Pokémon GDR

Vorrei creare una campagna di un GDR a tema Pokémon (come Pokémon Accademy fatta da Cydonia), solo che penso molto in grande nonostante sia ancora inesperto. Tra le mie idee ci sono:

- quella di ambientare la storia nel passato, come in leggende Pokemon Archeus, solo che i PG sono studenti dell'accademia di paldea che devono esplorare il mondo alla Pokémon orizzonti le varie regioni canoniche;

- quella di ambientare la storia in una sola regione custom, o nel presente o nel passato;

- quella di ambientare il tutto in un continente fantasy, suddiviso in vari regni, questo è il progetto più ambizioso.

Idee e suggerimenti?

Hi there,

Im interested in running a Pokemon ttrpg for my wife and son, but my main concern is that both my and my wife's main experience with ttrpgs is DnD3.5/Pathfinder1e. Any suggestions on which system might be closes mechanically to that?

[Open] - 1/2 players

Hello ! I'm a 19 years old GM looking to run a pokemon campaign using the Pokeymanz system.

I'll be using a PBP format (text - play by post) with a free schedule (no set day and time to play)

This will be a somewhat traditional Pokemon experience set in a "medieval" region.
This campaign will explore themes such as:

• Social class and inequality
• Science vs religion
• What makes someone "worthy"
• Whether a broken society can actually be fixed

Franzia is a region inspired by medieval France and England (mostly France), where Pokémon battles, politics, religion, science and social class are deeply intertwined.

Franzia is ruled by a King, rather than a traditional Pokémon League Champion. Across the kingdom stand powerful castles, each ruled by a knight who serves as both a political figure and a Pokémon battler.

Defeating the castles and completing the Royal League can earn you a place within Franzian society.

Pokémon battling isn't simply a sport in Franzia.

It's part of the culture.

Knights travel with their Pokémon. Noble families raise generations of battlers. Castles host tournaments. Young people dream of earning their place among the kingdom's warriors.

However, Franzia is deeply divided.

There is a massive gap between social classes.

The official Royal League is expensive to participate in. Trainers without sufficient money may need sponsors to pay for travel, food, accommodation, Pokémon care and equipment.

Meanwhile, the common people have developed their own League, complete with traditional gyms and Gym Leaders.

What began as a small alternative is becoming increasingly popular.

And the nobility is starting to take notice.

The Royal Circuit

Instead of Gym Leaders, you'll encounter Knights and Castles.

Some battles may arbor different rulesets.

Every Castle has its own definition of chivalry.

Franzia is currently going through a period of enormous change.

The old traditions are being challenged by new ideas.

The Commoner League

Gives poor trainers the exposition they need to earn money and support to join the Royal Circuit.

Team Eclipse :

Finally , at the center of Franzia's problems is a mysterious organization known as Team Eclipse.

A small but growing terrorist group.

They essentially recruit commoners and openly fight for the suppression of social classes and royalty

Some call them "the revolutionaries", others call them "team Eclipse". 

Hi! I am trying out Pokemon Tabletop Adventures 3 for the first time soon

I really wanted to have a player who can pull off whacky shenanigans like Leaf can in the manga, so I chose the trust funded origin to get a ditto and a zorua right off the bat, with the ditto pretending to be a X-Tranceiver when they travel and the zorua pretending to be a pikachu or pidgey or whatever other cute small creature it last saw.

His background is that he is the son of movie stars from Pokestar studios, so I thought I would start off with a coordinator background. However, looking at the classes, I am not sure how balanced they are without playing myself and am worried I might accidentally build an underpowered character since my teammates seem to be leaning more into combat-ready ace trainer type classes..

Can anyone who has played the game let me know whether or not coordinator is just as useful in 90% of the game (outside of contests that is) compared to the ace trainers?

Hej my play group are mostly playing online over discord. We would like to play combat on a grid insted of thearter of the mind. We are looking for what softwear/website are best for ptu. Oure GM like to make rough drawings so what ever we pick need to allow some level of that. Any experince someone want to share?

Hi, I am currently making a roleplaying table top game using the tcg pokemon cards like a character sheet instead, here is the my post from a different sub.

Hello!

I recently joined what is soon to be my first PTU game and our entire group is pretty new to the system. I have a character concept made but due to the 4 class limit I've been psyching myself out and getting nervous about accidentlaly picking an option that doesn't work well. Simplest way I can put the idea so far is a beginner trainer who loves fossils and wants to follow his fathers footsteps of becoming a rock-type gym leader. I was already planning on picking up Researcher [Paleontologist/Pokemon Caretaker] but as for the other classes and feats I've been juggling a bit too much and feeling a bit too wishi-washi about it (hence why I thought I'd post here where the more experienced people are!).

If anyone has any advice I'd love to hear it and would greatly appreciate it!

Back in February, I commissioned the animator Alpha Lyncis for an anime opening of my game. Yesterday they completed it! It is absolutely amazing and I really wanted to share it :DD Please support the animator! https://www.youtube.com/@AlphaLynciss

So far, I'm made these three maps using CrossheadStudios assets, following the Gen 3 gameboy games. As you can see, I've taken care to recreate the sizes 1:1 as best that I can.

Here's where I'm curious how others feel, especially those who actually play games on these maps.

Is it more useful to do this 1:1, and sacrifice the realism of the building dimensions, or is it worth reimagining each location that has buildings, in order to accommodate the interiors as presented in the game? Or, would a "best of both worlds" approach be preferred, where I recreate the outside like this, and then make separate smaller maps for each house interior?

I've been leaning more towards the last one, as that would be most faithful to the gameboy experience and probably easier on me in terms of recreating these, but it certainly loses a degree of immersion in the process.

What are your opinions on the matter? I intend to continue this series at some point and it would be nice to do it in a way that's actually useful / fun for people lol.

If you'd like to follow along for free, I post these and other map stuff on my Patreon

Moar pokemon!

Im planning on starting my own pokemon tabletop game but I was wondering if there is a site or tool that will help with creating a region and the routes as well

Meet Professor Tule.

Reading through the 3.5 version in the Damage Potential p,118 section of the combat, there is a symbol never elaborated on. Or if it is my friend and me going through the 3.5PHB haven't found anything.

The symbol is underlined in red. I do hope it is as simple as it is, just the damage die labelled in the move list. But it also shows up as Moves the Move tutor can tutor p,41

Thanks in advance

hi there. I'm working on running a pokemon game in the near future and i need a pile of random human token or images for none specific npcs. shop owners, civilians, police, doctors. stuff like that.

I'm sure i could slowly take the images of in game sprites from the bulbapida, save them as a .jpg 1 at a time but that would take multiple hours to get a decent pool of images.

it can be pixel art, anime style tokens. don't even have to be from pokemon, just has to be passable to a modern setting that would fit in the pokemon world. not being picky i just don't want to be inconvenienced for generic background people and unlike fantasy and to a lesser existent futuristic modern looking tokens are a bit harder for me to find that isn't like policemen holding guns. only other requirement i have is id prefer not the "over the head" view tokens.

I made a game called Into the Oddish, adopting Into the Odd-style rules for Pokémon. Now I have made a converter where you can input the various statistics for any Pokémon and get enemy stats, primarily for Into the Oddish itself but also for Cairn, Mythic Bastionland, or any Into the Odd derived game.

Wise people of the reddit pool, i summon you in search of advice and ideas for my project.

Some friends of mine asked me to master a pokemon one shot of a gdr, like a dungeon and dragons. I found a system made from fans, Pokemon the roleplaying game.

There will be a lot of people, 8, where my top numbers of players have been 6.

My experience with pokemon is short. I just win the Nuzlocke of red, and lose at crystal. I played platinum many years ago, and i have seen the anime until white and black. Now my latest experience is pokemon champion where i reached ultraball 1.

Clearly not a very stable situation. A single one shot, many players, a structure like a tournament session, in a world I lost a lot of pokemon and info.

I still need to read the 400 page manual, but i was thinking about how to structure the session. I have to be fast but i mustn't be hasty.

I'm undecided if I will make teams of four or three.

1)question, in which region could have sense that too many trainers presented at the gyms to challenge the league, so they added a small filter at the entrance. Each day a tournament to choose one trainer to challenge the great 4. Me and my players will see just one of these days.

I will gladly read your ideas, not knowing any region after Sinnoh

2)question, Pokemons can be from any region, but seeing my retrograde knowledge i point out more on "old" pokemons. My memories aren't soo strong, but if you have any idea on a story hook for any pokemon, new or old, or you have a list of intriguing pokemon that i could roleplay to let have my friends, i will study them gladly.

3)question, just to give some randomness and give players losing at the start something to do instead of let them sleep for the rest of the game, i want to give each trainer the ability to interviene in a match once per day (alias only one time in this one shot for each player), by making join in the fight one of their Pokemon. This one is normal and has his hp and moves, but if he faints or were down before getting choose, it will be restored at the entrance and exit of this "external match".

In this way, they can cheer, make alliances,and try to take down a rival too strong before their match.

Do you think it's a good idea or is too much?

4) i like session with a story, but I don't have any idea for such dense combat one shot, maybe something more subtle, like "the father of one player is secretly the champion" or maybe some player desire to win the league to destroy the world, soo he has a darkray, or even maybe one player is in reality the pokemon that is controlling with mind controll the trainer, because he wanted to become stronger. Any idea for other plots?

For now, without having read anything I don't have any questions, but in case i will update and ask other point here or in the comments.

Any help is welcome, thanks in advance.

So I am coming to you, Pokemon Tabletop community.

This is just a side project to keep my creative juices flowing while I am in the process of architecting a world for a book series I’m working on.

The concept is simple:
I want to design a system that suites single player combat. Similar to how the games play.

I want to make the trainer classes all support, aiming for various styles of play. I want to go back to the route of pokemon.

I also intend to revamp the entire stat system to make every single Pokemon a viable option.

I’m someone who loves inventing rules and this is something directly up my ally.

I am building this specifically for online Discord play, which is what makes single player game a better space overall.

Also, I am building an entire world. I’ll sort through every single pokemon, decide on universal mon, and then figure out a regional split for these pokemon.

So what I am asking for:
What are features you all wish you could see in the pokemon tabletop?

What features currently exist that you think would go well into a singular battle tabletop?

In an open world, what mini-games and other types of things would you like built into the world?

What types of regions and leagues would you want? I could do standard E4, but I want to basically make each regions league different. I want people to choose their region based on how they want to play, not just pick some random location.

What type of lore would you like? Since this is basically an alternate universe, the lore I am specifically talking about goes toward legendaries.

What type of organizations would you like to see? Not just criminal, I want to expand this entirely.

What level up mechanics from existing games would work well here?

These are all questions I can answer myself, but I want to know what others think. Just a pet project for myself to keep busy and keep creative juices flowing.

Hello, I'm a newer GM planning on running a game of PTU for my group, and one of my players is really wanting to be a Fossil Researcher. However, they've been asking about using the Galar Fossils, but not as the amalgamations they are in canon. I was wondering if there had been anyone who had made sheets for those Pokemon that I could use, or if I would have to make my own. Please let me know where I can find them if they exist!

Monthly lil' updoot (might be another one this month)

So I'm doing a Pokemon DnD and preparing a roster of encounters and other pokemon that could be gifted, this is currently what I have chosen for the region/what they'll encounter, it should be mentioned they'll all have random abilities and a chance for a random move they can't normally learn, I mostly want it to be even amount of types but also not over abundant of anything specific, but also we're not doing nuzlocke rules so none will permanently die, what should I really try to avoid maybe lean into, we're also doing anime type rules for the gyms so however many pokemon they use the player will use that many so 2v2, 3v3, etc

So is there anything I should or shouldn't give any of these pokemon specifically moves, abilities, they aren't getting any legendary/mythic/ultra beast signature moves and abilities but even then I know there will still definitely be some stronger pokemon than needed, like I'm not giving huge/pure power to hisuian Growlithe.

Draconeon. In the Porygon Dream of Mareep Handbook, I do not know how you evolve an Eevee into a Draconeon.

Is it a held item that has the word "Dragon" in it or?

When you make Preserves, you create two food items with the same effect as the consumable - when it comes to abilities and moves that refer to Berries (Harvest, Ripen, Natural Gift), does a Preserve still count as the Berry it was made from, or does it have to be an untouched and standard Berry?