Ponies, Drinking and Roleplaying

[drexer]

Strangely enough I thought I'd just found an webcomic that most people here might enjoy quite a bit.




I have to admit I haven't quite gotten the willpower and time yet to start watching My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, but finding this webcomic certainly has increased the first of those.

Much in the vein of DM of the Rings and Darths & Droids, Friendship is Dragons is a webcomic which works the premise of a video series as a D&D or similar roleplaying campaign with the characters either following the careful and obsessive railroad of the DM or tearing it to shreds. I haven't understood at which point this one lands yet.

In this world MLP:FiM does not exist and the six women who make the playerbase have just embarked upon a game in a magical land of ponies, magic and saving rolls under the watch of their GM. The cast page is a nice place to get a first feel for their personalities.

As a flavour, one more bit of the ponies/players discussing alcohol consumption along with their roleplay:



And the introduction of a character I've heard is quite a fan favourite:



If you liked this, then jump right over to the first page of Friendship is Dragons. Tuesday/Thursdays/Saturdays updates.

PS: One question, as this webcomic is made from a series of captions from the show, is there any need to add a legality scan?

Comments

[drexer]

Even so, I don't know about Exalted, but Shadowrun's flavour comes quite a lot from its settings of the world and plot around it. Most of those webcomics are mainly pulling the mechanics as a recognizable element and getting them from something which has a tighter lore might be complicated in that regard. Would it really gain that much while at the same time perhaps annoying certain fans?

[salinea]

I didn't pick up Black Lagoon at random in this example. What I find interesting in those is pairing a story with a specific mood & themes to a game system which also has a specific mood & themes which mesh well with it, and see the sparks flying from that alchemy. If you always go to the same game system which, despite being the most well know and having a variety of declination also does have its own specific mood & themes, I think you lose some opportunities. IMHO.