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[MichaelSomething]

It's been too long since I did this! I describe a situation and you pick which edition would work best with it. WARNING: pony videos

You're a high(ish) level magic user and your epic level mentor send you a new spell! It goes:
From one to another, another to one. A mark of one's destiny singled out alone, fulfilled.
You cast the spell and it turns everything wrong! All your best friends got their classes/profession/whatever changed! It's like turning a level 13 Fighter into a level 13 Wizard (but not letting the fighter respect feats, abilities, items, etc.). No one is happy about it...

[video=youtube;OJM2g-3K2T0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJM2g-3K2T0[/video]

It totally sucks, but you figured out how to fix it; with the power of friendship! By helping a friend, everypony rediscovered their natural talents!

[video=youtube;2cjAOJ5qRWA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cjAOJ5qRWA[/video]

That trial has inspired the high(ish) level magic user into fixing the spell that spell. It now goes:
From all of us together, together we are friends. With the marks of our destinies made one, there is magic without end.
With the support of a good group of friends, you can achieve great things!

[video=youtube;piTsH4TUxZ8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piTsH4TUxZ8&index=13&list=PLtKc8Z0miGzkG5B 75TyRnC7A-WekmMQrz[/video]

With the spell rewritten, she finds herself transformed into a higher being, ready for epic level adventuring!

[video=youtube;wBYc8XS3SXA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBYc8XS3SXA[/video]


Okay, which edition(s) could best emulate the spells being described here? Also, which edition(s) could best emulate the process of fixing the broken spell? Or the process of having your destiny messed up so much? Your guess is as good as mine...

 

[D'karr]

I think 4e would be the one that would let you most satisfyingly do this with the least amount of work on your part, and total frustration from the players.

The screwup and the fixup would both be rituals. I think that emulates the situation the best.

The swap between classes would simply be a reassignment of powers, where the fighter gets the magic user's powers and viceversa. Nobody is happy because casting the spells will use a different ability making the new magic user highly ineffective and the same for the fighter. Or you could decide the powers operate on the primary ability of the swapped out class so that it is not as ineffective. If they are at paragon levels the paragon paths also swap.

When the restore/fixup ritual is performed you might have teamwork of some type be the catalyst to make it work, and every check might become a group check.

 

[Tony Vargas]

The screwup and the fixup would both be rituals.

Or SCs if you want to pull everyone into them.

The swap between classes would simply be a reassignment of powers, where the fighter gets the magic user's powers and viceversa. Nobody is happy because casting the spells will use a different ability making the new magic user highly ineffective and the same for the fighter.

I was in a convention game where something like this happened. It was amusing.
It's not too onerous to just pick up another power set or character and play it, because powers are all essentially 'in the same language,' but it's also amusing because each character usually has pretty different powers, even if they're the same class. Even if you've played the same class before, you're likely to notice the difference. It's the plus side of having so much 'bloat.'

 

[Random Bystander]

...Nope, wouldn't use any D&D for FiM. Would be like trying to use professional carpenter's tools to paint a tree-house.

Go for something light, random, with with a widely-varying power scale across multiple players, but with narrative "drama points" or something so the Wizard *Cough*Twilight*Cough* doesn't just magic past nearly everything.

Oh, and write better than some of the episodes and the latest season. Plot hook table of plot-induced stupidity...It's like the writers remembered which show they are writing.

And for the sake of sanity, have Scootaloo fly. They can make a turtle fly!

*Ahem*

Anyway, D&D is the wrong system.

 

[MichaelSomething]

Looks like some pony doesn't tolerate the latest season

While Friendship is Magic isn't the strongest fit, it does use some fantasy elements. D&D uses fantasy elements so there is at least some chance for cross platform idea sharing.

 

[Random Bystander]

Looks like some pony doesn't tolerate the latest season

While Friendship is Magic isn't the strongest fit, it does use some fantasy elements. D&D uses fantasy elements so there is at least some chance for cross platform idea sharing.

Tolerate != like.

Edit: Apologies, that may have come across as hostile. It's not; it's simply the shortest number of syllables needed to make the point.

 

[Dandu]

...Nope, wouldn't use any D&D for FiM. Would be like trying to use professional carpenter's tools to paint a tree-house.

Especially if that treehouse is a totally lost cause.

 

[JRRNeiklot]

The answer ia always first edition or earlier.