Crayfish's Pokemon Mystery Dungeon (Inactive)

Game Master Crayfish Hora

For those that have already chosen Pokemon, the next step is to determine a team name. This isn't immediately important, but its something to think about, so the other Pokemon know what to call you then, "Hey! Tunnel-lord, I need something from ya."

Also know that if one of your team finds the stairs down, the whole team is thus sent to the next floor, despite if they were just about to reach an item or attempting to talk to someone...or surrounded and in dire need of an escape plan! It works both ways. Splitting yourselves is efficient, yes, and more dangerous than sticking together.

Also, a little discussion on why your Pokemon would like to help others would be beneficial. You can also have done prior missions together as an established team, or are pre-established team that's going on their first mission. The choice is yours.

Ok, servant6 checking in with an alias for the Beldum. Please let me know what changes need to be made. Also, would you like us to try and find avatar images?

If you want to have avatar images, you're more than welcome to have them. I'm pretty sure you won't find Pokemon avatars on the Paizo forums however, just so you know.

As far as changes go, where'd you put your level up bonus?

Combat and Perception skills. I read over the campaign info and I'm just not sure what's the best move with this system.

I see. Combat is basically like your Combat maneuvers of the system. Say you wanted to push someone out of the way, or you wanted to rassle, or you wanted to trip someone running away from an angry mob. Or there was a rolling boulder trap and you needed a door busted down, now!. That'd be your combat skill.

Skills are important too, just as much as the other stats. Placing them anywhere is a safe bet.

Shulla checking in.

Does this system do anything with STAB? I didn't see it in the campaign info.

Nope! Excellent question though.

Anon dotting in with my ditto alias N1 (pronounced "know-won"). Added a bit of a backstory to the profile. Couple of newbie questions though

1) How does combat as a team work? Is all combat 1-on-1 pokemon game style with switching different pokemon in and out? Or does everybody who's there have a turn and you pick an enemy to attack?

2) When not on a mission, can I transform for free (for role play reasons)?

As for a team, I would prefer for N1 to be a newcomer, so I can role play introductions. N1 wants to be part of a team to go on missions and get stronger and has learned that more pokemon = less likely to faint and lose the fight.

Ability: 1d100 ⇒ 55
Limber. That's a little unfortunate since this site makes it seem that Imposter is ditto-specific since it deals with shapechanging while Limber is probably more generic. :/

Excellent questions all around.

1. Combat works as a group versus targets that you choose.

2. Absolutely.

3. Fret not! When you get the chance to pick up a second ability (that's right kids, PTU gives out more than one ability, and so do I), you can select the ability you didn't get from the start, here to be referred to as Basic abilities, or you can roll for one of the Advanced abilities.

Also, each Pokemon lives somewhere on the land, for the player to decide where (ie; On a beach, in the jungle, in a tree-house, in someone else's backyard etc) and what their house looks like. Most Pokemon make their houses that look like other Pokemon, because all the carpenters are Pokemon and the like to make houses that look like them. Because nobody likes to live in a square. Or you could not have a house yet and be a homeless Pokemon. Man, what a downer.

Fuki, the Fennekin checking in.

How do PP work? One use - -1 PP? For example I use Ember: A fire attack with 10% burn chance. 25 PP. It then becomes 24 PP, and so on until it refreshes after rest? Or did I miss something?

Also, there are bonuses for attack and defense, but no for evade. Is it intentional?

Evade has its own bonus stat. I mean, it's not called evade, but that's because evade doesn't look as nice as the other stat names.

But first thing is first; yes, that example is completely correct. You're basically a wizard and can use your spells a finite amount of times (See what I did there? 50+ uses of spells a dungeon is finite). You have 25 total uses of Ember throughout the entire dungeon.

Okay, jokes aside, let's talk about evade. Speed, that last stat that some of you got bonuses to, ties into evading as well as initiative. So on an evade roll, you get +speed to it. Then, if you succeeded, you can evade again and get +speed and a +2 to keep evading. This +2 doesn't stack, mind you, but its there. Or, you can evade, and if you succeeded, get a +2 to your next attack roll, which is really nice. Once you attack with the evade bonus, you don't get the evade bonus on the next turn (as you stopped evading and attacked)

The downsides to evading, is where a defense roll will always block some amount of damage, a botched evade nets you 0 defense against an attack and you take all of it. Risk and reward.

Nothing is stopping you from putting your 5-level increases into speed, which in turn boosts evade rolls and initiative. Just like putting it into attack or defense boosts the appropriate rolls.

Though if you're talking about the super effective attacks and not-so effective, well...there's no such thing as a super effective dodge. But that's okay, because the evade roll is used against the attack roll, not the damage roll. The attack roll and evade roll are d20's, while the damage roll and defense roll are d10's.

Say a super effective water attack was hurtling towards Fuki. It rolls an 8 on the attack roll, but max damage of 15 on the damage roll. Fuki can roll an evade the entire attack on a roll of 9+, or pray to his defense dice to roll as high as they can, to soak as much as they can, or he is going to get soaked.

There are also moves that increase speed or evasion; they will both boost evade rolls.

I suppose the only way to get a super effective dodge is some bloke tried to hydro pump Fuki and rolls a 20 on the attack roll. That's a critical hit and a super effective attack. He rolls max damage on 1d10+7 (+2 for move power, +5 for super effectiveness), for 34 damage. That looks really, really bad. But Fuki manages, with his speed, to also somehow roll a 20 and it bumps his evade roll to 21. Bam, super effective evade roll. The Pokemon that he was escorting, directly behind him, however, is very toast.

Well, saying 50+ uses of spells is finite tells us that it's going to be one hell of a dungeon.

And now I'm not sure whether to increase speed and be more specialized, or defense and be more balanced.

Also, can you write what abilities do? Are they passive?

Edit: You know what? I'll take the risk - speed all the way! At least for now.

It is finite, in the sense that you can run out. If you sat in the corner and embered a wall, over, and over, and over. You'll run out, yeah. It was more of a joke than anything, I can't see anyone really running out of anything on an E-C mission. There's also items you can purchase to restore your uses and delicious, delicious berries for HP.

But the characters can select what difficulty of missions they want to undertake. That's all in the game.

Hmm, maybe jumping the gun and certainly overthinking it here.. Can I take some artistic liberties? Namely, being genderless, the Beldum line is unable to breed naturally, so can I say that (at least in this world) Beldum are formed naturally in special ore deposits in caves or something?

Second, the pokédex mentions that Metang are created when two Beldum join together (and Metgross is made of two Metang). I have two thoughts here. Either we say Beldum evolves like any other pokémon and doesn't merge or anything, it just looks like it. Or, Beldum are part of a sort of hive mind. This would mean that joining together to form one pokémon would have little to no effect on their personality as they already share a singular sense of self.

Shulla is working hard to have a 'proper' home built. While raising the Poké to do so, Shulla is living with a friend. (That can be another PC or and NPC.)

That definitely sounds like overthinking to me, but I'll allow it! I like to think that their metals magnetize certain other metals, so when they walk by another Beldum, ba-clank! Evolution. But I'm perfectly fine with you painting some sorta picture of your character, so you can paint away.

@Shulla, That sounds perfect. If no one wants to be your house-friend (such a sad thought), you'll have another Pokemon that totally won't be shroomish, the grumpy cat of the grass Pokemon.

I have a live game tonight, so we'll start tomorrow.

Oh, there's a question up there. Yes, I can write what abilities do, and they are passive.

Abilities:

Light Metal:
Take -1 damage on receiving Grass Knot and Low Kick attacks.
Do -1 damage when performing Heat Crash and Heavy Slam and take +1 damage when receiving those attacks.
You're also only 100lbs, instead of 200.

Limber:
Cannot be paralyzed.

Omen:
1/fight, choose a target. That target receives a -2 penalty on attack rolls. (I thought they were all passive, but yours is not!)

Flame Body:
On receiving a physical hit, there's a 30% the attacker suffers the burn status.

Sweet! So for back story, we'll say Van here makes Poké running deliveries (like Pelliper in the games, maybe Van works with Pelliper and some wingull). Its ability to fly and psychic powers lend themselves very well to such a task. As previously mentioned, its personality is very analytical and being genderless, has no feelings one way or the other on romance. Helping the village prosper is Van's main goal in life, as being part of a greater system comes naturally to it. A secondary goal would be to find another Beldum to evolve with.

Shulla is working hard to have a 'proper' home built. While raising the Poké to do so, Shulla is living with a friend. (That can be another PC or and NPC.)

We can live in the jungle together. A candle pokemon and a fire pokemon - great combo! Well, until we set the trees on fire. But let's not think about bad stuff.

Hey guys! Howar'd the Farfetch'd here :)

Still trying to understand the stats and all. What are the attributes I can raise at level 5? I think it's still pending in my sheet. We should probably try to find a common sheet format?

For every 5th leve, the combat stats can be raised by 1, or the skills can be raised twice.

Combat stats are
Hp
Atk
Def
Sp.Atk
Sp.Def
Speed

Skills are
Athletics
Acrobatics
Combat
Stealth
Perception
Focus

What he means is you can increase one combat stat by +1. Or, two skills by +1.

Looking over the character sheets, they all look pretty similar in format to me. /shrug

I made a note of which moves were physical and which were special so I know which stat to roll, but otherwise, I just moved pp to the front. I hope that's okay. :S

That's absolutely fine, as long as you can understand your sheet.

The Gameplay thread is now live! Post at will!

Blaze dotting in.

For everyone's information, Blaze is a rough and tough Blaziken, who fights for his friends (Good on you if you get that reference). I mean that literally, as he will fight to the end to protect his teammates.

So it appears Klutz makes held items worthless. Now here I was thinking of getting Speed boosting items.

Yep, this is very true.

I just recently found an addon that seems like it would be extra useful for this game. It's called Paizo Campaign Tools, and one of the things it lets you do is replace avatars with any picture you want (though I assume it's just for your viewing and not other people's). It seems slightly buggy in that it's not replacing all of Van's pictures on the gameplay page, but for the most part seems to work, so I'm going to be replacing everybody's pictures with actual pictures of your pokemon.

Also, despite some hiccups, the other functionality is also useful, imo.

Pennate reporting for duty. This is my alias for Cyndaquil. My character sheet is located in my account details.

Since Charmander don't get a bonus to defense, is my starting modifier +0 or do they all start at +1?

It is +0, yes.

Also, it'd be really easy to create separate groups since there are so many players. You can have different team names and team leaders and go on different missions.

Though, it would be best to post in the discussion forums, what days you are most likely to create a reply, so that similar schedules can band together and be more coherent as a group.

I'm really glad that there's lots of new people popping up, at a steady rate, and I'm sure we can get some large, small group numbers.

Groups can be 3-4 members, 5 if there's little place for the 5th to go in terms of schedules.

Do we want to make an 'official' decision on whether our posts should be in the past or present tense? Most games I've played use the present tense, but I'm fine with either.

I find that it's much easier to write in the present tense when gaming.

I am comfortable with either style.

Also, given that six players so far have posted in the gameplay section, should I post as well or wait for a sub-group to form?

Not a bad idea. Wish I'd thought of that.

You can all post currently, but leaving information on what days you're more likely to post on wouldn't hurt. That way, if we need to create sub-groups, like after the intro mission, we can do so easily.

Honestly, I check the boards here at least twice a day so I'm happy being a part of any team that wants a steel type.

Since about...80-90% of the Pokemon here are fire, I don't think type really...uh, matters. But its good to keep in mind when and if separate teams need to be.

Hey, I'm not fire. I'm just a fricking duck. And worse, someone already copied me. I should be playing Mimikyu! But seriously, I'm now thinking my character will eventually get fairly boring. I should have gone for something that evolves!

Evolution lets you gauge how strong a pokemon is. With one that doesn't(or didn't choose to) you can pretend to be weaker and gain a sneaky advantage.

Evolution lets you gauge how strong a pokemon is. With one that doesn't(or didn't choose to) you can pretend to be weaker and gain a sneaky advantage.

Like a bigger leek ;)

You can always trade out your starter Pokemon with Pokemon that you recruited. And you can swap back at any time outside a dungeon. This way, if you were bored with your leek-swinging-duck, you could start creating a legion of other Pokemon to swap to. Start up a guild, where every member has a leek in some form or another, and the leader is a duck.

Can we be Team Leek?

You can all post currently, but leaving information on what days you're more likely to post on wouldn't hurt. That way, if we need to create sub-groups, like after the intro mission, we can do so easily.

I check here at least twice a day (except when some stuff happens). So I'm fine with whatever team division you come up with.

Oh...oh gods. I suppose that name is available, if you're 100% certain.

With all these Fire Pokemon, a Steel Pokemon, and a veggie-wielding Bird Pokemon,I suggest Team Stir Fry.