[Meta thread] Iron's PokeRole Adventure: The Skull Ruins

[Dragonstrike]

Playing with the complete rules would mean that everyone Pokémon would require their own state sheet, make XP management for them all the more tedious and arduous (Since Moves, Stats, AND Others all cost XP independently!) and underpower our own player characters AND Pokémon in the process, so I'm quite happy playing our homebrew version imo!

I don't think anyone would be 'underpowered' since everyone, including NPCs, would be subject to the same rules, and thus would all have the same relative strengths.  In fact, it even greatly simplifies what you can spend the trainer's exp on since there's a lot of specialties and Attributes a trainer is unlikely to use since pokemon do most of the work for them.

I do agree that the absolutely enormous amount of exp a single pokemon needs to better realize their full potential is a little...extravagant, though.