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Hey y'all! Have you ever wanted to play as a Pokemon Trainer, or a Pokemon, but Pokemon United's rules were very confusing? Or you didn't want to read them because your a casual person like me? Or you didn't want to make notecards of all the different dice pools for each individual move? Well, this is something for you!
So the core of this is Pokemon United. Trainer classes have been super simplified and the work pre-done by someone else; some wonderful person did the work and I'm just stealing it. Ya happy? Good. There's lots of trainer stuff and most of it is just roleplaying, as opposed to Pathfinder, where most of it is power-overwhelming! All the Pokemon are balanced through the combat system, to where you can run around with a Pikachu and fight just as well as a bugcatcher's Caterpie. Don't laugh, that guy loves his Caterpie!
Trainers can be very varied and the setting is all made up. They're free to explore, adventure, capture Pokemon, and battle for badges, for money, for ribbons, for glory or whatever. There is a general plotline, but by no means are the Players stuck to it and they're decisions can alter it.
Now, there's the other possibility. If players are more interested in being Pokemon themselves, then we play a Pokemon Dungeon-esque game and I have to work out some way that it would work. The regular game is geared towards being able to return to town and rest up for adventure, while Pokemon Dungeon is more action packed and includes lots of combat and dice rolling and problem solving. This is more like classic DnD style gameplay with certain missions that can be attempted in varying degrees of difficulty. The difficulty is freely chosen by Players, of course, in the E-A manner. A missions are top-notch, lots of difficulty, while E missions...are not so much.
Both are casual games, where if you are defeated in combat, you either black out in the case of the Trainer game, or if your entire squad of Pokemon is wiped out, or if things are looking terribad, you can always retreat. You auto retreat if all of you are defeated.
So yeah! This is the idea, or ideas, and if you're interested, you let me know.
Can we play with a farfetch'd? Or, as a farfetch'd? Lol
I'm interested. I've looked over the PU rules and simplifying them sounds like a great idea.
Don't know much about Pokemon though, I never get around to watch the anime or play the game. Just a couple of episodes on TV when I was young.
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Yes, and yes Chess. Which one happens depends on what kinda game others want to play.
Oh sweet babies, yes. I cannot tell you how overwhelmed with what was going on in PU. But thankfully, this kinda adventure doesn't follow anything pre-established. You wouldn't miss out on anything and be just as capable as anyone else.
I would potentially be interested in playing a ditto having an identity crisis. I'm not familiar with the game system though.
Big fan of PTU as a system, though it's a bit complex for a tabletop and I'd be happy to play a pokemon in that system (which seems a good way to simplify it, since it's mostly trainer-heavy system wise)
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All good responses. Because I hit the game system with the easy bat and its way, way simpler. Well, I mean, someone else hit it with the easy bat, and I came along and rolled it over a little to make it closer to fitting with a Pokemon Mystery Dungeon thing.
I like the ditto idea. I'll probably create a recruitment thread tomorrow then. Since others are moving towards the Pokemon theme, expect some Pokemon Mystery Dungeon stuff!
So the game would be second variant, where we play pokemons themselves. Cool. It's time to hit the pokedex.