Friendship is Dragons
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Page 181 - Feats of Radicalness
Author Notes:
Guest Author's Note:
"Over the course of the show, the Mane 6 use a variety of different tricks. Bear wrestling, party cannon, etc. Feel free to come up with your own ideas for feats and their descriptions in the comments.
"But let's be honest. Rainbow Nuke would be pretty OP if it was used for combat."
LOVE IT!!
Hmmm, coming up with feats? Can't think of one right now, but having recentpy played GURPS, Pinkie Pie seems to have a version of the "Gizmo" advantage--
Once a session can pull out one small object on their person that is useful for the situation at hand.
Seriously, though. Rangers can teleport through a forest using trees. Wielding a snake is what you call shenanigans on? Just imagine all those flynning scenes from Zorro. Now imagine them with the characters wielding snakes. A dude falling out of the trees and stabbing your CO through the head with a venomous reptile will make you think twice about attacking.
When I read it, I thought that the only practical use was casting it and flinging the vipers at the enemy, then dismissing the spell, and then repeating this until the area was out of pit vipers.
Ooh...what's the errata on sharing spells between familiar and master? could you make yourself a weapon as long as you wield your viper? because that would be flipping sweet.
He also doesn't like Searing Metamagic after I killed a Fire Elemental with a Searing Fireball.
WITH MIND BULLETS
When the DM has houseruled that skill checks can critical fail, you seem to roll natural 1s on your skill checks a lot more often.
Oh wait... You didn't mean "Yak" as in "Slang for a single member of the Yakuza?"
For example: The rogue spots a yak 200 yards away and mind bullets him.
Rogue: No need to send the ranger out, I got dinner for the next several night.
Fighter:....Did you just kill that Yak with your mind?
Rogue: Sure did, you want to help me skin and clean it?
Fighter: Seriously? How long have you had that power?
Rogue: All my life.
Fighter: And you couldn't have used it earlier when we were almost killed by that beholder.
Rogue: Well, you see, the problem is, it only kills a Yak. It might be able to stun a water buffalo but that's about it.
Fighter: Well that's a sucky power
Rogue: Fine then, if you feel that way you can kill your own Yak for the next several dinners
Wizard: I cast Baleful Polymorph at him. *roll* Nat 20!
DM: ...You know what, fine. But know that he's still got access to his spells, and none of you have any long-range weapons to use against him until he decides to change back.
Wizard: That's okay. I turn him into a yak.
DM: *sigh* The great and powerful dragon turns into a yak. It bleats in anger at you. There, does that make you happy?
Rogue: Mind Bullet.
DM: What are you...wait. NO! Dang it, no! Uh, the yak reels a bit, but still manages to...
Rogue: Nope. This ability insta-kills all yaks, no save. You allowed it five times before now.
DM: ...The yak's head explodes.
Fighter:...Did you just one-shot a dragon?
Rouge: How's that for a sucky power?
Lovely comic too. It's always nice to have the players take over the role of the falling rocks just before everyone dies.
I'd like to suggest an alternate dialogue arrangement for the fourth panel -- not an improvement, nor even a change of joke. Imagine that after Pinkie says, "Three little words," she follows it up with, "and say them with me now," ending with the rest delivered in chorus.
...Hey, if it's good enough for Darkseid, it's good enough for Pinkie Pie.
(Until I fixed a typo just now, I didn't notice how Pinkie Pie is just the first letter and the last away from Oinkie Pig. That one song makes a lot more sense to me now, to say nothing of her hammy tendencies.)
Other cliche breakers:
1) The metallic dragons are advanced machines and the chromatic dragons aren't all evil, they just want to eliminate the unnatural machine dragons before the metallics take over.
2) Warforged are created by sealing a person's soul into an armored machine body (Like Al in FMA). The process of doing this was lost in a recent war so no one knew that the warforged were actually fallen soldiers from that war. The experience is traumatic so even the warforged themselves forgot this detail.
Say, does a unicorn's horn serve as an implement? If so, is Horn Expertise a separate implement feat, or does the horn stand-in for another implement the way a blademaster's sword does for a wand?
and it would be glorious.
Also, we've been brewing up a *huge* amount of stuff for Pony Tales. There's now a tabletop version of the game, a core-fantasy version of the rules for those wanting to run more traditional roleplaying experiences, magic items in active development (the beta for the tabletop version up as of this Saturday and the online voice-chat version should be ready for playtesting come tonight or tomorrow night).
Also, we've got a nice big utility talent expansion for even more character-building options. Enjoy!
The Talent Show
My honest reaction.
Alt-script time for my own guest comic!
RD: Grr...I need something that will let me bring in the power. Let's see..."Brace for Impact". A pegasus is able to fly straight down into the ground and create a shockwave that impacts his enemies. The pegasus is not harmed by the impact. The damage of this attack is _d6, with _ being the maximum speed that the pegasi can reach divided by 10. An average pegasus can reach 20 mph, so the attack would do 2d6 damage.
Well, that might be good as an area-of-effect attack. Maybe I could fudge some higher numbers since my cutie mark is speed...Wait. I remember seeing something. *flips through book* "Sonic Rainboom". Creates a spectacular explosion of color by breaking the sonic barrier. Ponies who can perform this feat can reach and maintain a maximum speed of...100 mph.
*Third to last panel face*
It's obviously 770 MpH, for a Opti-tron damage of 77d6 in a radius of 77 metres
And lo, Applejack looked upon it, and saw that she had a creaky old barn that needed to be demolished, and asked if her good buddy RD would give her a hoof.
And lo, Twilight Sparkle looked upon it, and realized too late she really should have brought protective headgear and taken cover.
It needed a bit of balancing