Help me devise a My Little Pony game.

[Claudius Gaius]

Just go with a point-buy system if you want to stick to d20, use BESM on the tri-stat system, or use something like Toon. After all, if you're not taking it too seriously, the base rule system really doesn't matter much.

I'm not recommending Eclipse for this one, despite my usual preferences. It's flexible enough, but it's both too serious and too complicated for a game like this.

If you can find a copy, Tales from the Floating Vagabond might work - but the rules are probably better suited to a slightly-older set of players.

 

[The Green Adam]

I've developed and run Sesame Street, Pokemon and Wizard of Oz RPGs but this...this is just sick.



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[Slapzilla]

I agree with JustKim and the 'finding the strength to succeed'. From what I remember, many of the shows from that era (MLP, Care Bears, etc.) had teamwork as the solution for threats. While the Smurfs had to worry about being eaten and had to be more resourceful than most, individual bravery won out most often there. Saving Sprites and collecting Crystals can be challenging in and of itself, especially in a teamwork setting. One Pony distracts JustKim's lava monster, another uses her power to enhance the strength of another as the now super strong one shoves the rock, blocking the lava monster.

The evil witch has kidnapped a forest sprite and is going to... what, eat her? Dull. Extract her essense? Not E for Everyone. Clip her wings to make her broom fly? Maybe. Steal her 'fairy dust' to make her broom fly? Better. After they get through the fog maze, the scary haunted tree, the raging river (of lava?) and the witch's snarly familiar, they get to where the witch has the Sprite captured. Whatever plan they come up with HAS to work. Remember, teamwork is the important point here, not the plan itself. This was true with Scooby-Doo, G.I. Joe, Tiny Toons,most of the junk on Saturday mornings nowadays.

System-wise, if you can find the old West End Star Wars system somewhere on the internet, it's simple and only involves adding up a handful of d6s. Toon (IIRC) has the same style of system but simpler. I think d20 Modern could work if you wanted to create the characters for them before hand. Good luck and keep us posted.

 

[blargney the second]

Don't forget to support the stable-crawling style of play.

 

[jmoonlight]

My wife would so playtest this She's a MLP fan through & through, and my daughter would participate also. If you are actually serious about this, let me know hehe we'll playtest for ya.

 

[WarlockLord]

Put in Cthulhu. He makes RPGs fun.

 

[Hairfoot]

Put in Cthulhu. He makes RPGs fun.

Lovecraft would a great name for a MLP.

Ok. Cthulhu turns up, and he's eating all the apples in the orchard! The MLP party has to teach him a lesson by finding a magic cherry tree which produces infinite sweet cherries, so that the Unspeakable One can gorge himself until he has a stomach-ache and learns the downside of gluttony.

 

[Wik]

Use funny-shaped dice, and in small numbers. Screw using d6s. Kids LOVE "the funny dice".

Go Savage Worlds, and set a target number of, say, 5 for tasks. Players roll a d8, a d10, or a d12 for resolution. If they have good odds, they roll more dice, and keep the higher result. If they have poor odds, they roll more dice, and keep the worst result.

No character sheet. Get that out of the way.

I dunno what else. *shrug*

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

I played in a My Little Pony RPG session at the last Boston Area EN World Game Day I attended.

We started out having to choose a Pony from a selection of coloring pages. We were then provided with crayons, glitter glue etc. to color our pony. We started out with everything being happiness, but then things began to turn a bit darker. A Care Bear provided us with our mission and as things progressed and grew even more bizzare, we realized we were playing in a Paranoia game using Ponies and the Care Bear was The Computer.

It was completely silly and a lot of fun. My daughter still gets a kick out of the fact that I borrowed one of her Ponies to bring to the game in case we needed miniatures.

 

[F5]

Yeah, I'd contribute to this. Granted, my "gaming group" at this point would consist of my daughter, and her equally pony-crazy friend. But, that's not an entirely inappropriate playtesting group, considering the subject...and you'd have some very enthusiastic playtesters, I can guarantee...

I'd say you want to stick to the core pony-types, and reserve the flutterponies and seaponies for a possible supplement. You'll need to have something to write for their first anniversary, right?