GM: As a druid, I take it you have some sort of animal companion?
Marceline: Yep. He's an Ooze named Schmooze.
Marceline: I gave him a top hat and a bow tie.
Phoebe: Heh.
Rainbow Dash: Hahaha!
GM: But...do I even wanna know how?
Marceline: Easy, just drew them right on...and Tree Hugger just slapped them on him in game.
GM: No, I meant...never mind. How about you tell us how the two of you met instead?
Twilight Sparkle: What, me? Why me? Why not Dash and Phoebe? I'm sure they have loads to talk about instead.
Phoebe: Not really.
Rainbow Dash: We mt at another game group through Craigslist once, and just bumped into each other at a few others.
Twilight Sparkle: You sure none of you know the others? Be willing to bet you at least know Rarity.
Applejack: What's got you so anxious? Ain't like you dated, right? I mean, cool if you did, it's just that, I mean...uh...
Twilight Sparkle: NO! No, nothing like that, just...
Twilight Sparkle: Fine. I fell aslep at the library a few times. You happy now?
GM: That makes sense.
Rainbow Dash: Ahahahahaha!
Bonnie: Only three but I've caught her partially asleep about 14,159 times if you want to be precise.
Twilight Sparkle: 14 thousand and-oh...oh! Hahahaha!
Rainbow Dash: Huh?
Bonnie: Math joke, don't worry.
Marceline: Figures the one the Princess knows would be a nerd too.
Guest Author's Note: "I have no idea if an Ooze is a valid pet choice for Druids, but seemed like a good idea at the time. I mostly got how they know each other from Panel 4's sad filly Twi pic. That gave me the idea and thus 'Princess Celestia/Bonnibelle'. If you got the math joke, congratulations! It took me 4 tries to get one that made any sense."
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Can't see anything I can use.
Wait, Smooze. Idea
Anyone here ever watch the 90's version of My Little Pony?
Me:No, but I've probably would have if given the chance.
ANW - I actually have watched the original 90s version of My Little Pony and actually like it better than this version. There weren't any friendship lessons but cheesy songs. However, there were loads of characters who would attack them just cause and sometimes would try to kill them. The only thing I didn't like was that the baby ponies were named after their parents which made it hard to remember who was who.
Yes, G1 had some great adventure episodes, and one of my favorite characters in all of MLP, even counting FiM. All of the episodes are online. Watch out though; the "official" episode order is actually wrong. Midnight Castle is actually the first part of the story, then Escape from Katrina, then The Movie, then The End of Flutter Valley, followed by the rest of the episodes in any order.
Here's a story time idea that I think is better than that poll.
Normally, slimes and oozes aren't viable options for animal companions. But if you get the right GM in the right mood, then they may be willing to accept alternative interpretations of 'animal' and 'companion'.
Tell a story about the best or weirdest animal companion or familiar.
Well, technically it was my celestial mount thing, seeing as how I was playing a paladin, but close enough right?
My paladin was a halfling, and I figured a horse would be too large for her. Eventually I decided on a sheep - a big fluffy celestial war-sheep, big curly horns, it was great. People kept assuming she was a Ranger and that the sheep was her animal companion, probably because she had really high Dex, wore light armor and used a bow almost exclusively. Just as well, really, given that being a Paladin was illegal in the campaign's setting...
I have a character idea for a paladin whose special mount is to be a Bulette. It fits as a Paladin's mount, though the Paladin needs to be level 10 first. I still have yet to actually play a game irl.
For a moment I misread that as Oubliette and wondered how you'd have a hole in the ground as an animal companion. Perhaps an Earth elemental that's mostly a ring around an opening to a pocket dimension, sliding along surfaces when you go through narrow openings but needing special handling to board ships?
My D&D wizard Sparks had a pony familiar named Freya (I managed to catch the GM in a good mood to allow it). The reason I wanted the pony was because spellcasters in the old group generally got tiny familiars they'd always leave in pockets and forget they existed.
Freya was a medium-sized pony who couldn't be ignored. And with a Rainbow Dash-sized delusion of grandeur to be a warhorse when she grew up (not gonna happen), yeah no, you couldn't ignore her. :D
D&D 2.0; had an interesting game with an interesting GM.
I almost always play divine spell casters, and have a special love of druids. But even I know that druids can be pretty squishy before they learn Wild Shape, so I wanted something with a little more punch to it. So (with permission) I built a werewolf Druid (you can blame my love of WoD for that one)
In her backstory, while she was in druid school, a lycanthrope attacked the grove and she was the only student to survive, albeit with some changes. Her teacher and deity, Artemis, took away the moon madness so that she could shift 'at will' but otherwise was stuck with it.
She started with a normal raven animal companion. He was a very good scout for the party since I couldn't fly yet.
Fast forward several sessions, we had an encounter where another party member missed with a powerful spell disintegrating my raven. My character was just shy of ripping the offender to shreds when divine intervention brought my bird back. Finding the soul was easy, making a new body for it was harder. GM said that he had to use some of my life energy to bring back the raven, with the ominous addition that now my bird had contracted lycanthropy.
And that was how I got a wereraven for an animal companion.
One of my D&D games was supposed to have recurring comedy relief wizard NPCs with a pet rust monster. Alas, the campaign got cut short and they only appeared once or twice.
One time, a loooong time ago, I somehow managed to talk the DM into letting me play a Dryad. This wasn't Dungeons & Dragons, mind, but a similar enough kind of system, with Dryads unable to go too far from their tree. The solution? A bonsai tree. I kept insisting it was my familiar, though people mostly just looked at me funny...
The ultimate truth of that is that it's a literature joke, rather than a math joke. And technically also a movie joke for those who didn't read the book but saw it.
There was meaning behind that? I thought they just picked a number and said "this is what a computer would determine to be the meaning of life, the universe, and everything."
So what joke did I miss by watching the movie and failing horribly at reading the book? I am a miserably picky reader at times.
Point of order: 42 is not the *meaning* of Life, the Universe, and Everything; it's *the answer to the Ultimate Question* of Life, the Universe, and Everything. The people who asked Deep Thought for the answer just assumed that the Ultimate Question was "what's the meaning of it all", but it turns out that they were wrong.
Douglas Adams just picked the number out of thin air, as well as the 'question' that would later be determined for it. However, he did find it amusing when how they were related was pointed out to him.
Guest Author's Note: "I have no idea if an Ooze is a valid pet choice for Druids, but seemed like a good idea at the time. I mostly got how they know each other from Panel 4's sad filly Twi pic. That gave me the idea and thus 'Princess Celestia/Bonnibelle'. If you got the math joke, congratulations! It took me 4 tries to get one that made any sense."