Pathfinder Pony! OOC and Building thread -Closed-

[The Wandering Magus]

Well peaches and cream  ! No-pony else is particularly interested in Pathfinder pony? It is a little of work at the beginning but a worthwhile experience once you get going. Just like any "video game" right? Gotta learn the rules of the game before you get particularly good at it . . 

Difference here is because the game is partially made on the spot (since your characters have a limitless ammount of options before them . . .) the game is really tailored to the individual more  . . .

No more takers huh 

PM a few ponies for interest if you must

[GalvinRoe]

I MUST  ! I thank you magus, I think I'll do just that  !

[Lusterless Nova]

But before you do that you should make a small tutorial of how it would be. Someponies might get confused if they don't know about "Pathfinder type" rp's

[GalvinRoe]

Also a good point Nova. I was planning on putting up a small "beginning" soon but I haven't even put up 1/10 of the stuff one needs for these kind of games  ! You know how it is Nova . . .

I'm also waiting for Love Notes to get on, she's also familiar with these kinds of games and has agreed to be a co-GM.

Well if it's just some of the vetrans we might be able to do something . . . All right let's form the party what is your guys preference? What classes are you itching for?

Or are we going to force poor Galvin to play by himself 

[Lusterless Nova]

Of course not.
Well i still don't know much about pathfinders but in mmorpg's i prefer mages. They can't take much damage but they know how to deal it.
Their long range is also very useful.

If i can't get all of that then i usually pick a supporter instead of a damage dealer. They are very valuable in groups.
They usually can cast buffs and healing spells to help the group or just himself.

[The Wandering Magus]

But before you do that you should make a small tutorial of how it would be. Someponies might get confused if they don't know about "Pathfinder type" rp's

he put up a tutorial/guide, but didn't link it

[GalvinRoe]

Understanding the rules: http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=2918.0

not even scratching the surface of the rules but there you are

[The Wandering Magus]

Understanding the rules: http://forum.legendsofequestria.com/index.php?topic=2918.0

not even scratching the surface of the rules but there you are

aye, thar the "summary" be

[GalvinRoe]

Of course not.
Well i still don't know much about pathfinders but in mmorpg's i prefer mages. They can't take much damage but they know how to deal it.
Their long range is also very useful.

If i can't get all of that then i usually pick a supporter instead of a damage dealer. They are very valuable in groups.
They usually can cast buffs and healing spells to help the group or just himself.

Mage, daring!

Well there are two main spell-caster clases in Pathfinder, then there are two divine-casters who use their gods power.

Main difference between the two? Spell-casters can't heal but get some delicious damage. However they cannot wear armor

Divine-casters can heal and CAN wear armor but their spell lists aren't as diverse and "powerful" as spell-casters.

[The Wandering Magus]

Of course not.
Well i still don't know much about pathfinders but in mmorpg's i prefer mages. They can't take much damage but they know how to deal it.
Their long range is also very useful.

If i can't get all of that then i usually pick a supporter instead of a damage dealer. They are very valuable in groups.
They usually can cast buffs and healing spells to help the group or just himself.

Mage, daring!

Well there are two main spell-caster clases in Pathfinder, then there are two divine-casters who use their gods power.

Main difference between the two? Spell-casters can't heal but get some delicious damage. However they cannot wear armor

Divine-casters can heal and CAN wear armor but their spell lists aren't as diverse and "powerful" as spell-casters.

I can't figure out which classes Feather, Juniper, Bloodblade, Fancy and Wanderer fit in.  Actually, scratch Wanderer

[Lusterless Nova]

I guess my Lusterless Nova would be a spell-caster.
I just flew over the rules. May i be honest? I think it won't work. I still like the idea but i can't imagine it to work in a forum. How are they usually played?

[GalvinRoe]

Well I can certainly help there  ! Thing is there is multiclassing and prestige-classing too when you get into it but since we are starting off I'm saying just choose ONE class and stick to it, otherwise it will get WAY too confusing for most ponies.

I CAN give you a better summary of the classes then I can of the whole game, so here we are:

[Fighting Classes in order of most martial to most magical]

Fighter: Generic fighting class, gets excellent in a few weapons and deals heavy physical damage, able to wear any kind of armor

Barbarian: Heavy fighting class, gets rage feats to temporarily empower self, has most health of all the classes (or at least highest possiblity for life) deals most physical damage but cannot wear heavy armor.

Rogue: Good at sneaking and using skills, not a strong figher and prefers to stay in the background. Gets bonus to damage if sneaking up on opponents. Gets a CRAP TON of skills and are good at identifying traps and the like.

Monk: Specialty fighter, gets Ki skills and other "slightly" magical abilities, has low health (for a fighter) but deals damage fast and deals alot! Good at dodging and cannot wear ANY armor but gets special feats to increase armor

Ranger: Fighting class with minimal spell list. Get an animal companion (creature that follows you around) can be good with bows or good at "dual-wielding" weapons. Gets abilities to track and bonuses to fights when in a certain terrain or against a certain creature.

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[Spell Casters]

Sorcerer: Spell-caster who uses latent magical abilities through her/his bloodline to cast spells. Doesn't get as many spells but can cast the spells he/she knows more times then a wizard. Gets other bonuses depending on "how" he/she got the ability to cast spells.  Can't wear any armor

Wizard: Spell-caster who learned how to cast spells through difficult study. Has a HUGE spell-list and can learn spells from books and other Wizards. Gets a few minor bonuses to their ability to cast spells and gets a familiar or a bonded magical item. Can't wear any armor

(There are also bards but . . . we'll leave them out of the first campaign)

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[Divine Casters]

Cleric: A hearald of a deity or ideal who gains power from this purpose. Clerics have excellent healing magic and have decent buffs. They can still deal damage (just not as well as mages) and can wear medium armor at the beginning and can work up to wearing full heavy armor.

Druid's: Casters who worship Nature. Get weather spells and some other helpful spells along with some random abilities. They can change shape into animals and elementals, this ability gets better as they level.

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Game is usually played with a group of people but quite a few people play the game on forums, I've just never tried it before  ! I know it's alot of rules but the thing is it really is mostly common sense when you start going with it.

[The Wandering Magus]

it's generally a tabletop game, with d-20 (20 sided dice).  played with figures on maps, character sheets, pencils, pizza on the side, etc etc

[Lusterless Nova]

I like the part with the pizza. Anyway. I'll make a new OC soon and i'll join with her.
If it starts please send me a message.

[The Wandering Magus]

I like the part with the pizza. Anyway. I'll make a new OC soon and i'll join with her.
If it starts please send me a message.

I'll try letting you know if Galvin forgets

[GalvinRoe]

*sigh!* all right here is what I'ma gonna do. Because you'll see once we start this game the only part that will be frustrating is the time between responses.

I'm not going to be constantly bring up things like: OH yeah and whats your stats after . . .bladdidy da!

The stats are really just to show your characters abilities and personality. You have this much charisma because you have a strong will and can be forceful with your thoughts. But you have low intellegence so your thoughts aren't very sophisticated. Plus you have low wisdom so you don't really know whats going on in the world.

Strength is high so your strong, can lift alot of stuff and your nimble (Highly dexterous) but your sickly (low constitution).

These things affect you in game. So your dexterous and able to bend through a spot where the other ponies can't get through without taking thorns to the coat. But you were pricked by a thorn and OH-NO your not the best at fighting off infections and the like so your allergic to the plant. .  .

The stat system just makes it fair so not every ponies a gorgeous god.

(Is true I'ma forgetful on some things *shrugs*, I think I'll remember this though  !)

[The Wandering Magus]

*sigh!* all right here is what I'ma gonna do. Because you'll see once we start this game the only part that will be frustrating is the time between responses.

I'm not going to be constantly bring up things like: OH yeah and whats your stats after . . .bladdidy da!

The stats are really just to show your characters abilities and personality. You have this much charisma because you have a strong will and can be forceful with your thoughts. But you have low intellegence so your thoughts aren't very sophisticated. Plus you have low wisdom so you don't really know whats going on in the world.

Strength is high so your strong, can lift alot of stuff and your nimble (Highly dexterous) but your sickly (low constitution).

These things affect you in game. So your dexterous and able to bend through a spot where the other ponies can't get through without taking thorns to the coat. But you were pricked by a thorn and OH-NO your not the best at fighting off infections and the like so your allergic to the plant. .  .

The stat system just makes it fair so not every ponies a gorgeous god.

(Is true I'ma forgetful on some things *shrugs*, I think I'll remember this though  !)

I prefer not to use the charisma/diplomacy stat, since it lets ponies do really horrible things for no reason other than because they're "persuasive".  If they genuinely can't convince the NPC to do something, tough.

[GalvinRoe]

Haha, my friend would agree with you on the diplomacy point magus  ! Did that little summary of classes help in the slighest? We might all need to make new OCs for this . . . I think I will . . .

[The Wandering Magus]

Haha, my friend would agree with you on the diplomacy point magus  ! Did that little summary of classes help in the slighest? We might all need to make new OCs for this . . . I think I will . . .

Problem is that if the normal everyday NPC is lvl 5-10, then lvl1 means infant foal unless you want to play ALL the way from foalhood!

[GalvinRoe]

Well that's not quite how it works in the Pathfinder system  ! Regular NPCs (villagers, who have never fought before get commoner or such levels and they are hardly more then level 3)

Guards are at most level 5, royal guards are Level 7 MAX thats the captains and all that, unless the princesses took adventures on and I ASSUME she has, so I'm saying we've got a couple 15's in there at least. And of course we've got Shinning Armor in there he's like an epic level caster  ! Something like 24 or something  ! Princesses are Gods so we won't even bother categorizing them!

Classes are something a pony has trained at a GREAT deal more then other ponies. We'll start at level 3 because we are going to be adventurers.