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Occupied Equestria
Anonymous
xBDBY
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No.71158
71170
Dark Star has been contracted by the occupying government to lead a team to infiltrate and stop a meeting of the Communist party in Baltimare. He discovers that they are importing arms, and more importantly, special forces advisers from foreign nations. Things reach a literal boiling point when a warehouse of gasoline drums is set on fire, and now we will see who will live and who will die

Welcoming Silver, the unicorn fighter
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Anonymous
Luj86
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No.71763
71764
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>>71760
Kirins can become Niriks when enraged, which gives them fire immunity (although it apparently does not confer to equiptment..) and a 1d4 fire damage touch attack that can potentially set enemies on fire.
Not much for a caster, but pretty decent if combined with Wild Shape. Energy immunity is also one less thing to worry about when abjuring to protect those precious hit points.
I'd prefer to use that power sparingly though, since I made it part of her backstory that she dislikes doing it. Plus, it makes little sense for a pacifist nun (neutral; wannabe Neutral Good) to always be angry, so I'll reserve the fiery hooves for dire emergencies when innocents are in harm's way.
OOC
6YBkO
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No.71764
71765
>>71763
Was it like the attack on the wolf that almost killed you?
Anonymous
jkdN5
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No.71765
71766
>>71764
No. That was a spell.
She wasn't actually angry then either.
Druid Dragon-Lion-Deer-Horse
Luj86
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No.71766
71767 71768
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>>71765
I had her prepare a few fire spells today, as a silent gesture of solidarity with the Celestians she was praying with, that particular one being Flaming plot Sphere. Heat Metal is also a spell for Clerics with the Sun Domain, so I prepared that too; although Chill Metal probably would have been safer.
Probably shouldn't have spent Call Lighting, but I wanted to make sure he was spooked off. Not much experience in playing vancian spellcasters (lot of decisions).
OOC
6YBkO
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No.71767
71769
>>71766
Yeah, that's why I didn't even consider going for a magic user first time. The amount of decisions for those characters is leagues above all others.
Druid Dragon-Lion-Deer-Horse
Luj86
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No.71768
>>71766
Actually, now that I look at it, most of the Granted spells for the Sun domain are spells on the Druid spell list, some of which only appear there. Heat Metal, Fire Seeds, Sunburst, etc.
Druids do have that animism theme, worshipping the sun and elements and whatnot. Fire and Light are two of the few energy evecation elements they get.
Druid Dragon-Lion-Deer-Horse
Luj86
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No.71769
71770
>>71767
Fighter is a pretty simple class to play. They can't do very many things, but they're really good at what they do, to which is to smack their enemies with huge weapons and deal crippling amounts of damage.
I kind of prefer versitile classes that can do a lot of different things, even if they're not the best at any of them. Druid is good too because they can give up their prepared spells for summoning spells, like when Sister Ash gave up WindWall to summon that Dire Wolf.
OOC
6YBkO
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No.71770
71771
>>71769
Yeah, I know that they are versatile, but I would haver never guessed that, for example, magic users had to prepare spells, since Skyrim and other RPGs just gave you how to do the spell and then you did it, using up some spiritual energy to do so. That is why I'm mostly afraid of playing a magic class since I'm sure that:
A- The character will be a lot more complex, and therefore, have to put in more research on how wizards works (Maybe that's why most wizards are long beard robe types)
B- I won't even be sure if I am playing correctly by combat guidelines. Some examples are how far can I be from a melee enemy so that it doesn't hit me or how does dice even work for spellcasters.
Druid Dragon-Lion-Deer-Horse
Luj86
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No.71771
71772
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>>71770
Not all magic users have to prepare spells. Sorcerers, Bards, and Assassins are core classes that are able to cast arcane spells without preparation: they're spontaneous casters. Sorcerers and the like are limited to a certain number of spells that they know: they're more reliable and versitile in combat since they can cast any of their spells spontaneously (and get a lot more spells per day), but there's less things that they can do altogether.
Wizards, Druids, Paladins, Rangers and Clerics have to prepare spells before they can cast them: they're vancian casters. They have pre prepare their spells in advance, means that the spells they have, and the number of each spell they can cast, is set at the beginning of the day (or whenever you pray, if you're a Divine caster). They're versitile, since they can cast different spells day by day (with limitations), but if they have to make decisions when preparing and consider what spells may or may not be useful for that day.
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OOC
6YBkO
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No.71772
71773 71776
>>71771
If we had to place unicorns in this spectrum, what do you think they would fit in?
Druid Dragon-Lion-Deer-Horse
Luj86
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No.71773
>>71772
What spectrum?
Anonymous
mhd3Y
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No.71774
71775 71789
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OOC
6YBkO
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No.71775
>>71774
There's no need to tell me OOC. Iron already has some rule bending to do too for his goals.

>Fighter
I was talking about the backup. I had like 72 skill points and forgot about the cutiemark thing.
Druid Dragon-Lion-Deer-Horse
Luj86
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No.71776
71777
>>71772
If you meant by character class, it's not really that simple.
Unicorns in this game get +2 Int and -2 Str; which pretty much makes them the best at everything but two-handed melee (in my opinion).
From what I understand, most unicorns in Equestria aren't actually that powerful/magical. They seem to have a few spell-like abilities (their telekinesis is on par with Mage Hand), but only geniuses actually become powerful spellcasters; in that regard, they're a lost like gnomes. Twilight herself went to Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns (the "gifted" word heavily implies sorcerous talent); and her obsession with books and study of magic makes her a quintessential Wizard (she even took Improved Familiar to have a Pseudodragon).
Most of the powerful spellcasters in the show seem to be Wizards to me, because of the presence of books and the emphasis on study. In fact, if Unicorns had a favored class, I'd say it should be Wizard.
OOC
6YBkO
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No.71777
71778
>>71776
So it's a mix. Problem is that they don't have to re-study a spell after using it, to my knowledge.
Druid Dragon-Lion-Deer-Horse
Luj86
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No.71778
71779 71780
>>71777
That's because FiM isn't D&D, and the showriters weren't really concerned with making their magic balanced (see: Glimmer fixing everything).
Twilight is definitely, absolutely a Wizard though. If she doesn't read at least one book every day, she'll die.
OOC
6YBkO
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No.71779
71780
>>71778
That's a hilarious drawback
>Can cast any spell indefinetly she after reading it but dies if she doesn't read a book for a day
Druid Dragon-Lion-Deer-Horse
Luj86
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No.71780
71781
>>71778
Also, with the Spell Mastery feat, Wizards can choose a one two of their favorite spells that they can prepare without consulting a book.
Sunburst and Starlight are also shown reading books in their studies of magic.
>>71779
Twilight is a very powerful character. She may have taken some flaws to get some bonus feats. "Book dependency" and "literary anxiety" seem to be some drawbacks she took for extra power.
OOC
6YBkO
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No.71781
71782
>>71780
That's neat. I'll jot it down if I want to play a healer class myself.
Druid Dragon-Lion-Deer-Horse
Luj86
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No.71782
71783
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>>71781
Wizards/Sorcerers can't heal. That's the one thing they cannot do.
OOC
6YBkO
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No.71783
71784
>>71782
Nono, I don't want to do sorcerer. I'd rather go cleric and be a primary healer rather than shoot deadly lazors.
Druid Dragon-Lion-Deer-Horse
Luj86
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No.71784
71785
>>71783
Clerics are useful. They can give up any of their prepared spells for healing spells. They don't get very many fancy lasers, but they get a lit of protective spells and buffs.
OOC
6YBkO
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No.71785
>>71784
Maybe I can do another backup and choose cleric unicorn for the occasion.
Druid Dragon-Lion-Deer-Horse
Luj86
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No.71786
71787
>>71748
>Only just saw this now
Wait, she's being removed, entirely?
OOC
6YBkO
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No.71787
71788
>>71786
Maybe she comes back as another character. I think if I actually went and shot her, the GM would make sure that she dies in one hit.
Druid Dragon-Lion-Deer-Horse
Luj86
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No.71788
71791 71828
>>71787
That's what I was thinking (in hindsight).
Sister interfered because she believed that one of them was bound to die if they dueled with gunz, and she didn't want that (as opposed to boxing/wrestling, which would be nonlethal), since she really didn't want anypony to die. She was rather brash with her words because she considers dueling to be foolish, which is actually related to her backstory. She even spent her Heat Metal Spell, which I had intended to use on the weapons of the remaining communists...
Maybe it wasn't so cool to mock her out of character though. She had some decent complexity.
Silver (OOC)
x7fMO
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No.71789
71790
Don't mind me, just learning more about magic through osmosis.
>>71774
>Much harder
Hoo boy...
Druid Dragon-Lion-Deer-Horse
Luj86
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No.71790
>>71789
Osmosis is the best way to learn. I'm just a fucking nerd who reads the material between sessions.
OOC
6YBkO
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No.71791
71792 71793 71794 71796
>>71788
Honestly, I might have the "That Guy" syndrome. I said it was a good character after she left anyway, just that Iron would not really respect her because he sees her as nothing more than a mare not fulfilling her role in view of the world.
OOC
6YBkO
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No.71792
71793 71794
>>71791
*his view of the world
Anonymous
mhd3Y
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No.71793
71795
>>71791
>>71792
Go tell a female Ghestapo or FBI agent that they are weak, that they don't have any value without a man, that they are terrible mothers, or that they are infertile and incapable of bearing children, and see how they respond
Anonymous
mhd3Y
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No.71794
71795
>>71792
>>71791
Correction. Go tell a female Ghestapo or FBI agent who just saved your life, risking their in the process, after you tried and failed to sneak attack a guy with more muscles than you, that they are weak, that they don't have any value without a man, that they are terrible mothers, or that they are infertile and incapable of bearing children, and see how they respond
OOC
6YBkO
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No.71795
>>71794
>>71793
Ok, I get it, it was brash of me to say that through Iron.
Druid Dragon-Lion-Deer-Horse
Luj86
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No.71796
71797 71809
>>71791
Hmmmmmm, looks a bit like the militant feminist vs. the barbaric sexist archytypes...
It's kind of a given that PCs should at least try to get along with important NPCs, if a story is going to go smoothly.
OOC
6YBkO
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No.71797
71798
>>71796
I say it's a learning process. I chose my character to be basically a dick since he'll look for strength tests whenever possible, so it's going to be hard not to be one unless something or someone changes his ways somehow.

Promise I won't be a murderhobo though.
Druid Dragon-Lion-Deer-Horse
Luj86
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No.71798
71808
>>71797
I wanted my character to be a politically neutral pacifist; although now it looks like she doesn't really have any motivations other than helping children, learning about Equestrian Clergy, and studying new forms of magick. I'll adjust her to be more helpful and convicted.
She's Nuetral as she is (but wants to get better): I wanted to aim her towards Netral Good as her motivations solidified.
Silver (OOC)
x7fMO
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No.71799
71800 71801
All these characters with complex personalities, goals, and motivations.
And all Silver is worried about is employment.
Druid Dragon-Lion-Deer-Horse
Luj86
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No.71800
>>71799
My character just wanted to work in an orphanage, but I had to get her out of there if I was going to play at all.
OOC
6YBkO
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No.71801
71802 71809
>>71799
My character is just a big boi that takes no shit from anybody unless they put their strength as well. He's basically a variation of a power fantasy. It's not really that complex.
Druid Dragon-Lion-Deer-Horse
Luj86
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No.71802
71803
>>71801
What alignment were you thinking of playing?
OOC
6YBkO
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No.71803
71804
>>71802
Was thinking of neutral or neutral evil. Although I think I'm acting more lawful than I should for my alignment.
Druid Dragon-Lion-Deer-Horse
Luj86
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No.71804
71805 71806
>>71803
He seems more Chaotic Neutral,from what I've absorbed. He fits a British Barbarian archytype pretty well.
Druid Dragon-Lion-Deer-Horse
Luj86
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No.71805
71807
>>71804
Although it depends what you want to consider law/chaos as.
OOC
6YBkO
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No.71806
71807 71808
>>71804
Law as in codes of honor and stuff of the sort, something like "respect wahmen" and "fight fair, hoof to hoof"
Silver (OOC)
x7fMO
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>>71805
>>71806
The most I know about alignments just comes from the few times I've seen alignment charts, but I think I've gotten a good idea of what each one means despite that.
Druid Dragon-Lion-Deer-Horse
Luj86
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No.71808
71812
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Anonymous
mhd3Y
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No.71809
71810 71812
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Druid Dragon-Lion-Deer-Horse
Luj86
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No.71810
>>71809
Well, I didn't mean feminist in an extreme sense, just to an extent at which makes sense in the FiM universe. Faust herself was a feminist when making the show, and it reflects on how it encourages girls to be strong and capable individuals in their communities (not just hating nen, like SJWs today).
Druid Dragon-Lion-Deer-Horse
Luj86
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No.71811
Also, any plans to play today?
OOC
6YBkO
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No.71812
71813
>>71808
Yeah, the novelty of only hooves kinda faded. Now Iron will adapt to the circumstances.
>>71809
Well damn. Don't worry, these encounters will make him grow more fond of melee weapons later on. Heck, maybe I'll take out the Improved Unarmed feat and go full two-handed hammer build if you let me, as well as going full armor with the bits I have (~750 or so).
I'll adapt to the circumstances that you throw up. That's a D&D player should do. It's only a matter of when the stubborn stallion understands it in-character and I think with this failure of my part as a player for not realizing your intent and my character's failure of taking out a griffon he considered a "fair fight", I think I can change him to be more suited for this world.

I really need to work on cues, since I thought he was an expert in guerilla tactics, he would be more logical than to duel Iron 1v1 hooves only