Twilight Sparkle: So how are we going to get the jump on this Taraxippus?
PM: The easiest way would be to ambush it! And you know who would be great for that? Pinkie Pie!
Twilight Sparkle: <sigh>
Pinkie Pie: C’mon, I predicted every time the Taraxippus caused trouble. All we gotta do is follow my twitches, and we’ll NAB that ghost!
Twilight Sparkle: Okay, first of all, you predicted the disasters, not what was behind them.
Applejack: Just take the freebie, Twi.
Twilight Sparkle: I can’t! Something about this whole thing is bothering me. How does Pinkie Sense even work?
PM: I dunno.
Twilight Sparkle: How can you not know?? It’s your creation!
PM: I dunno, it’s like those instincts old people seem to have, y’know? But, like, turned up to eleven.
Twilight Sparkle: I get that! But what’s the scientific explanation? Heck, what’s the magical explanation?
Fluttershy: Twilight… We really need to stop the Taraxippus. She’s giving us a way. Can we focus on that, please?
Twilight Sparkle: Fine, fine. But while we’re waiting for her Pinkie Sense, I want to study it.
PM: Study? What do you mean?
(beat)
Pinkie Pie: You want to hook me up to an egg?
Twilight Sparkle: No, an E-E-… … … I hate you so much right now.
PM: Ah, you love it.
Well, you know what they say: The beauty of a pun is in the "Oi" of the beholder.
I apologize for absolutely nothing.
Anyway, the recruiting for my upcoming Pony Tales game (cleverly titled Fallout is Dragons) is well underway. I've got enough character concepts to really start comparing and locking in player choices. For now, I'll be looking to check in with the applicants on Skype. (I'm 'newbiespud' there, natch.)
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In my current campaign I am GMing, we are in chapter 1: Plague and Predjudice.
It's a dystopia with zombie plague and strong racism towards people with magic.
In my group, me and one other player were Notorious for puns. His were like "nails on chalkboard" kind of bad while mine were more "biting tinfoil" bad. :)
It's not really a pun, so to speak, but when my group was making our characters, I made my dragonborn the color of the frost dragon, and gave him lightning for breath weapon. The other players didn't realize it until our first encounter when I announced "My dragonborn uses white lightning attack." The rogue of our group, who by accident named himself Finn the human, was only able to respond with "Oh god, Yugioh."
I'm reminded of a story I heard long ago in a Dark Sun campaign about how a party revolutionized the local cuisine:
The party was battling a female arcane spellcaster BBEG who had several Blue Slaad slaves for her minions. The party struck a deal with the slaves-- their freedom if they would help capture the spellcaster for interrogation. They agreed and the PCs successfully brought her down. Unfortunately, the BBEG was infected by the Slaad's lycanthropy effect and was slowly turning into a Slaad herself. This was no good as the PCs needed her intact for a reward. The party cleric prayed to the gods for some divine intervention and got a Baleful Polymorph spell. Since the Slaad's disease only works on humanoids, they use the spell to turn the BBEG into a chicken, thus delaying the transformation long enough so that they can run to town and find a cure for the disease.
I once had my players delve into an unusual dungeon. In the treasure room, there was a broken artifact and a portal leading back in time 30 years. The rest of the treasure was destroyed beyond any useable value. They pieced together that when the artifact broke, it ripped open the time portal and ruined all the treasure. The PCs thus go back in time and slay the wizard who was the cause of breaking the artifact. Upon returning to the present, the time portal closes up since it cannot exist now that the artifact was never destroyed. So the PCs now ask me what's in the treasure room since it's intact. My response?
So, not that I don't want an explanation for the pinky sense, but where does Twi get the EEG. Does Equestria even have computers? I think any sort of magic that reads thoughts is still above their level and its not like they had time to ask Celestia for the "helm of detect thoughts" or that steel box of...um... something. Twilight is still doing alot better than Pinky in terms of realisim though.
Maybe when their done they'll be able to sell the EEG off as an entirly alchemical prototype for detect thoughts. unless its magic.
If you have time to kill, look up 'Magitek' on TVTropes. Oh, and Timelords and Terror; it's an amusing/awesome Dr. Who crossover fic that takes an approach to Equestrian technology that I rather like.
Dear Celestia Yes!! My first DM always seemed to tool his campaigns to fit his NPCs...we always had a heck of a time dealing with them.
As for no-input victory puzzles, I've dealt with a few of those and try to avoid them. I have to admit that my first test session in RIFTS was a 'fight your way through the area, find the end and get a prize' kind of thing, but at the time, I had never really sat down to design a campaign. Now, I know how to work things out, set optional side quests and make it a more enjoyable setting.
We had a GM like that. I even proved it to him by keeping a log of every action I took during a session. Turned out I only had 4 lines written after a six-hour session.
Me: Vitus isn't a nice person, I'll be the first to admit. He can be utterly ruthless, drives even his colleagues to distraction, and he is lacking in traditional wisdom. You could say he's a super callous frakking mystic gnoll in need of gnosis."
I apologize for absolutely nothing.
Anyway, the recruiting for my upcoming Pony Tales game (cleverly titled Fallout is Dragons) is well underway. I've got enough character concepts to really start comparing and locking in player choices. For now, I'll be looking to check in with the applicants on Skype. (I'm 'newbiespud' there, natch.)