Never the Final Word (Vol. 2)

by FanOfMostEverything

FoME's Character Flaws (Masterweaver's THE QUEST FOR GLORY!)

Author's Note:

[Comedy][Crossover]

This is a continuation of Masterweaver's THE QUEST FOR GLORY! (1,265 words, [Comedy])

THE QUEST FOR SPOILERS: Twilight attempts to arrange a quest for glory! Unfortunately, without any kind of defined goal beyond that, her friends note that there's really not much point to it. Spike proposes an O&O session instead.

Spike glared as Twilight teleported in a character sheet. "Twilight, we talked about this."

She offered a smile, or at least exposed teeth. "Come on, we already have an oversized party. What harm could it do?"

He crossed his arms. "The last time you played Amaranth, she one-shot the boss so hard it set my campaign notes on fire. Literally."

"Let Trixie guess," guessed Trixie, "typical glory-hogging wizard doing literally everything just because she can."

Twilight snickered. "Please, I outgrew wizards back before my brother stopped letting me play with his group."

"You have a brother?" said Trixie.

"My point is that magic is a crutch for optimizers—"

Spike coughed in a way that sounded suspiciously like "Munchkins."

"Optimizers who want to take the easy route to winning O&O." After a moment, Twilight added, "Besides, the actual magic system is laughable. Yak Stance might have been an incredible fantasy writer, but he was no thaumologist."

"Um..." Fluttershy raised a wing. "How do you win at Ogres and Oubliettes? I thought it was like playing a story."

"It is," said Spike, "unless you're somepony like Twilight. Then it's a math problem to solve. Like how to get one of the least physically capable races to deal triple-digit damage with one swing of her sword."

"All Trixie got from that is that she'll be better at magic than Sparkle in the game. Trixie approves!"

Comments

[Malandy]

Awesome!

Best Lines are from Trixie!

"You have a brother?" said Trixie.

"All Trixie got from that is that she'll be better at magic than Sparkle in the game. Trixie approves!"

Although, Spike is great too!

[Georg]

Sometimes you can Munchkin a game system, and sometimes you can Munchkin a GM. I've been "gotten" before when I ran a dungeon (The Mad Litch's Carnival of Doom) and *every* player rolled up a paladin. Some multiclassed with a first level of rogue or cleric, but they just rolled through my poor monsters like a spiked steamroller.

[horizon]

Then it's a math problem to solve. Like how to get one of the least physically capable races to deal triple-digit damage with one swing of her sword.

Consider yourself lucky, Spike. One of my players last night rules-lawyered a way to do 8 points of damage via his character urinating on a monster.

It was a magma elemental and so the liquid was hitting an elemental weakness, which is the only reason I let it do damage at all. Then he spent a Mythic Point to add his mythic tier to the default 1 damage.

Yak Stance

Wasn't O&O 1st Edition written by Guy Yak?

[FanOfMostEverything]

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Ever heard the term "Vancian magic" when referring to D&D's "load the gun" style magic system? It's named after Jack Vance, the fantasy author who came up with it in his Dying Earth series. Ponifying a pair of monosyllables was an interesting challenge.

[AcademicPony]

Does Twilight's character by any chance resemble one of Tippy's kobold builds?