planning I Pick You: A Pokemon RP Creation Thread

[Tao 7,904]

[Black Sabbath 2,486]

I wouldn't mind a pokemon rp. 

[Tao 7,904]

I wouldn't mind a pokemon rp. 

Alright!  Any ideas/questions?

[Troblems 5,617]

I wish I could keep up with RPs outside EQE, but they usually get too fast and I fall behind, and I eventually drop out. It looks like so much fun, so I hope it goes well!

[Love Doctor Blaze 536]

A good old pokemon RP, eh?

 

Well i got a couple of questions. How are the battles going to work? Random pokemon encounters? and the levelling system.

[Black Sabbath 2,486]

Alright!  Any ideas/questions?

How is the fighting going to work? And can we have pokemons from different regions?

[Tao 7,904]

I wish I could keep up with RPs outside EQE, but they usually get too fast and I fall behind, and I eventually drop out. It looks like so much fun, so I hope it goes well!

Im thinking a post twice a week is a must but i plan to let things go on a slow pace so ppl can keep up!  No rushing or etc!

 

A good old pokemon RP, eh?

 

Well i got a couple of questions. How are the battles going to work? Random pokemon encounters? and the levelling system.

Well why I want ppls ideas in joining,   i want this to be just not my rp but "ours" but i think a bit of the idea of a game system and it also depends in what is made for the role play.

 

How is the fighting going to work? And can we have pokemons from different regions?

im thinking yes,  just keeping to 4 for now to keep things easy for some of us old timers to join in the fun or even making a new land with pokemon with other areas filling it in.

[Tao 7,904]

Pika Pika

[Artimis Whooves 1,576]

@@Tao,

You could use the smogon battle simulator for battles... 

[Buck Testa 5,505]

Pokemon has a pretty broad range of things to rp with. What exactly are you looking for? 

[captainborgue 343]

Pokemon has a pretty broad range of things to rp with. What exactly are you looking for? 

That^

 

Are characters going to BE pokemon, are they trainers, are there gym battles, who plays the gym leaders? How would we track inventory, pokemon in boxes, EVs, IVs, movesets, TM/HMs, and so on?

 

I love the idea, just needs some polishing.

[Divine_Heart 51]

I am very interested. Mostly because I like a good ol' Pokemon Roleplay. I think largely it is a very good series that has been dulled down because of repetition and becoming less engaging with the story elements as it was in the past.

 

I saw the first post and the ones after, and I'm still confused whether it's going to be the anime-style (Trainers and Pokemon) or the Dungeon series (Users RPing as Pokemon). 

 

If it is going to be the anime-style, I am all-in. However, I don't think it would be smart to create an entire leveling system, inventory system, and replicate the item system to the point that it causes too many complexities. Then you would need moderation (Someone to overlook battles, Roleplay as Wild Pokemon, and important battles in story), If that's the case, it seems like a lot of work and takes out the elements where the Roleplayers can interject ideas and  becomes more or less the Dungeons and Dragons format of roleplay (unless you are looking for that).

 

If we are looking for more Free-Form Pokemon Roleplay, then I think that would be a story and plot just in the Pokemon Universe. The Gym Battles and Pokemon will be irrelevant since  it will be more focused around a certain driving plot element. Unless, that is worked in story and there will be a need to make more Gym Leaders. Plus, free-form makes it so that roleplayers can take these roles (Gym Leaders, Elite Four, Organization Members, Rangers, etc) and make them part of the story.

 

So is it going to be Free-form or will it be moderated D&D style?

[Tao 7,904]

@@Tao,

You could use the smogon battle simulator for battles... 

Well one I thought this thread went to ashes but seems ppl/ponies want this,  so what is smogon battle

 

Pokemon has a pretty broad range of things to rp with. What exactly are you looking for? 

I think a vote is called for to see what people would want and than make a story and plan from there....

 

That^

 

Are characters going to BE pokemon, are they trainers, are there gym battles, who plays the gym leaders? How would we track inventory, pokemon in boxes, EVs, IVs, movesets, TM/HMs, and so on?

 

I love the idea, just needs some polishing.

Agreed,  why having more plan is a good thing!

 

I am very interested. Mostly because I like a good ol' Pokemon Roleplay. I think largely it is a very good series that has been dulled down because of repetition and becoming less engaging with the story elements as it was in the past.

 

I saw the first post and the ones after, and I'm still confused whether it's going to be the anime-style (Trainers and Pokemon) or the Dungeon series (Users RPing as Pokemon). 

 

If it is going to be the anime-style, I am all-in. However, I don't think it would be smart to create an entire leveling system, inventory system, and replicate the item system to the point that it causes too many complexities. Then you would need moderation (Someone to overlook battles, Roleplay as Wild Pokemon, and important battles in story), If that's the case, it seems like a lot of work and takes out the elements where the Roleplayers can interject ideas and  becomes more or less the Dungeons and Dragons format of roleplay (unless you are looking for that).

 

If we are looking for more Free-Form Pokemon Roleplay, then I think that would be a story and plot just in the Pokemon Universe. The Gym Battles and Pokemon will be irrelevant since  it will be more focused around a certain driving plot element. Unless, that is worked in story and there will be a need to make more Gym Leaders. Plus, free-form makes it so that roleplayers can take these roles (Gym Leaders, Elite Four, Organization Members, Rangers, etc) and make them part of the story.

 

So is it going to be Free-form or will it be moderated D&D style?

I was thinking maybe a bit D/d in some touches.

thing?

[Artimis Whooves 1,576]

 

 

Well one I thought this thread went to ashes but seems ppl/ponies want this,  so what is smogon battle

 http://www.smogon.com/sim/ 

It's a battle simulator, completely free and no download.

[Buck Testa 5,505]

 

 

I think a vote is called for to see what people would want and than make a story and plan from there....

 

How about this for a story: 

 

Every single one of us plays a pokemon whom are currently captured on a remote Team Rocket base. Jesse and James are the lowest rung of team rocket, they haven't even got the new uniforms they are so under the radar. The REAL Team Rocket is as dark and cruel (as this site would allow lol) as you could imagine. The goal is to escape your prisons or experiments and make your way outside. That is not going to be easy though, as this subterranean base is built to withstand a barrage of hyper beams and marauding pokemon, and they have no qualms about using force to take down escapees.

On one very specific night, the power goes out for a short period of time, shorting out the cells that had been holding all the pokemon. That is when everyone makes their escape. 

 

The pokemon you'd pick will only have four moves, plus what is reasonable to expect from the pokemons body type and stature (an Onix could certainly throw its weight around without needing a move allocated for it for example) . Those Four moves can be used in anyway that is deemed reasonable and creative for that move, but just like the PP system you will only have so many uses of a given move -- the more powerful move it is the less uses you have out of it until you recharge via resting. 

 

There will be two types of pokemon there

 

Fresh captures and Corrupted/Experimented on Pokemon 

 

The Fresh Captures have the moves sets and behavior one would expect out of whatever the pokemon is

 

The Corrupted ones had been experimented on and altered, usually they are angry or crazy and their move set isn't necessarily the same as what would befit their type. They may even be able to speak like Meowth. Point is, Corrupted Pokemon will be more ruthless than their normal counterparts, but they could both be on the same side depending on how the corrupted ones feel about their imprisonment. 

 

What'cha think? 

[captainborgue 343]

I'm voting against the Team Rocket idea. I don't want to play a Rattata or Zubat, lol!

[Buck Testa 5,505]

I'm voting against the Team Rocket idea. I don't want to play a Rattata or Zubat, lol!

No, the pokemon escaping the team rocket hideout could be whatever pokemon you want. The enemy is probably going to be all Rattata and zubat, but you're pokemon is whomever you want it to be. You are escaping team rocket not working for them. 

[hollow-shades 129]

Yes. I'm a totally obseessed with Pokemon, so a RP with it would be fun. Althouh, it kinda needs plot.

 

And, I prefer Showdown over Smogon, but I can use Smogon if y'all wan't.

[Divine_Heart 51]

No, the pokemon escaping the team rocket hideout could be whatever pokemon you want. The enemy is probably going to be all Rattata and zubat, but you're pokemon is whomever you want it to be. You are escaping team rocket not working for them. 

 

Any Pokemon? Shouldn't legendary Pokemon be exempt for the sake of not having OP'd participants?

 

I am guessing this will be more tabletop since it will have D/D aspects, right? Also, does that mean this will be more or less of a Pokemon Dungeon type roleplay with a party of Pokemon making the escape and the game master try anything to keep them from escaping...if I am understanding your plot, right?

[Buck Testa 5,505]

Any Pokemon? Shouldn't legendary Pokemon be exempt for the sake of not having OP'd participants?

 

I am guessing this will be more tabletop since it will have D/D aspects, right? Also, does that mean this will be more or less of a Pokemon Dungeon type roleplay with a party of Pokemon making the escape and the game master try anything to keep them from escaping...if I am understanding your plot, right?

Well we are sticking to the first two gens, and there weren't a whole lot of Legendaries up to that point, much less anything that would be viable in this setting since its a subterranean Team Rocket Lair and the vast majority of the first two gen's legendary pokemon were gigantic birds.

 

D/D and text roleplaying don't mesh as well as you'd think, at least in my experience. You'd have to have a really dedicated Dungeon master who can juggle all the posts and its just no where near as good as when its done via skype call or in person.

 

usually I freeform the interactions with npcs and threats and then people play off each other. 

[Artimis Whooves 1,576]

The Corrupted ones had been experimented on and altered, usually they are angry or crazy and their move set isn't necessarily the same as what would befit their type. They may even be able to speak like Meowth. Point is, Corrupted Pokemon will be more ruthless than their normal counterparts, but they could both be on the same side depending on how the corrupted ones feel about their imprisonment. 

So the corrupted ones are like delta species pokemon?

if you don't know what they are:

 

They are a set of pokemon in the tcg that have a different typing an moveset than they normally have, some I remember were dark type meowth and fighting type eggsecutor

 

 

 

And, I prefer Showdown over Smogon,

It is pokemon showdown, I just usually say smogon 

 

 

 

@@Tao, Are we rping as people or ponies?

Edited March 18, 2016 by Artimis Whooves

[SilverStarApple 849]

You know what I'd love? A forum-based pokemon roleplay that DOESN'T need to rely on cheap tricks like "Buy Shiny Ponemon for 5,000 points! Get 1 point for every post!" to keep idiots hooked, and will let you seek out the pokemon you want to get the team you want without making you overly rely on the RNG.

[Divine_Heart 51]

Well we are sticking to the first two gens, and there weren't a whole lot of Legendaries up to that point, much less anything that would be viable in this setting since its a subterranean Team Rocket Lair and the vast majority of the first two gen's legendary pokemon were gigantic birds.

 

D/D and text roleplaying don't mesh as well as you'd think, at least in my experience. You'd have to have a really dedicated Dungeon master who can juggle all the posts and its just no where near as good as when its done via skype call or in person.

 

usually I freeform the interactions with npcs and threats and then people play off each other. 

 

I disagree. The Mew duo, Celebi, and the Legendary Beasts are the ones that come to mind.

 

Also, you lost me on the Text-based roleplaying and Dungeon Master moderation thing. I think I can even give a good moderation if it comes to having a dungeon master. As long as everyone motivation is the follow a story and have fun, I don't see anyone trying to be too wound up around the system.

 

But the question bothers me now, Tao. In what touches would you like the system to be D/D?

 

EDIT; Yeah, SilverStar, I would love to Roleplay a forum like that or even a story without the need of a binding system with restrictions and a lot of rules.

Edited March 18, 2016 by Divine_Heart