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

[Lord Windos]

All of which is beyond my capacities. I specialized in Microsoft PowerPoint and Word, not any of their other programs!

Then paper notes might be more appealing to you? All you need are papers and a pen, no searching where to click to make the software do what you want her to do...

There is really no need to be sorry, dear! Make the charasheet that it's useful and appealing to you, and you're doing the job correctly.

Well, since Iron provided these character sheets, and I'm less likely to loose track of them than pen and paper materials, I'm sticking to purely online stuff for now. My hardwritting is not the neatest as well, so its for the best really.

As for the sheet itself, I want to make it more interesting for me and the DM, but I don't know how to because Excell is like a brick wall to me. Bleh....

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

If that's the issue, you should take a look at my handwritting when I write only for myself

I can't help you with Excell since it's not really my fave software either. I bet there are Tutorials online about how to do what there, but that is beyond me, I'm fine with my sheet the way it is~

[Dragonstrike]

Or I can give you a quick primer on what I've been doing, @Lord Windos. It's pretty simple stuff.

[Lord Windos]

Or I can give you a quick primer on what I've been doing, @Lord Windos.  It's pretty simple stuff.

I've been fiddling about with my chara sheet since this discussion, so I'll eventually learn the basics, or corrupt my file trying! No need to type out lengthy explanation!

[Dragonstrike]

Oof...just reviewing my notes on statuses, Burns are going to be incredibly dangerous once Burn 2 and Burn 3 start coming into play. More so than poison if you can't afford to focus on putting them out. Poison is slow and steady, at least. Burns are fast and furious. Vitality -4/-6 and automatic lethal damage is really dangerous. Since the absolute maximum amount of Vitality we'll be able to have in this campaign is 6, Burn 2 will only have a maximum of 2 dice to prevent 2 lethal damage, while Burn 3 will have only a single luck dice compared to a whopping 3 lethal damage, so it will always do 2 lethal damage at the end of the round. Sure, you can put out the flames quickly with a little luck, but if you don't extinguish it in a single turn, you take lethal damage really easily, and that's not even accounting for the fact that you're probably in the middle of a high level battle when the burn is inflicted.

That seems a bit unbalanced for this campaign, tbh. Though maybe I'm overreacting here a little because there's a lot of pokemon in the core book that have 6 or less vitality. Even monsters like Foretress only have 7 vitality. Any higher, and you're usually looking at a Legendary or Mythical pokemon. Or a really, REALLY big and bulky one like Steelix or Aggron. Or one that's specialized in it at the expense of all other stats (aka Shuckle)

[Dies Irae]

Oof...just reviewing my notes on statuses, Burns are going to be incredibly dangerous once Burn 2 and Burn 3 start coming into play.  More so than poison if you can't afford to focus on putting them out.  Poison is slow and steady, at least.  Burns are fast and furious.  Vitality -4/-6 and automatic lethal damage is really dangerous.  Since the absolute maximum amount of Vitality we'll be able to have in this campaign is 6, Burn 2 will only have a maximum of 2 dice to prevent 2 lethal damage, while Burn 3 will have only a single luck dice compared to a whopping 3 lethal damage, so it will always do 2 lethal damage at the end of the round.  Sure, you can put out the flames quickly with a little luck, but if you don't extinguish it in a single turn, you take lethal damage really easily, and that's not even accounting for the fact that you're probably in the middle of a high level battle when the burn is inflicted.  

That seems a bit unbalanced for this campaign, tbh.  Though maybe I'm overreacting here a little because there's a lot of pokemon in the core book that have 6 or less vitality.

Depending on the lethality Iron is shooting for... that is pretty rough (but not unexpected for a Storyteller kludge). 
Never seen high level burns in action Pokerole, but I've seen more than my share of player character deaths due to fire damage in WoD, so you guys might want to watch for that.

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

I don't feel it's unbalanced. If you ever suffered burns IRL, you could know they're serious and can kill a person.

That's won't stop me from Flamethrower being my fox' main damage-dealing attack until he's fully evolved and learns Mystical Fire. And even then, I bet I'll stil enjoy leaving scorching trails. (I'll hold back though in hope not to deal LETHAL burns. .... If I feel like it. Muahahahaha!)

[Lord Windos]

I remember raising similar concerns about those levels of Burn back in my first battle with Zamboni, given that Raphael ended up releasing Fire Blast of all move upon the poor artic fox. Burn 2 and 3 are not a laughing matter indeed.

On the subject of Vitality amounts, I noticed two strange trend that was quite prevalent throughout the Pokedex : All snake-like Pokémon have abnormally large HP pools, and that the heavier the 'mon is, the more base HP they will have . Ekans, Onyx, Dragonair Servipor, Garaydos, Miltonic, Steelix, Serperior, Drampa.... all these Pokémon have rather high base HP, compared to other Pokémon. Heavier Pokémon have huge HP pools, but usually have high disobedience to balance out things. Dhelmise has 12 HP for instance, which is pretty dang high for a mono evo Pokémon!

[Dragonstrike]

Let's see...which moves inflict which burns...

Burn 1:
Ember (1)
Flame Wheel (1)
Heat Wave (1)
Lava Plume (3)
Will-O-Wisp (guaranteed)
Tri-Attack (2)
Scald (3)
Flame Body (3)

Burn 2:
Blaze Kick (2)
Fire Punch (1)
Flamethrower (1)
Beak Blast (guaranteed as long as the foe makes contact before the move goes off)

Burn 3:
Fire Blast (3)
Flare Blitz (3)
Inferno (guaranteed)

So yeah, watch out for those ones that do Burn 2 and 3. Extinguish them immediately if at all possible.

[Dragonstrike]

On the subject of Vitality amounts, I noticed two strange trend that was quite prevalent throughout the Pokedex : All snake-like Pokémon have abnormally large HP pools, and that the heavier the 'mon is, the more base HP they will have . Ekans, Onyx, Dragonair Servipor, Garaydos, Miltonic, Steelix, Serperior, Drampa.... all these Pokémon have rather high base HP, compared to other Pokémon. Heavier Pokémon have huge HP pools, but usually have high disobedience to balance out things. Dhelmise has 12 HP, which is pretty dang high for a mono evo Pokémon!

Yeah, the writers decided to base HP values on the size (and partially weight, I guess) of the pokemon rather than in-game stats.  The Attributes are where the stats are mostly reflected.  There's still odd things like Blissey only having 2 Vitality at max, though...I get that it's frail physically in the games, and is rather average in size, but you'd expect it to take more than 2 or 3 hits since it's known for being such a defensive beast in the games...