be pretty much all-for-all when sniffing out the bad guys.) Having Korra's mother released and having her father sentenced to detah and commuted to live imprisonment was actually pretty shrewd. Not shrewd ENOUGH... He should chosen someone who was too stupid to cave in like a sensible person when the Avatar came after them in all her wrath.

Bolin's girlfriend has passed from "ahaha, it's funny watching Bolin suffer" to towards - but only barely not QUITE at - "okay, that's sexual harrassment now and it's not funny anymore."

THERE'S Asami! 'Bout time...

5:
My bet is on the President of the Republic being in cahoots with Evil Uncle. Or he's so unfathomably stupid (or obsessed with keeping his own power) that he doesn't appear to realise what happens when one of the, what, FIVE nations in the world is starting off on a course that could bring them RIGHT back to the Hundred Year War, only replacing the Fire Nation with the Water Tribes under Evil Uncle's control. (Or worse.) Sadly, an absolutely steriotypically protrayed politician. 3/10, writers must try harder. Sing a different tune, guys, this one's long passed it's worth, decades ago.

Bolin's ex-girlfriend has officially reached "not even slightly funny" now. Someone needs to stab her in the skull with her own sense of entitlement. (Was this a subtle jab at the whole concept, because double standards? Because if their genders were reversed, it would have been much less likely to be funny at the start. Maybe it was just accidental, maybe deliberate, but it's thought-provoking in any case...)

And, there we go: Mako and Korra screw up, since they're on opposite sides. I'm not sure I can really fault Mako, though, given the position he was in: he's got a duty to uphold, like it or not. (Bolin is at fault there, since he should have kept his mouth shut. But sadly, Bolin's not smart like Sokka was; certainly not smart enough to be circumspect.)

I do like the side-plots with Tenzen. It might have nothing to do at all with the main plot, but damn if it isn't worth it anyway.

6:
Ohoho. The plot thickens - and progresses without Korra... and hey, it means Mako gets some time to be a character of his own and not just Avatar's Love Interest. Good for him. Funnily enough, he's much more interesting to watch whne he's not doing that,

Huh. I honestly did not see Verik's manouvering and betrayal coming. I mean, he had shown enough of the clearly savvy mind beneath the affable, apparently slightly-crazy exterior (which makes him an interesting character in its own right), but I did not see that coming at all. In hindsight, it all makes sense, though - there were enough clues. *tips helmet* Well played, show, well played. I concede this round to you...

What is WITH Beifong? She varies being an interesting character, to a steriorypical Generic Idiot Movie Police Captain with the intelligence of a gerbil. Maybe they should have replaced her (only it would appear that her subordinates are just as frackwitted... And HIGHLY unprofessional.)

And to cap it all... Korra has now lost her memories. Well, that's a second plot twist to end on (though actually, I think the thing with Verik was better...)

Bolin went from "yes, this is a funny homage to the blac-and-white movie serials" to "being as creepy as his ex-girlfriend and not getting a clue" to outright "being an asshat" in the space of one episode. I'd be impressed if it wasn't a bit pathetic.

Again, there's definitely a few cracks in Korra that weren't so apparent in Avatar - though by no means as bad as Amoron last season. The writers have got some good, well-rounded or at least intriguing characters... and then just seem to get lazy in some places.

[HalfTangible]

Time travel. :smalltongue: More seriously, could have just been at different phases in his life.

I've read a fanfic where Starswirl discovers time travel...

By getting pulled to the future and meeting Twilight.

[Rater202]

Also, if Starswirl didn't understand friendship at the end of Magical Mystery Cure, how did he befriend Scorpan? ... They just had to shoot my entire 'Starswirl was an a-hole' headcanon in the foot there, didn't they...

One can have friends but not understand friendship.

Also, Celestia said that Starswirl did not understand Friendship as Twilight did. Not the same as Not Understanding Friendship.

[DigoDragon]

Also, if Starswirl didn't understand friendship at the end of Magical Mystery Cure, how did he befriend Scorpan?

One can have friends but not understand friendship.

Yeah, what Rater said. :)
He had friends, he just couldn't weaponize friendship.



They just had to shoot my entire 'Starswirl was an a-hole' headcanon in the foot there, didn't they...

Even a-holes can have friends. When you're surrounded by dimwitted pastel ponies, he probably really connected with the winged monkey.

[Rater202]

Even a-holes can have friends.

In my Experiences, A-holes tend to have more friends than everyone else. But all of those friends were also A-holes.

Or maybe the A-holes just congregated together because they knew they'd be killed and devoured by the productive people if they didn't have strength in numbers.

[zimmerwald1915]

One can have friends but not understand friendship.
Indeed. Have some evidence:

Exhibit A: Discord

Exhibit B: Gilda

Exhibit C (non-MLP): Tarquin


I vote Starswirl the Bearded gain the title 'The wizard who did it'.
I skimmed this page before reading it, and thought for sure this quip, coupled with the downthread discussion of "a-holes," were the lead-in to an 8-bit Theater tangent. I was mistaken :smallfrown:

[DigoDragon]

Must be hard to snuggle when you have a bone dagger duct-taped to your forehead all the time.
http://th01.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/f/2015/046/f/9/uni_cuddle_by_captainpudgemuffin-d8i6soq.png (http://captainpudgemuffin.deviantart.com/art/Uni-Cuddle-514279610)


Or maybe the A-holes just congregated together because they knew they'd be killed and devoured by the productive people if they didn't have strength in numbers.

Well, like-minded folks do tend to congregate together. I imagine a bunch of grown up that liked My Little Pony would probably end up hanging out together talking about vaguely show-related stuff. :smallbiggrin:

[Rater202]

Must be hard to snuggle when you have a bone dagger duct-taped to your forehead all the time.
http://th01.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/f/2015/046/f/9/uni_cuddle_by_captainpudgemuffin-d8i6soq.png (http://captainpudgemuffin.deviantart.com/art/Uni-Cuddle-514279610)

We need to find a way to work a cuddle puddle into SoLiM

[DigoDragon]

We need to find a way to work a cuddle puddle into SoLiM

What, that e-rock dust trap and pony-eating Serta mattress weren't enough? :smallredface:

[HalfTangible]

One can have friends but not understand friendship.

Also, Celestia said that Starswirl did not understand Friendship as Twilight did. Not the same as Not Understanding Friendship.

I guess. But I still find the 'he was a complete *******' interpretation of Celestia's line to be hilarious.

[MLai]

EqG3 spoilers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM6IgemLrm8)
Archery, roller derby, motorcross......
What the fudge, Hasbro? You gonna sell EqG Airsoft next?


The antagonist pony leader of that town appears in her toy form at about the 4:33 mark. Interesting cutie mark she has.
Where? Where? I don't see it.


Canterlot Castle
Huh, I just learned that bathrooms are called powder rooms. Is that a British thing?


Cutie Mark Magic Friendship
Aaaaand AJ still doesn't get a hat. Seriously?
Everypony should get a hat. It's a chargeable accessory. That means $$$$$, Hasbro.
Sunset gets a luchadore mask, RD gets golden laurels, and AJ still can't have her hat. It's a conspiracy. sadAJ.jpg


Sweet Apple Acres
Lordy, so much merch...
I wonder if Granny has her rocking chair. At least AJ has a hat there.


Playskool Friends
Hey... they look just like Trixie's hoof puppets...


Bloeakbane Watches (for the only time this week...!)
I like how your opinion is the exact opposite of mine and many other viewers in this forum. It's refreshing to read the opinion of someone who wasn't contaminated by the forum's general Korra discussions.


Even a-holes can have friends. When you're surrounded by dimwitted pastel ponies, he probably really connected with the winged monkey.
There's a joke in there somewhere....

[Rater202]

What, that e-rock dust trap and pony-eating Serta mattress weren't enough? :smallredface:
Neither of those contained the entire Party.

I was thinking like a sleepover with pillows and blankets and ponies in a pile cuddling.

Like, Gear and Monkey are cuddling, but thir on the floor so Gear has a hoof out and if holding hooves with Sabina, and she's usiong Tenn as a pillow, and they're next to Subtle, and next to Subtle are Spark and Adepha cuddling, and then they're all surrounded by all of Tenn's friends but Zircon becuase he's not nice so he wasn't invited to the sleepover.https://img0.derpicdn.net/img/view/2015/1/19/810166__safe_twilight+sparkle_rainbow+dash_pinkie+ pie_fluttershy_rarity_applejack_spike_cute_mane+si x.png

[Emperor Ing]

Like, Gear and Monkey are cuddling, but thir on the floor so Gear has a hoof out and if holding hooves with Sabina, and she's usiong Tenn as a pillow, and they're next to Subtle, and next to Subtle are Spark and Adepha cuddling, and then they're all surrounded by all of Tenn's friends but Zircon becuase he's not nice so he wasn't invited to the sleepover.

I thought about drawing that, but then I remembered that I would have to draw Gear again.

Hahahahah no

[One Tin Soldier]

Huh, I just learned that bathrooms are called powder rooms. Is that a British thing?

No, it's not a British thing, I've heard of them here in the US as well. I think that a powder room is specifically a small bathroom without any sort of tub or shower. It's also usually best positioned for houseguests to use, so that people may use it to "powder their noses."

[Rater202]

I thought about drawing that, but then I remembered that I would have to draw Gear again.

Hahahahah no

You're no fun.:smalltongue: Besides, he has one less leg to draw this time.

For those who have no Idea what I'm talking about, here is the first and Only Time Ing drew Gear.http://s2.postimg.org/ca5klo23d/nymphs.png

[Topaz]

Archery, roller derby, motorcross......
What the fudge, Hasbro? You gonna sell EqG Airsoft next?

Well, Hasbro does market Nerf Rebelle (http://nerfrebelle.hasbro.com/) to the Hunger Games set, so it's a logical progression (and is that an EqG Twilight I see on that web page?).

[Dexam]

Well, Hasbro does market Nerf Rebelle (http://nerfrebelle.hasbro.com/) to the Hunger Games set, so it's a logical progression (and is that an EqG Twilight I see on that web page?).

I was thinking exactly the same thing. MLP EqG-brand Nerf Rebelle, coming to raid Digo's wallet soon!

[MLai]

I was thinking exactly the same thing. MLP EqG-brand Nerf Rebelle, coming to raid Digo's wallet soon!
Not Digo's daughter! Kid'll shoot her eye out! :smalltongue:

[Balmas]

Not Digo's daughter! Kid'll shoot her eye out! :smalltongue:

http://41.media.tumblr.com/e58619adae8bcfd3438ed463d13c1a61/tumblr_ngokdzAzSV1s5gxnlo3_r1_1280.jpg

[DigoDragon]

What the fudge, Hasbro? You gonna sell EqG Airsoft next?

I really hope so! Have you seen some of the fan-based Nerf mods? :3
http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2012/036/b/6/mlp_nerf_blasters_set_1_by_waldo_xp-d4os26u.png



Where? Where? I don't see it.

The right-most pony. Wait like one second and she comes into view (4:34 mark).
That looks like her, doesn't it? :)



I wonder if Granny has her rocking chair. At least AJ has a hat there.

The merch is gonna be crazy! And yeah, AJ demands to have a hat. I mean, really, it's Win-Win.
Daughter keeps getting annoyed that I constantly steal her build-a-Bear AJ's hat for Trixie. XD



There's a joke in there somewhere....

^^;



Neither of those contained the entire Party.

I can't help it if Sabina can't seem to fall for a cuddle pile trap! :smalltongue:



I thought about drawing that, but then I remembered that I would have to draw Gear again.
Hahahahah no

*Snerk* You need a texture template thing. And to draw Sabina, because you haven't done that yet. ;)



No, it's not a British thing, I've heard of them here in the US as well. I think that a powder room is specifically a small bathroom without any sort of tub or shower.

Down here they just call it the "Half Bath". Which is pretty amusing considering the bathtub is the one part missing from it. >.>
But I can beat that! I once lived in an apartment that was listed as "One and a Half Bath", but the reality was that the main bathoom had a door separating the sink from the toilet and tub, while the 'half' bath had ONLY a sink. And you couldn't close the door to the half bath if you were inside it (there's no room to swing the door behind you as it opened inward).

I used the half part as storage.



Well, Hasbro does market Nerf Rebelle (http://nerfrebelle.hasbro.com/) to the Hunger Games set, so it's a logical progression (and is that an EqG Twilight I see on that web page?).

It isn't Twilight, but that would be a pretty cool tie-in when EQG3 comes out! :D



I was thinking exactly the same thing. MLP EqG-brand Nerf Rebelle, coming to raid Digo's wallet soon!

I do like some of the color schemes of the Rebelle line. Got some pretty purples.



Not Digo's daughter! Kid'll shoot her eye out! :smalltongue:

http://41.media.tumblr.com/e58619adae8bcfd3438ed463d13c1a61/tumblr_ngokdzAzSV1s5gxnlo3_r1_1280.jpg

Ha ha ha ha! I totally imagine that's Bleakbane there.

[Aotrs Commander]

Ha ha ha ha! I totally imagine that's Bleakbane there.

Well, actually...

If we take it as being a gaffa-tape LRP sword... Then, yes, that did pretty much happen with my youngest sister (circa age four or five)...

[Tiki Snakes]

No, it's not a British thing, I've heard of them here in the US as well. I think that a powder room is specifically a small bathroom without any sort of tub or shower. It's also usually best positioned for houseguests to use, so that people may use it to "powder their noses."

I think what it is, is a really old fashioned thing. This, more than anything. Hell, I have a vivid memory of it being the punchline of a Bugs Bunny vs Yosemite Sam cartoon from way, way back when.
Or, to put it another way; I don't think it's an anyone thing anymore.

[MLai]

Or, to put it another way; I don't think it's an anyone thing anymore.
Welp, it's a MLP thing now. :smallwink:

Edit: Equestria tech and culture being about 1920s(?) is now my official headcanon.

[DigoDragon]

Welp, it's a MLP thing now. :smallwink:

Well, since their timeline seems decades behind ours, it actually makes sense that they'd still use it. :3

[Rater202]

Ha ha ha ha! I totally imagine that's Bleakbane there.

...You don't read Pratchett, do you?

[Madcrafter]

The spoilers continue!
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tGdKLv7-9cE/VOInLT6EioI/AAAAAAABNdI/yOaKT3uYfoU/s1600/830234__safe_concept%2Bart_spoiler-colon-s05.jpeghttp://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XUqX89QgQb4/VOInM7IPiZI/AAAAAAABNdQ/GE4Oz_DZPoM/s1600/830235__safe_rainbow%2Bdash_background_concept%2Ba rt_spoiler-colon-s05.jpeghttp://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IflEW1Vd548/VOInVurg2aI/AAAAAAABNdg/8W-AcvyvyTw/s1600/830237__safe_snow_background_concept%2Bart_mountai n_spoiler-colon-s05_mountains.jpeghttp://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9IsgWiwEGUU/VOInTVVtXFI/AAAAAAABNdY/ZMSRLU4cYPA/s1600/830236__safe_concept%2Bart_spoiler-colon-s05.jpeghttp://2.bp.blogspot.com/-azFrWQ7v2p0/VOInXtRTpEI/AAAAAAABNdo/qQbCEENh7ew/s1600/830240__safe_background_concept%2Bart_spoiler-colon-s05_wagon.jpeghttp://1.bp.blogspot.com/-moFOfYJLSoY/VOInhrTfq_I/AAAAAAABNd4/XzZ5FT4L148/s1600/830239__safe_concept%2Bart_spoiler-colon-s05.jpeghttp://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pR8c8A7Mb4U/VOIna_49nQI/AAAAAAABNdw/6JPP94fXgfk/s1600/large.jpegThese are from the director's panel at Ponycon apparently.

[b_jonas]

The spoilers continue!
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tGdKLv7-9cE/VOInLT6EioI/AAAAAAABNdI/yOaKT3uYfoU/s1600/830234__safe_concept%2Bart_spoiler-colon-s05.jpeg
These are from the director's panel at Ponycon apparently.


That first photo of the concept art is truncated on the left. What are they hiding?

http://i.stack.imgur.com/a2Tay.jpg#alicorn_Rainbow_Dash

[Gamerlord]

The spoilers continue!
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tGdKLv7-9cE/VOInLT6EioI/AAAAAAABNdI/yOaKT3uYfoU/s1600/830234__safe_concept%2Bart_spoiler-colon-s05.jpeghttp://3.bp.blogspot.com/-XUqX89QgQb4/VOInM7IPiZI/AAAAAAABNdQ/GE4Oz_DZPoM/s1600/830235__safe_rainbow%2Bdash_background_concept%2Ba rt_spoiler-colon-s05.jpeghttp://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IflEW1Vd548/VOInVurg2aI/AAAAAAABNdg/8W-AcvyvyTw/s1600/830237__safe_snow_background_concept%2Bart_mountai n_spoiler-colon-s05_mountains.jpeghttp://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9IsgWiwEGUU/VOInTVVtXFI/AAAAAAABNdY/ZMSRLU4cYPA/s1600/830236__safe_concept%2Bart_spoiler-colon-s05.jpeghttp://2.bp.blogspot.com/-azFrWQ7v2p0/VOInXtRTpEI/AAAAAAABNdo/qQbCEENh7ew/s1600/830240__safe_background_concept%2Bart_spoiler-colon-s05_wagon.jpeghttp://1.bp.blogspot.com/-moFOfYJLSoY/VOInhrTfq_I/AAAAAAABNd4/XzZ5FT4L148/s1600/830239__safe_concept%2Bart_spoiler-colon-s05.jpeghttp://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pR8c8A7Mb4U/VOIna_49nQI/AAAAAAABNdw/6JPP94fXgfk/s1600/large.jpegThese are from the director's panel at Ponycon apparently.

] Looks like some kind of convention episode, possibly an environmental episode with Rainbow Dash?

[DigoDragon]

...You don't read Pratchett, do you?

No, I thought that was already established seven threads ago. :smallsmile:



The spoilers continue!

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!
I really dig that they're going more off model with pony designs. The lessening feel of cookie cutter characters feels real nice to my artistic eyes. And wow but that's a lot of interesting characters. I recognize one of the critters as from the scary cave in a previous episode. XD

[Beacon of Chaos]

Ooooh, steampunk pony! And loadsa weird monsters!

Also, at first glance that yellow unicorn on the top left looks kinda like a bearded lady pony.

[Madcrafter]

] Looks like some kind of convention episode, possibly an environmental episode with Rainbow Dash?

I'm pretty sure all the rainbow dash's are just their basic model, that they use for comparisons and scale.

And yeah, some of those monsters are from the Apple Pie episode cave, but everything else I think is new.

[SiuiS]

The spoilers continue!
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-azFrWQ7v2p0/VOInXtRTpEI/AAAAAAABNdo/qQbCEENh7ew/s1600/830240__safe_background_concept%2Bart_spoiler-colon-s05_wagon.jpeg[quote]

Ooh, that's the kinda house I wanna live in :3

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And... This looks sort like how I was designing myself as a pony, my own actual self?

*checks house for cameras*


http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pR8c8A7Mb4U/VOIna_49nQI/AAAAAAABNdw/6JPP94fXgfk/s1600/large.jpegThese are from the director's panel at Ponycon apparently.

Hahahahahaha! For reasons.

[Emperor Ing]

Steampunk is now canon.

Hive Elysia confirmed! :smallbiggrin:

[DigoDragon]

Steampunk is now canon.
Hive Elysia confirmed! :smallbiggrin:

No offense, but I think that dude is more steampunk than Elysia. :smallbiggrin:

[otakuryoga]

woowoo
8 inches of snow so far and its still coming down quickly

[Emperor Ing]

No offense, but I think that dude is more steampunk than Elysia. :smallbiggrin:

Elysia is post-post-Steampunk :smalltongue:

[Aotrs Commander]

*sigh*

There are times...

So, a couple of weeks ago (week before I was out because of the panto), we had a couple show up (they'd been directed to us by someone, I think - thanks a fracking bunch, whoever that was); never played tabletop before (only CRPG). I'm not DMing, so I didn't really get a say (and you'd feel a bit guilty putting them off), and everyone else was "like sure, yeah!" especially since we had some players off and characters going spare. And they basically want to permently join in and said they'd quite like to have their now characters at some point.

"What's the problem, Bleakbane you miserable old toerag?" I hear you cry.

The problem is - we already have nine players (not including DM). And it is established that nine characters is about the absolute limit (actually about a character beyond it, in my opinion) you can sensibly play with. Now, at the moment, as we're playing 4E and the DM is able to adjust encounters per number of characters fairly easily (since that is one of the few advatnages of 4E outof-the-book) and we've re-invented the bioware party system whereby after a combat is over, anyone who's player isn't now there goes back to the camp. And we do have people only showing up more irregularly (there's a core of about five of us that show up every week, one nearly every week and the others as work shifts allow.)

Problem is, when we get back to Rise of the Runelords - you just can't do that. 3.X (especially 3.Aotrs) requires a LOT of preperation work. Moreover - as a DM, I'm just not prepared to do that; nor am I even going to ATTEMPT running with eleven character and players, not even with 25 year's experience and on my best day.

"Why don't you split the group up, then," I hear you ask. "Simple, tinhead!"

First - its mithril, not tin. And second, the problem with that is - at the moment we have exactly two DMs. For what would be twelve people. Me, and the chap running 4E currently. And I don't think either of us - especially me - fancy becoming permenant DM and doing it all the time, every week for the forseeable future. (Indeed, I can't, I generally need a run up of someone else's game to be able to set up my next one.)

(Not to mention it means doing that we're inevitably have to split up the core group of veterans that have been playing together for said 25 years.)

So, it means that:

a) People are going to have start sharing characters - which is fine if they don't show up on the same day, but when the inevitable happens and everyone shows up at once... (We've already had two players sharing a character for RotRL, so we had eight instead of nine characters, but one said players said he'd really like his own at some point.)

b) Someone else (or rather two someone elses) are gong to have to set up and regular DMs if the group is split up. (And not just the "I'll run a short Marvel Adventures thing at some point"). And that causes its own problems, since again, it early has to fall the regular players...

c) We have to turn people away.

None of the above is very satisfactory solution.



And I am the only one who is concerned about any of this, apparently.



I deliberatley left well alone last week, because of the panto1; it was entirely possible the two new ones would not show back up again; we've had that before, so you never know. (But they did, and they sem quite keen.) But I foolishly thought that, when/if they did, y'know, someone other than me might have broached the issue last week or this week. But of freaking course not. I don't think any of them think about it after they leave the door.

So it's going to be left to bloody me again, isn't it? Likely, to not only kickstart the debate - which I shall have to do tomorrow - but to decide the solution as well, like as not, in the end.



Even hilariously exploding Undead with Solar Wrath + Turn Undead was only a fleeting glory. So you lot get to have me vent...



1I had - VERY unusually, at least two as-close-to-as-I-get-to anxiety dreams during meditation about it. (Though I suspect that to be from a combination of this, panto, convention weekend after next I still have to finish preparing for, organising the next day RPG for Easter (and trying to get answers out of them is like getting blood out of a stone these days), WRITING the next day RPG for Easter all at once hasn't helped, so it's likely that was just the proxy for the combination of the other stresses because it's the one I have least control over.)

[DigoDragon]

Elysia is post-post-Steampunk :smalltongue:

I'll buy that. :D



c) We have to turn people away.

I'm a bit saddened about that. I've been trying to get a new group together since my last one disbanded themselves and haven't had success in about 12-13 months. But I feel for ya on the part where you seem to be the only one who's noticing the issue of too many players and may have to do something. May have to split the group the other way and with two DMs you run one game and someone runs another game, essentially resulting in two different game groups.

[Madcrafter]

Second option, I once drew a mushroom pony. Like, a whole stupid bunch of time ago. I still kind of like the idea.
http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2012/341/c/d/my_little_mushroom_by_mister_cope-d5nbf0r.png
You could draw a totally nonspecific mushroom pony for me? Exact style, colourscheme, mushroomyness etc entirely up to you. It's kind of a really open idea-prompt as much as anything. I seem to recall we hashed together some random information on what a mushroom pony race might be like, but heaven knows if I could find it now and that doesn't matter anyway.I remember this. Though I don't actually remember any particulars, but I guess if you don't either then I can just do whatever. So, mushroom ponies!https://dl.dropbox.com/s/11xcj1q528imkwr/Day%20550%20551%20552%20553%20554%20555%20Mushroom %20Pone.png?dl=0

[Tiki Snakes]

Mushroom sized mushroom ponies, huh? That works.
You know what? I think you hit this one clear out of the park.

Five stars.

[Aotrs Commander]

I'm a bit saddened about that. I've been trying to get a new group together since my last one disbanded themselves and haven't had success in about 12-13 months. But I feel for ya on the part where you seem to be the only one who's noticing the issue of too many players and may have to do something. May have to split the group the other way and with two DMs you run one game and someone runs another game, essentially resulting in two different game groups.

Except that neither of us two regular DMs can (or are prepared to) run continuously with no breaks. (Not fond of having to not play with the chaps i've been playing with for 25 years either, come to that...) We can't split the group in two and double the work load on the two current DMs, that's just not fair to either of us. If the group is going to be split ike that, other people are going to have start doing regular DMing too.

[Excession]

The problem is - we already have nine players (not including DM). And it is established that nine characters is about the absolute limit (actually about a character beyond it, in my opinion) you can sensibly play with. Now, at the moment, as we're playing 4E...

Nine players in 4e?! Now, I like the system, but your combats must take forever. Not to mention that if the monsters in a balanced encounter play smart they have more than enough fire-power to kill a character in a round by focusing fire. I recommend multiple MM3-math Elite Artillery monsters to prove this. They don't need to move into melee range, may out-range the controllers, and their damage output is superb.

I recommend the following solution.

Everyone rolls a d20. Lower half are in a new group. Lowest is the new DM :smallsmile:. Seriously though, DMing isn't that hard, and someone else in that group needs to do it for a change.

[Aotrs Commander]

Nine players in 4e?! Now, I like the system, but your combats must take forever. Not to mention that if the monsters in a balanced encounter play smart they have more than enough fire-power to kill a character in a round by focusing fire. I recommend multiple MM3-math Elite Artillery monsters to prove this. They don't need to move into melee range, may out-range the controllers, and their damage output is superb.

We do have SEVERAL healers (like, half the characters), and are EXTREMELY good at teamwork. Enough that the DM has had to find out the fan-post MM3 upgrade for the module AND come to a gentleman's agreement for us to attempt at least four combats before we rest to stop use steamrollering through every encounter... (And we get through a combat in about a session, give or take, which is about two hours...)

And if you think that's bad, remember that at once point, we were playing with eight characters at level 16-17...in 3.X.

[DigoDragon]

I remember this. Though I don't actually remember any particulars, but I guess if you don't either then I can just do whatever. So, mushroom ponies!https://dl.dropbox.com/s/11xcj1q528imkwr/Day%20550%20551%20552%20553%20554%20555%20Mushroom %20Pone.png?dl=0

Mushroom mushroom... (you know the meme)

That's a really good piece! They have that creepy fey quality I see from films like Pan's Labyrinth. I approve!



If the group is going to be split ike that, other people are going to have start doing regular DMing too.

Fair enough. Then it seems that you'll have to make the call for them to stand up and start running some more sessions and adventures. Hopefully they're not all too timid to heed that call...



And if you think that's bad, remember that at once point, we were playing with eight characters at level 16-17...in 3.X.

Dang. o.o
My worst was 11 players in AD&D 2e. Lasted 2.5 sessions.

[Madcrafter]

Mushroom mushroom... (you know the meme)

That's a really good piece! They have that creepy fey quality I see from films like Pan's Labyrinth. I approve!That is kind of what I was going for. It didn't make the cut, but I was thinking of putting them in a more Alice in Wonderland style garden too, instead of forest.


EDIT: Arghleblarg, my computer just restarted for updates with absolutely no warning... and I was in the middle of an installation too. Funnily enough the installer started right back up where it left off when I finally got back in.


Mushroom sized mushroom ponies, huh? That works.
You know what? I think you hit this one clear out of the park.

Five stars.

Hmm, well thanks.

[Trixie]

The spoilers continue!
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tGdKLv7-9cE/VOInLT6EioI/AAAAAAABNdI/yOaKT3uYfoU/s1600/830234__safe_concept%2Bart_spoiler-colon-s05.jpeg
Aren't these just OCs of the staff? :smallconfused:


http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9IsgWiwEGUU/VOInTVVtXFI/AAAAAAABNdY/ZMSRLU4cYPA/s1600/830236__safe_concept%2Bart_spoiler-colon-s05.jpeg
That's not new, these are from S4 Trade Ya! episode.


http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pR8c8A7Mb4U/VOIna_49nQI/AAAAAAABNdw/6JPP94fXgfk/s1600/large.jpeg
Chemical warfare (with Ipmareite) and malnourishment now canon? http://i.imgur.com/N2nfK.png

But then again, these stupid MLP comics already made Holocaust jokes, sooo...


That first photo of the concept art is truncated on the left. What are they hiding?
Maybe 'aspect ratio'? :P

No, seriously, he just choose to catch new stuff on frame. If you look, intact RD is in last photo, normal.


I really dig that they're going more off model with pony designs. The lessening feel of cookie cutter characters feels real nice to my artistic eyes.
Huh? :smallconfused:

Who? IMHO these are all cookie cutter old designs, from first season, even...

[DigoDragon]

Huh? :smallconfused:

Who? IMHO these are all cookie cutter old designs, from first season, even...

S5 Discussion
It's subtle, but some of the designs have varying leg lengths and body shapes.

[Forum Explorer]

*sigh*

There are times...

So, a couple of weeks ago (week before I was out because of the panto), we had a couple show up (they'd been directed to us by someone, I think - thanks a fracking bunch, whoever that was); never played tabletop before (only CRPG). I'm not DMing, so I didn't really get a say (and you'd feel a bit guilty putting them off), and everyone else was "like sure, yeah!" especially since we had some players off and characters going spare. And they basically want to permently join in and said they'd quite like to have their now characters at some point.

"What's the problem, Bleakbane you miserable old toerag?" I hear you cry.

The problem is - we already have nine players (not including DM). And it is established that nine characters is about the absolute limit (actually about a character beyond it, in my opinion) you can sensibly play with. Now, at the moment, as we're playing 4E and the DM is able to adjust encounters per number of characters fairly easily (since that is one of the few advatnages of 4E outof-the-book) and we've re-invented the bioware party system whereby after a combat is over, anyone who's player isn't now there goes back to the camp. And we do have people only showing up more irregularly (there's a core of about five of us that show up every week, one nearly every week and the others as work shifts allow.)

Problem is, when we get back to Rise of the Runelords - you just can't do that. 3.X (especially 3.Aotrs) requires a LOT of preperation work. Moreover - as a DM, I'm just not prepared to do that; nor am I even going to ATTEMPT running with eleven character and players, not even with 25 year's experience and on my best day.

"Why don't you split the group up, then," I hear you ask. "Simple, tinhead!"

First - its mithril, not tin. And second, the problem with that is - at the moment we have exactly two DMs. For what would be twelve people. Me, and the chap running 4E currently. And I don't think either of us - especially me - fancy becoming permenant DM and doing it all the time, every week for the forseeable future. (Indeed, I can't, I generally need a run up of someone else's game to be able to set up my next one.)

(Not to mention it means doing that we're inevitably have to split up the core group of veterans that have been playing together for said 25 years.)

So, it means that:

a) People are going to have start sharing characters - which is fine if they don't show up on the same day, but when the inevitable happens and everyone shows up at once... (We've already had two players sharing a character for RotRL, so we had eight instead of nine characters, but one said players said he'd really like his own at some point.)

b) Someone else (or rather two someone elses) are gong to have to set up and regular DMs if the group is split up. (And not just the "I'll run a short Marvel Adventures thing at some point"). And that causes its own problems, since again, it early has to fall the regular players...

c) We have to turn people away.

None of the above is very satisfactory solution.



And I am the only one who is concerned about any of this, apparently.



I deliberatley left well alone last week, because of the panto1; it was entirely possible the two new ones would not show back up again; we've had that before, so you never know. (But they did, and they sem quite keen.) But I foolishly thought that, when/if they did, y'know, someone other than me might have broached the issue last week or this week. But of freaking course not. I don't think any of them think about it after they leave the door.

So it's going to be left to bloody me again, isn't it? Likely, to not only kickstart the debate - which I shall have to do tomorrow - but to decide the solution as well, like as not, in the end.



Even hilariously exploding Undead with Solar Wrath + Turn Undead was only a fleeting glory. So you lot get to have me vent...



1I had - VERY unusually, at least two as-close-to-as-I-get-to anxiety dreams during meditation about it. (Though I suspect that to be from a combination of this, panto, convention weekend after next I still have to finish preparing for, organising the next day RPG for Easter (and trying to get answers out of them is like getting blood out of a stone these days), WRITING the next day RPG for Easter all at once hasn't helped, so it's likely that was just the proxy for the combination of the other stresses because it's the one I have least control over.)

Ouch. Also I'm kinda envious. I've never had a group so willing to play, and never more then 5 people.

Anyways would this work?

You get a new DM, but you both play in the same universe. That way characters can meet up and swap between adventures (say you've got a guild or something. At 11 characters, that's mostly true). You'd need to coordinate with the other DM a little (so it stays the same universe), but it may also help ease the burden on both DMs, by allowing you both to lean on each other when it comes to worldbuilding and using each other's characters and the like.

[DigoDragon]

Gravity Falls Intro Ponified (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9lmeWA_wvQ).

Goggles + Pony =
http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2015/046/0/b/ready_for_takeoff__by_hungrysohma16-d8i32ye.png (http://hungrysohma16.deviantart.com/art/Ready-for-Takeoff-514106294)

A Wee Bit Too Honest?
http://th03.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2015/047/1/e/honest_aj____by_burning_heart_brony-d8i7vpe.jpg (http://burning-heart-brony.deviantart.com/art/Honest-AJ-514330178)

Serve the public trust
Protect the innocent
Uphold the law
https://36.media.tumblr.com/0b90695566813276b795a71267910062/tumblr_njw2clogDQ1rjm6boo1_540.jpg

[Trixie]

S5 Discussion
It's subtle, but some of the designs have varying leg lengths and body shapes.

Are you sure about that? :smallconfused:

I looked again, hard, and all I see is differences made by the fact photo was captured at angle and possibly optical illusion caused by different mane styles. Of course, it's impossible to say with any certainty without HD source leaking, but I'd bet its at best just perspective.

Speaking of S5, list of writers given on panel:

Writers:
Meghan McCarthy
M.A. Larson
G.M. Berrow (new, writes a Pinkie Pie episode, writer of some of the licensed novels)
Amy Keating Rogers
Cindy Morrow
Dave Polsky
Josh Haber
Natasha Levinger
Scott Sonneborn
Noelle Benvenuti
Neal Dusedau (new, previously worked on Johnny Test and Fish Hooks)
Nick Confalone (new, writing Pinkie Pie Family episode, previously worked on Johnny Test and Fish Hooks)
Joanna Lewis (new, previously worked on TUFF Puppy)
Kristine Songco (new, previously worked on Mighty B, Fanboy and Chum Chum, and TUFF Puppy)

Hmm, Cadance backstory now 100% show canon? :smallconfused:

[zimmerwald1915]

Are you sure about that? :smallconfused:

I looked again, hard, and all I see is differences made by the fact photo was captured at angle and possibly optical illusion caused by different mane styles. Of course, it's impossible to say with any certainty without HD source leaking, but I'd bet its at best just perspective.
The earth pony stallion with the bushy mane and tail, third from the left on the top row, has a shorter muzzle and thicker neck than either the stallion directly to the right of him, or the blue stallion, second from the left on the bottom row. The unicorn mare with the purple hat, fifth from the left on the top row, uses a model proportioned much like Fleur's, Luna's, and Cadance's, but shrunk down to typical pony height. The orange earth pony stallion in the baseball cap and the blue pegasus stallion with the cloud-like mane, third and fifth from the left respectively, reuse Trenderhoof's and Cheese Sandwich's long-legged models (which are different from one another; Trenderhoof's barrel is both squarer and bulkier). Orange uses Trenderhoof's model and Blue uses Cheese's.

Of these the only one I think is actually new is Mister Third from the Left on the Top Row, and that's the one against which your "illusion" objection actually carries the most weight, but if I'm right, that's four ponies who don't use the Season One body models.


Hmm, Cadance backstory now 100% show canon? :smallconfused:
Not necessarily. A writer can be employed and either choose not to bring or be forbidden from bringing certain of their ideas on board.

Not that I wouldn't welcome putting the Cadance backstory discussion to rest.

EDIT: me and tags, old story, yadda yadda

[Excession]

We do have SEVERAL healers (like, half the characters), and are EXTREMELY good at teamwork. Enough that the DM has had to find out the fan-post MM3 upgrade for the module AND come to a gentleman's agreement for us to attempt at least four combats before we rest to stop use steamrollering through every encounter... (And we get through a combat in about a session, give or take, which is about two hours...)

Below is the sort of Elite Artillery I was talking about. With nine players, you could use 4 or 5 of these. 3 with some infantry (soldier) or close air (skirmisher) support might be more reasonable. I do tend to over-estimate enemies though.


http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs25/i/2010/191/b/9/Spider_Tank_by_SabrinaDBlood.jpg

Mobile Heavy Gun, Level 13 Elite Artillery
Large construct, XP 1600
HP 196; AC 27; Fortitude 26; Reflex 24; Will 23
Speed 8

Traits
Stealth Field: The gun has partial concealment from creatures more than 3 squares away from it.

Standard Actions
(MBA) Kick: 1 or 2 creatures in Melee 2; +18 vs. AC; 3d8+4 lightning damage
(RBA) Shoot: one creature in Ranged 20; +20 vs. AC; 3d10+6 damage
Rapid Fire: the gun uses Shoot twice.

Basically, this is a Yaun-ti Malison Sharp-Eye from Monster Vault, upgraded to Elite using the standard formula: twice the hit points and give it a double attack. I even removed secondary poison attack (which applies save-ends daze) because I couldn't work out how to fluff it and it seems a bit OP. This isn't exactly what I used against my players, but it's close, and it was rather effective.



And if you think that's bad, remember that at once point, we were playing with eight characters at level 16-17...in 3.X.

How often did some people not get a turn because the casters had wiped everything? :smallwink:

[Fable Wright]

Seriously though, DMing isn't that hard, and someone else in that group needs to do it for a change.

DMing itself isn't hard for small parties. I'm currently co-DMing for a party of 7-8 in Pathfinder right now, and the other DM is... seriously struggling to keep the party focused, deliver plot hooks, and keep the world fleshed out enough to make it interesting. The real problem is the prep work, though. The co-DM and I had at least 12-14 hours of meetings over the two weeks preceding the second session to try and flesh out the world, hooks, and actors, and we didn't even get around to statting up the combat encounters yet. For 3.X and derivative systems, DMing can be a lot of work that not everyone can invest into.

[SiuiS]

I have decides that I will need a new face. Or, several new faces.

Since I am so very, uh, stochastic in my personal presentation, I'll just have little face icons next to my word spaces so ponies know which weird headspace I am in at any given moment!

... I just need to categorize said headspaces <~<"

[Aotrs Commander]

Ouch. Also I'm kinda envious. I've never had a group so willing to play, and never more then 5 people.

Anyways would this work?

You get a new DM, but you both play in the same universe. That way characters can meet up and swap between adventures (say you've got a guild or something. At 11 characters, that's mostly true). You'd need to coordinate with the other DM a little (so it stays the same universe), but it may also help ease the burden on both DMs, by allowing you both to lean on each other when it comes to worldbuilding and using each other's characters and the like.

Not really, no, since a) it would require us to be running the same system, let alone in the same world, b) it would require us to not be running modules/adventure paths, which we two current DMs do because neither of us has the time to attempt doing otherwise (and believe me, world-building is EVEN MORE work; when I'm running my own day quests, it takes me usually as much time again to write it as to play.)




Below is the sort of Elite Artillery I was talking about. With nine players, you could use 4 or 5 of these. 3 with some infantry (soldier) or close air (skirmisher) support might be more reasonable. I do tend to over-estimate enemies though.


http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs25/i/2010/191/b/9/Spider_Tank_by_SabrinaDBlood.jpg

Mobile Heavy Gun, Level 13 Elite Artillery
Large construct, XP 1600
HP 196; AC 27; Fortitude 26; Reflex 24; Will 23
Speed 8

Traits
Stealth Field: The gun has partial concealment from creatures more than 3 squares away from it.

Standard Actions
(MBA) Kick: 1 or 2 creatures in Melee 2; +18 vs. AC; 3d8+4 lightning damage
(RBA) Shoot: one creature in Ranged 20; +20 vs. AC; 3d10+6 damage
Rapid Fire: the gun uses Shoot twice.

Basically, this is a Yaun-ti Malison Sharp-Eye from Monster Vault, upgraded to Elite using the standard formula: twice the hit points and give it a double attack. I even removed secondary poison attack (which applies save-ends daze) because I couldn't work out how to fluff it and it seems a bit OP. This isn't exactly what I used against my players, but it's close, and it was rather effective.



We're level 11 currently, but with another couple of levels...

As that's just dealing damage and it doesn't have any status effects, it'd probably be not much worse than the sort of thing we've been dealing with.

Though again, module - the DM is using a fan source to upgrade the monsters therein because he doesn't have time or inclination (or practicality, given variable party size) to be able to make his own.


How often did some people not get a turn because the casters had wiped everything? :smallwink:

Never.

Seriously.

This is 3.Aotrs, for one, which means a) noncasters have gotten a boost and most importanly b) anything the PCs can do, the monsters can and will do right back, especially since this was a convcerted Night Below and NPC clerics were plentiful (and EVERYTHING that can have it loads Dispel Magic). Combined arms opposition is standard. The Defiant template is also A Thing, which means that any boss monsters worth their salt are going to shake off any status or combat ending nondamage attacks the first (and potentially more times), unless you save it for a finishing blow.

The largest threat was the Rogue/Ninja/Invisible Blade/Swordsage - since thre advanture saw fit to hand out Wings of Flying in the second encounter. A flying, invisible Sneak Attacker who by the end was using two weapons, and dealing up to about 12D6 damage per attack with four or five attacks and, if you could even take a swipe at him, had an AC of "ahaha, no, DM." Abd because he was invisible because ninja, it wasn't even easy to him with spells. (I killed him once with Heart Ripper, though...)

[b_jonas]

I'm pretty sure all the rainbow dash's are just their basic model, that they use for comparisons and scale.

And to make it look cooler. Any concept art is 20% cooler if Rainbow Dash is in it. (Or 10% cooler when his head is cut off.)

[Trixie]

The earth pony stallion with the bushy mane and tail, third from the left on the top row, has a shorter muzzle and thicker neck than either the stallion directly to the right of him, or the blue stallion, second from the left on the bottom row. The unicorn mare with the purple hat, fifth from the left on the top row, uses a model proportioned much like Fleur's, Luna's, and Cadance's, but shrunk down to typical pony height. The orange earth pony stallion in the baseball cap and the blue pegasus stallion with the cloud-like mane, third and fifth from the left respectively, reuse Trenderhoof's and Cheese Sandwich's long-legged models (which are different from one another; Trenderhoof's barrel is both squarer and bulkier). Orange uses Trenderhoof's model and Blue uses Cheese's.

Of these the only one I think is actually new is Mister Third from the Left on the Top Row, and that's the one against which your "illusion" objection actually carries the most weight, but if I'm right, that's four ponies who don't use the Season One body models.
Muzzle/neck one - IMO optical illusion due to clothes, body hair, and perspective. 'Fleur' I think is just optical illusion, seeing she is next to bulkier male models, also being farthest from camera. Two stallions at the bottom from what I see have Carrot Cake's body (the only difference being lack of underbite) and are identical down to visual error due to picture's blurriness/compression artifacts. I am not saying they're 200% pixel perfect copies, but honestly see nothing that would conclusively show that they're not ctrl+c ponies, even after measuring a few of the details you mentioned.


Not necessarily. A writer can be employed and either choose not to bring or be forbidden from bringing certain of their ideas on board.

Not that I wouldn't welcome putting the Cadance backstory discussion to rest.
I really don't see guest writer doing huge changes to major MLP character without someone at least looking at her script and okaying it. Especially seeing she is the one who introduced the whole 'Pinkie has 3 sisters' thing months before Maud showed up. It's IMHO much more likely they just liked her work and introduced her as new writer.

And her AJ book has a few passages on her parents. Dun dun dun?

[MLai]

Concept art...
The body types definitely look different to me...

The Fleur pony isn't an exact duplicate of Fleur. She's got the legs but her trunk is less curvy.
The clowny-looking pegasus is definitely new. He looks taller than Mr. Cake.
The Mr. Cake analog is just a modification of Mr. Cake or the Flim Flams though, yeah.

[DigoDragon]

For 3.X and derivative systems, DMing can be a lot of work that not everyone can invest into.

For most games really. I've run lots of systems and the biggest package of work to do is not system specific-- it's the story and characters you gotta bring to life. :smallsmile: DMing can sometimes be a thankless job too, which is something that I notice turns away potential new game masters. :c

But it's only sometimes! DMs can have lots of fun too.




I have decides that I will need a new face. Or, several new faces.

You mean like that one creature in Avatar?
http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/304/1/1/give_me_your_face_by_themhe-d4eo88t.jpg

*Shudder* Creepy thing.



The largest threat was the Rogue/Ninja/Invisible Blade/Swordsage - since thre advanture saw fit to hand out Wings of Flying in the second encounter. A flying, invisible Sneak Attacker who by the end was using two weapons, and dealing up to about 12D6 damage per attack with four or five attacks and, if you could even take a swipe at him, had an AC of "ahaha, no, DM."

My old group used to call invisible flying sneak attack types 'Captain Airbiscuit'. I don't remember how that originated, but it was a thing.



And her AJ book has a few passages on her parents. Dun dun dun?

Oooh...
The AJ book eh? I think I'll have to find a copy of that. My daughter has been slowly collecting them, and then i'll read 'em after she does. I'm sure she won't mind getting the AJ one.

[Trixie]

So, I looked at pony toys today and something hit me. Remember fanon idea that Princess Skyla is daughter of Cadance and Shining, based on her colors?

Well, take a look at these two:

https://derpicdn.net/img/view/2014/5/14/626375__safe_alicorn_rainbow+power_hasbroc_artist-colon-allocen_princess+gold+lily_princess+sterling_rainb ow+power-dash-ified.png

Now tell me, who of the major characters is purple/pink?

Then think who has two of the other colors featured here.

...was Hasbro trolling everyone with plot points of two future seasons and EG movies hidden in plain sight? :smallyuk::smallamused:

[DigoDragon]

So, I looked at pony toys today and something hit me. Remember fanon idea that Princess Skyla is daughter of Cadance and Shining, based on her colors?

Well, take a look at these two:

...was Hasbro trolling everyone with plot points of two future seasons and EG movies hidden in plain sight? :smallyuk::smallamused:

Either that or someone in marketing got a hold of a Pony OC generator and thought "I can make alicorns too!!" :smallbiggrin:

[Rater202]

Mr. Qordeth has his new Pony/Dresden crossover up. (http://www.fimfiction.net/story/248659/dresden-rocks)

[SiuiS]

You mean like that one creature in Avatar?
http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/304/1/1/give_me_your_face_by_themhe-d4eo88t.jpg

*Shudder* Creepy thing.


Perhaps! Though I avoid segmented bodies. If I'm gonna be a serpent it's the full scales muscular undulations or bust! Centipede form is just bleh. :-/

[Rater202]

Perhaps! Though I avoid segmented bodies. If I'm gonna be a serpent it's the full scales muscular undulations or bust! Centipede form is just bleh. :-/

You're no fun.:smalltongue:

[DigoDragon]

Perhaps! Though I avoid segmented bodies. If I'm gonna be a serpent it's the full scales muscular undulations or bust!

You got it! [/Homestar]
http://25.media.tumblr.com/285531160d05ac04f34e8df1d0dc39a6/tumblr_mpokp5qgAq1raxilwo1_400.png


Preview on Sombra's FIENDship is Magic (http://www.equestriadaily.com/2015/02/2-page-preview-of-upcoming-fiendship-is.html#more) comic.

[Aotrs Commander]

Preview on Sombra's FIENDship is Magic (http://www.equestriadaily.com/2015/02/2-page-preview-of-upcoming-fiendship-is.html#more) comic.

Didn't even know that was going to be A Thing. Added that straight to my subscription list, fortunately in plenty of time.

[DigoDragon]

Didn't even know that was going to be A Thing. Added that straight to my subscription list, fortunately in plenty of time.

Yeah, added it to my wish list. I certainly would love more Sombra. :D


Until then... nightmares!
http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2015/047/c/4/what_goes_around_part_1_by_saturdaymorningproj-d8iaz3r.jpg (http://saturdaymorningproj.deviantart.com/art/What-Goes-Around-Part-1-514474551)

[SiuiS]

You got it! [/Homestar]
http://25.media.tumblr.com/285531160d05ac04f34e8df1d0dc39a6/tumblr_mpokp5qgAq1raxilwo1_400.png


Preview on Sombra's FIENDship is Magic (http://www.equestriadaily.com/2015/02/2-page-preview-of-upcoming-fiendship-is.html#more) comic.

1) score! Man, petering out on my ending for the buck: legacy game is one of my background regrets. If nothing else, Knives was crazy hella fun.

2) PFFFFFHAHAHAHAHAHahahahahahahaha!

[otakuryoga]

Yeah, added it to my wish list. I certainly would love more Sombra. :D


Until then... nightmares!
http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2015/047/c/4/what_goes_around_part_1_by_saturdaymorningproj-d8iaz3r.jpg (http://saturdaymorningproj.deviantart.com/art/What-Goes-Around-Part-1-514474551)

that was awesomesauce

[DigoDragon]

Man, petering out on my ending for the buck: legacy game is one of my background regrets. If nothing else, Knives was crazy hella fun.

Knives was a lot of fun!! It was hilarious that you ended up with nearly every knife/sword item in the deck.



that was awesomesauce

I can't wait to see more of this. Seems like a series. :D

[Aotrs Commander]

Uurgh. Waaay too many Starwing record sheets, rules revisions and other meandering done, but it needed to be sorted to try at play-testing all the gubbins tomorrow. But even MY skull hurts after all that...

[Beacon of Chaos]

1) score! Man, petering out on my ending for the buck: legacy game is one of my background regrets. If nothing else, Knives was crazy hella fun.

Knives was a lot of fun!! It was hilarious that you ended up with nearly every knife/sword item in the deck.
I regret never running the sequel. I got the expansion and then never did anything with it. Never seemed like the right time, and then I forgot about it :smallredface:. Shame, 'cos it was pretty fun. We had some brilliant characters.

Maybe after Cats I'll start it.

[SiuiS]

Reminds me. Was there anything official on the rpg? Or was it just 'we stopped, sorry'?

[Beacon of Chaos]

Reminds me. Was there anything official on the rpg? Or was it just 'we stopped, sorry'?
No idea. I can't find any info about it at all.

They did release a 2nd edition of the card game though. As far as I can tell, it's a mix of stuff from the main game and expansion, with a lot of errata'd cards.

[SiuiS]

Hmm. Found it...


https://31.media.tumblr.com/a086c80b5a6280ef30d761034f81cf62/tumblr_inline_n9ftt1xVUY1roex3p.jpg

The Tabletop version of Buck: Legacy has been scuttled.
There will no longer be a Kickstarter for this project.
Scuttled implies that although the project is cancelled, its possible that the future the Tabletop project’s resources may be used to create something (such as supplement rules for compatible systems), and might be supported by short stories or comics.

Means we aren't getting anything, unfortunately. Maybe we'll have to write our own...

[DigoDragon]

Hmm. Found it...
Means we aren't getting anything, unfortunately. Maybe we'll have to write our own...

Yeah, I'm sad it got scrapped for now. sounded like it would be great!

Sadly I have the game and expansion, yet cannot find anyone who'll play the game with me. I dunno, are ponies that intimidating in card form? Huh... well I got both the 1st and 2nd edition ruleset with my pack so I can go 2e when you run that sequel, Diego.

Amusing tidbit-- in a pony RPG I'm in, I created the 'Legend of Springboard Jackie' and our characters in that game are honorary pirates. ;)

[Rater202]

Amusing tidbit-- in a pony RPG I'm in, I created the 'Legend of Springboard Jackie' and our characters in that game are honorary pirates. ;)

I even retconned some of the background work I did(it's a shared universe with Rotating GMs) to accommodate it because it was fun.

Though Gear would be disappointed to hear that it's just honorary. Though the crew does still need an Archaeologist and a Sword Guy.

[cavalieredraghi]

I even retconned some of the background work I did(it's a shared universe with Rotating GMs) to accommodate it because it was fun.

Though Gear would be disappointed to hear that it's just honorary. Though the crew does still need an Archaeologist and a Sword Guy.

I thought Spark was the sword guy? and does having genetic memory count as an Archaeologist. :smalltongue:

[Rater202]

I thought Spark was the sword guy? and does having genetic memory count as an Archaeologist. :smalltongue:

I changed my mind. Claws aren't similar enough to swords.

[DigoDragon]

Though Gear would be disappointed to hear that it's just honorary.

On the flip side, that very fact saved us fro being turned to gold statues. :D

[cavalieredraghi]

I changed my mind. Claws aren't similar enough to swords.

Spark is the only one who is trained to use finesse weapons he is the swordsman.

[Rater202]

Spark is the only one who is trained to use finesse weapons he is the swordsman.

You can't be the sword guy if you don't own a sword:smalltongue:

[cavalieredraghi]

Spark can create will one day be able to create a flame sword I win. :smallbiggrin:

[DigoDragon]

Ouch!
http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2015/048/6/3/an_honest_sleeptalk_by_gray__day-d8ifw7u.png (http://gray--day.deviantart.com/art/An-Honest-Sleeptalk-514704090)

[otakuryoga]

Shining in the last panel

"ahhh, of course....wait, what?"

[SiuiS]

Shining in the last panel

"ahhh, of course....wait, what?"

*adds to weird romance notes*

[DigoDragon]

"ahhh, of course....wait, what?"

*adds to weird romance notes*

Heh, the expression is good and it's pretty close to my relationship with my wife... except I'm the weird snarky one and she's the straight mare.

[Tiki Snakes]

Heh, the expression is good and it's pretty close to my relationship with my wife... except I'm the weird snarky one and she's the straight mare.

Uh, I totally interpreted that as a sleepy Cadence forgetting that it was Shining she was in bed with.

Which is to say that her ship has been sailing with a second crew?

[DigoDragon]

It's weird when I see someone puts something in the trash and expect it not get thrown out with the trash.


Uh, I totally interpreted that as a sleepy Cadence forgetting that it was Shining she was in bed with.
Which is to say that her ship has been sailing with a second crew?

The bit the artist put in his notes on the page suggest Cadance was only half-awake and was dreaming about someone else. So maybe there is a second crew in her mind at the very least? :o

[Tiki Snakes]

That makes a certain kind of sense.

...

Especially when you think about how lonely it must have been, being imprisoned in your own mind and banished to the moon...:smallwink:

[DigoDragon]

Especially when you think about how lonely it must have been, being imprisoned in your own mind and banished to the moon...:smallwink:

Heh that's a good point. :3


So I wonder if Apple bloom will get a turn with Princess Luna's dream walking?
http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2014/201/c/9/collab__dream_walker_by_tsaoshin-d7rjxbc.png

http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2012/357/9/f/mlp___luna_guarding_scootaloo_at_night_by_firebran dkun-d5ovh6k.jpg

[Beacon of Chaos]

Hmm. Found it...

Means we aren't getting anything, unfortunately. Maybe we'll have to write our own...
That's a shame. To be honest, D&D could easily be modded to Buck. It's all about dungeon crawling anyway. Just need a system for adding tesla and steampunk stuff.


Yeah, I'm sad it got scrapped for now. sounded like it would be great!

Sadly I have the game and expansion, yet cannot find anyone who'll play the game with me. I dunno, are ponies that intimidating in card form? Huh... well I got both the 1st and 2nd edition ruleset with my pack so I can go 2e when you run that sequel, Diego.

Amusing tidbit-- in a pony RPG I'm in, I created the 'Legend of Springboard Jackie' and our characters in that game are honorary pirates. ;)
Besides here, the only place I've played B:L is at pony cons, so there ya go. Go to more cons! I suppose I might be able to get a friend of mine to play, since he's big on co-op stuff.

Haha, that's pretty great. I remade Scarlet Blaze for a Ponytales game we were playing while our main game is on hiatus. Her entire character sheet was filled with fighting game references. :smallbiggrin: Shame the game died when Hot Route vanished, :smallfrown:

[DigoDragon]

Besides here, the only place I've played B:L is at pony cons, so there ya go. Go to more cons!

Limited funds means it would have to be local. Which... really aren't any to my knowledge. A shame too, cause I would definitely take my daughter along and we could cosplay together.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Bbh2rjdtalQ/VOYLpjsVj3I/AAAAAAABNiI/oeuHM3pS8No/s1600/gimme_a_spotlight_by_texasuberalles-d8in6ri.jpg


Haha, that's pretty great. I remade Scarlet Blaze for a Ponytales game we were playing while our main game is on hiatus. Her entire character sheet was filled with fighting game references. :smallbiggrin:

That sounded like fun. :D
Do you remember any of the references?

[Beacon of Chaos]

Check my signature for her character sheet, then scroll down to "combat". They're references from various video and tabletop games. See if you can guess them all. :smallwink:

[DigoDragon]

Check my signature for her character sheet, then scroll down to "combat". They're references from various video and tabletop games. See if you can guess them all. :smallwink:

Let's see...
Berserker Barrage - This would be a reference to Wolverine, I've heard him say it in the Marvel vs. Capcom series.

Focus Energy - Dunno

Iron Heart Surge - D&D reference to a Warblade ability I believe (Not sure which book. Tome of Battle?)

Dynamite Justice - Mmm... sounds familiar, but dunno.

Retaliate - Dunno

Atomic Buster / Ultimate Atomic Buster - Zangief move? I want to say at minimum its from Street Fighter.

Asura: The Guillotine Hoof - Another one that seems familiar. Maybe a video game I haven't played.

Resolve - Dunno

The Rage of the Red Pony Unleashed! That's from Neverwinter, the barbarian Daelan.

[SiuiS]

I think all the ones you missed were Pokemon moves...


Uh, I totally interpreted that as a sleepy Cadence forgetting that it was Shining she was in bed with.

Which is to say that her ship has been sailing with a second crew?

Yeah. Same time though, bring sleepy does that. So it's an implication but it doesn't impugn.

I once told a cop I was born in 1867.


That makes a certain kind of sense.

...

Especially when you think about how lonely it must have been, being imprisoned in your own mind and banished to the moon...:smallwink:

... *adds to romance notes*


That's a shame. To be honest, D&D could easily be modded to Buck. It's all about dungeon crawling anyway. Just need a system for adding tesla and steampunk stuff.

Hmm ...


Besides here, the only place I've played B:L is at pony cons, so there ya go. Go to more cons! I suppose I might be able to get a friend of mine to play, since he's big on co-op stuff.

Haha, that's pretty great. I remade Scarlet Blaze for a Ponytales game we were playing while our main game is on hiatus. Her entire character sheet was filled with fighting game references. :smallbiggrin: Shame the game died when Hot Route vanished, :smallfrown:

Yeah. Any news on that front? Or did hot route just leave the forum?

[DigoDragon]

I think all the ones you missed were Pokemon moves...

Having little knowledge of Pokemon, I guess that's not so bad.



I once told a cop I was born in 1867.

As a changeling, you're not necessarily wrong. :smallwink:

[Aotrs Commander]

Well, at least tonight's experimentation game went more or less to plan (even though not quite as we had a new chap come and we let him play, since there was only about of us there tonight). So just a tweak or two for Starwing and I'm a go for next weekend.

And all the Missileboatd survived. Actually - the only Imperila casualty was single TRN, but as it was sort of supposed to be a cakewalk for the Empire (laregly to test if I'd made capital ships TOO much less easy to kill) that's about right.

(If it had been a TIE Fighter mission, one MIS probably could have handled the entire thing alone...!)

[DigoDragon]

Boop
http://th02.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2015/050/3/4/cuuteness__by_freefraq-d8ip0v8.png (http://freefraq.deviantart.com/art/Cuuteness-515130020)

It is getting pretty cold here, so I can only imagine the frigidity up north is repressive. D:

[Rater202]

Boop
http://th02.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2015/050/3/4/cuuteness__by_freefraq-d8ip0v8.png (http://freefraq.deviantart.com/art/Cuuteness-515130020)

It is getting pretty cold here, so I can only imagine the frigidity up north is repressive. D:

Counting the wind chill, it was -30 Fahrenheit today.

For those of you on metric, that's -34.4444. Celsius.

In layman's terms, it's f***ing cold up north.

I'm terrified to see what it's like in Canada.

[zimmerwald1915]

In layman's terms, it's f***ing cold up north.
I made the mistake of leaving my home before my hair was completely dry this morning :smallfrown:

[Rater202]

I made the mistake of leaving my home before my hair was completely dry this morning :smallfrown:

I have a cousin from texas. he was visiting us when I was about sixish.

He made the mistake of using hair gel in December, back when December was cold.

[Madcrafter]

I'm terrified to see what it's like in Canada.Ah, you just have to look at the right places. There's a cold warning in effect for Toronto (http://weather.gc.ca/city/pages/on-143_metric_e.html) (-30s), and PEI is under so much snow it's disappearing from the face of the planet (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-drive/news/trans-canada-highway/monster-snowfall-completely-buries-cars-and-streets-in-pei/article23071165/), but here, it's a balmy ten degrees and sunny. If one pretends nothing exists east of the Rockies, Canada is a wonderful place.

[Fable Wright]

Canada is a wonderful place.

...Yep. It's official. After I graduate, I'm packing my bags and moving to Canada. Down here in Virginia, we had people complaining about -1F(-18C) after windchill, and they continue to bundle up in the 50s (10C). No one in Virginia seems to appreciate properly cold conditions. :smallfrown:

[Dexam]

For various reasons I've been thinking about pony origin myths lately. As a result, this happened:

In the beginning, the great being Equidae was creating the world and everything around it. In one corner of the world She created a garden and filled it with plants and animals that She loved. But Equidae was a busy creator, with much work in the world still to be done, and She could not tend to the garden as She desired. Equidae thought on this, then took some earth from the garden and a nail from Her hoof. She molded it into the shapes of ponies and gave them life. These were the Earth Ponies, and to them She said "The strength and vitality of the earth, and all things that live on it and grow in it, are yours to share. I give to you this garden to nurture and care for, and in return it shall nurture and care for you." And the Earth Ponies were happy, so Equidae went out into the world to continue Her work.

When Equidae returned to the garden some time later, She saw that both the garden and the Earth Ponies had prospered as intended. But the Earth Ponies were not happy; instead they were tired and weary. "My little ponies," She asked, "Why are you tired and weary?"

"Great Equidae," the Earth Ponies cried, "The weather you have created is wild and beyond our control. The storms scare us and damage the garden, so that we must always work hard to build and repair it. We have no time for fun and games; will you tend the sky for us?"

But Equidae was a busy creator, with much work in the world still to be done, and She could not tend to the sky as the Earth Ponies desired. Equidae thought on this, then took some clouds from the sky and a feather from Her wings. She molded it into the shapes of ponies and gave them life. These were the Pegasi, and to them She said "The strength of the storm and the freedom of the open sky, along with the nurturing rains and gentle winds, are yours to share. I give to you the sky to tend and care for, and in return it shall tend and care for you." And the Earth Ponies and Pegasi were happy, so Equidae went out into the world to continue Her work.

When Equidae returned to the garden some time later, She saw that both the Earth Ponies and the Pegasi had prospered as intended. But the Earth Ponies and Pegasi were not happy; instead they were scared and frightened. "My little ponies," She asked, "Why are you scared and frightened?"

"Great Equidae," the Earth Ponies and Pegasi cried, "There is much in the world you have created that we do not know. The magic of the land and sky is beyond our control, so that we must always work hard to understand it. We have no time for fun and games; will you stay and teach magic to us?"

But Equidae was a busy creator, with much work in the world still to be done, and She could not tend to the learning of magic as the Earth Ponies and Pegasi desired. Equidae thought on this, then took a piece of the horizon and the tip from Her horn. She molded it into the shapes of ponies and gave them life. These were the Unicorns, and to them She said "As your hooves touch the land and your horns touch the sky, the secrets of the land and the sky are yours to discover and share. I give to you magic to tend and care for, and in return it shall tend and care for you." And the Earth Ponies and Pegasi and Unicorns were happy, so Equidae went out into the world to continue Her work.

When Equidae returned to the garden some time later, She saw that all the Earth Ponies, Pegasi, and Unicorns had prospered as intended, and founded a great nation that they called Equestria. But the the Earth Ponies, Pegasi, and Unicorns were not happy; instead they were worried and uncertain. "My little ponies," She asked, "Why are you worried and uncertain?"

"Great Equidae," the Earth Ponies, Pegasi, and Unicorns cried, "You have given us the land, and the sky, and magic. We have worked hard to build, and understand, and share. We now have time for fun and games; but thoughts of the future leave us tired and weary, scared and frightened, worried and uncertain. Will you stay and guide us?"

But Equidae was a busy creator, with much work in the world still to be done, and She could not stay and guide the Earth Ponies, Pegasi, and Unicorns as they desired. Equidae thought on this, then took the light from the sun and moon and stars, and a piece from each of the Earth Ponies, Pegasi, and Unicorns . She molded it into the shapes of ponies and gave them life. These were the Alicorns, and to them She said "As there is a piece of every pony in you, so you must share yourselves with every pony. I give to you all of ponykind to tend and care for, and in return they shall tend and care for you."

And all the ponies were happy.



Thoughts are appreciated.

[SiuiS]

Trouble put herself to bed tonight. This is the second night in a row. She's not even a year old yet.
#RedSpearDiscipline

[Forum Explorer]

It is getting pretty cold here, so I can only imagine the frigidity up north is repressive. D:


Counting the wind chill, it was -30 Fahrenheit today.

For those of you on metric, that's -34.4444. Celsius.

In layman's terms, it's f***ing cold up north.

I'm terrified to see what it's like in Canada.

It's actually really nice. Something like +1 to -2 throughout the day. We had a rainstorm today.


For various reasons I've been thinking about pony origin myths lately. As a result, this happened:

In the beginning, the great being Equidae was creating the world and everything around it. In one corner of the world She created a garden and filled it with plants and animals that She loved. But Equidae was a busy creator, with much work in the world still to be done, and She could not tend to the garden as She desired. Equidae thought on this, then took some earth from the garden and a nail from Her hoof. She molded it into the shapes of ponies and gave them life. These were the Earth Ponies, and to them She said "The strength and vitality of the earth, and all things that live on it and grow in it, are yours to share. I give to you this garden to nurture and care for, and in return it shall nurture and care for you." And the Earth Ponies were happy, so Equidae went out into the world to continue Her work.

When Equidae returned to the garden some time later, She saw that both the garden and the Earth Ponies had prospered as intended. But the Earth Ponies were not happy; instead they were tired and weary. "My little ponies," She asked, "Why are you tired and weary?"

"Great Equidae," the Earth Ponies cried, "The weather you have created is wild and beyond our control. The storms scare us and damage the garden, so that we must always work hard to build and repair it. We have no time for fun and games; will you tend the sky for us?"

But Equidae was a busy creator, with much work in the world still to be done, and She could not tend to the sky as the Earth Ponies desired. Equidae thought on this, then took some clouds from the sky and a feather from Her wings. She molded it into the shapes of ponies and gave them life. These were the Pegasi, and to them She said "The strength of the storm and the freedom of the open sky, along with the nurturing rains and gentle winds, are yours to share. I give to you the sky to tend and care for, and in return it shall tend and care for you." And the Earth Ponies and Pegasi were happy, so Equidae went out into the world to continue Her work.

When Equidae returned to the garden some time later, She saw that both the Earth Ponies and the Pegasi had prospered as intended. But the Earth Ponies and Pegasi were not happy; instead they were scared and frightened. "My little ponies," She asked, "Why are you scared and frightened?"

"Great Equidae," the Earth Ponies and Pegasi cried, "There is much in the world you have created that we do not know. The magic of the land and sky is beyond our control, so that we must always work hard to understand it. We have no time for fun and games; will you stay and teach magic to us?"

But Equidae was a busy creator, with much work in the world still to be done, and She could not tend to the learning of magic as the Earth Ponies and Pegasi desired. Equidae thought on this, then took a piece of the horizon and the tip from Her horn. She molded it into the shapes of ponies and gave them life. These were the Unicorns, and to them She said "As your hooves touch the land and your horns touch the sky, the secrets of the land and the sky are yours to discover and share. I give to you magic to tend and care for, and in return it shall tend and care for you." And the Earth Ponies and Pegasi and Unicorns were happy, so Equidae went out into the world to continue Her work.

When Equidae returned to the garden some time later, She saw that all the Earth Ponies, Pegasi, and Unicorns had prospered as intended, and founded a great nation that they called Equestria. But the the Earth Ponies, Pegasi, and Unicorns were not happy; instead they were worried and uncertain. "My little ponies," She asked, "Why are you worried and uncertain?"

"Great Equidae," the Earth Ponies, Pegasi, and Unicorns cried, "You have given us the land, and the sky, and magic. We have worked hard to build, and understand, and share. We now have time for fun and games; but thoughts of the future leave us tired and weary, scared and frightened, worried and uncertain. Will you stay and guide us?"

But Equidae was a busy creator, with much work in the world still to be done, and She could not stay and guide the Earth Ponies, Pegasi, and Unicorns as they desired. Equidae thought on this, then took the light from the sun and moon and stars, and a piece from each of the Earth Ponies, Pegasi, and Unicorns . She molded it into the shapes of ponies and gave them life. These were the Alicorns, and to them She said "As there is a piece of every pony in you, so you must share yourselves with every pony. I give to you all of ponykind to tend and care for, and in return they shall tend and care for you."

And all the ponies were happy.



Thoughts are appreciated.

Very cool. Only part I dislike is the alicorn part, which I think should be cut right out.

[Beacon of Chaos]

Let's see...
Berserker Barrage - This would be a reference to Wolverine, I've heard him say it in the Marvel vs. Capcom series.

Focus Energy - Dunno

Iron Heart Surge - D&D reference to a Warblade ability I believe (Not sure which book. Tome of Battle?)

Dynamite Justice - Mmm... sounds familiar, but dunno.

Retaliate - Dunno

Atomic Buster / Ultimate Atomic Buster - Zangief move? I want to say at minimum its from Street Fighter.

Asura: The Guillotine Hoof - Another one that seems familiar. Maybe a video game I haven't played.

Resolve - Dunno

The Rage of the Red Pony Unleashed! That's from Neverwinter, the barbarian Daelan.
Not bad at all! I didn't expect anyone to get the last one.


Berserker Barrage - This would be a reference to Wolverine, I've heard him say it in the Marvel vs. Capcom series.
Correct!


Focus Energy - Dunno
From Pokemon.


Iron Heart Surge - D&D reference to a Warblade ability I believe (Not sure which book. Tome of Battle?)
Correct!


Dynamite Justice - Mmm... sounds familiar, but dunno.
This one's obscure: It's Roy's super attack from Capcom fighting game series, Rival Schools.


Retaliate - Dunno
Also from Pokemon.


Atomic Buster / Ultimate Atomic Buster - Zangief move? I want to say at minimum its from Street Fighter.
Correct!


Asura: The Guillotine Hoof - Another one that seems familiar. Maybe a video game I haven't played.
Another obscure one: It's the Ragnarok Online monk's most powerful attack. It's either called Asura or Guillotine Fist, depending on the version. The US and Europe versions had different translators.


Resolve - Dunno
An ability from Puzzle and Dragons.


The Rage of the Red Pony Unleashed! That's from Neverwinter, the barbarian Daelan.
Correct!



Yeah. Any news on that front? Or did hot route just leave the forum?
Haven't heard from him since. It's been nearly a year. I fear something may have happened to him. :smallfrown:

[Kd7sov]

For various reasons I've been thinking about pony origin myths lately. As a result, this happened:

In the beginning, the great being Equidae was creating the world and everything around it. In one corner of the world She created a garden and filled it with plants and animals that She loved. But Equidae was a busy creator, with much work in the world still to be done, and She could not tend to the garden as She desired. Equidae thought on this, then took some earth from the garden and a nail from Her hoof. She molded it into the shapes of ponies and gave them life. These were the Earth Ponies, and to them She said "The strength and vitality of the earth, and all things that live on it and grow in it, are yours to share. I give to you this garden to nurture and care for, and in return it shall nurture and care for you." And the Earth Ponies were happy, so Equidae went out into the world to continue Her work.

When Equidae returned to the garden some time later, She saw that both the garden and the Earth Ponies had prospered as intended. But the Earth Ponies were not happy; instead they were tired and weary. "My little ponies," She asked, "Why are you tired and weary?"

"Great Equidae," the Earth Ponies cried, "The weather you have created is wild and beyond our control. The storms scare us and damage the garden, so that we must always work hard to build and repair it. We have no time for fun and games; will you tend the sky for us?"

But Equidae was a busy creator, with much work in the world still to be done, and She could not tend to the sky as the Earth Ponies desired. Equidae thought on this, then took some clouds from the sky and a feather from Her wings. She molded it into the shapes of ponies and gave them life. These were the Pegasi, and to them She said "The strength of the storm and the freedom of the open sky, along with the nurturing rains and gentle winds, are yours to share. I give to you the sky to tend and care for, and in return it shall tend and care for you." And the Earth Ponies and Pegasi were happy, so Equidae went out into the world to continue Her work.

When Equidae returned to the garden some time later, She saw that both the Earth Ponies and the Pegasi had prospered as intended. But the Earth Ponies and Pegasi were not happy; instead they were scared and frightened. "My little ponies," She asked, "Why are you scared and frightened?"

"Great Equidae," the Earth Ponies and Pegasi cried, "There is much in the world you have created that we do not know. The magic of the land and sky is beyond our control, so that we must always work hard to understand it. We have no time for fun and games; will you stay and teach magic to us?"

But Equidae was a busy creator, with much work in the world still to be done, and She could not tend to the learning of magic as the Earth Ponies and Pegasi desired. Equidae thought on this, then took a piece of the horizon and the tip from Her horn. She molded it into the shapes of ponies and gave them life. These were the Unicorns, and to them She said "As your hooves touch the land and your horns touch the sky, the secrets of the land and the sky are yours to discover and share. I give to you magic to tend and care for, and in return it shall tend and care for you." And the Earth Ponies and Pegasi and Unicorns were happy, so Equidae went out into the world to continue Her work.

When Equidae returned to the garden some time later, She saw that all the Earth Ponies, Pegasi, and Unicorns had prospered as intended, and founded a great nation that they called Equestria. But the the Earth Ponies, Pegasi, and Unicorns were not happy; instead they were worried and uncertain. "My little ponies," She asked, "Why are you worried and uncertain?"

"Great Equidae," the Earth Ponies, Pegasi, and Unicorns cried, "You have given us the land, and the sky, and magic. We have worked hard to build, and understand, and share. We now have time for fun and games; but thoughts of the future leave us tired and weary, scared and frightened, worried and uncertain. Will you stay and guide us?"

But Equidae was a busy creator, with much work in the world still to be done, and She could not stay and guide the Earth Ponies, Pegasi, and Unicorns as they desired. Equidae thought on this, then took the light from the sun and moon and stars, and a piece from each of the Earth Ponies, Pegasi, and Unicorns . She molded it into the shapes of ponies and gave them life. These were the Alicorns, and to them She said "As there is a piece of every pony in you, so you must share yourselves with every pony. I give to you all of ponykind to tend and care for, and in return they shall tend and care for you."

And all the ponies were happy.



Thoughts are appreciated.

I, for one, am not at all clear on the lead-up to the unicorns. These ponies have trouble understanding magic, and therefore they're both scared and frightened? Is the magic doing something that they specifically don't understand, something scary and frightening, and they want Equidae to teach them to tame it or something, like with the weather?

[TheAmishPirate]

For various reasons I've been thinking about pony origin myths lately. As a result, this happened:

In the beginning, the great being Equidae was creating the world and everything around it. In one corner of the world She created a garden and filled it with plants and animals that She loved. But Equidae was a busy creator, with much work in the world still to be done, and She could not tend to the garden as She desired. Equidae thought on this, then took some earth from the garden and a nail from Her hoof. She molded it into the shapes of ponies and gave them life. These were the Earth Ponies, and to them She said "The strength and vitality of the earth, and all things that live on it and grow in it, are yours to share. I give to you this garden to nurture and care for, and in return it shall nurture and care for you." And the Earth Ponies were happy, so Equidae went out into the world to continue Her work.

When Equidae returned to the garden some time later, She saw that both the garden and the Earth Ponies had prospered as intended. But the Earth Ponies were not happy; instead they were tired and weary. "My little ponies," She asked, "Why are you tired and weary?"

"Great Equidae," the Earth Ponies cried, "The weather you have created is wild and beyond our control. The storms scare us and damage the garden, so that we must always work hard to build and repair it. We have no time for fun and games; will you tend the sky for us?"

But Equidae was a busy creator, with much work in the world still to be done, and She could not tend to the sky as the Earth Ponies desired. Equidae thought on this, then took some clouds from the sky and a feather from Her wings. She molded it into the shapes of ponies and gave them life. These were the Pegasi, and to them She said "The strength of the storm and the freedom of the open sky, along with the nurturing rains and gentle winds, are yours to share. I give to you the sky to tend and care for, and in return it shall tend and care for you." And the Earth Ponies and Pegasi were happy, so Equidae went out into the world to continue Her work.

When Equidae returned to the garden some time later, She saw that both the Earth Ponies and the Pegasi had prospered as intended. But the Earth Ponies and Pegasi were not happy; instead they were scared and frightened. "My little ponies," She asked, "Why are you scared and frightened?"

"Great Equidae," the Earth Ponies and Pegasi cried, "There is much in the world you have created that we do not know. The magic of the land and sky is beyond our control, so that we must always work hard to understand it. We have no time for fun and games; will you stay and teach magic to us?"

But Equidae was a busy creator, with much work in the world still to be done, and She could not tend to the learning of magic as the Earth Ponies and Pegasi desired. Equidae thought on this, then took a piece of the horizon and the tip from Her horn. She molded it into the shapes of ponies and gave them life. These were the Unicorns, and to them She said "As your hooves touch the land and your horns touch the sky, the secrets of the land and the sky are yours to discover and share. I give to you magic to tend and care for, and in return it shall tend and care for you." And the Earth Ponies and Pegasi and Unicorns were happy, so Equidae went out into the world to continue Her work.

When Equidae returned to the garden some time later, She saw that all the Earth Ponies, Pegasi, and Unicorns had prospered as intended, and founded a great nation that they called Equestria. But the the Earth Ponies, Pegasi, and Unicorns were not happy; instead they were worried and uncertain. "My little ponies," She asked, "Why are you worried and uncertain?"

"Great Equidae," the Earth Ponies, Pegasi, and Unicorns cried, "You have given us the land, and the sky, and magic. We have worked hard to build, and understand, and share. We now have time for fun and games; but thoughts of the future leave us tired and weary, scared and frightened, worried and uncertain. Will you stay and guide us?"

But Equidae was a busy creator, with much work in the world still to be done, and She could not stay and guide the Earth Ponies, Pegasi, and Unicorns as they desired. Equidae thought on this, then took the light from the sun and moon and stars, and a piece from each of the Earth Ponies, Pegasi, and Unicorns . She molded it into the shapes of ponies and gave them life. These were the Alicorns, and to them She said "As there is a piece of every pony in you, so you must share yourselves with every pony. I give to you all of ponykind to tend and care for, and in return they shall tend and care for you."

And all the ponies were happy.



Thoughts are appreciated.

The bit with the unicorns and magic could use some more specific examples. It's easy to understand tending the earth and dealing with storms, it's a little tricky to imagine what went down with the magic that got the ponies so worried.

Other than that, I really like it. The fact that their chief concern is that they "have no time for fun and games" gives it that distinct Pony flavor, and there's Friendship in the fact that each pony race is made with a unique, co-operative purpose.

[DigoDragon]

I'm terrified to see what it's like in Canada.

We had the Director of Finance from our Montreal office visiting this week. He admitted it was nice not to have to shovel your car out of the snow.
Still thinks we're a bunch of warm-loving wusses though. :smalltongue:



I made the mistake of leaving my home before my hair was completely dry this morning :smallfrown:

Ouch. o.o
Woke up to 33F this morning (0.6 C), but there's no wind or humidity so it's tolerable with a jacket. Really, the wind and humidity is what hurts me when it's cold.



If one pretends nothing exists east of the Rockies, Canada is a wonderful place.

I noticed this is a common theme from the managers that come down out of our Montreal office. There something about east Canada we should avoid? Windigoes? Nova Scotia?



No one in Virginia seems to appreciate properly cold conditions. :smallfrown:

You must really hate us Floridians then. :smallbiggrin:



Trouble put herself to bed tonight. This is the second night in a row. She's not even a year old yet.
#RedSpearDiscipline

Careful, she might be plotting something sinister. :)

Mine woke up at 3am and threw up all over the bath mat. :smallfrown: The poor dear. I helped brush her teeth and applied liberal amounts of hugs. Got the mat washed afterwards. Not sure what caused it as she has no illness symptoms and woke up in good spirits this morning. Maybe it was 'post-nasal drip' or whatever it's called.



Not bad at all! I didn't expect anyone to get the last one.

I've played Neverwinter way too many times. Modding the NPCs is fun too once I figured it out. Currently have Derpy the cleric with me fighting undead.

Which version of Ponytales were you using?

[Beacon of Chaos]

Which version of Ponytales were you using?
The... latest one? I guess. There was a huge change where they got rid of races and let you make your own using a points system. It was just after that.

[Aotrs Commander]

Trouble put herself to bed tonight. This is the second night in a row. She's not even a year old yet.
#RedSpearDiscipline

Hah! Our corruptive powers know no boundaries...!

[DigoDragon]

The... latest one? I guess. There was a huge change where they got rid of races and let you make your own using a points system. It was just after that.

Consults the Book of Armaments Topaz' Traditionally Tardy List of Pony tabletop RPGs.

Hmm, there's a d20 and d6 version of the game. Which did you use?
(Guessing d20 based on a couple things in your character sheet)

[Beacon of Chaos]

Consults the Book of Armaments Topaz' Traditionally Tardy List of Pony tabletop RPGs.

Hmm, there's a d20 and d6 version of the game. Which did you use?
(Guessing d20 based on a couple things in your character sheet)
Ahhh, there are multiple Ponytales RPGs. That's why I was confused. Yes, it's the d20 version.

[DigoDragon]

Ahhh, there are multiple Ponytales RPGs. That's why I was confused. Yes, it's the d20 version.

I was confused too, for a related reason that you have discovered! XD
Thanks though. I want to learn more game systems and Ponytales seemed like an idea.


Edit:
Bloomin' Liar
http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2015/051/8/f/bloomin__liar_by_veggie55-d8it4lu.png

[Aotrs Commander]

Edit:
Bloomin' Liar
http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2015/051/8/f/bloomin__liar_by_veggie55-d8it4lu.png

That is freakin' hilarious!

Especially the cutiemark.



Time for another round of Bleakbane watches!

7:

Okay, so, Korra has no memories so dohickey wibbly stuff must be done to get them back. Aang... Roku... AVATAR FRAKING KYOSHI... older waterbender... guy...

And this is all basically just a flimsy excuse for world building and history, is it? Okay, I can dig that.

Hmm. Awfully advanced looking city for such an ancient time...

On the back of a lion-turtle... Oooo...kay, then.

Woah. The world was pretty damn freaky back in them that days. That's actually really kind of cool! What a setting for adventures!

I like the more sort of washed-out, slightly more cartoonish cast to the animation here, it underlines the oddness quite nicely,

Okay, usual drill: stupid arsehat preportedly good imprisoner completely fails to communicate with people, leading to release of Bad Thing. Well, frankly duck, maybe if you actually tried something other than "frack off! I'm not going to explain what's going on, I'm just going to sit here while he begs for release using the oldest trick in the book, so old that, yeah, even in opre-history it was old..." Not a lot of sympathy from me.

Not much to say here, other than there should have been more AVATAR KYOSHI.

Actually, can the next series be about her? Because that would be un-fricking-believably awesome. (Kyoshi is Best Avatar. She wouldn't have put up with all this crap.)

8:
Well, despite the somewhat cliche beginning, that was a very nice two-parter. That felt much more like Avatar. Wan? Yuan? Was pretty cool, and it had some nice weight to it, as well. Not much to say, really. More like that, gentlemen, please...

9:
Yeah, this feels much better.

(Well, the bits with Korra, anyway. Mako's subplot just got very... generic. Seriously, what in the hell is wrong with Beifong and her top flunkies? They are being every steriotypical idiot cop ever and it's kinda of pathetic.)

Go Jinora! Korra seems a lot calmer too, and it does her good.

I have to say, I really like Tenzen as a character. They've managed something genuinely unique with him.. A character with his head and heart in the right place and tries to very hard to live up to the Wise Old Master stereotype (as you can see he feels Aang would have wanted him)... But he just can't quite manage it, because he's still to attached to the world (and he has a bit of a temper!) He's stubborn... but actually, quite amenable when presented with things that don't go how he would like, and willing to admit when he's wrong. It's really refreshing character and I'm very glad he's in the series.

And thinsh are hotting up. Batu is about to be released by Evil Uncle - somehow - and y'know, it actually doesn't feel to jarring that He's Behind It All Along. (Yeah, could have been forshadowed maybe a touch earlier, but given they'd only got thirteen episodes, I'll give 'em that.) It's certainly handled better than last season, at any rate...)



Random thought occurred some time last week... Next Avatar is Earth - reasonably likelihood of being a metal-bender. Last Earth Bender Avatar lived 230 years (and kicked so much arse it almost hurts to watch her.) If next Earth Bender Avatr is even half that.... Further into future => technology. Next avatar => some sort of super cyber-avatar, manipulator of technology and general arse kicking? That'd be SO cool...

[DigoDragon]

Round is a Shape.
http://36.media.tumblr.com/b22c142684508b442c19be47934a22f8/tumblr_n1gmorOwP71rsecjio1_500.png

http://41.media.tumblr.com/bb4349091f62dcc06e109be60d9e4859/tumblr_n1gmorOwP71rsecjio2_500.png

http://40.media.tumblr.com/a0c50581b9062a325c741f64b37362e7/tumblr_n1gmorOwP71rsecjio3_500.png

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http://41.media.tumblr.com/87fc0b8c84cdab661b0386edfd28bf4d/tumblr_n1gmorOwP71rsecjio7_500.png

http://36.media.tumblr.com/f76c5c914b9384c63efc4d28c59de973/tumblr_n1gmorOwP71rsecjio8_500.png



That is freakin' hilarious!
Especially the cutiemark.

I LOL'd pretty hard yeah. :D

Also, nice to see you have good tastes in Avatars. Kyoshi rocks!
...okay, not an intentional pun, but I'll roll with it.

[zimmerwald1915]

Also, nice to see you have good tastes in Avatars. Kyoshi rocks!
...okay, not an intentional pun, but I'll roll with it.
Yeah, gonna have to disagree with you there. She plays the Gustav Noske with aplomb, albeit outside TLA and LoK.

[otakuryoga]

https://tv.yahoo.com/news/cartoon-network-renews-11-shows-180200479.html
renewals by Cartoon Network......and:
POWERPUFF GIRLS REBOOT!!!!!!! is re-confirmed





...okay, not an intentional pun, but I'll roll with it.

dont forget to put yer hips into it

[Balmas]

I feel I would be remiss in not posting this, despite the fact that it's late, and may have been posted already. Still,


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBxu1rq_R-0#t=148



https://derpicdn.net/img/2015/2/16/830396/tall.jpeg
https://derpicdn.net/img/view/2015/2/20/833509__safe_applejack_comic_apple+bloom_bed_dark_ this+will+end+in+tears_prank_revenge_artist-colon-saturdaymorningproj.jpeg

Source (https://derpiboo.ru/833509?scope=scpe9998e62c04d895ddc6080a9f9f6818041 767c0eb)

[Manga Shoggoth]

Trouble put herself to bed tonight. This is the second night in a row. She's not even a year old yet.
#RedSpearDiscipline

Soooo... Much.... Envy....

Mine still can't do this. Mind you, she's 16...

[Beacon of Chaos]

I was confused too, for a related reason that you have discovered! XD
Thanks though. I want to learn more game systems and Ponytales seemed like an idea.
I quite like the combat system in Ponytales d20. It's quite fun to pick your attacks and abilities, especially since the system lends itself well to finding interesting combos and effects.


Time for another round of Bleakbane watches!

I have to say, I really like Tenzen as a character. They've managed something genuinely unique with him.. A character with his head and heart in the right place and tries to very hard to live up to the Wise Old Master stereotype (as you can see he feels Aang would have wanted him)... But he just can't quite manage it, because he's still to attached to the world (and he has a bit of a temper!) He's stubborn... but actually, quite amenable when presented with things that don't go how he would like, and willing to admit when he's wrong. It's really refreshing character and I'm very glad he's in the series.
I'm glad you like him, he's probably my favourite character in the show.

[DigoDragon]

POWERPUFF GIRLS REBOOT!!!!!!! is re-confirmed

And yet they're going with Titans Go instead of the better previous series. :smallannoyed:



dont forget to put yer hips into it

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-V3FjNoVqkis/UnbKn9osg9I/AAAAAAAA2nQ/eozOPFVwevQ/s1600/RoyalsJUMPtheShark.png
http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2012/296/a/8/mlp___walk_like_a_princess_by_shachza-d5irjeb.png
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-T8SmtqkwubU/UtDMBaoiuZI/AAAAAAAANcQ/y59DE1EHHbk/w765-h865-no/luna.jpg
http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2013/306/8/3/snuggle_struggle__colored__by_abyssalemissary-d6ss6hp.png
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5PKl-xw2kEQ/UVp6e-nDGpI/AAAAAAABXqA/XSSPIpaJDA0/s1600/130051__UNOPT__safe_trixie_smile_happy_dancing_art ist-sofunnyguy-1.png
http://th00.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/f/2014/178/1/3/mlp_co___pie_shining_by_brainsucks-d7aaa3s.png
http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/347/5/3/conga_ponies_by_starsteppony-d4j127q.gif

http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20120214083734/guitartbone/images/c/cd/Mlp-dance.gif




https://derpicdn.net/img/view/2015/2/20/833509__safe_applejack_comic_apple+bloom_bed_dark_ this+will+end+in+tears_prank_revenge_artist-colon-saturdaymorningproj.jpeg

Mwahaha, I love those kind of threats. :smallbiggrin:
Sooo evil.


Soooo... Much.... Envy....
Mine still can't do this. Mind you, she's 16...

Mine will put herself to bed when she knows it can aid in her escape of punishment. >.>



I quite like the combat system in Ponytales d20. It's quite fun to pick your attacks and abilities, especially since the system lends itself well to finding interesting combos and effects.

Interesting that attacks are auto-hit.

[Aotrs Commander]

https://tv.yahoo.com/news/cartoon-network-renews-11-shows-180200479.html
renewals by Cartoon Network......and:
POWERPUFF GIRLS REBOOT!!!!!!! is re-confirmed

It's a reboot. How is this good news...?

[Manga Shoggoth]

It's a reboot. How is this good news...?

Exhibit A: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.

Oh, I agree - so many things can go wrong with a reboot (Sturgeon's law applies everywhere...). But sometimes they go right.

[Aotrs Commander]

Exhibit A: My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic.

Oh, I agree - so many things can go wrong with a reboot (Sturgeon's law applies everywhere...). But sometimes they go right.

It's a CARTOON NETWORK reboot.

One only has to look at the final series of Dexter's Lab, what I'm told (and fractically little I'm seen) of Xaolin Showdown's reboot - even that attempt they had a while back. (Heck, you coukld even argue Avatar => Korra.)

They usually don't come to to standard. Especially if they have a new ste of voice actors (and nothing in "reboot" suggests that they will.)

We're not talking about the reboot of MLP G1 - 3.5, we're closer to talking about a reboot of FiM. The former series had a lot more room to improve (and lightning struck and struck HARD when FiM was created)... Whereas reboot a series that was already good give you a MUCH higher chance of something worse. Higher you start, the further you have to fall - and the easier it is.

And, need I remind you that CN axes anything with any kind of potential these days in liu of chasing the Next Big Thing. Unless they've finally replaces whatever numpty took over and made decisions like cancelling Young Justice and Green Lanturn and Brave and the Bold for the underwhleming (and shortly cancelled, to one-one's surprise) Beware the Batman, bringing Titan Go rather than Titans (and I even do like Go).

So, yeah. Until we hear something FAR more positive (like who's writing it, what the cast is) I'll remain thoroughly sceptical.

[Rater202]

The Final season of Dexter's Lab was a season, not a reboot, and Xiaolin Chronicles wasn't a Cartoon Network Reboot, it was on Disney XD, and it was a Crappy Sequel, not a Crappy Reboot.(They had to change some stuff, though, because they couldn't get the rights to everything.)

[b_jonas]

Hi, Ponythread!

Here's a not very serious pool question about the next two seasons. Whose magic do you think will help Scootaloo fly on her own? (Rainbow Dash or other flying creatures lifting her don't count.)


Her own pegasus magic. She'll just try twenty times as hard.
Her own changeling magic. She'll grow from a larva to a young adult changeling, and in that form her changeling wings will be strong enough to lift her.
Pinkie Pie's. She'll ride her hoof pedal driven helicopter (crazy contraption, from S1 E5).
A pony artificer's. She'll get a magical propeller hat like Tank has.
Fluttershy's and Pinkie Pie's together. Fluttershy will cheer louder, and Pinkie Pie will bring the pom poms.
Sweetie Belle's. She'll levitate her magically, just like she levitates Diamond Tiara in the dream sequence in S4 E15.
Applejack's. She'll launch her in the air like she lauched Rainbow Dash in S1 E4, and she'll somehow be able to catch flight starting from that.
Zecora's. She'll brew her a potion of flight, or a potion to make her wings stronger.
The Great and Powerful Trixie's. She's shown she can grow one of Rainbow Dash's wings with magic (in S3 E5), so now she'll use that magic to grow both of Scootaloo's wings just a little bit stronger.
Twilight Sparkle's. She'll cast a flying spell that gives her another set of wings, made from gossamer and morning dew (like in S1 E16).
Twilight Sparkle's. She'll cast a gravity spell or levitation spell (like she did in S3 E1 and S3 E2).
The magic of the Tree of Harmony. Each of the mane six flew in their super Rainbow Power form, and we have already seen toys showing other ponies in Rainbow Power form. (Sunset Shimmer did fly in her demon form as well.)
Discord's chaos magic. She did make pigs fly, or something like that.
Lord Tirek's magic. She was able to take the flight of pegasus, so probably she can give it back too.
Philomena's phoenix magic somehow.
Princess Luna's magic.
Rainbow Dash's. She'll just train her.
Rainbow Dash's, but she'll give up her dreams of becoming a Wonderbolt forever just to get her flight magic transferred to Scootaloo.
Nobody's. Scootaloo will remain on the ground.
(Update:) Iron Will. He has a seminar for flying.
(Update:) Twilight Sparkle's magic: she'll cast the spell to turn her into a Breezie.


-----

Now about Rainbow Dash. You know how when Season 5 starts to get released, this thread will probably get even more popular than before, right? So just before the first episode airs, when we don't yet know what the episode contains so we can't quote its contents to title the thread yet, but we expect the thread to contain lots of material about the new episodes, let's use the title “My Little Pony (number): I need something real fast like a bullet to keep up with the thread”.

[DigoDragon]

Whose magic do you think will help Scootaloo fly on her own?

T) She becomes a winged cyborg, gets paired up with Rumble, and they take their vigilante show on the road to Las Pegasus.

They Fight Crime.
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-AgnRs4zkzog/UAhRG0590KI/AAAAAAAAwPo/ax3xSbIlMDI/s1600/1.png

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[Rater202]

T) She becomes a winged cyborg, gets paired up with Rumble, and they take their vigilante show on the road to Las Pegasus.

But then she'd have to leave the other Crusaders behind.

I think.

Somepony have the map? Is Los Pegasus a cloud city?

[Derjuin]

Somepony have the map? Is Los Pegasus a cloud city?

The map (http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130403195243/mlp/images/c/cb/Map_of_Equestria_April_2013.jpg) says we're fu it's most likely a cloud city. Unless it's under the clouds, but it's got a similar design to Cloudsdale so it's probably a cloud city.

[DigoDragon]

But then she'd have to leave the other Crusaders behind.

That tends to be a fact of life growing up though. :/

[Alabenson]

It's a CARTOON NETWORK reboot.

One only has to look at the final series of Dexter's Lab, what I'm told (and fractically little I'm seen) of Xaolin Showdown's reboot - even that attempt they had a while back. (Heck, you coukld even argue Avatar => Korra.)

They usually don't come to to standard. Especially if they have a new ste of voice actors (and nothing in "reboot" suggests that they will.)

We're not talking about the reboot of MLP G1 - 3.5, we're closer to talking about a reboot of FiM. The former series had a lot more room to improve (and lightning struck and struck HARD when FiM was created)... Whereas reboot a series that was already good give you a MUCH higher chance of something worse. Higher you start, the further you have to fall - and the easier it is.

And, need I remind you that CN axes anything with any kind of potential these days in liu of chasing the Next Big Thing. Unless they've finally replaces whatever numpty took over and made decisions like cancelling Young Justice and Green Lanturn and Brave and the Bold for the underwhleming (and shortly cancelled, to one-one's surprise) Beware the Batman, bringing Titan Go rather than Titans (and I even do like Go).

So, yeah. Until we hear something FAR more positive (like who's writing it, what the cast is) I'll remain thoroughly sceptical.

Two positive points which might help;

1: The executive producer they've put in charge of the reboot is the same guy who runs Adventure Time, so there's at least someone who knows what they're doing on-board in a decision making role.

2: The idiot who had been mutilating Cartoon Network since 2007, CEO Stuart Snyder, was fired last May.

[Rater202]

2: The idiot who had been mutilating Cartoon Network since 2007, CEO Stuart Snyder, was fired last May.

...Would it be inappropriate for me to start Singing Brand New Day*?

*The one from The Wiz, not the One from Doctor Horrible

[zimmerwald1915]

...Would it be inappropriate for me to start Singing Brand New Day*?

*The one from The Wiz, not the One from Doctor Horrible
Is it ever?

[DigoDragon]

...Would it be inappropriate for me to start Singing Brand New Day*?

I don't see why it would. Unless you're actually a siren and your singing lures sailors to their doom, in which case it might be a bad idea.
http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2015/035/9/d/starswirl_and_the_sirens_by_westphalianartist-d8govl9.png

[Aotrs Commander]

Two positive points which might help;

1: The executive producer they've put in charge of the reboot is the same guy who runs Adventure Time, so there's at least someone who knows what they're doing on-board in a decision making role.

2: The idiot who had been mutilating Cartoon Network since 2007, CEO Stuart Snyder, was fired last May.

Well, that is something more hopeful, at least.

Especially that last one.

[b_jonas]

T) She becomes a winged cyborg, gets paired up with Rumble, and they take their vigilante show on the road to Las Pegasus.

That could work too, yes. Flying cyborgs are rare, I think.

[DigoDragon]

Your PSA for today:

If you open the dryer and find all your clothes clinging to the right side of the drum, for the love of Celestia don't reach in and grab them! Because yes, there is a threshold for static electricity where it can be visibly seen in the daylight.


Also, OUCH.

http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2012/142/2/2/fun_with_static_electricity_by_treez123-d50pium.jpg

[HalfTangible]

Because yes, there is a threshold for static electricity where it can be visibly seen in the daylight.

I can vouch for him on this, if need be.

[Forum Explorer]

So someone hired Discord as weather manager in my area. Remember how I was saying it was +2ish a day or two ago? Well today it's -15. Tomorrow? They say it's going back up to +1. By Wednesday? -17.

The roads in my city are going to be so bad this year. :smalleek:

[Metahuman1]

It's a CARTOON NETWORK reboot.

One only has to look at the final series of Dexter's Lab, what I'm told (and fractically little I'm seen) of Xaolin Showdown's reboot - even that attempt they had a while back. (Heck, you coukld even argue Avatar => Korra.)

They usually don't come to to standard. Especially if they have a new ste of voice actors (and nothing in "reboot" suggests that they will.)

We're not talking about the reboot of MLP G1 - 3.5, we're closer to talking about a reboot of FiM. The former series had a lot more room to improve (and lightning struck and struck HARD when FiM was created)... Whereas reboot a series that was already good give you a MUCH higher chance of something worse. Higher you start, the further you have to fall - and the easier it is.

And, need I remind you that CN axes anything with any kind of potential these days in liu of chasing the Next Big Thing. Unless they've finally replaces whatever numpty took over and made decisions like cancelling Young Justice and Green Lanturn and Brave and the Bold for the underwhleming (and shortly cancelled, to one-one's surprise) Beware the Batman, bringing Titan Go rather than Titans (and I even do like Go).

So, yeah. Until we hear something FAR more positive (like who's writing it, what the cast is) I'll remain thoroughly sceptical.

So, fun fact time. The chuckle head your referring to was Stuart Snyder. He was adamant in his hate of cartoons and animation. Everything that's bad about CN in the last decade can be tied to him either directly, or indirectly through one of the MANY yes men he liked to hire.

Second fun fact, he was fired about 2 years ago. They were quite about it, they let him keep what dignity he had left (Decent of them, don't know I'd have done the same.), and have been quietly purging the Networks ranks of is Yes Men in that time so that they can start effectively reversing his policies.


And finally, CN has an upcoming ep of Teen Titans Go were in the cast and characters form Young Justice will guest star and team up with the team. This means one of two things is going on. 1: There gonna announce that there bringing Young Justice Back. Or, 2, this is a screen Test, and if the ratings are good (Or better still, better then Go's norm.), then they'll decide to bring it back. Thus, it's in the YJ fandom's best interest to seek out and watch this one ep.



And 1 Skit none withstanding, I Dispise TTG. (The first skit ever. The one that was built around the Brony In joke.)

[DigoDragon]

I can vouch for him on this, if need be.

I'm apparently a really good electrical conductor. Might make sense given I'm an earth sign?



So someone hired Discord as weather manager in my area. Remember how I was saying it was +2ish a day or two ago? Well today it's -15. Tomorrow? They say it's going back up to +1. By Wednesday? -17.

Wow, that just brings back the Lewis Black skit about weather...

That is a crazy rollercoaster. :smalleek:



And 1 Skit none withstanding, I Dispise TTG. (The first skit ever. The one that was built around the Brony In joke.)

What about the one where the Titans were sent into pony land? I think the episode was called Friendship (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nafLh01_yoY).

[Fable Wright]

So, fun fact time. The chuckle head your referring to was Stuart Snyder. He was adamant in his hate of cartoons and animation. Everything that's bad about CN in the last decade can be tied to him either directly, or indirectly through one of the MANY yes men he liked to hire.
...
Why did he become the head of Cartoon Network, then? You know, the channel well-loved for its cartoons and whose main draw is, was, and will always be, well, Cartoons?

Who would ever think this was a good idea?

[DigoDragon]

Why did he become the head of Cartoon Network, then?

Maybe his hatred was so great that the best way to destroy cartoons was to get himself put in charge of the network with cartoons for it's name? And get paid while doing it?

[Kd7sov]

But then she'd have to leave the other Crusaders behind.

I think.

Somepony have the map? Is Los Pegasus a cloud city?

My own headcanon is that Las Pegasus is built half on a cloud, half on a mesa to which the cloud is anchored. So it's largely a cloud city, yes, but there's plenty of non-cloud districts.

[Forum Explorer]

Maybe his hatred was so great that the best way to destroy cartoons was to get himself put in charge of the network with cartoons for it's name? And get paid while doing it?

He sounds like a villain out of, well, a cartoon. :smallbiggrin:

[Rater202]

Has his house been shot up by GIJoe yet?

[DigoDragon]

My own headcanon is that Las Pegasus is built half on a cloud, half on a mesa to which the cloud is anchored. So it's largely a cloud city, yes, but there's plenty of non-cloud districts.

Sounds like how the actual Las Vegas is built. :3



He sounds like a villain out of, well, a cartoon. :smallbiggrin:

He does, right? It's hard to make up stuff like that.



Has his house been shot up by GIJoe yet?

No, because G.I.Joe were terrible shots. :3

[Rater202]

No, because G.I.Joe were terrible shots. :3

Which is why his house would be shot all to hell, but not him.

[Aotrs Commander]

...
Why did he become the head of Cartoon Network, then? You know, the channel well-loved for its cartoons and whose main draw is, was, and will always be, well, Cartoons?

Who would ever think this was a good idea?

That was the question everybody asked at the time.

I googled the fellow, and apparently it was simply down to him being an idiot - he decided (for some reason) children were watching reality television and live-action, and thus Cartoon Network should do that. Funnily enough, it backfired terribly. What I cannot understand is his superiors not hitting him in the head with a shovel the very second he first mentioned it. I can only assume they were the sort of blind-headed cretinuous business people unable to comprehend anything outside their own (current, limited) expereince.

The sort of people whose souls will be set on fire when I'm in charge just on general principle. After, y'know, I utterly destroy everything they've ever understood or worked for by dragging Earth into post-scarity and rendering all their life's dreams utterly worthless.

Right, enough of that - time to go and start on the last four episodes of Korra...

[Thanqol]

Hi, Ponythread!

Here's a not very serious pool question about the next two seasons. Whose magic do you think will help Scootaloo fly on her own? (Rainbow Dash or other flying creatures lifting her don't count.)

None, that would defeat the point. Scootaloo not being able to fly is the show talking about children with disabilities and saying that's okay and they're still special just the way they are.

[Rater202]

None, that would defeat the point. Scootaloo not being able to fly is the show talking about children with disabilities and saying that's okay and they're still special just the way they are.

Without being preachy about it.

Though part of me would still like her to get some kind of magitech scooter that gives her a bit of extra lift.

[Aotrs Commander]

Bleakbane Watches:


10:
Oh, this is getting intense. This was definitely "callback" episode.

Fricking Iroh! The original. Damn, dude! Never did get enought of that Wise Old Master thing, did you? That was a very welcome surprise!

I actually liked the whole "Korra becomes a child" thing.

Evil Uncle is clearly an idiot beyond all recognition. I cannot wait to see his face when he releases Batu and Batu is like "excellent! Now die!" and he'll be like a little kid "y-you lied to me!?" And Batu will be like "uh, which bit of 'chaotic spirit of evil and destruction' did you not understand, frackwit? Seriosuly, I'd be doing the genepool a favour killing you if, y'know, I wasn't destroying the whole thing."

Poor Jinora. But what could Korra do? Don;'t open the portal and her soul carks it, and even if she does, run the risk of both their souls carking it.

Also, that owl-spirit due is a real [expletive]-bag. Somenecromancer needs to go kill his spirit in the face. Asshat.

11:
Speaking of asshats, Beifong's moustache twisn got everything they deserved. Unfortunately, the blame still lies solidly at HER door for not dealing with them (or listening to Mako) in the first place. I'm starting to believe she might be a good fighter - but as chief of police, she's incompetant.

Bolin... Hmm. At the start of this episode, I was really starting to dislike him. But... he actually DID save the president singlehandedly. (Again, good job Beifong, shout orders but don't go HELP or anything, frag's sake.) So we'll call that a wash ion the end.

The president is so generically Blind Politician it's not funny. Which bit of "if Evil Uncle succeeds, the world willbe destroyed" did you NOT understand? Are you actually mentally retarded mate? Clearly you are, and clearly you need to be replaced by someone in possesion of somethign resembling an actual brain. Don't make me break out the Bleakbane's List of Who Would Have Been A Better President...

Evil Uncle may be, frankly, dumbfrack for following Batu... But hey, at least now the guy actually cops to what he's doing and what he's after. And he actually has some charisma, unlike some other narrative objects I won't even dignify with a name... (And even in victory, it showed he didn't do it without effort and he did show signs of worry.) Dude's a bit generic, maybe, yeah, but at least he's a proper character.

Mako - you're a bloody idot. Lying to Korra is not only going to make HER mad, but fracks of poor Asami as well. Good job on undoing all the characterisation you'd accrued as an independant character.


Also. The first avatar was "Wan" => "One." Haha guys, I nearly missed it, but I see what you did there.

12:
Well... they tried. And, to be honest, is was pretty obvious that of COURSE they weren't going to defat Evil Uncle before Batu got out, because it's have had to be written by Joss Whedon to have done otherwise...

Ya gotta hand to Evil Uncle... Bonding with Batu to become the Dark Avatar... That's... actually way smarter than I'd givne him credit for...and just plausible enough for Batu to go along with willingly. I got to tip my hat to him, as one evil doer to another, that takes some stones. Jealous of the Avatar? Scheme to BECOME the next avatar. I'm actually impressed.

Suddenly, watching Bumi... Inept his way to victor, I find I can actually start to believe his crazy stories. Clearly, he IS a Bender... He just bends LUCK and wild chance to Inspector Gadget his way through all his crazy shenaigans...

(In one way, I'm almost disappointed, since it means he's basically just a comic relief character. Even though he did save the day... It would have been more awesome if it had been with skill, old age and treachery, rather than dumb luck and shown that beneath his exterior, there was a capable individual well hidden. But, sadly, not to be.)

13:
Okay, so that went about as well as expected. And Dark Avatar has glowing red-orange eyes. Heh. Naturally.

Bolin... you're either being really clever... Or this is turning out to be the creepiest romance since Fifty Shades of Grey.

Tenzen - good job, mate. (I'd have thought Iroh might have lent a bit more help... Though I suppose he DID actually tell them where to go...!) 'Bout time you started realising you're you and not Aang. And that's something to be proud of.

Also ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Zhou! Ahahahahahahahahahaha! Man, there's nothing quite like seeing the satisfaction of someone truly deserving getting his eternal punishment. Cracking!

Okay, so Evil Spirit Avatar Combo has some sort of "soul-stripping attack." Well, given as how he's had nothing but ten thousand years to plan and work out new attack forms, I'mma gonna allow that one.

Watching him literally beat the Avatar out of Korra was kind hard, since once you're acquianted with the characters... It's nasty.

And then Batu is clearly better at this, or he's doing something nastier because his Avatar state because yikes...

Well. Frack. Cliffhanger.

Now I got to wait until April until season 3.

*takes DVD out*

*starts to put DVD back in case*

*see 14th episode*

...

*puts DVD back in*

Huh. I was sure it was a 13-episode season....

14:
So, Mr President, how's that "keeping my force to protect my city" working out for you? It isn't? Oh, then maybe you should have actually DONE SOMETHING IN THE FIRST PLACE. Y'know. Because if you had actually not racked about like a moron, Korra and co would likely have pulverised Evil Uncle before Batu got out.[Expletive]wit.

Okay. Jinora is offically badarse. I don't even KNOW what she did there, but damn!

And Bolin's creepy relationship appears over. I think I'm relieved...

And Batu and Evil Uncle get discombulated.Well, they had it coming.


Mm. I'm not sure I like the whole "broken connection to previous Avatars" thing. At all. Not only does it take away from one of the more interesting parts of the mythos - and seal off a host of interesting characters (Avatar Freaking Kyoshi) and world-building, but it's such terrible cliche thing to do as well. (Oh yawn, the whole "blahblahblah coming of age blahblahblah no help from old people blahblahblah;" heard it all before lads, try something new.) I would like to hope they fix in in later seasons. (Either that or I will simply headcanon it fixed later on and damn their eyes.)

Not sure I think leaving the way open to the spirit-realm is a good idea, either. Since, y'know, as we've seen the majority of the spirits appear to be kind of [genitalia]. (Mind you, so are the majority of humans. Keeping the twain in their seperate corners would seem to be wiser, since a large proportion of the latter are utterly helpless against all the former. Hah, that said, I'd almost want to see the Equalists faces when they realised they'd gotten rid of the only people that could give them any kind of defence against the spirits.)

And it also seems... unwise... to leave the door open for people who just don't want to move on and linger in the spirit world. Iroh's fine, yeah... But Zhou's in there. And it only takes one manic who refuses to die. Not too mention all the fracking nasty spirits likr Koh the face-stealer who's just been given a free pass to an open buffet. (Or mister Asshattowl.)

So, giving the very last a bit of a black mark.



Other than that, definitely a better season than the first.

There are still some problems. Bolin... varies from unbearable to watchable erratically. Mako is.. struggling as well. You'd nearly have been as well combining Bumi and Bolin into one, really. Kya always seemed sort of... I dunno, tacked on. We never got to see her aside from in the context of bickering with her brothers or healing. Lin Beifong, I'm sorry to say, basically wants sacking. She's pretty damn crap at her job. On the otherhand, it appears than the Equalists magically stole everyone else's competance. Asami was under utlised: I think a lot more could have been made of her.

Korra, on the other hand, I like. She is hot-headed, but she's starting to temper that with experience, and she has her head screwed on mostly right. Tenzen is extremely well done, uniquely so. Jinora has been very well used and it was nice to see all the children had at least some attempt at development, rather than being completely one-note.

Evil Uncle and Batu made for MUCH better bad guys... I mean, they weren't sp[ectacular, but they were at least above just functional - and well above completely risible like Amron and company. Even if they might have been a shade on the generic side, at least it was with some heart. And most of all, both of them were entertaining to watch (and were actually allowed to be beaten by the y'know, protagonist.)

That's it for Korra for the moment, as I only have up to season two. Probably back onto Naruto next, as the next volume is in - which is starting to be something of a mixed experience in its old age. It hasn't quite got to be the point I abandon it... but it's definitely on a slow slide from its heyday. (The tragic thing is, it's often better when it's being filler than when it's being main plot. Still, Killer Bee is in it, so that's always a good laugh...)

[Rater202]

That's it for Korra for the moment, as I only have up to season two. Probably back onto Naruto next, as the next volume is in - which is starting to be something of a mixed experience in its old age. It hasn't quite got to be the point I abandon it... but it's definitely on a slow slide from its heyday. (The tragic thing is, it's often better when it's being filler than when it's being main plot. Still, Killer Bee is in it, so that's always a good laugh...)

Are you at the "Confining the Jinchuuriki Arch" yet, on those DVD releases? The quality goes up from there, although it plateaus at the end of the Ten Tails Revival Arc

[Aotrs Commander]

Are you at the "Confining the Jinchuuriki Arch" yet, on those DVD releases? The quality goes up from there, although it plateaus at the end of the Ten Tails Revival Arc

Think we're at the point where Naruto is training with Bee to control/whatever the Nine Tails on that island, and I think Dark Naruto showed his face. (I was a bit later than usual ordering the DVD so I can't remember exactly...)

[Rater202]

Think we're at the point where Naruto is training with Bee to control/whatever the Nine Tails on that island, and I think Dark Naruto showed his face. (I was a bit later than usual ordering the DVD so I can't remember exactly...)

Yeah, that's the Confining the Jinchuuriki Arc-where Naruto and Bee and put in the giant turtle island filled with giant Animals under the guise of A special mission/a vacation, respectively, in order to keep them from finding out that there's an entire War being fought to keep them safe.

[Juntao112]

Without being preachy about it.

Though part of me would still like her to get some kind of magitech scooter that gives her a bit of extra lift.

You're thinking too small.

http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2012/223/4/b/scootaloo_flying_with_a_jetpack_by_lva4l-d5apb39.jpg

[DigoDragon]

You're thinking too small.

This post needs more Jetpack. Mares love Jetpacks.
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[Dexam]

I, for one, am not at all clear on the lead-up to the unicorns. These ponies have trouble understanding magic, and therefore they're both scared and frightened? Is the magic doing something that they specifically don't understand, something scary and frightening, and they want Equidae to teach them to tame it or something, like with the weather?


The bit with the unicorns and magic could use some more specific examples. It's easy to understand tending the earth and dealing with storms, it's a little tricky to imagine what went down with the magic that got the ponies so worried.

The idea is that all this original "creation magic" is running around loose, and the earth ponies and pegasi are all "weird freaky stuff keeps happening, which we call magic, and we're so busy looking after the land and sky that we don't have the time to figure out how it works... Help us!". It was a bit difficult trying to explain all that while keeping the same format as the Earth Pony and Pegasus parts of the myth - I guess I lost some detail in trying to keep it simple. The overall concept is earth ponies tame the land, pegasi tame the sky, unicorns tame the magic, alicorns tame the future.

[cavalieredraghi]

You're thinking too small.

http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2012/223/4/b/scootaloo_flying_with_a_jetpack_by_lva4l-d5apb39.jpg


This post needs more Jetpack. Mares love Jetpacks.
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How come her tail is not catching fire

[DigoDragon]

How come her tail is not catching fire

Because she's too cool to take the heat.

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Edit:
So thanks to Balmas' Tumblr, I learned today that leather can be made from pineapples (http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/dec/21/wearable-pineapple-leather-alternative).

[Manga Shoggoth]

Edit:
So thanks to Balmas' Tumblr, I learned today that leather can be made from pineapples (http://www.theguardian.com/business/2014/dec/21/wearable-pineapple-leather-alternative).

I think my brain just went Tilt.

[zimmerwald1915]

I would totally love to see it refined and actually sung. :3
I'm getting over something flu-like, so the singing will have to wait, but here's some refinements (mostly to the rhyming):

Clover the Clever: Gosh it disturbs me to see you, Starswirl
Staring right down in your mug
Ev'ry mage here'd love to be you, Starswirl
Even when feeding your slug
There's no one in town as admired as you
You're the unicorn's pedigree breed
Everyone's awed and inspired by you
And the hist'ry books always will read …

No one's skilled as Starswirl
No one's thrilled as Starswirl
No one's hat's as incredibly frilled as Starswirl's
For there's no mage in town so uncommon
Perfect as cider with rum!
You can ask any warlock or shaman
And they'll tell you whose tome they prefer to read from!

Clover and Chorus: No one's been like Starswirl
Discipline like Starswirl
Clover: No one can a whole new field begin like Starswirl
Starswirl: As an intellect yes, I'm sophisticated!
Clover and Chorus: Hey what a mage, that Starswirl!

Give five "hurrahs!" Give twelve "hip-hips!"
Clover: Starswirl is the best and the rest is all drips!

Chorus: No one glows like Starswirl
Kicks out1 foes like Starswirl
In a lecture-off nopony shows like Starswirl!
Platinum: For there's no one as scruffy and brainy
Starswirl: As you see, I've got fetlocks unsheared
Clover: Not a bit of him random or zany.
Starswirl: That's right!
And every last inch of me's covered with beard!

Chorus: No one casts like Starswirl
No one blasts like Starswirl
Clover: In a magic duel no one outlasts like Starswirl!
Starswirl: I'm especially good at experimenting! Presto!
Chorus: Ten points for Starswirl!

Starswirl: When I was a lad I penned four dozen spells
Ev'ry morning to help me get smart
And now that I'm grown I pen five dozen spells
So I've got it all down to an art!

Chorus: No one cares like Starswirl
Makes those mares like Starswirl
Clover: Then goes trotting around
Wearing airs like Starswirl!
Starswirl: I use gold bells in all of my decorating!

Chorus: Say it with soul!
Who's a bronc among foals?
And then say it once more
Who's that stallion next door?
Who's a super pony?
Don't you know, can't you see?
Ask his fans and his five student girls
There's just one mage in town
Who's got all of it down …
Platinum: And his name's S-T-A … R …
S-T-A-R-C …
S-T-A-R-Z … jeez …
Chorus: Starswirl!

1 I'm not really happy with this. I was going for a meaning similar to "banishes," but with two syllables. I had "exiles" for a while, but that's hard to sing and doesn't really fit. Ideas?

[DigoDragon]

I think my brain just went Tilt.

I know, right? :D
I'm headcanoning it as Equestria's main source of 'leather'. Much better than...

...I really need to watch what I google *facehoof* :smallredface:



I'm getting over something flu-like, so the singing will have to wait, but here's some refinements (mostly to the rhyming):

Clover the Clever: Gosh it disturbs me to see you, Starswirl
Staring right down in your mug
Ev'ry mage here'd love to be you, Starswirl
Even when feeding your slug
There's no one in town as admired as you
You're the unicorn's pedigree breed
Everyone's awed and inspired by you
And the hist'ry books always will read …

No one's skilled as Starswirl
No one's thrilled as Starswirl
No one's hat's as incredibly frilled as Starswirl's
For there's no mage in town so uncommon
Perfect as cider with rum!
You can ask any warlock or shaman
And they'll tell you whose tome they prefer to read from!

Clover and Chorus: No one's been like Starswirl
Discipline like Starswirl
Clover: No one can a whole new field begin like Starswirl
Starswirl: As an intellect yes, I'm sophisticated!
Clover and Chorus: Hey what a mage, that Starswirl!

Give five "hurrahs!" Give twelve "hip-hips!"
Clover: Starswirl is the best and the rest is all drips!

Chorus: No one glows like Starswirl
Kicks out1 foes like Starswirl
In a lecture-off nopony shows like Starswirl!
Platinum: For there's no one as scruffy and brainy
Starswirl: As you see, I've got fetlocks unsheared
Clover: Not a bit of him random or zany.
Starswirl: That's right!
And every last inch of me's covered with beard!

Chorus: No one casts like Starswirl
No one blasts like Starswirl
Clover: In a magic duel no one outlasts like Starswirl!
Starswirl: I'm especially good at experimenting! Presto!
Chorus: Ten points for Starswirl!

Starswirl: When I was a lad I penned four dozen spells
Ev'ry morning to help me get smart
And now that I'm grown I pen five dozen spells
So I've got it all down to an art!

Chorus: No one cares like Starswirl
Makes those mares like Starswirl
Clover: Then goes trotting around
Wearing airs like Starswirl!
Starswirl: I use gold bells in all of my decorating!

Chorus: Say it with soul!
Who's a bronc among foals?
And then say it once more
Who's that stallion next door?
Who's a super pony?
Don't you know, can't you see?
Ask his fans and his five student girls
There's just one mage in town
Who's got all of it down …
Platinum: And his name's S-T-A … R …
S-T-A-R-C …
S-T-A-R-Z … jeez …
Chorus: Starswirl!

1 I'm not really happy with this. I was going for a meaning similar to "banishes," but with two syllables. I had "exiles" for a while, but that's hard to sing and doesn't really fit. Ideas?

I like it! The refinements make it flow better. As for your one point you were unsure of, how about using "casts out"?

[SiuiS]

I know, right? :D
I'm headcanoning it as Equestria's main source of 'leather'. Much better than...

...I really need to watch what I google *facehoof* :smallredface:


Only while hyper tread woogie is watching

[DigoDragon]

Only while hyper tread woogie is watching

You can't hear it, but my daughter is laughing her butt off right now. At my expense. :smalltongue:

[Rater202]

You can't hear it, but my daughter is laughing her butt off right now. At my expense. :smalltongue:

And now rater is laughing his butt of at your expense.

[Thanqol]

The cursed primary demographic has rustled me for my ponies.

One of the small girls told me that she wanted my ponies, "Not for me, but for a girl I know. She wanted to play ponies with some other girls but she didn't have any so they didn't let her and she was crying about it." I gave her Rarity and Fluttershy.

The second, a little boy, wanted Twilight Sparkle as a present to give to his mommy. And he did! He also wanted to be Twilight Sparkle, which was cool.

The third one, a slightly older girl, just really liked Photo Finish and was straight up about that. I had to respect that.

Goddamn it! I got rustled!

[zimmerwald1915]

Goddamn it! I got rustled!
Shame on you, giving things away to kids. This means you'll have to repeat Avarice 101.

[DigoDragon]

Stop Helping!
http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2015/049/3/8/lets_get_moving_by_jowybean-d8il1p5.jpg (http://jowybean.deviantart.com/art/Lets-Get-Moving-514944473)



And now rater is laughing his butt of at your expense.

...The Deeg will allow it. :smalltongue:



The cursed primary demographic has rustled me for my ponies.

I know the feels. My daughter rustles me for my stuff too, not just ponies. Spare change, empty gift cards, etc. I did get her back and took one of her Rarity figures, but then she had 4 of them at the time so she probably never noticed. She has enough Pinkie Pies to reenact the 'Too Many Pinkie Pies' episode. >.>



Shame on you, giving things away to kids. This means you'll have to repeat Avarice 101.

There's a class for this?! O.o

[Metahuman1]

Bleakbane Watches:


10:
Oh, this is getting intense. This was definitely "callback" episode.

Fricking Iroh! The original. Damn, dude! Never did get enought of that Wise Old Master thing, did you? That was a very welcome surprise!

I actually liked the whole "Korra becomes a child" thing.

Evil Uncle is clearly an idiot beyond all recognition. I cannot wait to see his face when he releases Batu and Batu is like "excellent! Now die!" and he'll be like a little kid "y-you lied to me!?" And Batu will be like "uh, which bit of 'chaotic spirit of evil and destruction' did you not understand, frackwit? Seriosuly, I'd be doing the genepool a favour killing you if, y'know, I wasn't destroying the whole thing."

Poor Jinora. But what could Korra do? Don;'t open the portal and her soul carks it, and even if she does, run the risk of both their souls carking it.

Also, that owl-spirit due is a real [expletive]-bag. Somenecromancer needs to go kill his spirit in the face. Asshat.

11:
Speaking of asshats, Beifong's moustache twisn got everything they deserved. Unfortunately, the blame still lies solidly at HER door for not dealing with them (or listening to Mako) in the first place. I'm starting to believe she might be a good fighter - but as chief of police, she's incompetant.

Bolin... Hmm. At the start of this episode, I was really starting to dislike him. But... he actually DID save the president singlehandedly. (Again, good job Beifong, shout orders but don't go HELP or anything, frag's sake.) So we'll call that a wash ion the end.

The president is so generically Blind Politician it's not funny. Which bit of "if Evil Uncle succeeds, the world willbe destroyed" did you NOT understand? Are you actually mentally retarded mate? Clearly you are, and clearly you need to be replaced by someone in possesion of somethign resembling an actual brain. Don't make me break out the Bleakbane's List of Who Would Have Been A Better President...

Evil Uncle may be, frankly, dumbfrack for following Batu... But hey, at least now the guy actually cops to what he's doing and what he's after. And he actually has some charisma, unlike some other narrative objects I won't even dignify with a name... (And even in victory, it showed he didn't do it without effort and he did show signs of worry.) Dude's a bit generic, maybe, yeah, but at least he's a proper character.

Mako - you're a bloody idot. Lying to Korra is not only going to make HER mad, but fracks of poor Asami as well. Good job on undoing all the characterisation you'd accrued as an independant character.


Also. The first avatar was "Wan" => "One." Haha guys, I nearly missed it, but I see what you did there.

12:
Well... they tried. And, to be honest, is was pretty obvious that of COURSE they weren't going to defat Evil Uncle before Batu got out, because it's have had to be written by Joss Whedon to have done otherwise...

Ya gotta hand to Evil Uncle... Bonding with Batu to become the Dark Avatar... That's... actually way smarter than I'd givne him credit for...and just plausible enough for Batu to go along with willingly. I got to tip my hat to him, as one evil doer to another, that takes some stones. Jealous of the Avatar? Scheme to BECOME the next avatar. I'm actually impressed.

Suddenly, watching Bumi... Inept his way to victor, I find I can actually start to believe his crazy stories. Clearly, he IS a Bender... He just bends LUCK and wild chance to Inspector Gadget his way through all his crazy shenaigans...

(In one way, I'm almost disappointed, since it means he's basically just a comic relief character. Even though he did save the day... It would have been more awesome if it had been with skill, old age and treachery, rather than dumb luck and shown that beneath his exterior, there was a capable individual well hidden. But, sadly, not to be.)

13:
Okay, so that went about as well as expected. And Dark Avatar has glowing red-orange eyes. Heh. Naturally.

Bolin... you're either being really clever... Or this is turning out to be the creepiest romance since Fifty Shades of Grey.

Tenzen - good job, mate. (I'd have thought Iroh might have lent a bit more help... Though I suppose he DID actually tell them where to go...!) 'Bout time you started realising you're you and not Aang. And that's something to be proud of.

Also ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha! Zhou! Ahahahahahahahahahaha! Man, there's nothing quite like seeing the satisfaction of someone truly deserving getting his eternal punishment. Cracking!

Okay, so Evil Spirit Avatar Combo has some sort of "soul-stripping attack." Well, given as how he's had nothing but ten thousand years to plan and work out new attack forms, I'mma gonna allow that one.

Watching him literally beat the Avatar out of Korra was kind hard, since once you're acquianted with the characters... It's nasty.

And then Batu is clearly better at this, or he's doing something nastier because his Avatar state because yikes...

Well. Frack. Cliffhanger.

Now I got to wait until April until season 3.

*takes DVD out*

*starts to put DVD back in case*

*see 14th episode*

...

*puts DVD back in*

Huh. I was sure it was a 13-episode season....

14:
So, Mr President, how's that "keeping my force to protect my city" working out for you? It isn't? Oh, then maybe you should have actually DONE SOMETHING IN THE FIRST PLACE. Y'know. Because if you had actually not racked about like a moron, Korra and co would likely have pulverised Evil Uncle before Batu got out.[Expletive]wit.

Okay. Jinora is offically badarse. I don't even KNOW what she did there, but damn!

And Bolin's creepy relationship appears over. I think I'm relieved...

And Batu and Evil Uncle get discombulated.Well, they had it coming.


Mm. I'm not sure I like the whole "broken connection to previous Avatars" thing. At all. Not only does it take away from one of the more interesting parts of the mythos - and seal off a host of interesting characters (Avatar Freaking Kyoshi) and world-building, but it's such terrible cliche thing to do as well. (Oh yawn, the whole "blahblahblah coming of age blahblahblah no help from old people blahblahblah;" heard it all before lads, try something new.) I would like to hope they fix in in later seasons. (Either that or I will simply headcanon it fixed later on and damn their eyes.)

Not sure I think leaving the way open to the spirit-realm is a good idea, either. Since, y'know, as we've seen the majority of the spirits appear to be kind of [genitalia]. (Mind you, so are the majority of humans. Keeping the twain in their seperate corners would seem to be wiser, since a large proportion of the latter are utterly helpless against all the former. Hah, that said, I'd almost want to see the Equalists faces when they realised they'd gotten rid of the only people that could give them any kind of defence against the spirits.)

And it also seems... unwise... to leave the door open for people who just don't want to move on and linger in the spirit world. Iroh's fine, yeah... But Zhou's in there. And it only takes one manic who refuses to die. Not too mention all the fracking nasty spirits likr Koh the face-stealer who's just been given a free pass to an open buffet. (Or mister Asshattowl.)

So, giving the very last a bit of a black mark.



Other than that, definitely a better season than the first.

There are still some problems. Bolin... varies from unbearable to watchable erratically. Mako is.. struggling as well. You'd nearly have been as well combining Bumi and Bolin into one, really. Kya always seemed sort of... I dunno, tacked on. We never got to see her aside from in the context of bickering with her brothers or healing. Lin Beifong, I'm sorry to say, basically wants sacking. She's pretty damn crap at her job. On the otherhand, it appears than the Equalists magically stole everyone else's competance. Asami was under utlised: I think a lot more could have been made of her.

Korra, on the other hand, I like. She is hot-headed, but she's starting to temper that with experience, and she has her head screwed on mostly right. Tenzen is extremely well done, uniquely so. Jinora has been very well used and it was nice to see all the children had at least some attempt at development, rather than being completely one-note.

Evil Uncle and Batu made for MUCH better bad guys... I mean, they weren't sp[ectacular, but they were at least above just functional - and well above completely risible like Amron and company. Even if they might have been a shade on the generic side, at least it was with some heart. And most of all, both of them were entertaining to watch (and were actually allowed to be beaten by the y'know, protagonist.)

That's it for Korra for the moment, as I only have up to season two. Probably back onto Naruto next, as the next volume is in - which is starting to be something of a mixed experience in its old age. It hasn't quite got to be the point I abandon it... but it's definitely on a slow slide from its heyday. (The tragic thing is, it's often better when it's being filler than when it's being main plot. Still, Killer Bee is in it, so that's always a good laugh...)

Yes, the jist of Snyder was everyone wondering how the heck a guy like that's get to be in charge of the Cartoon Network, but, hey, there starting to fix that. (I'd like to Lobby Ponythread at this time as much as possible to make themselves sit through one ep of Teen Titans Go this week on the 26th of Feb, were the YJ hero's are gonna be guest starring. I'm sure it will be god awful, but if the ratings are high enough they might just bring YJ back, I think that's what there doing here, testing the waters for that shows return.)

And no, I had not seen the ep were they go to ponyland. The fact remains that when you have that good a cast with that much mythology for the world and characters, and the best you can do is Brony In jokes, your show is bad, and I won't support it.






Moving on.



So, Commander, funny thing, most of the Playgrounds Korra fans LIKE that she lost her connection to her past lives because it was a consequence to her actions, Think Riko was perfectly valid in his choice to tell Korra "lol nope!" both times, thought the Iroh Cameo was a cheap trick, think Jinora is a horrible Mary Sue and a walking Deus Ex Machina, and think Korra is a legitimately horrible character this far into the series. Cause, you know, threatened a Judge and beat Amon with out giving his position more time and negotiation. Oh, and they think Vautuu and Evil Uncle are HORRIBLE villains and Amon was infintantly superior as a villain.

So, seeing those points thrown out was extremely refreshing for me. :)

Oh, and don't forget, Nick still has the last 2 seasons of Korra online in case you decide you don't want to wait on the DVD's. Just, throwing that out there. Also, if you though season 2's badguy was good, just wait till you see Season 3 and 4.