Ok first off this is using the free roleplaying book: My Little Pony: Roleplay is Magic found @ <a href="http://mlprim.com" rel="nofollow">http://mlprim.com</a> We're using the S2e( Season 2) and S3e (Season 3), - yes two books but its because some of the things in book 2 are not in book 3, but 3e has the 'better' clearer mechanics. System: Roleplay is Magic: <a href="http://mlprim.com" rel="nofollow">http://mlprim.com</a> - If the link doesn't for for what ever reason, please google Search: Roleplay is Magic Books Used S2e (Second Season) & S3e (Third Season) No other books are required.- CharacterCreation is simply, below is the plot) Potential Times? As we gain players we can discuss what times & days work best for the group collectively. Races: Earth,Pegasus, Unicorn,
Crystal & Zebras Ponies, Alicorns (we may have to create some rules to help govern them) Note: Alicorns are by Ascension only (i.e it must happen in game and worked towards). Time: We'll choose the time that works best for the players. The Basic plot: This is a bit long. [spoiler]: Ponies from an unknown land experience a disaster.
They flee their homeland, and end up in a Land which their descendants
will simply know as 'Home'. The Outer Herds represent the
descendants of the 'rear guard' ponies who specifically protected the
flanks of the scholars, teachers, scientists educated pony times , and
have since become a culture of taboos and lack reading, writing and
farming living on in a nomadic style. Their magic tends to be extremely
ritual based (dancing). They primarily are made of Earth, Crystal, &
Zebra ponies, with a few Unicorn & Pegasus ponies whom are both
revered and regarded as other (unless born into the outer herds). (We
would think of these ponies as 'less civilized, no permentant shelters,
are built though natural shelters are found and crisis crossing circuit
routes (like the animal migrations of the Serengati are standard). The
Inner Herds represent the 'learned' ponies nobles, scholars ect who
fled and took with them books and knowledge. These ponies by and large
are unicorn and Pegasus ponies (of the crystal and regular variety).
They have cities and downs and a'civilized society'. The two
herds are taboo locked Inner ponies who are married to outer ponies must
move to the outer ponies Herd and are forbidden to speak of their
lives in the Inner Herds. If they do so they are banished. (Banishment and subsequently 'death' is how most crimes are handled.) The
basic plot: Something has reared its head, and the Ponies of home are
transported from their respective herds and collective dumped elsewhere.
(be it because of an old magic ritual that some ponies attempted in
both herds? Or other outside forces-- either way it doesn't matter. The Ponies are dumped in ancient sky contient city (walled, and so big that even pegasus ponies can't see the 'edge' of city'. The
City is the former Alicorn city . The Alicorns disappeared ages ago
(perhaps in the same disaster which caused the pony-ancestors of home to
Flee. But anyway Ponies are now stuck in a world and place not their
own and they need to survive. [/spoiler] On Adventurers & Roleplaying: Adventurers would be the ponies chosen,volunteered or commanded to go out
and see what is beyond the square that their magic portal sets them
down in. [spoiler] Mostly it'll be reclaiming the city from both time, and
the ravages of the forces of Demia ( A 'Nightmare Moon/Sombra analogous
pony) who has sided or been taken over by the forces of destruction,
despair,and oppression). (They perhaps look like bat-winged, armored
'changeling' style ponies perhaps) Anyway so there are probably
multiple groups of these ponies, but also groups of scholars, who
attempt to discover the ancient ways of the ponies who lived here before
they arrived. (Perhaps they find the library and attempt to read their
books) Either way they discover Alicorn (Yep Uni-pegasus ponies)
some of which are nothing more than crystalized essences, someof which
are suspended in crystal, or otherwise time-stopped in magic. I
would like it to be action-adventure,social dynamics maybe some society
and civilization building thrown in. (So yes we can have the beginning
and subsequent establishment of a town, and the two Inner & Outer
pony herds having to deal with one another ,their differences in culture
and otherwise struggling to deal with the break down of their socities
as /they/ know them. The building of a new society, so perhaps a
little socio-political faction based play as well as ponies would
perhaps start fall into ideological camps: The Old Ways (Outer Herd) , The old ways (inner herds) & perhaps the Progressives, or something along that line of though. [/spoilers[