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Post by FDSuprema on Jul 16, 2016 6:23:07 GMT -5
Hello! Tony and I have been talking a whole lot about playing this fan-made tabletop game based on Pokemon, called Pokemon Tabletop United, which will be referred to hereafter as PTU. You can find out a bit about PTU and the fan-game it was based on, Pokemon Tabletop Adventures, at this link here, though I'll explain a bit about what I know about it here too. Apologies in advance if I describe things a bit weirdly; apart from our very brief ZVDnD game that never got finished, I've never played a tabletop game before(Though my desire to is what motivates me in getting this game off the ground). Pokemon Tabletop United, PTU, is a tabletop game based around concepts introduced in the Pokemon franchise, and allows you to play as any kind of trainer you may want to. You can tackle the Pokemon League and gather badges, you can be a Pokemon Coordinator and participate in Pokemon Contests, you can just be out there to catch 'em all, or have whatever sort of made up goals you feel like. Characters and pokemon alike all have skills, like acrobatics, athletics, pokemon education, perception, intuition, just to name a few. They also each have their own battle stats, much like in the core pokemon series, with HP, Attack, Defense, Sp.Attack, Sp.Defense, and Speed. As this suggests, trainers could, if they wanted, assist directly in battles against wild pokemon or even be attacked directly by unsavory pokemon or trainers. The game is really in-depth, and there'll be a whole lot of learning for all of us involved. The core handbook(Which I don't expect ANY of you to go and read the whole thing of, only skimming or reading certain sections might be necessary) is just under 500 pages long, though a big amount of those pages are lists of stuff. There's also various expansions we can touch upon if anyone'd like. Really, not a whole lot about the campaign is set in stone yet, and I'm waiting til we get a group together to talk about these kinds of things. For example, which region would we wanna start in? Or would we wanna make up our own region? If we do do this, we'll likely be using Discord for Voice Chat while using a site called roll20.net to run the game. We could set up a monthly or bi-weekly time to have campaign sessions, but we don't HAVE to have a set in stone schedule if we can't agree on one. I realize this is a shot in the dark, but I personally really really wanna do this. If you have any questions, lemme know, Tony and I'll be glad to try and answer any you might have. You can find the Pokemon Tabletop United Version 1.5 zip file here
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Post by Swim on Jul 18, 2016 10:52:36 GMT -5
Sounds like fun, I'd be interesting in joining a group for this if/when we get things off the ground.
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Post by FDSuprema on Jul 18, 2016 16:07:06 GMT -5
We'd love to have ya! Like I said in the above post, I've personally never really done a tabletop before, though I've been reading a lot in preparation for this and I did a whole lot of reading way back when we tried ZVDnD, so hopefully I won't suck as a GM.
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Post by FDSuprema on Jul 20, 2016 7:07:52 GMT -5
For those who might be thinking about joining, I figured I'd toss the list of Pokemon that'll be eligible as your trainer's starter if you'd like to join. Note that this is quite a large list, and I'm not limiting to the official game's starters, mainly cause there's no purpose in doing so. The Grass/Fire/Water starters exist to teach new players about the type matchup system, but in this case I don't think it's necessary. So, here's that there list of starters.
Bulbasaur Chikorita Treecko Turtwig Snivy Chespin Charmander Cyndaquil Torchic Chimchar Tepig Fennekin Squirtle Totodile Mudkip Piplup Oshawott Froakie Abra Aron Azurill/Marill Bellsprout Budew Caterpie Cleffa/Clefairy Duskull Gastly Geodude Gothita Hoppip Horsea Igglybuff/Jigglypuff Klink Lillipup Litwick Lotad Machop Magby Magnemite Mareep Nidoran M/F Oddish Pichu/Pikachu Pidgey Pidove Poliwag Porygon Ralts Rhyhorn Roggenrola Sandile Seedot Sewaddle Shinx Slakoth Solosis Spheal Starly Swinub Timburr Togepi Tympole Vanillite Venipede Weedle Whismur Wurmple Zubat
Other Possibilities: Fletchling, Scatterbug, Flabébé
So there ya go. One final note, considering having a get-together with those of us who wanna play this to do a character building session, so we can all work together in getting characters off the ground and constructed, cause it's actually a pretty involved process. I'll make a post on the ZV Facebook group and here once the time and day's been decided. But don't let that stop you from starting your character building process on your own if you'd like! Everything you need is included in the PTU 1.5 package in the first post up top, and don't hesitate to ask for help or clarification! I'll probably be around either in the ZV IRC chatroom or in the ZV Discord chatroom.
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Post by Vile on Jul 20, 2016 14:58:44 GMT -5
Poliwag is all i needed to see. Vile is happy
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Post by Swim on Jul 20, 2016 21:58:31 GMT -5
How many players are ideal for a game like this? Have you got a min/max group size in mind?
And how soon would you like to get this started?
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Post by Tony on Jul 21, 2016 2:23:13 GMT -5
How many players are ideal for a game like this? Have you got a min/max group size in mind? And how soon would you like to get this started? I'll fill in for this on. I say min should be 3... I think that's the lowest number of players and not have things be boring. Max... I'm not sure. I would say about 7, because anything beyond that will slow the game down.
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Post by FDSuprema on Jul 21, 2016 16:23:54 GMT -5
How many players are ideal for a game like this? Have you got a min/max group size in mind? And how soon would you like to get this started? Like Tony says, 3 and 7 are a good threshold. And personally I'd like to get things off tbe ground soonish. If we spend this weekend getting characters made and establishing what we all wanna do, I can spend the next week setting the game up and we can start next weekend.
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Post by Swim on Jul 21, 2016 20:46:22 GMT -5
Sounds good, I believe we have 4 players currently unless you're just going to GM and not roll a character.
I was reading through the manual and it said to ask the GM about the setting and how it'll relate to character creation. Are we 10 year old kids unleashed onto the world, veteran trainers, students at some university, new grunts for Team Rocket? Sorry if I'm getting ahead of myself, I usually put way too much time into character creation.
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Post by FDSuprema on Jul 21, 2016 22:16:22 GMT -5
Sounds good, I believe we have 4 players currently unless you're just going to GM and not roll a character. I was reading through the manual and it said to ask the GM about the setting and how it'll relate to character creation. Are we 10 year old kids unleashed onto the world, veteran trainers, students at some university, new grunts for Team Rocket? Sorry if I'm getting ahead of myself, I usually put way too much time into character creation. The world's kind of a cross between the anime and the games, setting out age is anywhere from 14-18, but you will be new trainers. I'll just be GMing, I think it'll be difficult enough coming up with things to do without having my own player character in the mix! Though it might end up being 4 players plus GM, cause Tony said he might have someone he knows wanna join. Characters will start with 5000 pokemon dollars, or whatever you guys wanna call 'em. I'm still coming up with a starter shop for you guys to purchase stuff and whatnot before we begin. Go ahead and buy whatever you want, though I'll suggest stocking up on any travel gear you think you might need and any Crafting Sets or Kits any of your feats use before buying consumables(Though you'll need consumables too. Try and find a nice balance.) Starter pokemon will be level 5, trainers will start at level 1. My question for you guys is, do you guys have any sort of expectations for specific adventures, or locales you might wanna do? Or pokemon you might eventually wanna capture? Examples being ancient ruins, certain cities, and whatnot. Also where do you guys wanna start? Do we wanna do this in a completely new region, or base it in one of the regions from the games, like Kanto, Johto, etc? And if the latter, which one and which city would we wanna start at?
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Post by Swim on Jul 21, 2016 23:24:54 GMT -5
Do you already have some general plot in mind for the campaign or were you going to piece it together after everyone gave their input?
For my part I'm interested in going through the gym circuit. If you didn't already have gym leaders in mind I thought it might be interesting to give them a theme rather than a type specialty, like one gym leader specializes in physical attacks, another special or speed, and their team is focused around that idea. I would like at some point to clash with an evil team or your choosing/creation. And I think it'd also be neat to have a rival character who is not Tony or Vile.
Regarding Pokemon themselves, I'm not all that interested in catching them all. I was thinking maybe each of us sends you a PM with the 'mons we're interested in and you can build their encounters into logical points in the campaign. Maybe mix and match our lists a little bit, give us a reason to trade with one another.
As far as locations I didn't really have anything in mind. I guess I'd prefer to stick with Kanto or run through an entirely new region. If we did Kanto I think starting in Viridian City is fine, or maybe Saffron because of its central starting location. Both have decent sized population and house one type of trainer school or another.
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Post by FDSuprema on Jul 22, 2016 5:42:40 GMT -5
Honestly, Plot I kinda wanna piece together once I know what everybody wants out of this, and once everybody's got a character built and ready. This'll help piece together a nice, cohesive, and hopefully engaging plotline. Of course, it won't be all plot all the time, and a Gym Circuit sounds good. I really like your idea for themed gyms, too, so we might see something like that.
I'm starting to think Kanto might be a good region to do as well, since it's my first time GMing, it'll take a little bit of the stress of world building off my shoulders, though even still it's not going to be exactly the same Kanto that we battled through in our childhood(Or even through the re-releases!).
As for sending me lists of Pokemon you might want, that's a good idea. Like you said, it'll help with encounter building and whatnot, so I'll suggest that Tony and Vile do the same.
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Post by Tony on Jul 22, 2016 5:45:28 GMT -5
I don't really know how much experience you two have with tabletops, so I figured that... in order to help out... I should just go ahead and make my character as well as his starter Pokemon so you have an idea of what a finished character sheet looks like. It will also make it so I can help out when we do the whole character creation thing.
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Post by FDSuprema on Jul 22, 2016 7:09:17 GMT -5
I don't really know how much experience you two have with tabletops, so I figured that... in order to help out... I should just go ahead and make my character as well as his starter Pokemon so you have an idea of what a finished character sheet looks like. It will also make it so I can help out when we do the whole character creation thing. Just an FYI, Tony used Foxit Reader's Typewriter feature to do those sheets. If you have a PDF reader than can do the same, or have your own way of filling out the sheets, then cool. Otherwise, I'd suggest trying out Foxit Reader. The free version is all you'll need, won't even need to use the free trial of the paid version. Tis a nice reader, been using it for years. You can get Foxit Reader here: Foxit Reader
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Post by Swim on Jul 25, 2016 21:09:42 GMT -5
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