So, wait, does that mean the crossover guest strips are canon?

I'm guessing Smoker is Marceline, Tashigi is Bonnie, and Phoebe is Dragon.

It'd be cool if they were people like the Gold Roger bar owner, Daddy Masterson, the cooking contest woman, or other people who showed up in anime filler-but-only-kinda.

But Smoker and Tashigi show up again at multiple points, were Dragon hasn't really.

What about Alvida?

The "swear jar" comment surprised me, as I'm not familiar with the other strip and I've been browbeaten into accepting that gamers will swear. Not that they must swear, but that the culture of our hobby has ingrained the habit so severely, that objecting to it is likely to provoke violence... or someone taking their dice and going home. XP Below are my thoughts; skip'em if you want to speak your own mind first (though please, come back and read them afterward). :)

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I'm of two minds on the subject... and I realize I was writing a mini-essay instead of getting to the point. All right: words have meaning, but not everyone assigns them the same meaning, or has the same experiences with them. We shouldn't need word police, but if you want to game in a group, being mindful of what it means to others is important. What is "just words" to you may be a promise of violence to another, and being said in "fun" and not "anger" doesn't change that.

If I were part of the group... I'd suck, and get booted pretty quickly. XD A part of that would be the confusion as I misunderstand what is expected of me, in part due to most bits of "profanity" meaning something to me that it wouldn't to them (re: fighting words).

I'm from a table that swore constantly. We were also at times toxic for each other but that was a separate issue. Swearing isn't the bad part. You can have fighting words with our without profanity.

Yeah, any words can mean anything, what counts most is the tone behind them. The only argument I've heard that I agree with against swears that are just profanity without actually meaning is that it's lazy vocabulary. F*ck can be used to replace nearly any word in the english language from noun to verb to adjective, yet adds nothing to the actual sentence that an exclamation mark could not.

We frequent a game shop that happens to be nearby a dance studio, so when the kids are present (we tend to play in the hallway between the two shops, which is comparatively spacious and has good ventilation), we tone down what is otherwise the usual cussing that goes about when you have a bunch of guys together. Otherwise it's easy to see where the party thinks things are going by the frequency o' the f and s bombs.

In the second session of our last Ponyfinder campaign, my Pegasus Rogue Overwatch flew up to have a look around, and see where or quarry was. I rolled a Nat 1 on perception, and so the GM decided to, as a joke (this was my third Nat1 on a Perception check that session), he said the sunlight glinting off a nearby Temple to the Sun Queen flashed in my eyes, and I'd lost all ability to swear. At the end of that day's session, we had skipped past revisiting the temple, so for the rest of the campaign, I made it a personal goal of mine to never swear in character, and it was challenging, but fun. At the end of the campaign, when I'd told the rest how proud I was off myself, they were impressed I'd even remembered that, and stuck to it, even when the GM had forgotten.
Sometimes, not swearing can be fun in and of itself.