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    Pokemon: New Journeys

    Welcome to the world of pokemon, a magical world where both people and pokemon live and bond together in pokemon battles. We join a couple in particular, just starting out their journey's. Today Yoshi Tatsu has reached the age to go on his first pokemon adventure, but what strange and exciting things will he run into on his journey?

    You guys should know how one of these work.

    Sample CS:
    Name: Yoshi "Yosh" "Yo" Tatsu (First and last plus nickname)
    Age: 12 (You are just starting some start in their early teens Ash started at 10)
    Gender: Male (Male or Female)
    Appearance:
    (you can describe them too)
    Hometown: Pallet Town (Anywhere, but you'll meet up eventually, most in kanto)
    Family: Mother: Tara Sister: Aki, Dad: Missing Grandpa: Professor William Tatsu (name your relatives, if they are missing or gone put missing)
    Personality: (Whatever you like, I'm going to let you find out his on your own)
    History: (If you would like to reveal it as the story goes on, that is okay)
    Special Ability: (such as never gives up, or psychic)
    Fighting Style: (Strategist, Brute force, Speedster, etc. How you fight)
    Motto: (What your character lives by)
    Pokemon: Dratini Lv1, O,O,O,O,O (O means empty pokeball)
    Inventory: (everyone will start out with 6 pokeballs, 1 is already occupied, 1 potion, a map, and food for seven days.)
    $: 100 (To start)

    Starters:
    Fire: Any starter
    Water: Any starter
    Grass: Any starter
    Electric: Pichu, Elekid, Shinx, Pachirisu, Emolga, Blitzel
    Normal: Evee, Snubull, Rattata, Clefa, Meowth, Sentret, Igglybuff, Slackoth, Lilipup, Minccino
    Flying: Pidgey, Farfetch'd, Hoothoot, Taillow, Starly, Pidove
    Ice: Snowrunt, Vanillite, Swinub, Cubchoo
    Fighting: Tyrogue, Timburr, Machop
    Dragon: Dratini, Axew, Gible
    Poison: Ekans, Nidoran, Zubat,
    Bug: Weedle, Caterpie, Vilipede, Wurmple, Sewaddle,
    Ground:Trapinch, Sandshrew, Cubone, Phanphy
    Rock: Geodude, Larviatar, Rogenrolla
    Steel: Aaron, Pawniard, Beldum, Klink
    Psychic: Ralts, Natu, Abra
    Ghost: Ghastly, Duskull, Litwick
    Dark: Murcrow, Sandile, Deino, Sneasel,
    Your drill may pierce the heavens, but mine will be the one to tear it down, and from the ashes create it aknew. With this! The drill of the Anti-Spirals I shall destroy your hope, and uproot your dreams. -if I were a bad guy on gurren lagann


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    Ok, several questions-

    1. Where does this take place? Kanto, Johto, Hoen, Sinnoh, Unova, or some new region?

    2. Is this based more on the games, anime, or manga? Or a combonation of all three?

    3. Do we have to play as just regular trainers, or can we be a more specialized type of trainer (IE: Hiker, Psychic, Blackbelt, etc.)? Likewise, can we play as gym leaders or elite four members? Can we play as Team Rocket/Magma/Aqua/Galactic/Plasma/Some-Made-Up-New-Evil-Team?

    4. Are Legendaries allowed? If so, what is the limit (IE: You can't start with a Legendary, no Uber-tier Legendaries, only so many per tearm, etc.)?

    5. Are characters from the show allowed? What about from the games or manga? Or is it only OCs?

    6. Can we play as a Pokemon? IE: If trainers aren't allowed to have Legendaries on their team, can we play as a Legendary as a character (Example: Mewtwo is a character in the Anime)?
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    They say if you stand facing exactly South on the sixth day of the sixth month during the sixth hour and sneeze exactly six times, the Devil will ride by on a tricycle for no reason whatsoever!

    Wait, no, no he won't. Would be hilarious, though...

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    Alot of that is answered in the Int Check
    http://roleplayerguild.com/showthread.php?t=136357

    Only OCs, yes you may be psychic, no legendaries, one of the teams, yes. play as pokemon, rather not, though I'm willing to make exceptions. Combination of all three game, show, and manga. All regions, but you'll meet up. Basically you will all take a boat to a different region for whatever reason, and start in kanto and work your way up. Though pokemon from other regions are found throughout the regions like in the games.
    Your drill may pierce the heavens, but mine will be the one to tear it down, and from the ashes create it aknew. With this! The drill of the Anti-Spirals I shall destroy your hope, and uproot your dreams. -if I were a bad guy on gurren lagann


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    So, it's the same old boring "been there, done that" Pokemon RP....

    I'm sorry, but these style of Pokemon RPs are so over-done that they're just boring and they don't last very long. It's always the same thing-"You have to play as a new trainer, you can only be an OC, no Legendaries (Even though many Legendaries aren't even in the Uber tier), etc."

    It's been done so much that it's predictable. You know everyone is going to start out with an Eevee, someone is going to be an Expy of Ash and have a "God-Mode Pikachu" (or some variation thereof), blah, blah, blah....

    If you're going to have a Pokemon based RP, than you SHOULD have Canon characters be allowed. After all, the trainers in the RP are going to go up against Brock, Misty, Team Rocket, Giovanni, and the like. Are they just going to be NPCs? That's a bit dull. It's no fun when the GM gets all the Canon characters.

    Likewise, people should be able to use Legendaries. They can't start with them, of course, but they should have the opportunity to capture them later on in the RP, much like how it works in the games. And you can set limits to who gets Legendaries, which ones are available to use, and when and where people can use them (IE: "No Mewtwo/Arceus/Deoxys/etc." or "Only one Legendary per person" or "You can only use Legendaries against the Elite Four" or something like that).
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    They say if you stand facing exactly South on the sixth day of the sixth month during the sixth hour and sneeze exactly six times, the Devil will ride by on a tricycle for no reason whatsoever!

    Wait, no, no he won't. Would be hilarious, though...

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    Well yes, you can catch them, I thought you had implied that you would start out with a legendary. I am adding movie events, and also it doesn't have to be your first time, your character could have just Kanto left. I am doing the graphic versions, where charmeleon cut an arbok in half (4kids be darned should there be a gun in this rp). Also this will escalate, but I'll ruin the surprise. No one is playing already there characters, I don't like RPs where someone is a canon character. Unless the GM uses an enemy or what not.

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    If you don't want to join, don't, if you do, do. If it is your opinion this will suck, okay, I respect your decision. If you would like to give it a try, okay, I'll happily welcome you. If you would like to Co, PM me, and briefly tell me why you think you'd be a good Co-GM
    Your drill may pierce the heavens, but mine will be the one to tear it down, and from the ashes create it aknew. With this! The drill of the Anti-Spirals I shall destroy your hope, and uproot your dreams. -if I were a bad guy on gurren lagann


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    I'm not saying it'll suck. I'll gladly join if done right.

    The problem with Pokemon RPs is that they tend to fall under the same problems over and over again (Again, most people will start out with Eevee or possibly Charmander, god-mode Pokemon, etc.) as well as the problem of figuring out how to do the battle system and everything.

    Pokemon is not something that can easily be adapted into a text-based RP in terms of things like combat. The storyline, sure, that's easy. But things like battling are another story. If I may ask, do you have a way to prevent god-modding?
    They say if you stand facing exactly South on the sixth day of the sixth month during the sixth hour and sneeze exactly six times, the Devil will ride by on a tricycle for no reason whatsoever!

    Wait, no, no he won't. Would be hilarious, though...

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    The battles are RPed, so yes they will be godmodded, but, they are limited, I will say when evolve, and people can't just say My evee tackles the weedle and the weedle gets knocked out. It will be more like this.

    DM:
    A pink worm looking pokemon is sitting by itself eating a few leaves, it doesn't seem to notice you.
    Player:
    Joe Bob sees the wild Wurmple is alone and pulls out his pokedex, (Insert pokedex entry). the pokedex says, "Cool I think I'll try to catch it. Go evee!" The pokeball opens and a beam of white light hits the ground, when the light is gone evee appears. "Evee!" Evee says, "Are you ready evee?" Joe says. Evee nods his/her head. "Alright use tackle on that Wurmple." Evee then runs towards the lone Wurmple, and attempts to tackle it against a tree.
    DM:
    The Wurmple saw the attack coming, but wasn't quick enough to dodge, it is hit against the tree. As it regains its bearings, it uses a string shot at the Evee, (DM then decideds hit or miss, player can describe how they dodge. Player can also ask DM if they can do something specific, like use iron tail to break the bridge rope, causing the pokemon to fall or whatever. Use ember to knock down the string, etc.)

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    You can randomly fight, or capture, capture requests go to DM.

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    Heck I'll even do the pokedex as a character in itself, so I can tell you what you're fighting
    Your drill may pierce the heavens, but mine will be the one to tear it down, and from the ashes create it aknew. With this! The drill of the Anti-Spirals I shall destroy your hope, and uproot your dreams. -if I were a bad guy on gurren lagann


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    Ok, makes sense.

    As for capturing Legendaries, might I suggest some sort of list of available/taken Legendaries so that there's not 20 people all capturing a Legendary (For example, Ho-Oh) at once? You know, like maybe "Random RPer # 5" gets the Suicune that roams Kanto or maybe "Random RPer # 40" gets the Event Mew or whatnot. Just to avoid confusion.

    Here's an example of what I mean-

    Legendaries Available/Taken In Kanto-
    Articuno
    Zapdos
    Moltres-Taken by Random RPer 7
    Mew
    Mewtwo
    Raikou-Taken by Random RPer 2
    Entei
    Suicune
    That way, you'll know ahead of time who gets what Legendary.
    They say if you stand facing exactly South on the sixth day of the sixth month during the sixth hour and sneeze exactly six times, the Devil will ride by on a tricycle for no reason whatsoever!

    Wait, no, no he won't. Would be hilarious, though...

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    Sound reasonable. Alot of legendaries are unavailability, I'll work on that list once people start posting their CSs.
    Your drill may pierce the heavens, but mine will be the one to tear it down, and from the ashes create it aknew. With this! The drill of the Anti-Spirals I shall destroy your hope, and uproot your dreams. -if I were a bad guy on gurren lagann


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    Ok, that works.
    They say if you stand facing exactly South on the sixth day of the sixth month during the sixth hour and sneeze exactly six times, the Devil will ride by on a tricycle for no reason whatsoever!

    Wait, no, no he won't. Would be hilarious, though...

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