We have an introductory thing and half a dozen skills, and that's about it.

EDIT: Pagetopper.

edited 5th Apr '12 2:30:28 PM by JapaneseTeeth

So what would an EP politician need to have?

Lots of Charisma.

@ Keg: You're thinking about covering healing duty too? Cool! You can never have enough healing. Especially if the group is as large as I think it'll be.

Charisma, Wisdom, if I were to metagame, I'd give him/her a decent constitution score, but that wouldn't necessarily fit.

edited 5th Apr '12 2:31:26 PM by Drenius

@Ginger High Charisma, with good wisdom and intelligence for awareness and planning. Lots of social skills.

So, I'm guessing high STR and CON, with above-average WIS?

Also, working name "Boulder" unless I come up with something else. Maybe he was raised on a rock farm or something.

edited 5th Apr '12 2:31:44 PM by JapaneseTeeth

Would we be able to copy some of the skills wholesale from D&D?

Or are we making EVERYTHING ourselves?

metagame?

edited 5th Apr '12 2:32:26 PM by gingerninja666

Skills here don't work like skills from D&D. If anything, they function more like feats.

Actually, I think they are feats, functionally.

And intelligence as a dump stat

I think a good exercise once we have the system better laid out would be to stat out the mane cast. They cover pretty much all of the basic archetypes you would want and would make great examples.

@Kyler they are more or less feats, yeah, but I never cared for the term. It makes a lot more sense in context here for them to be called skills.

edited 5th Apr '12 2:35:22 PM by PerpetualLurker

@Ginger: Metagaming is basically exploiting player knowledge of what one can expect from the game or knows out of character to give the player's character an edge.

edited 5th Apr '12 2:34:43 PM by Drenius

Feats, that's it

Stupid. Stupid STUPID!!!

For example, if you happen to know that most first level campaigns involve acid monsters, you could create a character who had a childhood fear of acid and has been developing a natural acid resistance ever since.

@Drenius: Well, maybe. I've always kinda liked playing support, I guess as part of my own pacifism leaking through. At the same time, the other ideas are a lot of fun. Plus if I did go for the EP I'd always be stuck deciding between healing or making some dangerous potions. Just because I love characters who fight by tossing potions around. Heck, I'm actually considering getting Skyrim and modding it so I can make exploding potions to use as a weapon.

...Also the pegasus bard is a really cute idea in my head - hiding up in the clouds, shouting down encouragement. And being piss terrified when he does attack.

Oh, look, the dawn is breaking. Good morning, Equestria.

@ Kyler

You have four speed...lorry...road train...oh wait, you got a name.

Never mind.

@Ginger: In this case it's basically using knowledge that you as a player have, but your character wouldn't.

At the rate we're going, it looks like we'll only have one actual fighter.

That's me, isn't it? You guys had better have some awesome buffs going if you want me to handle all the dirty work.

edited 5th Apr '12 2:38:11 PM by JapaneseTeeth

Well, I can't do this, you're all far too smart for me to follow what's going on...

I thought that was me, actually. Unless being a meatshield doesn't count.

^ Have you played any tabletop RPG before? First times can be a doozy.

edited 5th Apr '12 2:38:19 PM by KylerThatch

@ keg

That is cute.

I guess we have 2, then. I wanted to play a unicorn fighter, just to see how it would work.

And for what it's worth, I've never actually played a tabletop RPG before. Again, all my experience comes from The Order of the Stick and Darths & Droids. I know the terminology, but that's about it.

edited 5th Apr '12 2:39:24 PM by JapaneseTeeth

@Ginger You ask a lot of important questions. We need outside perspective on things, so keep pointing things out or asking about stuff.