[Meta Thread] Dragonstrike's Pokerole Test Game: Mount Coronet Mystery

[Mikaruge108]

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Hello, and welcome to the meta thread for my test game/prologue for my (eventually) upcoming Pokerole campaign!  If you're here, that probably means you're either one of my players or just want to read along to see what crazy stuff I've got cooked up!  Well, as a brief primer/reminder, here's the story!

The Story

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- Healing Moves: For the time being, I'm going to follow the model of Skull Ruins and restrict healing moves to being a limited number of times per day.  For now, the maximum number of times a healing move can be used per day is equivalent to the pokemon's Will score.  You don't have to spend the Will Point when using the move successfully, but keep track of how often you use moves like Synthesis, Heal Pulse, and Roost.  I want to experiment a little with this, see how it works.  Figure out if I need to alter it in any way later or revert it to a system used in one of our other campaigns.  Note: HP Draining moves like Giga Drain and Drain Punch do not count against the limit on healing moves.

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As you can probably tell from the sheer amount of changes, this campaign is going to play rather differently from the prior ones.  I'm not sure how well all of this might work, but that's what this test game is for: to help me iron out the kinks in the rules so I can try to make my main campaign as enjoyable as I can.  I can't do that alone, though, for obvious reasons, which is whyI have some wonderful players joining me for this adventure (and hopefully the next one as well).

The Beginning

@Lord Windos, @Mikaruge108, and @Spiritmon, you may all introduce your characters now if you wish (if there are secrets you wish to keep for the time being, you don't have to reveal your characters' entire backstories if you don't wish to).  After everyone arrived in Snowpoint, they would have had about a day to get to know each other (and each others' pokemon) before the story truly begins.  If you wish to do any introductions IC, I may post the Game Thread before the 9th specifically for that.

I believe I covered most of the basic information.  If anyone has any questions, let me know!  I am planning to officially start the test game/prologue on Sunday June 9th, 2019, though I may start it sooner or later depending on irl stuff and if I feel like I've finished my preparations.

Welly well well, I was wondering when you were going to be putting up the Meta Thread for your game, mate! Love the name of it too! Simple, but sweet, and it tells us exactly what sort of experience we're getting into! Can't wait to get right into the thick of things and have a blast!

Only thing that has me concerned so far is the whole 'Will Points  = Amount of Heals per day.' To me, that reeks of either Players NEVER using their Will Points for a given Pokemon and hoarding a HUGE amount so that they can just keep healing forever, or them never being able to heal at all if they want to use their Will to ignore Pain and/or guarantee a Success. Why not just have a set limit use to a Healing Move per Encounter instead? If you don't want us to spam them, then make it so that they can only be used once per Encounter until they meet a certain Level and/or other critera threshold?

Gripe aside, time to introduce my character! I'll be light on the details with him, as I want his personality to truly shine with everyone once they get a gander at him!
Note: Details might be rough/a bit inaccurate, since I don't have to original posts for them anymore

Character Name: Randolph Schimdt

Gender and Age: Old Male (Pre 50s)

Nationality: Sinnohan of Germanic decent 

Home Town: Orebourgh 

Current Place of Living: Canalave City

Profession(s)/Education: Miner/Mine Manager/Geologist (Old/Former for Orebourgh Mines), Blacksmith/Repairman (Current, Owns his smithy) ; Has a PhD in Geology, and has a decade + of experience in Smithing of all kinds; Is a fairly studious reader in general

Appearance/Character Details: 
[*]Has short, messy coppery red/orange hair, with a matching long and bristly beard, off-white/leathery white skin tone (From working around his Smithy), and mud brown eyes
[*]Commonly wears flannel shirts and overall jeans, steel toe boots, and thick black gloves
[*]Wears a hardhat, and commonly carries around and wears a blacksmith's apron (along with his smithing gear + mining tools)
[*]Has a 'hard-bitten' or more worn/stress out facial features, with plenty of wrinkles around his eyes, nose, and corners of his lip (when you can see them past the beard, anyway)
[*]Generally fairly serious and hard working
[*]Dislikes most of the current younger generation; Gets along better with his/older generations
[*]Only in recently has become a Trainer, and never had much care/interest for the profession prior to becoming one (Or Pokemon, for that matter), but is a fairly accomplished one none-the-less
[*]Friends/buddies with Byron and his son Roark, due to their careers/interests overlapping so much and the history they share!
[*]Likes to drink off the job, and is a friendly/social drunk!
[*]Prefers to be called either Ran, Schimdt, or Wolfe, and HATES being called Randy (Tells people this straight up, and if they call him that anyway he wallops them for it!)

Starter Pokemon: Secret! I'll give you guys a couple of hints, though: They're native to the Sinnoh Region, and can be found in one of the region's Mines!

Reason for his Participation in the Campaign: Personally got a letter from Dr. Rowan (Via Byron, since they never meet him before, and therefore they don't have each other's personal details) requesting his help with the MYSTERY! currently surrounding Mt. Coronet and offering generous compensation for his time/effort, and he didn't have anything else pressing to do at home/the smithy, so he decided to honor and accept their deal and investigate that dang mountain for them! Should be a cinch for him, given his education and background! Or so he hopes/expects!

That should do it! Tell me what you think of my chara., mates!

Looks like I weren't the only one to have a Gym leader as the character's friend, other than that, great chara, can't wait to see how Karen interacts with him! Long as he doesn't have any *spoiler* pokemon, things'll be fine.