>>194655I am a relatively new player, and my character is a unicorn who does not even use a gun, so I cannot say. I am not even completely sure which firearms rules this game uses.
Maybe look at EaW lore for reference. There's been plenty of discussion on that matter.
>>194657I have considered doing that with my zombies
(if I ever freaking get any...), using the Craft (body modifications skill), just for flavor and the illusion of innovation. Thing is, it mechanically does very little that holding a weapon does not already do unless you use specialized magic and rare materials. In most cases, you are better off holding a sword.
The same Dragon Magazine article that craft skill was printed in said that weapon grafts and other visible combat body modifications tend to be frowned upon or even reviled in non-evil societies. By modifying your body with weapons, you objectify yourself as an engine of war at the expense of your dignity as a person, which is the reason why people wouldn't do it. That was the point of augmented characters like Jaws, to show how sinister and depraved the villains were that they would disfigure themselves for combat.
Of course, Posey as an evil necromancer does not value things such as "sanctity of life" or "dignity", so she would have few reservations against doing this to her thralls. Her own body was modified by her masters, originally meant to become a temple for a dead godling, and later for combat and pleasure. What holds Posey back from that however is her extreme sense of vanity, wanting to keep herself beautiful while many other psychopathic necromancers would be satisfied with monstrous rotting bodies, or at least for now. If she were to graft herself, she would do so while trying to maintain her natural beauty.
Ponies are gentle creatures, and as a result bodily combat mods would be few and far between.
>>194658>first paragraphYeah, that's why I said it felt forced.
It's also not a secret that a large portion of EaW devs are openly commies and like those sorts of colonial plotlines. Can't blame them for it entirely; commies like map-painter power fantasies as much as the rest of us do.
I haven't actually looked into it for over half a decade though. I wasn't aware of the rewrite.
>second paragraph.Interesting take on nocturnal creatures in industrial society. I like this kind of world-building.
Labor conditions in America got a lot worse when electric lighting made late-night shifts plausible.
I still think my underdark/Drow ripoff is cooler, but alas feverishly daydreaming for hours on end does not spawn a lore document into existence, so I kneel to the guys who actually write down their lore.
Btw, any chance we could advance the plot Soon™?
>>194659>Alright but, in the picture how is she supposed to operate it? I call it rule of cool, tbh. The show is full of instances that don't logically fit into horse anatomy, especially in the later seasons. You could jump through hoops and come up with things like battle saddles in FOE, but imo that's more trouble than it is worth and the end result is still nonsensical.
But again, check the EaW world-building forums. People have been arguing about this for the past decade.
>Earth ponies lack hands so easy metal implants giving them super lethal strong biting would be a cheap way to give your Earth Ponies an extra weapon that isnt just horseshoes and kicksAs the only character with a bite attack (mutant zombie) I don't think it would really be helpful as a balancing measure, because characters who wanted to be modern combat characters aren't going to want to bite in melee anyway. Posey has one because Posey is a literal monster, and also because she is defiantly archaic within the setting, coming from a faction which is frozen in medieval tech (also pretty weak too).
A slam attack or two would be appropriate though, especially since it would qualify them for the Beast Strike feat.
Even then, it's nothing compared to the power of flight. If Earth ponies actually needed a buff, I would probably give them Powerful Build and dwarven stability, possibly even access to magic resistance or damage at higher levels through feats or other progressions.
There's plenty of 3.5e homebrew, and also ponyfinder to reference.