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Post  ZamuelNow Fri Sep 13, 2013 6:52 pm

Yes, I am insane.

Well...felt it wouldn't hurt to do builds for the small amount of races unique to My Little Pony Tales (AKA G1.5) and MLP G3.  Tales is a bit of an acquired taste/guilty pleasure since it's basically an early 90s sitcom.  Except for one episode, the entire show was solely Earth Ponies that would seemingly fit the mold of AoH's all rounders that have good teamwork as opposed to G1's athletes.  Magic is a subtle undercurrent in the background as opposed to being in your face like the rest of the franchise.

G3 is quite...uneven.  Parts of it, especially the first few stories, are every bit deserving of its bad reputation.  Other parts are surprisingly enjoyable if you're willing to deal with the fact that it generally skews younger than G4 and G1.  Initially starting with just Earth Ponies in this generation's Ponyville, there was a bit of an ongoing worldbuilding arc with them slowly discovering the other pony races until it rebooted itself.  It's interesting that unicorns are the race with the most drastic fluctuation of abilities in the franchise.

I can't see anyone doing full campaigns for either generation but there's small bits that can added to other campaigns (a different project I may be attempting later).  Unless I'm forgetting something, there's only three unique races between these two generations plus G3 unicorns.  G3's dragons can probably be done with the default dragon builds.



First up is the sole entry from Tales...ghosts.  G1.5 is the only part of the franchise where spirits of the undead are canon, a really intriguing swerve considering it's otherwise the least magical part of the franchise.

Ghosts:



G3 unicorns lacked the overt teleportation and telekinesis of G1 and G4.  However, they had more subtle overarching themes of light and color along with more general magical affinity.

G3 Unicorns:

The other two races have their quirks and will take some thinking to get right though I've got rough ideas of how to get them to work.
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Post  ZamuelNow Sat Sep 14, 2013 12:40 am

While Twinkle Wish the Wishing Star from G3.5 was more of a plot device than a character, she did have different abilities than the rest and did react to things.  She literally granted wishes though many were subtle since they were feasible as opposed to being as massively reality warping as such a power would seem.

Really hate her voice though.

Wishing Star:



Breezies:

Yes, Breezies have an equivalent of Secret Shelter as a racial.  Acting as even more of fairies for the franchise than the Flutter Ponies in G1, it's an oddly simple build.  A lot of their usefulness comes from being a smaller size yet their athletic stats seem to still being that of a normal pony.  Generally the utilities for a Breezie would be Freaky Knowledge for plants/flowers and Green Hooves though obviously a player could switch that up.

And...that's it.  The real meat of running a G3 or My Little Pony Tales campaign really comes from the characters and settings.  Tales and G3.5 wind up being the only parts of the franchise where the primary protagonists have different body types, while Tales and G3 require a bit of a different thought process for play and GMing since most of their conflicts were without antagonists.
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