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

[Lord Windos]

High Vit is awesome, yes...but maybe a little too awesome since it affects both HP and Defense simultaneously.  High Vit characters are really hard to break through if you don't have the Strength to match, and the extra HP also contributes significantly to that.  I've been considering trying to split HP from Vit as a stat for my campaign, or giving low Vit characters ways to increase their HP (as Defense boosts can be acquired with moves and items, ulike HP), but it's a tricky thing to balance because of how the pokerole system is built...

Another thing I was considering was maybe splitting Sp. Def from Vit too.  Tieing it to Insight seems like the reasonable thing to do since that is what the stat is partially based on according to the writers.

I personally don't think their is much of a problem with HP and Defense being tied together so long both players and DM can handle that issue, but at the same time I wouldn't mind seeing a system where High Vit. character could exist without becoming immediate stone walls to those with puny STR or not a lot of ways to chip away at it. Hopefully whatever you cook up works out well, and I'd be happy to be the ginny pig and test it out once you get everything drawn up and finalized!

Tieing S.Def to Insight would be a nice idea in your campaign, as it would give INS an actual mechanic use in Combat besides the odd Move Roll, rather than being relegated to Alert Rolls, RPing , Out of Battle Tasks, or Befriending Pokémon. I wouldn't want it in this campaign, however, as that would more or less give my character a MASSIVE achilles heel that I would have no way of preparing for. He's already weak to Sleep , Confusion, Ambushes, and can't hope to do anything with Wild Pokémon but Fight them unless they want to follow along with needing to be convinced, so I don't want to add 'Special Attacks' to that list.