Hey everyone. I wanted to hear what everyone's current thoughts and feelings about the current state of the Pony Tales system, so this is the thread to say anything you want to about it. I'll be ...
https://ponytales.forumotion.com/t1015-let-s-chat-about-the-pt-system
Just an idea I was messing around with a couple of people. This is the end result and I wanted to see what the mods thought. Virtue Honor- At character creation, the player discusses with the Gm ...
THE REVISED LEVEL UP TABLE There's been various discussions about leveling and progression in this system. This third party supplement aims to offer another option for leveling that should ...
https://ponytales.forumotion.com/t890-revised-level-up-table
Assists, in the current system, seem to be a bit lacking, both in non-rigid application and inspiration/motivation. To quote from another thread: Stuff about assists: Zarhon wrote:ZamuelNow wrote...
https://ponytales.forumotion.com/t864-alternate-assist-mechanics-suggestions
They're pants if you're short, and shorts if you're tall... Sorry. Anyways, may I present... One Size Fits All: Modern One Size Fits All: Legacy This is very rough draft. It'll need some work. Lo...
Wild Worlds - A DM resources supplement LINK TO DOCUMENT This is something I've decided to cook up. Basically, it's something like a DM scrapbook, full of DM-centric stuff meant to facilitate wor...
https://ponytales.forumotion.com/t822-wild-worlds-a-dm-resources-supplement-updated-20-02
I wanted to play a pixie so I put together a group of skills that made sense based on the D&D 4th Edition Pixie, they run a tad bit over the standard 8 points for a Race but that just takes away ...
Code Blue: A Medical Manual for Medical Mares Medicine has taken great leaps forwards since the dark days of the paleopony era, but even in this modern day and age there are still dozens of injur...
https://ponytales.forumotion.com/t687-code-blue-a-heal-expansion-skills-expansion
So, having looked more closely at certain utility talents, I notice that many of them specify things like "medium-sized creatures" or "large-sized" or "your size becomes small". Now, I can unders...
https://ponytales.forumotion.com/t815-question-regarding-sizes
The Goal Make a character that can deal more damage to a single creature over the course of a 5 round combat than any other character in the game. The Purpose Challenge your optimization skills, ...
https://ponytales.forumotion.com/t670-build-challenge-dpr-kings
The Talent Specialization System Hello everyone, and welcome to the thread for the Talent Specialization System, the supplement that lets you customize your utility talents. What is this, exactly...
There's a fair bit of revamping going on so perhaps it would be good to take a step back and look at some of the more big picture items that are missing or need updates. This is a loose list fr...
https://ponytales.forumotion.com/t732-what-s-missing-documentation-and-system-mechanics
Utility Talent - Immunization:Immunization - 3/Day Preparation Time: 2
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https://ponytales.forumotion.com/t727-new-expansions-new-content-post-your-favorites-here
Continuation of the magic discussion in the new content thread. I think the people that say, "magic-users are best" kind of miss the point by a wide, wide margin. If you're narrowing a standard n...
I've noticed that some skills seem to fall to the wayside (Endurance), or appear to be limited to one area (Arcana and magecraft). I thought it'd be fair to give examples where someone could use ...
https://ponytales.forumotion.com/t647-what-are-some-ways-to-use-each-of-the-subskills
EDIT: Now in GDoc! So I've been working on crafting a space opera setting that's an alternate universe for MLP, and everything was going fine and dandy until I started discussing piloting with so...
https://ponytales.forumotion.com/t522-starfleet-needs-pilots-badly
So the discussion about modifying the level-up process showed that a lot of people would like to spice up the level-up process a bit more than it currently is. I've explained in that thread why I...
https://ponytales.forumotion.com/t580-optional-additional-level-up-goodies
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EApvmc5-oQ2mGNJ7HtKPIx-F4GLLVHI-CtKlz4BjhaI/edit# Hi, I've done another thing. Yeah, I seem to do that a lot. So this is for my Shadow Walkers campaign and I'm...
https://ponytales.forumotion.com/t587-pony-tales-racing-normal-and-combative-by-hayatecooper
Hey everyone, based on lots of gameplay and talks with both Players and DMs - we're thinking of redoing the way our beloved system handles skill improvement on level up. Right now, DMs are encour...
https://ponytales.forumotion.com/t569-should-we-have-skill-bonuses-on-level-up-community-discussion
(And by hayatecooper I mean me, the original thread whose ideas I stole pretty unashamedly at some points, the original writers, and a bunch other important people.) https://docs.google.com/docum...
Evolving Battles(Or Tabletop for Skype in a sense): An Evolving battle is a form of combat in which the players use a mixed of Skill rolls, Utility talents and Combat talents. (Grapple rules can ...
https://ponytales.forumotion.com/t576-evolving-battles-or-tabletop-for-skype
Due to a bunch of math broken down by thematthew as well as a lot of critfishing builds seeming extremely powerful in playtesting - we're considering cutting or changing the +1 variation of critf...
https://ponytales.forumotion.com/t574-possible-changes-to-critfisher-community-discussion
Well, with extra sets of elements being all the rage right now, I thought I could throw in my two bits. Functionally, I just thought that these might be the most appropriate to add as new 'elemen...
https://ponytales.forumotion.com/t478-the-lost-elements-of-harmony
So, over the past couple of weeks, I've been thinking of running a Skype game as a DM. One of the concepts I considered as a setting was to basically convert the "Paranoia RPG" mentality/rules an...
https://ponytales.forumotion.com/t536-paranoia-setting-for-pony-tales-supplement-included
Inspired by Philadelphus's Talent Specialization. Also, I am making this up as I go along so I don't really have an concrete ideas on it atm. The elements of harmony, powerful artifacts that both...
Not sure if this is the right place to put this. Move elsewhere if needed. Was thinking of the Elements of Harmony and specific ones that are "missing". I believe it was mentioned in Q&A and a fe...
https://ponytales.forumotion.com/t552-element-concept-element-of-inspiration
I'd already been giving this a bit of thought, as had others, apparently, but then it came up in Skype and I decided to make a thread about it. So, you want to play a gambler, or maybe you just w...
https://ponytales.forumotion.com/t502-i-challenge-you-to-a-children-s-card-game
Yep. I said it, Grapple rules. The things all you old school pen and paper fans have nightmares about. Welp! Fear no more both myself and Philadelphus have created a new supplement for your favor...
https://ponytales.forumotion.com/t500-grapple-rules-for-pony-tales
Hey everyone, the item doc has had a huge overhaul after extensive playtesting and development over the course of the last several months. A lot of items have been fixed and a lot of additional i...
https://ponytales.forumotion.com/t523-item-revamp-and-expansion
Splitting off from some suggestions about base classes, I decided to start working on some. I was already needing builds for the Mane 6 and Spike for a campaign I'll be trying to run so I decided...
https://ponytales.forumotion.com/t518-archetype-class-template-discussion
So... Derpy's Lightning is crazy-go-nuts. Seriously. Here is a quick statistical breakdown: Build: Critfisher – Standard Utility Choose one; A) Roll two dice of your choice from amongst d8s, d...
https://ponytales.forumotion.com/t515-statistics-shmastistics
Hey everyone, get ready for one of the biggest revamps of the system so far! Not only have we close to tripled the number of traits in the system, we've used the extensive playtesting from the pr...
https://ponytales.forumotion.com/t485-traits-revamp-everything-changes
Specifically, something like a Tank. I'm building a new character, and as a "bodyguard", his ideal role would be keeping other party members safe. Preferably, I'd like a primary combo that forces...
WORK IN PROGRESS Something that I've had ideas for ever since I've seen the talent specialization module. However, I have finally gotten around to make this module, as well as explaining my reaso...
https://ponytales.forumotion.com/t497-pratice-makes-perfect-a-combat-talent-upgrade-module
What Is Your Radiation Level? Dealing with radiation is a staple of the Fallout setting. The more radiation you've absorbed, the more radiation damage you've suffered, the worse your health gets....
https://ponytales.forumotion.com/t114-fallout-radiation-system
Hey everyone. In case you don't know me I'm Ian one of Dan's cohorts of evil. However, recently me, Carson, and Dan have decided not to be evil and we put our heads together to create this really...
So this was the result of 30 minutes of work: Double Damage That Isn't Broken - Standard Utility You deal double damage on your next attack. Daredevil’s Rush - Standard Utility Deal Xd8 damag...
https://ponytales.forumotion.com/t370-breaking-the-unbreakable
Alright, I'll cut to the chase. "Harmony" is just a convenient way of having a shared XP pool so that you don't have to track the XP of individual PCs, and what I'm about to propose sort of defea...
So I've got an idea that once you reach a certain level, your Element gets to improve slightly to a different one, a slightly better version. This is meant to keep the Element relevant even when ...
After seeing the popularity of conjurations, a lot of people have been asking for more options for conjurer-focused builds. We've been reluctant to make new ones up till now, due to the fact that...
https://ponytales.forumotion.com/t484-new-conjuration-combat-talents
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11bH882uas3j2rMql_Q7zuyypoyfdj4h-L_M9sUt3bv0/edit - Full doc with all reflavoured stuff https://docs.google.com/document/d/1V7nqHQShbj6sOQ0tQlHqt6CwQsw9wLFFX-ya...
https://ponytales.forumotion.com/t476-disharmony-level-up-supplement
Four Pony Party: -Round 1- Pony 1: Draw Blood; 7 PiPs Pony 2: Draw Blood; 7 PiPs Pony 3: Draw Blood; 7 PiPs Pony 4: Draw Blood; 7 PiPs -Round 2- Pony 1: Pincer Maneuver: Pony 1 and Pony 4 bo...
Inspired by this comic. An entire second set of Elements for players to chose from. Curiosity You may spend a Magic point to ask the GM three yes or no questions about the current situation or ev...
https://ponytales.forumotion.com/t347-elements-of-creativity
Elements of Discord Betrayal Keep Your Friends Close - Magic Pick two non-ally creatures that are out of combat and considered allies/non hostile between each other. For 15 minutes, they treat e...
https://ponytales.forumotion.com/t475-elements-of-discord-by-hayatecooper
If you have an Xbox, it's exactly what it sounds like. If you have a stupid Playstation, substitute for Trophies. Anyone else, read. I recently introduced Achievements in my own game. What they a...
I wanted to say Epic PWNy, but that's already a racial talent and I didn't want there to be confusion... Anyhow, this is for campaigns that either give out lots more harmony than normal, or are i...
https://ponytales.forumotion.com/t430-epic-munchkin-level-20
So we have a thread discussing the Timmy, Jonny, and Spike of combat. That says nothing about the RP side of the game. Below are the archetypes of Roleplay that I have borrowed from other sources...
https://ponytales.forumotion.com/t392-roleplaying-archetypes
Hey folks, just thought I'd share a little laugh with you. If you've ever wondered why it sometimes takes us a while to come out with new material or revise old material, here's a window into wha...
https://ponytales.forumotion.com/t457-behind-the-scenes-development
I am a big fan of the Schlock Mercenary webcomic. Naturally, the idea of RPing in that universe has been milling about in my mind for a while now. This thread is the first step towards that goal....
https://ponytales.forumotion.com/t438-living-legends-schlock-mercenary
Fast As Lightning - Magic By spending a Magic Point, a character of your race can move at a rate of 50-miles-per-second for the next minute. However, few of your race can endure a full minute at ...
https://ponytales.forumotion.com/t437-mathematics-fast-as-lightning