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

[Spiritmon]

Also, according to the Pokerole RPG tools, Aegislash doesnt learn the move King Shield who is his signature move, even when he evolve to that final form, and King Shield its the move who only Aegislash can learn. And the move itself its in the move dex (who have all the availabe moves in the pokerole dex). If King Shield cant be learn by Aegislash according to the Pokerole Pokedex, who it is possible to the move itself exist in the Move Dex? Its doesnt make any sense!

[Lord Windos]

No Guard essentially has been merged from the games , as it no longer gives No Miss status to a Pokemon's attacks. No sure why they changed it, but they did, so the ability is gimped, so to speak.

As for Aegislash...well, it can't be owned by anyone but the League champ, so you're stuck with Doublade unless you fancy breaking the law. Iron said so wasaaaay back. Think they did that for either plot reasons, or because stance change would work...oddly in his version of the game.

[Dragonstrike]

Don't worry about anything exclusive to Aegislash too much, Spirit.  Aegislash is a rather...special pokemon we probably will only see an important NPC towards the end of the campaign's climax/story using.

In thecase of No Guard, it's a pretty simple Ability.  Say we have a No Guard Machamp with Dynamic Punch.  You did indeed interpret the Ability correctly.  If Machamp doesn't use any Evade actions in a Round, its moves have no innate accuracy penalties.  Which means for Dynamic Punch, it just rolls Dex + Fight + Brawl for accuracy, ignoring the -5 (but not ignoring Pain).  In Honedge's case, it doesn't have any wildly powerful moves that benefit from the Ability, but it does have Metal Claw and Fury Cutter.

As for King's Shield not being in Aegislash's movepool...that's just an error on the writers' part, I imagine.  It's not the first one, either.  *stares at Fire Lash and Heatmor in the 1.2 book*

On top of that, it might be better to worry about this when it's more relevant. There's no guarantees you'll find a Honedge at this time. It is one of the rarest pokemon in Creshire, after all.

[Mikaruge108]

Speaking of the 1.2 core book, does anyone happen to have a link for it, I'm still using the 1.1 version linked in the thread.

[Dragonstrike]

Speaking of the 1.2 core book, does anyone happen to have a link for it, I'm still using the 1.1 version linked in the thread.

I think there's a link for it in the Celadon City campaign's meta thread.

However, Iron primarily uses the 1.1.0 rulebook for this campaign.

[Spiritmon]

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No Guard essentially has been merged from the games , as it no longer gives No Miss status to a Pokemon's attacks. No sure why they changed it, but they did, so the ability is gimped, so to speak.

As for Aegislash...well, it can't be owned by anyone but the League champ, so you're stuck with Doublade unless you fancy breaking the law. Iron said so wasaaaay back. Think they did that for either plot reasons, or because stance change would work...oddly in his version of the game.

Don't worry about anything exclusive to Aegislash too much, Spirit.  Aegislash is a rather...special pokemon we probably will only see an important NPC towards the end of the campaign's climax/story using.

In thecase of No Guard, it's a pretty simple Ability.  Say we have a No Guard Machamp with Dynamic Punch.  You did indeed interpret the Ability correctly.  If Machamp doesn't use any Evade actions in a Round, its moves have no innate accuracy penalties.  Which means for Dynamic Punch, it just rolls Dex + Fight + Brawl for accuracy, ignoring the -5 (but not ignoring Pain).  In Honedge's case, it doesn't have any wildly powerful moves that benefit from the Ability, but it does have Metal Claw and Fury Cutter.

As for King's Shield not being in Aegislash's movepool...that's just an error on the writers' part, I imagine.  It's not the first one, either.  *stares at Fire Lash and Heatmor in the 1.2 book*

On top of that, it might be better to worry about this when it's more relevant.  There's no guarantees you'll find a Honedge at this time.  It is one of the rarest pokemon in Creshire, after all.

... wait. So own a Aegislash it's against the law?! That means I gonna be stuck with a pokemon half evolved and if I go around unless I become champion?! 

Man, this drop very much my enthusiasm in finding the metalic ghost. If I knew that I would pick another Pokemon. Even if I find a HoneEdge, I can't use it. And before I heard something like "But you don't need to evolve a Pokemon to play in the campaign". I know that, but I like evolve a Pokemon to his final form to have a sense of progress and experience. I don't like left a Pokemon with his second or first evolution.

I think I gonna change soon my post. Maybe Yamask or even Ghastly would be cool...man, I wanted so much a metalic ghost.

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

Now Gamemaster's the one who has to do a lot of update-reading. :o

Speaking of the 1.2 core book, does anyone happen to have a link for it, I'm still using the 1.1 version linked in the thread.

Keep using Version 1.1 if possible, as that's indeed the one we're using at this virtual table - unless you don't mind switching and double-checking the pages when looking something up. I personally don't really enjoy doing that so I'm just sticking with 1.1.

If needed though, here's a link:

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http://pokeroleproject.wixsite.com/pokerole/resources

[Dragonstrike]

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... wait. So own a Aegislash it's against the law?! That means I gonna be stuck with a pokemon half evolved and if I go around unless I become champion?! 

Man, this drop very much my enthusiasm in finding the metalic ghost. If I knew that I would pick another Pokemon. Even if I find a HoneEdge, I can't use it. And before I heard something like "But you don't need to evolve a Pokemon to play in the campaign". I know that, but I like evolve a Pokemon to his final form to have a sense of progress and experience. I don't like left a Pokemon with his second or first evolution.

I think I gonna change soon my post. Maybe Yamask or even Ghastly would be cool...man, I wanted so much a metalic ghost.

It's not exactly against the law in 2017, per se...however...

Well, to keep the explanation simple, in the medieval era, only royalty trained the Honedge line because Aegislash is the Royal Sword pokemon.  A kingmaker, even.  Any trainer the Royal Sword finds worthy is said to be destined to be king.  That's why training them in that era could be considered treason.

That didn't exactly die when the League violently overthrew Sarimanok, however.  The Sword pokemon have only been trained by Creshire's highest level of authority for so long that it's tradition for only the Champion to ever train an Aegislash.  As such, no Creshirean that hasn't become Champion has ever trained an Aegislash.

However, Honedge and Doublade are fair game in 2017.  Anybody can train them in the modern era.




I didn't say any of this OOC sooner because I honestly didn't want to influence your decision to get a Honedge.  The moment Nathan heard about/saw a Honedge, though, he was going to absolutely tell Heart IC (Nathan and Ventus are really the only ones who know this info IC so far, I believe).  Still is, in fact.

[Spiritmon]

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... wait. So own a Aegislash it's against the law?! That means I gonna be stuck with a pokemon half evolved and if I go around unless I become champion?! 

Man, this drop very much my enthusiasm in finding the metalic ghost. If I knew that I would pick another Pokemon. Even if I find a HoneEdge, I can't use it. And before I heard something like "But you don't need to evolve a Pokemon to play in the campaign". I know that, but I like evolve a Pokemon to his final form to have a sense of progress and experience. I don't like left a Pokemon with his second or first evolution.

I think I gonna change soon my post. Maybe Yamask or even Ghastly would be cool...man, I wanted so much a metalic ghost.

It's not exactly against the law in 2017, per se...however...

Well, to keep the explanation simple, in the medieval era, only royalty trained the Honedge line because Aegislash is the Royal Sword pokemon.  A kingmaker, even.  Any trainer the Royal Sword finds worthy is said to be destined to be king.  That's why training them in that era could be considered treason.

That didn't exactly die when the League violently overthrew Sarimanok, however.  The Sword pokemon have only been trained by Creshire's highest level of authority for so long that it's tradition for only the Champion to ever train an Aegislash.  As such, no Creshirean that hasn't become Champion has ever trained an Aegislash.

However, Honedge and Doublade are fair game in 2017.  Anybody can train them in the modern era.




I didn't say any of this OOC sooner because I honestly didn't want to influence your decision to get a Honedge.  The moment Nathan heard about/saw a Honedge, though, he was going to absolutely tell Heart IC (Nathan and Ventus are really the only ones who know this info IC so far, I believe).  Still is, in fact.

That could be a interesting piece of information to be informed before I have begin to hunt one to be capture: "Hey Spiritmon, I would suggest you to not go after one because you cant train him to become a Aegslash". That would indeed help quite a lot, thank you very much.

Is there any other pokemon who I cant use that I need to know? If yes, please inform me. That gonna help me next time when we make another time travel and my char decide to hunt some good ol ancient pokemon.

[Dragonstrike]

...or because stance change would work...oddly in his version of the game.

Stance Change is fundamentally flawed in base Pokerole anyways because of how Vitality is tied to a pokemon's maximum HP.  According to Shield form's stats, it has 13 HP.  But according to the Blade form's stats, it would have 9.  So how do you determine what an Aegislash's maximum HP is?  Does it flip flop between the two?  That makes absolutely no sense whatsoever and always requires GM discretion so long as Vitality is tied to HP as well as Defense.  It's easily the most notable flaw with that stat.

Until an Aegislash appears in this campaign, though, that question doesn't really need to be answered.