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You can always brush it off as "around the default starting age for human adventurers in D&D, so the players and DM just copied that directly for simplicity and relatableness sake".
Wow... first. I should be sleeping. Actually, I should be awake, but I should have slept before that... Gosh, it's gonna be a long, looong day. Thank goodness there's some FiD to ameliorate.
...Simplicity? What is that?
When I GMed my first ponyfinder game, I painstakingly found out ages for actual ponies and figured out the age categories based on those.
When I GMed my first ponyfinder game, I painstakingly found out ages for actual ponies and figured out the age categories based on those.
Most embarrassing moment that has happened in a play session?
Happened to me once. I took up a tip from a friend to have Google Doc versions of all characters and just download the internet copies if I forget my hard copy.
The good thing about PbP is that there's a edit button for times like these. So it all worked out.
While still learning 4e, I found out several sessions in that when wearing light armor, you add a modifier to your armor. My wizard had never added his modifier to his armor, and was running around with AC 11 or 12. I discovered this after going down and making death saves for the second time in the campaign.
On the bright side, if that *hadn't* happened, I might not have rolled a crit on one of those death saves, drawn the interest of one of the campaign antagonists, and spent the next couple of sessions walking around as a living flame.
On the bright side, if that *hadn't* happened, I might not have rolled a crit on one of those death saves, drawn the interest of one of the campaign antagonists, and spent the next couple of sessions walking around as a living flame.
I look forward to the Youtube link. :3
Wish I could stay up late on Sundays for these sessions. Alas, work and time zones are against me. If it weren't for that, I'd of applied to be a Player.
As for the comic. I kinda imagine that the "ohhhh god" is what goes through Spud's mind whenever Cuteless(aka Xencarn) comes to him with an idea
Although we do have that one game where 3/4ths of the team is over 18 and then we have the one child prodigy who is probably currently the best at fighting out of all of us.
I had a game of Savage Worlds where I played a twelve-year-old. She was a puppet master by the name of Fuujin Rahaema. She was killed during our last job (it was a one-shot campaign, anyways).
Another game had a ten-year-old wizard prodigy played by someone else, as well as a sixty-year-old war veteran. That was an interesting campaign that was cut short by invisible illithids.
Another game had a ten-year-old wizard prodigy played by someone else, as well as a sixty-year-old war veteran. That was an interesting campaign that was cut short by invisible illithids.
You remember seeing those old roads, right? They were all paved with bricks back in the day. Good, proper craftsmanship, not like this lousy concrete whatsit. That concrete never was a lick of good. Just a cheap substitute for hard work if you ask me!
Now, when I was a boy, things were simple. You could fix your truck with your own tools, and hard work was rewarded. I grew up learning to shoot wolves, and when I could play, I would grab my stick, and head down to the woods with the other kids.
There was Billy Mason, and Susie May, and little Kanye West. We used to take turns telling Kanye that he was a gay old fish, and he'd start bellyachin' to square the bell.
No, no, bells weren't square anymore then, you see, it had been fifteen years since we had invented round bells, and there were great big fight in the congress about whether round bells were safe enough. So whenever someone began throwing a fit and screaming loud, we'd say they were bellyachin' to square the bell. Though you do still see square bells out in the country. They put em on cows now."
EDIT: sorry I've been so quiet. My phone is dying, and I have to upgrade away from my good old Kyocera Torque.
I could possibly see Rarity as in her 30s, maybe even 40s: she's a thriving businessmare, with skills and talent that take many years to get good at.
Likewise, I could see Twilight as 17 or possibly 16 at the very start: a "gifted child" that has figured out adult rules and adult ways - at least where they can be logiced out - in exchange for a shorter childhood.
And this is all assuming ponies have modern-first-world-human-equivalent aging. Alicorns are a definite exception, and there are hints that they might not be the only ponies who live much past a century - but that only modifies the upper bounds.
Likewise, I could see Twilight as 17 or possibly 16 at the very start: a "gifted child" that has figured out adult rules and adult ways - at least where they can be logiced out - in exchange for a shorter childhood.
And this is all assuming ponies have modern-first-world-human-equivalent aging. Alicorns are a definite exception, and there are hints that they might not be the only ponies who live much past a century - but that only modifies the upper bounds.
Jinx! We both posted at the same time. I'd expect that the Mane Six to be within a few years of each other, since they all were "blank flanks" at the same time.
This brings up a point about the Mane 6: How old they are.
Based on the fact that they live on their own, hold down jobs, I'd put them either at 17-20 or in their 20's. As for their age range, I'd put Fluttershy and Apple Jack as the oldest, followed by Rainbow Dash and Rarity, then Piny Pie, and finally Twilight Sparkle as the youngest. Why the youngest? It's a common trope that the focus character is always the youngest.
Based on the fact that they live on their own, hold down jobs, I'd put them either at 17-20 or in their 20's. As for their age range, I'd put Fluttershy and Apple Jack as the oldest, followed by Rainbow Dash and Rarity, then Piny Pie, and finally Twilight Sparkle as the youngest. Why the youngest? It's a common trope that the focus character is always the youngest.
For the society age of development Equestria is in, I can see 17-18 year olds holding down jobs.
Fluttershy is CANON older than Rainbow Dash, as established in an episode.
AJ was 'the last in her class to get a cutie mark', as she told Apple Bloom; thus she's probably a smidgen older than most of the rest.
I've always thought of them as quite close in age, probably one to two years difference if that.
AJ was 'the last in her class to get a cutie mark', as she told Apple Bloom; thus she's probably a smidgen older than most of the rest.
I've always thought of them as quite close in age, probably one to two years difference if that.
...and then I found the clip. misprint on my memory. Fluttershy is a year older than Pinkie Pie, not Dash. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUivBz1s0y8
As for the age thing, for the longest time my characters were always 19 or 21, if for no other reason than I didn't think I could roleplay anyone older than that. Then I realized that it didn't really matter and started and decided to put down whatever I wanted.
Lately I've been trying to make the oldest character in the group. Party so I can quote Fluttershy by telling people that I'm older than them and party because it's a spot that most players don't gun for and therefore I don't have to work as hard to get that distinction. So far my oldest character happens to be Rook from my Only War game at 31 followed by alt FOE character, Rusty Nails, at 30 and my main FOE character, Astral Blaze, at 27. Or maybe Astral should be my oldest since he did find out that he is technically 277 years old now. Eh, whatever.
I'm still trying to figure out how Sky Speed and Snow Sensation even know each other.
An odd thought that came to me while reading this comic: What if in the FiD universe, Equestria Girls IS Pinkie's fan fiction based on their adventures with certain details changes?
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I smell potential for a guest comic...
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I smell potential for a guest comic...
Fallout is Dragons #50 is out! It's not actually the fiftieth episode by a long shot when you count the .5's and the side campaigns, but here we are anyway.
Session 50 - Indomitable Spirit: Libsyn YouTube