Occupied Equestria: set six years after season 6, it presents an alternative history where Chrysalis chose a different approach to her second attack on Equestria. The Changelings have conquered half of Equestria, while an Equestrian splinter colony - soured to Princesses notion of harmony with all creatures thank to their dealing with griffins - Invaded and took the other half. In Baltimare and the Equestruan Southlands, the magic of friendship has weakened, as Communists, Changeling infiltrators, Fascists, gangs, and even ancient necormancers and dark gods threaten the city and the surrounding regions. This role play is based in large part upon the Equestria at War mod for Hearts of Iron 4, and uses D&d 3.5e mechanics.
In this latest episode, the crew has united once again, and returned in full to the catacombs under the Curwhinny farm. What old secrets they will unearth, whether they will survive without being turned into undead monsters... whether Silver will ever get paid... will be determined in this thread.
/vx/ - Videogames and Paranormal
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>>82930
I'm liking this exposition, GM. Very useful if anyone wants to go for a changeling character, but are you going to use show logic or resort to D&D look-a-likes?
I'm liking this exposition, GM. Very useful if anyone wants to go for a changeling character, but are you going to use show logic or resort to D&D look-a-likes?
Anyways, I think I'm gonna play some vidya. Y'all can go ahead and play, as I likely won't get a chance to play today.
>>82933
Won't get a chance because you are busy? Because I am dying to see you get out of this. Because I know you will. Please don't leave because you think it is hopeless.
Won't get a chance because you are busy? Because I am dying to see you get out of this. Because I know you will. Please don't leave because you think it is hopeless.
>>82934
Well, I mean there's not much Silver can do while captured. I'm just looking for something to do to alleviate my boredom.
Well, I mean there's not much Silver can do while captured. I'm just looking for something to do to alleviate my boredom.
>>82935
IF you are really captured, there is a lot of lore you could learn, potential plans the changelings have, and a way to escape. Because the GM isn't going to lock you away and refuse to let you play.
IF you are really captured, there is a lot of lore you could learn, potential plans the changelings have, and a way to escape. Because the GM isn't going to lock you away and refuse to let you play.
>>82930
If it's as it was portrayed in the comics, it could just as easily be fluffed as energy-drain then. I condidered mentioning those comics too, but my post was getting long.
Pretty scary though, that's gotta raise their CR quite a bit.
Also, Flurry Heart is a demigod by any other name: she's immune to Energy Drain.
>>82932
If Changelings have anything close to energy-drain, they would have to have a level adjustment of like 4 to 6 points. They already have telekinesis, flight, and disguising abilities. The level adjustment from all of those would make it difficult for them to advance as normal PCs, and most NPCs would be of really low level because they'd count as level 5 or 6 characters at level 1.
If it's as it was portrayed in the comics, it could just as easily be fluffed as energy-drain then. I condidered mentioning those comics too, but my post was getting long.
Pretty scary though, that's gotta raise their CR quite a bit.
Also, Flurry Heart is a demigod by any other name: she's immune to Energy Drain.
>>82932
If Changelings have anything close to energy-drain, they would have to have a level adjustment of like 4 to 6 points. They already have telekinesis, flight, and disguising abilities. The level adjustment from all of those would make it difficult for them to advance as normal PCs, and most NPCs would be of really low level because they'd count as level 5 or 6 characters at level 1.
>>82930
Also, is that comic worth reading? I haven't actually read very many of the comics. I've only seen some pieces of them.
Also, is that comic worth reading? I haven't actually read very many of the comics. I've only seen some pieces of them.
>>82935
Goddamn it, no one except for you has said that Silver is captured. Like how is that even possible? How do you meaningfully capture someone in a dream? Stop making things up, you are not GM
>>82939
I'm not giving regular characters or NPCs freaking Succubus kiss. Changeling feeding would be limited to quasi-voluntary interactions to nerf the power
>>82940
I don't know. I've never read it
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Goddamn it, no one except for you has said that Silver is captured. Like how is that even possible? How do you meaningfully capture someone in a dream? Stop making things up, you are not GM
>>82939
I'm not giving regular characters or NPCs freaking Succubus kiss. Changeling feeding would be limited to quasi-voluntary interactions to nerf the power
>>82940
I don't know. I've never read it
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Welp, I'll take a smol nap. Iron will follow Ash anywhere she goes while I'm unresponsive.
>>82930
>Of course, this seems to be caused by a mind control spell as well as the feeding, so we can’t say that this is purely the result of feeding, but I cannot see how he is better off than if he had been energy drained. He looks to me like he can neither think nor feel.
Imo, when I saw him in the show, I thought it was thematically meant to be the symptoms of his subconscious constantly struggling to resist being married off to the Queen of Bitches instead of his true love. It's clear that Chrysalis was taking something from him though, in one way or another.
As for being unable to cast spells, that's a symptom of Nausea. Arcane casters also need 8 hours of uninterrupted beauty sleep to recover spells for the day too, and he was definitely not sleeping well. A creature with negative levels would have still been able to cast spells of its lowest level.
>Of course, this seems to be caused by a mind control spell as well as the feeding, so we can’t say that this is purely the result of feeding, but I cannot see how he is better off than if he had been energy drained. He looks to me like he can neither think nor feel.
Imo, when I saw him in the show, I thought it was thematically meant to be the symptoms of his subconscious constantly struggling to resist being married off to the Queen of Bitches instead of his true love. It's clear that Chrysalis was taking something from him though, in one way or another.
As for being unable to cast spells, that's a symptom of Nausea. Arcane casters also need 8 hours of uninterrupted beauty sleep to recover spells for the day too, and he was definitely not sleeping well. A creature with negative levels would have still been able to cast spells of its lowest level.
>>82912
Dark Star may be kill, but i'll have her respond nevertheless
She seems to almost resist this
"Dark Star... It's not that simple. I left because of personal reasons, before the Reformists took over"
Dark Star may be kill, but i'll have her respond nevertheless
She seems to almost resist this
"Dark Star... It's not that simple. I left because of personal reasons, before the Reformists took over"
>>82944
I'll be free for the next hour, although I'm unsure what the party is trying to do next; I had figured we were going to meet at the tavern early next morning to plan, but idk.
Silver and Dark Star are asleep. They'll probably be out until the next morning. I guess I outta have Sister Ash go back and take care of the abbey, maybe try to find some information concerning what those foals look like, so that she can recognize them if she finds them.
Sister Ash cannot recover any of her spells until she prays at sunrise, which is her designated time of preparation; I could change the time, but that would mean losing a whole day of spells. Idk how many spells Spark has left either, but it might be wiser to avoid combat until tomorrow for now.
I'll be free for the next hour, although I'm unsure what the party is trying to do next; I had figured we were going to meet at the tavern early next morning to plan, but idk.
Silver and Dark Star are asleep. They'll probably be out until the next morning. I guess I outta have Sister Ash go back and take care of the abbey, maybe try to find some information concerning what those foals look like, so that she can recognize them if she finds them.
Sister Ash cannot recover any of her spells until she prays at sunrise, which is her designated time of preparation; I could change the time, but that would mean losing a whole day of spells. Idk how many spells Spark has left either, but it might be wiser to avoid combat until tomorrow for now.
>>82947
Sister Ash decides she still has some time to squeeze-in a few more hours of community service today, so she returns to the orphanage.
Sister Ash decides she still has some time to squeeze-in a few more hours of community service today, so she returns to the orphanage.
>>82949
Okay.
Assuming that takes about 15 minutes, she goes there directly. Iron said he'd follow, so I guess he does.
*knocks on door*
Okay.
Assuming that takes about 15 minutes, she goes there directly. Iron said he'd follow, so I guess he does.
*knocks on door*
>>82951
Sister Ash bows apologetically
"I beg your pardon for disappearing unnannounced." She says
".. I've also manafed to lose my clothes.."
Sister Ash bows apologetically
"I beg your pardon for disappearing unnannounced." She says
".. I've also manafed to lose my clothes.."
>>82953
She raises a hoof, sheathed in blue flame
"There was a fire..." she says, a bit nervous
Sister Ash spends the next few minutes explaining how she was called to clear the cellar of u dead, and the time she spent at the Cathedral reposing the jars.
Also, Sister Ash is an adult. Druids start at complex age, which means she's at least 18.
She raises a hoof, sheathed in blue flame
"There was a fire..." she says, a bit nervous
Sister Ash spends the next few minutes explaining how she was called to clear the cellar of u dead, and the time she spent at the Cathedral reposing the jars.
Also, Sister Ash is an adult. Druids start at complex age, which means she's at least 18.
>>82954
These are nuns circa 1940 we are talking about. Not libertarians who think that anything two+ consenting adults/animals do is acceptable. Not sexual positivist social liberals. Prudish as hell celibate nuns from yesteryear who think that sex out of wedlock is immoral. They don't care if she is 'of legal age,' they care that she is not married. If you want NPCs who won't judge you for extra-marital sex with random guys, join the Social Democrats. Conservative factions have conservative values on sex and liberal factions have liberal values on sex. Shocking I know
This leaves her... stunned, to say the least
"Undead. Right. All in a day's work"
These are nuns circa 1940 we are talking about. Not libertarians who think that anything two+ consenting adults/animals do is acceptable. Not sexual positivist social liberals. Prudish as hell celibate nuns from yesteryear who think that sex out of wedlock is immoral. They don't care if she is 'of legal age,' they care that she is not married. If you want NPCs who won't judge you for extra-marital sex with random guys, join the Social Democrats. Conservative factions have conservative values on sex and liberal factions have liberal values on sex. Shocking I know
This leaves her... stunned, to say the least
"Undead. Right. All in a day's work"
>>82956
I wasn't referring to legality or anything, I was meaning to say that "young mare" would not be appropriate, because in all likelihood Sister Ash should have been the same age as any of the other nuns. 18 is minumum age for Druids; I haven't rolled her starting age yet because I wasn't sure how to calculate her aging model.
I wasn't referring to legality or anything, I was meaning to say that "young mare" would not be appropriate, because in all likelihood Sister Ash should have been the same age as any of the other nuns. 18 is minumum age for Druids; I haven't rolled her starting age yet because I wasn't sure how to calculate her aging model.
>>82957
I just assumed she was like 24ish or something. Less than 30. Not really a fair assumption in retrospect, but it is how I envisioned the character
I just assumed she was like 24ish or something. Less than 30. Not really a fair assumption in retrospect, but it is how I envisioned the character
>>82960
But on that note, she's probably beyond Simple Age, so she can't multiclass into Sorcerer even if I wanted her to.
But on that note, she's probably beyond Simple Age, so she can't multiclass into Sorcerer even if I wanted her to.
>>82962
Different classes start at different ages depending on how much training it takes to enter the class, and it plays into a character's backstory. Barbarians, Rogues and Sorcerers level up by honing their innate talents that they had as children. Fighters, Paladins, Rangers, and Bards picked up their abilities through martial (or musical) training and combat experience; the Bard in particular gaining Bardic Knowledge by traveling to many places and meeting many people. Wizards, Clerics and Monks gain their powers through years of study and training in their designated fields, devoting their lives to their profession. The age category may limit what ways you can multiclass. This is one of the many reasons why hoo-mans are the most flexible at multiclassing, since their lifespans are relatively short and their age categories are close together, so they have a greater degree of multiclassing freedom.
As you pass through Age categories, your physical vital abilities deteriorate, although your mental stats increase in the slightest bit (not by much though). Once you reach old age, the GM secretly rolls your maximum lifespan, and once you reach that age you die. If you die from old age, you cannot be brought back
to life byy any mortal means.
Monks and Druids are two Complex-age classes that still remain heavily dependant on their physical statistics as they level up; luckily for them, they have class features that reduce the penalties from aging.
Different classes start at different ages depending on how much training it takes to enter the class, and it plays into a character's backstory. Barbarians, Rogues and Sorcerers level up by honing their innate talents that they had as children. Fighters, Paladins, Rangers, and Bards picked up their abilities through martial (or musical) training and combat experience; the Bard in particular gaining Bardic Knowledge by traveling to many places and meeting many people. Wizards, Clerics and Monks gain their powers through years of study and training in their designated fields, devoting their lives to their profession. The age category may limit what ways you can multiclass. This is one of the many reasons why hoo-mans are the most flexible at multiclassing, since their lifespans are relatively short and their age categories are close together, so they have a greater degree of multiclassing freedom.
As you pass through Age categories, your physical vital abilities deteriorate, although your mental stats increase in the slightest bit (not by much though). Once you reach old age, the GM secretly rolls your maximum lifespan, and once you reach that age you die. If you die from old age, you cannot be brought back
to life byy any mortal means.
Monks and Druids are two Complex-age classes that still remain heavily dependant on their physical statistics as they level up; luckily for them, they have class features that reduce the penalties from aging.
>>82965
I see.
Iron leans near Ash and whispers to her. "What are we doing back here again? Any unfinished business here?"
I see.
Iron leans near Ash and whispers to her. "What are we doing back here again? Any unfinished business here?"
I'm too hungry to continue stm. Give me a minute to eat.
>>82974
"Because of all the faces i pass on the street. most of them arent ponies. almost everyone i knew before the war is... Gone. i was thinking about...ending it before i applied at the hotel."
"Because of all the faces i pass on the street. most of them arent ponies. almost everyone i knew before the war is... Gone. i was thinking about...ending it before i applied at the hotel."
>>82976
"not just my home, everything my family has ever worked for was seized. and theyre gone too. its very hard at times to keep going." Dark Stars expression changes from sadness to melancholic "we have eachother now, and that makes me happy."
"not just my home, everything my family has ever worked for was seized. and theyre gone too. its very hard at times to keep going." Dark Stars expression changes from sadness to melancholic "we have eachother now, and that makes me happy."
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