YMMV / Friendship is Dragons

• Alternate Character Interpretation: The beginning of "The Cutie Map, Part 2" has the DM quitting because they've repeatedly had issues with the way the campaigns turn out (specifically, they want the story to go one way, the players go off the rails and the story goes in a whole other direction) that end with the DM doing something that results in drama that hurts their friendships, and as such they feel that they need to stop DM'ing and work through their issues. A lot of fans in the comments disagreed, saying that the problem is more that the DM and the players aren't a good match as a group, and the DM needs some players who are more willing to stick with their plot and not go off the rails.
• Base-Breaking Character: Hoo boy, the comments on the comic are divided on the guest DM playing Discord. Some assume he's acting within the bound of the game and is simply making a few mistakes due to not knowing the group as well and is genuinely trying to give them a fun time, while others assume he's an out and out villain out to punish the players and is a terrible DM. The most contentious curse is Applejack's, as a theoretical "punishment" for her metagaming.
  • Similarly, the comments are very much divided on Sunset!DM from the Equestria Girls Guest Arc. One side emphasizes with them and thinks they're just an unexperienced new GM whose panic is fully understandable given the tense situation they're in. The other side thinks they're just a genuinely terrible person and hate their guts. There's also a third camp that's unsure what to think about them. Notably, this comes to a head in the comments for this comic.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • This comic came out on the same day as the episode "Maud Pie," in which Pinkie creates an obstacle course in which she tries combining everything her friends love into one activity. Note that new comics are uploaded around 8/9 a.m. (depending on Daylight Savings Time) and new episodes typically air around 10 a.m.
  • Half of the Smarmony Six (Trixie, Ditzy Doo, Cheerilee) is identical to RainbowDoubleDash's Lunaverse cast.
• Nightmare Fuel: The comic where Pinkie is having her fake party takes a turn from "kinda sad" to "genuinely disturbing" when Pinkie fails a Will save, forgets that the party is fake, and the DM starts speaking for the fake NPCs she made.
• Sidetracked by the Gold Saucer: The comments usually include actual Dungeons and Dragons stories (Pony or otherwise) semi related to the current comic, and can prove to be just as interesting/funny as the comic, if not more so.
• The Woobie:
  • Fluttershy's player during the "Dragonshy" arc, when she comes to view herself as The Millstone.
  • Rarity's player during the "A Dog and Pony Show" arc when she realises Rarity and Twilight aren't as close friends in-universe as she'd thought, and again in the "Sweet and Elite" arc after Rarity gets blacklisted from the Thieves Guild, leaving her unplayable.
  • Pinkie Pie's player when she realises that the GM manipulated her in the "Bridle Gossip" arc, and again when she thinks that the others hated the game she ran. Both scenes use stills from "Party of One".
  • Rainbow Dash's player when she tells of a recent experience at a D&D camp, involving her character being conned out of her share of loot.
  • Though we're not sure of the context yet, Twilight's player seems to have her own issues, shown by her reaction to learning about her character having a brother. This is later expanded on a bit when we learns that she is terrible at keeping in touch with family members, as evidenced by her having no idea her real life brother has a fiancé.