[Meta Thread] Pokerole Mystery Dungeon: Primal Shadows

[Spiritmon]

Alright! First part of the post done! Time to work in the next parts!

[Spiritmon]

Second part done! Time to make the third and final part!

[Spiritmon]

What you people think of the last post? Be honest.

[Lord Windos]

What you people think of the last post? Be honest.

To put it simply: anime as heck, and perhaps a bit much for your level of power, but very, very awesome to picture in my head! Kogeki is certainly on his way of paving a new style of shinobi arts, just for Pokemon like him! Platina is certainly going to be interested about it, to say the least...

Onto other topic, I got a question for @Dragonstrike : How exactly does Evasion work in your campaign again? Can you Evade even if you've already committed to an another Action in a Round, such as replacing future Actions with Evade at the moment an Attack would normally connect? Like you Tackle an Pokemon, and have a Scratch lined up for your next Action in the Round, but you're about to be hit with a Superpower as the first Action of an opponent. Can you 'replace' that Scratch with an Evasion at that moment, or is said Pokemon screwed/have to replace their first Action with an Evade/Hold their Action until they 'match' the moment an opponent attacks to decide when to Attack or Evade? Or would an Evasion 'bump down' a Move to a different Action Cost Tier? Like Scratch would go to - 6 Action Cost while the Sudden Evade now occupies its - 4 Action Cost 'slot' ? It's been awhile since anyone has done such a thing PC-wise, so a bit of a refresher is in order for me at least.

[Dragonstrike]

Onto other topic, I got a question for Dragonstrike : How exactly does Evasion work in your campaign again? Can you Evade even if you've already committed to an another Action in a Round, such as replacing future Actions with Evade at the moment an Attack would normally connect? Like you Tackle an Pokemon, and have a Scratch lined up for your next Action in the Round, but you're about to be hit with a Superpower as the first Action of an opponent. Can you 'replace' that Scratch with an Evasion at that moment, or is said Pokemon screwed/have to replace their first Action with an Evade/Hold their Action until they 'match' the moment an opponent attacks to decide when to Attack or Evade? Or would an Evasion 'bump down' a Move to a different Action Cost Tier? Like Scratch would go to - 6 Action Cost while the Sudden Evade now occupies its - 4 Action Cost 'slot' ? It's been awhile since anyone has done such a thing PC-wise, so a bit of a refresher is in order for me at least.

Yup, conditional evasions that replace your next occurring action are perfectly fine!  The book straight up uses a mid-round evasion as an example of deciding to evade last second, so whether you can do that in this ruleset has never really been in question.

The main key here though is you cannot change the number of actions you have committed to for the Round, which is also specified in the book.  So in your example, if you only had Tackle and Scratch lined up and needed to do a conditional evade for Action Two, it would replace your second action and the Scratch wouldn't happen.

If you have three actions for the round though (Say Tackle, Scratch, then Leer), if an Evade replaces action 2, then you can try and get a little fancy with action 3, since it can be either Scratch or Leer.  And that would be something you would preferably specify since orders are given for the entire Round.  It can be a lot though, so if you don't specify alternative orders for conditions like that, I'll likely just assume what was stated unconditionally to still be the case (so this example would go Tackle -> Con. Evade -> Leer unless you specify you want to use Scratch instead of Leer if your conditional evasion order triggers)

Evasion is at its most powerful when used as part of conditional orders since it was designed to be used flexibly in this system. A raw Evasion order should be a rare thing unless you know for a fact you have an action economy advantage over your opponent (like in a 5v1 where the 1 is using lots of single target moves, or a 1v1 where one side has 5 actions compared to the other's 3. Any situation where only a few dangerous moves are being sent your way with a reduced accuracy pool, really).

If there are attacks being thrown around with guaranteed dangerous status or high power, it can be good to Evade those too since they tend to have substantial accuracy penalties, and those moves missing can be high impact even if you have a similar action economy to your opponent.

[Lord Windos]

@PhantomUnderYourDesk : Err....you sure about only doing one Single Action this Round? You got more than enough Dice to do at least 2 Actions, even if it's a bit of a risk of missing them. Why not make the most use out of them?

In any case, now that I know what Phantom is going to do I suppose I'll have Platina join in dogpilling Shadow Butterfree and try to wrangle Snowm and Emolga to do the same. If we can drop them bellow the - 2 Pain Threshold they'll be a LOT less threatening, even if not taking out Petil ASAP is a risk in of itself. Getting to that post ASAP now!

[Mikaruge108]

Good to be back, seems I didn't miss much. Karen's orders are up.
I did have safe travels (couple delays, but aside from that, went smoothly)

Spoiler

Two shinies in Go that I caught while on my trip and a picture (Ignore Imgur's idiotic warning, nothing NSFW)
https://imgur.com/a/qbdX0Uv

[Dragonstrike]

Good to be back, seems I didn't miss much. Karen's orders are up.
I did have safe travels (couple delays, but aside from that, went smoothly)

Spoiler

Two shinies in Go that I caught while on my trip and a picture (Ignore Imgur's idiotic warning, nothing NSFW)
https://imgur.com/a/qbdX0Uv

You indeed did not miss much.  Glad to have ya back!

And cool shinies!  I've been debating whether I should finally give GO a go myself tbh, though mostly because I kinda want a Melmetal for collection purposes.  Not sure how much I'd actually play the game, especially since I keep hearing Niantic has been making a lot of questionable decisions lately.  Hoping that Monster Hunter Now isn't plagued with those kinds of issues when it releases, cuz I definitely want to try that one out since I'm a huge MH nerd.

Edit: and as soon as I read that litten pun, I immediately thought of MH because the Felynes in that franchise have speech patterns littered with cat puns.

[PhantomUnderYourDesk]

@Phantom: Err....you sure about only doing one Single Action this Round? You got more than enough Dice to do at least 2 Actions, even if it's a bit of a risk of missing them. Why not make the most use out of them? (...)

...Come to think of it now, you're right. The in-game situation definitely allows and calls for it and I do have the dice pool to pull it off, so I don't know why I've been sticking to the single action here? Been feeling brain-foggy and dissociative yesterday now to think of it, opted to ignore that and still post my orders, so possibly that could have been it. Either way, I'll edit my orders accordingly, thanks for the hint my dear!~
EDIT: Done.

Good to be back, seems I didn't miss much. Karen's orders are up.
I did have safe travels (couple delays, but aside from that, went smoothly)

Ohhh welcome back Mika, and glad you had overly safe and fine travels! Red-and-white Galarian Ziggy's so pretty <3

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What you people think of the last post? Be honest.

 
Very in-character and very ninja-like, even if a bit cruel to bite as much as depicted in the gif. I'd associative a lethal Bite or default-lethal Crunch with that image, possibly even going Primal. (Speaking about it, I'm a big fan of adding images to a post for more visualization, great choice there!)

[Dragonstrike]

Very in-character and very ninja-like, even if a bit cruel to bite as much as depicted in the gif. I'd associative a lethal Bite or default-lethal Crunch with that image, possibly even going Primal. (Speaking about it, I'm a big fan of adding images to a post for more visualization, great choice there!)

Kogeki does still have that 1 point in Primal and access to a Shadow move because of it, soooo...