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Thread: [D&D 3.5 Races] My Little Pony
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Re: [D&D 3.5 Races] My Little Pony
You really should check out: http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showp...5&postcount=15 as it shows flaws in your creation that I somehow overlooked too.
And I still think it is possible to lower the races to the 8 - 12 point range on that scale especially if you use wielding penalties for the various ways they can wield stuff giving that for the typical D&D player races that the members will wield stuff using hands.
And the reason I picked winking over transportation in that comment was that unicorn ponies tend to abuse the former in the G1 series with those in each following series seem to show capability of it. While the later was more used by accident.
And please avoid race classes. That actually turns most players away from that race as they don't like the idea of being forced into a class that they otherwise would let them pick their own class choices.
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2011-02-11, 10:50 AM (ISO 8601)Titan in the Playground
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...But this isn't pathfinder? Am I missing something?
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Re: [D&D 3.5 Races] My Little Pony
I'm so interested in this thread in that I want actually playable my little pony races for D&D games.
And after thinking about it some: I don't think giving the Pegasus Ponies the ability to guaranteed their falls (different from basically floating/gliding there) to a certain maximum speed, but should instead of a greater chance of slowing their respective falls because of their wings in compared to other races.
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2011-02-13, 02:23 PM (ISO 8601)Bugbear in the Playground
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Ummm... yeah. This wasn't meant to be Pathfinder. I was going for normal 3.5.
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2011-02-13, 11:12 PM (ISO 8601)Banned
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Re: [D&D 3.5 Races] My Little Pony
I just compared how Pathfinder does races to D&D and the difference seems to be that of favouring to better fix the different systems than actual different in playable features. In fact, with the slightly higher stat allowance in that system for races, being an overpowered race in that system means definitely being overpowered in D&D.
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2011-02-13, 11:30 PM (ISO 8601)Ettin in the Playground
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The way the Unicorn Pony and Pegasus Pony are shaping up, I don't think they actually need the bonus feat, which is almost certainly a relic from being based off Strongheart Halflings more than anything else. They're horses, not halflings. Removing that from those races might help with balance.
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2011-02-13, 11:46 PM (ISO 8601)Bugbear in the Playground
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Yeah, whenever I get around to sitting down and making a new version I'm thinking that feat's going to go on them. It would help tone them down and differentiate the types by giving the Earth Ponies something the others don't get.
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2011-02-25, 06:08 PM (ISO 8601)Banned
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Re: [D&D 3.5 Races] My Little Pony
Here is how I see how the carrying/holding penalties I stated earlier in this thread should be able to be done without ruining the races you have here:
{table=header]|doesn't have a means to properly substitute hands by game specific rules without having to go into individual character/race/class rules|does have a means to properly substitute hands by game specific rules without having to go into individual character/race/class rules
Realistically would have no difficulty based on rules in effect|-0|-0
Realistically would have slight difficulty based on rules in effect|-1|-2
Realistically would have moderate difficulty based on rules in effect|-2|-4
Realistically would have high difficulty based on rules in effect|-4|-8
Realistically would be unable to do so with rules in effect|auto epic fail|auto epic fail[/table]
And hopefully, this post will allow you to post your next version without fear of double posting.
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2011-03-22, 12:13 PM (ISO 8601)Pixie in the Playground
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Can you make a pony race template for Zebra (i.e Zecora) as well?
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2011-03-23, 04:31 AM (ISO 8601)Barbarian in the Playground
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2011-05-02, 07:35 PM (ISO 8601)Banned
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I think we are going to need rules for cutie marks if we are using these 3 races.
Here are cutie mark rules that I figure would be correct:
1. Can only have as many cutie marks as your character has personalities, all of which are to be chosen by the DM(s) rather the the player(s) controlling the character(s). (Remember there is a different between bipolar or so personality and multiple personalities even if the latter also has 1 or more of the former within them.)
2. The cutie mark that is visible to see to see at any point is based on the character's personality their personality in charge.
3. If multiple personalities are in charge of the character at the same time than the cutie marks that represent each of the controlling personalities rotate in a cycle.
4. If somebody tries to get a cutie mark by forcing it than they are straight out denied the cutie mark every time they do so.
5. If the character's cutie mark is beyond recommission once your character is dead than anybody whom attempts to resurrect that character can forego trying to restore the cutie mark so they don't have to deal with the penalty of getting the mark wrong rather causing a new blank flank status expect if the resurrecter is the character being resurrected whom than must always attempt to restore the cutie mark to its previous state than.
6. Cutie marks don't carry over between reincarnations.
7. Cutie mark is determined when 1 or more facts of the character are so strongly represented by the character at a time they aren't trying to force them as such.
and 8. Cutie marks are only visible in a race form that the race's template states the race is associated with cutie marks.
With all that I think cutie marks should be a -1 cost in determining races based on the link to the Pathfinder creation race rules I linked to earlier in this thread.
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2011-05-03, 12:59 PM (ISO 8601)Orc in the Playground
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Re: [D&D 3.5 Races] My Little Pony
One possibility would be to model the cutie marks using the Dragonmark rules in Eberron. That's what some friends and I planned to do for a Ponyfinder game we were in.
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2011-05-07, 10:08 AM (ISO 8601)Pixie in the Playground
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For an upcoming Eberron campaign some folks from an IRC and I are putting together, I was originally going to roll up a Artificer....until one of my fellow players stumbled upon this thread...and I was immediately tickled by the notion of a sentient pony slaying it's way into the chronicles of legend. I just wanted to share some thoughts, and ask for some advice on playing a magic pony in D&D, but I'm afraid I'm new to this forum.
I feel like both the Wing Buffet and Shielding wing are inappropriate for the Pegasus Pony. I don't recall a time in the show where the ponies used their wings like that to protect themselves....or in a way other than hiding their face/eyes from something unpleasant. I also don't seem to recall any of them using their wings to knock anything about. I haven't seen the latest three episodes, though, so I might be mistaken. In either case, I don't think their wings are actually big enough to accomplish either ability. The ponies themselves are already small, and their wings are quite tiny in comparison to their frames....getting hit with them wouldn't be concerning for anything large than a rodent, and they couldn't possibly cover their whole bodies. I might getting a little pedantic with the size thing there....but it still just doesn't feel right to me.
With those abilities removed, and considering they don't learn flight until 5th level....I think that might be enough to eliminate the rather debilitating +1 LA? Well, debilitating for the game I've got coming up. Along an Human Ozordrin, two Warforged (Shaper and Favored Soul), a Telepath Elan, and myself as Pegasus Pony Dragonfire Adept....because a flying, firebreathing pony seemed just too delicious to pass up. Considering the company...I'm sure it won't feel out of place. Also considering that dragons are part of both the D&D and MLP canons, it seemed reasonable fitting.
I wasn't familiar with Dragonfire Adepts until now (the same helpful teammate pointed me to it as a possibility), and I've been mulling over something in relation to the Cloudwalking ability...specifically the bit that allow the character to interact with clouds as a solid. Both the Cloudbreath breath effect, and the Lingering Breath metabreath feat can be used convert breath weapons into...clouds. Now, if one were to use extremely high movement speed in combination with these, the Flyby Attack feat, and other abilities like the Clinging Breath metabreath feet that extend the duration of your breath weapons, you could fill a ridiculously large area with fiery doom. I haven't done any exact maths, but just as a ballpark simple example:
Let's assume a movement speed of just 100 ft, and applying Lingering Breath+Clinging Breath on a 30ft cone breath, say Frost Breath, you've managed to fill a 100x30x30ft area with cold damage. That's pretty awesome. Now, here's where that Cloudwalking gets fun....depending on DM and how we're interpreting it. Since you can manipulate (which I assume means I can push it, at the least), the next round you can move that cloud 100ft. So in two rounds, you've swept a 100x100x30 section of battlefield with frosty doom...
Now make that Fivefold Breath of Tiamat instead...and Maximize Breath it for good measure. Dragon Friendship is magic.
So, if I've not made some sort of error in my assessment, this class can take a mechanically mundane, but flavorful racial ability....and turn it into glorious, ponypocalyptic madness.
Have I misinterpreted something? Should the Cloudwalking ability be reworked? Removed? Maybe add movement restrictions on the cloud manipulation? Does someone else have suggestions on how else Cloudwalking could be used, or be useful? Is Derpy Hooves my intellectual superior? Should there be some sort of cloud-related prestige class? Or should this just be a DM call? Are there 'propriate pony PrCs to ponder? I was thinking of modding the Stormtalon. Equestria seems to have a military....
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2011-05-07, 10:38 AM (ISO 8601)Titan in the Playground
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Where I think your mistake lies:
What effect, if any, are you using to make the cone's creation anything other than instantaneous? I know that lingering means it sticks around, but it is still an instantaneous creation, and so your movement speed is irrelevant to its size.Last edited by DracoDei; 2011-05-07 at 10:38 AM.
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2011-05-07, 04:58 PM (ISO 8601)Dwarf in the Playground
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I agree with him that the LA could be dropped if you got rid of the Wing Buffet + Wing Shield abilities (they indeed haven't exhibited such feats in the show, as far as memory serves), so long as the free feat is also dropped. Heck, if you really wanted to make sure it was balanced, you could even remove Sturdy, with the justification that they're still flying creatures, and so not exceptionally comfortable on the ground. This isn't to say they'd take a penalty, but they might at least have no greater balance than those with two feet.
Of course, let's remember that this isn't flying right off the bat like a lot of races. Pegasus don't even get the most basic form of it (as Argh mentioned) until they reach 5 hit dice, and they don't get real flight until ten hit dice. And Cloudwalking is a really cool flavor ability, don't get me wrong, but it isn't something that tilts the LA argument one way or the other.
Concerning a cloud related Prestige Class... might indeed be rather interesting, even if DracoDei is correct that the instantaneous nature of breath effects robs them of such hax as you spoke of. Perhaps something related to weather control, or building with them for the purpose of creating mobile bases? All sorts of fun stuff.
And as far as a Stormtalon based PrC goes, if Dragonfire Adepts are common among Pegasus (makes sense that little flyers might worship the big ones), they might indeed have a class that mixes aerial maneuvering with breath effects or at least gives you spell levels, possibly called the Shadowbolts?Last edited by babus; 2011-05-07 at 05:01 PM.
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2011-05-07, 05:06 PM (ISO 8601)Pixie in the Playground
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Oh, right. I forgot to mention Strafing Breath, from DragonLance Campaign Setting, allowing the breath to cover the an area during a flyby attack. That was kinda critical to the whole thing. From the book:
Spoiler"Strafing Breath [General]
You can sustain your breath weapon on the wing, covering a larger ground area in its affect.
Prerequisites: Fly speed, breath weapon, Flyby Attack Flyby Breath
Benefit: When you use your breath weapon while flying (either with a single move, using the Flyby Attack feat, or with a double move, using the Flyby Breath feat) you can extend the area covered by your breath weapon on the ground. You can use your breath weapon over a distance up to half your fly speed if you move in a straight line along that distance. To determine the affected area, find the area your breath weapon would normally affect on the ground, then extend that area in a straight line the desired distance. Measure the extended distance from the center of the effect.
For example, an adult blue dragon has a fly speed of 150 feet, and its breath weapon is a 100-foot line of lightning. Normally, its breath weapon would cover a single 5-foot-by-5-foot circle on the ground, since a line if 5 feet wide and 5 feet high. Using Strafing Breath, it can cover an area 5 feet wide and 75 feet long (half its fly speed)
An old red dragon has a fly speed of 200 feet, and its breath weapon is a 120-foot cone. If it is flying at an altitude of 80 feet, its breath weapon affects a circle on the ground with a radius of 80 feet. Using Strafing Breath, it can cover an oblong area 80 feet wide and 180 feet long, with both ends shaped like half circles."
So make the breath weapon a cloud....and now with extended durations from the other metabreath feats....you have that column of gruesome death with which you can sweep a whole battlefield....utilizing the Cloudwalking ability of Pegasus Ponies, anyhow.Last edited by Arghaeopteryx; 2011-05-07 at 06:19 PM.
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2011-05-08, 04:26 PM (ISO 8601)Dwarf in the Playground
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That seems to fit more in the category of cool things you can do with basic abilities at high levels than gamebreaking hax, in my humble opinion. Don't forget you share this game with Wizards, and so long as your DM is aware that you're capable of doing this, it shouldn't be a problem.
Hmm... and concerning the previously mentioned PrC, perhaps you could look into a custom chain of feats before going that far? Might add some more flavor to the Pegasus.
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2011-05-08, 07:53 PM (ISO 8601)Orc in the Playground
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The race balance between 3.5 and pathfinder is very, very, different. Wealth-by-level in pathfinder is higher, the classes are stronger, and I don't think level adjustment even exists in pathfinder. Also that system you linked to is only a guide, DMs using it must reserve their judgement because some points simply aren't worth as much in the context of the race as the system would say they are. Furthermore, pathfinder rates things differently than 3.5, for example in 3.5 powerful build is a LA+1 ability hands down where as in pathfinder it isn't.
Hope that explains somewhat why they aren't using those rules mate.
I think the pegasus ponies are very borderline in their level adjustment.Goddamn it, how many versions of these ponies do you have?Maybe you should try to somehow buff the earth ponies to bring them up to a similar level?Skip that, how about making the wing shield ability a racial feat? That would bring their power down.
Could you link to the latest version in the first post? That'd be very helpful.Last edited by Mayhem; 2011-05-08 at 08:11 PM.
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Pushing the cloud seems like it would be... pushing it, no pun intended (but it is welcome since it came).
Since it requires 3 different meta-breath feats to pull off, I don't think it is likely to be hax without that... of course, as long as you push from the CENTER (requiring you to travel halfway back down parallel to the route you took the first time) and have to deal with the energy damage (including via resistance/immunity which Dragonfire Adept probably gives you), I don't know if it would be THAT bad since it takes 2 rounds.Last edited by DracoDei; 2011-05-09 at 10:50 PM.
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2011-06-29, 01:37 AM (ISO 8601)Pixie in the Playground
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Hold on. You've got all three varieties listed as Small, based on a comparison of Applejack to a dog and some cows.
Applejack is a child.
Look at the adults in the series - the tennis pony, Derpy's boss, Zecora, Big Macintosh. They should be Medium easily.
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Dude, this thread is several months old. While not quite breaking-the-rules old, this thread pretty much died.
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2011-06-29, 02:17 AM (ISO 8601)Pixie in the Playground
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...sorry. I blame Google.
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dead? in that case...
I haven't watched the show so I don't claim to be making it anymore or less accurate to what your going for, but these now seem more playable in my eyes after the small modifications and I may actually play it now sometime.
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2011-06-29, 01:13 PM (ISO 8601)Dwarf in the Playground
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Re: [D&D 3.5 Races] My Little Pony
Er...
Source: http://comments.deviantart.com/5/35510074/1770555388
Originally Posted by Lauren Faust
The Cutie Mark Crusader trio and their classmates are a better example of children.
The males actually do seem quite a bit bigger on average, though, with a few exceptions like the Queen, who is a divine superbeing, and Zecora, who is a Zebra.
Using Applejack as a reference, we don't really see that many females a full size category larger, even among the older ones.Last edited by babus; 2011-06-29 at 01:20 PM.


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