DM: Then Princess Celestia strolls onto the scene.
Princess Celestia: Twilight! Fluttershy! I see you were successful after all.
Rainbow Dash: What about me? I deserve most of the credit!
Princess Celestia: Allow me to congratulate you for-
Fluttershy: We… can’t accept your thanks right now. One of our friends is in danger.
Princess Celestia: Do you mean Rarity? The dressmaker? How serious is the danger?
Applejack: Can’t say we’re sure ourselves.
Twilight Sparkle: Something about dogs and jewels?
Spike: Dig! Ambush! Three!
This is why Hasbro stopped making the pink Celestia doll, you know. It was giving a certain Elizabeth Bathory vibe to people who saw the character as a white mare.
Haha, yeah, so she is. It could represent that she's at the table, just not with the party, IC.
Reminds me of those instances the party is split and someone in group A has to snark in character at someone in group B.
Every time I have to say "Your character isn't there", I deduct exp points.
If you have to say, "Your character is dead," is there an alternative penalty that works? The potential for XP loss doesn't seem to mean as much under those circumstances.
I actually remember one game where dying was a step up for my character.
See I was playing a barbarian, complete with all the usual rages and what not. However, when I got offed, it was because a dragon ate me. But I didn't want to roll up a new character, so I convinced the DM to let me haunt the party...as a "Ghost" style ghost.
I had all the same stats, except I was classified as ethereal, and I could use emotional energy to create ranged attacks of surprising effectiveness. Also, I could only be seen by other ethereal beings...and I could level up!
Look, a busy pony like Rarity can't be everywhere at once. Important engagements sometimes conflict, alibis are required, etc. So she just sets her dummy up in the town square whenever she goes out of town to do errands.
It could happen. I expect you know that there's a brown stallion bearing an hourglass cutie mark who fans have dubbed Doctor Whooves.
There's a moment in "Winter Wrap Up" (s1e11) when we see him at the end of a line of ponies in the foreground headed left. No problem, except that there's another line of ponies in the background headed right; the stallion at the end of that line is also Doctor Whooves.
You know, now that I look at that third panel, I feel like photoshopping a little sigh on the ash pile with a picture of a troll face.
I remember an old campaign years back that was basically a sequal to Final Fantasy VI. There were rumors that Kefka's old cult didn't completely disband so the heroes all banded together to flush them out.
In one fight we had our backs to a waterfall as a pair of the BBEG's behemoths were curbstomping us. The party decided that rather then surrender to the monsters, we'd jump off the waterfall.
The GM didn't expect that. Less expected is that we all survived the fall.
Ya know, just once, I'd like to see either Celestia or Luna save the day in a deus ex machina (in the actual show; obviously not here in the comic). Though I do admit it was rather vindicating to see Celly get her plot handed to her by Chrysalis, I still wanna see them actually do some whiz-bang action.
...What? Oh, right, this is a comment section for the comic. I, uh... really like her mane?
I have a feeling this is going to set up a running gag where Rainbow Dash (and her player) doesn't(don't) get any credit at all, even when she(they) deserve it.
And I wonder how things go from here? Will we see a majority of the Diamond Dogs episode, or will it end quickly because the night is coming to a close and everyone needs to get home and sleep for their mundane jobs in the morning? Or maybe the GM will end the game right after he has Spike tell the PCs about Rarity and call it a night because he/she (I still envision the GM as Lauren Faust) has a dungeon to map out?
Hey don't Knock a 3.5 bard, an optimized good aligned 3.5 bard can make an army of lv 1 commoners capable of 1shotting dragons, and an evil bard deal enough DPS to take out the planet by lv 9.
You know, I totally have plans for weaponized popcorn that is devilishly clever. If you've read the immortal game, it uses something similar to Twilight's iron laser, except it uses popcorn in butter.
Now, the butter gets hot from the friction, so what happens? The popcorn pops. What happens when the popcorn pops?
It gets hot oil everywhere!
This is a Raxon weapon. It's terribly effective. The results are remarkably painful, yet amazingly delicious.
And so, Twilight must make a choice. Will she tell her mentor and Princess the truth or join the dark side? Find out on the next episode of Friendship is Dragons! To be continued this Saturday! Same Time- Same Channel!
For some reason I always scan'd the DM as male. Probably something to do with having start'd this comic in the middle of Darths & Droids and the DM is the only character that didn't already have a voice. It wouldn't matter except halfway through this page I start'd reading the DM in Celestia's voice, which makes somewhat more sense for the group. This calls for a reread.