[OOC] Heroes of Beacon - the Next Chapter

[Lugubrious]

Well, if any of you Pokefans happen to be hankering for another RP to join, I'm currently in one that use a few more members following a couple dropouts. The RP is a bit more structured than you might be used to, but there's a certain kind of sandbox freedom also allowed as long as certain rules are obeyed. Another different thing is that the GM is acting almost entirely as another player. Aside from creating locations, he doesn't take any special initiative, and instead gives a system that allows all players to create their own characters, locations, and organizations using amount of posts as a sort of currency.

I think it has a lot of potential, and I'm certainly using it to take the edge off of my explosive hype for Sun and Moon. The release just can't come fast enough! With Lycanroc and Passimian, all of my favorite animals (otters, wolves, and lemurs) are Pokemon, and I could hardly be happier.

Anyway, here's the link, for anyone interested: http://www.roleplayerguild.com/topics/143695-pokemon-new-world/ooc

[Guess Who]

Any fellow Pokemon enthusiasts among you all?

@Lugubrious

I've only ever played Emerald and only ever seen the original movie with Mewtwo. So I don't know if I'd ever really call myself an enthusiast.

[Abillioncats]

@Lugubrious Looks like a cool rp, I don't think it's for me though. I'm okay with some structure but when it gets to a certain point it kind of turns me off. And I don't know I just don't really feel interested in roleplaying a trainer. I'd be more interested in roleplaying the pokemon haha.

[Lazo]

@AbillioncatsPokemon Mystery Dungeon RP. Make it happen. Not that I'd have time to participate.

[Lady Seraphina]

Any fellow Pokemon enthusiasts among you all?

@Lugubrious

Honestly I've more or less been turned off Pokemon as of late. When I was little I loved it, still do... sort of, I've got so many games, Red, Crystal, Pokemon Trading Card Game for Gameboy Color, FireRed, LeafGreen, Emerald, Ruby, XD: Gale of Darkness, Explorers of Time, one of the Rangers games, Diamond, HeartGold and SoulSilver, Black, Alpha Sapphire.

I think it was Black that made me realize that Pokemon's become completely mechanized. It's almost as bad as the Adam West Batman show where every episode had the same plot. Get a Pokemon and Pokedex from the local professor, collect the gym badges, face off against whatever Team is featured who's goal no one cares about and who's plan is nonsensical and destructive. Beat the Elite Four and get prestige which you don't get to keep cause for some reason your rival stays the Champion even after you kick his ass.

With the exception of Mystery Dungeon (which is really just another game genre with a Pokemon theme) and Rangers (seemed like a good idea in concept but wasn't all that much fun) all the Pokemon games are basically identical with new Pokemon and slight variations on design with minor gimmicks added. There's barely any strategy too it anymore and Emerald was the last time where you actual had to figure out what you were doing, which town you were supposed to get to and how to get there. All the new ones (possibly with the exception of X and Y which I haven't played) you basically just go from one town to the next to the next to the next until the game is done.

Maybe it was always that way and I'm just not as enthralled with it as I was when I was fourteen or maybe the magic disappeared from Pokemon after having essentially played the same game upwards of six or seven times. I dunno but honestly its pretty much lost its charm for me. I might buy Sun or Moon but in all honesty if I do it'll be more to complete my (disturbingly large) collection of Nintendo games more than to actual play them. Hell I might not even take them out of the package.

It just seems to me that with such a rich and interesting world you should be able to make more than a single plot line. I mean what happened to the days of Pokemon games like Pokemon Snap and Gale of Darkness, those were fun. Now Pokemon's just kind of boring.

[Abillioncats]

@AbillioncatsPokemon Mystery Dungeon RP. Make it happen. Not that I'd have time to participate.

@Lazo

That's an idea. What I really want is to roleplay an Eevee who cannot decide what to evolve into, and goes on a soul searching journey to find itself.

[Crimmy]

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That's an idea. What I really want is to roleplay an Eevee who cannot decide what to evolve into, and goes on a soul searching journey to find itself.

@Abillioncats

Ah, it's been a while since I've seen that cliché.

[Awesomoman64]

Personally I can't wait for the new Pokémon games.

[NaraK]

I like Pokemon but I never played it so I dunno what to say xD

[MULTI_MEDIA_MAN]

Poor Napoli, left behind while the girls go and have fun with poor Luke.

Ganbare, Luke. Ganbare.

[NaraK]

who doesn't like luke o-o;

[Lugubrious]

who doesn't like luke o-o;

@NarayanK

[NaraK]

also i was talking about us players liking luke, i don't want to start another harem discussion again >.>
_{just in case i look like i started something again... >.>;;;;}

[Guess Who]

who doesn't like luke o-o;

@NarayanK

Seeing his quickly growing harem, apparently no one.

[SevenStormStyle]

You know what RWBY has that this RP doesn't? Ship names, so many hard to decipher ship names.

[NaraK]

(Not all of these are romantic pairs!)

Luke X Luke's Ahoge = Lukoge

Lauren X Ben = Glaze Steel

Sand X Napoli = Golden Sand

Gratia X Sapphire = Coat Hanger

Gratia X Diamond = Rough Jewels

Sapphire X Abel = Blue Shades

Sangue X Ben = Very Unlikely

[HereComesTheSnow]

luke's a twat

[Plank Sinatra]

Lauren X Ben = Glaze Steel

@NarayanK

They're just Bengasi.

Sangue X Ben = Very Unlikely

@NarayanK

Fuck you.

[NaraK]

@Plank Sinatra Bengasi xD

What would Sangue X Ben actually be called though? o-o;

[Onarax]

@Plank Sinatra Bengasi xD

What would Sangue X Ben actually be called though? o-o;

@NarayanK

OTP