Rune_Alchemist

Imaginary District: Youkai, Magic, and Youth, An Urban Fantasy RP

As in, have them walk up and start questioning the girl about the whereabouts of the cat and write the group arriving. Because that's not exactly Shina's strong suit.

Imaginary District: Youkai, Magic, and Youth, An Urban Fantasy RP

So, who wants to write the group going after the cat arriving there? Not sure Shina is the best one for the job xD

Pokémon: Start

@Rune_Alchemist Well... um... Okay! I mean, catching as many as possible is the idea in the game, but you're obviously free to roleplay as you like! ... So THAT'S why you wanted that wish-list, because unless you meet the Pokémon you really want, you'll be stuck with what you currently have, huh? Because you can't catch what you're half-hearted about... ... ... Hah.

Having the Pokémon in the PC is never once treated as a bad thing in the games, and as such it will not be in this roleplay either. I'd just like to point that out.

@PlatinumSkink

I mean, it might not be publicly treated as a bad thing, but that isn't likely to stop some people from perceiving it as...perhaps not bad, but questionable. Claire's certainly not going to like it regardless of how it's viewed by the majority of people.

And I mean, it seems to me something that Team Virtue might find bad or questionable at least considering their own motives. Why keep seven hundred or so pokemon in a PC/being taken care of by the professor if you're never going to use them? No one person has that much time on their hands to be able to do that. There's not enough time in the world to properly train that many pokemon.

But yes. That's why I like the list. Because unlike the last RP, Lynn who would have just caught every pokemon she came across for money and just for giggles regardless of what it was and use it, Claire's only going to catch pokemon she's 100% certain she likes. I've come up with a list of about twenty seven she'll like using. Aside from those, though, she's not going to catch any unless she's being forced to, to overcome some challenge...and then she'll probably release them/give them to someone else later.

And she'll feel terrible about it. Like, really depressed. Probably won't leave wherever she's staying for a few days. Is that you know, nice? Probably not, but Claire's a bit selfish and would only use/do things she likes.

But we'll cross that bridge when we get there.

Character development, ho~

@Delta44
Ahahaha, thanks xD

I understand that this is more about story than realism and stuff. I get that, I do. that's why this really isn't a big deal for me, I just wanted to state my opinion because I have an opinion and everyone must hear it!~

More seriously, it's just offending my world building senses a bit, but that's fine too. It's not my world, not everything has to make logical sense to me. For example, in my opinion the system is set up is set up for trainers to research gym leaders teams, get pokemon perfectly designed to counter them, and then never use them again once they beat them. It just seems like to me, it promotes 'thinking of pokemon like tools.' You have to think of not only the player characters when building the world, but also how things would affect the NPCs and other random people of the world.

and pfft. Claire's gonna punch Ren if she does that to her. Like, seriously, just BAM, punched right in the face after using teleport to get right next to her xD

I think having these two starting out having a pokemon battle and then having it devolve into a fistfight would be hilarious xD

Life in a different world [A Re:Zero setting / Fantasy RP] (Accepting!)

Well, I was going to be waiting on Slyboy to post for Grian since he kind of needs to.

But I'll get a post up with Tsuiho once I wake up a bit.

Conra Chronicles - Encroaching Darkness

Sorry for the delay my friends. I am hospitalized and I made progress today so I was doing tests and stuff. I'll start on my posts again right now.

@Lady Sven

I hope everything is okay!

But that's cool, I'm still here! Take as much time as you need~

Pokémon: Start

I mean, that's fine and all I've just never done that since well, it seems a little...upsetting to me to go off and catch a bunch of pokemon that will just sit around in your PC box or wherever they usually go in this setting. I'd never capture another pokemon just for the sake of beating a Gym Leader without the intent to make it a permanent part of my team.

Claire wouldn't either, hence the whole kind of problem with her probably not capturing a lot of Pokemon...which I'll deal with when the time comes if it becomes an issue, but eh.

anyways, that's enough of that. Just useless opinion throwing at the moment~ xD

Pokémon: Start

xD

Well, that's a bit better for me. Though, I'm still not too sure about the gym stuff.

Completely crushing someone in a battle is no fun, regardless whether you're 'qualified' or not. You don't learn anything as a trainer from completely one-shotting and crushing everyone with a full team of six fully evolved pokemon. You miss out on the particular strategies and the usage of more subtle pokemon moves instead of just hyperbeaming/oneshotting everything to oblivion.

At least, I think that's what gyms should be more or less about. A good challenge, so the trainer has a chance to learn and grow as a person. If I was a gym leader, I'd refuse to give someone a badge that did that, league rules be dammed xD

And I mean, obviously they don't have to be type speicfic. I was just saying that it would encourage a trainer to build a team specifically designed to battle that leader if they knew what their pokemon were. Say a gym leader had a Bisharp, that trainer could go out and just get a fighting type to counter it, beat the gym leader and never use the fighting type again. Which, in my opinion is just...well, makes you a bad person xD

But well, I dunno, I've never really been one to capture and use pokemon for their types and weaknesses and I guess that's just bleeding over onto here a bit. I normally just capture a team of six, maybe seven or eight pokemon and use them throughout the games...I dunno, I never was really big into catching them all.

Pokémon: Start

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Gotta side with the GM here in terms of the gyms. Leaving it ambiguous as to just how tough the gyms are, it prevents the notion of "grinding" just before taking on a gym in order to reach a certain level. It doesn't sound as organic and real if you put digits to it. Now this does go back to why our Pokemon have levels but that is to keep track of their relative power and movelists and such. Other trainers and gyms don't necessarily have to have that because the GM will probably cater to the narrative, like if a trainer we encounter is really good, we might have difficulty or lose. Which is fine because that stuff happens, ya know. Regardless, I'm sure the GM has in mind the relative strengths of the gyms so I imagine it will be consistent like if you face a gym in Cooldome and lose horribly and if someone else comes with a relatively same level, they will likely lose in the same manner. But come back later and face the gym, you'll find that you've done a lot better but you may or may not still be ready for that gym. That's super organic as I doubt everyone would know every other pokemon's level.

@Pirouette

Still doesn't stop someone from getting a full team of six fully evolved pokemon before challenging a single gym leader. If I may use a Dark Souls/Bloodborne example here...you fight the boss, you repeatedly get your ass handed to you. So you get pissed, go and level some. Then you come back and completely crush the boss because you're an over leveled scrub that can one-shot most people. The victory is completely hollow.

Using the origins method, it doesn't deter trainers from fighting the gym. It gives them a good challenge to test their skills against, whilst still being attainable if they lose and gives them less incentive to do the above.

Set lists and levels doesn't do that. The only way it's like that in the games is because of the story.

But well, that's just my opinion and as I said, the might GM can do what he wants xD

EDIT: IT also means a trainer could research the gym leaders pokemon and then just build a team designed to perfectly counter them.

Also 3 Pokemon is sleek and probably easier to think of a lineup and potential substitutes for the gyms. Also I think in competitive Pokemon, there has been several instances of using only 3.

@Pirouette

As someone who absolutely hates competitive pokemon, I can't comment on that because competitive pokemon is broken as fuck xD

As someone who also GM'ed a few pokemon RP's before, we never had a Gym leader had a full team of six - five was the most they could have as per League Rules. We also had a thing to where one pokemon battle = one collab. Meaning let's say...Onix Vs Wartortle would have been on post. Granted the RP never got far because it was a private RP and my friends are a bunch of lazy noncommittal fucks.

But well, I will say the main reason this kinda upsets me, as I was planing on Claire's final team consisting of six pokemon that worked well together rather than alone. gonna have to make me change some things that I envisioned for Claire.

Which kinda is a mood killer as I will likely have to change her character a bit.

The 3v3 just also sort of...doesn't really fit in with the spirit of pokemon in my opinion, but eh.

Also, totally not picking on you @Rune_Alchemist, just using your lines as an outline.

@Pirouette

aahaha, it's fine xD
Didn't think you were at all.

Pokémon: Start

Gotta, be honest, the way Origins handles the gyms I've always thought was the best way to handle them because no matter the gym you get a battle appropriate for your level...well, unless you grind all your pokemon to level like, fifty but that's probably not going to happen.

But that also is a thing with the 'set gym leaders'. (I think its also easier to abuse that way.) If it's a set thing, then someone can just grind their pokemon to level fifty and just completely crush a gym without any skill whatsoever.

But eh, whatever you think is best, mighty GM xD

to be honest though, the not being able to use all six of your pokemon for a thing is kind of a major turn off...but eh. I'll deal.

Conra Chronicles - Encroaching Darkness

Mornin y'all!
Catch-up time

@Dark Light

mornin? It's 10 PM here :P