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[kj1225]

A while back I had an idea for a mostly freeform Pokemon RPG type game. So, I decided to make this thread to get ideas or hear concerns or ideas about what should or should not be in the game. As of now I have a few concrete things planned for the game.

First of all, I want the game to be more like the anime rather than the actual pokemon games though if something from the games isn't contested by the anime or someone runs it by me and I approve it, the game's rulings can take precedence.
Second, I have brought the idea up to someone else and they brought up the concern of starting pokemon. This of course is a valid concern because I don't want people starting with something really powerful or something that turns really powerful early on. So I'm going to offer a group of Starting pokemon early in the game to combat this.
Finally I already have some idea for the plot and location, but I'm not adverse to people offering other ideas.

Spoiler: Initial Character Sheet (click to show/hide)

Name:  You should know what this is. Not that that's ever stopped anyone from gross ignorance.
Age:  Mid-teens to young adults only please unless you have a good reason for only now becoming a trainer.
Description:  Are you a... No wait, I'm not senile. What do you look like?
Backstory:  I can't imagine there's much to say given your status as a 'fucking rube' but it might help establish ties to others in your group.
Preferred type:  Let's face it, everyone here has a schitck, even me. This will give you bonuses when dealing with your pokemon type.
Starter:  Can be any three stage Evolution pokemon or any starter, though I will veto really ridiculous ones.

Auri
Ren
Nak
Fe've
Collin
y twin

IC Thread

[BlitzDungeoneer]

...what, exactly, do you mean by 'more like the anime'?

Edit:

Spoiler: THE HOBO POKEMON MASTER (click to show/hide)

Name: Collin Franklin
Age:  14
Description: Collin is a guy, although that's surprisingly hard to tell with all the dirt and rags that cover him. He's a fucking hobo, what did you expect? The only really visible part of him are his somewhat dull green eyes. His long, black hair is covered by a torn top hat that he found in a bin somewhere, his torso and arms are covered by coats and shirts that look about three sizes too big, with patches haphazardly sewn on various holes, and he's got trousers with holes around the knees and frayed at the edges.

Also, dirt.
Backstory:  Collin has had his Pokemon for a surprisingly long time. A few months, in fact. It's just that, for those few months, he was more occupied with trying to figure out how he was going to feed a Pokemon AND himself, what with his hoboness, the thought of simply giving the Pokeman away for dosh or whatever apparently not occurring to him. Now that he's figured that out, though, he's started to work with the rest of the group as an informant.
Preferred type: Water
Starter:  Poliwag

[AbstractTraitorHero]

I'm definitely interested.

[kj1225]

I mean like, there's more options for using the terrain in fights. (I.e. being in a rocky area and having a pokemon throw a boulder at an enemy.)
Or fighting dirty and using confusion on a trainer.
Basically, I feel like the anime is a good base for how open I want the game to be for the players.

[SOLDIER First]

But fighting dirty would lose you the match?

[AbstractTraitorHero]

Doubtful if you truly think about the Pokemon world.

[SOLDIER First]

You say, without giving any examples.

Like, this is a great idea for a game, and I look forward to joining, but I'm reasonably certain fighting dirty would be just as illegal as in the real world.

[Dwarmin]

I would be interested. I played a lot of pokemon tabletop a few years back on maptools, had a lot of fun. Are you using that system? Or less a 'system' and more an idea of one?

[AbstractTraitorHero]

This is a world where criminals are allowed to run amok and small children run around with dangerous animals that kill them plus theirs a Pokemon move called fighting dirty and gym leaders have pulled off dirty tricks if I remember correctly.

[BlitzDungeoneer]

I, uh, wouldn't exactly say 'allowed'. More, it's difficult to apprehend people with access to powerful monsters, methinks. Not everyone is the protagonist, after all.

Which reminds me, how do you intend to handle capturing Pokemon?

[SOLDIER First]

"Illegal" being "against the rules", because officially sanctioned battles do have, you know, rules. And referees, to enforce them.

That move doesn't exist, to my knowledge.

They shouldn't be able to. As you said, pulled off, as in without getting caught.

[AbstractTraitorHero]

Law is basically nonexistent and highly understaffed in Pokemon  who are clearly incapable of defeating criminal organizations hell what is the government of Pokemon I doubt it's a democracy.

[Urist Reborn]

Interested, particularly because it sounds like it's following "real-world" logic rather than simply game logic.

[SOLDIER First]

Law is basically nonexistent and highly understaffed in Pokemon  who are clearly incapable of defeating criminal organizations hell what is the government of Pokemon I doubt it's a democracy.

Do you legitimately think a lighthearted anime for children is a completely accurate depiction of the Pokemon universe? Is that what you think?

[IamanElfCollaborator]

If it's closer to real-world logic, I suppose I may skip out for this one. Sorry.

On a side note, saying the criminals possess killing monsters of death is kinda irrelevant when EVERYONE can get killing monsters of death. Even the kids.