Pony
ponies into three main "types" in the first episode: Earth ponies, Pegasi, and unicorns. These are called the "three pony tribes" however there are three tribes that, throughout history have existed in specific locations, pony society is based around what they call 'harmony' under their goddesses and royalty
Pony Traits
Ability Score Increase. Your Charisma increases by 1 and 1 other ability score increases depending on sub-race
Age. ponies age at the same rate as a human, developing their speciality and associated 'cutie mark' during early adolecence
Alignment. Ponies tend to align toward lawful good, however there are examples of chaotic ponies throughout history
Size. Your size is medium,
Cutie Marks Cutie marks are the natural purpose of Ponies, making them a lot stronger than other races at the task they grant an extra dice for any roll involving said mark's purpose, this does not count as advantage, allowing you to roll up to 3 dice for this task
Speed. Your base walking speed is 40 feet.
Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common
Pony Tribes
Pegasus
Winged ponies who tend to live above the clouds, with the tribe's capital of Cloudsdale
ability score increase Add 1 to your dexterity
flight of a Pegasus. Your wings provide you with the ability to fly at any height as long as you can breathe and there is an atmosphere at the speed of 60ft
Strength of the weather. by using your ability to manipulate weather, you can strike a blow against your foes to your advantage, choose either a single target to deal 1d10 lightning damage to, or push anyone within a 15x120ft, unobscured line 30ft backwards, this can not trigger opportunity attacks, you can only use this ability once per long rest
Unicorn
intelligent, aristocratic elite of the ponies, they tend to use their magic to solve problems instead of physical skills, they are the dominant tribe in the capital of Equestria, Canterlot ability score increase add one to your intelligence
magic of the tribe A unicorn can use prestidigitation as a cantrip and Magic hands as a 1st level spell once every long rest, if a spellcaster, Mage Hands does not count to your known spells and is always prepared as if it was part of your known spells, intelligence is your spellcasting ability for these spells
Earth Pony
Ability Score Increase add one to your strength characteristic
Strength of the Earth With your stronger and more naturally built body, you end up a lot stronger than the other ponies, thus giving you proficiency in strength saves and Athletics.
Equine Build. You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push or drag. you also deal 1d4 + strength bonus instead of 1 unarmed damage
Alicorn
Alicorns, the royalty of Equestria, an ascended pony, having earnt their wings, horn and build all of their own
Alicorn tribal unity. After having accended, you gain all of the bonuses of the other tribes, including ability score increase and the status as a princess of ponykind
it is not recommended to allow players to start as alicorns and if you want to have the player accend make sure they do something extremely worthy of such
Below here are the different tribes that are not part of the primary 4, both are part of tribes that are from specific areas, Thestrals and crystal ponies are both made for specific settings/times in equestria
Thestral
Very similar to the pegesai Thestrals are the pegesai of the night, exiles after supporting Luna in the Nightmare uprising ending up going into hiding in the forest village of hallow shades
ability score increase From the instinct of natural life isolated from the world, add one to your wisdom
Flight of the night. Thestrals fly similarly to their bird based counterparts, but their wings, instead of feathers have webbed wings, making them far more manuverable but unable to go as fast able to fly at a speed of 40ft
eyes of the moon Raised to enjoy the night, and live in their dark forest safe havens, the Thestral have grown to see the world around them even in the darkest nights, having 60ft of darkvision
Crystal Ponies
the crystal empire, the empire of love, it has been around for 1000 years since it was around, it's people heavily affected by love, in the crystal city.
ability score increase Crystal ponies are more durable with their crystal lining on their fur, increasing their constitution by one
Crystalline transformation On DM's discretion when working with others in a unified way, or living in a harmonious way a crystal pony turns crystal gaining 2 AC and a bonus charisma to represent the beautiful appearance of a crystal pony
changeling (MLP Variant)
Insectoid Beings with the ability to manipulate their appearance, old worlds prefering darker appearances with almost wasp like wings while Metamorphosed Changelings take more elegant appearances, choosing their own colours and often taking butterfly like wings that when folded away appear similar to a tail
Changeling traits
Ability Score Increase. increase any of your ability scores by 1
Age. Changelings live a good 300 years and mature after 20 but can live a lot longer
Alignment. Old world lean towards Evil alignments and Metamorphosed lean towards Good alignments
Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
Changeling Wings. Changelings have wings on their back, which allows for flight, they can fly at 30 speed, Changeling Magic. Thanks to the evolution of the changelings they have grown to use magic for both Infiltration and manipulation, Changelings know the Polymorph with a range of 'self' and the Mage Hand spell both as a cantrip
Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common.
Old world changling
Ability Score Increase Your Strength score increases by 1
Hunger for love. You can absorb love from Grappled creature as a bonus action, reducing their strength by 1 each turn temporarily (Regenerates after a long rest) but if they reach 0 strength they instantly die, you must absorb at least a strength a day or suffer from a level of fatigue
Metamorphism Upon gaining at least 10 friends that are not of any convenience upon actually sharing love willingly, you will become a Metamorphosed Changeling
Metamorphosed
Ability Score Increase Your Charisma score increases by 1 If morphing from Old world do not lose your +1 strength Lack of Hunger.
Changelings who have accepted Friendship and Harmony have grown to naturally produce love which acts as food for them, they can eat normal food or feed off of others like an old world changeling but it is purely for personal preference
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