[Meta thread] Lord Windos' PokeRole Adventure : Celadon City Vandels

[Lord Windos]

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No prob!  Still doesn't solve the Coatlith issue in any of the existing campaigns, but eh.  (tbh, based on the scaling of the sprite for Cameron's Yata compared to Cameron himself and Yata's more serpentine appearance, it looks like Yata could potentially have more than 7 Base HP...but the pokedex data says 7 feet tall, so that's what the book's writer's would go with)

Hmmm...good to know.  Am I going to get to choose Volchik's gender when the egg hatches, or are you going to roll for it/is it predetermined? 




So Volt Absorb basically makes all low power Electric moves HP draining/instant Recovery moves, getting hit by any 3+ power move makes your next high power Electric move gain a chance to do additional damage ala Aftermath (the higher power, the more effective), and naturally doing a ridiculous amount of damage to your target (is that 7+ requirement before or after the opponent's Defense is applied, and does it include any bonus damage dealt by Volt Absorb's effect?) just allows you to potentially overkill/overfaint them with guaranteed(?) damage (at the cost of reducing your own HP just as quickly guaranteed and making it hard to heal that off/recharge even though it's not actually Lethal, because electricity loves to conduct through the path of least resistance).  Sounds like a decent interpretation of recharging/discharging batteries.

Huh.  Clever, making Ice immune to Thunderstorm since Ice doesn't conduct electricity very well, and making Steel types take +1 from Thunderstorm because metal conducts electricity.  Interesting that Electric moves have 0 drawbacks when used by a Stormbringer...also interesting that it's a bit more like the book's interpretation of weather summoning abilities instead of the games'...but I guess making things potentially OP is what a Plot Deviced Ability is for, eh?  Just for clarity, though, that's just all the effects of the weather itself rather than effects of the Ability (minus the capability of summoning and dismissing it), yes?  (As in, the weather has to be active and it has to make sense for the weather to be active in order for any of those benefits to apply)

Yatagaryu doesn't have Snake HP, as they are more avian like than draconic serpent, but I would say they would get a 25% discount on HP surprises due to said body type being similar enough to a Snake's/Serpent's to allow for it.

I'll be rolling for the Gender using a online 1D100, with the 18 or lower on that Roll being Female, and the rest male. Lower/High the number, the more special the newborn will turn out. 

Yes, but standard Healing Rules for Basic Healing Moves apply for Electric Non-Attacking Moves (The Healing Portion of them under VA, anyway). Total Number of Damage Dice has to exceed 6 after Defense of foe is subtracted from the total, it does not include either the Aftermath like Damage Dice of More Powerful Moves, and the Move itself has to deal more than 6 Damage by itself in order to trigger Overload. The Overload is meant to be both rare power up and as a way to prevent ridiculous amounts of HP Healing and/or Aftermath being an instant KO if the foe dares attacks the a VA user still juices up, instead of waiting for it to go away (Which the charge does after VA Pokemon user another Move, or a Round Passes without the charge going off) or getting clever. If you deliberate want to go for Overloading, though, then load up any VA Pokemon with a Magnet or Life Orb and watch them short everything out (Including themselves!).

I have an eye for detail, and I want to take any chance I have to make Ice types suck less Defensively/balance out Steel type's great Defenses more! All Effect are given by the Weather itself; the only thing Weather Abilities do, strictly speaking, is instantly set up Weather whenever the User wants to, for however long they want to. All Pokemon are able to be affected by the summoned Weather, and not just the Ability holder itself. Weather can be summoned under any condition, regardless of whether it makes logical sense, in accordance to 'Game Mechanical Convenience and/or Fun Trumps Realism), but its effects are weakened if the conditions are not 'right' or 'open' for 'natural Weather' (They're effects are halved).

As an aside and general advice, if they're anything you take away from my campaign, its that any rulings for Moves, Items, Mechanics, and/or Pokemon should err more towards a player's enjoyment and for their conveniance, rather than simply trying to make things realistic. That, and the Corebook is not the end all or be all of rulings, and you shouldn't be uninclined to use rulings/adapt mechanics from the Games or create them up on the fly. Its a bit more wild to do it that way, and keeping up with all the details can be a hassle, but I say that's its ultimately worth all that trouble if it means that a player has more fun with what they have, and are not unduly nor unreasonably restricted in their stuff's usage. After all, what's the point of having something you can't really use well, or can use in only certain situations and is therefore useless the vast majority of the time? If you have have to balance something out by nerfing or restricting it, though, be upfront about it before a player commits time and resources into getting said Move/ability to utlize a Mechanic/Item. That's all I have to say about that!