Some news: It looks like I might be running my own panel at EFNW on that Sunday afternoon! It'll be called "Story Time! Ponies and Tabletop Roleplaying". Should be interesting!
Also, we got a short roleplaying mini-session of Fallout is Dragons up today!
Session 42.5 - Future of the Hive: LibsynYouTube
Competing goes to RD's head.
AJ chastises her for it.
They have a marathon race to settle it.
Both cheat and fight their way.
PvP falls, everyone loses.
The DM is setting them both up. Her plan all along is to have RD and AJ race in the running of the leaves, so she is going to "Allow" each to have an edge in every other of the 20 events until they are tied, and RD being so competative will demand a tie breaker. Thus the DM gets to implement some world building with an event RD would have laughed at and called lame if it was suggested first.
It doesn't have to be cheating out of character. Most of the cheating in the Running of the Leaves involves beating the crap out of each other. They might just get more and more heated as things go on, and eventually initiate pvp mid-race.
Oooo...And then the reason they take such an impossible amount of time fighting each other and literally everyone else passes them...is because they decide to break out the grapple rules.
They spend 15 minutes arguing about the rules while Twilight completes a few dozen skill checks, and her winning the race interrupts their argument.
"Future of the Hive" eh? Dang, makes me wanna play a changeling in your game, Spud. I really love your campaign. Very much a fun world to explore and blow ponies up in.
The various curses, how they interact at the borders, and the dragons controlling each one is by far one of the best aspects of the campaign setting. I need to steal some ideas from that.
Also, Javolt is becoming one of my fav characters. He started off pretty polarizing, but his quirks have gotten better to where he has great moments with ideas.
For this part of the arc, I think competition poll will be good here.
Two ponies, one event. Who would win?
Round one:AJ vs. Rarity. The event: best party. The client, middle class.
I can't really say, not because of either of how either of them would make up a party, but simply because a lot of the middle class people don't have a huge preference when it comes to such things. I'm pretty sure most middle class just want to be in it for the moment.
Sunday Afternoon? Well I'll see if I can't work with the others so I'm free to attend then. Hopefully they won't schedule my little 5E DMing thing to happen at the same time. It'll be fun to listen to you speak at a panel. :D
In the original episode, I contend that it was Applejack who cheated first. All of the events were clearly biased to favor earth ponies, and some were specifically farm-themed (like the lasso). If they wanted a fair contest, every farmer task should have been matched with a weather pony task.
What do you think?
AJ chastises her for it.
They have a marathon race to settle it.
Both cheat and fight their way.
PvP falls, everyone loses.
Oooo...And then the reason they take such an impossible amount of time fighting each other and literally everyone else passes them...is because they decide to break out the grapple rules.
They spend 15 minutes arguing about the rules while Twilight completes a few dozen skill checks, and her winning the race interrupts their argument.
Also not all of us are ponies... Like, only four out of seven PCs are, and that's not counting the two companions or the two GMPCs with the group.
Also, Javolt is becoming one of my fav characters. He started off pretty polarizing, but his quirks have gotten better to where he has great moments with ideas.
Two ponies, one event. Who would win?
Round one:AJ vs. Rarity. The event: best party. The client, middle class.
Hee, but okay, maybe AJ would have a party more my style.