Well it's not really news anymore, but I just came across a brony reference in Another Gaming Comic.

A Legend of Zelda RP would be pretty cool, actually.

I guess you'd pick Four Swords or something so that you can have a whole party of P Cs. Noone wants to be the nameless toadstool guys

In some games you can actually play as them.

Yes, I know. In fact I was thinking of the new mario games when I wrote that. From what I've seen, there are four main characters: Mario, Mario's more interseting brother, and two toadstool guys that noone cares about. I mean why not add Peach and Bowser as P Cs if they're that desperate to round out the cast?

Or better yet, come up with some actual interesting character development and fresh material for a series that's been stagnant longer than I've been alive.

edited 23rd Aug '13 12:23:43 PM by storyyeller

People claim Sonic went through a Dorkage for a few games, but Nintendo has been cranking out sub par Mario games for a while. There's over 360 games in the series and I can name maybe 8 good ones.

From what I've seen Paper Mario TYD is pretty good. But then again, it's just parodying the main games. I think the problem is that Mario has fallen into Mickey Mouse syndome. As a mascot, they can't do anything interseting with him and just keep shoveling out the same game with better graphics.

Nope, but let me paint you a picture.

It was an original setting, and the plot of the campaign was essentially that we needed to gather the eight MacGuffins. We had already gathered six of them when the GM essentially told us where to find the last two.

We did as he said, and were transported through time and space (somehow. I wasn't paying much attention to the plot) and ended up in a hallway facing two guys. It was an encounter suitable for a party about 3 or 4 levels higher than us, and it left us all pretty drained.

We enter the door at the end of the hall, and we're in a giant room with one of the MacGuffins on a pedestal in the center. We move towards it, and suddenly a Bone Ooze drops from the ceiling. Here I'd like to note that that thing's an encounter suitable for guys level 21 (which is epic level) while we averaged about level 15.

Soon, the ooze starts gobbling us up, and with my party dying left and right, I look the thing up in the book and throw a spell at it that ends up transporting it to an alternate dimension.

Then a hostile phoenix appears, which is three levels tougher than the ooze. Since it's listed as a good-aligned creature, I attempt to reason with it. For my trouble, I get burninated.

The last two guys left alive try to run to the MacGuffin before the phoenix kills them. One of them doesn't make it, and the second manages to grab it. Then our DM says to him "Roll Fortitude".

We later found out just what number he had to get, and it was impossible for any of us to make without a natural 20. And that's the story of how that campaign ended.

I want a game where you can play as Zelda. A good game, not that CD-i stuff.

Of course, the game would have to be named The Legend of Link.

edited 23rd Aug '13 12:31:51 PM by MetaFour

@Dark: I wouldn't say it's that bad. A lot of the platformers might not be amazing, but for the most part they're very solid. There's nothing particularly spectacular, but I wouldn't say any of them are really below-average either. And yeah, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door is really good; really, all the Paper Mario series are a lot of fun. The main series platformers are pretty good, too. Super Mario 64, Super Mario Sunshine (I know it's hardly classic, but I honestly enjoyed it a lot), the Super Mario Galaxy games, etc. The only games that really feel like rehashes are the New Super Mario Bros. series, and even those good, just not particularly notable. They've never had something that was as much of a mess as Shadow the Hedgehog or Sonic the Hedgehog (2006).

@Irish: Someone needs to work on their D Ming skills.

edited 23rd Aug '13 12:37:41 PM by JapaneseTeeth

@Irish: Wow, that sounds retarded. Was this a custom built thing, or was your GM sticking to the letter of a pre-made campaign?

It was a custom thing. I'm pretty sure our DM just wanted the campaign to end by that point, but there are much better ways to accomplish that.

Yeah, if you're going to kill everyone, make it more epic. Like have an Eldritch Abomination eat everyone or something.

My last campaign ended with a near total party kill. It was a Star Wars campaign, and I was playing as The Mole for our big bad(I was a droid, and my boss was a bounty hunter. The Big Bad paid better, so I was following programming). IT came out that he Big Bad was a scientist we had been helping out, so the party tried to kill her, so I fried our Jedi(with great pleasure). Our pilot and doctor had snuck off during the fight, and had apparently figured out the prison we were in was a still-operable spaceship, and so took us into the air. What followed was a zero-G fight between me and the diplomat(Who had taken dodge specifically because everyone kept hitting him)... before the pilot smashed us into the ground, killing me, the diplomat and the big bad instantly. The doctor and pilot survived because of seatbelts.

Which was a pretty damn satisfying way to end the campaign, for everyone but the Jedi who spent the rest of the night pissy I killed him.

The 64 titles are fun, but the graphics even at the time hit the Uncanny Valley for me.

These just scream Twilight.

so, if the Mane 6 were to play a Tabletop RPG (i already know there's a fic for this idea), which player types would they fall into?

Twilight is a Munchkin, no question. RD would max out her character's combat stats. Rarity and Fluttershy would be into the actual roleplaying aspects of it, and Pinkie would be a Bard, because Pinkie. Not sure what AJ would do.

Twi: wizard

AJ: barbarian

Fluttershy: druid

Pinkie: bard

Not sure for Dash and Rarity.

Dash might be like a ninja of some sort. Maybe a rogue or thief or other speed-based character.

You know what I haven't seen? Twilight gets addicted to tabletop RP Gs and starts trying to apply the principals she learns to her real life battles. She spouts gamer aphorisms. Everypony is annoyed. Even Luna, who, in an ironic twist, scorns tabletop RP Gs because they're too retro.

The first time I tried to play the Star Wars tabletop RPG was hilariously awful. I was a former dark Jedi trying to get back on the light side, and the others in my party were Han Solo-esque morally ambiguous types. The GM started us off in Cloud City, at the same time the craziness from the end of Empire Strikes Back was going down. Stormtroopers everywhere. Unfortunately, the GM thought stormtrooper marksmanship was in effect, and it wasn't. (He actually apologized at the next session for not realizing at the time that stormtroopers were intended for higher-level players.)

Anyway, when we fought our first bunch of stormtroopers, we set up an ambush and got some lucky rolls, so we got a very misleading first impression of how easy they were to beat. With our second bunch of stormtroopers, our ambush failed, and we took quite a few hits before taking them down. Another group of stormtroopers attacked us before we could recover. I reminded everyone that I was carrying thermal detonators, so we could use them if all else failed. And pretty soon all else did fail. One by one our party was incapacitated by this third group. The last member standing, at the urging of everyone else in the group, yanked a thermal detonator off my unconscious body and threw it.

The GM made him roll for the throw. He got a Critical Fail. We all laughed at that, then the GM made him roll to determine the direction of the blast. He got every direction.

There were no survivors.

Technically, Super Smash Bros does. Soul Calibre might work too but I'm not familiar with it.

I think Dash is a bit too straight forward to go for a Rogue. I'd think she'd be more up for a Berserker, Barbarian, or high-Dex dual wield/2-hander Fighter.

I don't think she'd be a bard necessarily. But she would be The Loon. I think most likely, she'd try to do what she thinks is serious roleplaying only to end up with a completely wacky character that constantly derails the story.