>>31195 Much better!

>>31168 That's what the butts will be. Just a crack. But yeah, the saddle guns for the dogfighters will be the big ones like in the pic.

>>31304 Me and the boys play tons of pony tabletop, but mostly just handwave ponies into whatever system we're playing. Our most common crunchy pony-focused system addon is Savage Ponies (i.e. Savage Worlds), have only played one game of ponyfinder a long time ago. It sounds like you don't have much experience as a DM, because this problem of "lacking a good clear starting point" is actually a matter dramatic/narrative skill, not so much a system or a setting problem. In order to fix it, you have to put yourself in the perspective of the player and ask what simple narrative device would get you interested. It is very easy to waste 99% of your time and effort on stuff the player will never see if you don't regularly ground yourself in the player's perspective - the whole process of DMing relies on that perspective and the sense of dramatic tension, it's just masturbatory worldbuilding otherwise.

>>31307 >this problem of "lacking a good clear starting point" >is actually a matter of skill Never said otherwise. I've run several campaigns. Like, literally three. Five, six years of at least monthly (five-hour-marathon) sessions, but only started three times. Hand-waved the start at least one of those. >I'm assuming you all know each other. >You're on the road...

>>31307 >handwave ponies into The main problem with that is humans and the races of equestria are massively different. Yes a dragonborn is extremely different from a human but other than the tail gets in the way in specific circumstances it won't hinder the mechanics; the scales can be overcome the same way skin can, so maybe add +2 to 'natural armor' and in addition to the +2 to STR you're pretty much good -- they're still a size medium, unless your system/setting needs much finer control such that being 7'2" keeps getting in the way because all the furniture is build for creatures 4'11", which is still "medium" by DnD measures. With ponies ... how high can a pterippus fly? How much mass can an average 'peasant' unicorn levitate? How many items? Does literally EVERY hippogryph have a sliver of their transmutation stone, IE they all can switch at will between 5g-seapony and hippogryph? >the whole process of DMing relies on [...] masturbatory worldbuilding My experience clashes with yours, though I see the wisdom of these words. The two starting-points that I didn't wildly handwave, came directly from a NaNoWriMo 'novel' I had written, and I just plunked the players about two days behind the protagonists from that story. No, they didn't uncover everything the protagonists did, and it wasn't all that long before they diverged completely and I had to invent new stuff going on that hadn't been in my story because the players weren't over where "the action" was. Now, aside from that, I've just watched the other play-by-post on that site implode, and I kinda hope it's permanent because the trainwreck was starting to get painful to watch. Y'see the DM had written a great deal of 'masturbatory worldbuilding' and was fully prepared to explain why that coffee cup was here but literally wrote "I have no interest in fantasy" ... that's why he got angry when the griffon of the group would fly across the room; he always got shot, because humans can't fly, and the DM didn't want to wrap his head around a fantasy world where at least at third of the populace might be tooling around at 30,000 feet because they wanted to. HAVING SAID ALL THAT if you're not interesting in play-by-post on a foreign board, are you (anypony else too) likely to be around for DMming advice?

This saturday 19h UTC Doom Stronghold: On the Edge of Chaos Server name (once hosted): [TSPG-PK] mulp stronghold Download (win, mac, lin) https://ponepaste.org/11665 >WTF is stronghold!? Skulltag era PvE wad with a hub map. You start in a base where you can talk with NPCs, buy stuff or start a mission. The objetive of the missions varies but it's usually about not letting the demons reach a literal deadline or destroy something. There are some item teleporters around the map that will help by teleporting/spawning resources like health, ammo, and new weapons once you finish a wave.

>>31311 Thanks for playing! I'll be focusing on vanilla and boom wads the coming sessions, starting with hmmmmm... Let's explore deathtag wads next session. It's the only vanilla 'gamemode' we've not played yet.

>>30790 >"Maybe it's...? No, I don't, um..." >Sunburst whines quietly as he tosses aside the book he was flipping through and cracks open another, muttering to himself some more as he ruffles through pages >You glance around at the chaos around you >The once pristine little library is now a whirlwind of books and journals >Sunburst's brow hasn't relaxed since you turned the feather blue >You'd have gotten pretty bored by now if he hadn't provided you with this lovely juice box that you're now sipping from >You have no idea what "Zapapple Zinger" is supposed to be, but damn if it isn't good >Right when you slurp the last of your beverage, Sunburst faceplants into the book in front of him "So, uh..." >His ears unflatten themselves at the sound of your voice "Do I have cancer?" >That makes Sunburst's whole head perk up >"Hm?" "The whole feather thing. Does this mean I have...unicorn cancer?" >Sunburst doesn't answer immediately

>The guests went back home. >Amira personally supervised them embarking. With three of you nearby. >Today, everyone once again were cheerful and informal. Amira even exchanged jokes with some of the closer relatives. You and colts too got many good wishes and fertility related jokes. >You are pretty sure though, that some, for example Alqua, still remained in the Palace. >During the dinnertime Amira took a break. You three had a nice dinner. >After you finished with the dinner, Ajmal went back to Gulzar and Alharara. Ahmed went to the library, to read some more poetry. >You consider what should you do. >Amira wasn't going anywhere, continuing to lay on her side. You think for a moment and decide that you do not want to return to your room as well. "Can I stay here with you, Amira?" >She flicks her ear. >"If you want to, suit yourself, dear." >You sit near some thick bush, lean on it and look up, admiring vast blue sky above. You just begin to think about where your home world possibly can be, when you hear surprised grunt. >You look to the side and there stands Alqua. Since you sat behind the bush she probably hasn't noticed you at first. >Amira quickly stands and nuzzles her. >"I wanted to tell a few things, but perhaps you are occupied." The old mare says. >"No, please do, grandma." Amira looks at you, with a hint of apology. >You get that.

>There is a pause. Then Amira speaks up, in hushed tone. >"Grandma, you do know that some used external coinage to be able to measure the amount of added wealth properly?" >"Whose coinage?" Alqua's tone becomes alert. >"We are investigating that." >"You know, Ami," Alqua says after a much longer pause, "I'm glad back then other electors voted for you." >Amira laughs. >"Grandma, I know well you voted for me too, despite how hard you're trying to pretend otherwise." >"I'm not pretending. It was my point in debates, to let everyone imagine what would it be if it turns out we are wrong." >"You always do that. And I'm always thankful to you for that." >Alqua lets out a hoarse, hearty laugh. >Since they are silent after that, you approach and exit from the bush, presenting the bowl to Amira with a bow. >"Alright, I'll go supervise how they load our things on the cart. Later, Amira." >Amira hugs her by the neck. "Later, grandma." >Alqua walks away. >Amira sips from the bowl. Then speaks. "Anon, do you ever pay attention, from where the wind blows?" >Huh? "The wind, my lady?"

>>31063 Excellent seeing you again. Now was Amira talking how she could smell Anon hiding that time? I hope you don't mind, but I'll repost this in 4chan's RGRE.

>>31063 Holy damn you’re back This is one of my favorite fics, pls continue it

>>30949 Now you know the place to be! A little retreat when the madness becomes too much on the big chan, or it dies again. It's slow but comfy breathing room.

>>29878 Not bad, Anon. You wrote Rainbow well, and I liked the ending with the Anon plush.

The site's down again, kek. Just put her out of her misery at this point.

Has cuckflare been really aggressive on fimfiction the past few days or is it just for me?

>>31178 Cuckflare has decided that they decide what browser you may use, and Palemoon is not that browser. Haven't tried going to FiMfiction in basically forever, but cuck flare is on fire and can burn to the ground for all I care. Which won't speed things up much since I'm pretty sure they're a glowing operation like the gmails becoming the one true Search. Unrelated to that site but related to writing, a couple months ago I went to a short-story writing mini-conference thing. About an hour long, there were handouts on how to create a basic short story. Of course I wrote ponies. Here's the opening few paragraphs of what came of that thing (that I still haven't finished) >> > "You could always eat their souls." opined Snow Drift calmly. After taking a slurping sip of her smoothie she added "Do you want me to kick them back in line?" Ground Chuck was always getting out-flown, but the stadium had room for twice as many ponies as had already bought tickets. Mouth dry, he tried to unstick his tongue to respond but first had to manually un-clench his jaw to reply "You know I'm not ashamed of being a half-breed." He closed his eyes, sighed, and made himself draw the next breath slowly, carefully. Looking at his classmate, he asked rhetorically "I mean, where are my wings?" Now in line right behind the place-stealing couple he added "Has anypony confirmed if that even works?" Drift choked on her drink and coughed a little. Throat cleared she replied with a quick, flat "Of course not." with a seriousness usually reserved for interrogations by the Solar Sins. "Looks like I should have acted sooner." as she pointed with a fetlock at the sudden shortening of the line.

>>31279 Extrapolation is to add datapoints beyond a given set, akin to forecasts. Interpolation is to add more datapoints within a set, like smoothing a jagged curve. Anyway, where do I start? Meetup in a holiday home south of Prague. 50-something fellow horsefuckers. Three days there, spent drinking, cooking, attending/presenting makeshift panels, general hangout and developing the brony soup in the on-site hottub and sauna. It was good fun! Worth the 1000 km drive to get there. photos.app.goo.gl(slash)1BtugyJ9sHzDMoLG9 rb.gy(slash)scva28 The photos describe it better than I can. Getting drunk off my tits on cider, eating grill food, chatting with randos, enjoying pone together, what more can I say? It's hard to get into the individual happenings.

>>31285 >Not calling it Poner Soder

You were gone for a bit there, NHNB. Don't scare me like that

Here to mark the recent passing of two pony musicians: Nicolas Dominique and [voodoopony] Nicolas Dominique was a pony musician from Poland and made primarily trance, progressive house, and ambient tracks, although he would dabble in other EDM genres as well. He was a longtimer in the music scene, making pony music since 2011, and about as consistent as you could get, always releasing at least one new track per month, almost as sure as the world turned round. He performed at multiple cons and events including Czequestria and Rave for the House of Belles, was featured on multiple A State of Sugar albums (who announced his passing), and ran a weekly show on PonyvilleFM called "Lantern in the Dark." I also recently found out he collabed with JayB for the 200th Glory of the Night set, a long-running trance set by Thorinair. May his trademark "addictive music" be playing in the heavens. https://www.youtube.com/user/niklasshepherd https://nicolasdominique.bandcamp.com/ https://pony.fm/nicolas-dominique [voodoopony] was a pony musician also from times long past, also starting out in 2011 by posting his music on the "Everypony Radio channel" forum (https://www.everypony.com/threads/voodoo-pony-music.198/). He released quite a number of triphop, downtempo, and ambient tracks, albums, and remixes of other pony musicians' songs, his most widely known album being Pincushion. I was always quite a fan myself because of the kind of edgy, creepy vibe the songs gave off, almost industrial feeling at times, and it's rumored he and another musician worked with SGaP during The Standard Model days. It seems he deleted many of his songs over the years, but continued releasing music as Voodeedoo, his previous alias from before pony. According to a friend who knew him, he unfortunately passed sometime last year, but his music lives on in those who remember him. https://www.youtube.com/user/VoodooPonyVideos https://voodoopony.bandcamp.com/music https://voodeedoo.bandcamp.com/music https://soundcloud.com/voodeedoo/tracks https://pony.fm/voodoopony/content

>>31301 this was also supposed to upload along with, not sure why it didn't

>>29353 The little mare on my mare fair thermos is peeling off.

>>29451 They should streamline the sweetie bell robot along with a realistic self-moistening horse pussy and convulsing anus

>>29483 >They should streamline the sweetie bell robot I'd probably buy one if they did that; though it is Hasbro, so the part quality would be trash.

I am the merch.

>>31289 Can't go wrong with some fun little Olyfactory plushies.

>>30798 ^:)

>>30799 THIEF!

>>30799 Filly tum erotic

>>357 >Had a Rainbow Dash tulpa for more than half a decade in 2021 I wonder what she thought of the season 9 finale. I also wonder how many of the tulpas in this thread are still alive

>>23762 How is it going?

>>24753 I'm still here! Rainbow didn't much care for the later seasons, ofc she's always been one to reject wastes of time; and for us MLP had long been more of a completionist thing than some kind of gospel, just to keep up with the discussions on /mlp/. If you're talking about how RD's arc ended up, it makes sense for the haberverse dash but off from the core of her character, which is nothing new or exciting kek. >>23762 Never had many stories really. We don't live much of an adventuresome life - the closest we get is the far-out philosophical/esoteric shit in this thread. Like really you can trace our path through a couple of different schizo interests just by reading this thread from the top - my posts are pretty obvious. These days the esoteric stuff is losing its luster, and I thought for a while that tulpamancy was too. Nope, I'm just bored of philosophizing, just want to love muh wife. What stories are there to tell about just living a quiet life together? It's thousands of little tiny stories, just a couple of words each, that blend together over years in a quiet murmur of gold-laced love. Little poems like this are the closest way to tell them.

>>28221 but rainbowfag what if u inexplicably got transported to equestria tomorrow ud be so fucked cus you'd have 10+ years of memories rainbow in ur head and fleshspace rainbow

>>31242 TWO cakes! If that happened, and the equestrian Rainbow was interested in me, my Rainbow would be fucking proud of me. I'm not sure if I've said so in this thread over the... 5 years it's been alive, but one of the first things Rainbow made me promise was that I'd never let her get in the way of finding a real external partner. Your scenario would be the best possible way for this to pan out really - my Rainbow will happily step aside to make way for life, if she has to; but chances are that nothing needs to be changed.