//------------------------------// // Dungeons and Discords, and Dragons, and Daggers, and Diners, and Death Traps, and Dives, and Dice, and.... Prologue // Story: Twilight Gets a Puppy, Season 6 // by TDR //------------------------------// Twilight Gets a Puppy Season 6 by TDR Dungeons and Discords, and Dragons, and Daggers, and Diners, and Death Traps, and Dives, and Dice, and.... Prologue [Seshat, three weeks after Winter Wrap up. Spring] "Alright, glad everyone could make it." Spike offered as he opened the front door to greet the Crusaders. The three fillies, plus Firefly stared at Spike. “What? Is there something on my face?” Spike asked. The drake was no longer purple and green, his scales were pure white with his spines having a multi colored arch like a sunrise. Spike blinked. The Crusaders blinked back. Spike sighed. "Princess Celestia changed all the soap, shampoo, dish soap, and laundry detergent in the house to change the colors of what it's used on. We have Celestia colored dishes, Celestia colored clothes, a Celestia colored Twilight, Starlight, Rahs, and myself." Spike sighed. "Tempest lucked out as she's been staying over in the Guard barracks and Celestia didn't hit them." "Ooooooooh." the four of them nodded before trotting in. “Wait I thought the prank war wasn't supposed to hit any one else?” Scootaloo asked. “ It isn't but Starlight has been stealing Rahs' shampoo because she claimed it worked better for her mane. Rahs knew and was just going to leave a bottle with hair remover in it, but Celestia got to it first.” Spike explained. "Was a little worried it was somethin in the air." Applebloom offered. "Not yet, but ignore Twilight and Rahs they are already plotting and I've tossed out a few ideas but I'm focused on the game tonight. Luna's sadly got to miss this session, but we've got Starlight joining us as well as Discord and Sonata. So expect it to be weird." "Isn't that gonna cause a issue with where we were?" Sweetiebelle asked setting her bag next to her seat at the large wooden table with a bunch of paper maps on it, Seshat had yet to let Spike use the map table. "We were about to start that big fight and Big Sis is our heaviest hitter." "Nah I thought about that. The main campaigns gonna be put on pause for the night. With three new players and no Luna we're gonna roll up new characters and start with that Last Fantasy setting I was sent a while ago." "Ain't that the one yah were complaining was a munchkins dream game setting with how much fan stuff was shoe horned in?" Applebloom asked. "Yup. Discord 'and' Sonata." Spiked added. "Fair 'nuff" Applebloom shrugged. "What about the big pile of books Orbsah sent you for their new edition?" Firefly asked. Spike frowned. "I sent them back." "Really?" Scootaloo questioned, "Wasn't there a bunch of minis in the box too?" "Yup. But I'm not doing anything made by Orbsah any time soon. That new policy they tried to implement has pissed me, and a lot of other people off." Spike growled. "What policy?" Scootaloo blinked. Applebloom, Firefly, and Sweetiebelle sighed. Spike walked over to the other side of the room, picked up a large box with 'soap' printed on the side and walked back to set it down before hopping up on it. "Okay years ago when O&O was getting popular, Orbsah made a license, that allowed any one to make content for their game, for free, this allowed them to have their core game and get other people to make content for their game. Smaller developers made money off supplements and adventure modules, Orbsah made money as everyone needed their books to play any of these add ons even if they didn't make money from them. So after a while it became popular and some groups like the Trailfinder system came about with games similar, but not exactly like Orbsah's system using the license as a base. All was well and good until the Crystal Empire showed up and I introduced them to gaming. So Orbsah sees this huge new market to exploit and decides that they want to cut everyone else out, so they brought up the idea of updating the original license. And they planned to do so in a way that meant that they had full say of what any one could and could not print for their system, thus taking out all the little developers and putting a hurt on any of the bigger ones that used the license. This is bad enough. But they also added in a clause that anything and the clause means ANYTHING developed using their game system was theirs to use as they saw fit. Any home brew creations, any campaigns, any characters that they found out about using their system were theirs to do with as they saw fit. So say they found out about my troll campaign a, if they liked it , they could legally have just claimed it as theirs without changing anything and then sold it without my getting anything out of it. Given Sunset's system is in it's infancy a lot of GMs , myself included, use a monthly group newsletter to pass info back and forth and tell stories about adventures and share ideas between cons. The idea was started in the old 'Dwarf' Magazine, and even though that's no longer in print after Orbsah bought it, the newsletter is reviewed by Orbsah still. Which means anything any one has ever sent in to be published would be their property too.” "Sooooo greed." Scootaloo nodded. "Yep and it's why I've been slowly switching us over to the Trailfinder system. And why I sent all those books and minis back, they were trying to bribe me, because all I have to do is say the word and most of the empire would switch to whatever I'm playing. I've been trying to stay out of it and hope they do the right thing, and cause I don't want to limit any one from enjoying whatever they want no matter who makes it. But if they implement the policy, a week later and I'll make sure all of the Crystal Empire knows I play their competitors system." "Is that why you stopped collecting Battle Mallet?" Sweetiebelle asked. "No I stopped collecting those because the models have gotten cheaper in make and more expensive in price. Look at that nonsense with the new tank they released, it doesn't even have a bottom, it looks like a bit store toy." Spike started to rant as Applebloom pushed him off the soap box before he could get started again. “Enough, we got a game tah set up.” Applebloom huffed.