The game, if interest is enough, will be on a discord from 23:00 to 04:00 central time in the US. Must be a weekday, but which one will be chosen by the whole group.
Setting:
Pony supersoldiers in space! Ponykind explored space, spurred on by the discovery that ponies didn't evolve on their current planet. They expanded too quickly and overstretched their infrastructure and spaceforce. Then the less magical groups felt marginalized and overtaxed from the government's efforts to recover from the overexertion of the economy. Thus started the Alicorn project. All ponies are the same species, but ponies normally express control of only one type of magic, giving you the different breeds, but the other types are still there, just dormant. Dr. Apotheosis' Alicorn Project awakens all these magics, turning a pony into an alicorn. These alicorns were part of a secret military unit of supersoldiers. Then came first contact with aliens, and they're bent on genocide of all ponykind.
The overall plotline is very similar to the halo games, but the details are quite different.
The players are one such unit of alicorns on Hooflock (the counterpart to Reach in this universe), when the planet comes under attack. Campaign can run as far as Halo 4.
Gameplay:
Very much a "chose-your-own-adventure" style game. Certainly, you'll have orders and be sent on missions, but after Hooflock, you'll have a great deal of freedom on how to accomplish the missions and to show initiative in tackling objectives.
There will be a fair amount of combat, but system mastery is not your key to victory. If you know of Tucker's Kobolds, you'll know how kobolds with standard stats became the bane of players and seen as worse than demons and dragons, not through stats but through tactics, strategy, and environmental use. This is what is expected from players. Certainly, you'll be supersoldiers able to devestate almost anything in one-on-one combat, but the enemy outnumbers you and has much greater technology, so you'll need more than stats to win.
There is also quite a bit of lore to discover and chances to influence factions and how they develop, including enemies.
Occasionally, you'll have command of regular pony soldiers for some larger scale tactical battles.
Mechanics:
I'll get into the details if I have enough interest, but basically, the numerical power is separated out from level. Now 100 levels can be gained independant of power level growth. Health is different, now having HP and injuries.Combat and magic are now skillbased. Magic requires skill checks, and is suppossed to be higher reward but higher risk of failure, though as alicorns you'll need to worry more about managing your mana use than failure.
