Post by TenabreTrevellian on Mar 3, 2016 1:52:21 GMT
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The PremiseIn the very north of the lands of old Serordin there sits Balargarde Terrace, an ancient castle and home to a particular clan of Dark Elves and their Pokemon, of House Cal'dwl. The Dark Elves are one of many races of the world, and they mostly live in peace, but some recent goings on at the Terrace have the world wondering what's really going on. There were rumours that the current head has been working on rituals and occult magic to bring demons and foul malformed Pokemon into the world but these claims had previously been pushed away, brushed aside by the silver tongues of the house. Recently, however, the appearance of malformed Pokemon attacking local towns have caused these rumours to take a little more weight. The lands nearby are tasked primarily on protecting themselves from the attacks, but they've recruited a band of heroes who might be able to help, you. for whatever reasons, you've joined forces with your Pokemon to storm Balargarde Terrace, and stop Shirin Cal'dwl in whatever her next nefarious plan might be.
You'll be running around what will essentially be a dungeon, dealing with the forces inside, using magical items, being wary of traps and fighting bosses.
This will be a one-shot, it's to give a chance for some people to play builds they might not usually get to try, and to give me somewhere I can throw the kind of stuff I want to experiment with at players without worrying -too- much on things going wrong. That's not to say there's not a story in this, and I'm looking as much for some roleplay as I am a dungeon crawl.
So if all of that sounds up your alleyway, here we are.
Character Creation
Trainers = Level 20 = You may start with a weapon, which may be arcane. You have 15,000P to spend on bits and pieces for your trainers and your Pokemon.
You will also start with either a Heart Booster or a PP Up and four other vitamins to share amongst Pokemon.
Restrictions: No Blessed and the Damned, DPDoM is allowed except Glitch Bender. See DPDoM section for details and changes.
No Mega Rings and Stones etc.
Be a Fantasy Race = Run around as a Kobold Ninja with his mass of Gible. Be an Elf with Fire Magic. Go nuts, be creative. Apart from the Dark Elves here, the world is a blank slate, let's have some fun with it.
Pokemon = Four Level 35 Pokemon = You have six TM/Tutor/Egg moves of your choosing to distribute. No Legendaries, and whilst Pseudo-Legendaries are allowed, I wouldn't go overboard.
Magical Items = Your Trainers/Pokemon will also have a couple of Magical Items, maybe this grants you an ability you might not otherwise get, or a couple of moves. You'll have Three magic items but for the moment we won't be going over their mechanical benefits, what I'd like from your applications would be rough ideas of what your magic items would be, ideas and the like, and then we'd go over these how they'd fit mechanically in the game.
DPDoM
What is this Sci-Fi in my fantasy game.
An Engineer becomes a Golem Crafter, using Clay as a material instead of steel, or clockwork. This variation stays reletively the same but is reflavoured. Weaknesses would change based on these. Alternatively, it can be flavoured as a Summoner style class, creating beings from nothing in attempts to mirror Pokemon. In this case, Tech Ed is replaced by Occult Ed.
An Upgrader uses Runes or strange Rituals on their Pokemon to change them, giving them a glowing set of eyes, or another couple of pairs. Their legs and body sprouts attacking tentacles at times, or lights around it keep it healthy. Tech Ed for Runes, Occult Ed for Rituals, open to other ideas.
These are options you can explore.
Is there any point in me building Capture Specialist?
Short answer, no. This is a One-Shot Dungeon Crawl with the idea in mind that combat is probably going to be a prime thing, and capturing Pokemon is to the side. Where there may be sections you can chuck a ball and catch a wild Pokemon that one of the House Guards has wrangled into service, going full Capture Specialist is probably a bad plan. The boss that is a murderous demon from another dimension is probably not going to be dazzled by your contest challenge either. I could be wrong, and you could find a way to really stick it to a boss somehow using all manner of things I haven't thought of.
Application Details
I'm opening this as of right now and will be closing it this time next week, Thursday the 10th of March at Midday, GMT.
The game will be played through the PBPf forum, but I will make a group on Skype to converse with the group.
If you're interested in Pre-Game Froth and sharing builds, ideas for magic items, and so on, I'll be doing a Skype Group for that with any questions.
I will be taking Four applicants to run this.
If the interest is large, I will be running similar dungeon-crawly one-shots. But I'll get this one up and going first.
I am contactable either here or on Skype if you have me. If not, PM me.