Help me With a My little Pony Templates..and maybe some other help.

[David Johnston2]

Originally Posted by McAllister

6. I'd say cutie marks are something like 40 points that can be spent freely, within the bounds of the setting. Rainbow Dash, for example, has Enhanced Move 2 (at least) as her cutie mark, right?. Fluttershy, I'm thinking Animal Empathy [5], Empathy [15], and Wild Talent 1 (Emergencies Only, Reliable 6) [20]: if she can't whip out an otherwise-untrained Intimidate check with +6 when she needs to, then I'm baffled about how that thing with the dragon worked.

Yeah...all marks are not created equal. In fact there's not much point in putting them in a standard template. We've seen talents in "popping things", comic pratfalls, sleeping, knowing what time it is, humbling the powerful, addressing audiences, doing paperwork, sound system gadgeteering, gadgeteering in general, making plants grow, animal communication and control, making things pretty, being strong to lift a small house, singing and bowling. These are not all going to add up to the same point value.

[McAllister]

Originally Posted by David Johnston2

Yeah...all marks are not created equal. In fact there's not much point in putting them in a standard template. We've seen talents in "popping things", comic pratfalls, sleeping, knowing what time it is, humbling the powerful, addressing audiences, doing paperwork, sound system gadgeteering, gadgeteering in general, making plants grow, animal communication and control, making things pretty, being strong to lift a small house, singing and bowling. These are not all going to add up to the same point value.

Fortunate, isn't it, that the characters in a TV show don't need to have balanced power levels? But in an RPG, if you're using point values, it's either to have a balanced party, or to know how imbalanced it is. For PCs, a 40pt Cutie Mark should suffice to begin.

Also, in case it wasn't obvious, we're not mentioning Pinkie Pie in this thread. She'd eat her own character sheet, blast the GM dead in the face with a confetti cannon, and bounce away to wreak some other havoc. The RPG party is the only sort of party she has no place in.