[Meta Thread] Pokerole Mystery Dungeon: Primal Shadows

[no one]

I assume we'd keep social and mental stats but we'd swap physical stats. Interesting question though. Dragon?

[Dragonstrike]

This being the kind of game it is, I'd figured you guys might appreciate the option to set up more advantageous parties for certain missions once you have more options available to you.

As far as stats go, you'd definitely be using the physical stats of the pokemon you swap with.  Keeping mental stats like the things under Knowledge and Contest makes sense to me.  Still your mind after all, even in a different body that might not be capable of the same physical feats.

[no one]

Would that mean that we keep our Insight?

[Dragonstrike]

Insight is one of the physical Attributes, so no, you would not use your Insight.

Let's establish this a little more clearly.  Should you swap using Phione's services, you'll use the Attributes, movepool, and other physical capabilities of the other character.  The Skills, Social Attributes, and Specialties will be your own, however.  I don't want this to be too complicated after all.

[Lord Windos]

Insight is one of the physical Attributes, so no, you would not use your Insight.

Let's establish this a little more clearly.  Should you swap using Phione's services, you'll use the Attributes, movepool, and other physical capabilities of the other character.  The Skills and Specialties will be your own, however.  I don't want this to be too complicated after all.

I imagine Logic and Instinct are also technically Mental Attributes specific to an individual, so would that be carried over between Swaps?

Which means that, provided you are good enough friends with a Pokemon to convince them to Swap, you could end up in a far more capable body to do stuff in, but have still have rookie experience backing it all up, making you arguably more incompetent or dangerous to yourself/others if the body you're controlling has 'OH SHIT' tier firepower. Interesting....

I'm overall rather intrigued by the whole system, though the practicality of it will widely vary on long-term costs and who we can pull from. That, and of course the emotional quandary of 'wait, what's the point of using it, I want to play as my character's Pokemon, darn it!', but hey, I'm not about to completely overlook a interesting system like this. In particular I'd like to see what'd it be like playing a Zoura with his Illusion ability, or seeing what spirit-eating/energy draining is like with Litwick or Kogeki (heck, that's a good way of bonding and getting others to look at such things more nicely, RPwise!)....

[Dragonstrike]

I imagine Logic and Instinct are also technically Mental Attributes specific to an individual, so would that be carried over between Swaps?

Which means that, provided you are good enough friends with a Pokemon to convince them to Swap, you could end up in a far more capable body to do stuff in, but have still have rookie experience backing it all up, making you arguably more incompetent or dangerous to yourself/others if the body you're controlling has 'OH SHIT' tier firepower. Interesting....

I'm overall rather intrigued by the whole system, though the practicality of it will widely vary on long-term costs and who we can pull from. That, and of course the emotional quandary of 'wait, what's the point of using it, I want to play as my character's Pokemon, darn it!', but hey, I'm not about to completely overlook a interesting system like this. In particular I'd like to see what'd it be like playing a Zoura with his Illusion ability, or seeing what spirit-eating/energy draining is like with Litwick or Kogeki (heck, that's a good way of bonding and getting others to look at such things more nicely, RPwise!)....

Yup, Logic and Instinct are mental qualities, as is Primal.

Don't have to use it if you don't want to, but it's an option I wanted to give you guys. Phione is essentially a regular shop in terms of its availability from this point on unless I state otherwise, so you can always consider doing this later too.

[no one]

I can see the irony in me asking this, but are you guys gonna be able to post soon? Just checking, I know we can all get busy. Definitely understandable if you guys also had a pretty packed start to the year.

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

I can see the irony in me asking this, but are you guys gonna be able to post soon? Just checking, I know we can all get busy. Definitely understandable if you guys also had a pretty packed start to the year.

I've got nothing to add via Kee since he opted to stay there with Espeon and Umbreon while you others went to check out the commotion at the beach and learning about Phione's service, so from my side we can start traveling to the other continents! Hyped for that arc and the acventures that await us there, yesss! ( ÒωÓ)و☆

Also, is it okay if we gloss over you others informing Kee in-chara about what Phiones does so that he as a character is aware of it too? Aka, no need to roleplay it out and I don't especially care who informs him, assuming that any of you does inform him that is.

[no one]

Yeah sure that sounds fine.

[Dragonstrike]

I'm planning to push some progress in the next day or two and get things moving again since nobody's posted much in over a week (gotta get better at doing this still tbh).  Been taking this time to brainstorm when I've not been worn out from work, so now that I have an idea of what I'm planning to do with some things, it's about time we got this show on the road.