Friendship is Dragons
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When you're naming something, ideally it has to be catchy, memorable, and descriptive. Just saying it should evoke some kind of feeling or image or memory; the maximum power of language in general. Pony tabletop settings are really really good in that department, because you can make people and places as literal as you want and it still fits. But regardless, sometimes a name crystalizes around an entirely different concept... and as a DM, you kinda have to just go for it. Because yes, it IS worth it.
Your best and worst puns in your group.
Both sides gets a prize.
Worst I cannot remember as I tend to delete them from my memory, and am rather good at that as my memory is crap.
I do remember a situation with a bad one, where our bard said it, and accidentally triggered his at-will 1st level power 'Vicious Mockery' due to how bad the pun was. He killed a commoner due to it. Then the guards who asked him what he did. Eventually we started clamping his mouth down when he said, "I only said-" and that continued. We realized by the end of the session that due to that none of us remembered the original pun.
"Who's sending you off on these missions?"
"There's a point what's your name?"
"I am but a messenger."
*In unison* "There you go, he's Butter Messenger."
And, of course, thereafter:
"A messenger..."
"Is it Butter?"
"No it's a different one."
"Is it Lard? Are you Lard?"
"What? ...No?"
"I'm going to try following Butter to see who he's working for."
"It's Butter Messenger."
"Wait, it's actually Butter?"
"It's actually Butter."
"Yessssssss"
"Thank God Butter survived."
*Grabs Butter and threatens to punch him*
"WHAT DO YOU WANT!"
"Is it Butter?"
"No, sir."
"Well...show him in anyway. Huh. Dresses the same, walks the same, talks the same. I can't believe it's--"
"OOC! Don't you dare finish that!"
XD
But that's not a problem, because I have...
PROTECTION FROM ELEPHANTS!!!
(Our DM had to get himself a drink after that one.)
"I hereby declare this area a
demithralized zone!"
The town had been attacked a few times, but the residents managed to survive the raids through smart planning (having a Stable door that still works is awesome) and establishing relations with neighbors (they pay a local raider gang in food to patrol the area for trouble). Stable 45's name was shortened to 45 by caravans, and then rewritten as "Fortify" to make it stand out less as a Stable and more as a town (the townsfolk learned not to advertise their Stable). Fortify stuck as the official name of the town ever since and remains a decent settlement in the wasteland.
- tribute to Ed Greenwood, the creator of the Forgotten Realms which is the de facto world of D&D 5th ed (not that any of my players have ever heard of him...)
- the town is located near the Greenwoods, an enchanted forest that stays lush and green throughout the year. The inhabitants of Greenwood have struck a bargain with a druid of Greenwoods to cut down a specific part of the forest that always grows back overnights. This forms the primary trade of Greenwood and is the source of its wealth.
In general, names of (important) cities/towns/people/other in my games tend to signify or else hint at deeper meaning and/or relation to the story/plot at hand. The amount of times my players pick up on this is still countable on two hands.
That name is from old manga/anime called "Koko wa Greenwood."
That carriage was built for endurance, not speed-to go long distances at a walk while carrying goods and passengers, not to evade pursuit.
Rainbow should have been kicking it to pieces in seconds, and we know canonically that Pinkie can match Rainbow's speed. Or Twilight just teleports onto it, or it to them minus its pullers. Basically only Rarity and Fluttershy would have been UNable to singlehandedly halt the carriage.
Rainbow, however, should have been able to catch up...unless she was worried the stage drivers would physically intervene on Applejack's behalf. One pegasus versus five strong earth ponies, one of whom is visibly in a panic while the others may think they have reason to be ungentle, can result in a badly injured pegasus before backup can arrive.
So it could have happened as depicted.
On the other hand, I cannot think of any time that Twilight has teleported into or out of a moving vehicle, or any time that she teleported an object but not herself, or any time she teleported anything that wasn't very close to her. So I would agree that Twilight lacks the ability to teleport the cart to her, or to safely teleport herself to the cart. She might have been able to grab he cart telekinetically before it got too far away, but I can't imagine it would have been easy (and it sounds quite rude).
Difficult teleportation of self: S1E3, blind teleport from alleyway to home to evade pursuit, with Spike. S2E3, teleports offscreen and telefrags a ball in the process.
Teleportation or levitation of large objects: S1E6: Levitates multiple huge objects, with difficulty. S2E3: Effortlessly locks Rainbow in place by the tail. S2E8: Levitates multiple huge objects without difficulty (repairing a stone dam, disguised as Mare Do Well)
Yeah serious case of Forgot Her Powers, I still say.
They should try painting them red for extra speed.
You might outrun your responsibility.
You might outrun your every fear.
But you will never, her my words, never, outrun the cringe.
(And not just because I used this while actually in Dodge City. pretty much every tourist does, I think.)
It worked. Got that in the seventh or so session, and spent the entire first six sessions elaborately setting up this scenario. :)
... I'm gonna go sit in the corner now
How many people saw Pinkie's frigging Voice of The Demonic Legion coming? Holy ccow, the sound engineer cranked up the reverb for that...and then it was gone, leaving soiled underwear in its wake.
They had to tear it down and burn it, leading to the apple family gathering to raise a new one.
Molestia approves of this error.
I lived.
FUBAR, on the other hand...
FUBAR is a good one but my favorite is SNAFU, it's a clever way to be sarcastic and official sounding at the same time.
Oh you want to know what a SNAFU is?
Situation
Normal
And
Fucked
Up
Situation normal: all f*cked up.
... Well, mostly by accident.
Now it's 2016, college might give me a heart attack by the end of the quarter, and I failed a meme... sounds like my life hasn't changed much. Woo!
I hope you all have a great new year.
"You're having some trouble keeping it down."
I could hear crickets around the proverbial table (Skype conversation, really). However, now it was the third player's turn to try a potion: I quietly PM'd them that they had got a perfectly brewed cup of coffee. Of course, they couldn't stop laughing, and the other players had similar reactions when they tried that "potion" as well. The lesson, of course, is to always have a plan B in place in case your jokes don't fall through.