Hurray for Applejack!

TwiPie

Of course it is, Pinkie

edited 18th Jul '13 5:42:03 PM by Thirikal

Which pony from the actual series would I be? Maybe Derpy, although my personality doesn't necessarily match what was shown of her in the actual show. She and I both have blond hair, I have brown eyes (close enough to her orange/yellow eyes), and when I was 10 I had one eye that was drifting but that was corrected with surgery but it's still something I had in common with her at one point in my life. Also, I used to be mistaken for a boy (or called a boy as a mean joke) when I was a young girl because I've almost always had short hair, like how Derpy's voice actress thought she was a boy at first.

I'm gonna take a cue from JT and talk about AJ now instead of ... whatever is going on.

Man, she's great isn't she? I wish I could buck apples as well as she can.

Damn, these are some nice looking official plushies. I wants them my precious.

edited 18th Jul '13 5:46:43 PM by Crowfall

I agree. AJ sure is fantastic, not only is she strong and resolute, he;'s also a fairly savvy business woman.

She's quite the silly pony though.

Those are indeed some nice official plushies. As if I didn't already have enough stuff to spend money on...

A savvy business woman? She gave away like a thousand apples because her little sister was mildly annoying.

She lost the apples, but probably saved a customer, which is far more valuable in the long run. It's standard procedure to give out freebies to ensure repeat business.

Her sister was harassing a customer and attempting fraud. She really had to do something to blow the incident over. Losing those apples was damage control, and a lesser evil compared to losing a repeat customer or suffering legal action.

It would be nice if we did get an episode about AJ having fun. Heck, even at the Gala she was still working.

Minmaxing and fighter don't really belong in the same sentence. Sure you can optimize a fighter, but it will never come even close to say, wizard.

Magus FTW, best of both worlds.

Well, this is Pathfinder mind, not Dn D. Might be slightly different.

In pathfinder I think Fighters get a new feat every level or two, which over time could potentially lead to someone pretty fucking stacked. Especially if you go [1] Human.

Been talking (read: nostalgiaing) a lot about Collectible Card Games lately, I was thinking about the possibility of a mlp ccg and how it would work. It'd certainly be a weird version, ccgs are pretty much inherently focused on combat and trying to eliminate your opponent, a focus which doesn't really fit the mood of the show that well.

Makes me think about the possibility of a non-hostile ccg of some sort though, maybe where all the players are dealing with problems drawn from a "hazard deck" of some sort and work together to defeat them?

That might work. What CC Gs do you play?

@darkabomination: I think what others may consider to be work might actually be fun for Applejack, at least in some ways. Apple Family Reunion was a good example of that, where she thought "fun and exciting" equalled doing things fast and being active and busy, plus she seemed to consider the barn raising to be fun (and she actually made it fun for her family as well in the process).

That does bring up something interesting, that I think has been mentioned before: what would Applejack do if she had a day (or part of a day) that was completely free of any farm work or anything that she was required to do. I would imagine she would be the type to make things as a hobby, like the baking she does sometimes. Or as was mentioned, she might find herself to be surprised and confused as to what to do with herself if she couldn't do any of her usual jobs and farm work.

Perhaps she might end up trying to help her friends with their chores or whatever activities they were doing. Another idea would be a hospital-type episode similar to Read it and Weep where Applejack is injured and has to depend on others to do her usual chores.

I'm hoping for one where he shows off his knowledge of advanced math.

The consensus I've seen from veteran char op people is that Pathfinder fixed the worst abuses in 3.5ed but did nothing to address the underlying balance, and if anything, the lack of supplemental metrial makes it harder to build viable pure martial characters.

Also, Fighter feats are pretty much worthless, and there's a lot less to chose from in Pathfinder. The most notable problem though is that there's no Warblade. Warblade is basically the fixed version of Fighter in 3.5 after WOTC realized how badly they'ed screwed up. But it's not core so it never got officially ported.

I used to be all about Magi-Nation, "the Firefly of ccgs." I was actually somewhere in the top 100 of all players in America, which isn't really so much an accomplishment as a side affect of it being a game that no one played. I've played a few more here and there (Yu-Gi-Oh, Magic the Gathering, Game of Thrones, Duel Masters) but never really liked any of them enough to actually care about them.

I just really love the concept of ccgs, but Magi Nation kind of spoiled me so I've never gotten back into them. There will never be another card game like it.

She'd probably just relax or take Applebloom somewhere.

Monks are widely considered to be completely useless, and multi-classing is a no-no for min/maxing. Not that I know much on the subject. I ran about 8 sessions of Pathfinder and intend to never run it ever again.

edited 18th Jul '13 7:15:50 PM by Bluespade

Huh. That's odd then, because 27 attacks per turns sounds pretty broken to me. Then again, I've yet to get up to such a level, so it could wind up being not as bad as all that. I mean, I'm pretty sure by multiclassing you can get yourself some pretty nuts stuff going on. Like a monk/cleric. Cleric spells to increase physical attributes, plus bonus from taking a god who's chosen weapon is unarmed strike. Punch stuff until it isn't there anymore. And apparently you can take vows to make the whole thing ever worse...

Yeah, I don't have much experience in breaking characters as of yet, admittedly.

Oh, really? that's kind of a shame, because it actually kinda seemed like they were a neat class. then again they don't exactly have much in the way of out-of-combat utility that most other classes have.

edited 18th Jul '13 7:18:27 PM by kegisak

Well I'm more of a Yu-Gi-Oh! dude, and i'm starting to get interested in the Enterplay MLP cards as well, thought there doesn't seem to be a game associated with the latter (They feel more like ponyfied baseball cards IMO)

edited 18th Jul '13 7:18:31 PM by MorningStar1337

Well if you head over to the Giant In The Playground forums, the people with lots of experience will quickly tell you how things actually are.

Anyway, 27 attacks in Pathinfinder sounds like it probably relies on dubious interpertations of the rules. You can do that with pretty much anything. I remember one thread that claimed to be able to get 3 million attacks per round. But the thing is that stuff like that are theoretical exercises that have no effect on how the game is actually played. The Tier system on the other hand represents a real and fundamental flaw in game balance that will ruin the game if you're not careful.

Yeah I saw some of those at Walmart tonight, was checking them out to see what they're actually about. They're just collectibles.

The thing about an rpg though is that if you have a good GM, it shouldn't matter if you have a sub-optimal build. The game is about fun, not efficiency. Unfortunately a lot of D&D players don't seem to agree.

edited 18th Jul '13 7:21:09 PM by Bluespade

Evening everypony. What's going on?

Unfortunately, monks have little in combat utility either. That's what makes them so notoriously awful.

The thing is that the Tier System was actually started as a guide to help D Ms with this. 3.5, and to a slightly lesser extent, P Athfinder, have massive imbalances built in, and you have to be aware of them so you can work around it and ensure people have a good time. Lots of games have been ruined by a party where one person plays a Sorceror and another person plays a Fighter. It doesn't even take malice, you can ruin the game on accident just by using your normal spells once you get sufficinetly high level.

@Orion: we're wondering how well the show would translate into a Collectible Card Game.

hey, you could be one of the cards! though, i wonder which name they'd use for you...