- Dash's player becomes impatient with the character introductions
:Rainbow Dash: AUUUGH! It's been almost an hour! I can't take it anymore! 17 vs. Armor Class! Hit!
GM: Who? With what!?
(Dash bodyslams Twilight into a mud puddle)
GM: Oh.
- Pinkie's going on tangents proves hazardous:
Pinkie Pie: Although being a pony kinda complicates the drinks. The normal stuff won't work if nopony can get drunk!
GM: I'm pretty sure that's not...
Pinkie Pie: So what else would there be…? Juice? Punch? Hot sauce? Ooh, yeah, hot sauce! I'd totally put hot sauce on the table!
Twilight: Wait.
WHAT is my character drinking?!
- Pinkie Pie's first Glib Limerick.
- Pinkie later proceeds to question the plot.
- After the heartwarming ending to their first session, the players get down to business.
- When Luke, Cory and Natalie try designing characters for this campaign setting.
- For the third arc, the GM grants the players' wish to meet more ponies by bringing in Zecora... and Apple Bloom, AJ's little sister, as an NPC. Rarity's player reacts accordingly:
Rarity: You made a sibling for your character and didn't TELL ME?
Applejack: Yeah, and Ah KNEW you'd—
Rarity: We could've compared notes! We could've built a deep, rich connection between our families!
AJ: That wouldn't work so well, seein' as how yer a criminal an' Ah'm— Wait, Rarity has relatives?! Ah ain't surprised, but Ah don't recall YOU mentionin' that.
Rarity: I'm a Rogue. Holding secrets is my job.
- The moment after Zecora's introduction when it dawns on the players just what they're in for:
Rainbow Dash: Zebra? Hold the phone…
Applejack: Oh…
Twilight Sparkle: Fantastic.
- Though she's annoyed by the GM using her Backstory against her, AJ's player starts changing her tune when Apple Bloom reveals how similar they really are:
Applejack: I…I dunno if I'm angry or proud.
Rarity: Are you tearing up over there?
AJ: Maybe.
- This exchange after the encounter with Zecora in the Everfree Forest:
GM: After a couple hours of study, you figure out that the flower has some kind of natural enchantment built into it. But the effect of the enchantment eludes you.
Twilight: Really? That's it for a 29?
GM: A bit lower and you wouldn't have learned anything at all. The dormant enchantment was extremely tough to spot.
Twilight: Well then.
I guess nothing else is going to happen tonight. I go to sleep.
GM: While you're asleep, something happens...
Twilight: Dammit!
- Twilight's plot-mandated nightmare about Zecora gets hijacked by an alignment argument.
Twilight: I think I'm having a different nightmare, DM.
GM: ...Sure, let's go with that.
- After Fluttershy's player attempts a male voice, the GM tries to make everyone act out their curse:
GM: Put your hair in front of your face... stick your tongue out... ...push your chair away and sit on the floor... ...keep speaking in that really deep voice... and... uh...
Twilight: Go on.
Spike: Nevermind.
- Some of the comments below the comic are just pure gold. For example, one commenter wondered if Princess Celestia was going to be portrayed as an insane, possibly evil ruler known as "Mad Horse". Of course, the inevitable comparison to Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog was made...
Mad Horse, Mad Horse, Mad Horse, Mad Horse
She rules the pony nation, the Goddess of the Sun
Her love of making friends has just killed ev-ery-one
The players are all helpless, and the game's just beguuuun...
Melt the Big Bad with solar rays?
No, friendship's gonna save the day
Mad Horse, Mad Horse, Mad Horse, she's mad
A railroading DM is watching so beware
There is no information you can make her share
So make the Mad Horse gleeful
Or bow to the Nightmare...
You're saddled up, there's no recourse
It's Hi-Ho Silver
Signed, Mad Horse
- Twilight's player decides to use a fireball to incinerate the poison joke.
GM: Um, what? You sure you want to do that inside your tree?
Twilight: Oh! Sorry. You're right. I don't know what came over me. I should go outside, construct a proper fire pit, and THEN FIREBALL!!
GM: Woah. Uh... I guess you could go with that.
- Backstage Pass's nod to the sheer amount of Ensemble Darkhorses in the series:
GM: She said ONE SENTENCE, people!
- After the third session, the GM is called out over some of the actions he took, particularly how he manipulated Pinkie Pie's player? Her reply after he admits it? "Now YOU have to write a letter to Princess Celestia!"
- The GM falters just as he's finishing the letter.
GM: Ugh, sorry, this is just too weird.
Pinkie: Shoot! So close!
GM: Besides, you know what her response would probably be?
GM as Celestia: Who are you, and what does this have to do with friendship?
- In the beginning of the fourth session, the GM explains that Princess Celestia is making a casual visit to Ponyville. Twilight's player points out what happened last time she showed up, which prompts Rainbow Dash's player to say, "Hey, she can't have *that* many estranged relatives..."
- The GM's model Parasprite is a stress ball with a smiley-face drawn on and glued-on paper wings.
- This exchange, after Pinkie's player learns that Pinkie knows about parasprites.
GM: Even as we speak the parasprites are tearing into Sugarcube Corner's freshly baked wares.
Pinkie: Hey! That's
my job!
(
Beat)
Pinkie: Hey, that's my
job! My day's wages! That's what I meant!
- Celestia's arrival after the Parasprites are taken care of VERY quickly.
- Intimidation check + Epic Fail = This
- Spike delivers a Big "NO!" so big, Everypony hears it.
- In another crossover with One Piece: Grand Line 3.5, Twilight's player designs a character (Boa Hancock) for the pirate campaign, and gets her first taste of 3.5's min-maxing potential. She quickly starts getting Drunk on the Dark Side.
- Spike attempts to tell the mane 5 what happened to Rarity...Pinkie thinks he's doing a Lassie impersonation.
- Pinkie's player figures out where the Diamond Dogs name came from.
- This exchange:
Twilight: If we hurry, we'll beat the Taraxippus to the bog. Then we'll have the element of surprise on our side.
Pinkie: Ha! The super-secret seventh Element of Harmony: The Element of Surprise! Surprise and Fear! Fear and Surprise! ...The Eight Elements of Harmony: Surprise, Fear and Ruthless Efficiency- Amongst our Elements of Harmony are Surprise, fear, Ruthless Efficiency, and an almost fanatical devotion to Celestia- I'll come in again.
Applejack: (sigh) "I wasn't expecting an extended parody of the Spanish Inquisition."
- "Things The Mane 6 Can No Longer Do In An RPG", a homage to Mr. Welch's list. Naturally, this list features resident Loonie Pinkie Pie, but everypony gets in on it too.
"No amount of crafting expertise allows me to replace or otherwise substitute the other players."
"I cannot craft my own allies for a morale bonus, either."
"Or for any other reason, for that matter."
"I cannot plan a heist, caper, or other form of high-profile theft just to steal common, easily available household objects."
"Power tools do not count as combat equipment in a setting without zombies."
"Not allowed to cure poisoned allies with my bare hands."
"Martial combat techniques may not be used to perform Heal checks."
- From the cast page: "It's not clear why the DM chose to create a campaign setting based on colourful, magical ponies."
- Fluttershy, of all people, gives the "It's only a model" line in another reference to Monty Python.
- After Dash's player reveals a bad experience she had with two conmen teammates, the others all give her a pep talk... with Rarity protesting that the conmen took too much.
- So how does Rainbow Dash become the number one fan of the Wonderbolts when her player has an abysmal History score? Nat 20.
- Applejack's statement about there being no gardening going on in the Canterlot Garden Party (Rarity: "That's horrifying.") turns into a "performance art piece satirizing the inherent hubris of upper-class nomenclature."
Rarity: ...That's horrifyingly brilliant.
The Rant: The resulting discussion about the quality of the art, the meaning of the art, and the definition of the word "art" lasted for several days.
- Apparently, Twilight didn't want to be noticed at the garden party. But when your dice falls on a 1, well...
- After the Elements are confronted by the Canterlot nobles for gatecrashing the party, the party immediately and unanimously blame Rainbow for it.
Rainbow Dash: Guys, I was perfectly willing to get under the bus myself. You did NOT have to throw me.
- The first idea for the character for Rarity's player to use during the "Luna Eclipsed" arc? In an Actor Allusion, Granny Smith. Rarity's player was NOT pleased.
I am NOT playing a grandmother. Not tonight.
- Another from Luna Eclipsed, when Twilight asks what Spike is dressed up as.
Spike: I'm a dragon.
Twilight: [deadpan] Yes Spike. Yes you are.
DM: No, he's actually in a dragon costume. A dragon within a dragon.
- In "The Last Roundup" arc, the players all critically fail a Streetwise Roll to find out where Applejack is.
Rarity: Did we all experience sudden memory loss? "Yes, I'm looking for someone. I forgot the name, but I'm fairly certain they're a pony."
Pinkie Pie: "We brought photos, but they're only in black and white. So like this, but more orange-y!"
Twilight: "Sorry, we must've grabbed her baby pictures by mistake."
Rainbow Dash: "She had a cowboy hat and a southern drawl.
Oh, Wait!, that describes
basically all of you."
- Pinkie's take on Murphy's Law.
Pinkie Pie: "
It's the perfect plan! Nothing could go wrong!"
Applejack: ...Did you just invoke Murphy's Law on
purpose? Intentionally?
Pinkie Pie: Yep! Now both the positive AND negative outcomes would be ironic! It's anybody's game! I HAVE DEFEATED MURPHY!
Applejack: That's not how tropes work, Pinkie. That's not even what Murphy's Law
is.
- The GM is forced into yet another absurd situation thanks to Fluttershy of all people.
Fluttershy: Yes!
GM: Alright. Guess I get to roleplay as bees tonight.
Rarity: Every session is a new opportunity!
- During the events of "The Best Night Ever", Pinkie Pie tries to "subtly" alert Rarity that her new paramour is kinda shady... through a parody of the Macarena.
- When Rarity needs to subtly send a message to Applejack, AJ's player pulls out a paper of pre-arranged signals they agreed on, signed and dated, so that there's no way the DM can argue with it.
The Rant: If it gets to the point where your players back up their actions with documents that could be admissible in a court of law, you may have gone too deep.
- A meta example: starting with page 1060, Discord himself allegedly took over someone's account and began leaving humorous comments in the comments section.
- During the School Raze arc, each of the new PCs are trapped in illusions based off the fears of their race. The player reactions and outcomes of some of these traps are hilarious.
- The Tree of Harmony gives Twilight's player, currently playing Occulus the changeling, the powers and appearance of Queen Chrysalis as an illusionary trap. Twilight, being the resident min-maxer, thinks this is awesome. Unfortunately for her the illusion could dissipate at any time. Her solution: bluff the tree.
- The trap for Rarity's player, currently playing Smolder the Dragon, is a tea party with two stereotypical Valleymares. This is, of course, a dragon's worst nightmare and to overcome it she's forced to join in, including wearing a frilly dress and makeup. When the illusion dissipates, the dress sticks around and she's found by Rainbow Dash's player, currently playing Gallus the Griffon.
Smolder: I will turn you into grilled chicken if you EVER tell a soul!
Gallus: Y-yes ma'am.
- AJ's Player, currently playing Sandbar the Earth Pony, is confronted with illusionary versions of Rarity and Rainbow Dash. She stays perfectly in character, having Sandbar fanboy over the two of them and completely buy into their lies. This doesn't stop her from snarking, however.
AJ's Player: But my dude! I'm with the two-faced rogue and the fight-happy barbarian! When have they EVER steered anypony wrong?
- Twilight's Player is able to tell who's playing Applejack in the Equestria Girls guest arc based solely on her accent.
- Sunset!GM tried to make Sunset's lackies (Snips and Snails) sound menacing. Unfortunately, it didn't quite work and, in their words, "Chumps it is."
- When the players are panicking after Fridge Logic involving their character's families finally kicks in, Pinkie gives them all sound advice.
Pinkie: Whatever you do, don't feel guilty about leaving your loved ones behind.
- And Rainbow's response to all this:
Rainbow: [Looking extremely smug] This is why I don't do backstories.
- Shining Armor's player, who is playing a paladin, describes himself as "Lawful Chill" the idea of which perplexes Rainbow's Player.
- Shining stops the royal guards from menacing Twilight not to protect her, but instead to protect the royal guards. As he points out, Twilight is a paragon-level Wizard.
- Just as in canon, Twilight embarreses herself by doing the song and dance Cadance had taught her when she was younger. The reason? A nat 1 on an insight roll to see if Cadance remembers her. It's so ridiculous that Cadance has to roll bluff to avoid looking completely baffled.
- Shining Armor asks Twilight in character what she thinks of his fiance. Twilight, confusing this for out of character discussion says she thinks she's perfect and then immediately backtracks and asks for a mulligan.
- The characters are going through a practice wedding and when Celestia, who is officiating the wedding, gets to the Speak Now or Forever Hold Your Peace line, Twilight runs in and objects, which is lampshaded by all the characters as a really obvious joke. Pinkie in particular mentions how proud she is.
- Zephyr, who is guarding the bricked up entrance to Canterlot's catacombs, is trying to defend his accidentally letting Rarity, Rainbow, and Fluttershy sneak past him by claiming that his boss never specifically told him what "guarding" means.
- Fluttershy mentions that she has a brother like that in real life and the GM immediately jumps at the idea of making Zephyr Fluttershy's brother in the game. She immediately shoots him down with a Little "No".
- The players are discussing Star Swirl the Bearded's unfinished spell and come to the question of Cutie Marks, and we get this.
Twilight: Are Cutie Marks predestined...? Gee, sounds like we're poised to ask deep questions about this fictional world. Wonder why that is.
GM: Oh no, not questions about my painstakingly crafted lore! Aaaaanything but that!
Newbiespud: "Whatever you do, please don't throw me into that extensively storied and meticulously designed briar patch!" said the GM.
- After the group gets their Cutie Marks removed, Rarity is devastated. Fluttershy tries to comfort her, only to discover that Rarity's not upset about the Cutie Marks, she's upset because she thinks that the cult will force her to wear her mane in a boring way.
