Good night everypony I hope everyone had fun :D

Iam heading to bed too see ya tommorow

Goodnight Fallen Legend.

lol rp

edited 3rd Apr '12 10:45:46 PM by nomuru2d

Remember who? :P

edited 3rd Apr '12 10:45:55 PM by deathpigeon

Oh God. I just had to share this before going to bed. It's awful: [1]

Is it bad that my first thought was "Ah, cute?"

Chill out Nomuru, everyone knows who you are. The reason it seems like people forget you is because you usually just post about how no one remembers you.

Anyway, Perpetual Lurker:

So it seems like first level characters won't have enough points to buy even a single skill? This looks like it is going to be a very low powered game. Which seems weird to me, because, sugar land tendencies aside, I always thought the characters in MLP were pretty high powered.

Each level increases by 3 so it'll go like this:

• Level 2: 6 points.
• Level 3: 9 points
• Level 3: 12 points
• Level 4: 15 points.

So if you purchase one skill each level after the first, you'll have 2 points left over, giving you enough to buy another skill every other level. Meaning some levels will be a lot more of a bonus than others, which is kind of odd.

edited 3rd Apr '12 10:49:20 PM by Bluespade

Is RD supposed to be dead? That picture reminds me a lot of the Applebloom ashes thing.

Ils, you a terrible, wonderful person for posting that picture.

Now I'm off to bed too. I look forward to the nightmares.

@Perpetual Lurker: Okay, the Cutie Mark section changes everything about the skills, so I'll have to do some math again to determine if it seems well balanced or not, so you can ignore that wall of text up there for now.

True dat, we might want to increase the base stat profile for the ponies so that dumping is less on an issue.

Goodnight CDRW.

Nightmares? Remember, you didn't actually shoot your father.

Eeyup. It's by the same person who did the awful Applebloom and Applejack thing. I will never go to Deviant art before going to bed ever again.

Good night >_>

Will read over rulesheet in the morning, for now, goodnight.

Perpetual Lurker: Actually, I can't really give an opinion on the Skills/Cutie Mark issue until we know how skills actually work. Are they bought in Ranks, or are they a one time thing?

We need information about skills period.

Yeah, things need work, it's just a first draft, after all. Anything involving numbers is liable to be a balance issue, so those will need the most tweaking over time. Starting Attributes could definitely go up, though. How much would you recommend?

As far as skills go, some will have "ranks" insofar as skills can have other skills as prerequisites, meaning that, for example, Advanced Flight requires Basic Flight, and Professional Flight requires Advanced Flight, etc. They're really no different than Feats in D&D in that respect. The main difference is that ones that your character's talent is focused on are easier/more efficient to obtain.

If anyone wants to start creating/designing skills, go ahead. We're going to need a lot of them.

edited 3rd Apr '12 11:10:50 PM by PerpetualLurker

I'm going to go to bed. Bye everyone.

It really depends on how much characters would gain when the level up, and how often leveling will be occurring. But in general, I would increase the Attribute Starting cap to at least 22 (+6), maybe 26 (+8) and increasing the Attribute points to at 65-70.

Leveling/experience is always a rather weird thing for me. If we go with a normal EXP system, it would be best if points were handed out at the GM's discretion instead of set values for certain accomplishments, IMO. I'm almost inclined to go with a simpler, merit based leveling system. If a character or group accomplishes something that the GM deems significant (or enough smaller tasks), they are awarded a level. No points to keep track of means less metagaming and less bookkeeping, but it allows for much more bias on the GM's part.

I haven't played D&D recently enough to remember how exactly the attribute gains worked there. One point per level seems simple enough, but there's probably some math that gives a better way to do it. It seems to me that if you were to raise the starting cap that high, you might as well not have a cap at all, though. No one in their right mind is going to start with anything higher than 20 in a single stat, and if they do, they're crippling themselves elsewhere.

Anyway, I need to get to bed. See you guys tomorrow.

edited 3rd Apr '12 11:32:11 PM by PerpetualLurker

Your leveling ideas sound good to me. Doing a whole lot of experience points bookkeeping is boring and tedious.

Also, I agree, I don't really think an attribute cap is necessary at all, I only gave a suggestion because you seemed to want one.

Good night.

edited 3rd Apr '12 11:33:19 PM by Bluespade

Greetings, fellow tropers. I am Star Swirl the Hundred and Forty Seventh. I heard that I could communictae with fascinating creatures called "humans" using this "internet".

Unfortunately, it took me a long time to get it to work. Technology isn't easy to work with.

In D&D (3.5, anyway), you get 1 point to add to any one of your attributes at every level divisible by 4. That is, levels 4, 8, 12, 16, and 20. (And if you go into level 20+ epic campaigns, at 24, 28, 32, etc.)

Going to go read the rules document now, before I toss in my opinion. Assuming I have anything to add, anyway.

Hello miss Star Swirl. Where's your beard?

@Kyler: One thing I never understood is why so many systems insist on the 10=average, 2 attributes=+1 bonus thing. Its really awkward and unwieldy.

For my system, I went with all Attributes starting at 0, which is Average. Then you go up from there, at a 1/1 ratio. So having 1 of an Attribute gives you a +1 bonus, having 6 of an attribute gives you a +6 bonus, and so on. Couldn't be simpler.

As far as skills go, my iea of a list:

• Racial Flight (Advanced)
  • Aerobatics
  • Vertical takeoff
  • Improved Dive
    • Sonic Rainboom (Master Feat)

• Unicorn Magic (advanced)
  • Improved Focus
  • Extended Enchantments
  • Improved Power (aka Empowered Magic)

Well, it's a start at least.

Yeah I'm calling it quits too.