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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 7681391" data-attributes="member: 8461">This article does an excellent job of looking at various unofficial incarnations of My Little Pony among tabletop RPGs, and gives us some background with regard to whether we might see an official MLP RPG, possibly compatible with Fifth Edition D&D.While it's very interesting to contemplate (and makes for very interesting reading), even if Hasbro were to green-light such a project, it would quickly lead to some logistical barriers in terms of actually making the game compatible with D&D while still allowing for player-characters to mimic what the six main cast members (e.g. the "Mane Six") do in the show.There's a reason that <a href="http://www.rpgnow.com/product/125583/Ponyfinder--Campaign-Setting?src=hottest_filtered" target="_blank">Ponyfinder</a> (which is awesome by the way, though take that with a grain of salt; I've backed some of its projects on Kickstarter, and I'm on its Patreon) - which also has <a href="http://www.rpgnow.com/product/121460/Ponyfinder--4th-Edition-Translation" target="_blank">D&D Fourth Edition</a> and <a href="http://www.rpgnow.com/product/145078/Ponyfinder--5th-Edition-Translation" target="_blank">D&D Fifth Edition</a> (actually <a href="http://www.rpgnow.com/product/151795/Ponyfinder--5th-Edition-Gods-Feats-and-Expanded-Races" target="_blank">two</a>) translations - takes place in an alternate world, rather than the world from the MLP show, which is...well, copyright and intellectual property laws. But the other reason is that this lets it use the baseline Pathfinder (or 4E, or 5E) rules to represent characters, without having to worry about how to reproduce what the Mane Six do.And make no mistake, this is significant. Even leaving aside questions of what level the main cast members would be, they regularly showcase abilities that would be difficult for any but the highest-level characters to perform. Rainbow Dash, for instance, can exceed the speed of sound (generating a "Sonic Rainboom"). Applejack can knock over fully-grown trees with a single kick from her back legs. Twilight Sparkle, first among equals, can teleport (at least herself, for short distances) at will, etc. To put it another way, any game that wanted to be true to MLP would necessarily have very different design goals from Pathfinder/4E/5E, which means that it would be exceptionally difficult to write under those rules.This doesn't mean that it can't be done, of course - one of my favorite role-playing blogs is by a fellow who co-authored a book that "hacked" the d20 System to allow for <a href="http://www.rpgnow.com/product/51255/Eclipse-The-Codex-Persona-Shareware" target="_blank">point-buy character generation</a>, and he was able to use those rules to make a <a href="https://ruscumag.wordpress.com/2015/07/12/ponies-of-the-eclipse-rainbow-dash/" target="_blank">stat block for Rainbow Dash</a> that was completely true to her character (I've used those same rules to try my hand at writing up <a href="https://alzrius.wordpress.com/2014/06/07/a-level-one-rarity/" target="_blank">Rarity</a>, with a fairly high amount of fidelity) - but it would require some significant retooling of what sort of characters can be built under the game rules.Either way, I'd love to see an official MLP tabletop RPG...but if Hasbro produces one, I really don't think it will be D&D-compatible.</blockquote>

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