Bria The Human — Roleplayer Guild

Pokemon Mystery Dungeon

Chapter 1: We're Adventurers!


Some background:


One of my favorite Pokemon Mystery dungeon games is Explorers of Sky. In this game you are a human who has washed up on an island you've never seen or heard of before. You have amnesia, your name being the only thing that you can recall about yourself. You are approached by a very concerned looking pokemon ((I always picked Riolu at the start of the game so we'll go with that.)) 
Riolu asks you if you're okay and how you got here. It's at this point that you realize "Oh man, this pokemon is talking to me." Then, to make things even freakier, you realize that not only is this Riolu talking, but you yourself have turned into a pokemon. After your initial meeting the two of you become friends and you decide to join a pokemon adventuring guild with Riolu hoping to possibly find the key to your missing memories as you explore. Throughout the game you take various jobs that different pokemon give you in return for rewards and XP.


The Vision:

My vision for this Role-play is that it would be centered around our different characters joining a guild together for the first time and all of the ups and downs that come from adventuring together. For the sake of fairness, all of our characters would be starting off at the same level ((Level 5)).

Experience Gain

I spent quite some time thinking about how I was going to go about gaining xp and leveling up when we're all going to have different Pokemon with different types. In the video games, the amount of experience points you needed to level up differed from Pokemon to Pokemon depending on what their attack stats were. 

The table below details the required experience for each level based on a Pokémon's Level 1 Attack power.((source:Bulbapedia))

LevelExperience to next level

	30 Atk.   40 Atk.	 50 Atk.	 60 Atk.	 70 Atk.	   80 Atk.	   90 Atk.
1	0		0		0		0		0			0		0
2	50		55		60		65		70			75		80
3	100		110		120		130		140			150		160
4	150		165		180		195		210			225		240
5	150		165		180		195		210			225		240
6	450		495		540		585		630			675		720
7	750		825		900		975		1050		1125		1200
8	900		990	   1080	1170		1260		1350		1440
9	1050	1155	1260	1365	1470		1575		1680
10	1200	1320	1440	1560	1680		1800		1920
11	1350	1485	1620	1755	1890		2025		2160
12	1050	1155	1260	1365	1470		1575		1680
13	1500	1650	1800	1950	2100		2250		2400
14	1800	1980	2160	2340	2520		2700		2880
15	2100	2310	2520	2730	2940		3150		3360
16	2250	2475	2700	2925	3150		3375		3600
17	2400	2640	2880	3120	3360		3600		3840
18	2550	2805	3060	3315	3570		3825		4080
19	2700	2970	3240	3510	3780		4050		4320
20	3000	3300	3600	3900	4200		4500		4800

To find out what your Pokemon's attack power would be, a great source to look at is pokemondb.net/pokedex . I know that it seems complicated, but to me this was the most fair way to go about leveling up since our Pokemon are going to have their different strengths and weaknesses based off of what type they are. 

As far as gaining experience goes, once our Pokemon have been accepted into the guild we will be embarking on different missions together.

Experience can be gained in two different ways:

1.) Upon completion of a mission everyone in the party will receive the same amount of experience points depending on the difficulty of the mission completed.
2.)Experience points can also be earned while we are inside of dungeons from battling other Pokemon we encounter. Our group will be functioning off of an Exp. share system, meaning that if one of us defeats a Pokemon while on a mission, the entire group will gain experience from the encounter. However, any Pokemon who don't participate in the battle will only get half of the gained exp. points. How much experience is earned from a Pokemon battle depends on what level the Pokemon we fought was in relation to our level. So if we fought a Level 1 Pokemon and we were Level 5, we wouldn't gain very much experience. Whereas if we fought a level 8 we would gain more experience. 

Battle System

As far as a battle system goes for this RP, for the sake of trying to keep things simple I'm only going to allow each of our Pokemon to have two different moves for now. What moves your Pokemon have will be up to you, but you must make sure that the moves you decide for your Pokemon fits into its type category. It wouldn't make sense if Charmander was able to use water pulse or if Pikachu only knew rock type moves. Essentially, just use common sense. I would recommend looking up your Pokemon's available move sets online when deciding.((once again the Pokemon Database is a great resource for this, or just google)). Also keep in mind that certain moves might not be available to your Pokemon until you've reached a specific level or you've evolved. 

The team will decide together who they want to go first/who will sit what out, etc. Most likely this will be based off of Pokemon type ((i.e you wouldn't put a Fire Pokemon up against a Water type)). As GM I am going to be monitoring battles/manipulating what Pokemon appear where, etc. When a Pokemon encounter happens I will provide stats of the Pokemon including their HP/Level/Type to our group. To decide whether the wild Pokemon or the team will get to make the first move, whoever the team has decided will be attacking first will have to institute a dice roll. As GM I will also do a dice roll for the wild Pokemon/I will role-play as our opponent while in battle. Whoever rolls higher will get to make the first move. After that the battle will function as it normally would in any game: you choose your attack, deal damage up to their max HP, win the battle. As far as critical hits/status conditions go on Pokemon those will also involve dice rolls as the situation calls for.

To summarize battles:
-We all start off as Level 5, first form Pokemon.
-Each Pokemon gets 2 moves, within their Pokemon's level/type range. 
-The team decides together who will go against what Pokemon depending on Pokemon type/level.
-Exp. gained from Pokemon battles will depend on Pokemon levels in relation to each other
-The battle will start off with a dice roll on both sides to see who goes first(the higher roll gets first move)
-Critical hits/status conditions will also require dice rolls
-The battle ends when either everyone in the party has fainted or the enemies have fainted
-It is an exp. share system, meaning that everyone in the group gains experience from Pokemon battles. Those who don't participate will only gain half experience.
-GM controls all enemy Pokemon in battles.
-If you actually read through all this please include your favorite food in your character creation.

Crystal Bay Island


Our story is going to take place on the beautiful island of Crystal Bay. Crystal Bay is a rather small island, but despite its size has a surprisingly large population. It's known for being something of a Pokemon paradise to those who live there. The only problem is that there aren't any other land structures for several hundred miles, so pretty much everyone who inhabits the Island has been there since birth. 
Things have been peaceful for a very long time now and the Island's guilds are to thank for that. Hundreds of brave Pokemon serve different guilds around the Island, doing any task big or small to keep the Pokemon of Crystal Bay happy, safe, and content. Pokemon who have joined such guilds are seen almost like local celebrities and almost everyone has dreamt of being apart of one at some point. That said, getting into a Pokemon guild is no easy feat. Most guilds require that you complete a test of courage before you can even apply. Because of this, there's a very high rejection rate for guilds across the Island. For some it can even take years before they are finally accepted.
Nonetheless your Pokemon are determined to join the Charizard Adventuring Guild, no matter the cost!


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Below is the character sheet for this role-play. I ask that you please post it in the OOC first and then once it is accepted you may then move it over to the Characters section. 

Name: 
Gender:
Pokemon:
Pokemon Type(rock, electric, water, etc.):
Pokemon Move set(only two for now please):
Personality Traits:
History:
Experience Points(this will be updated as the Role-play continues,I'll let you know what to put here once your CS has been accepted):
Level(We will all be starting off at 5):
Other:

I think that this RP is going to be a lot of fun :) If you have any questions please feel free to ask, I know that this is a lot of information.

The first choice is coming up with what pokemon to play as. Definitely thinking something tanky, like an Aron or something. (Assuming we're all starting off as relatively low level, first form pokemon) Also, what gen are we going up to in terms of avalible pokemon?@Lord Orgasmo

Honestly, as far as Pokemon choice goes, I'm not picky at all, whatever generation you'd like to choose from is fine by me. However, as far as evolutions of certain pokemon go we are all going to be starting off as basic level Pokemon so I'd prefer if you were at the first/second level evolutions of your pokemon. That said, certain pokemon I'll make exceptions for. Like if you wanted to be Pikachu, I wouldn't say "Oh no you have to be Pichu first." But for pokemon like Charizard I would prefer you start off as one of the earlier evolutions like Charmander or Charmeleon. Hopefully that makes sense, haha. I just don't want anyone being really OP when we've only just started.

@hyde@Lord Orgasmo@Potemking

Just for future reference, I do have a one year old so sometimes my replies can be a little late, but I get on at least once daily ((sometimes multiple times)) so it shouldn't be a problem for our RP :) Right now I'm still working on the official thread, but as soon as it's finished I'll be sure to post a link for you guys. Thanks for understanding!

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