NEWS UPDATE 12/27/15It'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 02/14/16Following 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 05/23/16Hostilities 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 05/27/16Rioting 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 CREATIONSTEP ONEChoose 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 TWOGo 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 THREEChoose 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 FOURPick 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
Cheers
Rowan/LSWSjr
