Greetings, and hello! I am Eight Star, and I'm an advanced GM. I'm also a pretty big Brony, but I'm sure that's pretty obvious. Anyway, I've come up with a game plot, AND a game plot that'll work in the world of My Little Pony. It works along the time-table of the current show. Here's the general plot... As far as pony society goes, you're not "on par" with the rest. Something happened to you where you just don't fit in, or you've left to find your own path. One way or another, you've ended up down on your luck... and that's when you met the strange unicorn known as "Eight Star." (Self-insert, I know.) Eight Star, while a bit off his rocker, is a very powerful unicorn who lives in a huge underground lair within the Evergreen Forest. He's recruited you to be a part of his eyes, ears, and hooves in a group known as the Order of Golden Lightning. This secret group is deticated to keeping order in the ebb and flow of mana and emotions in all of Equestria. In return for your work with the order, Eight Star provides you, and the rest of his "agents" with food, home, and many other gifts as incentive to continue your work with him. So in this RP, I'll be the GameMaster in an adventure where you and the rest of the party will be carrying out orders for Eight Star. The adventures will include puzzles, combat, and other intrigue. I'll be rolling dice to determine success for most situations, so it's basically like a tabletop role playing game. Just post in this thread here with the following information for a character to apply for joining:Name: Gender: Race: This can be Earth Pony, Pegasus, Draft Pony or Unicorn. Earth Ponies earn experience the fastest, Draft ponies the second fastest, and Unicorn the slowest. Specialization: This can be a wide number of things. Specializing in combat, sneaking around, cooking, socializing, or... no specialization (blank flank?!) You can include your cutie mark description here. Background Information: Your general bio. This is the main thing of "how you came to be who you are" or what situation you're in to be a part of the Order. The rules of the game would be simple: Be Active Remember that you only control YOUR CHARACTER If you aren't sure you can do something; ask me! I am the GM. That means what I say in the game goes. Signed Up So Far Zephyr - Zephyrus - Pegasus "Rogue" - Aspect of the Racer Grey Knightmare - Eleven - Unicorn "Psycher" - Aspect of the Mind's Eye Darkshine - Perfect Melody - Pony "Adventurer" (Performer) - Aspect of the Performer Quill Inkwell - Emerald Whirl - Pegasus "Student" (Alchemist) - Aspect of the Botanist Jhera - Throw Down - Draft "Fighter" - Aspect of Iron Will Tyro the Fox - Arc Gust - Pony "Strider" - Aspect of the Gale Legionbrony - Silver Shield - Unicorn "Apprentice" (Mage/Inventor, Primarily Mage for Now) - Aspect of the Inventor Icetalon - Firebolt - Pegasus "Rogue" - Aspect of Golden Lightning Love<3 - LoveStar - Unicorn "Apprentice" (Specializes in Mental Effects) - Aspect of the Spin Doctor SaulLaski - Masquerade Butcher - Pegasus "Rogue" - Aspect of the Masquerade (Hey, look, one matches his name!) The RP From the Start
Name- Zephyrus (Only known as Zephyr) Gender- Male Race- Pegasus Specialization- Stamina with a slight affinity for thief skills (To be explained in the next bullet) Background- Zephyr left home at an early age out of guilt for accidentally causing his father's death. As he began to grow up, he learned to pickpocket and pick locks as a method of survival. Over the years his affinity for such skills has improved allowing him to be sneaky when needed, though he still gets caught a lot. It was in this that he discovered his exceptional stamina during chases from angry shopkeepers and ponies allowing him to easily outrun and outfly a very large majority of those he's encounters through sheer endurance alone.
Name: Eleven Race: Unicorn Gender: Male Specialty: Telepathy Notes: Eleven is mute. Biography: Eleven is the eleventh child born to undisclosed parents. He was born mute but has since developed a method of telepathic communication and other psychic abilities. His cutie mark is an "unblinking eye".
I approve. Like a thief who's a marathon runner. Your pickpockets and pick locks skills will be your highest abilities. You'll have a little bit in the ability to hide and sneak, but you'll have greatly trained Endurance. Don't always need to be faster if you can just out-last them! So Eleven would be able to use limited psycher abilities? Sounds rather useful, actually. Eight Star is also proficient in Telepathic communication, so he would've quickly seen the potential in such a unicorn. EDIT: While Eleven has a number of phycher abilities available to him to start, his knowledge of them would probably be more limited. Bad things can happen if he tries to exert his powers to do something he's not yet able to do, so figuring out the happy medium is important. I'll be keeping track of energy usage/etc. Eleven would know that there are at least two powers he can use without much worry, and that's the ability to (slowly, but surely,) heal small wounds, and the ability to wake someone up and reduce their fatigue, (which is helpful for people who exert themselves a lot to do things.)
Name: Perfect Melody Race: Earth Gender: Female Specialty: Wisdom, survival skills, music Background info: Perfect Melody has no record of Birth nor has she any place of birth which she mentions. She just appeared one day with a great voice and good on the Piano. She met a Pony named Grey Mane along the way and helped Grey Mane out with various emotional and physical troubles. Once at a bad stage performance she had to hide, with Grey Mane, deep inside the Everfree forest until they were forgotten or forgiven.
It was awfully nice of you to save me a spot! Name: Emerald Whirl ender: Female Race: Pegasus Specialization: Alchemy, specifically as it pertains to plants. Background: Whereas most members of her family found their place among the clouds, she preferred the feeling of solid ground beneath her hooves. When away from home, she took up gardening, and soon learned that you could crush up and mix certain plants to create various potions and salves. Her family was…less than impressed. Her place was in the sky, she was told. If she was meant to be a gardener, she would’ve been born an earth pony, they said. She ran (flew) away from home and found a patch of land that had the most wonderful plants she had ever seen: The Everfree Forest.
Excellent... So a performer, a gardener, a psychic, and a thief walk into a bar... Ah, but seriously, this is a good mix for a group that wouldn't be combat-heavy. Meaning I get to employ some of my favorite scenarios. You're all accepted. Does anyone have any questions? If not, I can get things moving with a group of four.
Really quick question! Is this going to be a little bit like naturematthe's The reason why in the form of stats?
Hang on! Working on characters! Sorry to bust up the motion of your RP. I'll be done in a wee while. Edit: Are you particularly fussed about species?
At the risk of speaking out of turn, I have some experience with playing for Eight Star, so I might be able to answer you. There are more stats than in The Reason Why. The stats are: Strength, Endurance, Magic, Willpower, Speed, Stealth, Perception, and Knowledge. These stats are distributed for us based on our species and are used to modify our d100 rolls.
A D&D style RP! Nice change for once! I'll be insinuating a differing char for this, as my usual Common Man thing would be pretty useless here. Name: Throw Down (generally referred to as Throw) Gender: Male Race: Earth Pony Specialization: Having a pretty unbreakable will Cutie Mark: Steel Horseshoe Info: Throw is moderately smart and very strong (we're talking just under Big Mac here). He enjoys company, but can perform tasks alone most of the time. Throw has a general dislike for unicorns.
EDIT: This is all a response to Darkshine, it just took me so long to write it, three or four ponies posted in between. Uhh... what? *Goes and checks through, looks at "The Reason Why," then returns.* Actually, I wasn't going to bring the stat-system up, but if you're really interested in the details, we're using the Universal Tabletop RP system, TimewarpVortex. So, if you don't care about the points and just wanna RP, don't bother to read on. Otherwise, here's the stuff... The system is incredibly versatile, and has an 8 stat system that can be used for anything. (We haven't found anything it can't be used for, at least.) Strength, Endurance, Magic, Willpower, Speed, Stealth, Perception, and Knowledge. The thing that separates this from systems with a smaller amount of stats is that there aren't any sub-stats or divisional amounts, (for example; D&D, which has 6 base stats, also has at least 3 sub-stats, and the bonuses are based on averages and divisions. Here's an example character's stats: Emerald Whirl Spoiler: Character Sheet Species / Race: Equinis Faust - Pegasus (Flight Allowed, -15% XP Gain) Class: Student Current CR: 2 Level: 0 CP: 0/40 HP: 12/12 WP: 6/6 MP: 4/4 SP: 2/2 Strength: 8 Endurance: 14 Magic: -6 Willpower: 2 Speed: 4 Stealth: 0 Perception: 8 Knowledge: 2+2 Aspect of the Botanist: +1 Knowledge for every 1 Trained CR. +20 on misc skill rolls pertaining to flora. Skills: Multi-Tasker: Able to perform two misc. skills at the same time, once per day. Herbal Lore Level 5: +25 bonus to identifying flora. Basic Potion Making Level 1: Able to make basic potions at level 1 power. Inventory: Mortar & Pestle, 5 empty cured drinking skins, 4 empty jars. 200 Bits
(Finally, another DD addept. i'm sure we'll have a lot in common with our characters, Eight Stars.) Name: Mascarade Butcher Gender: Stallion Race: Pegasus Specialization: He's a good acrobat and thief. He's specialization, However, is to be the fastest hooves of ponyville. He knows a lot of card tricks. Background Information: 'Mascarade' isn't his real name. He used to be a normal Pegasus before his family's death. Hauted by his past, he only seeks for vengance without beeing known. He decided to wear a mask to hide his true identity, and by the time he did forgot who he was. He loves to perform and show off, and currently works has an artisan of masks and and hats of all kind. Acting has become another nature to him, and sometimes, he can completly change his personality. (If you want, i can make a MLP template of D&D character sheets, so we can REALLY getting it D&D style. Oh, and i'm actually using v3.5, is it pkay with you?)
Eight Star, I was wondering if you were overly fussed on how far someone were to push the Race aspect of a character?
No, actually, I hate the D&D system... Are you sure you want an Earth Pony? Sounds more like you're looking for a draft pony. Big Mac's a draft. The advantage to a draft is strength and endurance, but a general loss of speed and stealth.
Well, we'll probably have to split into groups. I'm going to start the game for the initial four for now... if that's okay... While the likely-hood of kitsune existing in this universe is high, they are unfortunately an unplayable species. Mainly for balance reasons, but a pony character is still fine.
