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''[http://friendshipisdragons.thecomicseries.com/comics/first/ Friendship is Dragons]'' is a [[Campaign Comic]] that follows that story of six girls as they play through a new [[Dungeons and& Dragons]] campaign setting, one that just happens to closely resemble ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic]]''. The girls behind the ponies range from a [[Role Play|Roleplayer]] to a [[Heroic Comedic Sociopath|Psychopath]] and from experienced gamers to a pair of [[Noob|Newb]]s. The players themselves have not been named, and of particular note is the fact that the comic is explicitly set in the [[Dungeons and& Dragons]] universe, using 4e rules.
 
The players are:
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* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: At the end of the Nightmare Moon arc, the GM invokes this by telling Twilight's player that {{spoiler|they can't play anymore because she utterly demolished all her original plans}}. Fortunately, the others call her on this.
* [[The Nicknamer]]: Dash is the 'can't be bothered learning your real name' variety, calling the others by their classes.
* [[Noob|Newb]]: Both Twilight and Fluttershy's players are new to roleplaying. Twilight is well versed in the rules of [[Dungeons and& Dragons]], while Fluttershy is less interested in the rules than she is in the setting itself.
* [[Noodle Incident]]: Rarity's player has run at least one campaign of her own. Details are sparse, but apparently she would never drop the party into a grove of magical fear trees... that didn't talk.
* [[Not Worth Killing]]: Nightmare Moon's original impression of the Main Six. She changes her tune after they start awakening the elements, though.
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* [[Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies]]: When Twilight threatens to derail her planned plot completely, the GM responds by threatening a [[Total Party Kill]] courtesy of Nightmare Moon.
** Actually happens to the CMC's {{spoiler|in their scene with Fluttershy taken from Staremaster. The CMC's try to derail the plot by accusing Fluttershy of being evil when she sets them a fetch quest, promptly attacking her familiar, Angel. Fluttershy promptly reveals herself to be a 15th level druid and wipes them out.}}
* [[SchrodingerSchrödinger's Gun]]: The GM has this in her arsenal, and Applejack's player is [[Genre Savvy]] enough to recognize it, to the point she warns her against turning an idle comment by Twilight into a plot twist.
* [[SchrodingerSchrödinger's Suggestion Box]]: As the GM is still creating the game world, she's open to ideas from the players. For instance, Applejack gets all the benefits of the money Sweet Apple Acres brings in because her player put a lot of hard work into her background and family tree.
* {{spoiler|[[Sequence Breaking]]: Nightmare Moon was supposed to take up the entire campaign, and they got through it in a night.}}
* [[Show Within a Show]]: Meta-example; It's common (at this point every strip) for the commenters to tell stories of their own role playing exploits that relate the current strip, more than just anecdotes, most are longer than the strips themselves.
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