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My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (Live Reactions & Discussion)

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A thread to discuss My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and the tie-in media.

All of the usual forum rules apply. In addition, please remember that the thread is discussing a kids' show, and it's primarily focused on the work itself, not the fanfic — in particular, we don't want to see lewdness creeping in.

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I don't know WHAT the Hell happened (I blame shenanigans) but we're going to start from scratch. Post your feels for this awesome show again! Naow!

Edited by Mrph1 on Aug 26th 2024 at 10:24:26 AM

storyyeller More like giant cherries from Appleloosa Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
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#60576: Mar 24th 2014 at 1:49:24 PM

Blac tea? Why not Scary Purple Dragon Tea?

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Starscream759 Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: In denial
#60577: Mar 24th 2014 at 1:53:24 PM

@Syd I think the bottle was no bigger than my hands. It was regular sized.

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BigDannyC Since: Dec, 2013
#60578: Mar 24th 2014 at 1:55:32 PM

What the heck does hotting the taco mean? tongue

Anyway, I'm done with Uni for the month so, back to my life. Staring season three!

storyyeller More like giant cherries from Appleloosa Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
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#60579: Mar 24th 2014 at 2:07:25 PM

was no bigger than my hands. It was regular sized.

And the innuendos just keep on coming.

What the heck does hotting the taco mean?

It means getting drunk. It's a reference to one time when Applelight posted here while extremely drunk tired and emotional. He mistyped 'got a taxi' as 'hot a taco'.

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Starscream759 Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: In denial
#60580: Mar 24th 2014 at 2:10:15 PM

For crying out loud.....

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Sereg Since: Jun, 2010
#60581: Mar 24th 2014 at 2:13:25 PM

Also, regarding the mechanics, exactly what does a character's cutie mark do? Does it just give a bonus to related skills or something?

Whenever you are using your special talent, you gain an extra die and an extra achievement point bonus, yes. Spectacular successes are also easier. Also, your special talent is slightly addictive.

3.5 is pretty far up there. It's especially bad due to having so many trap options in the PHB.

Oh, well yeah. Especially of games that don't include Intentionally Overpowered stuff, but even then, it's bad, but there is even worse out there.

Tealove I like cozy chats. from The Tea Cozy Since: Mar, 2012
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#60582: Mar 24th 2014 at 2:13:37 PM

For crying out loud.....

Shhhh. Drink the rest of your tea, dear. I made a pot for you, and you've only had one cup.

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storyyeller More like giant cherries from Appleloosa Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
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#60583: Mar 24th 2014 at 2:13:45 PM

For crying out loud.....

You said it, not me.

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JapaneseTeeth Existence Weighed Against Nonbeing from Meinong's jungle Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Mu
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#60585: Mar 24th 2014 at 2:13:54 PM

And the innuendos just keep on coming.

A lesser man would make a Heh Heh, You Said "X" joke here.

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Starscream759 Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: In denial
#60586: Mar 24th 2014 at 2:15:04 PM

@Story Shut up.

@Tealove Top me up. (Hands you my empty cup)

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IrishZombie Since: Dec, 2009
#60587: Mar 24th 2014 at 2:17:44 PM

3.5 is pretty far up there. It's especially bad due to having so many trap options in the PHB.

And let us not forget that 3.5 was a revision of an even more broken system. The spells haste (essentially one extra action per turn) and harm (leaves the poor sod with only 1d4 HP, regardless of how much they had before) in particular.

Anyway, I'd be up for helping playtest this thing, schedule permitting.

Tealove I like cozy chats. from The Tea Cozy Since: Mar, 2012
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#60588: Mar 24th 2014 at 2:21:18 PM

@Tealove Top me up. (Hands you my empty cup)

\*fills cup*

There you are, dear. Now, let's have no more of this rude "Shut up" talk.

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Starscream759 Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: In denial
#60589: Mar 24th 2014 at 2:22:19 PM

@Tealove (Takes the cup of Black Tea and then starts drinking it)

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Seraphem Since: Oct, 2009
#60591: Mar 24th 2014 at 2:24:58 PM

I've only played Pathfinder, which seems pretty balanced.

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#60592: Mar 24th 2014 at 2:28:51 PM

it's... pretty easy to upset the balance if you want to. Especially depending on class.

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storyyeller More like giant cherries from Appleloosa Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: RelationshipOutOfBoundsException: 1
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#60593: Mar 24th 2014 at 2:31:58 PM

Yeah, Pathfinder isn't really balanced at all. They nerfed some of the most broken options from 3.5, but they didn't do anything to address the underlying imbalance, and some of the changes they made actually made things worse.

Of course what do you expect when SKR was on the team?

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#60594: Mar 24th 2014 at 2:32:11 PM

D&D 4e is slightly better in that regard, if only because you can't be a complete one-man-army capable of doing everything. Most completely broken builds involve the cooperation of at leas one party member.

Like the Radiant Mafia. One party member lays down vulnerability to Radiant damage on the enemy, and the others use Radiant attacks to take advantage of it. I assure you that stuff dies.

Starscream759 Since: May, 2013 Relationship Status: In denial
#60595: Mar 24th 2014 at 2:36:24 PM

@Tealove (Finishes his second cup of Black Tea) Ah god that's good....

edited 24th Mar '14 2:36:32 PM by Starscream759

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RhymeBeat True colors from Eastern Standard Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: In Lesbians with you
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#60596: Mar 24th 2014 at 2:38:23 PM

Sereg how many points do we get for our play test?

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Sereg Since: Jun, 2010
#60597: Mar 24th 2014 at 2:41:06 PM

Pathfinder is more balanced than 3.5, but the difference is smaller than people were expecting.

4th ed is far more balanced. Unfortunately, a lot of the design decisions left me preferring the imbalance of 3.5.

My adaptation of D&D isn't really meant to fix the balance issues as a primary feature, but I hope that it's still at least a lot more balanced than standard 3.5. For one thing, it's meant to make hit point damage and full BAB a lot more dangerous and casting spells a lot more punishing.

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#60598: Mar 24th 2014 at 2:41:16 PM

D&D 4e is slightly better in that regard, if only because you can't be a complete one-man-army capable of doing everything. Most completely broken builds involve the cooperation of at leas one party member.

Yeah, D&D 4ed is much more balanced, but that's because they completely redesigned the game and changed it into a tactical war game with all the classes using the same mechanics.

PF, by contrast is designed to play like 3.5 and it is just as inbalanced as 3.5.

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#60600: Mar 24th 2014 at 2:45:33 PM

Pathfinder is more balanced than 3.5, but the difference is smaller than people were expecting.

I wouldn't say PF is more balanced than 3.5. There are fewer game breaking options, but that's simply because there are fewer options overall. It's not like the design team had any idea what they were doing with regards to balance.

And in some respects, PF is worse than 3.5. For example, PF makes it a lot harder to create a competent, tier 3 martial combatant, primarily due to all those missing options, plus some pointless nerfs to already weak classes.

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