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

[Lord Windos]

What would such a way be according to you as an example, out of curiosity? The only thing that springs to my mind at the moment is introducing a foe that has a Base HP of 20 or more and making it decently strong/strong enough to deal some good damage to our Pokemon or even fainting some of our battlers before  finally succumbing. Plus making it unable to catch for fairness and preventing anyone in the party for having a bulky monster due to a successful Capture Roll.

Ones that springs to mind is the Reniculous Encounter and the Eremit Cave fights, all of which had strong defender/'defender' Pokémon the group had to fight, and require careful strategy/planning, but didn't require them having Plot Deviced Powers too much in order to be a credible threat. If we failed/died to them, it would have been more than fair in my eyes (Bar terrible dice luck), since if we dropped the ball THAT hard or were underprepared....well, its probably deserved (for a given value). More hypothetical example would be Challenging and Dynamic Swarm Encounters (Like what the Ancestor Cave fight(s) were, before MEW showed up), fighting REALLY challenging Trainers, Gauntlet Courses, Clever Puzzles/Traps and/or Ambushes, splitting up the party in some manner and putting conditions on their fights, Massively Overgrown Pokémon, or ones with their stats pumped up so they remain a threat (Hello Skull Ruins Pokémon/Ghosts in general!)…..I could keep on listing things, but I won't.


Colossally Bulky Pokémon fights are a good idea, but they aren't the only ones. As for capturing the bulky mon, Terra already has Lapis (Unless Iron had them killed off screen....), and the party could just sell them and split the profits among everyone if no one person wants another to get them, but I digress.