The main difference is the tech level, anything too high-tech has pretty much been stricken from the setting. Pokemon centers have been replaced by regular ole' doctors. There is no convenient storage PC. Any pokemon you catch you keep, and you have to feed them and take care of them and make sure they don't kill each other and make sure they're happy enough not to kill you. Obviously, the more pokemon you have, the harder this will be.

This is made even more pertinent by the fact that there are no pokeballs.

Thats right: No pokeballs.

All captures in this setting require only two things: Rope and luck. When you are fighting a wild pokemon and you want to capture it, you make a capture roll as per the PTA system, but rather than have this roll represent throwing a pokeball, it now represents your character jumping into the fray and hogtying the fucker until he listens to you.
Capture specialists (Specifically the ones focusing on pokeballs) will, of course, need some refluffing and crunching because of this. I'm thinking that the "Pokeball designer" will be replaced by something that can use various bough or found materials to emulate the effects of the pokeballs he can design and apply them to his hogtie roll.
However, Apricorns, and therefore the balls made from them, still exist, as they still grow of trees.

Also, those crazy science men have invented some strange grey thing with a screw-on top they say should work the same as one of those Apricorn-made balls. Don't that just beat all?

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>>10126116

Character classes:

Ace Trainer: Pretty straightforward. Aces focus on being the very best at dueling pokemon. Think life-or-death duels at high noon in the town square, holding your hands level with your belt, knowing that the slightest twitch will send your friend the Cacturne screaming towards the other trainer's face, and that his Ariados will be screaming towards yours similarly.

Ranger: In Texas they have a saying, "One riot, one Ranger." These lonesome lawmen are trained to be able to use pokemon to stop the almost daily disasters that plagued the old pokewest, due to the presence of the violent creatures. They have the unique ability to befriend wild pokemon using only their lasso and the force of their personality.

Breeder: Pretty straightforward. Trainers who breed pokemon. Might have their aims set on setting up a ranch, or to just breed the best pokemon for fighting.

>>10126130
Capture Specialist: Once again, pretty straightforward. These trainers have improved their skill with the rope in such a way that it becomes easier to hogtie and knock some sense into any pokemon they come across. Some can even coat their ropes in certain stuff to give them an edge over certain pokemon.

Coordinator: Not everyone in the wild west is hard and rugged. The Coordinators are such people. Dance hall girls, stage magicians, Vaudeville performers who use pokemon as their main props and partners. They lighten up the drab lives by travelling from town to town, accruing praise and accolades (and money) wherever they go.

Martial Artists: These are brawlers. They don't care much for fighting with pokemon, unless its them doing the fighting themselves. These are the lugs who would just as soon start a barroom brawl as order a drink.

Psychics: From out in the prarie, sometimes you'll encounter one of these strange fellows. Usually of Injun ancestry, but not always, some kind of mysticism allows them strange unnatural powers which make most of the white folk living out there uneasy.

COYOTEMON GO!!!!!!!!!!!!

So much want.

>>10126144
Thats pretty much how much I have so far. Any suggestions or questions?

THIS IS FUCKEN AWESOME

>>10126203
Refluff the Pokemons appearance to better suit the West

Ekans? Rattlesnake.
Houndoom? Coyotemon, as >>10126149 said

That sortof thing.

Also: POKELASSOS

Some Pokemon would have to be uncatchable outside of special cases. Slugma? Damned thing burns through the rope as soon as it touches, but if you can catch it in a trap and make it see a profitable relationship, let it out.
Having pokemon REPLACE animals in the wild west really limits things. You can no longer have a mount, unless you caught it. The solution would be to integrate the pokemon into the natural world somehow. Have the pokemon be some natural occurrence, but extraordinary event.

This could work, but I've one question. What kind of storyline would work for this? The standard gym battlan/team stopping/collecting doesn't seem to lend itself to this very well. Speaking of collecting, are there pokedexes or an equavalent?

>>10126277
>Having pokemon REPLACE animals in the wild west really limits things.

Naw, bra. There's a pokeman for every real world animal, pretty much. Maybe make Ponytas Eevee ish though, so people can have more variety in their "hosses"

>>10126242
I'm glad you think so.

Also, I forgot Gyms, or at least the equivalent. Each town will have its best fighter. Challenging these strong guns is the most surefire way to gain fame and fortune (and Trainer levels), but more often than not these duels can turn deadly. There is no pokemon league yet to moderate battles after all, so unless both participants are gentlemen (A rare commodity in these tough times) its entirely possible they'll go straight for the throat.

Jackalope, Hodag, and Cactus Cat all need to be statted.

>>10126297
Pokedexes are either haphazard trail journals, or expensive as all get out handcranked affairs

Gyms could be applied as the Sheriff of a town, or outlaw if the town is on the rowdy side. You might even choose a side and fight to wipe out the law abiding citizens or help wrangle the damned fugitives into a ball and chain.
Beating the "Leader" in a fight might prove you could help their fight, and the "Badge" would show your position of authority over either henchmen or citizens. You could even have the Injuns have their own society were you could gain favor. Have a form of respect built into challenging a great warrior to a battle.

>>10126297
Think about the pokemon storyline for a moment. A lone stranger drifts from town to town, challenging the strongest gun in each settlement for fame and fortune, and being challenged by young up-and-comers trying to make a name for themselves. When a town is in trouble the stranger comes, and drives out all the troublemakers.

Pokemon is already pretty much a western. You just need to reflavor and refluff and you're golden.

Just for that pic, I hate you, OP. 10/10

>Psychics: From out in the prarie, sometimes you'll encounter one of these strange fellows. Usually of Injun ancestry, but not always, some kind of mysticism allows them strange unnatural powers which make most of the white folk living out there uneasy.

FUCK YES

Indian society would live in harmony with pokemon. They request aid from the pokemon, and the pokemon acquiesce.

Paleface society enslaves them. Fire-mon power train boilers, water-types are forced to water crops several times a day, ect.

>>10126277
>>10126361
>>10126297
Oh yeah, forgot Pokedexes.

Yeah, pretty much a field journal. Its easy enough to keep track of how many pokemon you have or have had, and you can assign one guy to keep track of how many seen (Or just keep track of it yourself.)

In any case, the pokedex isn't really that important except to some classes that mod the shit out of it (Namely engineer) which would be based around crazy steam-powered tinker nonsense.

>In any case, the pokedex isn't really that important except to some classes that mod the shit out of it (Namely engineer) which would be based around crazy steam-powered tinker nonsense.

I think I love you.

wait, pokemon tablewhat? did i miss a thread or something?

>>10126442
The problem is, there is no way to enslave a creature that can create a primal force of nature at will. The whites would have to appease the pokemon they work with, or they wouldn't get help at all. Adventurers that have pokemon of a certain type that trust them would be able to work as a job that required pokemon to improve productivity.
How would guns fit into the setting though, would they have come about differently due to the large number of creatures that could BEND REALITY TO THEIR WILL? Would a gunslinger be able to head out into the tall shrubs of the wild and make it to the next town without several Tauros stampeding after him?

>>10126442
Yeah, something like that. For this reason I'm thinking of tying Rangers into the Injuns a little bit. They befriend their pokemon peaceably, using the technique of the Pokehopi.

>>10126511
You missed several. Sup/tg/ will fill you in as soon as the archive is back up.

Also, 1d4chan.

>>10126536
I've thought about Guns. They should be like any other weapon in the PTA vanilla setting: Weak as shit unless you pour feats into making it good (Or take Martial Artist-Weapon Master).

I wanted a way to make them good against humans and terrible against pokemon but it hasn't come to me yet.

I wanna see a pokemon war
Lt. Surge mentioned being in a war
while it was probably 'nam or desert storm, let's make it a pokemon war
between fucking pokemon
and then the worst part
no human lives were lost D:

How would Ice pokemon fit into a setting based around an arid grasslands?

>Wild West Pokémon

"Pokémon Tabletop Adventures: The Good, the Bad and the Umbreon"

>>10126607
Harsh winters.

Also, some sourdough from the yukon up north just rolled into town the other day, got some real interesting pokemon for sale. You should try to find a bargain, stranger.

I can't think of anything else to talk about, but this needs to be on the front page.

>>10126675
This is that Sourdough

>>10126675
>Harsh Winters

Ma, I reckon I may be a mite touched in the head but I think those trees just moved closer.

Pa, I know you cain't see the nose in front of your face in this snowstorm.

Maybe you're right, Ma.

>meanwhile, the Abomasnow draw closer

>>10126726
Man, I forgot how much second generation sucked.

>>10126794
Don't talk about Cyndaquil like that.

>Playing Red Dead Redemption
>Saving the girl from being hung
>Headshot all three dudes
>She's choking
>Take the shot
>Free her
>Get sideswiped by an URSARING

>>10126591
I worked up a nice WW2 campaign setting with PTA about a group of soldiers getting stuck behind enemy lines. Never ran it though (I've never DMed before)

>>10126853
Could have been worse.

[spoiler]Could have been a Persian.

>>10126901

Or this bad boy.

>>10126935
OSHI a level 3 Meowf

>>10126892
:(

Goddammit pokemon I refuse to acknowledge that you could ever be aweso-

>Hogtie pokemon to capture them

FFFFFF YOU'RE NOT MAKING THIS ANY EASIER

>>10126966
I detailed it in an archived thread so I hesitate to got into too much detail, but basically I replaced Gyms with concentration camps and POW camps, and you're working your way through germany liberating the shit out of everybody.

>>10127027
I am going to liberate THE SHIT out of you!

>>10127050
"The Lightning American"

There aren't nearly enough Scorpion pokemon for it to be the West. Sure, everyone's woried about the cougers and the coyotes and the rattlers, but the scorpions? Man, those are the little fucks that're gonna get ya. The only remotely scorpion-like thing in Pokemon is six feet high and can crush tanks with its pincers, but it can't exactly fin in your boots.

>>10126935
Even after all these years, the first-generation Pokémon still retain the greatest potential for excellent designs.

>>10127104
Its first form could probably do a pretty good job of it.

>>10127141

That guy's about three foot, though. Plus, we need road-runner Pokemon and Armadillo pokemon. Cacturne, though, is gonna see a lot of use, as is Xatu. And Dunsparce. And that Ground/Dragon type. Maybe Hippowdon. I think we'll need some fakemon, though, to round off the roster, as a lot of pokemon just won't fit in well.

>>10127141
Plus, interesting encounter. The players go to bed for the night. Wake up in the morning and put on their boots and OH SHIT theres a Skorupi in mah boot!

Then someone catches it.

>>10126794
Totadile rocked.

Anyways, no need to rename the pokemon. Instead their appearances change, Houndour would be a coyote, Pikachu would be a Kangaroo Mouse?

Then there's your mounts, each person might mount some different pokemon. While the most popular are Ponytas & Rapidashes, there's going to be Doduo & Dotrio. Hell, I might ride on my Torterra underneath the shade as he goes through the dusty plains, and scorching deserts.

Professors would be the general term for any body of importance and know how in pokemon. Be he the Sheriff, or the Towns Doctor. Not always, but sometimes a school teacher dressed in a white coat.

Starter Pokemon are already tamed, when you get them they'll be in an egg that's about to hatch. So all you have to do is rub on it, and the pokemon will bond with you as it's parent. As for pokeballs, they should be real primitive and very expensive. Just came on the scene along with trains, how they work? No one is for sure, and those who do make them, well just to say they can't give you an reasonable answer. Also downgrade all your money, where you'd normally get $100, or 3k (Yen), you'd get around $10, or 300 (Yen). Your pistol should cost you around $5, and a Rifle around $15. Ammo (by the 100) for both types would cost around $1 to $5.

>>10127185

Did someone say Cacturn and Fakemon?

>>10127185
>Roadrunner
>Armadillo
>Forgot about Sandshrew and Doduo

>>10127185
Doduos/Dotrios are your road runners.
Sandshrews & Sand Slashes could be your Armadillos.

>>10127201
Sleeping with your boots off... you're no westerner. You're one them prissy pant easterner city boys.

>>10127218
I KNEW I forgot one of the classes. Researcher. Good thing nothing much changes about it. They just came out west to study all the rare pokemon they can find.

Also, good call about the money. I think it would be a good idea to scale it back to how much it would have actually cost back then and only give my players enough to get by.

Like I said I'm thinking of doing away with pokeballs altogether except in rare circumstances, in favor of a more hands-on trainer approach.

>>10127374
Like I posted, pokeballs are rare expensive items that no one knows how they work or manufactured. What about Stylers? How you going to catch a pokemon and tell the difference between a captured (tamed) pokemon and a captured befriended pokemon?

>>10127185
Dodrio could be road runner, I guess. As for armadillo... eh, maybe one of the rock types.

>>10127185
I'd like to not have to rely too much on fakemon. A lot of pokemon fit after all. The only ones that obviousely don't are things like Ice types or stuff obviously not of this hemisphere... or biosphere.

I might go a little mad and place some obviously wrong pokemon in (Like the African animals like Hippowdon and Girafarig, or the Australian ones like Kangaskhan and Psyduck) and explain it away by saying its pokemon I ain't gotta explain shit.

>>10127431
see
>>10126543

I'm thinking they learned to make friends with pokemon from the Indians instead of tying them down and forcing them to obey. The "Styler" could just be represented by a reusable loose lasso he uses to single the pokemon out to force it to look into his eyes, as opposed to the three feet of rope required to hogtie that same pokemon.

>>10127569
Having Rangers be Injuns are an insult to Texas Rangers. Perhaps all Rangers have special rope, which they can use.

>>10127612
Then don't say Indians. They befriend the pokemon with a lasso and sheer force of personality. The pokemon, seeing that the ranger is the alpha male in the relationship, agrees to help for a while.

I don't want to tie it down too much into too much gadgetry. I know pokemon is known for the sheer amount of gadgets that have been introduced, but I want to get across the same basic premise with a much more analogue approach. A special rope that only rangers use seems like a stretch to me.

Also, When Stark comes out with the "Mystic" class I see it as another class based around Indian Mysticism.

This many posts in a pokewestern thread and there's not one mention of cattle drives? Is it just too obvious?

>>10128033
Mentioned it here. >>10126536

>>10127677
The west was all about new gadgets, why else would they have Wild West Tech on history channel?

Instead of lassoing, what's that thing where you got two balls at the end of a rope and you throw it at a person and it ties around them, tripping them?

>>10128067
Bolas

>>10126104
How are they going to make pokeballs?

>>10128112

How's 'bout you read the thread before postin, pardner.

>>10128112

These guys. Prior to Pokeballs being mass-produced machinery, they were literally carved out of fruits called Apricorns. Pic being an example of one.

Balls were crafted, an art rather than a science. A Wild West Pokemon campaign would be using those instead of mechanical stuff.

This looks like a sweet-ass campaign, bro. You plan on running this any time soon?

>>10131831
I'm emproiled in a few too many campaigns to really focus on this, but I'm definitely keeping it on the back burner in case I ever want to start one up.

Also, LIVE THREAD, LIVE!

>>10128570

Although more frequently you'd just use a lasso and your wits. Also, I think that every starting Pokemon has to be one you can ride in some fashion. You don't just go hiking through the west, you need a mount of some kind.

>>10133948
Everybody starts with Ponyta?

Ponyta are like your horse, instead of having them as a pokemon for battling you just use it for a mount. I say everyone gets a Ponyta (assuming they pay for one) and their own pokemon. Instead of having 6, I would limit it to 3. It's a smaller party yes, however they're not all in a pokeball so it's going to be harder to have. 6 is damn near impossible.

Hmm, I'm starting to like the no-pokeball mod. You've gotta have your trained creatures beat the wild into near submission so you can use your lasso and wrangling skills to break it exert control.

None of this "Lol its in pokeball its loyal to you" you've gotta find some way to get into the head of this creature you're the master at physical risk to yourself.

This process might be extremely complicated and dangerous depending upon the elemental power of the pokemon.

>>10134098
Not to mention you won't be able to lasso a Muk or ghost and instead are going to have to use some creative way to capture and exert control on (maybe trap the Muk in some pit or control the ghosts with a psychic pokemon.

>>10126104
Why no pokeballs? They used to catch pokemon in motherfucking APRICOTS... why couldn't they be made from a rare cactus fruit and be worth their weight in diamond encrusted gold?

>>10134188
Dammit, apricorns, my bad.

>>10134188
I'm a bit conflicted on Pokeball technology=apricorn magic. I'm not certain why a natural fruit would have the ability to create a pocket universe to safely house a potentially huge pokemon. It feels kinda strange without any fluff.

>>10134288
They talk about it a bit in G/S/Cr and it's up on bulbapedia, not that it's entirely reputable, but it's in the game.

I think everyone with a Ponyta is... logical, but not fun enough. If there were to be three main starters, Ponyta could be one, along with maybe Numel (Camel-analogue) and Doduo (Ostrich?)

>>10134346
Hmm, OK. I wasn't aware the idea existed outside this thread.

General Santa Ana as Gym Leader.

>>10134369
I also just remember, in the G/S/Cr games you can collect the apricorns and have them turned into balls depending on the type of apricorn you collect.

This won't work unless humans are somewhat resistant to pokemon-magic. Much like in the anime where the villians and ash get often shocked/burned/pounded by those things. Otherwise noone would survive for long in that horrible place. And seriously... capturing one of those things with a lasso?

>>10134362
Rock pokemon

>>10134416
Well, that all comes from the whole 'fossil' type pokemon.

See, if there were ancient poke`mon, there had to be ancient poke`balls, right?

Right. Therefore, a few games had various nuts and fruits which, when altered by a wise old man somewhere, allowed you to have low-tech poke`balls. Some of these were better at catching poke`mon than other balls.

>>10134585
Like the Lure ball and such.

>>10134565
Just tone them down from the "retarded 10 year-old's description" levels.

>>10134585
There ya go, the indigenous peoples or wise old mystics can make them, you can't just go throw cash at a pile of pokeballs, you have to earn them.

I know I shouldn't, I know it's done in the spirit of fun and games, but god...

... OP picture just whipped me into such a sacred fury that I couldn't help saying it aloud.

>>10134665
Since you're collecting, why not branch out?

>>10134682
CHEN!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

>>10134682
Don't worry, she'll be gapped out soon.

I'm planning on having Apricorns (As I said in the second post, BTW), but they'll probably be extremely rare, and they'll only do you any good if you can find an Apricorn Smith, or if the party's capture specialist rolls one, which, since it's probably going to be fluffed to be mystical in origin, will need some sort of justification to take, even if that justification is "I learned it from a medicine man from the far east."

Honestly, I just like the idea of wrassling pokemon to the ground and catching them by force. And I like the idea of changing up the capture rules for certain types. Also, instead of throwing money at pokeballs, you'll be throwing all your money at lengths and lengths of rope, which will cost about the same as a normal pokeball.

>>10134565

Its no different than in Vanilla PTA. Your pokemon are still your combination lifebar/Weapons, I'm only re flavoring the method of capture to be SUPER MANLY.

>>10137517
Also, like I said in the second post, there will be a VERY scant few of those Grey screw-top pokeballs Sammy used in the anime. They are quite unreliable, but they'll do in a pinch.

>>10137550
Forgot my pic

>>10127569
I got a better suggestion: Introduce todeath battles involving shitloads of will saves, of both parties.
A apricorn could just be something that sort of forces a pokemon to be partially docile, allowing oppertinity to befriend or tame it.

>>10137784
PTA already has the option to fight to the death.

>>10137784
I am planning on lots of duels and encounters to be to-the-death, but like >>10137854 said, that's already a function of the Pokemon Tabletop Adventures system.

Also: If you're going on a long trip, be sure you're okay with eating pokemon, because I'm planning on hunting and foraging to be an important gameplay mechanic.

Pokemon rangers with a bola would be pretty nice. Ride around and at the right moment toss it around the legs, these act like a Capture Styler.

BTW, why do rangers get -2 CON? Wouldn't it be more -2 STR or -2 WIS because they do seem pretty weak, and in the games they're pretty gullible.

>>10138023
I don't know. It is a little weird for guys trudging around nature getting into scrapes to have to take a hit to their CON. We need a Stark answer for this one.

>>10138096

Clearly the Stark signal needs to be sounded.

This is awesome

>>10138637
How about we don't. Stark says he hates it, and any thread he sees "The Phrase" in is one he won't interact with. Let's just have some constructive talk and answer each others questions to the best of our ability, for now.

And now some writefaggotry to keep the thread alive.

The Tauros were restless. It wasn't a particularly cold or stormy night, but their lowing held a distinct note of fear. It echoed over the land, and their owner took particular note. B. Sienna didn't get to be the premier breeder in three counties by ignoring what his pokemon told him. He knew that they smelled something he couldn't see. An Arbok? Not this late. Things weren't a threat unless they'd sunned themselves. Rustlers? He was famous, and fame always brought with it complications. A howl too close for comfort resolved his question: Houndoom.

>>10140501
So named for being the doom of any man or pokemon that traveled at night ill-prepared, Houndoom were a constant scourge to ranchers. They were bold, vicious creatures, strong enough to take nearly any 'mon, especially if they had a pack advantage. Worse, unlike some of the night-time stalkers, they didn't fear fire or trainers. Sienna knew that if he was up against a pack of the critters, he was probably going to lose some good stock. He hoped it was a loner, and the lack of returning howls made things hopeful.

The Howl had woke his Rapidash, which whinnied fearfully. "There, there, girl, we'll be fine." Sienna comforted the pokemon. Nothing to do now but saddle up, and ride around the herd. If he saw the beast, he'd try and run it off. He had high hopes, knowing that all his pokemon were purebred, with pedigrees unmatchable for at least fifty mile. He'd shown off Rapidash at a convention in White River City, and come back with a blue ribbon. Still, the houndoom was probably going to get the element of surprise.

>>10140716
MOAR

>>10140716
He was just about back to his camp, no sign of the beast, when it struck.
He had only a split second glimpse of the light from Rapidash's mane glinting from eyes low to the ground sweeping in. Luckily, his Rapidash was quicker than him, dodging the critter's biting fangs. He once again thanked the lucky stars for his mount's nimble agility. Houndoom was not to be denied though, and lunged for Rapidash's face. As it reared, Houndoom suddenly dropped down, and beat at the now exposed hind leg. A feint! The beast was deviously cunning, but left itself exposed for Rapidash to stomp it into the ground. The beast seemed amused, and, with a coughing bark almost like a laugh, released a hellish cloud of gas into Rapidash and Sienna's faces. Sienna jumped from his mount, which kicked and bucked in confusion. When the cloud was gone, Sienna could see Rapidash breathing heavily, a glassiness to her eye. No doubt the hellish smog had poisoned her. His only hope was that a series of quick attacks and stomps could drive off the Houndoom. But with each attack, Rapidash grew weaker, and the fight was resolved when Houndoom took advantage of a critical moment of distraction on Rapidash's part, and bit down hard on the back leg, causing the fire horse to fall to its side, unable to rise.

>>10141052

>>10141052
The Houndoom looked at Sienna, its panting mouth seeming to laugh at him. It looked at the unconscious Rapidash, then at Sienna, and finally at his herd of Tauros. The Tauros had backed away from the battle, lowing in terror, and were now watching with fear in their eyes.

The Houndoom apparently decided that the Tauros would be a better meal than the horse, and began to saunter toward the herd, its arrogant manner daring Sienna to try something. And while he'd heard of cow-punchers hard enough to lay a Kanghaskan out, he was just a pokebreeder. He had nothing he could do against this beast.
Which, in this rough and tumble world, did not mean that he or the herd were defenseless. His prime breeding Tauros pushed its way from the herd, and fixed its eyes on the Houndoom.

>>10141181
The Houndoom eyed up this new challenger, bared its teeth, and lept forward. To get a gut full of Tauros horn. Tauros was faster than the beast expected, and further, had a head that could smash rocks. The unexpected blow slammed the Houndoom from the air. It stood, now wheezing heavily, sounding almost like it was whining with every breath. It feinted to Taruos's right, and managed to get a good blow on his left flank when he exposed it. Tauros raged at the blow, and began to pummel the Houndoom with hoof and horn. The Houndoom fought back as hard as it could, managing to get some powerful bites, but each one only drove Tauros to greater fury and power. Finally, the Houndoom lay, pummeled and beaten, panting on its side in the ground. Sienna looked down at the pokemon, which met his eye, and whined, one long, sad whine.

What's all this, then?

>>10141362
Howdy Stark. Hows life?

>>10141362
STARK!

Threads like these are why I keep coming to /tg/.

>>10141334
Sienna took a moment, and looked at his Tauros. Still bleeding from a few of the wounds it received, it had decided to ignore the Houndoom now, and was peacefully munching on a nearby weed. When it noticed he was looking, it came over, and pushed him with its head.
"Alright, you big lug." Sienna patted it on the brow, to which the Tauros huffed happily. It then looked at the Houndoom on the ground, and nudged it with its snout. It looked from the Houndoom to Sienna.
"What? Are you crazy?! That thing attacked us!"
Tauros huffed in a much lower note, and then ambled back to the herd.
"Stupid, bull-headed...ALRIGHT." And with that announcement, Sienna knelt, pulled a tonic from his pocket, and spread it on the Houndoom's wounds.
The Houndoom pulled itself to its feet, and looked Sienna in the eye.
"Listen. You stick with me, you get regular food, you rough up anything that tries to mess with me or mine, and you get a warm place to sleep. You mess up, I throw you in a canyon. Understand?"
The Houndoom licked his face.
Sienna sighed, and proceeded to go figure how far out of his way it was to get Rapidash to a PokeDoc.

>>10141399
It's good.
I'm actually about to see Sir Cucumber, the once who originally designed the Ranger.
65% on the Bestiary's biology entries.

>>10141493
HUZZAH!

>>10141493

Speaking of rangers, why do rangers get -2 CON? Wouldn't it be more -2 STR or -2 WIS because they do seem pretty weak, and in the games they're pretty gullible.

>>10141493
Oh, excellent. Give him my regards.

And speaking of which the thread wanted to know why Rangers' negative stat is CON.

>>10141466
>>10141334
>>10141181
>>10141052

Also, for bonus points (to myself) here are some of the pokemon's stuff.
Rapidash
~level 35
Ability: Run Away
Moves:
Agility
Stomp
Quick Attack
Flame Wheel

Houndoom
~level 39
Ability: Early Bird
Moves:
Faint Attack
Bite
Smog
Howl

Tauros
~level 40
Ability: Anger Point
Moves:
Rage
Rock Smash (HM)
Scary Face
Take Down

>>10141523
Researcher, Psychic already have -2 STR
I didn't think the WIS stat, commonly connected to nature, would be appropriate either.

>>10141599
Oh shit, you mentioning HMs just made me realize I haven't accounted for TMs and HMs in the Western setting yet.

Uh, shit. Any suggestions on how to divorce the taint of super-science from TMs?

I'm glad you've come Dr. Mr. Stark, we have many things to discuss.

>>10141623
Pamphlets?

>>10141629
Like what?

the new black legendary (which will appear in the white version) looks a hell of a lot better then the white one.

>>10141674
Uhhhh.
Things.

>>10141623
The IRC has suggested the use of hallucinogens to teach pokemon new moves. They go on a spirit journey, trip balls for a few, then come back and suddenly they know Surf.

I kinda like it but I'm still open to suggestions.

>>10141751
Specifically, each "TM" would be a different herbal mix with the dose of Peyote, so the stuff gets used up after one use, and each dose gives a different move after the spirit journey.

>>10141796
I like the feel of that.

Though it doesn't make sense for HMs. Maybe those are the Holy Magics? You go speak with the medicine man, and he uses a recipe he knows and teaches you how to give your pokemon that specific journey?

And for those who care -
The Mystic's relevant stats will be Strength and Wisdom.
It's negligent stat will be Charisma.

>>10141860
Makes sense. (Quick note: In PTA ANY move can be made into an HM using the HM smith feat under... Pusher I think) So you take the recipe of the TM, and are able to reuse the effect of the mixture without needing the mixture through, like, meditation and stuff.

That seems neat.

>>10141966
>two heals please.
That would happen so fucking much.
I wish there was an option to have text appear immediately.
I read faster then words appear on max settings.

OP's pic is fukkin saved.

>>10141981
Yes. As far as suggested settings will go - there will be very few HMs in the pokemon world. The video game HMs have all been demoted to TMs 93-100. Also, nearly any Move could be found as a TM if you need it to in your game.

Bump.

My name is John Marsten...

I used to to run in a gang, Now i'm hunting them...

Ain't that right Rufus?

Slightly off topic here, but Contests just boil down to the appeal phase, yes?

Or are there rules for the show phase? (IE dressing pokeymans up, then the appeal phase)

>>10142269
I think its like in the games. There's the phase where the pokemon first comes out and gets some appeal for how good it looks (Or how well its dressed)

Then there's the attack appeal part.

>>10142304
That's what I thought. Finding rules on the prettiness!appeal phase is unpossible.

>>10142326
Hopefully Stark can shed some light on that, unless its buried in one of the archived threads somewhere.

As long as Stark is reading the thread, I'd like to say I just discovered PTA last week and I thank you thank you thank you for making all my wildest dreams come true.

YOu now imagine John Marsten with a houndoom

Hey.

Hey Stark.


Keep up the good work.

>>10142269
Erm.
Contests.
Appeal round is in the archives.
Initial 'come on out _____' round is based on how much you RP you pokemon's appearance.
Do you make comments that your pokemon wears a scarf or a pair of shade often? The GM should give you a bonus for that.
Did you say as your party went to sleep for the night that you spent some time brushing your pokemon's hair? You should get something for that too.

From the archive which are working.

Thanks for the heads up Axiom, how the Styler works is below. About your starting packages idea: I think it's cool, I like it. What I let my players start off with was a backpack and whatever they brought in it with them from home (within reason). I keep a very close eye on player inventory in game. I don't want poke marts in my players' backpacks.

Range Stylers have 10 Energy in them. Any Ranger can recharge that for free at Centers, Marts, Police/Ranger departments. When a Ranger makes a Restraint roll, they roll 1d100 and must roll under the pokemon's Capture Rate. When making a restraint roll, the target's capture rate is raised 25, because unless you're making that pokemon a Companion they'll only be with you for a short while anyway.

The 1d100 roll is used for nearly every roll in this game that involves adding a pokemon to your team except for the Psychic's mind control feature (Capture rolls, Restraint Rolls, Egg Rolls, Possession Rolls). So if you plan to make other ways of converting pokemon in this game, try to use the d100 roll to make it similar to the other rolls.

>>10142694
Thanks. THat's pretty much all I needed to know!

>Running game
>Party comes across spinarak in Aprcorn tree
>Party tries to take Apricorns
>Spinarak grabs its 'ball' back (actually Apricorn)
>Party initaes attack
>baby spider screams for mom

ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE.

>>10143491

>Mom ariados appears
>battle initates
>battle draws on, neither side taking advantage
>CRUNCH,. mom is speared on a doduo beak
>Mom almost dies, tries to retreat posthaste.
>Party goes into b'aww mode as they realise what they have done

>Teach party everything isn't fun and games
>Feels good man

>>10143521
Smalltime.
In the future, I'll post the full story of a player who separated a mother Arcanine from her cubs and broke her spirit by killing a reunited pup in front her eyes in order to get her to be obedient.

so... no more ash in the anime
did you hear?
hopefully they will take this as an opportunity to bring forth a character rich in depth and development with complex and interesting relationships with other characters and realize that good writing and plots go along way, perhaps taking back fans from years before who've grown up now, through nostalgia and well written story arcs, dialogue, ect.
somehow, I doubt it.
more likely they will keep ash, but put him under a different name and voice. same with all the other characters; hell, I bet the teams will have the same racial diversity, too.

>>10144157

o___o ...

>>10144157

So, you're gonna use this as an excuse to have that Arcanine -fucking snap- and kill everything next time it happens to look at a happy growlithe cub?

>>10144157
I've heard that story

Its sad ;_;

>>10144157

Oh, Stark. While you're here, I want to point something out. Sweet Scent isn't in the move compendium, and Reversal's dice go from 36%-70% 2d10 to 21%-30% 5d10. What's 31%-35%?

>>10144157
I WANT TO MURDER SOMEONE OVER THAT!
THAT MAKES ME PHYSICALLY ILL THINKING ABOUT SOMEONE THAT COULD DO THAT.

>>10145001
Fixed and fixed.
Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

Goddamnit my party has the best luck.

>Roll high on shiny table
>roll for pokemon
>Finneon, arright
>roll for moves
>eggmove
>roll egg moves
>PSYBEAM WHAT

Dis finneon.

GODDAMMIT the group currently playing found a shiny.

THIS IS THE SECOND ONE!

This keeps happening.

>>10145359
>>10145503
Didn't even have to fight it. They just befriended it and it agreed to come with us.

Any chance of converting what you already got into one PDF?

As for the styler, it has 10 energy. Does a restraining roll does it consume 1energy per try? And the +25 does that include the conditions of sleep, poison, health...etc.? What about capturing the helping pokemon (in a pokeball) what modifier is that?

Bumping to keep thread alive.

>>10146411
that is a damn fine Gyarados.

>Flock of spearow
>Party's ranger capturestylus' the leader
>instant diffusion of situation

>notsureifokaywiththis

>>10146537

>>10146742
I did the same thing on my ranger. Its what rangers do.

Btw where's the news for the pokemon anime, where Ash is retiring?

>Party walks into town
>It's a small town with tiny gym. Party thinks 'okay LETS DO THIS'
>Gym leader turns out to be a lumberjack type man built for ripping up trees with his BARE HANDS.
>Party thinks 'yes, ought to be awesome'
>Gym leady runs into the battle, roaring "COME ON IF YOU THINK YOU'RE HARD ENOUGH" and hits finneon with a fist.
>Party is wtfing
>Houndour runs in and OHKO's the other poke

>Feelsgoodman :D

>>10147980

Oh, no, Ash isn't retiring, the series was ending. Kanto was a series, Johto was a series, and so were Sinnoh and Hoenn. The shows themselves aren't ending, just the ones featuring Dawn before a new tag-a-long girl comes and takes her place.

What I wouldn't do for a Pokemon Special anime, in an actual anime style true to the manga.

>>10148658
>Two water types out
>Houndour knows thunder fang

low blow man

>>10149038
Yeah. Sorry about that. Still, now you know what you're up against. Go catch a ground type :D

>>10149079
NO! MY CORPHISH WILL BE TRIUMPHANT! It's only right that he be the one to defeat you!

I'm just gonna let this speak for itself.

bumpo?

>>10150334
Nice map.

When you have a move with the Scatter property, do you add attack mod and stab for each successful hit, like say, a Hariyama using Arm Thrust?

>>10151696

Depends on the move. With Arm Thrust, it's half your attack.

Other moves, such as Bonemerang, have you add your full stat though.

>>10151747

I know, but do you add it for every successful hit? Do you add STAB dice for each of them too?

>>10151780

Yep. As the rules are written at the moment, yes, you add both STAB and your attack modifier with each successful hit.

>>10150334
It's just like trainers who nicknamed their Pokemon "MEWTWO" back in the day.

FFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

>>10151866

Well, it was funny at the time because she says "Go! Nine Crowned King of Dragons" and everyone is thinking oshit she's gonna Garchomp us ... but no ...

>>10151806

So a level 9 mankey with 11 attack could roll 5d8 + 5d4 + 27 ATK Mod. Good lord.

(I suck at this, but something came to mind.)

>>10137517

>Apricorn Smith

I just got a crazy idea for an NPC: He's some farmboy from back east but don't get him wrong. Some crazy mystic touched him in the head when he was a runt and since then it's been trees, trees, trees for him. But it ain't any sort of tree. It gotta be an Apricorn, and he came riding out West to find seeds of them and plant them across the plains. He'll whittle a fresh fruit if you help him out of a jam, but it's sure hard to find him, especially in the vast plains and him all alone.

He says that he's looking for some girl, some Cera B. or something, and they'll make a whole forest together, but I don't know. That Johnny Apricornseed is fooling with some crazy shit.

>>10148747
I thought Ash was retiring, fff.... he needs to. Unless they're going to age him, he can't be 10 for 13-14 years. The new chick is in that age range, so unless they're going to do something to explain how the hell he's stayed 10 for so long, don't give me the sliding timescale excuse.

Holy shit, this thread is still alive.

Wat. How?

>>10164425

I'm not certain myself, but can you tell me if >>10152012 and >>10151806 are right?

STAB is added per target.
Not per attack from the scatter.
Attacking one target 5 times gets one STAB.
Attacking 5 targets one time each gets 5 STAB dice, once per target.
Remember, if you hit 5 times, your target add their defense 5 times. Stab is added to the first hit per target during scatter.
Hope that clears things up.

>>10156863
ilikethat.jpg

>>10152012

Would it be more reasonable to change it rolling those extra dice once and dividing it by the number of max hits for the attack?

So Bonemerang (2hit) would roll it's STAB, etc. and then divide by two, adding that result to each hit. It does get a chance to crit on each of the separate hits, right?

>>10164936
where the dick-nipples is geodude?

>>10164985
here
>>10164887

>>10165003

You's missing one.

This idea is awesome, and you should feel awesome for thinking of it, Kamen.

>>10166758

Seconded.

>>10166758
>>10168417
Thank you bump

>>10150334
Is this framework downloadable for maptool somewhere?

>>10126104
This, sir, is coated in AWESOMESAUCE!