Cadenza: Fools! I am NOT the lich!
Daring Do: Dang it, we just fell for another illusion. How boring.
(beat)
Chrysalis: I am Chrysalis! Queen of the Dark Faeries!!
Daring Do: Nevermind, this just suddenly became epic.
Chrysalis: Haha! Now I have you in my trap!
Nurse Redheart: You and what army, sweetie?
Diamond Tiara: All the guests turn into faeries. EVIL faeries! And… they’re all going to eat you!
Zecora: The guests were all evil? That is most unbelievable!
Diamond Tiara: Yeah, but you’re the heroes, so you can TOTALLY take them.
Cheerilee: You mean, we actually have a chance? No sudden death trap?
Diamond Tiara: Nope! Roll Initiative!
Derpy: Bloody awesome!!
Trixie: Okay!! Attack Pattern Luna! Ponies, GO!!
No partner , the logic here is to drop a nuke(or in Raxon's example a moon) that only kills the enemy team...which is technically modern warfare 3 multiplayer's nuke...
Actually it's more: What would Night Sage Do? yes I know you haven't heard of me, but hear me out real quick.
My friends call me a special kind of chaos. I fit more closely with "chaotic neutral" than any other alignment, but my friends say "even that doesn't properly describe you."
They went on and explained why "You are capable of jumping from true neutral, to chaotic good, down to chaotic good, all the way over to lawful good, and down to natural evil. You are all over the place, that in any moment in time, any one of the 9 alignments can best describe you."
Yay for me I guess. And that is the quote of my friends verbatim. They marked me with the 10th, unknown alignment "Jumping chaos..." Description: Any of the other nine alignments can be used at any given time.
They are even going to allow me to construct a D&D character with said alignment too... YAY!!!
I'd say it's more like "what would Quantumturnip do?", Night Sage. You've got nothing on a moodswinger like me. How much of a moodswinger am I, you ask? Why, enough to undergo a complete personality change whenever it happens, which is regularly. It's bad enough that I once thought I had multiple personalities. I've been all the alignments in the space of an hour. That's right, 9 swings in the course of an hour. Even now, when I've gotten it more or less under control, I tend to have a swing every hour. On a good day.
Sorry about the LC pissing contest. I just find it hard to vent about my problems, and now was one of the times where the current personality/mood/whatever felt like venting.
If everyone's doing this, "What would mycroftxxx do" is actually predictable. Shoot First. While D20 rules don't give the advantage overwhelmingly to the first attacker as much as the real world does, a surprise round is a surprise round. I tend to start working out scenarios as soon as violence becomes an option if the odds aren't in my favor, and as soon as more eventualities end in violence than not, I tend to attack.
This tends to confuse my teammates since they will have no _idea_ why I just shot the pregnant teenager in her gravid belly (as an example: her unborn child was an incredibly powerful homicidal psychic - good reasons for everything, but we had been following the trail of corpses it left. I chose to shoot while talking because the mother wasn't appearing to want to surrender to us immediately, and I didn't think we'ld get a warning.). But, my choices tend to be backed by Word of God later, so I get away with it.
Also, monologuing or gloating. No strategy there, I'm just allergic to it and immediately attack. That one always surprises GM's. leftoversoup.com/archive.php?num=421
My favorite counter to the "Shoot villain while monologuing" was from a D&D adventure where the BBEG's second in command monologued to the PCs about why they can't stop the BBEG by fighting him head on.
The PCs killed him in mid-sentence and rescued the prisoner from the basement. The prisoner asked if the PCs managed to iterrogate the commander who knew the BBEG's weakness.
Oops. :3
So now we're doing the final battle the hard way...
Today on the hot seat we got the fastest pony around.
The one and only Rainbow Dash.
We need both questions and answers.
Have you ever clocked your speed after a sonic rainboom?
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Δyou don't know how tedious that was.
Have you ever tried using a mini tornado to get the speed for a rainboom?
HOW DO YOU COLOR!?!?!?!?!?
Fun Fact: durring Discord's rule he implanted a law soooo deep in the legal system of Equestria that even Celestia's most powerful bureaucromancers have been unable to remove it.
It requires that everypony who has facial hair must have a permit written on a piece of gingerbread.
The crazy thing is that the penlty for not having a permit is becoming a pony. Wierd huh?
I wonder if any players out there do a lot of teamwork in combat? Or does your adventuring party just do their own thing on the battlefield?
My group rarely works together. They seem to have this notion that a round spent not swinging a weapon is a round wasted. When I'm a player, I love teamwork. I always play a spellcaster type that specializes in either team buff or battlefield control to help the other PCs win the fight.
But do I get any credit for helping? Nope, I just get chastised for having zero kills in the fight. 9_9
I like playing support characters, believe it or not. I don't have a group at the moment, but remember this; The environment is your friend. Are you fighting in a great redwood forest? Slice all the trees nearby through the base so the fall on the enemy! Desert? Summon water and turn it into a quicksand bog! Trapped in a box canyon? Dude, if you can't figure out how to weaponize fifty tons of stone thirty meters up using magic, you need to take a remedial class.
I am actually my best when I solo (because then I only have to look out for my own skin), but I kind of like the interactions I have with team members (because they are funny as hell to talk to sometimes). But whenever I do perform team stuff, I NEED to be a non-magical healer. cause they won't stop to rest, and I don't like restrictions on what I can do.
Had a party in one of my first Rifts campaigns miss a box canyon opportunity, they even had a rocket launcher with HE rockets in it! Had to chastise them for it, would have given them extra XP for being creative with explosives.
One of my most recent characters is almost exclusively support, even though by swapping just a few feats around he could have been insanely overpowered in combat. As it is, I prefer to have one or two people that I coordinate with at a time (generally two), and our sub-party tends to be the one getting all the real work done, including damage even though we've only got one real damage dealer.
Teamwork, huh... does standing on the back of a fallen comrade to gain a height advantage count?
My current and most active group has a couple of characters who do group buffs (a rogue with Bless as a spell like ability, a ranger who can share some of his FE bonus with the rest of the party). But we don't really have any sort of coordination or plan. Honestly I don't think I've ever been in a group that had actual team strategies. People just act on their own initiative. Sometimes that initiative involves coming to the aid of another party member who got in over their head, but aside from that...
My first character was a control wizard. In the adventure, I managed to keep the enemy from escaping, buff the party, and put the main boss to sleep so that (after the DM got a couple of horrible rolls) she wasn't awake for the entire last battle.
And all I got was yelled at for not having Magic Missile.
My form of support is more along the lines of 'Look at me, I'm a distraction!" combined with a high AC to tank the attacks, thereby keeping the enemy away from my friends.
Which isn't to say that I'm not going to do my best to crush the guys attacking me, I just want to keep them from hurting my team.
Whenever I cheese a character beyond sanity, I make it a support character. Playing a selfish cheese-a-tron just isn't fun, and my way's more effective anyway - I'd rather give the whole party's weapons +2, Keen, Flaming Burst, and Charging for a turn than just rage, charge, and hope for a hit. And that's just casting - I have dedicated martial defense builds that boosted my AC and an adjacent ally or two's... though it wouldn't have worked so well if I'd rolled poorer stats.
Been Playing as a Centaur Knight as of Late, I've been working out Having the party Healer Ride me so I can Do my Blitzkrieg Charge (65 move speed with the Horseshoes of speed) straight into the heart of the enemy without having to worry about getting killed by all the Followup attacks.
Current character is an Inquisitor who teleports into flanks with the rogue, next campaign I plan on using a buffmancer bard (Inspire courage, Haste, quickened Good Hope from a metamagic rod all in one turn)
I do my best to encourage my players to work together, doesn't always work.
I do remember a great session where we worked as a team (Me as a player, not GM). It was like the big fight scene near the end of Mr and Mrs. Smith (The Pitt and Joline film). We played off each other's weapon types and skills, backing each other up. blew the DM's little mind.
Depending on my character's personality, I usually try that. When it inevitably fails, I charge screaming into battle and roll for intimidate. Yay for circumstance bonuses from splattering a kobold all over oneself with a critical hit on a charge!
My clients would appreciate it if you would stop insulting and harassing them, otherwise I will be fired as their lawyer, which would only happen if I don't counter sue you afterword.
Attack Pattern Luna implies a crescent formation, possibly one intended to wax full when the opportunity comes to envelop a key position or critical opponent.
And Diamond Tiara is still being entertaining as DM. Well done. Funny to see that Redheart's comment about acceptable collateral (from last strip) is no longer such an ethically questionable positions. DD's awestruck appearance after Chrysalis reveals herself in a particularly well chosen panel. Last observation: "You and what army?" should probably go down on a list of things you never say in an rpg, ranked somewhere between, "What's the worst that could happen?" and, "Don't worry; we'll be fine as long as I roll higher than a 1."
Both have sent players and whole parties to their doom! I actually had my character habitually slap our fighter in the back of the head(I was the other fighter, specialized in scythes and ranged attacks. he was the blunt stick of the group) every time he started any sentence with either of these or your three quotes. kept us alive longer that way.
One of my players was fond of "It all came down to this." when he was about to deliver what might be the final blow to a boss encounter. course that jsut made him look bad when he missed... :3
I know what you mean. I roll wizards, too. Many of my current one's powers are friendly-fire capable, and the others are all weak. I am best at crowd control.
Wow, you know I've never said you and what army before but holy shit. I wonder if there even IS a Lich. I'd feel bad if these guys found out that Cadence is a Lich and let herself be taken by the Queen of Fairies to soften up the heroes. Or simply didn't fight a a battle she couldn't win and hopes for the best. I've had plenty of stories that ultimately ended up locking all the villians on a collision course and hoping like hell they would cripple each other.
Just realized that some of the group changed into what can be called "Armor". Cheerilee has her veil, Zecora her cloak, and Trixie her amulet. Nice touch.
Thanks! Some characters don't appear in enough episodes to get good images of them so I have to either plan out stuff like that or build poses in an art program.
What she did is break the poor Owlbear's heart when she turned on him.
Later on I got stuck in a small room with a Dragon and Im a rouge kobold...I survived cause of my uncanny knowledge of a near by small town.
A Beholder and a Drider? Lunch, I'm guessing. Preferaby on kebabs.
And I was going to gently mock the use of "rouge" over "rogue," but rouge actually is my favorite color for kobolds to be, so... props there, I guess.
A friend of mine announced that he's starting up a local D&D game. I'm getting back into a local game, huzzah! Gonna bring back my wizard Sparks with his pony familiar.
DM: Hey, guys, what did I miss? Wait, why are you packing up?
Redheart: We finished the session. Your sister was a great DM.
DM: Wait, what!? Well, as long as she kept to the notes, I guess it's alri-
Derpy: The lich invited us inside for the wedding, but turned out to be the queen of the dark fairies. Then we fought an army and it was awesome.
Daring Do: Yeah, no railroading, no contrived moral dilemmas, no boss that escaped even when you had killed him 3 times already. Just a good old fashioned slugfest.
Cheerilee: You should collaborate with her more often. Anyways, later!
DM: ...But I had the perfect moral contrivance prepared for this session...
Not all shows are overpriced. Besides, there's more than just guns at a good show. I got a zombie saw for kicks, but I also got some gorgeous carved shells for the girls back home, and a bit of tasteful jewelry for them. My Christmas shopping is done.
Yes, firearms are overpriced, but you can find some good deals on other things. I got myself a nice bolt action pen, made from machined steel. Plastic and cheap pens tend to... fare poorly in my pockets. I got a new flashlight, always a good thing to carry. I got an interesting walking stick, a small belt knife, a dex trainter, and, of course, an overpriced funnel cake.
The funnel cake was oh so satisfying, though. Something sweet after lugging around a heavy pack for seven hours, and zigzagging your way through thirteen acres of booths? Yes please!
" I've always wanted to go to a gun show, just to see how full of stupid rednecks they are."
As a gun owner, redneck, non genius, and frequent attendee. I can tell you that you will find that that gun shows are a lot like Gaming/Anime/Comic/Sci-Fi cons.
Except everyone bathes, uses deoderant, doesn't hit on people, skeeve, make other people uncomfortable by doing weird/strange/creepy stuff for attention, or any of the other really screwed up behavior you get at cons.
It's exactly like a big flea market. Except people are selling guns. Yes, with background checks.
Guest Author’s Note: "...No, I have no idea what 'Attack Pattern Luna' entails."