Pokemon Roleplay

I'm thinking about setting up a Pokemon RP. It would take place and be based on the Jhoto world (Since it's probably the best.) And we'd follow that storyline, eventually getting to Honen and that other place that I forget the name of and is filled with all those new and ugly pokemon. It'll follow the basic storyline of the game, except without the red head kid. Cause that's too important of a role to be an NPC, and shows up too infrequently to be a non NPC. One of the people will be the "Main character" who will follow the natural role of the character from the games. First come first serve on that.

Rules:

Setting up charcters:

-Your character can have 3-4 pokemon to start with. Over time you'll be able to capture others. No legendaries to start. (Articuno, Zapdos, ETC ETC. Stuff like Snorlax is okay.)

-To start, you can have 1 pokemon in it's 3rd evolution (EX: Salamence, Aggron, Chariard). One in it's second stage of evolution (Larion, Bagon, Charmeleon) And you must have at least 1 in it's first stage. (The first two rules are bendable to have lower forms. If you want to have pokemon that are set up: 2-2-1 Or 3-1-1 Or 1-2-1 ETC ETC ETC) IF you plan on having 4 pokemon to start, you must have two in their first stage.

-Eggs do not count as pokemon in your initial set up, however you can only have 1 egg.

Thus, with those above rules, you can have up to 5 pokemon to start technically. At best, your team will be: 3-2-1-1-egg.

Main Character starting position:

-The main charcter starts with one pokemon, but is allowed to capture two new pokemon within the first few days. Regardless of capturing rules.

-The main character starts with an Eevee. This cannot be changed. However you are allowed to pick the variant that it evolves into after some time in the RP has passed.

Capturing/Evolving Rules:

-To start, the Main character can capture up to two pokemon within the first 14 days of the RP.

-Characters outside the main character must wait 14 days before they are allowed to capture a new pokemon for themself.

-After the initial capture of the first pokemon for all players, a person must wait 14 days after they capture or evolve a pokemon before capturing another pokemon.

-If a player doesn’t post in the RP for more than 3 days without mentioning that they are leaving for some time, their count for when they can capture or evolve another pokemon halts. (EX: If I capture a pokemon, and then on the 4th day after, I disappear for 3 days. My count will remain at 7 days until I post in the RP again. Then the count will resume at 7 days when I return.)

-If you wish to evolve a pokemon you already have, you must wait 21 days after either evolving or capturing another pokemon.

-Egg hatching counts as an evolution.

-If you attempt to capture a pokemon, I will flip a coin IRL. Heads- You get it. Tails- you don’t. You’ll just have to trust me on that one. If I’m not around, the responsibility falls upon the main character to flip the coin. Unless that person capturing is the main character. If niether myself, nor the main character are available at the time, ask Masu. If none of us are available. Be patient.

-Capturing pokemon must be within context of the area. EX: You can’t get a water type, in something like a power plant. The only time this rule doesn’t apply, is when the main character starts and picks his/her second and third pokemon.

-If you capture up to 6 pokemon, you can switch out a pokemon from your inventory every 3 days. If you feel like it. However, if after the three days you don’t choose to use this ability, you can’t use it for another 3 days. (So if you use it on let’s say Monday, you can use it three days later, but if you don’t use it on that third day, you have to wait three days before you are able to use it again. This effect doesn’t apply to and is independent of evolution and Capturing.)

-Capturing legendaries will be dictated by me, when the time for a legendary to appear arises. If there is a specific legendary that you want your character to obtain, then send me a PM, and I will keep it in mind for when that time arises. First come first serve. (I can only claim one. I claim Zapdos. Srry Zapdos fans.) You can claim up to three. Place them in order of your want of them. EX:
1. Articuno
2. Moltres
3. Mewtwo
(Or something like that.)

Battling Rules:

-Type advantages apply. So play fair.

-Evolution advantages apply too. (EX: Aggron vs Piplup. Aggron would win despite type disadvantage.)

-Play fair. If you force all your opponents to lose to you, you will lose evolution/capturing privileges for 10 days, and your count for both of them will be set to 0.

-You can avoid battling at all. Unless you encounter a Team Rocket Member (Or one of those guys) or wish to capture another pokemon.

Character creation:

Character name-
Character age-
Character pokemon-
1.
2.
3.
(4).
(Egg).
Brief Summary of character personality/goals- (Main character’s goal is Pokemon league.)

If there are any questions, ask me.

I spent like 2 hours on these rules. If you want to debate some of them, that's okay.

From this moment on, I'm officially out of retirement.

I call main character.
But I don't have any info or anything yet...=x

BTW, can we nickname our pokemon?

Princess Pichu wrote:From this moment on, I'm officially out of retirement.

I call main character.
But I don't have any info or anything yet...=x

BTW, can we nickname our pokemon?

Yes you can. Standard rules from the pokemon world apply. Technically.


My character stuff. (Show you folks how it's dun.)

Character name- Mike McReary
Character age- 19
Character pokemon-
1. Aron (MetalMech)
2. Quilava (Inferno)
3. Flaffy (Haywire)

Brief Summary of character personality/goals- Born in Goldenrod, Mike lived his life training his pokemon like any other kid with a dream. His goal; one day be a Gym Leader. After several years of training, being beaten, unable to travel, losing money at the casino, Mike's dream slowly faded to the back of his mind behind his simple will to manage to survive. His goal on this journey: Get his life back on track, and manage to reach his childhood dream. However, his laziness, depression, and skepticism will get in the way more often than any other challenge.

This sounds cool I might participate.
I do have a couple of questions though.

-If one person is the main character, who are the rest of the characters? Is it going to be a group of trainers traveling together or something?

-Does the location of the trainer influence the Pokemon available for capture, and if so, by how much?

-Storyline: Gym Leaders or something else? Maybe a mix of gyms and other events like in the games? And if so, who'll be the leaders/random trainers?

-Why is this not styled after Mystery Dungeon

-Catching Pokemon w/ coin flip: Ah, but there are many factors that affect the odds of a successful capture (better Pokeballs, status effects, lowered HP, etc). Will these come into play?

-I think the time frames are a bit too long. Maybe half the number of days would be better- not sure about this though.

-I also think the starting Pokemon total/evolution stage is a bit too high for people just starting out, unless the idea is that the characters are already semi-experienced.

-Evolving a Haunter to a Gengar had better not require something weird like it does in the game I'm just saying

-Battles: A little more info about these would be cool. Probably the battles should be 3 vs. 3 at the most to keep battles from lasting for days.

That's all I could think of sorry for word explosion

-If one person is the main character, who are the rest of the characters? Is it going to be a group of trainers traveling together or something?

Rest of the characters are buddies. Probably a big group. I was thinking about incorporating how you could be a member of Team Rocket or something. But I couldn't figure out a way for that to work outside of them being out of the picture for a while or making them really annoying like Jessie and James. Which might ruin a person's idea for their character. If I can think of something, or someone else has an idea, then we'll come up with it.

-Does the location of the trainer influence the Pokemon available for capture, and if so, by how much?

Location matters very loosely. Only when it would be completely illogical. If we're in a desert, then you won't be able to get water pokemon. However, if you're in a field, then you can pretty much get anything. You won't be able to catch 2nd evolution pokemon till later in the RP. (Around after the Jasmine Gym Battle.)

-Storyline: Gym Leaders or something else? Maybe a mix of gyms and other events like in the games? And if so, who'll be the leaders/random trainers?

The storyline will be pretty much exactly like the games. We'll toss in our own events and ideas too. If we have enough people, we can put that in events focusing on those people as well. EX: If a character is missing a friend, we can go look for them, or something like that. Except not as cliche and lame.

As for the Gym leaders and NPCs, we'll take turns playing them ourselves. I'll play most of them myself. Since I'm the gamemaster (Not really. But I want a title with "master" in it.) Most of that responsibility will fall on me.

-Why is this not styled after Mystery Dungeon

Cause.....
....That's a good idea too. We can do that RP at some other time and place.

-Catching Pokemon w/ coin flip: Ah, but there are many factors that affect the odds of a successful capture (better Pokeballs, status effects, lowered HP, etc). Will these come into play?

Pokeballs-All pokeballs (Save the Masterball) will have equal say in the capture. This may seem unfair, but also remember that higher evolved pokemon will have equal chance to lower level. So it all works out evenly.
Status effects will not have any effect on capture. But they do make the actual battle easier.
-Lowered HP will be a requirement to have a chance. Obviously you can't walk up to a Ryhorn and throw a pokeball at it. A battle will be required if you want to capture it. Unless you have the Master Ball. Which I'm not even sure I'll throw into this mess.

Also, the battles won't be as in depth as the game. I mean, I'm not a team of game developers paid to come up with a complex system. Just a fanboy. With too low of patience to do it. Make it realistic when you battle a pokemon. One move won't be enough to make it catchable.
Also also, you don't have to worry about a pokemon "fainting" and being unable to catch it.

-I think the time frames are a bit too long. Maybe half the number of days would be better- not sure about this though.

I chose those days cause I don't want people to abuse it. I'm more trying to encourage people to focus on the story and character relationships in the RP, rather than "catchem all!"

-I also think the starting Pokemon total/evolution stage is a bit too high for people just starting out, unless the idea is that the characters are already semi-experienced.

Well. It all depends on that character's ....well character. If they ARE an experience pokemon trainer, those are the limitations. However, if you're also a starting out trainer, you can have all your pokemon at stage 1. You can have less than 3 pokemon too. 3-4 is just my reccomended amount. Though the max is 4.

-Evolving a Haunter to a Gengar had better not require something weird like it does in the game I'm just saying

No. Stuff like that was a way for Nintendo to force you to buy two of their products and game players in order to get you to "catchem all" and make more money for themselves. Seeing as this is a non-profit thing, there's no need for me to get money from doing something like that. As awesome as it would be to do so.

I always thought that whole thing was retarted anyway.

-Battles: A little more info about these would be cool. Probably the battles should be 3 vs. 3 at the most to keep battles from lasting for days.

Most battles will probably be one pokemon per person. Unless it's a Gym battle. In which case it will be up to three.

Sometimes we will do 2 on 2 battles. However, that won't be often. Unless it's four trainers involved.

Right-o
All of those are sound decisions

I don't know how items will work, but how about this for Pokeballs: To attempt to catch a second-stage evolution, you need a Great Ball, etc.

One last question about battles- will we be using the 4 moves system, or can we be more creative?
(For example, "Koffing used SLUDGE" versus "Koffing tackled Sandslash and followed up by spitting acid at its eyes, then floated back and waited for its counterattack")

CAT=BREAD wrote:Right-o
All of those are sound decisions

I don't know how items will work, but how about this for Pokeballs: To attempt to catch a second-stage evolution, you need a Great Ball, etc.

One last question about battles- will we be using the 4 moves system, or can we be more creative?
(For example, "Koffing used SLUDGE" versus "Koffing tackled Sandslash and followed up by spitting acid at its eyes, then floated back and waited for its counterattack")

Hm. I'm sure I could incorporate the other balls.

EX:
For the beginning (Up until Goldenrod) Pokeballs take one coin flip.
After Goldenrod- Pokeballs take two heads, Great balls take one.
After Jasmine gym battle - Pokeballs -3 Great Balls - 2 Ultra ball -1

In fact, that's not a bad idea.

And here's the format for legendaries:
Pokeballs: 6 Great Balls: 4 Ultra Balls: 2

As for moves: No. You're not limited to 4 moves. However, pokemon can't learn moves they wouldn't naturally be able to get. (Either TMs or leveling up.) EX: Charmeleon can't learn Surf.

I'm be interested in this, but it may be awhile before I have my character up....

Rozencrutz wrote:I'm be interested in this, but it may be awhile before I have my character up....

Sa'right. Mine is the only one that's up right now. So it's not a big deal.

TLS wrote:Character name- Sothe Holerath
Character age- 14
Character pokemon-
1. Treecko
2. Ivysaur
3. Weavile
(4).
(Egg).
Brief Summary of character personality/goals- He wants to be the very best, like noone ever was, to catch them is his real test, to train them is his cause.

He started his quest to be a poke'trainer after he found out that many gym leaders were female and figured if he caught a few legendaries he could atleast get laid (maybe take over the world on the side)

He was born in a town he describes as a "bunghole" and his favorite food is Kentucky Fried Torchic.

He ultimatly wants to bitch Team Rocket since they drove his family's store out of buisness...although he admits he's in it for the poon more so then the revenge.

I'm not even going to dignify that with an insult.

Mufasa wrote:I'm not even going to dignify that with an insult.

I don't see anything too wrong with it...maybe I've missed something.

I will figure out my character out in 2 days since tomorrow and today I will be busy

Catbread wrote:

Mufasa wrote:I'm not even going to dignify that with an insult.

I don't see anything too wrong with it...maybe I've missed something.

It was tottally in character for me.

TLS wrote:

Catbread wrote:

Mufasa wrote:I'm not even going to dignify that with an insult.

I don't see anything too wrong with it...maybe I've missed something.

It was tottally in character for me.

I'd get into a discussion about it. But this isn't the place for it.

Mufasa wrote:

TLS wrote:

Catbread wrote:

Mufasa wrote:I'm not even going to dignify that with an insult.

I don't see anything too wrong with it...maybe I've missed something.

It was tottally in character for me.

I'd get into a discussion about it. But this isn't the place for it.

Where is the place?

OC time go go go

Name: Michael Katz
Age: 19
Appearance: Kind of short. Wears glasses and has long, curly hair.
Starting Pokemon: Gastly (M), Magnemite, Staryu

Michael moved to the Johto region from Saffron City recently. He is slightly peeved about this. An exploration enthusiast, he only recently discovered that traveling with Pokemon allowed him to explore in all manner of otherwise inaccessible places. As a result, his Pokemon are still fairly new, besides his Gastly, which has been living with him for a while. His policy is only to do what interests him, but suffers from critically low self-confidence and tends to assume that every bad situation is a hopeless one.

Ok, here's my OC:
I haven't RPed in awhile, so my OC might suck...

Name: Jenna Reeves
Age: 18
Appearence: https://2img.net/h/oi30.tinypic.com/2j9vro.png
Starting Pokemon:
Eevee (Eon) (male)
Pichu (No name) (female)
Ninetales (Ashburn) (female)

Story/Personality: Originally born in Saffron (sp?) in the Kanto region, her and her family moved to New Bark town in Johto, away from the hustle and bustle of the city. She was rather sheltered, and didn't go out much. She studies about pokemon and battling often, and decided she wanted to go see and much as she could with her own two eyes, and work on challenging the Pokemon League while doing so. She's good with computers and loves technology. She's quite reserved and quiet, but'll open up over time. She also tends to be blunt and over-stresses herself often with training and studies. Her favorite pokemon is Pichu. She brings her's along with her where ever she goes.

I also figured I should give the pokemon genders. =x

You CAN edit your charcter before we start the RP. And you can join in while it's going on. Just make a character sheet and introduce yourself in the story.

Princess Pichu wrote:I also figured I should give the pokemon genders. =x

Oh yeah I forgot about that - edit'd

*Edited my original sheet.*

Character name- Mike McReary
Appearance- Wears faded old blue jeans, black shoes, a black vest over a green t-shirt with the sleeves ripped off, and a black newsboy hat.
Character age- 19
Character pokemon-
1. Aron (MetalMech) Male
2. Quilava (Inferno) Male
3. Flaffy (Haywire) Male

Brief Summary of character personality/goals- Born in Goldenrod, Mike lived his life training his pokemon like any other kid with a dream. His goal; one day be a Gym Leader. After several years of training, being beaten, unable to travel, losing money at the casino, Mike's dream slowly faded to the back of his mind behind his simple will to manage to survive. His goal on this journey: Get his life back on track, and manage to reach his childhood dream. However, his laziness, depression, and skepticism will get in the way more often than any other challenge.

But I edited for Poke'genders and Appearence anyway.

Character name- Sothe Holerath
Character age- 14
Appearence- Medium Height and weight. Brown hair and eyes. Black Fedora, Black T-Shirt, Green Suede Jacket, Blue Jeans and gymshoes.
Character pokemon-
1. Treecko (Male)
2. Ivysaur (Male)
3. Weavile (Male)
(4).
(Egg).
Brief Summary of character personality/goals- He wants to be the very best, like noone ever was, to catch them is his real test, to train them is his cause.

He started his quest to be a poke'trainer after he found out that many gym leaders were female and figured if he caught a few legendaries he could atleast get laid (maybe take over the world on the side)

He was born in a town he describes as a "bunghole" and his favorite food is Kentucky Fried Torchic.

He ultimatly wants to bitch Team Rocket since they drove his family's store out of buisness...although he admits he's in it for the poon more so then the revenge.

Character Name-Eric Hershel
Character Age-19
Appearance-A hefty black teen, always wearing Shorts and a plain t-shirt(changes colors each day) with a necklace with a ring connected to it. Simple Silver shoes with a touch of blue.

Pokemon:
Naoto-(Espeon) Female
Chie- (Leafeon) Female
Teddie- (Glaceon) Male
FYI im using the names of my actual pokemon from platinum before you guys go "Wth P4 names D:"


Brief Character Synopsis:
Eric lived in Kanto for the first ten years of his life, living his early years as an eevee obsessed youth. When he vacationed with his parents to the johto reigon, he found out there were two new eeveeloutions, Espeon and Umbreon. Delighted at this, his parents took him to (whatever the place is called in D/P) to show him the other eeveeloutions. He returned to Kanto with a Glaceon his father caught for him, but he wanted them all. So at the age of 17, his parent's finally allowed him to leave on his own, and he moved into Jhoto to catch Espeon and Umbreon. He originally planned to leave as soon as he caught them to move on to (the D/P place) to get the last eevees, but Jhoto grew on him, and he decided to stay there, running an eevee house, where he teaches all about eevees and raises them for those two young to battle, or those who dont have the time to do so.

Just a heads up for those I'll be RPing with:

1)I haven't RPed in forever.
2)I'm used to doing it in script.
3)My prose SUCKS.
and 4)My posts are gonna be kinda small-ish until I get the hang of it...

Princess Pichu wrote:Just a heads up for those I'll be RPing with:

1)I haven't RPed in forever.
2)I'm used to doing it in script.
3)My prose SUCKS.
and 4)My posts are gonna be kinda small-ish until I get the hang of it...

You'll get the hang of it. I'm sure there are some people that haven't RPed for a while.

Mufasa wrote:

Princess Pichu wrote:Just a heads up for those I'll be RPing with:

1)I haven't RPed in forever.
2)I'm used to doing it in script.
3)My prose SUCKS.
and 4)My posts are gonna be kinda small-ish until I get the hang of it...

You'll get the hang of it. I'm sure there are some people that haven't RPed for a while.

Yeah, but still. My posts are gonna be really small...