I've been thinking of running an MLP tabletop RPG. Any suggestions for fun systems? I'm sick to death of 3.x, including Pathfinder, and I'm looking for something that's compatible with the feel of the show. So, some magic, nothing grimdark, nothing excessively crunchy.
Any ideas since I don't want to get GR15b& on /tg?
>>25791868
You could spend some time adjust Burning Wheel, though the system is quite a bit different than any d20 game. There is a simplified version call Mouse Guard that I personally love, but it has no magic. It wouldn't be overheard to mod it for ponies, though.
>>25791868
Why not just run freeform rp? Gauge the likelihood of success of every action a character wants in percent then roll it on D100 or D20. Steal stats from your favourite system to guage strength dex, charisma ect if you want, but there is literally no point in buying and learning a new ruleset if your just going to cut it up to make it mlp comparable.
>>25791884
Burning Wheel sounds simple and speedy-playing. Do I have that right? I'm a player in a 3.5 campaign that's slow as molasses right now because the DM can't into combat without needing twelve boring-ass charts for every roll.
Some time ago a bunch of friends of mine had a savage worlds mlp game. I was busy most of the time so couldn't go, but it seemed to fit their needs.
>>25791868
I didn't even knew there are other systems besides Pathfinder. I can only wish you good luck on your quest and post ponies having P&P fun.
That said, there is some rare FEMTO:RPG threads sometimes, I don't now much about it though besides that it's a thing...I think.
>>25791920
would also be happy to play in/help run/DM this if its online, have 6 years D&D experience and have played and DM'd many other systems, but D&D is my main as its generic and i can pick and choose rules that work as i am an obsessive rules chopper and streamliner so we can focus on characters not mechanics
>>25791945
Never actually fucked with FEMTO RPG. That's like a super-simple system designed for being used in any setting, right?
>>25791920
This isn't a bad idea, but I suspect many players like the idea of halfway standardized power and difficulty. I'm more of a Story First kinda GM myself, so a lightweight system would be better for me than no system at all.
>>25791980
Mechanics are only good if they make the story and characters more fun, so I like your style.
>>25792036
>so I like your style.
Thanks, a lot of people seem to agree, i run an RP night at my University, it was an elected position about who would take over from the last person as the person who organized it so must work for some folks haha
>>25791920
>>25791980
same poster btw, one was from tablet (was having a shit) so forgot trip
>>25791930
WHFRP is a d100 based system that's pretty fun, though it might not be your thing if you really hate charts (you'd have to homebrew the critical hit charts so that instead of the ponies losing limbs or exploding upon death, something cute happens instead). You'd also have to homebrew pony profiles for each pony race, and maybe change the names of some of the classes and magic. I always liked the magic channeling system in WHFRP
>>25792068
>RP night at my University
Good man, it's important work to keep those little communities together. I might hit you up later, I'm pretty serious about trying to get this game off the ground.
>>25792081
How well does it handle non-combat? Left up to players to RP or does it have a lot of rules for it?
>>25791868
I know you said that you're sick of Pathfinder. But you can always use Ponyfinder and just adapt it a bit, it provides a lot of pony stuff and you don't necessary need to go death and destruction.
>>25792223
>off by one
But this.
>>25792193
It's pretty loose as far as I know, mostly up to the players. They can roll stuff like Bluff and Fellowship to sway NPCs, but as the DM you can assign difficulty ratings based on how well the players RP (so like a +40% bonus if they give a really convincing speech or something, or you can just forgo the roll entirely if it's plausible)
>>25792223
>>25792243
I already picked up Ponyfinder, actually. I realized pretty quickly that a lot of the content was designed to integrate pony races into a pre-existing fantasy world, and in a world where everyone is already a pony (i.e. Equestria) they stop being relevant. I thought all the dieties and NPCs were pretty underwhelming (why use expy Celestia and Luna when you can have the real thing).
I could just go Pathfinder, but I don't like having to either deal with the massive amount of power bloat that the universe of supplements give or arbitrarily restricting the expansions people use.
>>25792281
Grabbing that and Mouse Guard from /tg/ archives, thanks m80s.
>>25791868
Champions.
No, seriously.
https://ruscumag.wordpress.com/2015/04/03/champions-meets-my-little-pony-prince-blueblood-and-the-cartoon-powers-package/
Have more ponies playing D&D.
Cutie marks in Ponyfinder are overpowered.
>>25792810
>Prince Blueblood
>Disadvantages
>15: Mystically linked to Armageddon (Frequently, Greatly)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toon_%28role-playing_game%29
This might work, depending on what you are going for.
>>25791868
>Not dark
>just like the show
pic related, its the rpg you need
I'm actually starting to lean toward Ironclaw, which is normally a >furry system set in Renaissance Europe, but allows flexible, intuitive character customization (career system rather than class), has an interesting mechanic for dice (skills add dice to a pool), and deals very well with a non-combat heavy game.
>>25793085
>being a memester
I actually love CoC, especially the non-d20 version, but I want to run a pony game that's only slightly darker than the show.
>>25793085
CoC has a great system for universalization. Just pick your skills and roll d100 for everything.
Honestly though, I find that the best system is to go as rules light as possible. Rules slow down the game. Let me describe what I consider to be the best RPG system:
1) When a player describes what they want to do, roll a die, ignore the result, and do whatever is best for the plot.
2) If you want to create dramatic tension, tell a player to roll a die and then ignore whatever number they got. If you don't care what happens, you could even tell them what to roll against beforehand.
3) If players want a more standard system, have them list some advantages and flaws on a sheet of paper.
>>25793129
>like CoC but don't want dark
Use BRP. It's the generic form of the percentile system used by CoC and pretty much every other Chaosium product. All you need to do to make BRP a pony game is change what skills are available.
>>25793261
Oh shit man that sounds perfect. Have a best horse.
Now I just have to tweak the setting and spin all these story seeds into actual campaign hooks.And find some fucking players
>>25793299
>have a best horse
>doesn't post horse
Here she is
>>25793299
>>25793308
Thanks for the best horse. Have fun with BRP. I've used it for everything from high fantasy to cyberpunk and it runs beautifully.
It's the best sixteen page long RPG you'll ever play. Completely generic, has all the functionality you need, and isn't all up its own ass with rules.
>>25793159
I like the Role for Shoes system because of this.
Its so rule light that when the story gets going we some times forget to make roles or use experience points.
It becomes more of 'Whats going to happen next' than 'What do i have to role'.
>>25793728
>I had asked the players if they were doing anything to prepare for the dungeon before leaving town. One of them said he's checking to see if "he has his heirloom shield" with him. He rolls and botches, and so I say: "Your father is a shoemaker. You are not sure why you ever thought you had anything even remotely close to a shield."
This system sounds incredibly entertaining. This seems like a good way to run quick RPGs in threads.
>>25793771
Did you let him embark on a quest to get heirloom boots of kicking?
So...
Anyone having good or bad Pony RPG experiences?
>>25791868
>I've been thinking of running an MLP tabletop RPG
http://www.roleplayingismagic.com/
You dumb nigger.
>>25791868
I've run pony RPGs using storytelling (Mage: the Ascension, played with adults) and fate (The Dresden Files, played with mixed company). Both can be pretty loose, and as long as everybody's on the same page it doesn't have to get too dark.
>>25793159
You just described freeform RP. Freeform RP is for kids and ERP.
I've been tossing around an idea for a game ran in the shadowrun system. Savage world's is a cool plug in system, same with fate. Ponyfinder isn't to bad once you get rid of the whole pre-built setting. I've been running a Roll20 game with some anons from here, we've put close to 120 hours and it's a blast
>>25795405
nope
>>25796427
Did you just throw a recruitment thread out to find players, or did you pick people up from a quest thread or similar? I'm probably going to use roll20 myself, my friends in RL who like pony don't enjoy tabletop RPGs and my RPG friends don't care about pony.
>>25795583
Just remember, fate core a shit. You want fate accelerated or one of the published games based off it (like dresden).
>>25798313
What kind of player would the mane6 be /mlp/?
Twilight looks so happy being a rule lawyer. I wonder if RD's grin is because of murderhobo shenanigans, since Flutters and AJ are scared shitless.
>>25798547
RD is happy that Twilight just verified that her bullshit spiked chain fighter's ability to kill thirty changelings in one round is supported by the rules.
>>25797536
I threw out a recruitment thread, had lot of interest but I had to cap the amount of players. We are down to four pcs plus me as Gm, but our time is fun. I used to update on here but got lazy and stuff came up, I should really get back to it and green text what has happened
>>25798803
yes you should
>>25798803
Sup, Chief.
>>25797153
Had anyone ever actually tried playing Poor Unfortunate Foals?
>>25791868
Go to tg friend, if you catch them in a good mood they might help
>>25791868
>Equestria Divided
>>25791868
D&D 5e is a good system. Much quicker combat/character creation/everything than 3.x.
Also /tg/ tends be chill about GR15, as long as you're polite.
>>25803548
I dunno about that.
You might be able to squeeze it into another thread, but a pone OP image is gonna raise an immense amount of rectal trauma.
>>25803575
Trick is to not reveal your power level until a few posts in. Start by explaining what you want, and then after you get a couple replies, say, "oh, and I'm running a game for my pony-loving friends, and we want it to be set in Equestria."
If Fallout: Equestria is your thing, here ya go.
If you want badass spells, go for this one: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_nrgdTME3IPaDAtaFBQaVVfZTg/edit?pli=1
Want something a little more simple? https://docs.google.com/document/d/1fsNLwKTWEt0pawFWLRzBtEPfvDQGitGPh8NN3Zk0xo4/edit Hope it helps, OP
>>25791868
High Magic, Low Tech GURPS setting maybe?
It'd take some sorting out to do at the start but probably be easier in the long run.
>>25791868
Heroes Unlimited, published by Palladium Books would make a pretty good starting point. It contains rules specifically for intelligent animal characters, and contains a fairly comprehensive magic section.
>>25796427
>shadowrun
So basically, Shadowrun where everyone is an Aspected Magician, Adept, Magician and Mystic Adept?
>>25803647
I'm gonna give BRP with some skill adaptations and maybe magic tweaks a try. I think the "generic system stuck in Equestria" route is the best way to go, and I've played BRP-based games before but not FATE or GURPS.
>>25803575I post in /4ccg/ too much to have any faith that anywhere else on this website will be chill about GR15. Not like I'd run in there with a big fucking pony OP, at any rate.
Bump for the bump God.
Dice for the dice throne.
>>25805528
[1d20]
Rolling
>>25806792
15 isn't that bad bruh
>>25798004
Right? We play with people's kids though, so the rules are more like "rules".
>>25807214
We all know FATE is just "do your best to bullshit your DM into going along with your stupid ideas because it totally lines up with your aspects".
Also, fudge dice.
>>25791868
5e is pretty fast playing. I'm running a slightly modified version with some friends, and I don't have any complaints
>>25791868
>>25792898
seriously?
>>25804221
Last I heard /tg/ was about the best board on the site in terms of not losing their shit at the first sight of a pony.
>>25807773
There are a few vocal few. At least there was during the /tg/-/mlp/ homemade mlp horror game.
>>25791868
There's a playset for Fiasco. You browse /mlp/ so you being an asshole is a given, this is perfect.
>>25791868
Iron Kingdoms is breddy gud. Can come across as trying to be edgy but it's really not.
>>25809063
Come on, we all know natural 20s on a skill check mean nothing. And I doubt anon has some obscenely enchanted magical ring to up his check for such a thing.
>>25809063
I think my sides are currently in high orbit, and still climbing...
>>25810348
You haven't tried many systems, have you?
>>25809063
Shouldn't this be a Stealth check?
>>25811504
The joke is about a DC80 escape artist check that would let you crawl up someone else's (the same size as you, even) asshole. Yes, I am familiar with many systems, and that is specifically a 3.5 joke.
>>25807773
/tg/ so based
>>25807773
prob because /mlp/ has pony threads that are basicaly only here because of the global no pony rule keeping them off /tg/
>>25791868
There's a Savage Worlds conversion somewhere out there, but I haven't played it, so I don't know if its any good.
Have any of you ever inserted your magical realm into your horse roleplaying Games?
>>25811533
There's some version of D&D in which passing a DC 80 Escape Artist check allows your character to crawl inside another creature's asshole
>>25814081
but do you have to roll to get out?and what if he critfails?
>>25814098It doesn't end well for the person who was entered.
>>25814402
can we get greentext of what happens?
>>25813955
One of the sessions I was in involved two ponies grappling eachothernon-sexually. Other than that I got nothing.
>>25814444
Nice quads, hope you get equally nice green for that.
>>25814701
>goo pony grappling
unf
>>25814738
But I never said anything about...nevermind.
I also recalled that one of the party members found a little box that can eat anything, even corpses. and if I'm not mistaken has used it as such fashion in one ocassion. that might qualify as vore or necro-vore maybe?
I'm really grasping as straws here but I just don't want this thread to die ;_;
>>25814444
We'll see. In the morning.
>>25814998
/mlptg/ appears to be liv and well. A good sign for when I actually have a campaign ready for players.
Anyone have any more good ponies playing tabletop art?
>>25813955
>have any of you ever inserted your magical realm into your horse roleplaying games?
No, but I have inserted my horse realm into my magical roleplaying games. If done with enough subtlety, nobody's the wiser.
>>25815106
My current character in the 3.5 campaign I'm playing in is an unabashed Twilight Sparkle expy. It's a blast to roleplay 'socially incompetent, unable to deal with other people' S1E1 Twilight.
>>25815137
It's even more fun as DM.
I ruled that unicorns feed on magic, so places and people that experience a lot of magic tend to attract unicorns. Ever morning the party's wizard wakes up with a unicorn chewing on his hair, and he has to chase it away with a stick.
Eventually it started offering to throw him a party if he would stop chasing it away.
They've all been in there at least once.
>>25807773
I wish they'd tone down on R15
Guess what, faggots. /tg/n, in his based glory, will be coming back with moar /p4g/ goodness. I will also have a storytime for you, working on the write up now
>>25814998
The cursed demon box was in my campaign. The druid has been whispering to it, promising to feed it. Our last session he whispered
>"just hold up, a little longer.... I'll feed you something living..."
alright, after work today, if anons are interested, I'll start green texting the camp again, alot has happened
>>25817683
Atleast start to green text it again, I do have a family deal later today. Again, only if yall are interested
>>25817697
Doitfaggot.jpeg
>>25791868
I've got your back.
>>25818088
>explicit content
How explicit I wonder? Interspecies/Paranormal intercourse or just plain nudity?
>>25818097
Both AND a dash of ol' ultraviolence.
>>25818107
That's some eyepopping official (?)website they have too.
>>25818097
It can be pretty brutal, level one spell let's you summon a being, fuck it up and you might summon a thing that possess everyone in the area except for one, the possessed then try to gang rape and mutilate the one non possessed. I'm using a few books from the series in my current Roll20 game, changing a few things to be less rapey, but keeping some if not most of the brutality ~
>>25818111
Also, I don't think I could mention LotFP without posting this.
>>25818126
>>25818088
How do you guys play anyway? You have a group you meet every other occasion or just straight up /tg/?
>>25818137
I got nothing to do with FriendCelestia, but yes the usual setup is you meet up irl or over the net for a game. I personally run a Trail of Cthulhu game which is run with irl buddies, but we do it over IRC, since one of the lads lives hours away.
>>25818133
Damn, son. That's prettyneat.I suppose the Flame Princess cannot die seeing as how the game's named after her?
>>25818137
Like this anon said >>25818144
I've got a irl group and the ponyfinder Roll20 group. The pony group, we schedule about twice a month sometimes 3 and we all hop online at the agreed time and date. My irl one, I'm running them through a rogue trader campaign, we meet every sunday
>>25818165
Maybe not death, but she does get fucked up, her leg gets eaten off by a slime
>>25818088
Looking at google, I'm finding the artworks very intriguing.
>>25818192
>>25818165
Well, if Quests are your cup of tea I'm planning on running one in a few hours, done in the style of LotFP, AD&D, and that sort of retro-clone manner. Hell, the opening is done exactly like the dungeon image I posted earlier.
>>25818360
alas, holiday duties are upon me for the weekends.
Good luck on it though.
http://www.roleplayingismagic.com/
Have fun
>>25817683
>"just hold up, a little longer.... I'll feed you something living..."
We are totally the good guys.
>>25819227
That's there mantra after doing anything
>"we are totally the good guys.... right?"
The druid is slowly being driven insane by the box and he's rping it well
I guess /mlp/ doesn't support PDFs. That's a shame, I was going to dump a few. The names will have to do. I haven't really read them so I can't swear to quality.
The Savage World of My Little Pony (Savage Worlds supplement. Get the 3rd edition if you want it a little more complete. Maybe he updated the rules with the 4th but he also took out a lot of the rules in order to comply with their licensing agreement.It's all in the core book though).
Pony Tales
My Little Pony RPG
The Magical Land
Mutants and Masterminds wouldn't really need anything but a cosmetic reskin to work very well
GURPS
>>25814444
>You are Chodenibbler McGee, master gnomish Anal Spelunker.
>Today, you are going to demonstrate on this unsuspecting orc standing before you the effects of the DC 80 Escape Artist check.
>Magical vestiments that assist in boosting your Escape Artist skill sky high: check.
>Numerous sharp pointy objects: check.
>Ring of spell storing with enlarge person stored in it: check.
>Time for fun.
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>You speedily run out from the small boulder you are hiding behind, and proceed to sucessfully crawl into the orc's anal cavity.
>Because you are just that good.
>You can hear the orc's heartrate rapidly increase, along with panicked screams of pain and supprise.
>Sure, you could leave without permanently harming this fellow...
>But what's the fun in that?
>You unleash the spell stored within your ring, growing to the size of a human, and begin slashing about with your various pointy objects.
>The screaming of the orc peaks as something the size of a baby suddenly becomes the size of a full grown man in his colon.
>In a bloody burst that surprises a few other orcs that were sitting nearby, you pop out of the bloody remains of the first orc.
>In glorious victory, you once again let out your mighty battle cry.
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
>The other orcs run away, hands over their assholes.
>For they know what stands in their midst.
https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Arseplomancer
There ya go. Green because quads.
>>25791868
bump
How do I add pone to Taxes without letting the Auditor know?
>>25818133
GG Robert.
>>25823204
If my knowledge of the arts of taxing doesn't fail me, you gotta elude taxes rather than evade them.
Once you get the auditor arguing about technisisms and how buying 10 and 11 packages of product rather than 21 to avoid paying taxes in over 20 units is completely legit, you have succeded and he won't notice nor care about the cute little pony drawn under the T account.
This is a third-world country tactics though, don't know if they would work in 'Murika or if they even have the difference between elusion and evasion.
>>25791868FATAL
>>25824252
Roll for anal circumference.
>>25791868
probably that one japanese one thats based around youkai helping people.
