Friendship is Dragons
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Page 105 - Grand Line, Part 5
Author Notes:
Power creep definitely becomes a problem as a campaign runs on. But starting out with overpowered characters right out of creation? I can't even imagine.
If that's the case, I can imagine him lobbing enchanted giant boulders from the sky, essentially carpet-bombing his enemies.
Also, how does a "search and rescue" cutie mark boost his magic so much (especially since he's only half-unicorn), excluding situations where he has to rescue someone from rubble with it?
Player: I'll take deathly allergic to cattle for those extra skill points. There's no way we'll need to go near a farm.
DM: You are stampeded by wild cows.
He whined about it. A lot. "But I need all these to flesh out my character!"
And then sulked about how without those disadvantages he'd be bored... ugh... x.x
He ended up ONLY having enough for 150 million dollars worth of magical items from Wealth. That's all he put the points into. I think originally he owned the universe or something.
Two questions though, if he was that bad why keep him in the group? And what kind of backstory can he come up with to justify the flaws?
He moved away in the middle of the campaign though. v.v
Pony genes in general don't make much sense if you consider the Cakes have twin pegasus and unicorn fillies.
I'm assuming something similar here.
Even Mr. Cake wasn't sure of his own explination.
It works better if you don't overthink it.
The screen shots definitely aren't helping, though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bolwd7xaZvs
Recessive genes can linger in a family for generations before expressing. But if we assume that pony genetics work like real world genetics, both parents would have had to have both unicorn and pegasus recessive genes.
Dark Secret. Child of Molestia.
Dark Secret. Child of Molestia.
It's sort of like being a half-celestial half-dragon half-fiend half-elf. There's nothing saying you can't use more than one of those templates at once (at least not in 3.5. I don't know about 4.0).
for instance: imagine that the three pony races are basically the same the exception being an organ channelling their magic which is unique to the subspecies, the horn and some connected parts of the brain for unicorns, wings and collected muscles for pegasus and, say special bone composition for earth ponies.
A 1/2 pegasus might then have a hybrid of the wing muscle type and the baseline muscle type and a 1/2 unicorn a hybrid of the horn skull and synapses.
A 1/2 unicorn, 1/2 half pegasus Earthpony would then be an earthpony with both traits due to some quirk of genetics.
Also the Sister are Unicorn/Pegasus/Earth pony hybrids* not just Unicorn/Pegasus hybrids. (the earthpony part is most immediately visible through their size)
*and gods in Celestia's/Luna's case (don't know if the same is true for cadence)
...sometimes mentally too XD
You also don't have "arcane spell failure chance."
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/53/21/The-Empty-Room/April-Fools-Chapter
This is clearly the only good way it could go.
By power gaming standards I'd expect something like 25 AC 20 Will 21 Reflex and 18 Fort...
Just Saiyan.
Yay!
Rarity: Let us never speak of this again.
TS: I agree.
AJ: Eyup.
FS: Thats for the best.
PP: I dunno, they werent that bad.
RD: You kidding? There's a line between "awesome" and just plain "sad".
Having 5,000 flaws when it is just the GM trying to screw you over? Not that much worse than having 5 flaws.
Having one weakness when it's your fellow PLAYERS who will be screwing you over? Fatal.
Fits the description, at least.
http://index.rpg.net/display-entry.phtml?mainid=136