Page 2 - Pinkie Pie-Eyed

2nd Aug 2011, 9:00 AM in Friendship is Magic, Part 1
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Pinkie Pie-Eyed
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Newbiespud 2nd Aug 2011, 9:00 AM edit delete
Newbiespud
As a DM, allowing your party to meet in a tavern doesn't mean you have to promote drinking and getting drunk. Quite the opposite, actually. It's easy and natural for a DM to go from "the party gets hammered" to "the next morning, there's an angry mob and you have to leave town." If you do this well - if the end result is spectacularly negative enough - you can discourage your group from drinking entirely.

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23 Comments:

man_lick69 2nd Aug 2011, 9:50 AM edit delete reply
man_lick69
fluttershy is definitely hitting the taverns much more.
Susan The Cat 2nd Aug 2011, 10:50 AM edit delete reply
Susan The Cat
*SQUEEEEEEEEEEE*

They are sooooo cute.

It was very hard to get my gaming group to do anything beyond Hack and Slash. I did run a couple of "Saturday Morning Cartoon" games at ENBICON where they played Cats and Dogs.

Susan
Rockburgh 5th Aug 2011, 8:54 AM yay edit delete reply
So Twilight understands what's going on, Pinkie has trouble comprehending the way the game works, Applejack seems to have played before and expects cliches, Fluttershy is either a drunk or always needs to know how everything is done, and Rarity does all the work... hey, your players are in character already! (Except maybe Fluttershy, but you can't win them all!)
Tim 5th Aug 2011, 10:56 AM edit delete reply
Tim
Alcoholic Fluttershy? Now, THIS I gotta see...
banjo2E 24th Sep 2011, 2:00 PM edit delete reply
Guys, guys...

Fluttershy isn't an alcoholic, she's just a complete noob at the game. Believe me when I say that most newbies tend to be much, much quieter than the experienced roleplayers.
Lugbzurg 25th Sep 2011, 8:00 PM edit delete reply
Gee, I thought Fluttershy would say something about water. She must know a few things about this, then.

More than I do.
suburbanbanshee 28th Sep 2011, 4:49 PM Guinness is good for you edit delete reply
And beer and ale are basically just a slightly alcoholic mash, to a thousand-pound horse. A pony probably shouldn't drink as much as a horse, but it's still a lot more bodymass than a human. (Also, beer and hops have other beneficial nutrients for horses, which is why many horses to get a Guinness every day.)
Whitewings 16th Dec 2011, 9:19 AM edit delete reply
Also, horses are herbivores; their digestive tracts work differently than ours, and even correcting for the differences in body mass, they have a much higher tolerance for alcohol than we do.
mathias42 13th Oct 2011, 7:15 AM edit delete reply
mathias42
In my experiance, "party gets Hammered" actually occurs OUTSIDE of the game. One of the reasons I don't have a regular game group anymore...
arjay2813 23rd Oct 2011, 10:40 PM I HAVE NO TITLE MWAHAHA edit delete reply
I've been reading webcomics for a few years now, and one of my favorites is similar to this (hence my writing this comment). In one Something Positive, Davan and I believe Peejee are looking @ my little ponies for a kid to take to a girl's b-day party, and they start discussing a..well...Darker and Edgier Trope version of MLP, with them wanting to buy toys for a gaming session in the end. IDK the age range for readership of this, so I'll mention that Something positive is more for an adult sense of humor.
Evilboberful 31st Mar 2012, 3:55 PM edit delete reply
LOL. I love how you're able to incorporate typical D&D comments and fir them into ponies and still have 'em be in character.
Candlewick 29th Dec 2014, 10:01 PM edit delete reply
Okay, so they're all girls. Maybe the DM's a boy.
Also, I now want to see Fluttershy get drunk.
gravyman26 10th Mar 2015, 6:20 AM ALCHOHOL FLUTTERSHY edit delete reply
gravyman26
YAY
Kale 8th Jul 2015, 12:39 PM The VOICES! edit delete reply
Ok, so was doing a google search and saw one of these strips. I am now two pages in. I can't not read it in their voices and it, is, amazing. Can't wait to read the rest of this.
Carry on good pony, carry on.
Missy 6th Aug 2015, 4:27 AM edit delete reply
R u a boy or a girl
Lycanthromancer 27th Jun 2019, 8:14 AM edit delete reply
Yes.

Probably.
Lycanthromancer 27th Jun 2019, 8:14 AM edit delete reply
Yes.

Probably.
Missy 6th Aug 2015, 4:26 AM Data edit delete reply
Y would u put stupid stuff anywhere where a perve could see it ⚡️
Ranasp 2nd Apr 2016, 9:56 AM Actually... edit delete reply
Equines can get drunk, and in fact horses tend to like beer quite a bit. I was told more than once how someone had a horse that would steal your beer if you left it too close to the paddock. ;)
Queensarrow 29th Apr 2016, 12:23 AM edit delete reply
Huh, I remember someone commenting that salt acts like an intoxicant to horses, and that's why that one scene in the show where a pony gets thrown out of a salt lick bar was actually faithful to equine biology.
GameZone 26th Feb 2021, 1:10 PM edit delete reply
GameZone
Oh so their playing D&D? That's cool!
Clever Clovers 6th Aug 2021, 12:05 PM edit delete reply
There is ONE pony who can get drunk: Berry Punch.
But we haven't been introduced to her yet, so...hang in there.
NobleCuriosity 31st Dec 2022, 7:50 PM On a reread… edit delete reply
NobleCuriosity
I’m enjoying the character-establishing scenes. :)