Friendship is Magic

Count Arioch the 28th · Sun Oct 26, 2014 11:06 am

On the roleplaying threads on 4chan's /mlp/ board, you get yelled at if your reply is "HOLY SHIT! A TALKING HORSE!"

Despite the fact that is probably what I would say if a horse started talking to me.

Count Arioch the 28th · Sat Jan 10, 2015 6:10 pm

Since season 5 is under an extended delay, there's not a lot of new content to talk about. So, here's something cringy and strange:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stuffed-Animal- ... ywords=mlp

Before anyone asks, yes those are grotesquely swollen horse udders on that doll. To people who don't hang out in as weird of places I do, that resembles a tumblr artist's OC pony Milky Way. Her special talent is having enormous, constantly lactating udders (or, "crotch-boobs" as they are called in the weirder parts of the fandom). You probably shouldn't google the tumblr page "Milkmare of Trottingham"...

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Fri Jan 23, 2015 7:08 pm

Pathfinder might still be bad, but there is this.
http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/product/1 ... f-Everglow

http://rpg.drivethrustuff.com/browse/pu ... -Games-LLC

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Tue Feb 10, 2015 10:41 pm

virgil · Post by **virgil** » Wed Feb 11, 2015 2:40 pm

Fluttershy hasn't been as bad recently on the more competitive level. The current elephant in the room for the game right now is a deck build called Dragon Express that is guaranteed to win on turn 4; and not a single other design in the game is capable of beating it.

My bad, there is a deck capable of beating Dragon Express, but it's coin-flip odds at best and it's an otherwise terrible deck because all it's designed to do is attempt to stop DE.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Thu Feb 12, 2015 10:28 am

S5 Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=p ... yfHkRtv57Y
And:
http://i1088.photobucket.com/albums/i32 ... 1eaaaf.png
Is that the Spear of Longinus there? O.o

Count Arioch the 28th · Thu Feb 12, 2015 10:43 am

The only thing I'm thinking is "Huh, reminds me of Story of the Blanks".

schpeelah · Post by **schpeelah** » Thu Feb 12, 2015 1:00 pm

I foresee much rage about Twilight teleporting out of the trap and leaving her friends behind. The previous trailers involved shots of Rainbow and Rarity with the equal sign marks, and I think the shot of Twilight watching five lights floating through the air is when it happens.

Comparison of the magic map and the official map reveals that the former doesn't have room for several locations, like the Everfree and Appleoosa.

Cynic · Post by **Cynic** » Sun Feb 22, 2015 2:30 am

MLP-Frazetta

Count Arioch the 28th · Sun Feb 22, 2015 10:26 am

New episode is this week, right? /mlp/ can't take much more shitposting...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB7NR90hkcQ

schpeelah · Post by **schpeelah** » Sun Feb 22, 2015 1:38 pm

Count Arioch the 28th wrote:New episode is this week, right? /mlp/ can't take much more shitposting...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB7NR90hkcQ

Nope, the official release date still "Spring 2015". So expect it in like May or April at the earliest.

fectin · Post by **fectin** » Wed Feb 25, 2015 5:51 pm

http://twitter.com/saladinahmed/status/ ... 7027217408

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Wed Feb 25, 2015 6:42 pm

oh how i WISH Hasbro would actually sue them over misuse of their Trademark/IP for that . .

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sat Apr 04, 2015 10:09 pm

Well . . Episode 1 and 2 of S5 have aired and of course immediately hit the Webbernets for consumption worldwide . .
That was a pretty dark start to the new season O.o

RelentlessImp · Post by **RelentlessImp** » Thu May 14, 2015 10:54 am

Just gonna leave this here.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Thu May 14, 2015 1:40 pm

It's a valid overthink.

Prak · Post by **Prak** » Thu May 14, 2015 10:03 pm

So... pony clicker is a thing that exists now...

Count Arioch the 28th · Fri May 15, 2015 10:58 am

RelentlessImp wrote:Just gonna leave this here.

If I ever get a game group again, I was going to run a ponyfinder campaign under similar themes. The book accidentally reinforces that by making all of the villains some flavor of chaotic, and one of the alternate races being fluffed as heroic protectors that are always lawful.

(on a side note, the way they handle race is interesting, it's all templated where you give up certain abilities. You can be a gem unicorn, or a clockwork bat pony, or a lawful champion sea pony). I'm not sure it's done WELL but it is interesting.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Fri May 15, 2015 1:54 pm

Certainly sounds interesting.

Count Arioch the 28th · Fri May 15, 2015 9:54 pm

Yeah, there's a lot of interesting things in there that aren't handled well. Like how the feat that gives you a hoof attack only lets you attack with one... or how they give a lot of alternate ways to use weapons, then says you need to limit attacks, but is not 100% clear where to stop (It specifically says you can't use two hooves, a horn, a mouth-held weapon, two mage-handed weapons and a mounted weapon at the same time, but I'm not 100% cure where the limit needs to be...) There's a lot of things that just aren't worded well and the book has organizational issues. The artwork is gorgeous though.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sat May 16, 2015 12:05 am

mounted weapon?
that sounds like it should be combined with clockwork earth pony to make a quadruped tank O.o

Count Arioch the 28th · Sat May 16, 2015 3:37 am

Clockworks do get an option to mount firearms into their bodies, so that could work. But you can get a specific type of saddle mount that can hold a two handed weapon for use. You don't get to put this together until you've read almost the entire book, but you need to burn a feat to use a two handed weapon, and burn another to treat it as a two handed weapon normally. Set two feats on fire, versus a couple GP weapon mount that lets you use a shield as well? Yeah, I know what I'm taking.

RelentlessImp · Post by **RelentlessImp** » Sat May 16, 2015 6:56 am

I went at it again upon catching up. Now I'm almost convinced it's on purpose, especially after Cutie Map.

Stahlseele · Post by **Stahlseele** » Sat May 16, 2015 4:35 pm

I know that's pretty much what we do, but the ammount of overthink that is put into some things still boggles my mind sometimes @.@

RelentlessImp · Post by **RelentlessImp** » Sat May 16, 2015 10:28 pm

Sometimes it's just fun to extrapolate and produce results that diverge wildly from the surface details.