Rainbow Dash: So I've got a new plan to get a Gala ticket. It goes something like this: We gotta get water using a tornado. There's a record for the fastest tornado. I'm gonna train the pegasi of Ponyville to break that record. When I'm well-known for that, the Princess can get me my ticket.
DM: Come on, you didn't AT ALL get into the purpose of the rainwater and the mechanics of–
Rainbow Dash: Not important.
The Real Man player type may not be the best at recaps, but they can be fantastic at mission briefings. Count on them, after hours of planning and debating, to summarize the important details in one fell swoop.
I can't help but think that Rainbow is going to be a little more then miffed by the end of the whole Gala Ticket gathering arcs (she'll probably go through another two plans by the end just to accidently help the rest of the group get their tickets).
So why can't Dash earn her ticket by displaying her element of loyalty in helping Fluttershy overcome her fears and self doubt which allows her to participate in this event?
Because she did that in private. And for some reason, the Sun Goddess of all freakin' Equestria can't just hand them out -- she has to convince a committee that DIDN'T see Rainbow Dash being noble.
Maybe this time around it'll be in public? Oh, better thought-- Fluttershy gives Dash the ticket in gratitude for being a team player and supporting her character.
Fifteen bear foreheads is a lot easier than an entire forest. I wonder how the questgiver even thought that was possible!
Actually, I bet he was going to say foreslope. If the bears live on the shoulder of a road on the side of a hill, cutting off their foreslope and bringing it back is a somewhat reasonable proof of their demise.
Ah yes the little issue of "details". Speaking of details, my old gaming group had 2.5 military vets so that meant if I was running any kind of modern campaign involving military hardware, I better damn well do a little research or they're going to interrupt me with why the encounter doesn't work that way. ^^;
Well, they weren't bad about it. And I did a lot of pretty good research to where they actually praised parts I do get right. Sometimes I even surprise them, like the time they were sifting through an aviation crash for the "black boxes" and I actually researched which type of boxes that plane had, their recording lengths, and where in the plane they're found.
Could be he is halfway through his time. But anywho, please give your 2.5 vets a thank you from my. It is because of there sacrifices that we are free.
<insert rant about how we waste that freedom here>
My personal record for most players present in a single adventure is 11. I do not recommend this. It was a chaotic session and it broke down badly.
but at least I learned my limits as a GM.
In my first shadowrun 4e campaign, I had about 11ish PCs over the campaign's course, But never all at once. Because many of the players had conflicting schedules, I ran them in various teams with different missions.
In a way, think of the Dragon Mawlers with their main team and "B Team". Players did mix between groups and some players showed up to almost every session while others were more like "guest appearances". Worked out okay despite a lot of book-keeping on my part.
You are a braver GM than I. My record is 8 players running 9 PCs. (One of the PCs was kind of a plotmule - plotduck, specifically.) And that mainly worked because the system and campaign were well structured, meaning a lot less on-the-fly calls (and almost no rules lookups) so I could focus almost entirely on plot, coupled with a high degree of PC-to-PC interaction (as opposed to PC-to-world that needed to wait on the lone GM, though there was quite a bit of that too).
My record is 14, although i wasn't the gm. Mutants and Masterminds campaign that got out of control. The party wasn't particularly bad, but it took forever to get through a single combat round.
We later broke the party up into a hero team and a villian team, and that went horribly awry when the villian gm got lazy and decided to let his guys get involved in a scenario the heros were trying to deal with.
one of the guys I used to game with was a sniper in the first gulf conflict. he was good at it. real good.
too good as it turned out because he would have flash backs if things got too stressful. last I heard he checked him self into the local mental hospital because he knew he wasn't safe to be around civilians.
the straw that broke the camel's back was when he was talking to his adviser, my friend was getting ready to go work with Stephen Hawking on the symbolic language Hawking uses in place of a visual keyboard, when a car backfired. he knocked his adviser to the ground and started calling for an evac.
Mwahahaha! 22 players, divided up into four groups. Each group encountered something that made the original, agreed upon plan obsolete, so there were now four separate plans in motion.
When you hear the words "chaos on the battlefield", you have no idea how amusing it was to me, personally. Each group learned something different than what they originally thought, but no two groups got the same clues.
I was coDMing, but still doing most of the player interaction. The best part was all the different groups meeting at the big event.
One group was being body doubles for the lord regent and his crew, while another had killed the servants and taken their places. Another planned to drop from the rafters right on top of the lord regent, and the fourth just broke through the main doors.
How do I think Dash could get her ticket? Emm....
Every pony will get their ticket for one reason or another, but Dash will be the last Pony standing.
Then we have the Royal Wedding of Cadence and Shining Armor. Dash ends up getting recognized as a main player with the group crashing the wedding crashers. She gets the ticket, and then we backtrack in cannon for the Gala episode.
No one says Spud has to follow series time line after all.
3 episodes in a row with Rarity? What is this madness
So another good episode and a map episode at that (season five has been excelent so far)
Things that I liked
1) two good pop culture refrences that I'm sure some veiwers got
2) Coco Pommel
3) Manehatten ponies and their accents (disappointed no Babs seed)
4) Board twilight is the most Adorkable thing ever ^_^
5) minor spoiler (although @Raxon already did this on the day the episode came out)
Applejack damages her hat and Rarity throws it away and buys her a new nearly identical (not pink Raxon -_- ) hat.... why is this such a big deal? AJ shows no concern about ruining her hat and getting a new one...for a hat that many fans (myself included) believed to belong to AJ's deceased father the revelation that it is just a hat kinda was a big deal...
Anyway on to the next episode which should be Brotherhooves social but may be Scare Master as well we will see
The name of the two episods I listed are already public knowledge.
Scare Master was leaked by Hasbro and is available everywhere, I only review episodes that have aired on tv so sorry if I spoiled a title but its not like I spoiled the episode.
The only reason I do these reviews on the Thursday after they air is because Spud asked me not to do them on the day of the episode, my reviews where fine but the comments on them would useually spoil the episode, so I give people time to see the episode.
The fact that the list of episodes has been released doesn't mean that everypony has perused it. Some people WANTS to be surprised. You reduce that by spewing up titles like this.
Digo you may not have noticed the (Mostly) next to the spoiler free this time around... and yes I am aware that some people may not have been aware of the episode names but I had to make sure I avoid the leaked episode till it airs so I was specifying the title
"Canonically" (he said crossing his fingers) the hat wasn't important. Hasbro did a "Hot Minute" thing with AJ, where she said she won it an apple-bobbing contest.
Human world Sunset probably got hit by a bus, considering how fast they drive and how often they show up. (count the time between the bus Human Twi arrives on and the one she leaves on if you don't know what I mean.)
That's what's going to happen, isn't it.
You going have to get it a different way Rainbow Dash.
AJ: "Hi, y'all! Sorry ah'm late."
DM: "That's fine. Fluttershy, you must kill them and bring back their fores-"
AB: "Howdy, y'all?"
DM: Who... Who is this?"
AJ: "Sorry, DM, that's mah little sister."
DM: "That's alright. Now, Fluttershy, you must bring back their fore *glances at applebloom* heads. You must bring back their foreheads are proof."
FS: "Are you sure? It sounded like you were going to say something else."
DM: "No, defeat the bears and bring back their foreheads. Now get to it."
Actually, I bet he was going to say foreslope. If the bears live on the shoulder of a road on the side of a hill, cutting off their foreslope and bringing it back is a somewhat reasonable proof of their demise.
Well, they weren't bad about it. And I did a lot of pretty good research to where they actually praised parts I do get right. Sometimes I even surprise them, like the time they were sifting through an aviation crash for the "black boxes" and I actually researched which type of boxes that plane had, their recording lengths, and where in the plane they're found.
half a vet that's adorable
<insert rant about how we waste that freedom here>
Now I'm wondering what the record for biggest campaign is
but at least I learned my limits as a GM.
In my first shadowrun 4e campaign, I had about 11ish PCs over the campaign's course, But never all at once. Because many of the players had conflicting schedules, I ran them in various teams with different missions.
In a way, think of the Dragon Mawlers with their main team and "B Team". Players did mix between groups and some players showed up to almost every session while others were more like "guest appearances". Worked out okay despite a lot of book-keeping on my part.
We later broke the party up into a hero team and a villian team, and that went horribly awry when the villian gm got lazy and decided to let his guys get involved in a scenario the heros were trying to deal with.
too good as it turned out because he would have flash backs if things got too stressful. last I heard he checked him self into the local mental hospital because he knew he wasn't safe to be around civilians.
the straw that broke the camel's back was when he was talking to his adviser, my friend was getting ready to go work with Stephen Hawking on the symbolic language Hawking uses in place of a visual keyboard, when a car backfired. he knocked his adviser to the ground and started calling for an evac.
When you hear the words "chaos on the battlefield", you have no idea how amusing it was to me, personally. Each group learned something different than what they originally thought, but no two groups got the same clues.
I was coDMing, but still doing most of the player interaction. The best part was all the different groups meeting at the big event.
One group was being body doubles for the lord regent and his crew, while another had killed the servants and taken their places. Another planned to drop from the rafters right on top of the lord regent, and the fourth just broke through the main doors.
It was a freaking hilarious train wreck.
"Everybody's playin' a game, but nobody's rules are the same.
Nobody's on Nobody's side."
"Today is partly cloudy plans with a 40% chance of hax."
How do I think Dash could get her ticket? Emm....
Every pony will get their ticket for one reason or another, but Dash will be the last Pony standing.
Then we have the Royal Wedding of Cadence and Shining Armor. Dash ends up getting recognized as a main player with the group crashing the wedding crashers. She gets the ticket, and then we backtrack in cannon for the Gala episode.
No one says Spud has to follow series time line after all.
Made in Manehatten
3 episodes in a row with Rarity? What is this madness
So another good episode and a map episode at that (season five has been excelent so far)
Things that I liked
1) two good pop culture refrences that I'm sure some veiwers got
2) Coco Pommel
3) Manehatten ponies and their accents (disappointed no Babs seed)
4) Board twilight is the most Adorkable thing ever ^_^
5) minor spoiler (although @Raxon already did this on the day the episode came out)
Applejack damages her hat and Rarity throws it away and buys her a new nearly identical (not pink Raxon -_- ) hat.... why is this such a big deal? AJ shows no concern about ruining her hat and getting a new one...for a hat that many fans (myself included) believed to belong to AJ's deceased father the revelation that it is just a hat kinda was a big deal...
Anyway on to the next episode which should be Brotherhooves social but may be Scare Master as well we will see
Thus ends my longest review so far
Scare Master was leaked by Hasbro and is available everywhere, I only review episodes that have aired on tv so sorry if I spoiled a title but its not like I spoiled the episode.
The only reason I do these reviews on the Thursday after they air is because Spud asked me not to do them on the day of the episode, my reviews where fine but the comments on them would useually spoil the episode, so I give people time to see the episode.
Spoiler-lite maybe.
Sometimes I throw out fake spoilers for comic effect.
and as much as I hate to make a liar out of myself, I now ship H!twilight and sunset shimmer.
speaking of which where the hell is H!shimmer anyway
and as much as I hate to make a liar out of myself, I now ship H!twilight and sunset shimmer.
speaking of which where the hell is H!shimmer anyway