Six years after season 6, Occupied Equestria presents an alternative history where Chrysalis chose a different approach to her second attack on Equestria. The Changelings have conquered half of Equestria, while a former Equestrian colony - soured to Princess Twilight's notion of harmony with all creatures thank to their dealing with griffins - Invaded and took the other half. In Baltimare and the Equestrian Southeast, the magic of friendship has weakened, as Communists, Changeling infiltrators, Fascists, gangs, and corrupt creepy politicians threaten the city. 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.
Ash and Iron seem to want to head out from the abbey. Dark Star was having a conversation with the rescued foals after doing community service. Silver is having a surprisingly friendly conversation with Blue Skies about politics. Spark is babysitting and Brie is supposed to be doing the same. Onyx is sleeping.
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>>90121
Oh don't mention it.
I basically saved the entire group from asphyxiation. Really didn't hurt Iron in the slightest.
Oh don't mention it.
I basically saved the entire group from asphyxiation. Really didn't hurt Iron in the slightest.
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Some word of God about Kirins within literally the last five minutes
Attendee: “Are Kirins ponies?”
Jim Miller: “They are Kirins”
Attended: “But are they ponies?”
Miller: “No they are Kirins”
Attendee: “But are they related?”
Miller: “No they are kirins. That’s like asking if sharks are bears. They are two different things”
Attendee: “Are Kirins ponies?”
Jim Miller: “They are Kirins”
Attended: “But are they ponies?”
Miller: “No they are Kirins”
Attendee: “But are they related?”
Miller: “No they are kirins. That’s like asking if sharks are bears. They are two different things”
>>90123
That's no god. He's an idol.
Interesting. Despite how similar they look, they're different species? I guarantee that they will somehow link it to ponies, like how zebras and ponies are from the same family or order.
That's no god. He's an idol.
Interesting. Despite how similar they look, they're different species? I guarantee that they will somehow link it to ponies, like how zebras and ponies are from the same family or order.
>>90123
This makes sense.
The fact that Kirins have cloven hooves shows that they are a different kind of ungulate.
The only similarity they share with ponies is their physical builds and the shape of their heads.
This makes sense.
The fact that Kirins have cloven hooves shows that they are a different kind of ungulate.
The only similarity they share with ponies is their physical builds and the shape of their heads.
>>90124
>I guarantee that they will somehow link it to ponies
I doubt it, tbh. Jim's monolithic thought process says it all.
>I guarantee that they will somehow link it to ponies
I doubt it, tbh. Jim's monolithic thought process says it all.
>>90141
I do recall a question about batponies, which I bothered to write down
Someone’s asked if bat ponies will be brought back. He answered something like “only if there is a valid story reason for it. We’re not going to bring back something just because fans like it”
I did get this quote verbatim:
“I don’t understand the fan obsession with bat ponies. They are literally on screen for like 4 seconds. They look cool...”
Also:
“Maybe we’ll just put a batpony on screen for 22 minutes”
I do recall a question about batponies, which I bothered to write down
Someone’s asked if bat ponies will be brought back. He answered something like “only if there is a valid story reason for it. We’re not going to bring back something just because fans like it”
I did get this quote verbatim:
“I don’t understand the fan obsession with bat ponies. They are literally on screen for like 4 seconds. They look cool...”
Also:
“Maybe we’ll just put a batpony on screen for 22 minutes”
>>90144
You could say the same thing about reigndeer and diamond dogs, but nopony really cares about those guys.
You could say the same thing about reigndeer and diamond dogs, but nopony really cares about those guys.
>>90142
It's peculiar that they're not just placing more and more species to signify racial/societal differences, including subspecies of said species.
I suppose it's kind of hard to keep thinking up differences without going to extremely obsure or extinct societies like that tribe in Africa nobody cares about.
It's peculiar that they're not just placing more and more species to signify racial/societal differences, including subspecies of said species.
I suppose it's kind of hard to keep thinking up differences without going to extremely obsure or extinct societies like that tribe in Africa nobody cares about.
>>90148
If you look at the map they made, there isn't much room for more species, unless they make another continent to the West.
If you look at the map they made, there isn't much room for more species, unless they make another continent to the West.
>>90149
I guess that's true.
Still, I can see the map suddenly revealing a new world if the ride never ends and G4 goes on for forever, discarding the idea of a fifth one.
Aztec ponies when?
I guess that's true.
Still, I can see the map suddenly revealing a new world if the ride never ends and G4 goes on for forever, discarding the idea of a fifth one.
Aztec ponies when?
>>90150
Technically,the continent Equestria sits on isn't fully shown.
The "undiscovered west" could go on forever.
Technically,the continent Equestria sits on isn't fully shown.
The "undiscovered west" could go on forever.
>>90143
What do you mean?
>>90144
Eh, I sort of agree with Miller on that one. The "Moonshine"update goes so far as to call bat ponies "The Fourth Tribe," and with that 12% recruitment penalty it is either implying that bat ponies are one eighth of the population and none of them serve, or half of them respond to conscription and there are just as many bat ponies as there are of any other pony race. That doesn't make any sense with what we've seen in the show.
>>90146
Deer are in "The Best Gift Ever"
>>90148
The show has Dragons, Griffins, Zebras, Diamond dogs, Buffalo, Minotaurs, Donkeys, Changelings, Breezies, Yaks, Hippogriffs, and Deer, besides the races thus far exclusive to the movie, which is at least Kajit, Parrots, and the Storm Island creatures. This is besides the Earth Ponies, Unicorns, Pegasi, Alicorns, Crystal Ponies, possibly Bat Ponies, and also Saddle Arabian-styled horses that represent cultures from Egypt, Norway, Japan, India, the Aztec, England, Greece, The American South, Norwegian-Americans, Louisiana, and New York. What do you want from it exactly?
>>90150
>Atec ponies when
December 7, 2013. That's when the episode "Daring Don't" came out, which featured "native" ponies of the "Tenochtitlan basin"
What do you mean?
>>90144
Eh, I sort of agree with Miller on that one. The "Moonshine"update goes so far as to call bat ponies "The Fourth Tribe," and with that 12% recruitment penalty it is either implying that bat ponies are one eighth of the population and none of them serve, or half of them respond to conscription and there are just as many bat ponies as there are of any other pony race. That doesn't make any sense with what we've seen in the show.
>>90146
Deer are in "The Best Gift Ever"
>>90148
The show has Dragons, Griffins, Zebras, Diamond dogs, Buffalo, Minotaurs, Donkeys, Changelings, Breezies, Yaks, Hippogriffs, and Deer, besides the races thus far exclusive to the movie, which is at least Kajit, Parrots, and the Storm Island creatures. This is besides the Earth Ponies, Unicorns, Pegasi, Alicorns, Crystal Ponies, possibly Bat Ponies, and also Saddle Arabian-styled horses that represent cultures from Egypt, Norway, Japan, India, the Aztec, England, Greece, The American South, Norwegian-Americans, Louisiana, and New York. What do you want from it exactly?
>>90150
>Atec ponies when
December 7, 2013. That's when the episode "Daring Don't" came out, which featured "native" ponies of the "Tenochtitlan basin"
>>90154
It's highly unlikely the -12% modifier represents either of those realities. Rather, it's likely it represents that, because of discrimination experienced by the other pony races, and the perceived slights against their favored princess in the past by the ruling princess, there's enough bat ponies deliberately avoiding service or potential service in the Equestrian Armed Forces to represent a 12% drop in Equestria's expected recruitable population compared to what they would expect to have from their conscription laws. If Equestria had the "Disarmed Nation" conscription law, meaning 1.00% of their total population would normally be able to be recruited into service, then the penalty would drop that to only 0.88% of their total population. It isn't a statement of how many bat ponies there are in Equestria, but rather how big the impact on Equestria's total recruitable population is from having no or very little bat ponies serve in the military.
It's highly unlikely the -12% modifier represents either of those realities. Rather, it's likely it represents that, because of discrimination experienced by the other pony races, and the perceived slights against their favored princess in the past by the ruling princess, there's enough bat ponies deliberately avoiding service or potential service in the Equestrian Armed Forces to represent a 12% drop in Equestria's expected recruitable population compared to what they would expect to have from their conscription laws. If Equestria had the "Disarmed Nation" conscription law, meaning 1.00% of their total population would normally be able to be recruited into service, then the penalty would drop that to only 0.88% of their total population. It isn't a statement of how many bat ponies there are in Equestria, but rather how big the impact on Equestria's total recruitable population is from having no or very little bat ponies serve in the military.
>>90154
>Derr are canon as spirits in a Christmas episode
Oh. I wonder if their race is still alive or were killed off by Windigos. I don't think there's a lot to go by if you want to describe how they live or something, unless you want to go the comic route.
I didn't watch that episode, so I can't say for sure.
>What do you want from it?
It's not that I want them to add species every Saturday. I like to guess what direction the show writers will go, see if I can predict what route they'll take.
Mind you, my predictions are not based on carefully constructed logic. It's mostly superficial guesses.
>"Daring Don't"
I remembered that episode the moment I posted it. I'll just pretend it says Incan ponies instead of Aztec. I don't think there are any direct paralells to them.
>Derr are canon as spirits in a Christmas episode
Oh. I wonder if their race is still alive or were killed off by Windigos. I don't think there's a lot to go by if you want to describe how they live or something, unless you want to go the comic route.
I didn't watch that episode, so I can't say for sure.
>What do you want from it?
It's not that I want them to add species every Saturday. I like to guess what direction the show writers will go, see if I can predict what route they'll take.
Mind you, my predictions are not based on carefully constructed logic. It's mostly superficial guesses.
>"Daring Don't"
I remembered that episode the moment I posted it. I'll just pretend it says Incan ponies instead of Aztec. I don't think there are any direct paralells to them.
>>90155
You're entirely missing the point. How could there be "enough bat ponies deliberately avoiding service or potential service in the Equestrian Armed Forces to represent a 12% drop in Equestria's expected recruitable population" unless bat ponies are at least 12% of the total population? The number is suspiciously close to half of 25%, which is of course a 1/4 share of one whole, which suggests that they are implying Bat Ponies are equal in number to the other races. That makes no sense for a race never seen in background scenes
You're entirely missing the point. How could there be "enough bat ponies deliberately avoiding service or potential service in the Equestrian Armed Forces to represent a 12% drop in Equestria's expected recruitable population" unless bat ponies are at least 12% of the total population? The number is suspiciously close to half of 25%, which is of course a 1/4 share of one whole, which suggests that they are implying Bat Ponies are equal in number to the other races. That makes no sense for a race never seen in background scenes
>>90157
I'm not missing the point, I'm hitting the issue right on its head. It never says or implies a specific percentage of the Equestrian population are bat ponies aside from the vague 12% you're getting from an unrelated figure (though in all likelihood this isn't too far off from reality), it never says or implies that each pony race makes up an equal portion of Equestria's population, and it never says or implies that each pony race's contribution to recruitable population is proportional to the size of their demographic. You're deliberately reaching to try to prove your point.
I'm not missing the point, I'm hitting the issue right on its head. It never says or implies a specific percentage of the Equestrian population are bat ponies aside from the vague 12% you're getting from an unrelated figure (though in all likelihood this isn't too far off from reality), it never says or implies that each pony race makes up an equal portion of Equestria's population, and it never says or implies that each pony race's contribution to recruitable population is proportional to the size of their demographic. You're deliberately reaching to try to prove your point.
>>90160
Does it need any number other than the percentage in the recruitable population? That’s the same way they represent griffin minoritoes in New Mareland and pony minorities in Hellquil: through the effect on recruits of population. Come to think about it, recruitable population is the one and only regard by which population matters at all in HoI4? How is the recruitable population figure either vague or unrelated? It’s not vague st all because 12% is a specific number, and it’s not unrelated because recruit is directly related to population. How am I reaching, and why am I wrong for suggesting that it seems improvable to me that a race of ponies that make up 12 to 24% of the general population is improvable for a race that is never seen in the background or really anywhere outside of luna’s personal guard?
Does it need any number other than the percentage in the recruitable population? That’s the same way they represent griffin minoritoes in New Mareland and pony minorities in Hellquil: through the effect on recruits of population. Come to think about it, recruitable population is the one and only regard by which population matters at all in HoI4? How is the recruitable population figure either vague or unrelated? It’s not vague st all because 12% is a specific number, and it’s not unrelated because recruit is directly related to population. How am I reaching, and why am I wrong for suggesting that it seems improvable to me that a race of ponies that make up 12 to 24% of the general population is improvable for a race that is never seen in the background or really anywhere outside of luna’s personal guard?
>>90161
Look, if you weren't GM and if this was any other thread, I would probably argue with you from now until the end of days because we're apparently the most stubborn people on the face of the planet. As it stands, I don't want my character hobbled, tortured, hurt, maimed, or killed because I got into a lengthy argument with the GM about fucking bat ponies of all things. So, let's both agree that I think you're wrong, you think I'm wrong, in all likelihood we're both wrong, and that we should never speak of this again.
Look, if you weren't GM and if this was any other thread, I would probably argue with you from now until the end of days because we're apparently the most stubborn people on the face of the planet. As it stands, I don't want my character hobbled, tortured, hurt, maimed, or killed because I got into a lengthy argument with the GM about fucking bat ponies of all things. So, let's both agree that I think you're wrong, you think I'm wrong, in all likelihood we're both wrong, and that we should never speak of this again.
>>90166
>lawful neutral
>jumps off a boat, essentially stealing a gold piece for himself when the group tells him he can't.
I somehow doubt that you're lawful. Maybe true neutral.
>lawful neutral
>jumps off a boat, essentially stealing a gold piece for himself when the group tells him he can't.
I somehow doubt that you're lawful. Maybe true neutral.
>>90170
It's somewhat hard to notice when you lack many groups.
I think your commitment to your job may be a show of lawfulness, maybe? In combat, you're kind of 'kill everyone because battles work that way and winning is what's most important' kind of fighter, which fits.
Overall, I think I can see lawfulness.
It's somewhat hard to notice when you lack many groups.
I think your commitment to your job may be a show of lawfulness, maybe? In combat, you're kind of 'kill everyone because battles work that way and winning is what's most important' kind of fighter, which fits.
Overall, I think I can see lawfulness.
>>90172
I think not. More like chaotic neutral, since I've done some loan sharking at the beginning.
Also may go back to the Waterfront Gang for some more money so I can get my tungsten fullplate.
Only thing that can turn him into CG is actually some mare whose charm can convince him not to do morally questionable stuff.
It could go the other way and turn him into CE, if the GM does it right.
I think not. More like chaotic neutral, since I've done some loan sharking at the beginning.
Also may go back to the Waterfront Gang for some more money so I can get my tungsten fullplate.
Only thing that can turn him into CG is actually some mare whose charm can convince him not to do morally questionable stuff.
It could go the other way and turn him into CE, if the GM does it right.
>>90173
CN is a fun alignment. A very "by the character's whims." And you're right, sometimes real easy to shift to CE/CG. Looking forward to seeing the story develop for all the characters
CN is a fun alignment. A very "by the character's whims." And you're right, sometimes real easy to shift to CE/CG. Looking forward to seeing the story develop for all the characters
>>90174
If only I wasn't weighted down by consequences to enact Iron's whims.
Onyx's still cleaning silverwareist sporks?
If only I wasn't weighted down by consequences to enact Iron's whims.
Onyx's still cleaning silverwareist sporks?
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