Pokémon Tabletop United - An Unnatural Conclusion - All Welcome, Furry

[LSWSjr]

NEWS UPDATE 12/27/15
It's been a troubling three months following the senseless deaths of 105 people caused by a malicious 12 year old trainer and his Pokémon. Concerned parties and academics across the world seek the attention of Governments worldwide for new legislation regarding Pokémon trainer licensing and punishment towards those who would use Pokémon to commit crime.

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NEWS UPDATE 02/14/16
Following the global outcry, the International Pokémon League Licensing Organisation has enacted a worldwide increase to the minimum age of Trainer Licensing to fifteen years, effective within the next quarter. Other countries have the option to increase the minimum age requirement further, with a growing trend of setting the minimum age to eighteen years for most countries. Those licensed trainers who fall below their country's new minimum age requirement will need to attend their local police department over the next three months to surrender their Pokémon for transfer into a digital storage box until they are old enough reacquire a Trainer License.

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NEWS UPDATE 05/23/16
Hostilities continue across the globe, as Pokémon are removed from underage trainers by police after failing to meet the deadline for the voluntary surrender of their illegally owned Pokémon. In many instances, police have met violent resistance from trainers, as well as a number of groups that have sprung up in the wake of the licensing changes, some of whom have used Pokémon to assault police.

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NEWS UPDATE 05/27/16
Rioting has broken out in major cities as police and military personal attempt to quell the destructive actions of Pokémon trainers, young and old alike, who refuse to abide by the new Trainer laws passed earlier this year.

To make matters worse, the unexplained pulses that causes digital Pokemon storage to fail continue to appear in communities around the world. These pulses cause Pokémon to be ejected from PokéBalls and PokéBoxes alike, before damaging those devices in a way which has prevented any attempts of repair or reuse. At this point no one has claimed responsibility for these pulses, whilst their frequency and area of effect only seems to grow every twelve hours.

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Your head is throbbing as you awaken, everything is dark for a moment before piercingly bright lights switch on somewhere above you. You're on your back, a mask over to lower half of your face and held against a cold surface at your wrists and ankles, turning your head you see others around you in the same position, wearing matching black masks fed by tubes leading out of view.

*WELCOME* a voice booms in your head, causing you to strain against the restrains in surprise, *YOU HAVE BEEN BROUGHT TO ME BECAUSE HUMANITY HAS BEEN FOUND WANTING, AGAIN YOU HAVE PROVEN YOURSELVES UNWORTHY OF EXISTENCE* the internalized voice continues.

*BUT I AM NOT WITHOUT MERCY, YOUR LIVES SHALL CONTINUE, IN A NEW FORM OF YOUR FONDEST DESIRES CHOOSING* the voice explains, *NOW LET YOUR REBIRTH BEGIN*

The mask starts pumping a gas so thick you can almost feel it pushing down your throat, and within minutes your body is aflame with pain, your ears fill with the sounds of popping and cracking bones and the screams of your fellow captives, before unconsciousness claims you again.

POKEMON TABLETOP UNITED
AN UNNATURAL CONCLUSION

CHARACTER CREATION


STEP ONE
Choose Any Non-Legendary, Non-Swarm* Pokémon; you are transformed into an athromorphic human-Pokémon hybrid version of your choice, referred to from this point on as a PokéMutant, without the ability to evolve.

A PokéMutant's form does not effect their Combat Stats, so being a third-stage Pokémon or a baby Pokémon won't change how comparatively powerful you all are.

*The Swarm Pokémon restriction does not include those with multiple heads who share a single body (Exeggutor, Girafarig or Combee, etc); only those which are separate Pokemon huddled together, such as Exeggcute, Dugtrio and Magneton.


STEP TWO
Go through all character creation steps as normal, but BEWARE your new Master does not appreciate skills or abilities tied to the use of PokéBalls; and you'll additionally gain all 1st level Moves from the Move List of that Pokémon's earliest form/stage.

Over the course of play, a PokéMutant may ultimately know up to 12 Moves, up to 6 Moves from their Pokémon list and up to 6* Moves from Class features; and PokéMutant's can gain any Normal Type or any other Moves that match their Type from Classes.

*Pokemon that do not learn 6 different Moves (such as Ditto or Unown), may take additional Moves from Class features to a total of 12 Moves.


STEP THREE
Choose one of that Pokémon's Basic Abilities and additionally gain one of the following (using a Mudkip PokéMutant as our example):
a) a second Basic Ability (so they'd have both Damp and Dry Skin)
b) a capability (so they'd gain Gilled, Fountain, Naturewalk [Wetlands] or Underdog)
c) +4 points of Movement types, up to their PokéMutant form's maximum (so they could raise their Swim to 6 and/or their Burrow to 2)

With regards to Pokémon who can learn HM and other utility Moves like Strength, Cut, Rock Smash, etc, PokéMutants still need those specifically to push boulders, cut bushes and smash weak rocks, but only need Fly or Surf if they intend to carry others whilst respectively flying or swimming; however PokéMutants cannot utilise the Phasing/Intangible capability and are tethered to the physical plane at all times.


STEP FOUR
Pick one to three companion Pokémon, who's combined base stat totals (BST) of their final (non-Mega) evolutions do not exceed 750 (Final Evolution Reference), these choices must then share five character levels between them.

Example Teams:
- Slakoth (Slaking 670 BST) at level 5
- Castform (420 BST) at level 3 and Delibird (330 BST) at level 2
- Ditto (288 BST) at level 2, Smeargle (250 BST) at level 2 and Wishiwashi (175 BST) at level 1

Links:
Character Thread
OOC Thread
Story Thread [Incoming]

Cheers
Rowan/LSWSjr

[Matthew]

Ooh... I've wanted to try PTU before, and I'm more then a bit of pokemorph fan (transformation fan in general, really, but yeah...). I am a bit curious about some details of this, though... Without hopefully asking you to reveal any secrets, what kind of situation will characters in this game find themselves in - in particular, I'm curious about the 'new master'...

[LSWSjr]

The characters will start post-transformation and will be used as footsoldiers to capture more humans for their own transformations, as your Master believes it's the only way Pokemon will no longer be exploited.  Whether you go along with this plan or not will be up for you to decide as a group and I'm open to progress the game to suit the group's decisions.

Cheers
Rowan/LSWSjr

[Drowdeviant]

*Gets excited cause he spots this getting restarted....sees the no ghost rule*



NOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

I had such ideas for alolan marowak, mimikyu or mismagius. ;-;

[wander]

It's probably because Ghost types don't particular work well when fighting Normal types.

I'm keeping an eye on this one, seeing what ideas come up and how they look first.

[Drowdeviant]

It's probably because Ghost types don't particular work well when fighting Normal types.

I'm keeping an eye on this one, seeing what ideas come up and how they look first.

...But...my sexy poke-witch!...;-;

[LSWSjr]

Hard to believe it's been two years since this was last being worked on, good to have you back Drowdeviant :)

Cheers
Rowan/LSWSjr

[Drowdeviant]

Hard to believe it's been two years since this was last being worked on, good to have you back Drowdeviant :)

Cheers
Rowan/LSWSjr

I'm staking tentative interest Rowan. School is almost in finals weeks. :P

Why must you prevent me from playing the spooky pokes? xD

[LSWSjr]

Because the technology is based on the physical, rather than the ethereal/metaphysical, it would also result in the rejection of a Porygon anthro if that was suggested.

Granted there are some partially/completely tangible Ghost types, but by outlawing all of them we don't get the situation of someone being allowed to play a Cofagrigus character and another being denied a Misdreavus character :(

Cheers
Rowan/LSWSjr

[Drowdeviant]

Because the technology is based on the physical, rather than the ethereal/metaphysical, it would also result in the rejection of a Porygon anthro if that was suggested.

Granted their are some partially/completely tangible Ghost types, but by outlawing all of them we don't get the situation of someone being allowed to play a Cofagrigus character and another being denied a Misdreavus character :(

Cheers
Rowan/LSWSjr

*sighes*

[LSWSjr]

I could allow ethereal/digital Pokémon, if they were stuck in the physical realm, most likely because their buried humanity has tethered them to life.

Would you be comfortable with that?

Cheers
Rowan/LSWSjr

[Drowdeviant]

I could allow ethereal/digital Pokémon, if they were stuck in the physical realm, most likely because their buried humanity has tethered them to life.

Would you be comfortable with that?

Cheers
Rowan/LSWSjr

So they would lose the phase capacity?

I'm not looking to force you to accommodate me Rowan. I'm being a bit stubborn admitedably.... :P

[LSWSjr]

So they would lose the phase capacity?

Exactamundo :)

Cheers
Rowan/LSWSjr

[Matthew]

I'm going to register my definite interest, this just sounds too fun... Put me down for a furret (not the most exciting/powerful species, I know, but cute - and I *may* already have a reference image in mind >>)

[Drowdeviant]

Exactamundo :)

Cheers
Rowan/LSWSjr

Fair enough. ;)

Would we be limited to the movment capacities of our choosen mon form? I ask cause ghosts tend to be kinda slow without their levitation. xD

[Hexed]

I've never realized PTU was a thing... Makes me wonder what other small games I've missed. :(

I'll have to go through the book but tentatively tossing out the idea of an Abra or one of the feline types.

[LSWSjr]

Would we be limited to the movment capacities of our choosen mon form? I ask cause ghosts tend to be kinda slow without their levitation. xD

We're only getting rid of Phasing/Intangible; any flying, floating and levitating abilities are something entirely separate and thus remain.

The big problem with Phasing/Intangible and similar talents is that the character is able to ignore huge sections of the adventure, "Let's not worry about all of us going into that dangerous location, I'll just phase through the walls, locate the objective and sneak it back to the entrance" for example, is a suggestion that's ruined many a GM's plans and has lead to every location having anti-magic barriers and similar to prevent such exploits.

Cheers
Rowan/LSWSjr

[Drowdeviant]

We're only getting rid of Phasing/Intangible; any flying, floating and levitating abilities are something entirely separate and thus remain.

The big problem with Phasing/Intangible and similar talents is that the character is able to ignore huge sections of the adventure, "Let's not worry about all of us going into that dangerous location, I'll just phase through the walls, locate the objective and sneak it back to the entrance" for example, is a suggestion that's ruined many a GM's plans and has lead to every location having anti-magic barriers and similar to prevent such exploits.

Cheers
Rowan/LSWSjr

I'm asking because if we have to be on the ground my gal will be the slowest of the bunch. xD

I thought so. Honestly the biggest pro ghosts get is dead silent, which allows them to not make a single sound when moving or breathing. xD

[That One Dingus]

Hmmm... Do I want another game right now?

While I'm mulling this over, are you using 1.04 or 1.05 rules? Because in 1.05, they got rid of the three base attributes.

Also, while obviously containing violence and grittiness, what is your policy on interactions between the characters? Is this going to be a non-adult game?

[LSWSjr]

While I'm mulling this over, are you using 1.04 or 1.05 rules? Because in 1.05, they got rid of the three base attributes.

I had planned to run this with version 1.04 the first time around and haven't played/run 1.05 yet... which do you think works better?

Also, while obviously containing violence and grittiness, what is your policy on interactions between the characters? Is this going to be a non-adult game?

This will be played under the Bondage category, unless there's overwhelming demand for a harder category.

Cheers
Rowan/LSWSjr

[That One Dingus]

I had planned to run this with version 1.04 the first time around and haven't played/run 1.05 yet... which do you think works better?

I've tried both and I honestly prefer 1.05. It seemed like they removed some unnecessary excess mechanics from the game and tried to simplify some things, which would be good for a group game like this.

[Hexed]

Huh. So I'd grabbed the wrong version off the site. Haven't made it through the 1.04 book yet but it does seem most of the changes are in the trainer part. The stats and possibly some other things. But from what little peering I did at the pokedex book it doesn't seem like they change much if any at least.

Does bring up some questions though. Are the expansion books going to be used? The 1.05 main book at the least constantly refers to the various other books for expanded options and such.

And while I realize it does seem like you're wanting player choice for the exact direction is there anything in particular you feel should be ignored or looked closely at class/edge/feature wise? I do know you stated the main "Boss" or whatever the guy/girl/thing is going to be very much dislikes taking the pokeball line of abilities for instance.

[LSWSjr]

Does bring up some questions though. Are the expansion books going to be used? The 1.05 main book at the least constantly refers to the various other books for expanded options and such.

And while I realize it does seem like you're wanting player choice for the exact direction is there anything in particular you feel should be ignored or looked closely at class/edge/feature wise? I do know you stated the main "Boss" or whatever the guy/girl/thing is going to be very much dislikes taking the pokeball line of abilities for instance.

I've never been opposed to using the expansions:
-Blessed and the Damned mostly deals with Legendaries, which won't be a serious factor in this campaign
-Game of Throhs could get some serious usage as the combat is more PC focused, though granted ours is a near-future setting so some of the stuff may be hard to get and I'm not too sure about having Arcanists (though I guess they're fine)
-Do Porygon Dream of Mareep? stuff could be used, it is a near-future setting after all, but it might require some approval on a case by case basis

Another reason for pokeball abilities to be avoided, from a metagame perspective, is that in this campaign such technology has become relatively unstable and I don't want folk investing in something that might constantly fail them.

Cheers
Rowan/LSWSjr

[JoanieSappho]

Oh yes, definitely interested.
They haven't updated to cover gen 7 yet, though, so sadly no Tsareena for me. I'll have to look for something else to be. But I'm definitely up for this.

OH. I know exactly what. Older, mature motherly woman ending up as a Miltank.
Hopefully, Milk Drink will be of use to everyone.  :P

[Drowdeviant]

Oh yes, definitely interested.
They haven't updated to cover gen 7 yet, though, so sadly no Tsareena for me. I'll have to look for something else to be. But I'm definitely up for this.

OH. I know exactly what. Older, mature motherly woman ending up as a Miltank.
Hopefully, Milk Drink will be of use to everyone.  :P

*slides Joanie

this picture

to help make the milfy miltank* :3