[Game Thread] Lord Windos’ PokeRole Adventure 2: The Wild Lands

[Lord Windos]

He'd place a shiny crystal from his bag on the silver tray, stepping back a little.

'A simple Wish of exchange. Powerful yet quickly fading for lasting yet weaker, it shall benefit the kind of my dearest companion.'

          It was time for him to enter a new chapter of preperation,

                                  a quest to get closer to the primal might embued in his homeland,

 

                                                                            the Z-POWER

As you Offer up the awesome Nature's Boon Crystal and intone your Wish, the air in the Shrine stills , as if taking a deep breath....

OFFERING RECEIVED
MOST WORTHY AND ACCEPTABLE
W I S H  G R A N T E D

...and the Offering is consumed in a GREAT GOUT silver flame, burning it all away, right into fine, powdery ashes!

And in those ashes....

Was a dark blue and draconic Z Crystal, Most Unique and Grand

Special Dragonium Z Obtained.

Z Move Mechanics

Damaging:
- Ignores the target's defense stat entirely.

- Cannot miss nor be evaded.  Accuracy does still matter, though, because it can still crit.

- The Z-move's damage pool is calculated in one of two ways (CHOOSE):
  - The BP of the base move (after pre-damage effects) is doubled, all other modifiers (such as Strength and STAB) are added, then 1/3 of the final damage pool is also dealt as automatic damage on top of whatever post-roll modifiers there are. (A smaller amount of guaranteed damage with the potential for damage not normally possible if you're lucky)
  - The first half of the move's normal damage pool (rounded up) are automatically (6) results, the remaining half is rolled as normal, and then half of the final damage pool is also dealt as automatic damage on top of whatever post-roll modifiers there are. (Deal the move's maximum normal damage [almost] guaranteed and up to 50% more as a bonus)

- If the Z-move is blocked by Protect or Detect, then the attack does its normal damage instead of Z-damage.

Non-Damaging:
- Grants the user a stat buff or effect of some kind when they surround themselves in Z-power, and then attempts to use the status move as normal.  The bonus effects vary for different status moves.

- Might make the status move especially flashy or effective at GM discretion

- The Z-status move cannot be prevented from being used by Taunt, Torment, Disable, Encore, Imprison, and Heal Block.  They may also be used even if Gravity or Extreme Weather (From the Primals and Mega Rayquaza) are in effect, but specific moves affected by those field conditions will still fail after applying the Z-effect.  Z-status moves can still miss, but their Z-effects will never fail to apply even if the actual move misses.

- Z-effects are not affected by Contrary, Simple, and Heal Block.  However, effects that are applied after the Z-effect portion of the attack (like Eevee's Extreme Evoboost) are.

You can use a Z Move Once a Day in the new System, or spend 2 Will to be able to use it again repeatedly, at a scaling Cost. Incurs a - 1 Exhaustion Penalty to Move Rolls within the same Encounter after use.