Welcome back to Occupied Equestria, an RP set in a conquered Equestria, using D&D 3.5e mechanics, and based in large part on the My Little Pony mod for Hearts of iron 4, Equestria at War
The party has successfully stopped the Communists of Baltimare from importing guns and foreign advisers in preparation for a revolt. They have also raided a Griffin freighter involved in arms trafficking, and are prepared to leave and end their long night.
>>73836Iron, satisfied, puts on his fullplate, to feel inside the armor, see how much it protects him.
aka what is the AC of the fullplate exactly "What do you think, Cauldron? You think the animals will run away when they see me?"
>>73837+8"Well, if they don't, you won't be needing to run away from them"
>>73838"True" Iron laughs. "Well, do you want to go to the Watering Hole for some last drinks? I picked up some work while we did not see eachother."
Alright, just respond to the request and leave to bed. I'll go to sleep after your response
>>73839"We could, certainly, and you can tell me all about it. Though you should try my brother's restaurant some time. He makes a nice sourdough bread"
>>73840"Sure thing. I am looking forward to it." Iron starts walking towards the Watering Hole, Cauldron in tow.
Ok, for real, I'm going to sleep. Night
How much money is a wounded, untrained Dire wolf worth?
>>73465>>73466>>73472How is this a rebuff? It looks to me like playful banter.
I was practicing creature advancement, so I made a Timbur Wolf. Pls r8.
Size/Type:Large Plant (Augmented Animal)
Hit Dice:6d8+25 (67 hp)
Initiative:+3
Speed:50 ft. (10 squares)
Armor Class: 21 (–1 size, +3 Dex, +9 natural), touch 13, flat-footed 18
Base Attack/Grapple:+4/+19
Attack:Bite +14 melee (1d8+15)
Full Attack:Bite +14 melee (1d8+15)
Space/Reach:10 ft./5 ft.
Special Attacks:Trip, Spell-like abilities
Special Qualities:Low-light vision, scent, Fast Healing 3, Damage Reduction 10/Magic and Slashing, Grapple Bonus, Plant Traits, Cold Resistance 10, Electricity Resistance 10, Tremorsense
Saves:Fort +10, Ref +8, Will +6
Abilities:Str 31, Dex 17, Con 21, Int 2, Wis 12, Cha 14
Skills:Hide +1, Listen +7, Move Silently +5, Spot +7, Survival +2*
Feats:Alertness, Run, TrackB, Weapon Focus (bite)
Environment: Everfree Forest
Organization:Solitary or pack (5–8)
Challenge Rating: 5
Treasure: Standard
Alignment: Usually neutral
Advancement:7–18 HD (Large)
Level Adjustment: +8 (cohort)
A Timbur Wolf's natural weapons are treated as magic weapons for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction.
Trip (Ex): A timbur wolf that hits with a bite attack can attempt to trip its opponent (+14 check modifier) as a free action without making a touch attack or provoking an attack of opportunity. If the attempt fails, the opponent cannot react to trip the timbur wolf.
Grapple Bonus (Ex): The thorny hooks on a Timber Wolf's teeth, body and claws grant it a +4 bonus on grapple checks.
Spell-Like Abilities: At will - entangle, pass without trace, speak with plants; 1/day - wall of thorns. Caster level equals Timbur Wolf Hit Dice; save DC 10 + spell level + Timbur Wolf's Charisma modifier.
Tremorsense (Ex): Timbur Wolf can automatically sense the location of anything within 60 feet that is in contact with the ground.
Plant Traits:
Immunity to all mind-affecting effects (charms, compulsions, phantasms, patterns, and morale effects).
Immunity to poison, sleep effects, paralysis, polymorph, and stunning.
Not subject to critical hits.
Skills: *A Timbur Wolf creature gains a +16 racial bonus on Hide and Move Silently checks made in forested areas.
A Timbur Wolf has a +2 racial bonus on Hide, Listen, Move Silently, and Spot checks.
*It also has a +4 racial bonus on Survival checks when tracking by scent.
>>73846It smells a bit OP, but maybe I'm wrong.
>>73846That's actually supposed to have 54 hp...
I had another one that had a base CR of 6, for the alpha version. This was actually my original plan. It's only CR 6 because I didn't increase the hit dice, but it can be advanced pretty simply after this point.
Size/Type:Large Plant (Augmented Animal)
Hit Dice:6d8+42 (66 hp)
Initiative:+3
Speed:50 ft. (10 squares)
Armor Class: 26 (–1 size, +3 Dex, +14 natural), touch 13, flat-footed 18
Base Attack/Grapple:+4/+19
Attack:Bite +14 melee (2d6+15 plus 1d6 Acid)
Full Attack:Bite +14 melee (2d6+15 plus 1d6 Acid)
Space/Reach:10 ft./5 ft.
Special Attacks:Trip, Spell-like abilities
Special Qualities:Low-light vision, scent, Fast Healing 3, Damage Reduction 10/Magic and Slashing, Grapple Bonus, Plant Traits, Cold Resistance 10, Electricity Resistance 10, Tremorsense, Immunity to Acid
Saves:Fort +12, Ref +8, Will +6
Abilities:Str 31, Dex 17, Con 25, Int 2, Wis 12, Cha 14
Skills:Hide +1, Listen +7, Move Silently +5, Spot +7, Survival +2*
Feats:Alertness, Run, TrackB, Weapon Focus (bite), Improved Natural Attack (bite)
Environment:Temperate forests
Organization:Solitary or pack (5–8)
Challenge Rating: 6
Treasure: Standard
Alignment:Always neutral
Advancement:7–18 HD (Large)
Level Adjustment: +8 (cohort)
A Timbur Wolf's natural weapons are treated as magic weapons for the purpose of overcoming damage reduction.
Trip (Ex): A timbur wolf that hits with a bite attack can attempt to trip its opponent (+14 check modifier) as a free action without making a touch attack or provoking an attack of opportunity. If the attempt fails, the opponent cannot react to trip the timbur wolf.
Acidic Attack (Ex): An Alpha Timber Wolf's bite attack deals an extra 1d6 points of acid damage per 4 HD of the alpha (maximum 5d6).
Grapple Bonus (Ex): The thorny hooks on a Timber Wolf's teeth, body and claws grant it a +4 bonus on grapple checks.
Spell-Like Abilities: At will - entangle, pass without trace, speak with plants; 1/day - wall of thorns. Caster level equals Timbur Wolf Hit Dice; save DC 10 + spell level + Timbur Wolf's Charisma modifier.
Ill-Tempered (Ex): Handle Animal checks involving a an Alpha Timbur Wolf take a –4 penalty, since Timber Wolves are more difficult to control than normal animals or even dire animals.
Improved Natural Healing (Ex): A Timber Wolf's body heals naturally at three times the normal rate, recovering 3 hit points per Hit Die with a full night’s rest. (Remember when AJ smashed them, but they just reassembled after she left?)
Tremorsense (Ex): Timbur Wolf can automatically sense the location of anything within 60 feet that is in contact with the ground.
Plant Traits:
Immunity to all mind-affecting effects (charms, compulsions, phantasms, patterns, and morale effects).
Immunity to poison, sleep effects, paralysis, polymorph, and stunning.
Not subject to critical hits.
Skills: *A Timbur Wolf gains a +16 racial bonus on Hide and Move Silently checks made in forested areas.
A Timbur Wolf has a +2 racial bonus on Hide, Listen, Move Silently, and Spot checks.
*It also has a +4 racial bonus on Survival checks when tracking by scent.
>>73847Idk, I didn't think it was that powerful compared to Winter Wolves and similar creatures. I think the CR adjustment was appropriate.
The monster detailed in
>>73848 is actually a creature that should probably have a few hit dice added to it to advance it for later game.
My ideal for advancement was something similar to a Nessian Warhound, only with recovery abilities instead of the breath weapon, and an acidic bite instead of fire.
It's actually the result of the application of two popular templates, with CR adjustment taken into account.
https://www.realmshelps.net/monsters/templates/greenbound.shtmlhttp://eberronunlimited.wikidot.com/horrid-animalPic related.
>>73849Well, it seems to be viable.
Did I miss anything while I was out?
>>73848I guess the Damage Reduction being trumped by slashing weapons and the relatively High AC make it a pretty difficult encounter, since bullets simply wouldn't work on it (it is made of logs though, so what would you expect?), but none of those features should raise it's AC past 6.
Your best bet to fight one would be to get the Fighter a +1 sword/axe, or just fuck it up with fire spells.
Timber Wolves are one of the most badass monsters in the mlp universe, imo. Making them a 6-and-up encounter feels justified.
Also, the utter lack of plant type creature in the 1st monster manual so is boring. The other two manuals added a few though, they even included the green bound template, which was the basis for the timber wolf.
>>73852*Nothing to raise it's CR past 6
>>73851I sold my two gold ingots for 8000 bits and am currently going to the bar with Cauldron. (No not the bar you are. The Watering Hole, at the docks.)
>>73854>8000 Bits...It might actually have been worthwhile to explore that ship.
>>73855Keep in mind I had two because Onyx and I were greedy fucks. One of them is just 4000 bits.
>>73856I know, but 4000 is still a shitton.
>>73857If I were lucky, I would have taken like 4 of those bricks and buy the tungsten fullplate armor. It's just so tempting to do that, but there will be next time.
>>73857It's okay for a lvl 5 character.
Most of the monsters you'd face are now going to have special attacks and damage reduction. You want a magick weapon, armor, and as many healing potions as you can carry.
>>73859>It's okayThe more you talk about the way the economy works in these kinds of games, the more I feel like they're unbalanced to hell and back.
>>73860Oh, tell me about it.
I've played an Artificer: I know very well how fucking absurdly expensive magical equiptment is at every level.
(which is partly why I wanted to be ascetic in this run, since keeping inventory was a pain and a half)
>>73861Does the common fighter also suffer in terms of spending for gear?
>>73862No, actually. Wizards and the like spend considerably more for their spell components, even moreso if they're responsible for creating items for the party.
Most fighter equiptment boils down to weapons, armor, and potions, along with miscellaneous stat-boosting items.
>>73863Oh, I guess it's easier to manage or buy my stuff. Would you save a lot of money if you picked Eschew materials?
>>73864No. Eschew materials only helps with components that do not have a specific cost. Retrieving a stored item is a move action that provokes attacks of opportunity, so mages can get skullfucked when reaching into their fanny packs for herbs 'n shieet.
>>73865Oh. Well, is it at least good for potion brewers?
>>73866Potions have a set price.
Certain feats, like Extrordinary Artisan, may reduce the costs of item creation just slightly.
>>73867Well that sucks. And here I thought it was decent. Well, what do you plan to do with that timberwolf template? You can't just magic the wolf you summoned out of existence for the timberwolf without recharging.
>>73868I only made the timber wolf as a practice.
If you have the Green bound Summoner fest though, you can summon animals with that template
(which I want to take, because it goes so well with Ashbound).
>>73869>Green bound Summoner festYou mean Greenbound summoning? I think you need to have a level 4 casting ability for that to work. Unless you don't want them to be plant types.
>>73870It only requires creatures to be able to cast Summon Nature's Ally.
>>73871Oh ok. Say, what do you plan to do with that dog who you burned as Ash apart from simple healing?
>>73872Buy it off and relocate it the pack in the south.
>>73873Coolsies. I wonder where will the GM take us. Maybe we will do shady stuff to test our good and evil allegiances before we go to more isolated areas.
>>73874I still have to liberate those foals trapped in the cannery, find Ollie, donate this gold, and part ways with the abby.
>>73875Right. Don't forget to seek me. I don't think I can find you if I had to look for you. Maybe I could ask the town folk if it's impossible.
>>73874Well, there's still communists about, and Iron, Ash, and all of their party knows now that the changelings have infiltrated the Baltimare communists to at least some degree.
>>73878That's what it seems, anyways. Who knows? Maybe we find out that the changelings themselves are the ones who created the commie movement to cause strife on griffon colonies.
>>73879As far as I know, in the actual mod, there's a communist movement in Baltimare in the same vein as Stalliongrad, with the goal of establishing an independent "Mare Republic" and eventually founding the South Equestrian Socialist Republics after taking control of the southern forests and jungles.
>>73880Forgot to add in the name field.
Is it just me, or are the posts from this thread on showing up in the latest posts list?
>>73882That's what it should show. We are more active than most other threads due to the nature of this thread.
>>73883I can't see a single post on the list from this thread.
>>73884Oh. Well, if I had to guess, mlpol is the main board and every thread has many people who wish to participate. Let me check after this is posted if I can screenshot that we can appear on latest posts.
>>73885Strange, you're right. I can't see my answer even if I refreshed about 5-6 times.
>>73887Well, I guess I can do a rolecall.
Who is here at the moment?
>>73888Me, obviously. Also checked.
I'll probably have dinner here in a few minutes, if I end up disappearing on you guys.
>>73890>>73889>>73891Peculiar, the GM hasn't responded. Strange. He may be thinking some mission to pair us up again.
>>73841Alright, and thus they go
>>73848>>73846I'll be sure to throw a pack at the party
>>73851Nothing New in the West. Iron bought some armor, Ash found a guy who has a new dog
>>73844Well, it's not a yes, and looked like a "I don't really want to do that with you now, maybe after I know you better"
>>73894Iron walks to the Watering Hole with Cauldron, his shield and fullplate armor clanking as he goes. "This thing is loud. Good thing I do not want subtlety." Iron laughs.
>>73895"You may want to rethink that philosophy," says the sleek and slender Black Cauldron. "Better to go unnoticed than to attract the wrong attention"
The bar is fairly crowded, but there is space for two
>>73896Iron goes to the space available and sits there. "For you it is true. But like I said, I look for renown. And renown does not come with subtlety."
>>73897"Then you came to the right place. This is one of the few places left where a strong individual can get ahead by force and brutality alone" She sits next to him
>>73898"Order what you drink. I can handle it." Iron lays back slightly. "My new mission is a bit... contradictory with the job we did together. It is not shaking people down for money, but for information. I am currently going to storm a 'cah-neh-rie', whatever that is, to find a lost child. The pay is meager, but storming a place full of ponies is bound to attract attention, which I want for further contact opportunities."
>>73899>>73899She seems uncertain about the offer at first, but orders a beer
"You are looking for a lost child?" she says
>>73900"Yes. I do not know any more details other than that." Iron takes a sip and grimaces a bit. "The only other thing I know is that me and the employer are going to a 'cah-neh-rie' where she thinks the foal is located. I have not gathered much info. Figured it is an easy but loud job."
>>73902"It is the kind of job that spreads around as a rumor. Ponies will gossip about how this pony cladden in armor with a wolf head on its helmet found a child that was previously lost to them. That is what I mean." Iron sips the beer again, a little more than before.
>>73903She stares for a moment, then says, "you want to be like a fairy tale knight, don't you? Something the parents tell the children to give them a sense of wonder"
>>73904Iron chuckles. "I know. It sounds corny. But I think there is something bigger the employer is not telling me. After all, she picked me for my strength, not for charm or way with words." Iron sips again. "Ugh, I swear these ponies serve poison in here."
>>73905That's why it is for holding and not drinking.
>>73905"Nopony ever accused the Watering Hole of serving great alcohol."
She turns to him and places a hoof over his shoulder. "So.... what can you tell me about this job or this employer?"
>>73894>"I don't really want to do that with you now, maybe after I know you better"thats not what it was at all.
>>73908Well, she may have gone home that night, but she hasn't died or left the city
>>73907"The job I already told you. I go to a 'cah-neh-rie' and fetch some colt or filly or whatever. The employer is quite an oddity. It is a soft-spoken mare that has some features of dragons and tigers like scales and a thick hides around the neck." Iron ponders. "I remember she called herself a 'kee-reen' and was part of a religious group. She is so sweet and gentle too. Makes me remember of the mares back at the tribe." Iron giggles, a bit lightheaded. He downs the drink fully, not leaving a drop. "I told you I could handle the drink. But do not order another, the taste is horrible."
>>73910Alright, Dark Star may speak to her or act as she leaves the Tavern after she comes to the conclusion that Silver is a loyalty risk.
I would have RPed all of that if it weren't 4:00 AM at the time and the information she was seeking from Silver wasn't exactly the same as he told the bartender
>>73912Can it wait a bit? i need to go take some cough Syrup and a warm shower.
>>73913Yes, I will be away from keyboard for most of the easily night anyways
>>73911Cauldron giggles. “And what is this mare offering you for this job? I can’t imagine that you decided to take the job after thinking, out of the blue, that you wanted to be a fairy tale knight”
>>73914"Well, to be fair, she is quite cute. So cute that I feel like helping her, you know? It is a great catch to find a mare like her these days." Iron leans his body against Cauldron "She is just so pure and gentle. It will be a great childbearer and I want to be the one who obtains the luxury of giving her children." Iron nuzzles Cauldron on the neck. "Not that I considered you too. If you were not filled with so many responsabilities like your family and this gang, I would probably take you to one of the rooms upstairs and show you a good night on the bed." Iron giggles some more, stroking Cauldron's mane.
"Apart from that, the reason of renown still stands. I think she will face a big fight soon, and I want to be part of it."
>>73914Back"Blue where are you Going? we Should Rent a Room."
>>73915Cauldron pulls away her hoof from Iron, and pushes away his nuzzling face. The anger in her face and voice is readily apparent
“
Excuse me?”
>>73916Blue has stood up from her seat and has an expression of disappointment and frustration. Though her rump is turned to Dark Star, she looks over and says
“I have work in the morning...”
>>73917Iron is confused. "What is the matter?" He blinks slower than usual, not understanding the situation.
>>73919Iron's ears fold by the sheer noise of the shout. "What was that for?"
>>73916>>73918>>73917>>73919I guess they don't lie when they say anon has no relationship skills. I hope it works out... eventually.
>>73917"oh, have a good night then."
Dark Star Has the same emotions on his face.
>>73921I think it may be helpful for the cannery mission, since the Waterfront Gang owns it and shiet.
>>73921to be fair you have to have a high iq to have a lack of of relationship skills
>>73927>>73922"Wait."
Dark Star walks over and kisses her
>>73929I think GM has gone AFK for the time being.
>>73931He may be also trying to think of the consequences of this long term. I don't know. Although your plan makes a little sense if you think about it, I don't think it was expected to say the least. I think he was giving us a little break before the action picks up, especially how he mentioned that neither you or Dark Star has got the mare yet. Just how I am seeing the situation though.
>>73932I believe this is downtime too. Kinda just dropped the "I like you, but I like someone else more" bullshit after she was giving signals of care, which Iron really likes in a pony. He felt a bit frustrated by that. Or maybe she is upset by the "I take you to bed and fuck you" since she feels like an object and not a pony because she did talk about camaraderie aka she is an idealist in terms of relationships, meaning more mushy mushy "I love you to the ends of the earth" kind of romance. Also >drunk=stupid
>>73933I am very curious as to how it turns out. Something tell me though, it won't end in the most ideal spot.
>>73935>>73934I don't think she will strike me unless I strip myself of my armor, unless she wants a broken hoof. But basically she is fucked emotionally and there is a very low chance to repair it.
>>73936She doesn't exactly have to... she could report you to the police after all. You might be a bit more boned than you have anticipated if you don't think this through.