DR. STARK, get your ass in here.

>>9188030
You could try asking him on Steam, but I did a while back and he still hasn't answered me...

>>9188030
I gave up on trying to put together a session since I don't know how to make encounters or how any of the gym battles would work if my players wanted to challenge one. I'll just wait for beta. Less work.

Does he have the pokemon up?

>>9188447
Encounters should be easy assuming the pokemon stats are up. Just say, while walking in the grass... a wild Pokemon jumps out at you...etc. For Gym Battles again if the pokemon are stated out, just pick what type of badge is it and the pokemon appropriate.

bumping for interest and possibly answers.

>>9188497
I have more then a few players. Won't a pokemon get destroyed if they're teaming up on it?
Seemed kinda unfair. Should I just make a bunch of different pokemon appear?

>>9188534
Make a bunch of the same pokemon appear.

I've been doing a few sessions of the so far and the problem I have with gyms is that they single out a player while the rest just look for 10 minutes and wait for their turn. Was there any specific way to do gym battles so they don't take so long?

>>9188030

>pokemon: tabletop adventures

WAT THIS???

>>9188736
http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Pokemon_Tabletop_Adventures

Dr. Mr. Stark's thing. Coming out soon.
If you look up pokemon in the archives, all his update threads'll come up.

>>9188583
Pre roll your attacks.
>>9188534
see
>>9188558

Pokemon like to travel in packs, why wouldn't they? They're semi-intelligent creatures, and most like to travel in groups to take down prey or to not become prey. While other travel in one or two these should be harder like Elites or Solos.

>>9188837
Why was I never informed?

>>9188890
I feel stupid. I guess I've been trying to emulate the vidya but this is 'tabletop' so i should play DM for tabletop, not vidya. Substitute goblins with raticates, good to go.

I remember in a previous thread DM Stark said when his players did gym battles they took 5 minutes each at most. Did he say WHY? How does HE do Gym battles?

>re-reads 1d4chan article
>already like what stark's shown so far
>9th class and planning to do 5th gen expansion with the video game series
FUUUUUUUUUUU

>>9188987
I heard he stopped working on the project entirely.

>>9188837

>>9189024
>>9189024
>>9189024
>>9189024

So /tg/, what's your favourite pokémon?

Y'all naggers can't hold a candle to Absol.

>>9189133
FUCKING THIS. I WANT TO PLAY THIS TABLETOP.
You catch the pokemon's souls or something and then put it over yourself. Think shaman king over souls. Then their weaknesses/strengths become your own.

>>9189159
Sounds kinda like SMT.
>i'm okay with this.jpg

>>9189147
His favorite pokemon is Machamp.

>>9189159

A fan vidya is getting made about that. It's called Pokemon: Spirit Chronicles.
http://s13.zetaboards.com/pokejrpg/index/

>>9189169
Well, Pokemon is basically SMT for kids, so it makes sense trying to grim/dark pokemon will get you SMT.

>>9189149
Absol is okay, but he's no PIC RELATED

>>9189169
Once Dr. Mr. Stark is done, I'm sure you could refluff his game into SMT or any minion game.
But I have no idea what I'm talking about. I am only now hearing about this game.

There's a pokemon character maker out there somewhere that lets you dress up a pokemon character. If I can find it I'll post it.

Saw it on /fa/ last night, link may still be there.

>pokemon
>/tg/
goddammit kids

THREAD CONFIRMED. SENDING SUPPLIES.

>>9189133
Is that some GLIGARMAN?

>>9189232
>didn't read thread at all

>>9189226
Never mind, it was hosted on 420chan and has 404ed.

>>9189251
I still don't want to see it.

>>9189226
http://MagicalGirlYossy.deviantart.com/art/Pokemon-Trainer-Creator-75399413

This it?

>>9189260

So hide it since you clearly want a cloystered experience.

>>9189299
I SEE WHAT YOU FUCKING DID THERE. AND I LIKE IT.

>>9189149
Eevee is better than everything. 7 evolutions motherfucker. Only need one more and my party can be entirely eeveelutions [stupid Fly].

Though if I had to pick one of them I'd choose Umbreon.

>>9189296
No, but close enough.

Now we just need Pokemon: IN SPACE and I will be happy.

>>9189149
Is it okay that I like pikachu?

>>9189433

Yes.

>>9189149
I'm a man of simple favorites. I will always have a thing for my first starter's final form.

Ice ice baby.

>>9189149

Pic related. I would so roll with Ghastly as a starter.

>>9189455

>>9189558

I am disappoint.

what's /tg/'s favored classes so far, i like ace trainer and martial artist, dislike breeder.

>>9189558
>>9189455

I was reading the Pokemon Adventures manga the other week, and I really, really like the way it handles the legendaries. And the Ruby/Sapphire arch got me thinking.

I imagined a world where Groudon and Kyogre weren't stopped. Equally matched, they are still fighting. The entire Hoenn has turned into a wasteland, and nearby regions are also feeling the effects of their fight, not least by the great influx of people evacuated from it. All of Hoenn is off limits and guarded by military, but it doesn't keep out those dedicated people who believe there might be really strong and/or rare pokemon in the deserted region.

>>9189645
I like those classes as well. The others seem interesting but wouldn't be my first choice.

>>9189645
Psychic, fuck yeah. I want to get Influential as soon as possible.

>>9189645
Ace trainer because I've always been a type trainer at heart.

>>9189645
I'm looking forward to being a Ranger.
My buddy here wants to be a Coordinator after having read the Ruby/Sapphire arc of Pokemon Special.
"ruby is a pimp"

>>9189645
The 9th class.
I JUST WANT TO FUCKING KNOW WHAT IT IS.
Stark's covered almost every base for canon trainer types.
WHAT ELSE IS THERE?

>>9189800

Pokemon impersonator.

>>9189806
my thoughts too

>>9189800
Shorts.

They're comfy. And easy to wear.

>>9189800
I have a feeling it's a pokecriminal. Rocket, Aqua, Magma, Galactic. That sort of fellow.

>>9189850

>>9189800
>>9189800
Dr. Mr. Stark said that the last class is something people have wanted to do for a while in a tabletop setting for pokemon.

>It finds way to find synergy with nature more then the Ranger who masters it, more then the Breeeder who brings nature up and more then the Psychic or Martial Artist who are practitioners of nature's power.

There is currently no way to PLAY as a pokemon.

My guess?

Some way to become a pokemon at the start of a campaign or transform into one for a bit.

>>9189877
ANY class can be a criminal.

>>9189941
Yeah, but not a team criminal.

>>9189968
>Be any class
>Join criminal team

Don't look for problems where they are not.

>>9189985
But then, what will he complain about!

>>9190015
Lack of complaints.

DR. MR. STARK GAVE UP ON THIS PROJECT A WHILE AGO. TOO BAD /tg/.

>>9190080

and thus the call is sounded

Fire type was here, other starters are fags.

>>9189985
But a class that gives you abilities pertaining to a team, and perhaps such special abilities as subverting a pokemon (Team Rocket's MO in Pokemon Special and GSC), and allows you to climb the hierarchy...

Yeah, I think it's possible.

>>9190080
Ha. No.

I always find these threads right when I have to leave for work.

If the thread is still alive later I'll answer all the questions.

Also; BLACK AND WHITE FUCK YEAH.

See you in a bit, /tg/.

>>9190080
>>9190110
Always works :3

>>9190080
POKEMON: THE RACE WARS

WHOSE SIDE DO YOU CHOOSE?

>>9190110
Wild Dr. Mr. Stark has appeared.
Wild Dr. Mr. Stark used teleport.
Wild Dr. Mr. Stark has gotten away.

>>9190110
HAHAHAHAHAHA
WHENEVER WE SAY YOU QUIT YOU SHOW UP.
WE KNOW HOW TO SUMMON YOU NOW.
Also, I don't know how I feel about black and white so far.

>>9190091
All around I'd say Water>Grass>Fire.

Venusaur is a goddamn hero and Typhlosion is pretty cool, but otherwise? Water all the way.

For an actual game? I'd like to try starting with something like a Trapinch and suck for a while then SUDDENLY, DRAGONS.

>>9190130
WHAT THE FUCK I DIDN'T EVEN DO ANYTHING YET

Type Ace all the way. All Ice Team here to ruin your day with Hail. Also, with Type Aces abilities, I can finally have a Ice/Fighting Type.

>>9189922

>>9190147
Next time don't think, toss the Pokeball

Bidoof is the strongest and defeats Arceus easily

>>9190141
Wuss
real men choose Fire
BECAUSE FIRE REPRESENTS THE BURNING DESIRES OF MAN!

>>9190133
Aren't you jynxing it?

Sorry, couldn't hear any of you over how badass I am.

I never played Pokemon beyond that first time when I was twelve really.

Still those years were epic years.

>>9190213
Absol-utely.

You know, Pokémon is the one thing that defined the 1985-1995 generation.

And it has inspired some awesome drawings.

>>9190141
I would love to do a dragon tamer character but the ridiculous amount of GRINDAN, would probably give me and the ST headaches.

>>9190278
Dragonite is one of the biggest disappointments ever.

Dratini looked cute, Dragonair was awesome as fuck, and then it evolved into that retarded ORANGE FLYING YOSHI.

>>9190278

You could run it as a long term goal. Your ultimate dream is to find and capture a dragon type. Meanwhile you and your pathetic charmander and magikarp travel the world searching for clues.

>>9190273
D'awwwwww

>>9190278
I dunno, it could be that way or it could be handwaved. Evolving some of the pokes where they have a hard time of it on a plot basis seems like a good idea.

>>9190311
>Dratini looked cute, Dragonair was awesome as fuck, and then it evolved into that retarded ORANGE FLYING YOSHI.

Fuck you, Yoshi is fucking badassed and you know it. Don't compare him to Dragonite.

>>9190355

I think the point is that Dragonite is all kinds of retarded.

>>9190355
Hey, Dragonite is alright.

But you know what's really dumb? Garchomp. I mean, LOOK at it. They concept is amazing but they made it end up as this pile of derp.

You know, I caught the tail end of the WIERDEST discussion on /v/ about Haunter and it's ability to posess people a few weeks back...

>>9190355
>Picture of Drifloon
Jesus christ. Drifloon scares me.
It finds childrens and tries to drag them to hell.

I just wanna bro it up with Beedrill.

>Dr. Mr. Stark shows up.
>He says he'll be back later.
>Doesn't say when.
>I have to sleep for work in the morning and Stark could be gone for hours.

>>9190428
Sleep, bro. stark said he'll answer questions later and these pokemon ta threads last for a few days. check back later.

>>9190425
Bro, you say?

I don't know about you, but this doctor looks like a quack.

>>9190401

>>9190473

More manly Ash.

>>9190464
HIS IS THE DRILL THAT SHALL PIERCE THE HEAVENS

>>9190471

I would trust psyduck with my life.

>>9190355
>>9190311
I like Dragonite ;_;

And THIS is why Ditto is the thing of nightmares

>>9190401
Wait, doesn't it get dragged away itself because it's actually too light to drag anything?

Also, the other ghosts, the cyclops ones, are better. They steal your souls and take them to hell.

>>9190496
anybody got that comic of dragonite after evolution?

>>9190513

>>9190519

>>9190489
>Ash
That's Red. Ash doesn't even exist.

>>9190507
Yeah. It tries to take children away to hell, but since it's too light, the drifloons are carried by the children instead.

>>9190528

Come to think of it. Why DID we need to go through all that rigamarole to get cut? Given how it only works on small trees, couldn't we have just walked around or over them?

>>9190498
oh look, some leaves.

>>9190556
I, personally, am of the opinion that Earthquake could solve all HM related problems.

>>9190556

Stop spamming, guys.

>>9190551
Oh shit why is this one upside down what did I do.

>>9190537

No. That's Ash. Red wears a hoodie and shorts, Ash wears a jacket and jeans. They're two completely different characters.

NOW LEARN THE TRUTH BEHIND DIGLETT FOR YOUR PERFIDY.

>>9190556
Because linear plot-based gameplay.

...this can only end well.

>>9190556
I like to think that trying to get around the tree would have revealed it to be a massive spiked corpser-tentacle. Cutting it makes it harmless, but trying to get around would get the trainer choked like a bitch.

Man, Ivysaur's biology is fucked up.

>>9190580
No, that's Red. Red's hat has that emblem on it, Ash's never did.

And I dunno where you got this business that Red wears a hoodie.

>>9190311
that may be true, he looks and has inferior stats to salamence, but he's gonna shine on the tabletop. He's got a far more diverse movepool to fill in the 14 slots than any other dragon type.

How exactly would an IQ of OVER FIVE-THOUSAAAAAND actually work anyhow?

>>9190623

Well he DEFINATELY wears shorts. I remember that.

He has to, he has the same problems Calvin has in that short shorts reach his shins.

OH FUCK YES IT'S POKEMON IN THE STYLE OF JOJO-'S BIZARRE ADVENTURE!

>>9190623
>>9190668
you're thinking of this character, gold

>>9190686

Yeah, that makes sense.
I still think /v/ was onto something with their theory that Ash is in a coma. It would explain why he never ages for a start.

Last one

>>9190721
You mean this one?

A grim-dark Poke setting would be pretty awesome.

>>9190823

I though pokemon already WAS GimDark?

>>9190505

>>9190721

I've always preferred to post-war with pokemans as bioengineered weapons theory.

>>9190978
Don't think, just catch it, whatever it is!

>>9190995
that's my favorite theory too.

>>9190864
It is, think about the fact that there are no normal Animals, and yet they eat meat. That means that some people hunt pokemon, obviously sentient creatures, for the pure purpose of food.

They use Pokemon as slaves in everything. Instead of developing technology there entire society is based around using pokemon with certain attributes to replace modern technology.

>>9191072

True it is pretty dark. Though I was thinking even more overt that what is usually associated with the word "pokemon".

>>9191072
They DO develop some pretty impressive technology though. They still use a power plant that doesn't use pokemon to generate electricity. They've got teleporters, electronic item storage, and all kinds of crazy shit.

>>9191171

That always fucked with me. That electronic item storage thing.

I mean, that would imply that physical objects are being turned into electrical impulses that are then stored. And it's not even limited to Pokemon as I recall.

>THE IMPLICATIONS

Pokemon's always been pretty dark when you really think about it.

KA-D-BRA (aka PSIKICK), the Telepath Pokégirl
Type: Near Human
Element: Psychic
Frequency: Rare
Diet: human style foods, especially sushi
Role: commonly used for peacekeeping
Libido: Average
Strong Vs: Fighting, Poison, Psychic
Weak Vs: Bug, Dark, Ghost
Attacks: Telepathy, Confusion, Teleport, Telekinesis
Enhancements: High psi ability (teleportation, telepathy, telekinesis), high intelligence
Evolves: Alaka-Wham (normal)
Evolves From: A-Bra (normal)

Nothing summarizes the evolution from A-Bra to Ka-D-Bra so much as "growth". She grows taller, usually only a few inches, with the tallest seen being 5'7. Her bust size increases dramatically, becoming the D-cup she takes her name from. Her "antennae" double in length, usually 4-6 inches in length. Their skin darkens to a medium orange, though their antennae remain yellow. They also become more active, requiring less sleep, and more regular Tamings.
With their physical growth, and especially the increase in the size of their antennae, Ka-D-Bras experience significant growth in their psychic powers. Their ability to teleport and powerful telekinesis more than makes up for their physical frailty, giving them an edge in combat that their previous form lacked, and their augmented intelligence gives them a grasp of tactics that allows them to make the most of their attacks.
Ka-D-Bras tend to make people nervous. Many Ka-D-Bra sided briefly with Mao in her Rebellion, only to break away after Pine Ridge.
Unfortunately, the taint of associating with Mao continues to follow this once more plentiful and valued breed. Fear and distrust make Ka-D-Bra nervous or report feeling sickened, while those who have found a Tamer who trusts and likes them find a staunch ally in the near humans.
One peculiarity of the Ka-D-Bra still has researchers puzzled. A Ka-D-Bra will eagerly bend any spoons she comes across with her telekinesis, almost to the point of compulsion. While this urge is not intense enough for Tamers to use it as bait to capture Feral Ka-D-Bras (which are as rare as their unevolved form), most Tamers who have a Ka-D-Bra in their Harem quickly learns to eat with chopsticks.

MYNX, the Nimble Pokégirl
Type: Animorph (mink)
Element: Normal
Frequency: Uncommon
Diet: human style foods
Role: entertainer and public service
Libido: Average to High
Strong Vs: Ghost
Weak Vs: Fighting
Attacks: Tackle, Leap, Dodge, Dance
Enhancements: Enhanced Speed (x3), Enhanced Agility (x6), Enhanced Hearing (x3), Enhanced Olfactory Sense (x4)
Disadvantages: Mynx all suffer from a problem with their lung capacity, resulting in tiring quickly from sustained exertion and vulnerability to certain attacks.
Evolves: Lupina (Moon Stone), Draco (Dragon Scale), Lynx (orgasm; mechanism unknown), Ursine (Dark Stone), Furrite (orgasm), Phaenine (Angel Stone), Slutton (battle stress), Bawdger (Diamond Stone), Slottern (Water Stone), Pyrona (Dragon E-medal)
Evolves From: None

Another of the normal-types that were originally created for Sukebe's War, which are known to evolve in many directions: so many, in fact, that some researchers are insistent that there are even more evolutions just waiting to be discovered. As it is now, these furred-all-over Pokégirls are affectionate, useful in and out of battle, and if it wasn't for their genetic quirk with their lung problems they would be extremely popular among pet owners and tamers. As it is, they are only popular among pet owners- many say that their fur is the softest and greatest feeling fur of any Pokégirl (and some Pokégirls, such as Kitsune and Kittens, are known to resent this view). Fortunately, Mynx aren't overbearing about this boasting, as only their owners say such things. They have long tails that are about half again as long as the Pokégirl is tall, and is completely covered with that soft fur
Tamers, however, only deal with Mynx because of their many various evolutions, as the Mynx herself is not useful in prolonged battles. Many battles that are down to a Mynx against any other Pokégirl are forfeited because the Mynx wouldn't last long enough against their opponent. Because of their lung problems, Mynx Pokégirls just are of no use in Sex Battles either. Despite their high libidos, they have a low pleasure threshold at the same time, which researchers attribute to this breed's lung problem.
During the war, the Mynx were kept as a reserve guard that would annoy the human forces as the main Pokégirl forces either suckered the humans into a trap or were in retreat. They were only used during the beginning of the war, however, as Sukebe proceeded to evolve his Mynx forces into their more powerful evolutionary forms.

>>9191357

You mean the implications that all of pokemon is actually a Matrix style arrangement, which would explain the Jenny and Joy conundrum nicely.

These Pokégirls don't like to be with Eva-breed Pokégirls, however, due to the comparisons that are drawn between them. The Eva-breed are more numerous these days, however, due to the years following the Revenge War: the Mynx were one of the easier to find Pokégirls in that day and age, and many were slaughtered. In the years between then and modern-times, however, the Mynx has staged a remarkable comeback in numbers.

>>9191357
Yeah, they could do it with items too.

Dem teleporters.

>>9189164
Dem evil Misty!!!.

I always thought that Dragonite should look more like Slifer the sky dragon. It would keep the line of serpentine body of the previous evolutions.

>>9191436
It's pretty much a world built around dogfighting. That's kind of fucked up no matter how you slice it.

>>9191792

A world where 10 year olds are kicked out of their homes to become traveling dogfighters.

>>9189925
>Some way to become a pokemon at the start of a campaign or transform into one for a bit.

Hmmm...

Bump.

Who's that fag on the right side of OP's pic? And is that two versions of Silver on the left?

Wow. Active thread.
I'll get to answering these questions then. From the beginning.

>>9192372
I seem to remember some sort of thing about pokemon abilities, do you get only one, like the games? do you get two and can only have one active? do you run both at the same time?

>>9188030
I never did put up the capabilities .doc I'll try to get it up today since so much more people are playing alpha then I expected.
About the rules for playing a pokemon... I'll talk about that in another post.
>>9188197
I'm busy. I'm working on the game.
>>9188583
I run gym battles like this:
3 rounds. Last team standing wins.
Round 1, player and gym leader send out a pokemon. No substitutions. Once a pokemon faints or is returned, move to round 2. The pokemon who is not returned or fells the foe is the winner of round 1.
Round 2, player and gym leader send out a pokemon. No substitutions. Once a pokemon faints or is returned, move to round 3. The pokemon who is not returned or fells the foe is the winner of round 2.
Round 3, player and gym leader send out a pokemon. No substitutions. Once a pokemon faints or is returned, substitutions are allowed. You may only use substitutions with pokemon who were winners of previous rounds.

This means trainers must have at least 3 pokemon when challenging a gym leader.

It also means that if you lose your first two rounds, you'll have to beat all three of the leader's pokemon with your last pokemon.

Hell, if you take good typing in, you'll win the 3 rounds no problem.

rolled + 1 = 1

>>9192319
Wally from the third generation games. Sickly wuss who has a male gardevoir.

>>9192459
Man, that guy, and no implementation of Red? Fuck that guy.

>>9192458
So. Who sends out pokemon first, or is it done at the same time? And do Gyms tend to stay focused on a single type like they do in the games, or might a Gyrm Leader have access to a Rhydon, Dodrio, Electrode, Beedrill, Seaking and Magmar? Do some gyms have optional rules for longer battles, 4v4 or more?

>>9191876
They start at 10, and they have an option. Go to school, or become a pokemon trainer. Going to school they learn about everything a normal kid would learn, and about pokemon. These guys are your pokemon prof., gym leaders, elite 4, battle city...etc.

Making it grim dark, I say that only 1:4 pokemon trainers that start at age 10 make it to adult hood. They're either killed by pokemon were eaten, killed by another trainer for their possessions, or they were killed by diseases and or lack of nutrition.

Pokemon school is just as cut throat but instead of losing your life (very rarely) you lose social standing. Which is a lot worse to many, but the hope of gaining it back drives people. After school, you have option of going back home and living off the government, adventurer, or work for the government. Staying home and living off the government you must have a child (after all you need more people to continue the cycle) and never leave your small village. If you do well on your adventures (aka surviving) for one year, you get hazard pay. You can only withdraw 50%, the other 50% goes into savings, and when you retire from adventuring that will be your retirement.

Gym Leaders, Professors, Scientist, Elite Four all get paid salaries. They get raises depending on the number of years served, valuable research, or infamy on your dueling style.

God damn I've been on 4chan too long. First thing I noticed you can see up the skirt of the girl in the middle.

>>9192543
Yes, Gym leaders should just stick with one element. However it's your game, or your DMs game he can change it up for difficulty.

>>9189133
Seriously, these dudes would make awesome villains. Where's the source?

Is second girl from the left a Rule 63 Gold?

Pic unrelated to question, but related to theme of thread.

>>9192570
Mreh, too much grimdark for me. It's not a bad idea, but something about grimdark pokemon just doesn't set well with me. Although I'm sure other folks will like it, I think if I ever play this, it'll stay mostly like the original setting.

rolled + 1 = 1

>>9192500
None of the main characters are in OPs pic. Only rivals.

>>9192543
I've run it that Gym Leaders send out their first pokemon first, then the rest at the same time.
>>9192570
I refluffed the canon for Pokemon: Tabletop Adventures, but you could do whatever you'd like.
Trainers are allowed to get their pokemon license at 18. They go through grade school until 16, then go to 2 years of pokemon school or some other school if they want nothing to do with pokemon.
Each trainer is licensed and so are any poke balls they use. This way the pokemon, what are essentially weapons, are decently regulated and only allowed to be used by trained people who know how to handle them.
This doesn't mean kids aren't exposed to pokemon at all. They just can't own any. If they have pokemon around the house, their parents are probably the owners.

Im definately looking forward to the tabletop gaem.
Anyways, as you were saying about gym leaders, I think the Gym leader should be able to pick the rules for the match, and that style you stated should be one of the reccomended. Personally if I was a gym leader, I'd want a full on 6v6, or 3v3.

>>9189800
Well, I'm pretty much sure I have the basis for the final class. It's been named, and half of its Advanced Classes have been figured out as well - but it still won't make it to Beta.
We have the Ace Trainer, Breeder, Capture Specialist, Coordinator, Martial Artist, Psychic, Ranger, Researcher
Announcing the ninth class: The Mystic
More on that in a bit.

>>9192804
That's fine, my fluff is just suggestions for a generic setting, but a 6vs6 is just gonna piss off other players who don't want badges or are waiting their turns. You want Gym Battles to be difficult, but quickly decided. You win, or you lose. And you find out fast.

1. Become Ghost or Dark type Ace.
2. Use typeshifting abilities to create Ghost/Dark pokemon.
3. ?????
4. PROFIT!

>>9192695
And organizations like Team Rocket? What are their objectives? I know Magma and Aqua have fairly set goals, but the only thing I can think for Rockets is using pokemon for money. Which is stupid, because you could just legally own pokemon and use them normally to make a nice sum. Especially since several of their schemes in the game wouldn't be illegal in the base setting that you've outlined so far, where eating certain pokemon is only naturlal; in this setting, selling Slowpoke Tails wouldn't be illegal, and would be a quick, legal, and easy way to make money for them.

>>9192653
>I'm a butthurt gaiafag

>>9192593
Eh, not much, though.

>>9190489
Eh, bro, that's first generation game-Red with the badge on his cap. Ash is anime-only, and quite the idiot in comparison.

>>9192874
Please, I would rather not have any drama over opinions in a perfectly good PokeRPG thread. Everyone is entitled to how they would like to play the game.

>>9192913
While I agree here that we should keep drama out of it, you have to admit; you ARE a butthurt gaiafag

The Mystic, as very many of you have guessed, can take the form of a pokemon. Quite literally.
Of its two starting features, Possess and Borrow, Possess allows your spirit to leave your body and take control of a pokemon, playing as one temporarily. The draw back here is that your body is left by itself and will be in need of protection. Of course, while in control of a pokemon you should be able to protect your real body quite easily. The second power, Borrow, allows the Mystic to borrow, for one use, a Move that the pokemon they were possessing knew while the Mystic is in their own body they returned to. Certain moves, may not be borrowed.

More on the Advanced classes in a bit.

Dr. Mr. Stark, I apologize.

>>9192854
Good point. Forgot to take that into consideration.

>>9192957
Troll the fag somewhere else please.

>>9192861
They did steal pokemon and stuff, which is still probably illegal.

I plan on singling out one of the out protagonists and giving them as much shit as possible, and always one upping them.

>>9193012
Yes, but *why* did they steal the pokemon? In the anime, it's evil for the sake of evil, fine for what the show is trying to get across, not so much for a more serious RPG. Again, stealing slowpoke for their tails might make sense, until you consider how easy they are to catch, and that the risks of being discovered or caught for outweigh the minor trouble of finding and catch Slowpokes, then setting up a breeding farm for them.

>>9193148
Arms Dealers makes sense to me, considering Red Gyarados, and the stuff in Pokemon Special.

Rockets are just the PokeMafia.

>>9193183
True. So, cruelty to pokemon in the name of creating more powerful specimens to sell? And other harmful acts like the radio transmissions on Gyrados Lake?

>>9193148
I've rocket as a more legitimate kind of thing, like the modern day mob, most of the stuff the do is legal (game corner, slowpoke tails, the bridge tournament) although of questionable morality. Underneath however they run extortion circles, underground fighting duels with the owner's pokemon on the line, and steal/sell dangerous and rare pokemon.

>>9193012

They could do pretty much anything they wanted. Pokemon are their tools. Could be like a mafia, or even an anti government coup in the making.

I've always wanted to say "yes" to that guy at the end of Nugget Bridge.

>>9193247

Proof you've been on 4chan to long: First thing you think of when you see the cut on the back of her hand is "Wow, she has a vagina on the back of her hand."

>>9193273
>I've always wanted to say "yes" to that guy at the end of Nugget Bridge.

You too? Fuck, that would have made an awesome game. Maybe I'll run a Team Rocket campaign for my group...

>>9193323
>"Vagina on the back of her hand? How unoriginal."
Fix'd.

>>9193325
Me three.

>>9192570
>>9193273
>>9193325

These posts got me thinking. The poke world seems to be heavily regulated, with government providing subsidies and handouts (free poke centre, free/subsidized starter pokemon, etc). Team Rocket's actions are usually deemed illegal, as they are not going along with the government regulations.

Team Rocket could be interpreted to be a right wing, pro free markets organization attempting to oust the current communist government.. or at least just trying to avoid their regulation through the creation of a black market.

Fuck, this thread/concept is looking better and better all the time. Before I saw this thread I thought the closest to a Pokemon RPG I could get was playing a 4.0 Shaman... but this is very promising.

The Buffet will be able to able to use Pokemon Moves such as Swords Dance or Clam Mind, useless to a human. But, once they Possess a pokemon, thos ebuffs will remain, and in leaving that pokemon, the Buffet could leave those buffs on the pokemon they Possessed, serving a support role.

The Guardian will be able to use protection Moves, Reflect, Light Screen, Safeguard, Defog, Protect, etc. In order to serve their team as a defender.

The Godspeaker will be able to steal the powers of the legendary pokemon. Their power will be like the words of gods, but in using a god's power they will attract very deadly attention.

>>9193566
Hell, Team Rocket could be actually working for the betterment of humanity at the expense of pokemon, a supportable political standpoint. After all, with pokemon being used as work forces and food, it's not that much of a stretch to see them becoming servants more than pets in a household. So less evil, more controversial and in opposition of the current government.

>>9192861
Generally, criminals are criminals. They steal, murder and try to grab at power for themselves.
Why? Make your own reasons per campaign.
Think modern setting villains, but then they have pokemon instead of RPG launchers.

>>9193734
could you answer
>>9192435
I'm interested too

Right now, the campaign I'm running has a lot to do with the major corporations in the pokemon world.
Mainly: Pokemon Storage Company, Silph Co., and Devon Co.

With CEOs dying and their heirs getting killed off as well, the major corporations which the Pokemon Nation heavily rely on are becoming untrustworthy.

Some are being passed over to different leaders that completely upset the balance of the entire pokemon system.

Especially when a new, cheap Poke Ball, which is arguably more effect then the old one, is being practically given away. And about 1.8 million are donated to the Pokemon Storage Company when one of their facilities are attacked and each Poke Ball needs replacing.

Some of my players' current worries:
What if someone can control everyone in those Poke Balls?
What if those Poke Balls are actually good, but they just fail?
Who is killing all of the CEOs?
How are they orchestrating murders that are spanning the entire country?
Why is Aqua so active in Kanto if Archie and Maxie are known to be dead?
Who will save their party member, Sam Silph, heir to the Silph Company?

>>9192435
Each pokemon now have 2 abilities.
You may have your pokemon gain their second one if you want, once they are above level 40.
They work simultaneously.

any pokemon rpg must mention the great corruptor

>>9194127
I am actually going to run Missingno as a BBEG in one of my future campaign I run.
Link to the sound of it approaching.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYWJDooLJGM

>>9194206
FUCKING NIGHTMARE FUEL.

>>9194206
IT'S COMING THROUGH THE MODEM OH GOD

>>9194206
AHHHHHHHHHHHH

>>9194206
THAT
>>9194127
WITH THIS PIC
>oh my fucking god, help me

>>9194127
I kinda imagine missingno. to be the pokemon devil or cthulthu

>>9194206
I hate dialup.

More on the Mystic:
The Channeler advanced class will allow you to use Borrow in more complex ways, like let another pokemon borrow a move from another pokemon, or borrow Moves without possession.

The Muse will be able to sooth great beasts and legends or ask for their help (a Cryptozoologist with a different style of play). But, you can't take Godspeaker and Muse since they act with legends in opposing ways.

That's what the Mystic looks like so far.

My bad, that above post was me.
Dropped my trip for a bit when I responded to another thread.

I was wondering if OP had more questions, and I was curious as to what the plots of any existing campaigns are?

>>9194514
so mystic has access to what kinds of pokemon to possess?

Yours?
Allies?
Wilds?
Opponents?

>>9194559
I'm waiting for the beta before i run one (not OP), i've decided on making a game that has heavy elements and themes drawn from Beyond Good and Evil.

>>9194574
Target pokemon.
They need to make a "possess" roll on d100, just like capture rolls, restraint rolls, breeding rolls, etc.
It's a harder roll then a capture roll, making it the hardest d100 roll in the game, but there is no roll need for your own pokemon.
You could potentially possess a bad guy's pokemon.

It's just the lifeless body thing. That thing takes extra damage if you aren't inside it and it's hurt.

>leave /v/ because too much pokemon
>come to /tg/, more pokemon
>start to rage
>read some of the topic
>stop raging
everythingwasbetterthanexpected.jpg

>>9193956
What about contradictory ones? Like, IIRC Lucario has one ability that prevents flinching and one ability that only takes effect when flinched (it then raises speed one stage).

Question. This could just be me but the ranger seems kinda... well underpowered.

Like. Your first two abilities are basically "Oh you catch a Pokemon but you can't fight in official battles and you need to pay to get him healed!"

And the second one is "This guy is basically more useless until you manage to do an actual battle with him."

Am I just missing something here? Please clarify.

>>9194559
Waiting for Beta, but I'm planning to run a game with my current group once it comes out. I'm thinking having it set a decade or so before RBY in Kanto, back when there were thought to be only a hundred or so pokemon. Cinnabar Mansion will still be active, the Sliph Co. building will be a burgeoning new company, and item/pokemon transfer systems will be a new and revolutionary innovation.

>>9194975

bump?

>>9194975
I'm guessing the GM is supposed to help you out some.

OH SHIT A FIRE
OH LOOK A WILD BLASTIOSE
BLASTIOSE COULD YOU PUT OUT THAT FIRE?

plus you get the pokemon you own personally also. they may not be as strong, but you're fielding more pokemon.

>>9194647
I sent you an E-mail Dr. Mr. Stark. Still waiting on that extra info.

>>9192458
>No switching in the first two rounds

What about moves like Baton Pass or U-turn? Can you get around it like that?

>>9195229
I'm guessing so; as they are moves explicitly for doing so.

>>9195229
>>9195262
Presumably, such underhanded tactics are banned in official gym battles.

>>9194975
ranger gets legal authority, remember just because you're better than a cop means you'll beat up a cop.

>>9195452
Not really underhanded. There's a limited number of pokemon that can learn those moves, though I'll admit that with the enlarged number of moves a pokemon can have, it doesn't have much impact with a "well it takes up one of their slots" argument.

>>9195452
>>9195499
It's using your brain, and as the other guy said it's a limited number of pokemon that can do so. I would allow it as the gym tests are there to see how smart/tough you are.

>>9195499
>>9195555
"No substitutions" means you can't switch out your pokemon, period.

>>9195606
Yeah, try again. I'll wait for Word of God on this, ie: what does Stark say.

>>9192675
Bullshit. All the girls have been playable in games. If you go by the manga, all but Wally have been central characters, as well.

I do find the doubling up on Silver kinda baffling, though.

>>9194880
I'll be adding 3rd and 4th abilities to each pokemon after beta so you'll end up picking 2 of them. Except for certain ones such as Shedinja who needs one of the abilities.
>>9194975
You can still catch pokemon. Just not with those features. Being able to borrow wild pokemon to overcome obstacle X is very useful.
>>9195229
You can, but whatever replaces the pokemon becomes one of the 3 allowed for that match. Which means the baton passer/u-turner will show up again in the 2nd or 3rd round anyway. But this time it's already known to the Gym leader and they may introduce a pokemon on their team who can easily take that pokemon down.

>>9195749
so i could use U-turn to bring the pokemon from the previous round into the current one?

>>9195606
Read >>9195749 and weep.

>>9195784
>and weep
You seem to be projecting your own butthurt-gaiafag self onto me.
Stop it.

>>9195749
So a Companion is a pokemon that can't be used in official battles, and has no pokeball, but will follow you all over the place?
And a Helpful is essentially the same thing as the pokemon you "tame" in Pokemon Ranger, and you can have as many as you like?

>>9195749
Plus Baton-passing on the first or second rounds would be useless as you have to switch the baton-catcher out immediately after you defeat that pokemon. However, if you save your baton-passer as your third pokemon and have at least one sweeper left, and can manage to pass it over to your best 'mon then welcome to rape city.

>>9195852
A helpful will do something for you and, if you take features for it, you can have up to 4 at the same time, plus your companion, plus your pokemon on your team. But Helpfuls will leave if they help you once. Companions stick around until you find a better pokemon to use as companion.

More about baton passing/u-turn.
It is a terrible idea to use these against gym leaders, unless you do it in a careful, well tested manner. Gym leaders WILL send out someone who can take the round if they see that baton passer/u-turner in the 1st or 2nd round. Your best bet is >>9195869. That's the only way I'd suggest you use it. The GM's guide is supposedly going to have many pre-made pokemon to destroy all comers and at least one per gym will have a way to stop that kind of tactic.

>going through pre-Alpha PDF
>see Gastly and Duskull as recommended starters
>my face
My only problem with this is that I do not remember Duskull having a Stage 2 evolution.

>>9196015
fourth gen it does, a bulky ghost called dusknoir

>>9196015

>>9196066
>>9196071
Why the fuck have I never seen this thing before?
I could've sworn I beat the Elite Four in Diamond...

>>9196071
>>9195999
>>9195749
Derp. Me.

DotDotDot, we won't be playing tonight. This weekend most likely. I've been busy lately, sorry for not updating you.

>>9196116
Wasn't in the main dex until platinum.
You have to trade with an item attached.
It's a pretty fun guy.

>>9196142
What about pokemon sizes? I think I remember the pokedex listing Nidoking as only around 5'2". That seems kinda silly to me. Is that going to be kept in P:TTA, or changed to something more reminiscent of the manga, or left to the GM?

>>9196174
Well that explains it, I don't have Platinum yet.
My DS has been missing for months, and my Diamond card was plugged into it.

My Diamond version has literally all of my good pokemon, except for my Blastoise and Zapdos. ._.

>>9196142
No prob. Glad I could get hold of you guys

>>9196211
The 'average' sizes are inside the pokedex, but i say in the bestiary that pokemon are anywhere from 50%-200% the average. GM normally will say if it's 'smaller then normal', 'average', 'really huge' when you catch it and you can write in their size when you fill out its stats.

>>9190464
Beedrill named Simon.
Great thing, or greatest thing?

>>9190597
Ooooo-shi-

thanks, stark. i was worried that the thread died since i couldn't find it on the first few pages. so when will the capabilities be up?

>>9192825
>>9192980
I fucking called it. What do I win?

>>9196287
Actually, it's more like 50%-200%---1000%-2000%.
Fucking giantass pokemon exist (ie: that giant dragonite from that one episode with a lighthouse), they're just not in the video games.

>>9194206
I'm scared out of my MIND

>>9196856
I'm sure you could make some encounters with HUGE pokemon if you wanted to. He probably means that that is the range for pokemon you can find and use.

>>9196856
Or the 50-60 foot tall Nidokings in the Safari Zone in that one Pokemon Special chapter.

>>9196825
you win pokemon tabletop adventures!

>>9196991
Fuck that. I want something of value.

>>9197031
You will play your pokemon, and you will LIKE IT.

>>9196287
you encounter a size 200% Wailord! It crushes the area by virtue of being so huge!

also could stark tell me what he thought the classes of yellow, green and silver are?

>>9196287

I am really loving this idea, but the idea behind the psychic and martial artist seems bad to me in light of the setting. Everything else is really cool, but the trainers don't fight or really engage physically with these creatures. That, in my view, is the whole point is to have the pokemon fight each other.

Perhaps they could instead train with the pokemon in the case of the martial artist to raise the pokemon's physical stats or the psychic could amplify the special stats of any specific pokemon.

>>9197098
Take a look at Pokemon Special (or Adventures or whatever), the manga. I didn't think those classes would fit until I got bored and read some of it. Then shit like Bruno and Yellow made me think again.

>>9197119

I am going to have to be honest, I haven't read the manga. I have only really played the games and I understand that there are reasons why those kind of mechanics would exist in the games. Perhaps I am missing something by not knowing about the events in the manga then?

>>9197079
Not Stark, but I'll wager a guess. Yellow's like a psychic who skipped the psychic part and went straight to Healer and Empath. Green seems to be a Breeder -> Evolver, and I thought Silver would be a Breeder -> Trader except Stark's description of the advanced class isn't anything like him.

>>9196928
You should totally be able to have a huge pokemon.

>>9197183
http://www.mangafox.com/manga/pok_mon_adventures/v01/c001/
Feel free to fix this deficiency in your life. It's good shit.

>>9197183
I would strongly suggest al least reading some of them, they're a decent read. Dr. Stark's game is based Heavily off the manga and it captures the mood and feel of how the game should be played.

>>9197183
Not really, it's just that in the manga battles are presented to be a bit more involved on the part of the trainer. Like half the time they're running when they toss out the pokeballs for no reason, trainers are often hit and injured by pokemon, and Bruno sends out his pokemon from pokeball nunchucks so they'll be moving faster and hit harder with their first attack. Most of the trainers tend to train themselves as much as their pokemon.

>>9197213
green seems to be focused on the raising of his pokemon so maybe a pusher(move tutor)?

>>9197031

>>9197316
I think you mean Blue.

>>9197316
>>9197326
Fuck i dunno, which ever one is the rival.(on the right)

>>9197257
That is fucking crazy. I suppose the manga is more GRIMDARK rather than the game where Team Rocket lets you wonder around their HQ after you beat a few of their crappy pokemon?

>>9197367
Blue Oak. Unless you think his last name is Okido, and you're a weeaboo faggot.

>>9197378
someone post that "don't move or my beedrill will drill you to death" pic, or the one where the arbok gets cut in half.

>>9196928
This.

>>9197079
Yellow: Healer/Empath/Evolver skipped prerequisites because she's a Mary Sue. But that's okay, we still love her.
Green: Ace Trainer, Breeder, Evolver
Silver: Ace Trainer, something, I don't know.

As for the manga influence, it's very much so there. It's one of the reasons why I started this project.

>>9197378
The further it goes the more hardcore the trainers get.

I'm on Crystal saga now (Spot-on with Capture specialist, by the way), and Kris is fucking hard fucking core.

>>9197378
Very grimdark. I love it to death. Satoshi Taijri once said it's the closet thing to what he'd want in the pokemon world in terms of storyline and how pokemon fights works out.

>>9197419
Not sure where the beedrill one is, but http://www.mangafox.com/manga/pok_mon_adventures/v01/c014/12.html

this thread is now pokegirls thread.

Pokemon Special Pokegirls Thread.

>>9197429
>yellow
>she
I'm just starting the yellow ark... I'm guessing that was a spoiler. Dammit.

>>9197920
Not really. You've seen her before. In the first chapter. When you see it, you'll know.

Here is the most updated alpha splatbook.
It's the most /tg/ will get for now and it is nearly everything except the fluff that Axiom, the champ he is, is adding and the editing Axiom has been doing as well.
It's also missing almost all of my pre-made GM stuff.
That'll come later. Eventually.

>Alpha Splatbook
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=E9TME6DZ

>>9198070
>>9198070
>Alpha Splatbook

Autosaging already? Time for an image dump.

Bump limit reached? Guess I'll call it a night.

Until next time /tg/

fuck it i'm going back to /v/ pokegeneral

>>9197230

You. You glorious fucker. I recognize that coloring style.

You glorious fucker.

I got a copy of one of those, in English, comic-book style, years ago. I lost it and I have -never- found anything like it again.

Thank you so much.

>>9198070
>Mystic Features

FUCK YOU STARK

>>9198255
Sure you're not thinking of this?

>>9198401

The only thing I remember is it had a rather... dangerous Psychic gym leader fight.

Like, possession and the main character nearly getting pasted at least once. But that doesn't seem to have the same coloring style.

I guess I'll know soon enough.

FUCK YEAH POKEMON TABLETOP

too bad the party's over. i guess everyone's reading the manga now?

>>9198450
that happens.

>>9198616

Well then, I was mistaken. But whatever. Two awesome Pokemon comics found in one thread. Works for me.