The Brony story is no different than trying to play a casual Star Wars game, and an obsessive SW fan keeps getting upset that you used the wrong planet or made a Jedi out of character. The OP is right that it's the same as someone who's already memorized Forgotten Realms lore, and won't let you deviate. And most Bronies wouldn't care, and just appreciate the effort, even for a joke. Every fandom has its obsessive members.

@almevo

7 ай бұрын

i mean depends , for example as i SW fan if you game takes place in Nar Shadaa but you use it as is Naboo i am going to be somath piss of cos i was expecting Nar Shadaa (Las Vegas but x 1000 and with a looooot of crime) not Naboo, as for the Jedi part wellll i would be ok with that, but with locations....yeah

@SpaceDudeCosmo

4 ай бұрын

They obsess over it differently The obsessive bronies make pornography and ejaculate in jars. The star war fans on the other hand, even the most obsessed fan just nerds over the lore and stay on Reddit for most of the day.

@SinnerChrono

3 ай бұрын

Except for the part of being into a childs anthropomorphic pony show is cringe.

"having fun" as a DM is not killing your party, it's telling a good story and seeing your players enjoying the campaign and liking your NPCs.

@AuntLoopy123

Жыл бұрын

Yep. If that guy has so much fun killing the PCs, perhaps OP, as the new DM, should have a "dream sequence," where he repeatedly "kills" that one player's characters. Including making NEW characters (taking a pause at the table, while he creates a new one), and then picking up where they left off, hand-waving in the new character, just like that dwarven mage on Viva La Dirt League, with his oodles of identical brothers. Kill him, over and over, and point and laugh EVERY TIME and say how much FUN it is to kill the PCs. But... ONLY his. Make it plain you are gunning ONLY for him. At the end of the session, say, "You wake up from the dream, wondering what that was all about, and nervous about the day ahead. Take disadvantage on your attack rolls all day." Then, end the session, and see if he 'forgets" about his disadvantage in the next session. If he complains to you, just tell him, "Well, just like you, I wanted to have some fun by destroying my players' hard work in creating good characters, to which they are attached. It's totally fair, right? Besides, what have YOU got to complain about? YOURS was just a dream." "But, you gave me disadvantage on all attack rolls for the whole next day!" "Yes, I did. And maybe that means you'll die again. But that's FUN, right?!" If he argues anymore, say, "You know, I COULD make that permanent. After all, YOU SAID that the DM has FUN by killing off the PCs. YOU said that, and I'm just following YOUR lead." "But, you targeted me. Just me! You didn't even attack any of the other PCs!" "True. But then again, THEY never ganked a combat encounter specifically to kill us all, did they?" Eventually, you can let it go, if he apologizes. If he doesn't, just agree, with the group, that he will NEVER DM for you again. He's still OK as a PLAYER, right?

@GlitchedRed

Жыл бұрын

Different styles for different groups, I'd say. The live hard, die harder GM v Party playstyle is very much a valid way of playing that's older than DnD itself. If the group's dynamic is "Curse of Strahd but deadlierer and rocks fall", that's their fun. If their dynamic is "Avalon: The Legend Lives, but five dudes crowded around a table", I question their sanity as I'm drowning in all their lore, but that's their fun.

Story 1 I think if OP sat and discussed that this was not going to be a canon MLP game may have helped him either calm down or decide this game might not be for him.

@inglessin

Жыл бұрын

I agree, but I doubt it may have helped as much. The impulse to correct someone over lore of a beloved franchise, is such a difficult temptation to overcome

@GarkKahn

Жыл бұрын

Yes but he needs to remember it was a JOKE game, an april fool's thing and nothing more While i can't stand people like that i could understand if it was something more serious

@inglessin

Жыл бұрын

@@GarkKahn Does the phrase "um, actually" ring any bells. While the game may be played for lighthearted and laughs, its so hard to break that habit of "um, actually"

Can totally imagine a session 0 discussing that MLP lore has to be completely accurate before starting the campaign

@oneofnone7947

Жыл бұрын

That would be interesting

@RandomTrinidadian

Жыл бұрын

As a Brony, I can confirm that is what would happen with some of the more hard core fans.

@a_random_lizard

Жыл бұрын

Brony: "noooo, there's no murder in Equesteia. The worst is turning them into statue" Everyone: bro, just shut up, hold on to your Rainbow Dash plushie and just do your roll

@Kayta-Linda

Жыл бұрын

@@a_random_lizard Lol. What, does Storm King not count now? :P He couldn’t have been more murdered. Also probably Sombra. Twice.

@jamesfullerton2681

Жыл бұрын

Yes even higher Green faster he should have just been quiet and just played along

Mr Roger the Human Necromancer, raises the dead with the intent on making people his neighbor even in death and attempts to drag the living into his community.

@Wraithspartan

Жыл бұрын

That. Sounds. Awesome!

Imma be real That Pony one-shot actually sounds like a ton of memeing fun

@nicholasfarrell5981

Жыл бұрын

I wanna know more about the Mr. Rogers one, myself.

@TigerW0lf

Жыл бұрын

The Unexpectables did one, and it was a laugh riot!

DND is a great litmus test. You learn everybody's psychosis really quickly.

I've been a DM for over 25 years, and one thing I have seen for certain-- my players over the years have fondly retold the campaign stories I ran that allowed them to earn their victory as heroes of their realm, and rarely did they speak of the campaigns that ended with the party TPK'd because I wanted it that way. And when they talk about the fondly remembered campaigns, they always point out that I was a great DM that made that campaign fun for them. That's how you really win as a DM-- when your players spread praises of you like bards. ^_^

@samhershey4644

Жыл бұрын

That being said, indeed some days the dice just don't like the players either, I don't mind a TPK as long as it is an epic one, after all not even Beowulf survived his story

im a brony but dude in the first video should've chilled out and had fun. It's just a little april fools thing lol

Okay... That PBS Dungeon to defeat Mr. Sounds interesting. By why would you want to defeat him? He just wants to be your neighbour. Something tells me that was a "Evil" Campaign. And I can confirm that Weird Al is a huge Brony, and is shipped with one of the main characters. I am a Brony too, so I know this.

@humansvd3269

Жыл бұрын

Weird Al is lucky to get an OC and get shipped with Pinkie Pie.

@RandomTrinidadian

Жыл бұрын

@@humansvd3269 I think he is the only character to steal some's Waifu and the whole fandom be Okay with it.

@humansvd3269

Жыл бұрын

@@RandomTrinidadian she was never really anyones sadly, that's why my waifu is an OC pony.

@RandomTrinidadian

Жыл бұрын

@@humansvd3269 she was in my top 3 back in my Brony hay day.

@humansvd3269

Жыл бұрын

@@RandomTrinidadian She's an earth pony, they better plots. Her sisters are hot, Marble is top waifu quality. Limestone is the girl you run away from after a drunk night of sex with her.

My curse set was one that I got for a specific character. She was a draconic sorcerer, silver, with bright emerald green eyes. Imagine my joy when I found a set that looked almost exactly like that! My first four rolls were a one that failed a saving throw that knocked me below 0 HP, a two, a two, and a one. That was a very upsetting day.

@Schweighsr

Жыл бұрын

I heard of a player (from a different group) who would "punish" his dice for rolling badly by putting them in the microwave for 30 second on high.

@LegendStormcrow

7 ай бұрын

I had a character that rolled amazing for character creation, but not a single good roll in campaign. My lowest stat was something like 13, but he nearly died the first encounter to a wild pig.

Brony rage, DM sadist and cursed dice, oh my. Quick, bring the kitties!

In one of my DnD group we have two dice jail, one self-made and one bought one. Whenever we put then in the bought one they still misbehave when we release them. If we put it in the handmade one they usually learn and on many occasions rolled a Nat 20 when freshly released from jail.

I dunno. I'm on the brony's side on this one. I'm not into to mlp but if someone is running a game about a thing that I love and is getting the lore all wrong, I'd be stressed out too. Like the dm is running a Marvel game and pulls up a screenshot of a short mutant with metal claws and spiked hair and starts using that to represent his squad of mooks that work for his big bad, the big muscular green guy in purple pants. I think I'd have a fit too.

There are very few regrets I have from my big active fandoms. Days.. Supernatural, Dr Who, heck I still consider myself a Homestuck thanks to some genuinely brilliant fan works (it's a fandom that aged like a wine....a weird faygo wine) but by Gygax do I regret my times as a Brony.. at least because of it I discovered something big about myself but dudes like that were all over the place... I used to be one. The few things I cringe over.

@CaelTheWaxAngel

Жыл бұрын

I’m still into the Supernatural fandom!

Wil Wheaton is now sending his used dice out into the world, to appear at random tables. Seriously, I thought it was a joke, until I watched him play on Critical Role, and saw. For real, that guy is CURSED. One time, the party was nervous about an upcoming fight, so they snuck him into the set, and had him touch ALL the DM's dice. They had an amazingly fun session, laughing as they passed every contested check, and said, "Nope. My AC is higher than that" for every attack. It was hilarious. Seriously, though, "Wil Wheaton gave me these dice" is a running joke in the D&D community. But, usually you KNOW, and roll them, anyway. The mystery dice are mysterious.

The MLP one is one I can understand the problem player on. When I know the lore, it's painful to hear someone get it wrong, particularly major canon stuff rather than just some commonly accepted fanon or something. As I've gotten older, I have gotten better about not letting my lore...um...lore lawyering? get in the way of a good time, though I would double check with the DM in this situation if the errors are mistakes on his part or clues for the mystery, because the sheriff being in the wrong kingdom could be a clue that something's not right. On the flip side of this, this is also why I'm reluctant to use other's characters for anything because I'm terrified of getting the character wrong (and by extension is why I've never written fanfics, no matter how much I want to).

@Kayta-Linda

Жыл бұрын

Same! I used to roleplay as many different characters in my childhood, but as I got older I got way too terrified of being OOC that I just can’t bring myself to do it anymore. At least that’s given me a good reason to get my own army of OCs that I can write stories about, and that’s also really fun.

@GarkKahn

Жыл бұрын

Yeah but that specific game was more like a parody so none of that had to even make sense

As someone who was in the My Little Pony community from the start, it had s o m a n y collective "All my fanfics are worthless!" moments. Like at least one per season. Like when Princess Luna made her first appearance since the pilot episode. It was like a traincrash; horryfing, but you can't stop looking.

@gunmunz

Жыл бұрын

and ohhhh boy the shitshow when Twilight became a princess.

@metaridley2911

Жыл бұрын

@@gunmunz And then there was Flurry Heart's birth...

@teateline9659

11 ай бұрын

​@metaridley2911 from what i remember, it wasn't just the fact she was born an alicorn but everyone hated the entire character of flurryheart. Mostly due to how she didn't earn her blessing and is like the jackjack of the mlp universe extremely overpowered and can do anything fairly easily

@schwarzerritter5724

11 ай бұрын

@@teateline9659 I thought it was because Flurryheart looked so different from other babies.

@teateline9659

11 ай бұрын

@@schwarzerritter5724 from what I remember the only other babies shown was the apple babies and the only difference was the dot eyes

"A 6 month old with large vol-" Nope! First time I've ever skipped a segment, but I skipped right to Doge's thoughts.

Last story: I'm just imaging the rogue standing there, jaw dropping as they drop the pumpkin as the watch the new guy decimate the BBEG in one hit.

Story 1: Bro, chill. it's April fools. Story 2: Wow. DM license revoked. Story 3: Dm vs player mentality. DM license revoked. Story 4: Yeah. Keep them in dice jail but break the glass in case of a bad player shows up. Story 5: OK! Call the FBI or something! Contact discord and shut it down! Hello shadow voids and Alice. Story 6: WTH party! Thank you DM for being decent. Story 7: DM license revoked. Story 8: Some communication was missing OP. Story 9: Newbie luck.

We had a GM bring a boss monster way above our level except there was a very good reason, we had received multiple prior warnings, an yet the party stood their ground. I might elaborate on this one day.

2:46 as someone who was (and I guess you could say still is) a big fan of G4. I could say that the lore of the show was surprisingly dense in some regards. But the guy really did get way too bent out of shape with the way things were going in the one shot. I can say with absolute certainty that there was plenty of fan work that took characters into whole sorts of different directions, so wouldn’t never been out of place. And in regards to his bull crap of there should be no murder. The fandom is chock-full of grim dark stories. All you have to do is mention “cupcakes“ and “rainbow factory“ (a big warning for anybody who wants to look them up, they are Grimm dark Gore stories.) and that’s just the tip of a very dark aspect of fan work (and that’s not even mentioning Fallout Equestria)

Dm: "Guns are illegal in this alternate America" Me: "They are MOBSTERS why would they care whats legal?"

For the 1st story i would told him "bro just chill we're having a joke game here, none of this have to be accurate, hell none of this crap has to be even serious"

Imho you can talk about stuff around sexuality with teens, BUT it has to be either some professional setting (like one on one therapy) or in ttrpgs' case some sort of serious rp moment where you keep the raunchy stuff out and discuss (in-character) deep topics such as the Fighter's forced exile backstory over simply being gay, and them getting better thanks to the party accepting them for who they are. Of course this assumes everyone is fine with it ooc. And it's better to foreshadow that "real talk time" in session 0.

That glory story made me really happy while the rest of the stories did not. On my first Crit as a Paladin, I did 96 points of damage and it felt really cool!

The NPC in story 2 makes me think of that episode of Scrubs where Dr. Cox's BFF & BIL (same person) kept interacting with him and only him, in a subtle enough way that it stayed a surprised to learn that he had died in the middle of the episode. Would have been such a cool concept.

Communication doesn't fix everything, and in the case of the dm boyfriend and player girlfriend acting out their tabletop voyeur, that one didn't need a a discussion cause they knew what they were doing.

I have a similar story to the glory story. Keep in mind that this is a Dragonlance campaign, if you don’t know Dragonlance, Laura, that’s fine. We are roughly level five, I am in Eldridge night, dictation will butchered this part. I’m basically a fighters bastardized version of a paladin. I have balanced my spells and Kendra up so that I have an equal number of utility and damage dealing. Essentially barbecued a black dragon with fire bolt, thank you surprise at 20. It was very surprising because I didn’t think it would work.

After reading some comments let me say this If we're forced to take something from april fools seriously then we should outright get rid of that holiday, i don't know, let's turn it into new year again or something

@gunmunz

Жыл бұрын

Yes turn it into new years again just until we're out of the 2020's

No cursed dice, but after pissing off a gold dragon during a one-shot, I rolled 5 1s and a 2, starting with the final death save for the unlucky character, and continuing with the ensuing battle with dome goblins that ambushed my new character outside the dragon's cave. I changed dice half way through, so I can only assume that I pissed off more than just a gold dragon that day.

I don't have a cursed guy but I do have a d20 that has a wonderful sense of humor. I call it the dark Star. If I roll critical failures on two separate checks with my sorcerer attempting to use persuasion. Then I get mad and say he's back flips out the door and I rolled a natural 20

I had once a similar story that today's Glory Story haha I DMed a Oneshot for two new players and a veteran one, with the sole purpose of introducing the new ones to DnD. Now, one of them was doing pretty well by herself, but the other one rolled nat 1s whenever something of her was needed. And, even with that... She rolled one nat 20 at the end of the campaign and blow the final shot on the BBEG on her own while the rest of the party were out of spell slots and almost dying (it was a 'only magic users' campaign with a wizard, a sorcerer and a cleric). Truly, the arc of her mostly useless character becoming our one and only hero was legendary! 😂

The No Guns game: Kinda feels like a big misunderstanding where the GM expected the rest of the gangsters to conceal weapons instead of wearing them openly, and thought the MC wanted to carry it openly.

Can't I have one MLP Game without a dead body for once?!

@etcetera1995

Жыл бұрын

MLP is an innocent, light-hearted show meant for young children with themes of friendship, healthy communication and cooperation. Of COURSE adult TTRPG players are gonna make a 'murder' mystery out of it as a goof lol

@teateline9659

11 ай бұрын

​@@etcetera1995from what I remember it does actually have a few canonically dead characters. Aj's parents for example

@Cyon1691

Ай бұрын

Right?? Not gonna lie, that game sounds like it would have been a blast to play​@@etcetera1995

Here's the thing: Even though I've never seen an episode of My Little Pony in my life, I can sympathize somewhat with the desire to obsessively correct the lore of The Thing You Like™️, but you should know when to stop. Don't disrupt a game because you want everybody to know the true backstory of X character, especially when it's just a one-off april fools game made by a non-fan anyway.

@Edanite

Жыл бұрын

The golden rule I follow is to think of DnD in a fandoms world as a glorified fanfic. Fanfics can get crazy and rarely stick to the lore.

Technically speaking, I'm a semi-brony (love the show, don't get the overhype) and I kinda love almost all the TTRPGs that were derived from it (Ponyfinder for Pathfinder, Roan and a few more - ironically, the only one I dislike is the OFFICIAL one from Hasbro; seriously, they ditched combat altogether because it wouldn't be "kiddie friendly". Let's be honest, most kids I know are borderline murderhobos-in-training) but going bananas over something not being canon, well, baffles me. So what if in my game Ponka Po isn't a sweet tooth like in the show? So what if Fluttershy is pen pal with TF2's Heavy? So what if Equestria is actually in a small valley in the United States (that would make it an equine Xanth, by the way)? It doesn't matter, as long as everyone has fun.

@marcusreading3783

Жыл бұрын

Wait, they wanted to make it kid friendly? ...um, ignoring the fact that that makes zero sense since kids love that fantasy violence, doesnt MLP include such lovely topics as war, cults, genocide adn the like?

@alarkhar

Жыл бұрын

@@marcusreading3783 Don't ask me, ask Hasbro.

On the glory story. My friend did very much the same thing. Rolled a crit on divine smite against a shadow demon and one-shot it. We were cheering.

Heh, cursed dice. Yeah I have some awesome looking metal ones that never rolled good for me, so I tried to sell them off to one of my DnD buddies but no one would take them. After that the dice rolled great for me as if the threat of being rehomed caused them to step up and try to prove they were worth keeping.

The one about the Paladin killing the villain. This is the same mentality of "If I kill my enemy, I become no better than they are." Rubbish. Good doesn't mean not killing, and it doesn't mean always showing mercy, it means adhering to a code of morality. Example: Optimus Prime. "We will kill them all."

The DM from the horror story with the Roaring 20s campaign made a historically baseless ruling. Firearm laws were very permissive during the 20s and it wasn’t until the dreaded National Firearms Act of ‘34 that owning machine guns was a legal thing to purchase. The concealed carry restrictions weren’t enforced all that well, and very few cities had strict laws compared to today. This is almost like running a TTRPG based on the Vietnam War but having a rule against the players having guns, air strikes, and artillery. It’s senseless and an oxymoron. Edit: when the DM said that his campaign took place in an alternate version of the US, I was kinda reminded of the videos on how The Third Reich could actually win WW2. Like those videos, the setting of the campaign had little to no historical basis whatsoever.

As a fan of mlp gen 4 that PC would need a good friendship lesson and if thar fails a few smacks across the head

Screenshot the convos on that shitty server and CALL THE POLICE! Distribution of CP is absolutely a punishable offense!

i have a set of green, glow-in-the-dark dice, that are... not cursed per se, as i consistently roll really high on them. however, in the system me and the people i play with (we do litrpg with the occasional dicerolls thrown in for flavor, where the higher roll wins, and without any stat modifiers for any of our characters), a high roll means the character the roll was for succeeds in what they were planning to do. this means that for my character, whose plans are actually damaging to both her and most people around her, rolling high is actually "worse", since it means she is constantly doing things that are not good for her personal growth as a character. thankfully, we all (me especially) enjoy the drama she keeps causing with the power of nat20s that lead her down the path of misery without her even realizing it!

Getting banned from the server for a bit doesn't seem like a good enough punishment for the creep in Story #5. Getting a visit from the FBI and being put on a list does.

18 minutes in, I here mention of GURPS my day has instantly been made!

"you got the MLP lore wrong" Good. Probably an improvement, fruutkake.

Poor Mr Rogers. He never did anything, except be scared by the experience of a child who was a suicide bomber in black dynamite, the animated series

My curse is that if I put a hydra in a game someone will try to adopt it.

A murder prank is totally a thing Pinkie would do.

I've been fortunate enough to be in an MLP one-shot with a friendly and chill GM who didn't mind that I hadn't seen the past few seasons. He just let me know that a few spoilers that I vaguely knew about were a thing and that otherwise, it was just a low stakes story that felt like it could be a random episode of the show. The other players were a mom and her daughters, and overall, it was a lovely time. Too bad not all fans can be so accommodating for the sake of fun.

Your videos are very nice and I find your voice kinda relaxing, keep up the nice work! (also, always nice kitties :D )

I can believe in magical pastel-coloured ponies and a clone with an adult body from creation, but an America where guns are illegal is just too fantastical for my suspension of disbelief to handle.

@GarkKahn

Жыл бұрын

I can imagine one with illegal guns in a fantasy game But one without guns at all would be totally unrealistic, that's for sure lol

As a brony I can confirm that not all of us are as obsessive over correct lore. There are TONS of things fans have come up with involving canon mysteries or characters that to this day are still supported universally as official FANON lore. The problem player sounded more like the neckbeard weirdos most sensible older brony's are compared to. And that's just a castle full of red flags in itself.

I like this format of multiple shorter stories

Here's the thing about lore. Official canon lore will always be canon. But that doesn't mean lore of franchise has to be faithful in a game. Example: apparently Gorons don't like the taste of precious stones like rubies as they find the taste bitter. My source is the game BOTW. Can't really get more officially canon than that (it's npc dialogue). But that doesn't mean your Goron character cannot like the taste of said precious stones!

This video is now 9 months old. If a child was concived around the time of its upload, they've been born by now.

... wait.. so the party is mad that the lawful paladin.... for delivering a literal "blow of mercy", Ending someones pain trough a quick and merciful death is not considered lawful good?

A wraith like creature and a paladin... what was the party expecting? A wraith like creature and a paladin, of course the Paladin is going to kill it!

Brony Rage: As someone who has internalized the lore of Equestria for my own projects, Iiiiii'd probably be nitpicky about it, too. The wiki isn't a very reliable datasource; if you want the hard data, ya gotta watch the show with Hot Fuzz Rules: every little detail matters. If OP doesn't respect or care much about the lore of stuff, that's really his failing. DM Sadist: Not so much a sadist, but an adversarial/petty DM. One of those dickheads that thinks DnD is about winning, and if you're not clowning on your "opponent(s)" you're not having fun. It's a cooperative storytelling game, not Skyrim. Cursed Dice: If they appeared by facsimile from nowbere, then yes, there is something unnatural about them. Not "the imaginary red pitchfork man" unnatural - parallel timeline unnatural. And if all they do is ill, then there may be a nebative tantric charge on them that continued use is only feeding into. Submerge them in holy water under direct sunlight and leave them for a day and a day. If they're still rolling bad afterward, burn them in a deadwood fire with a bundle of sage and rosemary and ceremonially dust your hands off over the fire, symbolically washing your hands of them and breaking the connection. That'll both destroy them and unbind whatever charge was on them. Them Not You: There is no universe in which firearms would be illegal in that time period. The 2nd Amendment is a *constitutional right.* That means gun ownership is basically a human right for US citizens (citizens, I stress, not migrants), and is edified in the highest-authority document upon which the nation was founded. As such it supercedes all forms of legislation, regardless of what certain people seem to think. That DM is an idiot, a shrimp, or a traitor.

Hey, a glory story I can believe AND didn't need rule of cool!

Ayo, lets go Eternal Ring gameplay :D

When I heard they have to defeat Mr. Roger. It just reminded me of black dynamite fighting him.

@kyriss12

Жыл бұрын

Summon child soldier.

Kitty cleanser has helped again

I love the way you say Ketchup

I have a dice set I call cursed. So far I've never rolled higher than a 12, and the sheer number of ones is absurd

@easiestcc6451

3 ай бұрын

Become a divination wizard and use those 1s to your advantage

I guarntee the game to kill mister rogers only had 1 ending. TPK. Mr rogers is strong enough to defeat the terask and every single god in one round. To save against his spells, you need to roll 1 million. He beat chuck norris! I wonder who will get this refrence

Story1: I kinda get the player, because I have OCD and it would drive me nuts if someone would use the lore so willy-nilly of something I like. Imagine if that was Star Wars and a DM just used it as a joke without knowing anything about that universe. It migth feel a bit disrespectfull, especially if it wasn't stated as an April Fools-non canon campagne and is used as the base of the joke... But maybe I'm just over sensitive.

That was my reaction, too: DAYUM. @-@ Lmao, wtg, new party member, lol.

Love Fridays! For the glory!

There is "one" dice and it is unforgiving we have come to call it... The Dice of Fate... it is a D20 made of metal yes metal bronze I believe. It will saved the whole group one moment then kill half of the group the next it is a turely legendary dice we kinda stop useing it for a little bit time now. But I will never forget that dice.

They murdered Cheese Sandwich?! That's....actually fantastic. Don't judge me I have 3 daughters.

As Patton Oswalt could tell you, between IDW comics and Lauren Faust, MLP went WAY harder on lore than it had any right to, but yeah, getting that upset about an April Fools one-shot is a bit much. Maybe if it was an ongoing campaign? I dunno, I feel like if I were present the response to every complaint would be "dude, quit metagaming". Like, sure, the player may know something, but I doubt their character can justify knowing those things.

Cursed dice? I don't have cursed dice. I have cursed dice SETS. Every time I spend more than $25 on a set of dice, they perform poorly for me. Metal dice? Crap. Averaged a single 20 per three sessions (our sessions are weekly) in the year I played with them. Dispel Dice? Never rolled a 20 in the 2 months I've had them, got 3 1s in a single session. Custom metal/resin inlay dice set (Dice Envy)? Averaged an 8 on rolls. Only had a single 20 in 6 months of play. Wrymwood Prismatic Glass Set? Never rolled above an 11. My coworker even rolled and it took him 11 tries, inbetween that only two others were above 10. Acrylic dice (Chessex/Kraken Dice)? 3 20s and a single 1 in one session. I will never EVER trust any set that I paid more than $20 for.

Discord YeeeeAaaaah, this is the problem with some online groups is when they have moderators who refuse to MODERATE. Worse when there are problem people who are friends with Mods

cursed dice.... yeah the ones on Roll20. I rolled 10 nat 1 with those stupid dice on my last game

The Mafia RPG story. Player: I buy a revolver. GM: You can't buy a revolver. Its illegal to own guns. Player: Where are our characters located? GM: In the United States. Player: In that case I buy a revolver and a sawed off shotgun. GM: I SAID, that owning guns is illegal! Player: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. The United States Constitution, second amendment. GM: This is an alternate universe where owning guns is illegal in America. Player: We're playing as gangsters, are we not? GM: Yes. Player: So we're playing as criminals. GM: Yes. Player: As in people who break the law and do stuff that's illegal for a living. GM: Yes. Player: I'm buying two revolvers, a sawed off shotgun, and a Tommy gun. GM: YOU CANNOT BUY A GUN! GUNS! ARE! ILLEGAL! Player: I! AM! PLAYING! A! CRIMINAL! . . . . I! BREAK! THE! LAW! At least, that's what I would have done. Except I probably would have jumped right to "I'm a mafia hitman. I break the law for a living."

Just looked up Occams Razor. Thanks for the fact info doge.

My brain refuses to make any connection between a 6 months old toddler and its physical description in that story. Its like trying to describe the sun as a dark and cold place.

Are we sure the brony wasn't just pranking back? Feels a bit cheap to pull a first april prank and then get upset when the players clap back

Nice, shout out to GURPS

I'm a new DM and I'd *NEVER* be able to "have fun" by killing my player's characters off. Hell, there's been a few times where there's almost been a PC death or two(which funnily enough was in a fight club setup I gave them all) and so the first thing I made happen after the combat was for the NPC in the room to give the characters I'd nearly killed a healing potion each so it hopefully wouldn't happen again on accident because of how I set it up. I also had to call for a break so I could mute my mic and have my panic attack over it in private 😅 Really, though, how can anyone have fun doing that to their players? If anyone understands, please help *me* understand it.

Haha the Brony game was my game. Hello, internet.

Do I have any cursed dice? Not since *The Incident* I don't.

The real horror story was the DM didn’t have the entire lore of MLP memorized, smh

I call bull on the PBS dungeon unless Mr. Rodgers had a blood stain sweater.

@Wraithspartan

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His red cardigan is really dyed in the blood of all his victims...

Thank you kitty break

Mob So you are playing mobsters but you cannot carry guns because it is illegal? So, here's the thing about the mob, they do not care about the law. That there is a (unconstitutional) law in some places that says you cannot carry guns would do absolutely nothing to stop mobsters or any other criminal types from carrying guns. By definition criminals do not follow the law.

Dude in the first story is a major dufus. I like mlp too. But d&d isn't so much about what is lore accurate when bringing in outside sources for plots and areas like ponyville from mlp or cybertron from transformers. It,'s more about taking things in a 'what if' direction. I absolutely love the discord trilogy by Disney Fanatic. (You can find the first 2 (bride of discord and daughter of discord) on KZread, broken up in segments with voicework and artwork as well as the third one. Though the third one on KZread as well, though not done by the same people. It's more read in the style of a word reader, a monotone automaton basically. But the stories themselves are just awesome!

I would have loved to have played in that MLP game... just without the other guy who lacked imagination to fill in for any "discrepancies". Since we see various ponies in random places all the time in the show anyway. Just let it play out see where it goes. Also they clearly had Zombies in that world, which makes sense since there are also things like Hydras and Manticores and cockatrice as part of MLP's canon lore. Even Cerberus and tartarus are canon to MLP:FiM It's the perfect setting for a DnD game... if you don't mind playing as something like a pony or a griffin or something. Hasbro owns MLP, they also own Wizards of the Coast.

I have two cursed sets, one a rainbow stripe set that nearly killed one of my favorite characters and a black with red number set that never rolled above a 12 on the d20.

@easiestcc6451

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I'd say multiclass into divination wizard and exclusively use those cursed dice on your portent rolls.

Them Not You - the whole idea of Americans being strapped to the jiggly parts with a small armory is stereotyping, and (while we've had issues with gun ownership since we became a country) gun control laws were actually fairly common until one particular (in)Justice decided to pen an incredibly broad opinion against those laws in the Naughties.

Um... so gangsters obey laws?! Guns were indeed illegal at the time, but gangsters didn't give a fig about their being illegal. OP was naïve to think criminals don't break laws.

Excuse me doggo, I dont know but maybe you never play D&D 3.0 or forgot about allá paladin need to be LG, even the Evil deities, It was... Interesting to be a Paladin with a CE god XD

I never really got the whole MLP love either.

Brony story: Honestly I think everyone sucks there. Obvs, rules (fandom?) lawyer was in the wrong, games don't have to be 100% lore accurate. But also, OP states that neither they, nor any of the other players, have watched My Little Pony. So I don't totally get why they would run a game set in the universe, and using the characters, of a show they don't watch and have no interest in? And it sounds like these things were not disclosed to that player before-hand. I can imagine that if I joined a Legend of Zelda oneshot, and literally none of the other players or the Dm had ever played/watched LoZ, and they did things like have Link be secretly working with Ganon, or have a bunch of Gerudo men, etc, I'd probably be upset. I wouldn't likely stick around, like this player did, I would just leave. I'd be excited to join a game set in a world that I already have fallen in love with, just to feel frustrated and upset when the DM is completely ignorant of the lore, and changes the world so much that it literally isn't LoZ anymore. At that point, why label it LoZ at all? Like I said, I think both sides were in the wrong here. The DM should have been much clearer about what the game would be like and their lack of knowledge of MLP, and the player should have just left when they realized this wasn't the game they were wanting/expecting. ESH.

Speaking as someone who is a long term MLP fan, I find these people in the fandom to be really mega cringe. We have what is an, inclusive and creative fandom that does a lot of good in places, but, that said, there is no escaping the cringe regardless of your fandom That one shot does sound like a fun little idea though. I'd like to play something like that someday.

The last "horror story" irks me. OP is not a victim so much as they make themselves out to be. Look, TTRPGs are games, they're meant to be fun. For some people, ERP is fun, others enjoy being on the sidelines for that kind of thing. "I'm no prude" And yet, you make a post pearl clutching and then throwing a fit because the group you were in didn't read your mind. The DM should have made it clear that this kind of content was on the table for the game, but I feel like OP is more the bad guy than the DM or his GF.

Ah man, even a pony themed one shot would be so cool. Just like- consider it an au!