Friendship is Dragons
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Page 192 - Downhill From the Table
Author Notes:
Guest Author's Note:
"Hoo nelly, I'm glad NewbieSpud puts up with me when I do these! For those of you who aren't in the know, I generally finish these about 2 hours after I say I will. So to make up for late submissions I tend to leave some small details here and there to make up for it. I can guarantee though that the next comic I'll be doing as a guest artist for NewbieSpud will involve talking magical horses AND humans. You have been fairly warned.
"A couple of changes in the design in the characters from the last comic: made them less masculine and gave them some cold-weather-clothes. I originally had a wacky Groucho Marx outfit planned for Pinkie, but it didn't sit right with me, so clown wig it was (I'm also sincerely hoping y'all noticed the Pink breaking the fourth panel). There are some folks who asked me what the hardest part of drawing the Humanized ponies is. My answer: trying to keep them within the bounds of 'reasonably realistic' while still having the flair that makes them who they are. On that decision, it was a toughie deciding to go with eye colors that more resembled the show instead of the natural eye colors from last comic; I thought it would help distract you from the boring fact that you're reading a comic about 7 people sitting at a table, but lucky for us, NewbieSpud does that quite easily with his epic joke-telling abilities.
"On that note: Enjoy the comic!"
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33 Comments:
What sort of comments and responses?
Wow. This week must have taken a lot out of the regular commenters. I wish I had something more insightful to say.
Um... I think giving AJ's player a hat was a nice touch. Also, RD's expression reminds me of a member of the Misfits, the rival band from Jem.
Ooh! Oooh! Colour coordinated dice! Funny that Pinkie has to get red to leave Fluttershy the pink. Funnier still that the Apple's are orange(s).
Wow. This week must have taken a lot out of the regular commenters. I wish I had something more insightful to say.
Um... I think giving AJ's player a hat was a nice touch. Also, RD's expression reminds me of a member of the Misfits, the rival band from Jem.
Ooh! Oooh! Colour coordinated dice! Funny that Pinkie has to get red to leave Fluttershy the pink. Funnier still that the Apple's are orange(s).
And I like the fact that there are tons of details that you normally overlook. Like Rarity's Diamond Necklace, and the fact she stacked all of her dice on top of each other behind her speech bubble.
Yeah, but I get here the same time every weekday to find at least four comments.
Good observations. I missed both of those. Honestly, these little things might be the only thing getting me through this, the rebooting hour. (I'm so tired I originally spelled "hour" as "army".) I've got to find ways to run the Thursday sessions faster.
Good observations. I missed both of those. Honestly, these little things might be the only thing getting me through this, the rebooting hour. (I'm so tired I originally spelled "hour" as "army".) I've got to find ways to run the Thursday sessions faster.
Haha I'm glad you caught that~ I tried to get Twi's dice all lined up in rows according to the number of sides, but the dice are just too small and blend in too much to allow that to happen, haha.
Oh oh oh, and the color of their dice!
Which incidently, some of my players believe that dice color affects their rolls depending on the situation. XD
I have two players that swear my red sparkling dice make all the enemy NPCs roll high for attacks.
Which incidently, some of my players believe that dice color affects their rolls depending on the situation. XD
I have two players that swear my red sparkling dice make all the enemy NPCs roll high for attacks.
Actually, RD's expression remind of Eric from Dungeons and Dragons.
Okay, so maybe the Eighties were a strange time for animation.
NO ONE!!!
Well if the picture is any indication it might be because you're lacking apeel. :3
WHERE do you get minis like that? What do you mean they're a figment of your imagination? I love those pony minis!
The figures themselves you'd get from the blind bag minis set that is sold, as those pvc figures are 25 mm i think, in the same range as the kind you'd get from DnD minis and such. Then you could either use them as-is, or glue them to a base, and voila~!
They may not be sold as minis per se, but they aren't a figment of your imagination either
They may not be sold as minis per se, but they aren't a figment of your imagination either
I don't usually play D&D with figurines, but I really want a set of pony minis. Given that there is a developing pony-based system for us, I can see an actual market for that. :D
Well, you have miniature ponies in the form of blind bag toys, and they're fairly easy to repaint. Certainly not any more difficult than DnD figures.
I have a little Lyra blind bag that I sit next to my dice as a good luck charm. We've joked several times of using blind bags as mounts in my campaigns, but my father who is our DM utterly forbids it XD Let's just say we haven't won him over yet. Also I purposely left the cutie marks off the miniatures in the comic so I could put them on the humans.
I've been starting to do this myself. It does work!!
Plus annoys the heck out of the non-brony players who now know that intelligent talking unicorns can cast verbal spells XD
Plus annoys the heck out of the non-brony players who now know that intelligent talking unicorns can cast verbal spells XD
First off, your art has improved quite a bit from the last guest comic! Really well done.
I like the little details well, like how Rainbow's hair color went from blue to green. AJ's hat is a nice touch. I also like that you've worked AJ's, Rainbow Dash's and Rarity's cutie marks into their clothing.
I like the little details well, like how Rainbow's hair color went from blue to green. AJ's hat is a nice touch. I also like that you've worked AJ's, Rainbow Dash's and Rarity's cutie marks into their clothing.
Love the pic. Is it Nyx from her Nightmaremare Moon story? If it is, where can I get one? for a diffient site if you must know.
Haha, Nyx is my favorite fanfic OC pony. I actually drew this pic, it's on my deviantart page in a full body shot at jovey4.deviantart.com :)
Rarity and Twilight have their dice neatly placed, and Pinkie's are just strewn across the paper heh.
Fluttershy's are bunched up in a safe little bubble, AJ's are "standard", and Dash is one of those people who has to be playing with something in her hands at ALL TIMES.
Again, really love these humanized versions. Fluttershy's player looks so cute and that last panel is frikkin avatar worthy.
"Animal Empathy doesn't work on dragons"
I'll bet Intimidate does, though
I'll bet Intimidate does, though
Pinkie Pie's the only one who can reach outside the boundaries of the comic panels. Nice touch.
Every once in a while, my AD&D group would get a bit side-tracked (OK, massively side-tacked), so one day, I brought a rubber chicken to the game. Everyone wondered what was up with it, and I said cryptically, "You'll see." When the first player started getting side-tracked, I said, "A knight suddenly walks up to you out of nowhere, and does this." And I struck him with the chicken. Kept them on track - for a while.
Is anyone else unable to go on Pony Tales? Anyway, excellent comic as always.
Is it my imagination, or is this comic now smaller? I'm also at a loss for spotting the correction, but these things are easier when it's your own work hanging in the gallery, isn't it?
http://jovey4.deviantart.com/gallery/
(That said, I prefer Jovey4's take on Twilight's eyes in the final panel over the original: "Pinpoint-Eyeballs-Of-Astonishment" for the win!)
(And where is the DM's comment "Do tell." and the sound effect "SQUEAK!" -- anyway?)
And yes, there are a couple of details missing, but the comic still works without them, so it's easy to let slide.
No author's note, but today's guest will no doubt be quite willing to respond to the comments below.
Much like his previous work, this is Jovey4's reinterpretation of page 152.