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21st Sep 2017, 6:00 AM
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The use of Madame Pinkie in that small panel is such a great touch.
Yes and no. I'm not a believer that every in game conversation has to be played put, 'exposition' is my usual single word short hand. I'm even okay with retroactive conversations (within limits) when someone forgot to pass on a thing. Buuuut the charecters involved do have to be...y'know...able to talk to each other.
I'm in the yes camp. assuming they are in the same room then again i play over text and typing out I share What I Learned saves so much time.
In this case, they'd have to parrot it with Blueblood either in close proximity or else otherwise distracted. Either way, he has the potential to overhear and how the players pass the information along can be something he can use in turn.
So if I was in that campaign, my vote would be that the players have to roleplay out the info-passing, no hand-waved parroting.
So if I was in that campaign, my vote would be that the players have to roleplay out the info-passing, no hand-waved parroting.
Too bad they don't have modern tech, else the party could just tweet it.
Though they could go out on a wing and try to have one of their paths dovetail with Rarity's, where they could whisper to her without robin her from Blueblood's side.
Are you telling me that Metagaming is not a skill? I always have it maxed.
It's also good to have the relevant Knowledge skills, as these give a bonus to your FastTalk: GM skill when you use your Metagaming skill on a relevant topic.
As a GM who is really bad at planning ahead, I often change my plans on a whim (I have a lot to learn as a GM, I'm good in some areas, but I'm not perfect at all), and if I feel as though players are playing too much to stop one scenario, I'll change it up on them in small ways.
I'm reminded of Critical Role and their earrings, somehow.
Possibly more D&D campaigns should have built-in magical walky-talkies between the players? Possibly not!
Possibly more D&D campaigns should have built-in magical walky-talkies between the players? Possibly not!
An example from my D&D group, when the wizard learns that the church orphanage where we dropped off an orphan, doesn't take in orphans (the reason why is a different rant). Now, this is kinda important for us as a team to know, but the wizard didn't tell us anything. Instead, he goes to the church and pays them out of party funds to adopt the kid. So hey, that's two things--
1. he's spending party funds that are meant to cover general expenses such as food and consumable healing equipment, without telling us, and,
2. he's adopting a 9-year old kid into a part of 6th level characters that fight ogres and rogue spellcasters as a job. All it would take is one fireball and that kid wound be an ash pile over a pair of shoes.
Feeling a bit smarmy today (sinus headache)..
You get your money back selling the shoes as "proven fire resistant"
As for the "wordy" "little bird" -- given the screen grab used, it is most likely the vulture
You get your money back selling the shoes as "proven fire resistant"
As for the "wordy" "little bird" -- given the screen grab used, it is most likely the vulture
For darkness and a few extra coins, the ash can be sold as fertilizer.
As to the kid, how do you know he's not secretly a 6th level adventurer too? Level knows no age.
Though if he is a commoner NPC...well, depending on his ancestry, "spread my ashes where they will do some good" might well be his default funeral practice. If so, selling them as fertilizer wouldn't be more than a little dark, and not dark at all if the buyer is fully informed. (Essentially, the buyer is a mortician who pays for the privilege of the job.)
But the GM has this weird... fetish for putting children in the party. Cause then another npc came by and whisked the child to a pocket dimension where the child got training over the course of two weeks. So the kid comes back and is now a 6th level sorcerer. We're wondering how do we get into that pocket dimension. We'd like to gain 6 levels in two weeks. :/
Pathfinder actually has a class option that perfectly fits having a child as an adventurer: One of the archetypes for the Vigilante class is the Magical Child.
Yes, they have a transformation sequence. They also get a familiar, (although it ends up being a bit more Kero-chan than Luna).
Yes, they have a transformation sequence. They also get a familiar, (although it ends up being a bit more Kero-chan than Luna).
You know, I've been thinking... we've been seen here the different players and their takes on characters. But how would the MLP Mane Six themselves play an RPG? Would it be any different from what we see here?
Twilight - A perfectly calculated character, with all knowledge skills maxed out
Pinkie - A random hodgepodge of multiclassed characters and random feats which inexplicably works out incredibly well
Fluttershy - A wizard who specialises in buffing. This way, she can help her friends' characters do cool stuff.
Rainbow - A flying character who hits like a ton of bricks. Especially when buffed by Fluttershy's character.
Applejack - Cleric. Heals and self-buffs in combat.
Rarity - Has a drawing of her character, and all the costumes her character wears. Doesn't put too much effort into the mechanics, but makes a reasonable social character. Nice things have a habit of happening to her character.
Spike - Runs the game.
Pinkie - A random hodgepodge of multiclassed characters and random feats which inexplicably works out incredibly well
Fluttershy - A wizard who specialises in buffing. This way, she can help her friends' characters do cool stuff.
Rainbow - A flying character who hits like a ton of bricks. Especially when buffed by Fluttershy's character.
Applejack - Cleric. Heals and self-buffs in combat.
Rarity - Has a drawing of her character, and all the costumes her character wears. Doesn't put too much effort into the mechanics, but makes a reasonable social character. Nice things have a habit of happening to her character.
Spike - Runs the game.
It would fully believable that a messenger would be able to approach Dainty Dove without drawing suspicious activity. I mean, if we are to assume the Wonderbolts is essentially a mercenary company, I can only imagine what a privatized messenger corps. would be like.
Hazard pay would probably be a nightmare.
In my current campaign one of my partymates has telepathy up to 5 squares away and we've just abused the heck out of it whenever we can. It just helps in so many ways.
So there's a race in pathfinder that I just love. The men and women have seperate stats based on huge sexual dimorphism, they get natural spell like abilities, and here's the kicker: 30 foot telepathy with anyone who shares a language. It's pretty great.