#essence20

I've finished my next Unofficial Guide to my personal Transformers RPG campaign setting: The Primes.

This PDF focuses on the Primes of the modern era: Optimus and Rodimus. Optimus is a powerhouse, while Rodimus, with his ability to manipulate destiny, is a Story Point machine!

Ranger 4 part 1

The final 2 Rangers! Let's begin with...

What are Ranger 4's Descriptors?

By Renegade Games

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Okay so the MLP TTRPG, which uses Essence 20, which is this whole thing I'm not getting into, but I got the sourcebook because I'm running a Power Rangers campaign and I promise there's a connection there, but we're NOT GETTING INTO THAT RIGHT NOW, says Queen Chrysalis is in the Huge size category, which, like, okay, maybe she's Huge. "Alicorns" are in the Large category, and she's obviously not like noticeably taller than Cadance for reasons you should really not be reading this post if you don't know. But the Huge category is defined as "15-30 feet tall" and that sends me down a rabbit hole. Not a "this matters" rabbit hole, it most definitely is not one of those, but a "I've been infected with pedantry and can only solve this by doing MATH" rabbit hole.

First thought, for some reason, is "I should compare her height to Megatron" which is obviously a reasonable thing to do (pic related (we're not getting into that one either)), so let's do that. Horn to tail, she's 260 pixels long in the image we're working with, which is a very generous measurement of her height because of her positioning, but we're trying to make her as tall as we can, Megatron from the top of his head to the bottom of the image is 720 pixels long, which is a very ungenerous measurement of him because significant portions of his feet are cut off, but, again, we're trying our best to make her as big as we can. That gives us a Chrysalis/Megatron height ratio (as generous as possible) of about 2.75 Chrysalises per Megatron. In the IDW continuity (as close as I'm getting, given the source I'm using), Megatron is 38' tall (https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Official_sizes_and_heights#2005_IDW_continuity), so that puts Chrysalis at approximately 13.8' tall (hard maximum, very generous).

This puts her at a little over a foot outside of the Huge size class, so maybe if you want to treat her as a little bigger by saying "oh no she's floating a little bit behind him, so the scale is weird" then sure, we can do that. She barely makes Huge by being infinitely generous.

Okay, so, what if we used a slightly-less-ridiculous source material for her size? Perhaps... My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic? Obviously not the first thing you'd think of, definitely you'd think of that after the Transformers thing, obviously. Regardless, she's like... 1.5-2x bigger than Starlight Glimmer, who is a Pony. A Pony is defined as "a horse of a small breed, especially one whose height at the withers is below 14 hands 2 inches (58 inches)." okay great, Starlight Glimmer is no bigger than 58 inches tall because we all agree Starlight Glimmer is a pony, though assuming Starlight Glimmer is the biggest possible pony seems unfair, we're trying to make Chrysalis as big as possible, so Starlight Glimmer is LARGE PONY.

So, how big does *that* make her? 87"-116" tall or 7.25'-9.6ish'. Okay we're nowhere near Huge now, but we're in the neighborhood of the biggest horse ever recorded (86.5"), and she has a big honkin' horn that counts towards her height, so she's just a REALLY BIG HORSE, which is a size class I'm happy to accept that she's in.

I don't have a conclusion.

Then that stupid greetings from spectralism turned out to be gibberish in the comic so like, I wanted to make one but I haven’t slept in two days cus pain. So I went to fantasy name generator and decided to receive jumbled nonsense that means nothing and turn it into a thing that vaguely sounds like it could mean something? Or just meaningless cryptic bullscrap for flavor idk. I’ll play with it until it inspires a greeting later. It’s whatever and will be whatever it is- don’t care, I had fun.

Made this with a mix of various results from this generator.

(Somber purple feelings give blue Wisdom. Once the sunset turns green, warning me the sun will rise. To be in need Is bittersweet. Alive or no, life continues onwards. Like Hearing Colors out of scrambled rainbows, Screaming in the painting of space.

Learning from an echo with the logic of dreams, Giving details of details but seeing with a blind mouth. I shalt not throw rocks at a magenta mountain, but instead observe it with open arms. Their silence lets you hear more. The sweet taste of all shared yet nothing said, guided by pale yellow hope which blooms an impossible stained glass flower.)

Picture below cus I thought the three part setup looked prettier. Anyway, it’s a thing. A thingy thing.

Me: *makes a joke about making Starscream my boyfriend*

Me: *Actually gains Starscream’s trust in the game*