Something I forgot to mention and is very important.
I don't want to see copied PMs here on these boards. Private messages should stay private. If it is something rules related, keep it here in the discussion thread and get others opinions. Once it is moved to PMs it is a private matter and it puts me and everyone else in an awkward position, as the PMs were private conversations and pasting them here takes them out of context.
So please don't do it.
Was someone copying PMs on here? We were deleting posts from the Game thread and posting them here, but we weren't doing anything with PMs.
Whoops, Sorry about that. I thought some of those were PMs. All the copied posts were a bit confusing. I'm glad then.
Luckily that doesn't really change anything I said so far though. I really think we can move past this and still have a good game with everyone.
nope no PMs here GM
how the goblins got a +2 to their attack rolls...
Ganging up
Ganging up on a foe allows attacks to flank, exploit openings and generally harass their out numbered opponent.
Each additional adjacent foe adds +1 to all the attacker's fighting rolls, up to a maximum of +4. If three warriors attack a single pony, for example, each of the three warriors gets a +2 bonus to their fighting rolls.
OK with two combats under our belts, I think we are getting a bit of a handle of how things work here, so I think this is a good time for everyone's 1st ADVANCEMENT!
Every 5 experience points is an advance. Every 20 experience increases your rank as well, unlocking more powerful choices. An advance lets you do one of the following:
Let me know what you end up choosing.
Also, since we are all totally new to the game, If you feel like you made a mistake with your character, I will allow some minor adjustments. Let me know if you want to make an adjustment before you do.
Taking Quick as I said.
Quick
Requirements: Novice, Agility d8+
You have lightning-fast reflexes and a cool head in times of
stress. You may discard and redraw any Action Card of a 5
or lower until you get a card higher than a 5.
Won't be posting for a few days.
Oh, and I'll update my Parry score shortly. Gotta look up what Parry is calculated from, and the program's being a bit iffy right now. :)
Im getting the loss of steam feeling about this game, seems we are stalling :)
Not really stalling, I've been in 10 games so far in the past three months. Every one had a rush of play at first then slowly settled into their own pace.
True. It was stalling a bit earlier, but things actually seem to be going fine, looking at the post times.
Sorry guys, out of it today. I'll post a real post tomorrow night. If you can, post a persuasion check for your questions in game.
Splutter splutter .... and stop, and Game out of steam.
The game is failing. In other news, there's a terrifying black-and-white pony in Ponyville who eats hay. She's an evil enchantress. She does evil dances.
:) keep an eye out for them Love eating anti-pones
Ill take over IF GM jlord asks me too, or if he's gone for a week.
Heck, I'll take over if it's either that or drop the game entirely. I like this game. Of course, I'm a horrible procrastinator, so it probably wouldn't go well, but I'm not as busy now, so...*shrug*
But the GM's
Sorry guys, out of it today. I'll post a real post tomorrow night.
hasn't actually run out of time yet. Not sure what's the cause of the panic.
Splutter splutter .... and stop, and Game out of steam.
The game is failing. In other news, there's a terrifying black-and-white pony in Ponyville who eats hay. She's an evil enchantress. She does evil dances.
Ill take over IF GM jlord asks me too, or if he's gone for a week.
Heck, I'll take over if it's either that or drop the game entirely. I like this game. Of course, I'm a horrible procrastinator, so it probably wouldn't go well, but I'm not as busy now, so...*shrug*
My only issue is trying to get into the setting. I know how I usually like to role play, but MLP isn't a standard fantasy RPG. Just still having a hard time figuring out how to play this style of game. Stick to the show or go a step up and start playing like it is rated T for teen or something.
I still haven't decided on what to do with my advance yet. Just not sure where this is going to go or what'll be useful.
Sorry, this is my fault, and I don't really have a good answer for you. There will be alot of encounters. So being able to fighter with either clash of wills, magic, or plan old fighting will be important.
I would say standard fantasy with a MLP twist. There will be some more "teen" rated events that baddies might do, most likely in regards to harming the good guys or innocence bystanders, or being scary evil like.
I was thinking of something with This kind of a feel, or something like that.
If you guys want it more teen/adult themed game, I have no problem with making more violent and evil baddies. I mean, it's your guys's game too, anything you would like out of it? There is nothing stopping us from having a campaign like this... -_-'
What's interesting, Element, is that makes two of us who had something similar they were working on prior to this.
I was working on Ponyfinder, of course, which can be found on these forums (still a work in progress). I was also working on my book and novella about the pre-Equestrian age. My headcanon actually seems to match the GM's pretty well.
In my setting, things were grim (by pony standards), ponies died sometimes--sometimes killed by other ponies. Discord shows up in the novella, and things get grimmer, naturally. I don't really like grim stories, but I play Pathfinder. No choice about it! Death must occur! ;D
I'm okay with violence. I'm also okay with talking over most combats, depending on what the others are comfortable with. I'm predicting a few combats might require lethal violence (particularly with mindless beasts), but with sentient creatures, I won't complain if we never have to resort to dead stuff most of the time.
In fact, if we end up killing a sentient being, I kind of expect it to be treated as a big deal.
WOw me as well I am also working on a book, about man kind going into space but its set 1,000,000,000 years in the future and Men dos not go into space like any other SF book I have ever read, came to me in the Bath.
As for the game its needs to be darker I was thinking "Band of Brothers" Meets "My little Pony" kind of thing.
Ok, seems like half the group wants a bit more violence. If shep kicks a porc in the mouth, do we want to see jaws dislocated, blood spewing forths, or a more soft kind of violence? If Element fries some porcs, so we want to see burning husks, or slightly burned unconscious porcs?
Do we want to drop or alter of the "Tenet against Violence" rule, or maybe even the "Hero's Never Die" rule?
Designed to create an atmosphere closer to that
found in Friendship is Magic, the Tenet Against Violence
provides the players with an incentive not to use violence to
solve the problems presented to them throughout the
course of the game. In any combat in which no player characters resorted to deliberate violence (wounding another creature directly or indirectly, causing purposeful mental or physical harm, deliberately forcing others to take similar actions, etc), all players in the group receive a bennie at the end of the combat.
The Game Master is the ultimate arbitrator on what would
violate this rule, but it should generally exclude things such
as ‘slapstick’ violence used for dramatic or comedic effect.
Optional; With this rule in play, characters who would normally die are simply knocked out for a dramatically appropriate time instead. Only if the situation is particularly heroic, or if it serves as a major story point can characters actually die. For example, a character who tumbles off of a cliff in the midst of an epic battle with the adventure’s villain may catch onto a ledge and pull themselves to safety before blacking out. They are still ‘out’ for that particular scene as if they had died, but they can eventually climb to safety. Conversely, villains are similarly hard to get rid of permanently and will find ways to escape or come back even after being defeated.
I'm cool with whatever you guys would like to do, although I Like the Hero's never die rule for MLP, if we go with more gruesome or dark violence then it might be to unrealistic of a rule.
Let me know what you guys think.
I agree some violence but not the gameWet style of blood spatter and exploding heads.
Perhaps have the tenat against violence be effective when someone goes intentionally for more then simply disabling the bad guy (accidents not too worried about).
Thinking like Ben 10 and Xmen cartoon levels
Funnily enough I am making my own rpg game and setting, and ponies will be a selectable race, among more standard races. Yes there is a good reason for it too.
I am against unnecessarily graphic violence.
I'm also fine with PCs dying, but only as things already stood--when it's dramatic and appropriate.
I'm okay with keeping the Tenant Against Violence. Perhaps we could reduce it to blocking only actual murder, or the like.
yep dead deader then dead dead dead dead
DOOOOOMMMMEDDDD! we're all DOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMED.
Sorry :)
Replace the word "Fluttershy" with this campaign
The quick edge does not help with surprise, the danger sense one does. that being said, I made a mistake. Higgledy is acting in the surprise round.
Also since we just gained an advance, Everyone's Bennies are refreshed to 3! Also since nopony used violence last battle, everyone gains another bennie, so everyone has 4 bennies right now.
For the map, I used the game's alias's and just threw something quick together for Lark. If anyone wants something else to represent their character on the map, link an image in your profile.
lol
They have ponycons?! Now I'm jealous. :)
Weekends are usually slow for pbps anyway with people going out of town and having their irl games. Unless I get hits from most of the party I'm not going to bother pushing the story forward on weekends.
Oh, and I acted despite my earlier remark about waiting because things were going kind of slow. Lark will be taking that action after the porc's next move. ^_^
if your saying 1st post 1st severed your going to get some really long posts from me like...
This was a weird circumstance because there was a miss-communication between Lark and me. Lark said she opened the door and thought there was one at the top of the stairs. There wasn't a door at the top and I thought she opened the western door so I described her opening it and what lied behind it. She then adjusted her previous actions to open the western door so it made sense and that is where you tried to stop her and check the door. I had already described that the door was opened and the room beyond so I recommended searching one of the doors beyond. No one had done anything in the new room yet, so that was why I posted the room description again as a quote, because I was quoting my previous post of the rooms description.
So, If anyone thinks they are being skipped or cut off, please let me know here in the discussion thread, and please don't jump to conclusions. Unless you have the mat, then I can't stop you. :)
all cool GM I get what happen now and will do as you ask :)
Soak Roll
You can spend a Bennie when attacked to "soak" damage away. you make a toughness check (DC4) and each sucess and raise eliminates a wound. If you get rid of all your wounds this way, you also lose your shaken penalty.
So if Higgs wanted to try to soak she could spend a bennie and roll her toughness (d4) and if she rolled a 4 she would be OK! You roll the Wild Die as well.
I'm not sure if you take the wound penalty to this roll or not. If you do, then Higgs would have a -1 penalty to the roll.
Nightflight, do you remember if you take wound penalties to soak rolls?
I beleive so, though I wish I had the book to check.
War Magic
Spells listed under this section are optional, and may only be taken at the Game Master’s discretion as they are meant entirely to do damage and thus do not fit into most games of The Savage World of My Little Pony. They are very rarely known by unicorns, as they have little application outside of willfully hurting others. Because of the raw power being channeled, they can also be somewhat dangerous to cast.
Backlash- If you roll a ‘1’ on your Spellcraft die when casting a War Magic spell, it automatically fails and you suffer 2d6 damage from the backlash.
Magic Missile
Rank: Novice
School: Evocation
Casting Modifier: -1
Range: Visual
Duration: Instant
Trappings: Bolts of purple energy streaking towards the targets
You fire a single magic missile towards the target creature (which must be a living creature not an object), which hits unerringly on a success. You may fire a total number of bolts equal to your Rank: each one beyond the first incurs an additional -1 casting penalty. Each bolt is a separate attack and may target a different creature, dealing 2d6 damage.
So, at the moment you can only cast 1 missile, as you are novice rank. There is a -1 casting modifier when casting this spell, so you take that penalty when casting unless you spend a round preparing the spell (subtracts up to two points of spell-casting penalties)
Also, you cannot cast more than one spell in a round. you can do multiple actions in a round, but they cannot be the same action. You could attack one Porc, Taunt a 2nd porc, and cast a spell on a third porc, but you take a -2 penalty for each extra action. (moving is considered free, unless running)
--
Sadly all you can do is blast a single Porc at the moment with magic missile, but you can use Bennies to reroll to make sure you hit and deal decent damage. If you raise You also get an extra D6 of damage if I am not mistaken. Everyone should have had 4 bennies before entering the Porc Den.
--
Every 5xp is and advance, every 20 xp is a new rank! I'm not really giving xp outm, so every 4 advances is a new rank.
--
I know you wanted more attack magic, and the selection in the pony game is limited. If you want an attack spell from out of the pony game let me know and maybe we can work something out. There are no Magic points for Unicorn magic so the spell in question might need to be readjusted so that it is not too powerful.
--
Go ahead and re-adjust your action to fit in the above. You may ignore your previous rolls and start fresh. Also, the porc at C3 is incapacitated with a daunt, so he is out of the fight at the moment.