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

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Irons post

That means I'll assume Fairy Type is a thing and Pokemon/moves of this type are safe to use as it always existed, mankind just accepted it as a real and offcial Type relatively recently, alright?

I was thinking canonically there's always been a fairy type, not that it was recently "discovered" as that wouldn't make any sense. Surely you'd notice how good Poison was against Clefairy?

But if you want, we could explore how Fairy has become more accepted as a serious type and not just trivia. A lot of the Fairies can only be caught in unusual circumstances. Snubbull, Jigglypuff, Cottonee, and Marill are the only common Fairies, and only Whimsicott and Azumarill is respected in battle. The Ralts line has always been respected in battle, but it's pretty rare and used more for its Psychic attributes than its Fairy. Same is true for Azumarill - people probably don't train Play Rough on it all that often.

Yes, that pretty much matches the headcanon I had with the other way round being true as well - how a small Marill laughs at a Dragon Pulse certainly would catch the attention of its Trainer/Caretaker - , I probably expressed that a bit unclear or unfavorable. English isn't my mother tongue after all, regardless how well I speak, read or write it!

A bit of exploring and Shiva subtly helping in Fairy Type being more accepted is quite up my ally, good idea! Raphael doesn't have a Fairy Type yet anyway and it's true that I'm using Azu's other moves more often than her Fairy STAB, the only thing I don't quite get is why only Whimsicott is accepted in battle if Cottonee is a common fairy and is even found wild in Elanor. Is it due to barely anyone trains the fluffball to do well in battle and more with the intention to track Sunstones?

Windos post

Quote Iron: 'Sounds like a plan! And that's how you politely handle interparty conflict, good job!'

I figured that if Nathan/Dragonstrike were going to insist on charging off into dangerous without asking for help, I'd jolly well let them do just that and not argue with the anymore over the issues. This happened to neatly coincide with Terra's stance on helping others and his duty to protect the group/Shiva, so he's not acting OOC by not joining up with them/Heart. Plus, had and Spiritmon tried to more forcibly stop Nathan/Dragonstrike from doing what they want, you'd probably overrule us on the ground of it being too interfering and not justified, so there's that as well to consider.

Personally, I don't like it when someone goes off to do their own thing if the whole group is involved in a given Encounter/Event/Scenario/Journey etc.. , as I find it both reckless and inconsiderate of the other people/charas. you are playing with. There are exception to this, obviously, like if said person clearly states what they plan to do and/or stay out of it, but by and large I have a general dislike of such actions since forces everyone else to react to whatever someone is doing.

In cases like where someone goes straight into a dangerous situation while the group is together without either DIRECT warning or request/denials of help, or does something particular not well thought out, its even worse, as it forces players to make a snap decision to either support their recklessness/heroics to protect them (and putting themselves/their Pokémon in danger too and potentially overcomplicating things as a consequences), or leave them to their devices to keep themselves safe + uninvolved and look/feel like an ass for leaving them to the Mightyenas. It doesn't quite take away our choices in such matters, but it still leans heavily enough to make it annoying and unfun.

That's part of the reason why I was so insistence on Dragonstrike at least announcing his place/requests for help/not , with the other being that it just seems like common sense to do that for such a smart cookie. Heroics are all fine and good, but you got to temper them with caution and Knowledge or things will gone belly up.

Unless Nathan was trying to indirectly strong arm/manipulate the rest of the group to joining him in the Fight without giving us the chance to talk things over OOC/IC. In which case, that IS clever and good planning since Heart ended up joining, which save him time explaining things and more justify his immediate action. If that is the case.....well, I don't find it particularly nice, but hey, if it works, it works...

My dear, you're speaking out what I am thinking here, thank you! I can agree to your points so well.

I dislike solo-runs in group encounters as well, basically if someone of us, regardless who, goes off to do their own thing in a situation or Encounter that we all are caught in without in-chara sharing in a few words what they're about to do, just that we are aware of it and aren't soft-forced to react accordingly and/or change what we envisioned ourself to do. Strongarming and attempting to persuade us in-chara to follow a particular action isn't something I'd call very clever or nice as to me personally it'd border to godmoding, in fact it would probably cause me to follow what I wanted to do with my chara with even more vigor just to show that I would like to do what I wish to instead of things being decided over my head.

Yes, there probably are rare exceptions, but in general I tend to make my own decisions. In this situation at the moment in-game, all worked out well luckily, so all's well in the end.