Table-Top Roleplaying Rulebook
Table Of Contents
The Pokémon World ...................................................................................1 Building A Character ..................................................................................2 Starter Pokémon, Trainer Stats, & Training Boons .................................2 Playing The Game .......................................................................................3 Skill Checks, & Advantage & Disadvantage ..........................................3 Skill Check Categories ..........................................................................4 Information You Need About Your Character........................................5 Leveling Up, Experience & Capturing Pokémon...................................6 Health, Fainting, & Pokémon Centres ..................................................6 Pokémon Battles.........................................................................................7 Rounds, Damage & Hitpoints, & Rolling To Hit ....................................7 Status Conditions & Active Pokémon Bonus ........................................8 Weather, Move Glossary & Struggle .....................................................9 Training Boons ..........................................................................................10 Choosing Boons ..................................................................................10 Reading Move Cards ...........................................................................10 Basic Training Boons ...........................................................................11 Advanced Training Boons ....................................................................16 Type-Focus Boons ................................................................................21 Persona Boons ....................................................................................44 Evolution ...................................................................................................50 Items ..........................................................................................................51 Starting Items, Treasure Items, & The Pokémart ..................................51 Restoratives, Evolution Items, & Pokéballs.........................................52 Key Items ...........................................................................................54
The Pokémon Ranch .................................................................................56 Features & Utilities ..............................................................................56 Privilege Purchases ..................................................................................58 Game Master Section ....................................................................................62 The Role of the Game Master & Narration/Improvisation .......................62 Breaking The Rules, Quests, & NPC Building ..........................................63 Legendary & Shiny Pokémon & Authentic Move Requirements.............64 Not Flipping Coins & Human-Pokémon Interaction ...............................65 Shared Inventory, Quest Experience, & The Experience Curve................65 Traveling & Biomes .......................................................................................66 Encounters & Secrets................................................................................67 Side Quests & Points of Interest...............................................................68 Forest Biome ............................................................................................69 Grassland Biome .....................................................................................71 Desert Biome ...........................................................................................73 Mountain Biome ......................................................................................75 Cave Biome ..............................................................................................77 Frozen Biome ...........................................................................................79 Molten Biome ..........................................................................................81 Freshwater Biome ....................................................................................83 Sea Biome ................................................................................................85 Battle Generation ..........................................................................................87 Battle Encounters With Pokémon & Encounter Building ........................87 Describing Attacks ....................................................................................89
Written & Created by Eric Shoemaker, also known as Doccit. Contributors: Drew Wilsford Special thanks to TheKamenWriter, DrStaightLord, carnackiArdent, Flamewolf9, Elemental Knight, & Mille-Feuille (Paradox) Information sourced from Bulbapedia
The Pokemon World
Welcome to the world of Pokémon! This guide assumes some knowledge of the Pokémon franchise as it exists apart from this game. If you are unfamiliar, there is a great deal of information available about it. This game aims to provide a roleplaying experience that resembles the Pokémon world as portrayed in the video games and anime while keeping the mechanics easy to learn and use, and the gameplay quick and entertaining. If you’ve never played a table top roleplaying game before, The gist is that this is a storytelling game where players who pretend to be characters which they create explore a the Pokémon world, which is controlled by one player who is designated the Game Master (or GM). This book details everything you and your gaming group needs to have this sort of adventure.
To play this game you need some six-sided dice (two per player is a good amount to have), a couple of printed copies of the character sheet detailed on page 3, and some pencils. The game often asks you to use a coin to randomly determine things, but it can easily be substituted with a d6 (1-3 heads; 4-6; tails) The game will go a lot smoother if the GM has access to a computer as well. This is intended to be used as a .pdf file and not a printed book, and it contains many links to websites that contain things like Pokémon listed in order of their base stat totals. While it is possible to play without this it is not recommended. One particularly useful tool is this random number generator. The game will often tell you to randomly determine something, and when this doesn’t involve flipping a coin or rolling a six-sided dice, there is no more reliable method.
What to read? As a player, you should read the building a character section (on the following page), the playing the game section on page 3, and the Pokémon battling section on page 7. If you are a game master, you should read the game master section, on page 62. The rest of the book needs to be read only when other sections of this book refer you to it, but there is no reason not to read it if you are curious. Enjoy playing!
If you are in the far-flung future, and the links to the websites in this file are not working, then googling contextually relevant information should hopefully lead you to a similar website.
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Building A Character
a page with all of the legal starter Pokémon in this game, and all of the information you need about them. Once you have your Pokémon, look at its base stats, and determine its game stats from it. Its two highest stats are 6, its middle two stats are 5, and its lowest two stats are 4. If there are ties, you choose which counts as higher for this purpose. Then, between the two stats that are 6s, choose one to count as the Pokémon’s high stat.
Trainer Stats Next you must choose your character’s stats. This determines how good they are at various tasks in the game. You can assign two stats as 6, one as 5, and two as 4. Here are the six player stats and what they do:
Every person other than the Game Master involved in the game needs to make a character to play as. When doing so a player should think about where their character comes from, why they are adventuring, and what they are like as a person. Aside from this sort of planning, there are a number of mechanical considerations to be made that are recorded on your trainer card. You should have a physical or digital copy of it ready to write on when you begin building your character. The next page explains how to fill out the trainer, and how to keep other information about your character.
Starter Pokemon When you are making a character, the most important thing to choose is your starter Pokémon. As a starter Pokémon, you can choose any Pokémon that is the first stage of its evolution family, and is not a legendary Pokémon. Here is WG
• Physical Training - The higher this is, the more impressive physical stunts your Pokémon will be able to perform. • Special Training - The higher this is, the more impressive magical stunts your Pokémon will be able to perform. • Aptitude - This is used when your trainer is interacting with technology like computers, Pokéballs, or the many other gadgets in this world. • Poise - This is used to convince people to do things, and will help you secure information and favours . • Attention - This is used to find your way along a difficult path, spot treasure, and do other things that require keen senses.
Training Boons You choose 3 training boons at the first level. The training boons are listed on page 10 and give you access to moves to use in battle, maneuvers to use out of battle, and various other useful bonuses for your character to have. I recommend that you start with Basic Training Boons (see page 10) to allow your character to train many kinds of Pokémon effectively.
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Playing The Game
add your score from the appropriate attribute. Based on how difficult the Game Master thinks the check is, they will set a target number, and if you meet that number or exceed it you succeed at what you were trying to do. If you fail a skill check (fall beneath that number) usually you will become frustrated. This means that if your character makes a check to do the same thing for a next hour, they will continue to fail, no matter how many times they make it. Generally speaking, trivially easy things have a difficulty of 8 to succeed at, plausibly accomplishable tasks have a difficulty of 11 to succeed at, and difficult tasks have a difficulty of 14 to succeed at. Usually, any number between 6 and 20 is an acceptable difficulty.
Advantage And Disadvantage What Is YouR Quest? Unlike in a video game, in a table top roleplaying game the players can do more or less anything that would make sense in the fictional world if circumstances permit. Generally speaking in a game group, all of the player characters share a goal that is created in collaboration with the Game Master. This section tells you about the sorts of things that will likely happen in your game as your characters work to achieve their goals.
Skill Checks In this game when you want to do something that you might reasonably not succeed at, you make a skill check. There are certain things which don’t require skill checks, like walking, talking, lifting small objects, and etcetera. When you are asked to make a skill check, roll two six sided dice (d26 and SN
You are often asked to roll two six sided dice (called a 2d6) in this game. When that happens, circumstances which make the task harder than it would normally be for you (like trying to run while your character is already out of breath) or easier than it would normally be for you (like climbing a rock wall when you’ve just watched someone climb it) might give you an advantage or a disadvantage. Sometimes these are conferred by game mechanics, and often they are conferred by the Game Master. Sometimes you will have both an advantage and disadvantage, and when this happens they cancel each other out. When you make a skill check and you have more advantages on it than disadvantages, roll three dice use the two highest. When you make a skill check and have more disadvantages than advantages, roll three dice and use the two lowest. Otherwise, just roll the dice once.
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Skill Check Categories Skills fall into six categories: • Physical Training & Special Training - These are checks that you make to effectively command your Pokémon. What you can do with this is determined by what boons you have (page 10). If you are a trainer with a Beartic and don’t know Manipulate Ice, granted by the Ice Type Focus boon, you won’t be able to command it to make an igloo for you because it will not be able to understand what you want and lack the discipline to do so. If you do have that boon, you can make a check, and the value of that check will determine, for example, how warm the igloo can keep you, how many people fit in it, and other similar things. The better you are at training Pokémon, the more they can do for you. • Aptitude - You will be asked to make aptitude checks when you are trying to do something that is difficult because you are using a complicated tool, like a computer. Many of the items you can buy and use in the game (listed starting on page 51) call for you to make aptitude checks. It is also used when trying to capture a Pokémon using a Pokéball. • Poise - When convincing someone to do something for you, you must make a poise check. The difficulty of the poise check is determined by how much it would inconvenience or even harm the person to give you what you want. If the inconvenience is mild or trivial, the difficulty should be about 10; if it is moderate, it should be about 12; and if it is great or very great 14 or more. If the person likes you you are at an advantage, and if they dislike you, you are at a disadvantage. • Attention - Attention checks are used to do anything that involves seeing things that aren’t easy to see, about people and the environment. Aside from helping you not get lost when in the wilderness, the most common application of these checks in the game is finding secrets. ! 4 4 !
Once after each encounter (page 67) in the wilderness, players have the opportunity to search for a treasure, or sanctuary full of rare Pokémon in the place where they are. • Human Capacity - This is a special kind of check, where instead of adding a number from your character sheet, you add 5. Unlike most tabletop games, this game is focused on your Pokémon’s abilities rather than the character’s. As such, things like strength, constitution, and dexterity are assumed to be equal across players. It is used for feats of physical strength, quickness, or resilience of your character’s body. What determines the difficulty of the check is how easy it would be for an average modern person to do in the real world, as determined by the Game Master. When you order your Pokémon to make do something covered by this check, make a physical training check instead. The difficulty for that check is proportional to what the game master would expect a Pokémon of its form would be capable of doing.
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Information You Need About Your Character In this game, the choices you make about your character will need to be recorded for future reference. You be keeping track of the information on the trainer card (you can find a printable version on page 92). It is also a good idea to keep track of the Pokémon you have with you, and some information about them for quick reference. Here is a spreadsheet that has columns for all of the information you need, and it is printer friendly. Once you have Pokémon that you own, but are not with you, you should keep track of them as well. Here is a sheet that provides the important details for Pokémon not in your party, and a box to store the amount of Pokémon in your Pokédex. Is your party sharing its items? If so, the Game Master may be keeping track of the collective amount of Pokédollars and what items your party is carrying with you. If not, you should take care to make sure you know what and how much you have on you. Both you and the GM could be using a spreadsheet like this one to hold onto that information. Lastly, constantly referencing the book when looking for moves granted to you by boons can be a pain. I recommend you print a document with all of the moves your character knows on it, and add more sheets to it when you level up. Here is a word document with all of the moves in this game in it (organized by what boon they are from) in a format that you can copy and paste into your own document. If you would prefer a more comprehensive document, this character sheet was created for use with this game, and will automatically fill in a lot of the information you need about your character.
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5 1 - Your total XP. Usually between 0 and 15. See page 6. Under it is your level, which cannot be higher than 20. 2 - Your total Power Points, written as [x/y] where x is current power points and y is total power points. Certain boons will increase your maximum power points (you naturally have zero) and certain moves will allow you to spend your current power points. Your current power point total becomes your maximum power point when you visit a Pokémon centre. 3 - Your trainer’s stats. See page 2. 4 - Your starter Pokémon’s stats. Remember that only your starter Pokémon have stats like this. All others Pokémon you use in battle use these stats as well. 5 - A list of your boons. On the actual trainer info card there is more space here. See page 10. Page 5
Levelling Up And Experience Points Your characters level up when they have 15 experience points, and then lose all of their experience points. What levelling up means is that you gain one new training boon (page 10) and increase one of your stats by 1, or one of your starter Pokémon’s stats by 1. Any stat cannot be increased beyond 10. Your level also increases by one on your trainer info card. You can gain experience (xp) in any of the following ways: Quest Experience: (generally) 3-9xp - Accomplishing a plot related goal. The GM decides how much of this to award, and sometimes it may be more than 9 or less than 3. Battle Experience: 2xp - Whenever a trainer wins a challenging Pokémon battle (be it with a trainer or wild Pokémon) they should receive 2xp. The game master determines if battle is challenging or not, and if it is not challenging, no experience should be given. Persona Experience: 1xp - Each persona provides a way to gain 1xp, typically involving the use of the persona’s features (page 44. You can only gain 1 persona experience per day. Learning From Mistakes: 1xp - Whenever you make a roll and get a 4 or less from the dice (before adding your attribute) you gain 1xp.
Capturing Pokemon You may attempt to capture a Pokémon if it is wild (does not already have a trainer) and has just been defeated in a battle against you. When attempting to capture a Pokémon, you may throw a Pokéball at it. Divide the Pokémon base stat total by 10 (and round up). Make an aptitude check, and add the Pokéball’s “capture strength” (this is listed next to the Pokéball types on page 52). If the value of your check is higher than the Pokémon’s base stat total ! 6 !6
divided by 10, the Pokémon is caught. If you fail to catch a Pokémon, the Pokéball you thew will never again be useable. If you already have six Pokémon with you when you capture a Pokémon, the ball is teleported out of your hands and to your Pokémon ranch (page 56). After you’ve caught a Pokémon, record its high stat, type, and species on the list of Pokémon you’ve caught, and if it would be in your party (on your person) record those things and its ability where you store the information about your party (page 5).
Health, Fainting, and Pokemon Centres For various reasons, usually related to battle (page 7), your Pokémon will lose hit points and Faint. When a Pokémon faints, they remain unconscious and unable to do anything until you have revived them. The easiest way is by visiting a Pokémon centre. They are found in almost every town and city, and they will restore all of your Pokémon to full hit points. Certain items (page 51) will also restore HP and revive Pokémon, but they all either cost money or are difficult to acquire. Almost all towns and cities also have Pokémarts where you can spend your Pokédollars.
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Rounds
Pokemon Battling
At the beginning of combat, each participant in combat chooses an active Pokémon. Before the first round and between rounds, each participant in combat chooses an action in secret and records it on some paper they will reveal when the round begins. You can use your action to choose use a move and attack a target, switch your active Pokémon to another in your party, or use an item. During combat characters are free to talk to each other and their Pokémon, and other simple tasks that the Game Master deems acceptable. When everyone has finished planning their action, the round begins. At the beginning of the round, everyone who chose to switch their active Pokémon or use an item does so (the order in which the item uses and switches happen in does not usually matter, and in cases where it does the Game Master decides the order they proceed in). After that, Pokémon attacks take place in order of the speed stats of Pokémon. If there is a tie in speed, whoever rolls the highest on 1d6 goes first. The order determined by the roll persists until one of the Pokémon involved switches out. If a Pokémon is knocked out (reduced to 0 hp) because of an attack, its trainer immediately chooses a new active Pokémon, and attacks which targeted the knocked out Pokémon now target that trainer’s new active Pokémon. When a trainer is out of Pokémon, they lose the battle.
Unless they say otherwise, attacks do 2 damage. Attacks which are supereffective deal 3 damage, and attacks which are not very effective deal 1 damage. Moves which are “not effective” deal no damage and have no effects. What determines whether an attack is super effective is the Pokémon’s type. Consult the type chart to determine this. White means normally effective (2 damage), green means super effective (3 damage), red means not very effective (1 damage), and black means not effective (0 damage).
Damage And Hitpoints
Rolling To Hit
If your starter Pokémon is your active Pokémon, it has Hitpoints equal to its Hitpoints stat. If a Pokémon that is not your starter Pokémon is your active Pokémon, it has 3 hitpoints.
dM
Attacks don’t deal damage unless they hit. When a Pokémon makes an attack, it is either physical or special. Each attack will tell you whether it is physical or special. When you attack, roll two six sided dice and add your attack stat if the attack is physical, or special attack stat if the attack is special. Compare this to your opponent’s defence stat (if the attack is
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Status Conditions Effects imposed by moves in combat all end when a Pokémon switches out, except for status conditions. All effects from moves end when a Pokémon faints/is knocked out however. A Pokémon can’t have more than one status condition at a time. Here are the status conditions and their effects:
physical, or special defence if the attack is special) plus 9. If your value is equal or higher to theirs, your attack hits. (Note: other than HP, your stats are not determined by your active Pokémon, but by the stats taken from your starter Pokémon listed on your character sheet.) These rolls very commonly have advantages and disadvantages imposed upon them. Note that you do not actually roll dice when you are using your defence or special defence. Having an advantage on your defence roll means people who make attack rolls against you are at a disadvantage, and having a disadvantage on your defence roll gives your attacker an advantage. When a Pokémon uses an attack of a type that matches one of its types, they get an advantage on their attack roll or special attack roll.
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• Paralyzed - Before a paralyzed Pokémon takes an action, flip a coin. If tails, it takes no action on its turn instead. It also takes a -3 penalty to speed. • Confused - Before a confused Pokémon takes an action, flip a coin. If tails, it takes no action on its turn instead. If it is reduced to 1hp, on its next turn it faints before it can use its action. This condition ends when the Pokémon switches out. • Poisoned - Each round after taking its action, a poisoned Pokémon loses 1hp, unless losing 1hp would knock them out. • Burned - After dealing damage to an opposing active Pokémon, a burned Pokémon loses 1 hp. It is at a disadvantage on (physical) attack rolls. • Frozen/Asleep - A frozen or asleep Pokémon does nothing during its turn. After each round where a frozen/asleep Pokémon does nothing, flip a coin. If heads, it loses the frozen/asleep condition.
Active Pokemon Bonus The high stat of your active Pokémon in battle gives it a bonus depending on what it is. • Hitpoints - The HP that the Pokémon starts the battle with is 2 higher. • Attack - The first time you deal damage with a physical attack in a round, deal 1 extra damage. • Special Attack - The first time you deal damage with a special attack in a round, deal 1 extra damage.
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• Defence - The first time you are hit with a physical attack in a round, take 1 less damage. • Special Defence - The first time you are hit with a special attack in a round, take 1 less damage. • Speed - While this is your active Pokémon, you have +3 Speed.
Weather In combat, weather is a factor in battle. Unless the Game Master says otherwise, the weather in battle is clear. Here are the effects of various weather conditions: • Clear - No effect • Intense Sunlight - Fire type attacks have an advantage on attack and special attack rolls. Grass Pokémon have +2 to speed. • Rain - Water Pokémon have +2 to speed, all grass Pokémon regain 1hp. • Hail - Pokémon that are not ice type take 1 damage on the first turn that hail is active while they are an active Pokémon during a battle. Moves that do not deal damage made during hail must flip a coin before their effects happen. On a tails, they do not happen. • Sandstorm - Pokémon that are not ground, rock, or steel type take 1 damage on the first turn that sandstorm is active while they are an active Pokémon during a battle. Ground and rock Pokémon have an advantage on physical and special attack rolls.
• “Chance to [x]” Moves - A move with a chance to bestow a certain status condition or effect has you flip a coin. On a heads, the effect is bestowed on the Pokémon who was hit with the attack. On a tails, it is not. • “No Damage” Moves - These moves don’t deal any damage, and do not require a roll unless some effect has the condition “on hit” imposed on it. • On Hit/On Miss - Effects with this attached to them don’t activate unless the attack hits (in the case of on hit) or misses (in the case of on miss) • +/- # To Hit - When making your attack or special attack roll, add/ subtract this number from your attack or special attack roll.
Move Glossary
Aside from the moves their trainer can teach them, every Pokémon can use the move struggle. Here is what it looks like:
The moves that you are given from boons often use abbreviated descriptors to save space, who’s meaning will not be clear without reading this section. • “Priority” Moves - Priority moves go before all others in the round. Among priority moves, the Pokémon using them proceed in order of speed. ! 99 !
Struggle Struggle
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Training Boons
boons gave you in their group of types. They tend to give out moves which do not deal damage in combat. Type-Focus Boons are for when you would like to improve your training with a particular Pokémon type. Persona Boons improve your trainer’s capabilities, rather than their ability to train their Pokémon.
Reading Move Cards
Training boons grant you combat moves, field moves, and abilities. Combat moves give you different options for what to use your action to do on your turn in combat (page 7), field moves give you options for skill checks to make and things to do with your Pokémon outside of combat, and abilities do everything else. Some boons increase your PP as well. PP is spent to execute certain field moves and activate effects in combat, and is restored only when visiting a Pokémon centre, and using the item Ether (page 52).
Choosing Your Boons There are four kinds of boons in this section: Basic Training Boons, Advanced Training Boons, Type-Focus Boons, and Persona Boons. At the first level, a recommendation is provided here for each starter pokemon that you may choose. For levels after that, here are what the different types of boons do. Basic training boons make sure that if you find a Pokémon, you can teach it to do more than just scratch and growl. They are also prerequisites for most other boons. Advanced training boons require you to have taken the corresponding basic training boon, and unlock more of what the basic training KL
Field moves and combat moves will come on little tables. In the top right they’ll list the name of the move in question, and in the top left it will say either physical or special, followed by the type of damage the move does, if it is a combat move, or simply FIELD MOVE, if it is a field move. Underneath the line the move lists what sort of Pokémon can use it. Requirements are based off of Pokémon type and high stat primarily, although there are some moves that can only be used by fully evolved Pokémon. Seeing “or” means that meeting the conditions to the left of the or or the right of the or will let you use the move. The & symbol generally conjoins a high stat with a type, indicating that to meet that requirement you need both. A / between options indicates that either is acceptable for fulfilling a requirement. So in summary, seeing the requirement , or, & / means electric types, as well as Pokémon with high special attack that are either normal or psychic type, can use the move. And a move with the requirement & / would allow any Pokémon that was in its final stage of evolution, and electric type or had high special attack to use it. MONO before a type indicates that to meet the requirement, the Pokémon can’t have a secondary type. When reading field move cards, the effect will often refer to “your Pokémon”. Just like with combat cards, moves have to be used by a Pokémon that meets their requirements. Your Pokémon refers always to the one using the move.
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Basic Training Boons By choosing boons from this section, your character will become generally proficient with training many different kinds of Pokémon.
Basic Maneuvers (Normal, Flying) Peck/Wing Attack
Physical,
Req: Effect: -
Whirlwind/Roar Req:
/
Physical, &
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Helping Hand
Effect: No damage. Hits automatically. You cause your opponent to switch Pokémon. The game master randomly select another Pokémon in your opponent’s party to switch in. The switch happens when you use this move.
Double Slap/Fury Attack Req:
, or,
Physical, /
Effect: -1 Damage. Attack twice this turn, using double slap/fury attack both times.
Req:
FIELD MOVE , or,
Effect: When another Pokémon is making a check, you can have your Pokémon make a special training check with a difficulty of 12. If it is successful, flip two coins. On two tails, add 1 to the other Pokémon’s roll, on two heads, add 2 to the other Pokémon’s roll, on one of each, add 2 to the other Pokémon’s roll.
Forest Training (Bug, Poison, Grass) Pin Missile/Bug Bite
Physical,
Req: Effect: -
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Vine Whip/Razor Leaf
Physical,
Req: Effect: Acid/Acid Spray
Special,
Req: Effect: -
Aquatic Training (Water, Ice) Bubble Beam/Water Gun
Special,
Req: Control Plants
FIELD MOVE
Req: Effect: You can make a special training check to have your Pokémon summon the value of your check times ten times litres of plant matter (vines, leaves, etc) per second, for a maximum of 10 seconds. As soon as your Pokémon begins summoning it, your Pokémon may manipulate it (see below). When your Pokémon ceases to manipulate/summon the plant matter, it disappears. The summoned plant matter must have some connection to your Pokémon’s body. You can make physical training checks to have your Pokémon manipulate (bend, move, and shape) plant matter by touching it. How difficult it is to do so depends on the way in which you wish to shape it. The difficulty is determined by the Game Master. ! ll !
Effect: Water Sport/Soak
Physical,
Req: Effect: Automatic Hit. No damage. For every active Pokémon at the time this move is used, fire type attacks are not very effective, and if electric type attacks were normally effective before, they are now super effective. Ice Fang/Ice Punch Req:
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Physical, /
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Control Water Req:
FIELD MOVE /
Effect: You can make a special training check to have your Pokémon summon the value of your check times ten in litres of water per second, for a maximum of 10 seconds. As soon as your Pokémon begins summoning it, your Pokémon may manipulate it (see below). When your Pokémon ceases to manipulate/summon the water, it disappears. The summoned material must have some connection to your Pokémon’s body (for example, summoned water could come out of its mouth.) You can make special training checks to have your Pokémon manipulate (bend, move, and shape) the water in question by touching it. How difficult it is to do so depends on the way in which you wish to shape it. The difficulty is determined by the Game Master.
Mountain Training (Rock, Ground, Steel) Magnitude Req:
Physical, , or,
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Effect: Rock Throw/Rock Tomb Req: Effect: -
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Physical, &
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Control Earth Req:
FIELD MOVE /
Effect: You can make a special training check to have your Pokémon summon the value of your check times ten in litres of rock or dirt per second, for a maximum of 10 seconds. As soon as your Pokémon begins summoning it, your Pokémon may manipulate it (see below). When your Pokémon ceases to manipulate/summon the rock/dirt, it disappears. The summoned rock/dirt must have some connection to your Pokémon’s body (for example, summoned rock could could jut out of its back or feet.) You can make physical training checks to have your Pokémon manipulate (bend, move, and shape) the rock/dirt by touching it. How difficult it is to do so depends on the way in which you wish to shape it. The difficulty is determined by the Game Master.
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Confusion/Psybeam Req:
, or,
Special, &
/
Effect: Draining Kiss Req:
Special, , or,
&
/
/
Effect: -1 Damage. On hit, restore 1hp to any Pokémon in your party. Lick/Astonish Req: Metal Claw/Iron Tail Req:
, or,
Physical, &
/
/
Effect: -1 damage. On hit, hit Pokémon can't act for the rest of the round.
Ember/Flamethrower
Magical Training (Psychic, Fairy, Ghost) Kinesis
FIELD MOVE /
Effect: Your Pokémon can lift and move around objects weighing less than 30kg that are anywhere within 30m of them. While they are moving it, the object glows faintly purple. The objects can move at up to 5m/s.
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Primordial Training (Fire, Electric, Dragon)
/
Effect: -
Req:
Physical,
Req:
, or,
Special, &
/
/
Effect: Thunder Shock/Thunder Bolt Req:
, or,
&
Special, /
/
/
Effect: -
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Dragon Claw/Dragon Tail Req:
, or,
Physical, /
&
/
Effect: Control Fire
FIELD MOVE
Req: Effect: You can make a special training check to have your Pokémon summon the value of your check times ten litres of fire per second, for a maximum of 10 seconds. As soon as your Pokémon begins summoning it, your Pokémon may manipulate it (see below). When your Pokémon ceases to manipulate/summon the fire, it disappears. The summoned fire must have some connection to your Pokémon’s body. You can make special training checks to have your Pokémon manipulate (bend, move, and shape) fire by touching it (not necessarily with their hands). How difficult it is to do so depends on the way in which you wish to shape it. The difficulty is determined by the Game Master.
Req:
FIELD MOVE /
Effect: You can make a physical training check which, if you get a 12 or higher, will allow this Pokémon and you (if you are physically touching it) to instantly teleport next to any living thing that you can see. You can make this check once every six hours (whether you succeed or fail at it)
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Physical, /
Effect: — Low Kick/Karate Chop/Rock Smash Req:
Discipline Training (Fighting, Dark) Pursuit
Bite/Crunch
Physical,
, or,
Effect: Pursuit Req:
Physical, /
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Advanced Training Boons Each basic boon has an advanced training boon associated with it. These boons expand your character’s access to useful but non-damaging moves, for people who would like more strategic options in combat.
Advanced Maneuvers Requires Basic Maneuvers. Swords Dance Req:
Physical, /
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/
&
Effect: No damage. You gain 2 advantages on attack rolls. Sing/Yawn Req:
Special, /
&
/
Req:
Effect: No damage. On hit, the hit Pokémon is asleep. Substitute Req:
Physical, /
Recover/Milk Drink/Softboiled
/
Effect: No damage. This Pokémon is reduced to 1hp. The next attack which would damage this Pokémon deals no damage. Until this effect stops a move from damaging you, no effects from a move can be applied to you.
/
&
FIELD MOVE /
Effect: You can spend 1pp to recover any fainted Pokémon of yours to full hit points.
Spore Mastery Requires Forest Training Sleep Powder Req:
Physical, /
/
&
/
/
Effect: No damage. On hit, the opposing Pokémon is asleep.
! pp !
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Poison Powder/Toxic Req:
Physical,
, or,
/
/
Effect: No damage. On hit, the opposing Pokémon is poisoned.
Weather Supremacy Requires Aquatic Training Rain Dance/Hail/Mist/Haze Req:
Spore Req:
FIELD MOVE /
Stun Spore
Physical, /
/
/
Effect: If there is a strong weather condition, make a special training check. On a 12 or higher, you change the weather to rain, hail, or clear for one hour. The weather returns to what it was before afterwards. If the weather is clear you automatically succeed on this check. Rain Dance
/
Effect: Make a special training check to have your Pokémon try to put a person or Pokémon to sleep who is not currently hostile to you. On a check of 12 or less, the target is not put to sleep. On a check of 13 or greater, they are put to sleep for the value of your check minus ten and times two in minutes.
Req:
&
&
/
/
FIELD MOVE
Req:
Special, &
/
Effect: No damage. Changes the weather to Rain. Hail Req:
Special, &
/
Effect: No damage. Changes the weather to Hail.
Effect: No damage. On hit, the opposing Pokémon is paralyzed.
! qq !
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Mist/Haze Req:
Special, &
/
Effect: No damage. Changes the weather to clear. The weather can’t be changed again until the end of the battle.
Desert Survival Requires Mountain Training Sandstorm Req:
Special, /
/
Effect: No damage. Changes the weather to Sandstorm. Sand Attack Req:
Physical, , or,
Effect: No damage. Hits automatically. The hit Pokémon gets -1 in rolls to hit. Iron Defence Req:
Physical, , or,
Effect: No damage. Each round choose up to two physical attacks that hits you; they do 1 less damage.
! rr !
Ancient Power Req:
FIELD MOVE /
Effect: When a Pokémon that is using the field move control earth can use this field move, they can manipulate any earth within 20m of it without needing to touch it. These Pokémon are at an advantage when you manipulate earth using them.
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Tricks Of The Mind Requires Magical Training Agility
Physical,
Req: Effect: No Damage. Your active Pokémon gets +5 Speed. Light Screen/Reflect Req: MONO
Special, , or,
Effect: No Damage. Each round choose an attack that hits you; it does 1 less damage. You may do the same with one friendly Pokémon per round. Confuse Ray Req:
Special, , or,
/
Requires Primordial Training.
&
Effect: On hit, the hit Pokémon is confused. Image Req:
Will-O-Wisp FIELD MOVE
/
/
/
Effect: You can make a special training check to have your Pokémon create the visual illusion of an object, creature, or force, as visualized by you. The illusion does not create sound, smell, texture, or temperature. It must exist in a cube with length width and hight equal to the value of your special training check in meters or less.
! ss !
Elemental Power
Req:
Special, /
Effect: No damage. On hit, the hit Pokémon is burned. Dragon Dance Req:
Physical, , or,
&
/
Effect: No damage. Your active Pokémon gets +3 speed and +1 damage to one physical attack it makes per round. Page 19
Thunder Wave
Special,
Req: Effect: No Damage. On hit, the hit Pokémon is paralyzed. Mould Breaker Req:
&
FIELD MOVE /
/
/
Effect: When a Pokémon that can use this field move is making a check outside of combat, it cannot be at a disadvantage. Detect/Protect
Physical,
Tactical Intricacies
Req: -
Requires Discipline Training.
Effect: Priority. +3 to hit. On hit, your opponent is guaranteed to miss their next attack. Cannot be used two rounds in a row.
Taunt Req:
Physical, , or,
/
&
/
Detect
/
Effect: No damage. Automatic hit. The target Pokémon cannot use moves that don’t deal damage. Attempting to do so results in no effect. Hone Claws Req:
Physical, /
&
/
/
/
/
Effect: No damage. You gain an advantage on physical attack rolls.
! tt !
Req:
FIELD MOVE , or,
/
&
Effect: Whenever a Pokémon within 10m of you is doing anything which requires the use of a special training or physical training check, or power points, you can make a physical training check. If the value of your check is higher than their check value (or higher than 12 if they made no check) then your Pokémon preempts their action and prevents them from taking it or any sufficiently similar action (Decided by the Game Master) for ten minutes. They do not lose their power point if they are preempted by you in this way. Page 20
Type Focus Boons Once your character has achieved general proficiency with a type, they may expand their knowledge of a type in particular using these boons. The moves provided by boons in this section are more powerful, but less generally useful than those found in boons from other sections.
Normal Type Focus Requires the Basic Maneuvers boon. Slash/Strength/Headbutt Req:
, or,
Physical, /
Effect: Quick Attack/Extreme Speed Req:
Physical,
, or,
Req:
Effect: Priority. -1 to rolls to hit. Oder Sleuth
Special, &
/
, or,
Effect: -1 damage. +3 to hit. FIELD MOVE
Req: Effect: You can make a physical training check to have your Pokémon track another person/Pokémon, if you are somewhere that you know they have been, or have something that you know they’ve touched. Below 10: they are able to tell you nothing. On checks from 10-11 they can lead you to the location of someone within 500m of you. On checks from 12-13, 1km. 14-15, 2km. 16-17, 5km. 18+: Any distance away. ! uu !
Swift
Ultimate Normal Requires the Normal Type Focus boon, & Level 3. You Gain 1pp. Hyper Beam Req: MONO
Special, , or,
&
Effect: Attack twice this round, using hyper beam both times. Next round you cannot act. Page 21
Secret Power Req:
FIELD MOVE /
Effect: You can spend 1pp to have your Pokémon instantly find the entrance to a well concealed cavern within 10m of you. It could be concealed behind foliage, or in rocks, or by some other means, but it is only enterable via the hidden entrance that your Pokémon just discovered. The area is covered and thus protected from the weather. No one can see the entrance except for people who you show the entrance too.
Flying Type Focus Requires Basic Maneuvers. Giga Impact Req: MONO
Physical, , or,
&
Effect: Attack twice this round, using giga impact both times. Next round you cannot act.
Aerial Ace Req:
Physical, , or,
&
Effect: -1 damage. +3 to hit. Fly
Physical,
Req: Take Down/Double Edge Req: MONO
, or,
Physical, /
&
Effect: +1 damage. On miss, 1 damage to self.
! vv !
Effect: After you use this in a round, you cannot be hit if you move first, and the attack deals no damage. The next round you do not choose an attack, cannot be hit if you move last, and make an attack roll. This attack has +1 damage
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Gust/Air Slash Req:
Special, , or,
&
Effect: Control Air
FIELD MOVE
Req: Effect: You can make special training checks to have your Pokémon manipulate (bend, move, and shape) the air by touching it. How difficult it is to do so depends on the way in which you wish to shape it. The difficulty is determined by the Game Master.
Ultimate Flying
Fly
Requires Flying Type Focus, and Level 3. You Gain 1pp. Brave Bird Req:
Physical, /
&
Effect: +1 damage. On miss, 1 damage to self.
Hurricane Req:
Special, /
&
FIELD MOVE
Req: Effect: You can make physical training checks to have your Pokémon fly while carrying a trainer behind or above them. How difficult the checks are depends upon the conditions. (For example, flying in a hurricane is more difficult than flying in clear skies,). Each check allows you to travel from where you are to a place you specified at the start of the check, and sufficiently easy checks (such as flying in clear weather) should require no check at all.
Effect: +1 Damage. Unless the weather is rain, -1 to rolls to hit.
! ww !
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Mirror Move Req:
Special, /
&
Effect: This Pokémon uses the attack which their opponent has used most recently.
grass Type Focus Requires Forest Training Absorb/Mega Drain/Giga Drain Req: MONO
,or,
Special, /
&
/
/
Effect: -1 Damage. On hit, restore 1hp to any Pokémon in your party.
Sweet Scent
Leech Seed
Req:
Physical,
Req: Effect: No Damage. On hit, restore 1hp to your Pokémon every turn, and it gets not very effective attacks count as normally effective. Bullet Seed Req: MONO
Physical, ,or,
/
/
&
/
Effect: -1 Damage. Attack twice this turn, using bullet seed both times.
FIELD MOVE /
Effect: You can spend 1pp to have your Pokémon instantly attract a rare Pokémon that you could find by in a Pokémon sanctuary in your current biome.
Ultimate Grass Requires Grass Type Focus, and Level 3. You Gain 1pp. Power Whip/Wood Hammer Req:
&
/
Physical, &
Effect: +1 Damage. On miss, 1 damage to self. ! xx !
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Solar Beam Req:
Special, &
,or,
&
/
/
Effect: When you use solar beam, you must use it again next round. The first in a series of two solar beams you use does no damage. On the second use, use solar beam twice in the same round, each time dealing normal damage. If the weather is intense sunlight treat each use of solar beam as the second consecutive use, and you need not use it twice.
Poison Type Focus Requires Forest Training Poison Tail/Poison Fang Energy Ball/Magical Leaf Req:
,or,
Req:
Special, /
&
/
/
/
Frenzy Plant Req:
FIELD MOVE &
Effect: You can spend 1pp to have your Pokémon produce and quickly plant twenty seeds. In the next ten minutes they grow into 8m tall and 1m thick at the trunk trees. Every time you use this field move, the trees from your previous use disappear, but they persist until this time.
! ! yy
&
/
Effect: Gunk Shot Req: MONO
Effect: -
, or,
Physical,
FIELD MOVE , or,
&
/
/
Effect: Once per day, you can make a physical training check to have your Pokémon shoot a ball of gunk at a person or Pokémon that stops them from moving. This effect lasts for three hours. A Pokémon can escape from it with an equal or greater physical training check to your Pokémon’s. A human can escape from it with a human capacity check equal or greater to your Pokémon’s physical training check.
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Sludge Bomb/Sludge Wave Req: MONO
, or,
Special, &
/
/
Effect: When you use this attack, act as though you had targeted every active Pokémon in the battle with it, excluding your active Pokémon. Poison Sting/Smog Req:
Physical,
, or,
&
/
Effect: -1 Damage. On hit, Chance to poison.
Ultimate Poison Requires Poison Type Focus, and Level 3. You gain 1pp. Venoshock
Special,
Req: MONO
, or,
\
&
/
Gunk Shot
Physical,
Req: MONO
, or,
&
Effect: +1 damage to targets affected by a status condition.
Effect: +1 Damage. -1 to rolls to hit.
Toxic Spikes
Acid Armor
Req:
Physical, /
&
Effect: No Damage. Until the end of the battle when a Pokémon enters the field as a result of a switch (not after a previous Pokémon has fainted), they have a chance to be poisoned.
! zz !
Req:
/
/
FIELD MOVE &
/
/
Effect: You can spend 1pp to have your Pokémon and person or Pokémon touching it gain acid armour. The acid armour lasts one hour. While something has acid armour, it cannot be moved by anything other than its volition (and gravity), it cannot be hurt in any way. Pokémon affected by acid armour cannot use moves or participate in Pokémon battles unless they choose to shed the acid armour. Page 26
Bug Type Focus Requires Forest Training Bug Buzz
Special,
Req: MONO
, or,
/
&
Effect: Fury Cutter Req:
Physical, , or,
&
/
/
Effect: -1 Damage. +1 damage for each round prior to this in a row where this Pokémon used fury cutter. U-Turn Req:
Physical, &
/
/
/
Requires Bug Type Focus, and Level 3. You gain 1pp.
/
Effect: On hit, you may immediately switch your active Pokémon out for another in your party. This does not end the round. Compoundeyes
FIELD MOVE
Req: Effect: Your Pokémon can see with clarity up to 200m away so long as its vision is not obstructed by objects, and communicate what it sees to you effectively. Pokémon that you possess which can do this do so constantly, without you asking them to perform the move.
! AAAA !
Ultimate Bug Megahorn/X-Scissor Req: MONO
Special, , or,
&
/
/
Effect: +1 Damage. -2 to rolls to hit. Signal Beam/Silver Wind Req: MONO
, or,
Special, /
&
/
/
Effect: On hit, spend 1pp to confuse the hit Pokémon.
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Quiver Dance Req:
Physical, /
&
Effect: No damage. Each round you may choose one special attack this pokémon makes, and deal +1 damage with it. Each round you may choose one special attack that hits you, and have it deal -1 damage, and this Pokémon gains 3 speed. It also drops to 1hp. Sticky Web
FIELD MOVE
Dive/Whirlpool/Waterfall
Req:
Req: MONO
Effect: You can spend 1pp to have your Pokémon produce 100m of webrope. It is very sticky when touched by anything except Pokémon of yours that can use this move. It is very strong and flexible, and lasts for one week before degrading and disappearing.
Effect: -
Requires Aquatic Training Water Pulse
Physical, , or,
/
&
/
Effect: On hit, spend 1pp to confuse the hit Pokémon.
! BBBB !
, or,
/
&
Surf Req:
Special, , or,
&
/
/
Effect: When you use this attack, act as though you had targeted every active Pokémon in the battle excluding your active Pokémon.
Water Type Focus
Req:
Physical,
Surf/Dive/Whirlpool/Waterfall Req:
, or,
/
FIELD MOVE &
/
/
Effect: You can make physical training checks to have your Pokémon move through and on water unimpeded while carrying a trainer behind or above them. During the travel the trainer can breathe even if they would not normally be able to. How difficult the checks are depends upon the conditions. Each check allows you to travel from where you are to a place you specified at the start of the check, and sufficiently easy checks should require no check at all. The difficulty of the check is determined by the Game Master. Page 28
Ultimate Water
Ice Type Focus
Requires Water Type Focus, and Level 3. You gain 1pp.
Requires Aquatic Training
Scald
Special,
Req: MONO
, or,
/
&
Req:
Effect: On hit, you can spend 1 PP to burn the hit Pokémon. Hydro Pump
Special,
Req: MONO
, or,
&
/
/
Effect: +1 Damage. -1 to rolls to hit. Aqua Jet
Physical,
Req: MONO
, or,
/
&
Effect: Priority. -1 to rolls to hit. Hydro Cannon Req:
FIELD MOVE &
Effect: If you are on the ground (or the ground floor of a building), you can spend 1pp to have your Pokémon raise the water level by 1/2 a meter entered around your Pokémon for fifteen meters. This special water does not flow into the ground until it is expended, and the Pokémon that used this water can use it to launch people and objects 30m in any direction. Each time you do so the water around your Pokémon recedes by 5m. Your Pokémon can’t use hydro cannon again until all the hydro cannon water around them is gone, and they can dismiss it at any time. ! CCCC !
Control Ice
FIELD MOVE /
Effect: You can make a special training check to have your Pokémon summon the value of your check times ten in litres of ice per second, for a maximum of 10 seconds. As soon as your Pokémon begins summoning it, your Pokémon may manipulate it (see below). When your Pokémon ceases to manipulate/summon the ice, it disappears. The summoned ice must have some connection to your Pokémon’s body (for example, summoned ice could jut out of its fingers.) You can make special training checks to have your Pokémon manipulate (bend, move, and shape) the water in question by touching it. How difficult it is to do so depends on the way in which you wish to shape it. Aurora Beam/Ice Beam Req:
, or,
Special, &
/
/
Effect: Priority. -1 to rolls to hit. Icicle Spear/Ice Ball
Physical,
Req: Effect: -1 Damage. Attack twice this turn, using icicle spear/ice ball both times.
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Icy Wind/Powder Show
Special,
Req: Effect: -1 Damage. On hit, Freeze Chance.
Ultimate Ice Requires Ice Type Focus, and Level 3. You gain 1pp. Sheer Cold Req:
Special, , or, MONO
&
Effect: -2 to hit rolls. On hit, does as much damage as hit Pokémon has HP. Blizzard Req:
, or
/
&
/
Special,
Avalanche
/
Req: MONO
Effect:+1 Damage. Unless the weather is hail, -1 to rolls to hit. Slow
FIELD MOVE
Req: MONO Effect: You can spend 1pp to have everyone within a 20m cone in front of your Pokémon be slowed to half their speed for the next eight hours, or one hour of sitting by a fire. While they are slowed they are at a disadvantage on all checks outside of combat, and in combat take a -5 penalty to speed.
! DDDD !
Special, , or,
&
/
/
Effect: On hit, spend 1pp to freeze the hit Pokémon.
Ground Type Focus Requires Mountain Training Dig Req:
Physical, , or,
Effect: After you use this in a round, you cannot be hit if you move first, and the attack deals no damage. The next round you do not choose an attack, cannot be hit if you move last, and make an attack roll. This attack deals +1 damage. Page 30
Drill Run
Physical,
Req: MONO
,or,
/
&
/
/
Effect: Priority. -1 to rolls to hit. Mud Slap Req:
Special, , or,
Effect: -
Ultimate Ground Requires Ground Type Focus, and Level 3. You gain 1pp. Earthquake Dig Req:
FIELD MOVE , or,
Effect: You can make physical training checks to have your Pokémon move through the earth unimpeded while carrying a trainer behind them. During the travel the trainer can breathe even if they would not normally be able to. How difficult the checks are depends upon the conditions. (For example, digging through solid rock is harder than digging through loose earth). Each check allows you to travel from where you are to a place you specified at the start of the check, and sufficiently easy checks should require no check at all. The difficulty of the check is determined by the Game Master. After you’ve succeeded at the check you can be interrupted by encounters in the middle of it.
! EEEE !
Req:
FIELD MOVE , or,
&
/
Effect: You can spend 1pp to have your Pokémon stomp on the ground, and cause 20 square meters of rock or earth in any arrangement you like within 200m of your Pokémon be shaken loose from what is holding it in place. It falls as gravity would dictate it should. Earthquake Req:
Physical, , or,
&
/
Effect: When you use this attack, act as though you had targeted every active Pokémon in the battle, excluding the one that used this move.
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Fissure
Physical,
Req: Effect: -2 to rolls to hit. On hit, does as much damage as the hit Pokémon has HP. Mud Bomb
Special,
Req: MONO
,or,
/
&
/
/
Effect: On hit, spend 1pp to give the hit Pokémon a disadvantage on attack and special attack rolls.
Rock Type Focus Requires Mountain Training Ancient Power Req:
Rock Blast/Rock Slide Special,
Effect: -
Req:
Physical, , or,
Effect: -1 Damage. +1 damage for each round prior to this in a row where this Pokémon used rollout.
! FFFF !
, or,
/
&
/
Effect: -1 Damage. Attack twice this turn, using rock blast/rock slide both times.
, or,
Rollout
Req: MONO
Physical,
Sheer Force Req:
FIELD MOVE /
Effect: When a Pokémon that can use this field move is making a check, it can be given an advantage by choosing to lose 3hp after the check is completed.
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Ultimate Rock Requires Rock Type Focus, and Level 3. You gain 1pp. Stone Edge
Physical,
Req: MONO
, or,
/
&
/
Effect: +1 Damage. -1 to rolls to hit. Rock Polish
Physical,
Req: MONO
,or,
/
/
/
Effect: No Damage. This Pokémon gets +5 Speed. Stealth Rock Req:
Special, , or,
/
Steel Type Focus
Effect: No Damage. Until the end of the battle when a Pokémon enters the field as a result of a switch (not after a previous Pokémon has fainted) they take 1 damage. Tremorsense Req:
FIELD MOVE /
Effect: You can spend 1pp to have your Pokémon, for five minutes, be able to sense the position of everything within 100m of it, whether it can see it or not. It can perfectly communicate this information to you during the time when this field move is active.
! GGGG !
Requires Mountain Training Iron Head Req:
Physical, , or,
&
/
/
Effect: On hit, spend 1pp to stop the hit Pokémon from acting for the rest of the round. Flash Cannon Req:
Special, , or,
&
/
/
Effect: Page 33
Ultimate Steel Requires Steel Type Focus, and Level 3. You gain 1pp. Metal Sound
Special,
Req: Effect: No Damage. Automatic hit. The first attack that hits the hit Pokémon in a round deals +1 damage. Bullet Punch Req:
Physical, , or,
&
Effect: Priority. -1 Damage. Steel Wing
Physical,
Magnet Bomb
Special, &
Req:
Req:
Effect: -
Effect: -1 Damage. +2 to rolls to hit.
Control Metal
FIELD MOVE
Time Stop
FIELD MOVE
Req:
Req:
Effect: You can make physical training checks to have your Pokémon manipulate (bend, move, and shape) metal by touching it. How difficult it is to do so depends on the way in which you wish to shape it. The difficulty is determined by the Game Master.
Effect: You can spend 1pp to have time stop for you and your Pokémon continue to move while the rest of the world stands still, frozen in time. Time resumes when five minutes have passed from the perspective of you and your Pokémon, or when either of you take an action that affects another person/Pokémon or an object that they are holding.
! HHHH !
&
/
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Fairy Type Focus
Ultimate Fairy
Requires Magical Training.
Requires Fairy Type Focus, and Level 3. You Gain 1pp.
Moonblast/Fairy Wind Req:
, or,
Special,
Req:
&
Effect: Play Rough Req:
Physical, , or,
&
Charm/Baby Doll Eyes
Physical, &
/
FIELD MOVE
Req: Effect: You can have your Pokémon create any harmless sensory effect within a 1m radius of their body. Such effects include sounds, temperatures, lighting conditions, and illusory images. These effects last up to five seconds and this field move can be used only once every ten seconds.
! IIII !
/
Special,
&
Effect: No damage. Your active Pokémon regains 2 hp. Misty Terrain
/
Effect: No damage. Priority. Hits automatically. Opponent gets a disadvantage on attack rolls. Magic Trick
&
Effect: No damage. Hits automatically. Your opponent cannot switch Pokémon until their current Pokémon faints.
Req:
, or,
, or,
Special,
Moonlight/Synthesis
/
Effect: -
Req:
Fairy Lock/Shadow Tag
Special,
Req: MONO Effect: No damage. Hereafter in this battle no one in your party can be poisoned, burned, frozen, confused, paralyzed, or put to sleep. Make Friends Req:
FIELD MOVE , or,
&
Effect: You can spend 1pp to have your Pokémon charm a person while you suggest a course of action. You can then make a poise check to convince them of something, and instead of rolling, have the result that you get be 16.
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Psychic Type Focus Requires Magical Training Psycho-Cut/Zen Headbutt Req:
, or,
Physical, /
&
/
/
Effect: Calm Mind Req:
Special, /
,or,
&
/
Effect: No damage. Each round you may choose one special attack this pokémon makes, and deal +1 damage with it. Each round you may choose one special attack that hits you, and have it deal -1 damage. Teleport
FIELD MOVE
Ultimate Psychic Requires Psychic Type Focus, and Level 3. You gain 1pp. Choose one of the following: Control Water (page 13), Control Fire (page 15), Control Plants (page 12), Control Earth (page 13). You gain access to that field move, and psychic Pokémon meet the prerequisites for it for you.
Req:
Psychic
Effect: When you use this field move, instantly, your Pokémon and anyone touching it is teleported to a place of your choice 10m away, as long as you have seen that area before. You can spend 1pp to have it teleport you to the last Pokémon centre you visited instead. This can be used in battle as an action, unlike most field moves
Req: MONO
Special, ,or,
&
/
Effect: +1 Damage. -1 to rolls to hit. Hypnosis Req: MONO
Special, ,or,
/
&
/
/
Effect: No damage. On hit, your target is asleep. On miss, you may spend 1pp to make your target asleep. ! JJJJ !
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Shadow Claw/Shadow Punch Req:
, or,
&
Physical, /
, or,
Effect: Astral Projection
FIELD MOVE
Req:
Barrier
FIELD MOVE
Effect: You can spend 1pp to make a special training check. Your Pokémon lifts your soul out of your body for minutes equal to the value of your check. While in this form, you and the Pokémon carrying you are invisible, can’t make sounds, can float through physical objects, and are unable to interact with any physical objects.
Req:
Ultimate Ghost
Effect: You can spend 1pp to have your Pokémon summon a barely visible box of force up to 10m in length, width, and hight. It can be summoned around any number of people who happen to be in the area where it is summoned. After each hour, make a special training check with a difficulty of 13. If you fail the check, the cage disappears.
Requires Ghost Type Focus, and Level 3. You gain 1pp. Shadow Ball Req:
Special, , or,
&
/
/
Ghost Type Focus
Effect: On hit, spend 1pp to have your opponent take one extra damage from the first special attack that hits it each round.
Requires Magical Training. You gain 1pp.
Curse
Night Shade/Hex Req:
, or,
Effect: ! KKKK !
Special, &
/
Special,
Req: Effect: No damage. On hit, you take 1 damage. The hit pokémon is either poisoned or burned, your choice.
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Destiny Bond
Special,
Req: MONO
,or,
/
&
/
/
Effect: No damage. Automatic hit. If your active Pokémon faints, your opponent’s active Pokémon also faints. This effect ends if either of the Pokémon switch. Shadow Sneak Req:
FIELD MOVE
/
Effect: You can spend 1pp to have your Pokémon shed darkness in a 50m radius centred around your Pokémon. Anyone who was touching the Pokémon at the time when it did this can see through the darkness as though it weren’t there, as can the Pokémon itself. When you activate this field move, make a special training check. The darkness lasts the value of your check in minutes.
Req:
Physical,
, or,
Effect: -
Electric Type Focus
Shockwave
Requires Primordial Training. Charge
Thunder Fang/Thunder Punch
Special,
Req: Effect: No Damage. Double damage on your next electric type move. Your active Pokémon take one less damage from the first special attack that hits it this turn.
Req:
Special, , or,
&
/
/
/
Effect: -1 damage. +3 to hit. Flash Req:
FIELD MOVE /
/
/
Your Pokémon sheds bright light that illuminates everything within a 50m radius.
! LLLL !
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Ultimate Electricc Requires Electric Type Focus, and Level 3. You gain 1pp. Wild Charge/Volt Tackle Req: MONO
Physical,
, or,
/
&
/
Effect: +1 Damage. On miss, 1 damage to self. Thunder
Special,
Req: MONO
, or,
&
/
Effect: +1 Damage. Unless the weather is rain, -1 to rolls to hit. Zap Cannon Req:
Physical, &
Fire Type Focus
/
Requires Primordial Training.
Effect: +1 Damage. On miss, 1 damage to self. Electrify
FIELD MOVE
Req: You can spend 1pp to have your Pokémon and one person touching them transform into electricity and jump into the nearest electrical device for ten minutes. While you are in that electrical device, you are aware of the world around the device, and can move through any wires it is connected to, re-emerging from any new device or wire wherever you wish. When you emerge from a device or wire this effect ends.
! MMMM !
Fire Fang/Fire Punch Req:
Physical,
, or,
Effect: Fire Spin Req: MONO
Special, , or,
&
Effect: -1 damage, on hit chance to burn.
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Sunny Day Req:
Special, /
Flare Blitz/Flame Wheel Req: MONO
, or,
Physical, &
Effect: No damage. Changes the weather to Intense Sunlight.
Effect: +1 Damage. On miss, 1 damage to self.
Sunny Day
Blast Burn
Req:
FIELD MOVE
Req:
/
Effect: If there is a strong weather condition, make a special training check. On a 12 or higher, you change the weather to intense sunlight for one hour. If there is no strong weather present you automatically succeed on this check.
Ultimate Fire
Req: MONO
Special, , or,
&
Fire Blast
Special, &
, or,
Effect: +1 Damage. -1 to rolls to hit.
&
Effect: You can spend 1pp to have your Pokémon spit out a fireball that explodes on contact with anything, and can be fired accurately at objects up to 100m away. The explosion engulfs everything within 10m of it, incinerates light material, badly chars living things (and give them the burned status condition) and cracks rocks and other hard objects.
Requires Primordial Training. Twister
/
Effect: +1 damage. On hit, this Pokémon gains disadvantage on Special Attack checks.
Req:
&
Dragon Type Focus
Requires Fire Type Focus, and Level 3. You gain 1pp. Overheat/Heat Wave
FIELD MOVE
&
/
Req:
Special, /
&
/
Effect: -1 Damage. Nothing other than this effect can reduce the damage of this attack. Dual Chop Req:
Physical, /
&
/
Effect: -1 Damage. Attack twice this turn, using dual chop both times.
! NNNN !
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Dragon Pulse/Dragon Rage Req:
, or,
/
Special, &
/
Effect: Dragon Rage Req:
FIELD MOVE /
/
Effect: Make a training check with a difficulty of 11. On a successful roll of this check, every Pokémon within 50m of your Pokémon (with the exception of legendary Pokémon) runs away in fear for two minutes before coming to their senses. This check can be made once every ten minutes.
Ultimate Dragon
Dragon Breath
Requires Dragon Type Focus, and Level 3. You gain 1pp. Outrage Req:
Req:
Physical, , or,
&
Effect: Attack twice this round, using outrage both times. After this, the Pokémon that used this move becomes confused. Draco Meteor Req:
Special,
Special, &
Effect: -1 damage. On hit, chance to paralyze. Dragon Breath
FIELD MOVE
Req: Effect: You can spend 1pp to have your Pokémon turn any non-living object that fits in a 10mx10m space to ash, by breathing a jet of green fire at it.
Effect: +1 damage. On hit, your active Pokémon gains disadvantage on Special Attack rolls. ! OOOO !
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Torment Req:
Physical, , or,
/
&
/
/
Effect: No damage. Automatic hit. The target Pokémon cannot use the same move in two consecutive rounds. Attempting to do so results in no effect. Illusion Req:
FIELD MOVE /
Effect: You can make a special training check to have your Pokémon take on the appearance of any other Pokémon for one hour. The difficulty of this check depends upon how different in size and form your Pokémon is from the one that you want it to become.
Ultimate Dark
dark Type Focus
Requires Dark Type Focus, and Level 3. You gain 1pp.
Requires Discipline Training. Dark Pulse Req:
Special, &
/
/
Effect: -
Nasty Plot
Feint Attack Req:
Choose one of the following: make friends (page 35), spore (page 17), dragon rage (page 41). You gain access to this move. For you, dark type Pokémon can use the field move if they could not already.
Physical, /
&
Effect: -1 Damage. +3 to hit.
! PPPP !
/
Req:
Special, , or,
/
&
Effect: No damage. This Pokémon gains an advantage on special attac rolls, and once per round it may choose one special attack it makes and have it deal +1 damage.
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Sucker Punch Req:
Physical, , or,
/
&
/
Effect: If the opponent would use a move that deals damage this turn, this move goes first regardless of the speed order and priority. If the opponent would use a move that does not deal damage, this attack deals no damage. Invisibility Req:
FIELD MOVE /
Effect: You can spend 1pp to have the Pokémon which has used invisibility become invisible for one hour. Anything the the Pokémon is wearing or carrying is invisible as long as it is on the their person.
Fighting Type Focus Requires Discipline Training. Force Palm
Req:
Physical, , or,
/
FIELD MOVE
Effect: You can make a special training check to have your Pokémon make a hole in a wall large enough for you to move through. The difficulty of this check is based upon the thickness and strength of the wall. You can choose to take a disadvantage on the check to have your Pokémon silently phase yourself and itself through it without putting a hole in it.
&
Effect: No damage. Each round you may choose one physical attack this Pokémon makes, and deal +1 damage with it. Each round you may choose one physical attack that hits you, and have it deal -1 damage. Seismic Toss/Submission
Req:
! QQQQ !
Bulk Up
Req:
Physical,
, or,
/
Effect: If this Pokémon has less hp than its target, +1 Damage. Counter Req:
Physical, ,or,
/
Effect: Automatic hit. If your opponent hit you this turn, you deal the same damage they dealt to you, with -1 damage if the move is not very effective and +1 damage if it is super effective (and 0 damage if it is not effective). Otherwise this deals no damage. Page 43
Persona Boons
Ultimate Fighting Requires Fighting Type Focus, and Level 3. You gain 1pp. Dynamic Punch/Superpower Req:
, or,
Physical,
&
Effect: +1 damage. On hit, your active Pokémon gains disadvantage on attack rolls. Focus Blast/Aura Sphere Req:
, or,
Special, /
&
/
/
Effect: High Jump Kick/Focus Punch Req: MONO
, or,
Special,
Req:
FIELD MOVE /
Effect: You can spend 1pp to have your Pokémon and everyone within 15m of it do things in half the normal time they would take for the next two hours.
! RRRR !
Lady/Gentleman Persona You are naturally at an advantage on poise checks you make against humans who do not dislike you (you still have a disadvantage against humans that dislike you). At noon exactly, you can spend 1 hour having tea. If you start exactly at noon and complete the hour, you gain 1xp. You may speak to your game master about a different ritual at a different time and if they deem it consistent with this theme, you may gain 1xp from that instead of from taking tea.
Ace trainer Persona You gain 2pp. You can spend 1pp before you make a physical training or special training check to gain an advantage on it. You can spend two hours training in a day with your Pokémon to gain 1xp.
&
Effect: +1 damage. On miss, 1 damage to self. Vital Spirit
These boons empower you, the Pokémon trainer, with new abilities, rather than abilities which you may bestow on your Pokémon. They also grant you new ways to earn experience points (page 6).
Hiker/Camper Persona When moving through wilderness biomes, you and your party move twice as quickly (encounters happen twice per day). You have an advantage on checks made to prevent yourself from getting lost, and checks you and you and your Pokémon make to climb things, or move a person from one place to another. Every time you are searching for a secret in a biome, you personally make an attention check (separate from the one to find the secret). On a 12 or higher, you find an object of natural beauty in addition to the secret, and Page 44
gain 1xp. You can spend one hour at this site to make an elaborate sketch of it, which can be sold for 100 Pokédollars.
Burglar Persona When you would make a check to hide from a human or Pokémon, they make a human capacity check, and record the value. You make two human capacity checks. If both your checks are of a higher value than their check, you are completely undetected by them for ten minutes. If only one of them is, they are suspicious to your presence, and each time you take an item you must make another human capacity check, which if you fail you are detected. If you fail both initial checks, you are detected. Whenever you trade someone things that you have stolen for more than 500 Pokédollars, you gain 1xp.
Doctor Persona Once between Pokémon centre visits, you may revive three Pokémon to full health and heal three Pokémon to full health. All of these must be done at once. If you would ever make a human capacity check to dress or heal the wounds of a human, you gain an advantage on it. Every time that you use the feature from this persona to heal pokemon who do not belong to you or your companions, you gain 1xp.
Breeder Persona Once per day you may choose two Pokémon that you are the trainer of (or that you have permission from the trainer of) which are in the same egg group and of opposite genders, and roll 1d6. On a 6, they produce an egg of the same Pokémon as the one with the female gender. When it is born, it has the high stat of the Pokémon with the male gender. The egg hatches in one week. Newborn Pokémon can be sold in towns to eager trainers for five times its base stat total, and unhatched eggs can be sold for half that price. ! SSSS !
Pokémon are newborn if they are less than 7 days old. Whoever possesses them when they reach 7 days old is considered their original trainer. When you hatch a Pokémon, you can either choose its gender, or choose to flip a coin when it hatches. When you flip this coin, on a heads, the Pokémon is born shiny. On a tails, nothing happens.. When two Pokémon who you have selected to breed fail to produce an egg, you gain 1xp. Guideline: Pokémon & Gender Normally gender is something that is not worth keeping track of in Pokémon, or something which is assumed by roleplaying. At the time when you take the breeder persona, randomly determine the gender of each of your Pokémon, and hereafter when you catch a Pokémon do the same. If you wish for your Pokémon to breed with the Pokémon of your companions, they should do the same. If a Pokémon gender was established through roleplaying before you became a breeder, the Game Master should normally choose to honour that gender rather than randomly determining it. Some Pokémon do not have genders, and are listed on this page.
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Pokemon Researcher Persona Every time you capture a species of Pokémon which you do not already own, you regain 1pp. You have an advantage on capture checks against Pokémon who you encounter in a Pokémon sanctuary. Pokéballs, Great balls, and Ultra balls cost you half of the listed price at a Pokémart. Whenever you capture a species of Pokémon you do not already have, you may spend 1 hour recording information about it to gain 1xp.
Sage/Admin Persona
Palaeontologist Persona Whenever a 6 is rolled on a treasure table where you are one of the recipients of the treasure, you also find a fossil. Fossils can be sold for 1500 Pokédollars, and at labs/museams, which exist in many cities, they can be reanimated into fossil Pokémon for the price of 2000 Pokédollars. When you receive the Pokémon, it is in a Pokéball, and acts as though you had caught it. When you get the fossil you can tell what Pokémon it is. You can spend 1pp when at a treasure table to roll 1d6 again; the result only affects whether you get a fossil. See the archeology table for a list of Pokémon that could be found in fossils. You can spend two hours per day making notes about a fossil Pokémon’s behaviour to gain 1xp. You can sell your notes to a museum for 200 Pokédollars times the number of days you have spent recording that Pokémon’s behaviour, up to 1000 Pokédollars for each species of Pokémon. You can’t sell notes about the same Pokémon twice. ! TTTT !
Once per day you can give specific advice to a person, to do with a situation involving a skill check (which must contain a detail about the action, and either the location it is performed in or the thing/person/Pokémon it is performed at), and if they come to follow it at least one day after you gave them that advice, they get an advantage on the associated roll. Whenever someone follows your advice you gain 1xp. Archeology Table 1 Omanyte
Shieldon
Omanyte
2 Kabuto
Tirtouga
Kabuto
3 Aerodactyl
Archen
Amaura
4 Lileep
Tyrunt
Lileep
5 Anorith
Amaura
Anorith
6 Cranidos
Shieldon
Cranidos
d6
1&2
3&4
5&6
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Athlete/Black Belt Persona You have an advantage on human capacity checks, and physical training checks your Pokémon would make in the style of human capacity checks (page 4). When you spend one hour working out, you gain 1xp.
Super Nerd Persona Whenever there is a door, computer, or other similar object that requires a password to interact with, you can bypass the password requirement by spending ten minutes examining and testing the object. Your Pokénav is never out of service. When you are in the presence of a computer network, you can make a special aptitude check to find information from it. This can be done once per network, and the nature of what you find is determined by your Game Master (the higher your check, the more precious the information). When you find such information, you gain 1xp.
Pokemon Collector Persona While you are in a Pokémon Center, once per day you can search the surrounding area for someone willing to trade a Pokémon with you. Before you make the check, choose the Pokémon you wish to trade. You find a number of potential trades based on the results of an Attention check. On a 9 or lower, you find no trades for the Pokémon, on a 10 or 11 you find 1, on a 12 or 13 you find 2, on a 14 or 15 you find 3, and on 16-18 you find 4. They will offer you a Pokémon with a Base Stat Total that is within 100 points in either direction of your Pokémon’s Base Stat Total, and it could be any Pokémon that fits that criteria, randomly determined by your Game Master. Whenever you trade a Pokémon with a person who is not part of your adventuring party, you gain 1xp.
! UUUU !
Psychic/Mystic Persona You can make a Special Training check to attempt to sense the motives of another person. When you attempt to do so, they make a Poise check to conceal their intentions from you. If your check is equal to or higher than theirs, the Game Master will reveal to you information about them and what they are doing proportional to the amount by which you exceeded the value of their Poise check. You personally can use the move Kinesis if you can teach your Pokémon to use it. You and your Pokémon may use kinesis to manipulate objects within 50m of you, instead of 30m. You also qualify (as though you were a Pokémon) for the field moves Teleport, Magic Trick, and Astral Projection. You can spend two hours practicing with your psychic powers to gain 1xp.
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Pokemon Ranger Persona When you see a Pokémon by itself, you can make a special capture check to convince it to assist you. Throw no Pokéball, treat your capture strength as 20 plus 2x your Level, and make a Poise check instead of Aptitude. If you fail this special capture check, the Pokémon flees. If you succeed, the Pokémon will follow you around and obey your commands as though you were its Trainer. After one week, the Pokémon returns to its home. Each day, if you release a Pokémon from your service before its week with you is over, or if you release a captured Pokémon that you own into the wild, you gain 1xp.
Pokémon Contests Aside from battling, Pokémon trainers may seek out Pokémon contests in cities to participate in. Pokémon contests come in five varieties, each of which is related to one of the five trainer stats - (Beauty Contests - Poise) (Toughness Contests - Physical Training) (Cleverness Contests - Aptitude) (Coolness Contests - Special Training) (Cuteness Contests - Attention) and try to prove their Pokémon the best of all the contestants with performances on stage demonstrating their abilities. Here are how contests work: Choose one Pokémon of yours to enter the contest before it begins. Contests each have 3 rounds. Before each round each trainer participating chooses a combat move that their chosen Pokémon can use (and you know), and keeps it secret, revealing it when the round begins. Then, compare the type of move your Pokémon to the types of moves used by the other contestants. For each that would be super effective against it, -1 to your favour number for the round , for every attack that would be not effective or not very effective against it, +1 to your favour number for the round. If your total favour number for the round is 0 or higher, make a check corresponding to the type of contest, and gain that many points. After three rounds, the contestant with the most points wins.
Move Tutor Persona At the time when you take this Boon, choose one Move that you know. While you are a Pokémon’s Trainer, they qualify for that Move. The Game Master may put restrictions on what sort of Move this may be (for example, they may rule that you may not pick the Move “Fly” when you select the this Persona). Each day, the first time that you command the use of this Move and meet a specific criteria, you gain 1xp. If the chosen Move is a Field Move, the criteria calls for that move to be used in a creative way or in an unusual situation, as decided by the Game Master. If the chosen Move is a Combat Move, and it does not miss, roll 1d6. On a 5 or6, you meet the criteria.
Challenger Persona When you challenge a Pokémon trainer to a Pokémon battle, they must accept. While you are in a Pokémon battle, at some point during the battle you can take an attack that would hit your Pokémon and have it miss instead, or take an attack that would miss and have it hit. After a battle against a trainer, if you can get them to agree to a rematch at some unspecified date in the future, you gain 1xp. ! VVVV !
When you use your move, you describe what your Pokémon is doing with that move to prove that it is beautiful, tough, clever, cool, or cute. If the game master finds your description particularly appealing or appalling, they can add or deduct favour points. When you win a Pokémon contest, you get a contest ribbon. It is much like a gym badge. Page 48
Pokemon Coordinator Persona In a Pokémon contest, you have +1 favor in every round. When you are in a Pokémon battle where there are bystanders (strangers to you who are not your enemies), you may collect money from them after the battle. Because you battle so stylishly, you put on an entertaining show for the bystanders, and you may collect 1d6 x 100 per bystander (up to 5) in funds from them with your backpack or other similar item. Once per day, if bystanders are present for any skill check you are making, you can take a disadvantage on the check to perform the action stylishly. If you succeed, the bystanders will clap and/or cheer, and you gain 1xp.
Underdog Persona Scientist Persona Once per day you can spend an hour collecting and assembling materials from your environment to make a device or solution from those materials for a specific purpose (eg, launching a rope, causing a plant to grow rapidly, making a hole in the floor). This check takes one hour. Either one hour after the device is made, or after it is used once, it ceases to function. When a person or Pokémon uses your device for its intended purpose, they make the appropriate check for the action that your device is intended to perform, and add your aptitude score to that check. If there is no appropriate check, you make an aptitude check and your game master decides based on that check whether you succeed or not. Every time you build such a machine, you may spend an hour of the day when it was built logging its schematics in a journal. If you do so, you gain 1xp, and building the same device again only takes 20 minutes.
! WWWW !
Once per battle, when your active Pokémon is not at its final evolution stage, choose an attack which has hit and would cause your Pokémon to faint. It misses instead. Once per battle, when fighting against a fully evolved Pokémon while your active Pokémon is not at its final evolution stage, choose an attack that you make which would miss. This attack hits instead, and has +1 damage. You can spend one hour training an unevolved Pokémon you have with you to gain 1xp.
Evolver PErsona When you wish to mega evolve a pokemon, you do not need to expend any pp. You may evolve pokemon even when they have evolved less than three days ago. Treat your trainer level as one level higher for the purposes of evolving pokemon. Whenever you evolve or mega evolve a pokemon, you gain 1xp.
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Evolution
Pokémon evolution occurs when their trainer endeavours to meet certain conditions which are found for each Pokemon in the evolution condition column of the Pokédex. The most common evolution method is “evolves into [a Pokémon] after battle at trainer level [x]” What this means is when the Pokémon participates in a battle and you are level [x] or higher, you can choose to have it evolve afterwards When a Pokémon evolves, its species changes, and you may re-evalutate its high stat as though you had just caught it based on its new stage. Next, its ability may change. When a Pokémon evolves, it may keep its old ability or use its new ability (your choice). A Pokémon may only evolve so often. After it evolves, it may not evolve again for three days.
! XXXX !
Mega Evolution You can mega evolve certain Pokémon in the heat of battle, and after the battle is over, they revert to their previous non-mega form. In order to mega evolve a Pokémon, you must possess the appropriate mega stone, and spend 3pp as your action during a round of combat. You may only mega evolve a Pokémon once per combat. While you have a Pokémon capable of mega evolution but do not have its mega stone, your Pokémon will be drawn to the stone. As such, whenever you have such a Pokémon and you roll a 6 on a treasure table, flip a coin. On heads, your Pokémon leaves its Pokéball and leads you through a path which only it knows for ten to thirty minutes. At the end of the path, you find a mega stone which that Pokémon can use to mega evolve. Here is a list of existing mega stones.
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Items
The Pokemart Most towns and all cities will contain Pokémarts. The items they sell are listed on the bellow chart, and everything available in the town inventory is also available in the city inventory. Underneath the table is a catalogue of what those items are and do. The prices are listed in Pokédollars. In addition to buying things with Pokédollars at Pokémarts, the players may sell their treasure items at Pokémarts. Pokémart Inventory Price
This section details what the various items available in the game do, and how a player can come to acquire them.
Town Inventory
3000 Evolution Item
600 Greatball
5000 Key Item
1200 Ultraball 300 Potion
When a player starts the game, they are equipped with one set of clothes (of any sort the player would like within reason), running shoes, six Pokéballs, and a Pokénav.
600 Full Heal
! YYYY !
City Inventory
200 Pokéball
Starting Items
The Pokénav allows players to make phone calls to people who they have the phone number of (which Non-Player Characters normally offer the players), access maps and basic information about the place that they are in, and general information about Pokémon. Most of its features are only available in areas with “service” and at the Game Master’s discretion the Pokénav may not work far into the wilderness or underground.
Price
1200 Hyper Potion 1500 Ether
1500 Revive
Treasure Items These items can be sold at Pokémarts for a specific amount of Pokédollars. Nuggets are worth 5000, Star Pieces are worth 4000, Big Pearls are worth 3000, Stardust is worth 2000, and Pearls are worth 1000. Other items can be sold for values haggled by the players & determined by the Game Master Page 51
Restoratives
Items
These items can be used out of battle by touching them to the Pokémon who you wish to use them on, and in battle as a Pokémon’s action for the round. Unless an item says otherwise it only effects your active Pokémon. The use of items happens at the same point in the round that Pokémon switches do. Potion - Restores 2hp. Hyper Potion - Restores All HP. Full Heal - Cures all status conditions. Ether - Restores 1pp. Used on any of a trainer’s Pokémon, restores 1pp to the trainer. Revive - Stops a Pokémon from being fainted, and gives it 3hp.
Evolution Items
Master ball - Has a capture strength of 100.
When a Pokémon needs a certain item, or to be traded while holding a certain item in order to evolve (page 50), you can purchase an appropriate evolution item to facilitate this. These items come in many shapes and sizes, but mechanically they are identical.
Level Ball - Has a capture strength of 20, plus three times the level of the player wielding it.
Pokeballs Pokéballs are thrown when you attempt to capture a Pokémon (page 6) Many of the balls listed bellow can only be created with Apricorn Kits (page 54) or traded for/bought from people skilled in the use of an Apricorn kit. Pokéball - Has a capture strength of 20. Counts as a base ball when building a ball with apricorns. Great ball - Has a capture strength of 30. Counts as a base ball. Ultra ball - Has a capture strength of 40. Counts as a base ball. ! ZZZZ !
Lure Ball - Has a capture strength equal to the base ball that was used in its creation. You have an advantage in capture checks against Pokémon who you are fighting because of fishing it with a super rod (page 54) Moon Ball - Has a capture strength equal to the base ball that was used in its creation. You have an advantage in capture checks against Pokémon who evolve using an evolution item, or through trading with an evolution item. Friend Ball - Has a capture strength equal to the base ball that was used in its creation. You have an advantage in capture checks against Pokémon who share a type with your starter Pokémon. Page 52
Items
Timer Ball - Has a capture strength equal to the base ball that was used in its creation, plus 5 for every Pokémon of yours which this Pokémon caused to faint (up to three Pokémon). Net Ball - Has a capture strength equal to the base ball that was used in its creation. You have an advantage in capture checks against bug or water type Pokémon. Nest Ball - Has a capture strength equal to the base ball that was used in its creation. You have an advantage in capture checks against Pokémon who can still evolve.
Heavy Ball - Has a capture strength equal to the base ball that was used in its creation. You have an advantage in capture checks against Pokémon heavier than 55kg. Quick Ball - Has a capture strength equal to the base ball that was used in its creation. This ball can be thrown at a Pokémon you are battling before it has fainted. If you fail the capture check against it, it flees. Primer Ball - Has a capture strength of 20. Can be sold for 500 Pokédollars. Repeat Ball - Has a capture strength equal to the base ball that was used in its creation. You have an advantage in capture checks against Pokémon who you own a Pokémon of the same species as.
! AAAAAA !
Dive Ball - Has a capture strength equal to the base ball that was used in its creation. You have an advantage in capture checks against Pokémon when you throw this ball in a sea biome. Luxury Ball - Has a capture strength equal to the base ball that was used in its creation. You have an advantage in capture checks against all Pokémon when using this ball. Heal Ball - Has a capture strength equal to the base ball that was used in its creation. After the Pokémon you threw this ball at is caught, it is no longer fainted and is restored to its full HP. Dusk Ball - Has a capture strength equal to the base ball that was used in its creation. You have an advantage in capture checks against dark and ghost type Pokémon.
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Key Items
Items
Each player can carry one key item with them at any given time, and key items can only be used by the people who they belong to, or with special permission from the Game Master. Below are the key items which one can have. Dowsing Machine - Each time you encounter a treasure cache, make an aptitude check. You find one extra treasure for every 2 above 10 you get on the check. Bike - While you have a bike, if you have failed a capture attempt and a Pokémon is fleeing, you may pursue it. If you succeed on a human capacity check with a difficulty of 10, you may make another capture check against it. Camping Equipment - When you have camping equipment, each day you can make camp for the night. If you do make camp, you may either restore all of your Pokémon to full health, or choose one of your fainted Pokémon and revive it. Everyone who is camping with you may do the same. Super Rod - Whenever you are near a body of water, you can spend a short time fishing to encounter a Pokémon who could be in that water determined by your Game Master that is appropriate for the biome that you are in, as though you had found this Pokémon in a sanctuary. You can only use this power once per day. Berry Kit - Whenever you happen upon a Pokémon sanctuary, you can search it for berries to collect. You find four berries all of the same type with the effects detailed on the Berry Effect Table (next page). Berries must be given to Pokémon to hold, and can only be activated while they are your active Pokémon in battle. A Pokémon can only hold one berry at a time. You can use your berry kit to turn berries into a Pokéblock. If you have 7 or more aptitude, it takes one berry, from 5-6 takes two berries, and with 4 ! BBBBBB !
aptitude it consumes three berries. You can use a Pokéblock to roll 1d6 and get the following effect: On a 4, 5 or 6, your Pokémon gets an advantage on its next roll. In a 2 or 3, nothing. On a 1, disadvantage. Apricorn Kit - Whenever you happen upon a Pokémon sanctuary, you can search it for apricorns to collect. Roll 2d6 twice. You get two of each of the types of apricorn you rolled corresponding to the apricorn table. You can make aptitude checks to turn these apricorns into various kinds of Pokéballs. If you fail the aptitude checks all of the apricorns are lost in the process. See the apricorn recipe table to find out what apricorns can be used to make what Pokéballs, and the difficulty class (DC) of the check needed to successfully make them. Most balls require a “base ball” (meaning a pokéball, great ball, or ultra ball) to construct. Balls made with ultra balls and great balls will be better at capturing than those made with Pokéballs. See the Pokéball section (page 52) for more information. Page 54
Items
Apricorn Table 2d6
Apricorn
Apricorn Recipe Table
2d6
Apricorn
- -
7
Black Apricorn
2 Nothing
8
Red
3 Nothing
9
4 Yellow
2 Any Colour, (DC7)
Greatball
3 Any Colour, (DC9)
Green
Ultra Ball
3 Same Colour, (DC11)
10
Pink
Master Ball
2 All Colours, (DC15)
5 Blue
11
Nothing
Level Ball
2 Red, 1 Pokéball. (DC11)
6 White Apricorn
12
Nothing
Lure Ball
2 Blue, 1 Base Ball, (DC9)
Moon Ball
2 Yellow, 1 Base Ball, (DC9)
Friend Ball
2 Green, 1 Base Ball, (DC9)
Love Ball
2 Pink, 1 Base Ball, (DC9)
Heavy Ball
2 Black, (DC9)
Quick Ball
2 White, 1 Base Ball, (DC9)
Premier Ball
1 Red, 1 White, 1 BaseBall, (DC7)
Repeat Ball
1Yellow, 1Black, 1 BaseBall, (DC7)
Timer Ball
1Black, 1White, 1Red, 1 Base Ball, (DC11)
Net Ball
1 Blue, 1 Black, (DC9)
Nest Ball
1 Green, 1 Yellow, 1 BaseBall, (DC9)
Dive Ball
1 Blue, 1 White, 1 BaseBall, (DC9)
Luxury Ball
1 Black, 1 White, 1 Red,1 Base Ball, (DC11)
Heal Ball
1 Pink, 1 Blue, 1 Base Ball, (DC7)
Dusk Ball
1 Green, 1 Black, 1 BaseBall, (DC9)
Condition
Effect
1 This berry can be activated 2 3
4 5 6
Recipe & Difficulty Class
Pokéball
Berry Effect Table d6
Ball Type
Your Pokémon is healed by 3 hit points. using an action in a round. It can be used outside of combat. You regain one power point. Activates when your Pokémon is hit with a super effective move. The move becomes normally effective in addition to the berries other effects. Activates when your active Pokémon gains a special condition. Activates when your active Pokémon loses HP. Activates when your Pokémon is hit with a super effective move. The move becomes normally effective in addition to the berries other effects.
! CCCCCC !
Any advantages your Pokémon or your opponent’s have on rolls are neutralized.
Any disadvantages your Pokémon or your opponent's have on rolls are neutralized. Your Pokémon is cured of its status condition. Roll 1d6 and your active Pokémon gains an advantage to the corresponding roll in combat (1 spc.atk, 2 spc.def, 3 def, 4 attack, 5&6 reroll.
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The Pokemon Ranch
While you are in a Pokémon centre, you can use the PC to send items you don’t want to carry, and Pokémon you’ve caught, away to a Pokémon ranch your character is affiliated with. It need not be an actual ranch. Generally it is either to your character’s parent’s house, the laboratory where you got your first Pokémon, or a daycare of some sort that you have an agreement with. Often at the start, you will not be the only one sending your Pokémon there, and within most games it will make sense for all of the players to be sharing the same Pokémon ranch. The state of this ranch has a lot to do with your prestige and acclaim in the Pokémon world, apart from your accomplishments, the state of your ranch confers you certain rights and privileges to you in the game. All of the Pokémon and items you send there will find some way to fit, but it may become cramped. If you want to improve it, you’ll first have to buy part-ownership of the ranch that you are using. This costs 3000 Pokédollars. Once you’ve done this you can decide to spend your money to improve the facilities. Up to 900 Pokémon can fit on a ranch. There are many things you can purchase for the ranch that merely improve the quality of life for your Pokémon there, the beauty of the surrounding area, and the quality of your stay there. The effects these things have are usually only on the story, and their extent and relevance is determined by the Game Master. However, purchasing improvements of a certain total value along with having a certain number of Pokémon caught and registered in your Pokédex unlocks privilege purchases, which have more direct effects on the game. Often with the purchases you make for your ranch, you aren’t purchasing or creating the new thing outright, but instead providing a small investment to help the managers of the ranch to accommodate for your plans. While ! 5656 !
you have priority access to the facilities, you can expect that they will use them when you are gone to make money to support the ranch. You might consider keeping a description of your ranch, or perhaps a drawn map, which reflects the improvements you have made to it to help you keep track of them.
Facilities And Utilities The buildings and other terrain modifications that you are allowed to purchase in this section take one week to construct. Hire Retainer - costs 1500 Pokédollars The retainer hangs around your ranch, doing basic work. They have a level two lower than yours, to a minimum of one, and Pokémon determined by
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will comply with your requests as well as they can while remaining compatible with the regulations of the body which locally governs Pokémon battling. This can only be purchased once per ranch. Festival Grounds - costs 5000 Pokédollars You commission the building of a park area, with a cobblestone square, a fountain, plants, and many places to set up booths and stalls for the holding of events. You can specify any specific features that you would like to the builders, and the builders will try to accommodate your requests. Particularly extravagant features may merit an increase in cost. Cultivated Wilderness - costs 3000 Pokédollars
your game master. They will do what you ask, within reason, so long as it does not involve leaving the ranch for more than 6 hours. If they find one of your requests to be unreasonable, offensive, or otherwise objectionable, they will refuse, and if you insist, they will cease to be your retainer, returning 500 Pokédollars to you. Villa - costs 5000 Pokédollars You commission the building of a Villa. The villa can accommodate 10 people living inside of it, and is quite luxurious, and warm. While you are not around, it will be used by the staff of the ranch, but you can always stay the night there comfortably and free of charge. Can only be purchased once per ranch. Battle Grounds - costs 5000 Pokédollars. You commission the building of a pitch for Pokémon battling. You can specify the general atmosphere and kinds of hazards you would like to be in the arena to the builders, and they ! 5757 !
You can pay to have an area of land around your ranch cultivated into plots for berries, or apricorns (you decide which at the time of the building) each day, if you have the appropriate equipment (page 54) you may collect berries or apricorns from this location as though you had found them in a Pokémon sanctuary. Alternatively, you could cultivate the wilderness into a biome that your game master finds appropriate to the climate that the Pokémon ranch is in, and once per day you may search it for a Pokémon sanctuary (which will contain no apricorns or berries), as though you had completed an encounter there (page 67), with a -3 penalty to the attention check. (You cannot find treasure caches in biomes you have cultivated). Condominiums - costs 6000 Pokédollars You can commission the building of a few houses around your ranch that can be rented out by the ranch owners or sold. Many people find the idea of living around an idilic landscape full of many varieties of Pokémon quite appealing, and the number of homes available around your ranch will
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naturally grow over time after you have installed condominiums. Can only be purchased once per ranch. Pokémart - costs 2500 Pokédollars - requires condominiums to be built. You can have a shop built to service local Pokémon trainers. The store stocks everything that a normal town Pokémart does. Each week you can try to collect revenue from the Pokémart from your investment. The game master determines how much you receive, and it may well be nothing some weeks. Can only be purchased once per ranch. Beautification - costs 1500 Pokédollars You can install some new cosmetic feature on your ranch which is proportional to the cost. Especially extravagant features might require paying for two or three beautifications. 1 beautification costs 1500, but contributes 2000 to the Pokédollars spent on improvements to the ranch, for the purposes of fulfilling requirements for privilege purchases.
Privilege Purchases
in your group. First place prize in the tournament is four times the amount that you paid to host it. You may host a tournament no more often than once every two months.
The buildings and other terrain modifications that you are allowed to purchase in this section take one week to construct.
Hold A Festival - Requires the festival grounds improvement. Requires 7000 Pokédollars spent on ranch improvements. Costs 1500 Pokédollars.
Hold A Tournament - Require the battle grounds improvement. Requires 7000 Pokédollars spent on ranch improvements. Cost is variable (see below).
This is a one time event. You can invite people from the surrounding area to attend a festival held on the festival grounds of your ranch, and you hire performers and exhibitioners to provide entertainment while you are doing so, which you decide the nature of (and which must be approved by the Game Master). The festival endears your party to everyone who attends. Aside from the people in the surrounding area who will attend, you can specifically invite up to twenty people. So long as they do not hold an
This is a one time event. You can invite trainers from around the land to to enter your tournament and compete with you and your companions. There is an entrance fee, but you and your companions are exempt from the entrance fee. The tournament attracts three trainers for each person in your adventuring group. The trainers are all the same level as the average level ! 5858 !
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you. Their level and the nature of their Pokémon are determined by your Game Master. Open an Official Pokémon Gym - Requires an unofficial Pokémon gym. Requires 60 Pokémon in your Pokédex. Costs 3000 Pokédollars. Your unofficial gym gains recognition by the Pokémon league, and you are entitled to issue an official badge to those who defeat your gym. People in the area where the league that your gym is affiliated with operates will recognize the leader of this gym. Start A Criminal Team - Requires 4 retainers. Requires 30 Pokémon in your Pokédex. Costs 2000 Pokédollars
extremely fierce grudge against you and your companions, or live an incredible distance away from the festival, they will accept your invitation. Open an Unofficial Pokémon Gym - Requires the battle grounds improvement. Requires 20 Pokémon in your Pokédex. Costs 3000 Pokédollars. You can open an unofficial gym, and build your gym facilities in the area surrounding (one of) your battle ground(s). Although it is not recognized by the Pokémon league (or equivalent body in your area), trainers will come to it to test and hone their skills at battling. You may designate yourself or one of your companions as the gym leader, and your retainers staff the gym while you are away. You may give Pokémon that you have caught to your retainers so that they may battle in your stead, and they will return them to you any time you request. When you return to your Pokémon ranch, there will always be a trainer eagerly awaiting battle with ! 5959 !
You start a secret criminal team, similar to team rocket, or team plasma. You can convert as many of your retainers as you like to grunts. Grunts will behave like retainers, but they can act on your behalf outside of the ranch as well. Retainers cost you 1000 to hire now, rather than their normal cost of 1500. Open A Museum - Requires 40 Pokémon in your Pokédex. Costs 5000 Pokédollars. You can open a museum somewhere on your ranch dedicated to some topic related to Pokémon of your choosing. The museum attracts patrons from the surrounding area, who support the upkeep of your ranch by visiting. The museum also contains the facilities to create a Pokémon from a fossil that you have found on your journeys (page 46) for free. Open a Pokémon Research Facility - Requires 50 Pokémon in your Pokédex. Costs 5000 Pokédollars.
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You can open a Pokémon research facility, and put the building anywhere on your ranch (or, if your ranch started with a Pokémon laboratory on it, use this money to massively upgrade that lab) When you hire a retainer from now on, you may choose to hire a researcher instead to work at the lab for the same cost. You can have your researchers devoted to a project of your choosing, for example, cloning a Pokémon of yours, creating a new kind of Pokéball or other item, synthesizing a mega stone, or anything else that you can imagine researchers doing which your Game Master finds appropriate for the setting. Generally speaking, three researchers, can complete a project the likes of which I have described after working for a few months, but the timeframe for any particular project is strictly up to the Game Master, and generally speaking the more researchers you have the quicker projects get completed. Open A Safari Zone - Requires 70 Pokémon in your Pokédex. Costs 6000 Pokédollars. Requires 3 plots of cultivated wilderness made into biomes, not into apricorn or berry fields. Your patches of cultivated wilderness become a Safari zone, which people can pay to enter into to try and capture Pokémon. The area is fenced off now. Each week you can try to collect revenue from the Safari Zone from your investment. The Game Master determines how much you receive, and it may well be nothing some weeks. You may explore your the wilderness that you have turned into a safari zone as per normal. Grow Into A Superstore - Requires the Pokémart improvement. Requires 10000 Pokédollars spent on ranch improvements. Costs 4000 Pokédollars Your Pokémart now stocks everything that a city Pokémart does. At the discretion of your game master you may earn more weekly money from a superstore than you did from your Pokémart. ! 6060 !
Open A Radio Station - Requires a superstore. Requires 18000 Pokédollars spent on ranch improvements. Costs 3000 Pokédollars Out of the top of your Pokémart you can install equipment capable of broadcasting radio, which everyone is capable of picking up on their Pokénav. While you are not attending the radio station, your ranch managers will put programming on the air on your behalf. If you say something on your radio station, you can expect a large amount of people to have heard it. Start A Company - Requires a superstore. Requires 26000 Pokédollars spent on ranch improvements. Costs 3000 Pokédollars Any technology developed by your research lab can now be bought in city Pokémarts. Many people will become familiar with this technology, and you can expect several of the people who you meet from now on to possess
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Your ranch has grown large and interesting enough that you can start a campaign encouraging people to move to the area around it. You name the village which this creates, and can appoint a mayor of it from you and your companions. Your ranch managers take care of the small day to day decisions, but may prompt the mayor for decisions via your Pokénav on matters of particular importance. The people in the town open up shops, farms, and other small amenities, and a Pokémon centre is established in it. The exact population of this village varies over time and is determined by your Game Master. Attract A Town - Requires a village. Requires 25000 Pokédollars spent on ranch improvements. Costs 1500 Pokédollars
your technology. The game master is at great liberty to determine exactly what this means for your game world. Open A Resort - Requires the condominiums improvement. Requires 12000 Pokédollars spent on ranch improvements. Costs 5000 Pokédollars You can open a resort in the area surrounding your villa for people to vacation to. The buildings included in the construction of this resort are up to yourself and your game master. Each week you can try to collect revenue from the resort from your investment. The game master determines how much you receive, and it may well be nothing some weeks. Can only be purchased once per ranch. Attract A Village & Pokémon Centre - Requires 15000 Pokédollars spent on ranch improvements. Costs 6000 Pokédollars
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You can campaign to have even more migration to your village, and have it grow into a town. The people in the town open up restaurants and other amenities appropriate to the world in which your game is set. The exact population of this town varies over time and is determined by your Game Master. Generally speaking it is twice that of what a village would be. Open A Monument to a Legendary Pokémon - Requires town. Requires 35000 Pokédollars spent on ranch improvements. Costs 6000 Poké dollars. You can pay for the construction of a large monument, perhaps in the form of a statue, a tower, or a large plaque, dedicated to a legendary Pokémon. One week after the construction of this monument, there will start to be regular citing of the legendary Pokémon your monument is dedicated to in the area around your ranch. When you roll an 18-20 on an attention check to find a secret after an encounter within 25km of your ranch, you encounter the legendary Pokémon this monument is dedicated to. The nature of this encounter is determined by your Game Master.
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Ranch Adventures While your Pokémon are at the Pokémon ranch, once per day, before turning in, a Trainer with at least one Pokémon staying at their Ranch may use their Pokénav to contact the Ranch and find out what one of their Pokémon got up to that day. For paper sheets, roll 1d100 and consult the
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table here. Usually, the Pokémon will just have had some sort of memorable experience that makes a decent story, but sometimes the Pokémon's adventure will result in a reward for their Trainer. If a reward is granted, Trainers may collect it immediately. They do not have to travel to the Ranch to collect it.
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Game Master Section
prepared to improvise, but if you have an NPC say “my bar was set on fire by a cruel man with a Volcarona who is terrorizing the town and I’ll pay you to arrest him” the players will want to hunt down that man and his Volcarona. When the players try to do something that doesn’t fit with your plan, and you use the plot to force them to anyway, that is called railroading, and is generally considered to be bad. This doesn’t mean it is always wrong to foil the plans of a player, but you should do so only when it makes sense for them to be foiled in the context of the world. Ultimately, you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it drink. You decide what the NPCs say and they can try to influence the players to do things, but your influence over the players is only as great as that NPC’s.
Narration and Improvisation kThis section is primarily for new game masters who want an introduction to the task of running a table top game, or old masters who want to be reintroduced to it specifically in the context of Pokémon. The major tools provided to the game master in this game are the battle generation system, for generating wild Pokémon and trainer Pokémon quickly, and the biome generation system, for generating encounters for players as they travel from place to place. Those are found later in this book.
The Role of the Game Master While the players are ultimately the ones that have final say over where the adventure is going (the story is focalized through them) the Game Master has a heck of a lot of influence over the story. You control everything that is beyond the player’s control, and that includes the information that is presented to them. You can’t ever be certain what the players will do, so be ! 6363 !
The basic task of the Game Master is to describe what happens in the world when the players interact with it. That is, to control the environments that appear, and the way other people react to the presence and actions of the characters. When you are a Game Master, you either need to do a heck of a lot of planing, or make a lot of stuff up as it comes at you. Generally a combination of the two is preferred. When players enter an area, give an overview of the notable things in it by name, and describe the sensations that their characters might be experiencing when entering it. There is no need to be comprehensive. This game is designed to ease the improvisation burden of the game master as much as is possible. It has ways of generation the contents of large tracts of land, quickly building Pokémon for players to fight, and quickly building non-player characters for them to interact with. But,
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mechanics can only help so much. The most important thing is not to panic when they players ask for something you haven’t prepared. Remember that you know literally everything about the world. It is impossible for you to be wrong. If you say that an NPC starts dancing while arboks pour out from his or her mouth, you are right, even if that doesn’t make sense. It is important that you do things that are narratively satisfying and logically consistent, but never be puzzled by the question of “how does the NPC respond?”. He or she responds in whatever way you think is appropriate.
Breaking The Rules There will be times when you make a decision about something happening in the world (for example, you misapply a combat rule), a player doesn’t think it is fair, and shows you the mistake you’ve made in the rulebook. If it happens soon after the mistake, then simply take it back. If it happens ten minutes later, or even a few days later, that might be more difficult. A lot of the time, acknowledging you made a mistake is enough. If it isn’t (say, the player’s character was significantly hurt by the mistake), then maybe award a free advantage on a skill check. It is up to you. But remember, it is only as big of a deal as the players want it to be. You can even choose to intentionally ignore rules you don’t like to make your game better, but you should tell the players how you’ve changed the rules before you implement the changes to avoid confusion if they read things contrary to what you have ruled in this book.
Quests While you don’t necessarily ever need to call it a quest, before you start playing the game with your players, you should work out what you intend for their primary goal to be. As I said earlier, you can’t force them to do anything, but you can provide them with lots of opportunities and cues. ! 6464 !
Wandering aimlessly can be fun for a time, but without an overarching motivation a game can get pretty boring. You should plan in advance the sorts of events that will take place as the players try to move forward with the objectives that you’ve provided them with through interactions with non-player characters. The players could be trying to solve a mystery, or travel to a distant location, or rescue a friend, or thwart an evildoer. There are all sorts of ways to make an entertaining story.
NPC Building NPCs, or non-player characters, are everyone who you, the game master, make up for players to interact with. Usually, you won’t need any more detail than their name, where they are, and what they are doing, but occasionally you will want more detail than that so that the NPCS can interact with the world. Give the NPCs stats like the players have. The five stats are physical training, special training, aptitude, poise, and attention (which you can read about starting on page 4). Common people should Page 64
have two 6, one 5, and two 4. Skillful people can have two 7, and three 5. Incredibly powerful people should have one 8, two 7, and two five. When NPCs need to make aptitude, poise, and attention checks, applying the rules is easy. Refer to page 4 for what they can do. However, because they don’t have training boons like players, when they are making physical or special training checks to control their Pokémon, things get a little more difficult. Unlike the players, you can play a little more fast and loose with the NPC’s capabilities. Ultimately, what their Pokémon can do is up to you, and should be consistent with your image of how good of a trainer they are. Once you have decided whether or not the trainer can issue the command, set a difficulty for the check the NPC will make, then roll the dice and see if they pass it.
you would like legendary encounters to happen in a more random and less planned way, here is an optional rule.
Legendary And Shiny Pokemon
When generating a terrain hazard for a biome (page 67) If you roll the same number when you roll to determine its augment, and base hazard, roll 1d6. 1, 2, or 3, a legendary Pokémon of a type appropriate to the biome appears. Whether the Pokémon is there to help the players deal with their challenge, has caused the problem that they now face, or merely watches them as they try to deal with their situation is entirely up to you. On a 4, 5, or 6, a Shiny Pokémon appears instead. Select any single species of a Type appropriate to the biome. If Legendary Pokémon do not appear in your game, a Shiny Pokémon can appear on a 1, 2, or 3, and on any other result, nothing happens and the environmental hazard plays out normally. The environmental hazard must still be played out even if a Legendary or Shiny Pokémon appears.
Whether or not legendary Pokémon appear in your game is ultimately up to you. You can have them appear wherever and however you want them to. The players are capable of prompting you to have one appear by building a monument to a legendary Pokémon at their Pokémon ranch (page 56) but ultimately when and how and if they arrive is up to you. If Game Master Power You may notice here and in many other places in the book that there is an incredible asymmetry of power between the players and the game master. The rules are here to provide structure, but ultimately, the Game Master is the one creating the experience. They are not the adversary of the player; their chief goal should be to make sure that everyone is enjoying themselves. They are given so much power to decide things because it is in their best interest to be fair in their decisions, in order to maximize the fun everyone is having. ! 6565 !
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normal typed damage only (page 9). They have 4 attack, 4 defence, 4 special defence, 0 special attack, 4 speed, and 3hp. When a human faints, they regain consciousness after one hour and return to full hit points.
Shared Player Inventory On page 5, shared player inventory is brought up as an option. If your players are using the same Pokémon ranch, (page 54) it may be a good idea for you to keep track of everyone’s shared inventory, and have items that the players find go into it by default. This can occasionally lead to conflict however, when some players are more miserly than others.
Quest Experience And The Experience Curve moves from the Pokémon video games. If you would like, you can make it such that Pokémon can use those moves if the Pokémon qualify to use them (by breeding, TM, level up, or etc) in the Pokémon video games. The reason why it doesn’t work this way by default is to get rid of the need to constantly look things up on bulbapedia. But if you would prefer the extra authenticity to expedience, this is certainly an option, and it will not render the game unplayable.
Rolling Dice Instead of Flipping Coins If you and your players don’t want to carry coins, using 1d6 instead is easy. On a 1, 2, and 3, you have a heads. On 4, 5, and 6, you have a tails.
Human-Pokemon interaction One thing that is not addressed elsewhere in the book is what happens when a human attacks a Pokémon, or vice versa. The Game master is of course free to make up their own rules about these kinds of interactions, but the book will provide a system as well. Human beings can us a struggle attack with ! 6666 !
As you may have noticed, on page 6, quest experience is the primary way that players gain experience in this game. It also says that typically players level up after receiving 10xp. If you want them to level up especially fast, make it 10xp. If you want them to level up especially slow, make it 20xp. As for when to award quest experience and how much, that depends on how quickly you want players to level up as well, and what you want to reward. If you have a big story objective for them, and they’ve just completed it, 9 is appropriate. If they’ve just finished one step in progress towards their big story goal, 3 is appropriate. There are many situations in between where another number will fit better. The most important thing to remember when assigning experience points is that the level of the players will effect the story. Remember that if you intend them to be uncovering team rocket’s plot in one small town for a while, if you give them too much xp they will be fighting rattatas using charizards. Similarly, if you want them at the elite four by session three, you need to give them enough that they won’t be fighting dragonites with bulbasaurs.
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Traveling And Biomes
Biome Table d6
Heads
Tails
1 Forest
Forest
2 Grassland
Grassland
3 Mountain
Mountain
4 Cave
Desert
5 Molten Terrain
Frozen Terrain
6 Freshwater
Sea
Often times in the world of Pokémon, adventurers will find yourselves traveling through difficult to navigate areas. In the game, the difficulty of the area is measured in obstacles. When the players declare an intention to move from, for example, Glaucos town to Sarcoline city, the Game Master should help them to plan out their root. If the Game Master has no pre determined map in mind, they can roll various areas off of the biome table above (a single area can have one or two of the biome types listed), and if they do they can consult their map. The players can always choose to take an alternate route of course, but the further you deviate from the original plan, the longer the journey will typically take. Assuming their are no highly populated locations in between the places where the players are going, their journey will be defined by the encounters that find them along the way. The amount of any encounters in a biome is determined by the Game Master, and is generally a factor of the size of the place through which the players are traveling. ! 6767 !
If the players so choose, once after each encounter the players can try to find a secret. When doing so player with the highest attention score makes an attention check, and the Game Master finds a secret appropriate to their score and the type of a area they are in. Secrets range from groves with rare Pokémon, to hidden caches of treasure. The players can specify what they are looking for in advance of the roll. Generally speaking the Game Master would give the players the hardest to find secret that was available to players from their roll, but if the players are specifically looking for rare Pokémon and qualify to find a treasure, the Game Master would allow them to find the rare Pokémon instead of the treasure. The period between encounters when in the wilderness is usually about a day, so after an encounter it can be assumed that one day has elapsed, although the Game Master may rule otherwise in specific circumstances.
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must then use their abilities and the abilities of their Pokémon to find their way out of the difficult situation. When they encounter a group of hostile Pokémon, if the biome has two types the game master flips a coin to determine which of the biomes the Pokémon encounter is coming from. After that, they roll 1d6 on the wild Pokémon table for that biome (regular encounters). If instead of a Pokémon type, you roll the Rare type, roll on the rare column of that same table. If there are multiple groups of Pokémon listed the game master decides which one comes up, then generates the Pokémon as described in the battle generation section (page 88). At any point at which random rolling or coin flipping is happening the Game Master can feel free to exercise their judgement.
Encounters Encounters are either with hostile Pokémon, or an environmental hazard which they must advance beyond to continue on their quest. Each day, the players face an encounter in the biome. To determine the nature of the encounter, the Game Master first flips a coin. On a heads, the players encounter hostile Pokémon, and on a tails they encounter an environmental hazard. When they encounter an environmental hazard, if their biome has two types (instead of 1) they flip a coin to determine which of the biomes determines the hazard’s “augment” and which determines its “base encounter”. Once that is done, the Game Master rolls 1d6 on the appropriate base encounter table, and the appropriate augment table, and combines them to explain what is happening to the players. The players ! 6868 !
Secrets Whenever the players complete an encounter they have the opportunity to search for a secret in the biome in which the encounter happened. When they do, one player in the group makes an attention check, and what the players find depends on the result according to this table. When the players find a Pokémon sanctuary, the game master chooses a number of species of Pokémon within the types that appear in the biome. Wish Lists The players may submit wish list of Pokémon to their game master to give preference to when determining which Pokémon are found in Pokémon sanctuaries. If no Pokémon on the wish lists fulfills the requirements of the biome, the Game Master should choose any nonlegendary Pokémon species to appear in their stead. Page 68
Treasure Table
Side quests and points of interest When players are making an attention check to find interesting or valuable areas in a biome, the GM has a great opportunity to have them find interesting places. Like huts hidden in the woods or hermitages in mountains containing kindly people who could provide them with information or resources to their quest. Alternatively, people in need who the players might want to help, or who could reward the players for doing so.
d6
Treasure 1 4 potion, 5 Pokéball, 2 revive, 1 ether 2 Pearl, 1 hyper potion, 1 potion, 1 revive, 2 ultra ball. 3 Stardust, 1 ether, 1 revive, 2 full heal 4 Big Pearl, 1 hyper potion, 1 revive, 1 potion 5 Star Piece, 2 full heal, 2 greatball 6 Nugget, 2 potion, 2 Pokéball Secret Check Result
Check
Result
>8 You find nothing 8-9 Small treasure: One roll on the treasure table; only keep medicine items 10-11 Small sanctuary: 2 species. 12-13 Medium treasure: One roll 14-15 Medium sanctuary: 4 species 16-17 Large treasure: 1 roll per player 17< Large sanctuary: 6 species.
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Forest Biome In forests, Treasure caches are often found buried near trees or hidden in shrubs, or suspended from trees where people aren’t expecting Pokémon to be. Pokémon sanctuaries often are in upper canopy networks, or beneath tunnels into a small underground oasis, or inside of and around massive and partially hollowed trees.
Forest Encounters d6 d6
Regular
Forest Grass Pokémon
1 Tangrowth & Tangela/Exeggutor & Exeggcute/Foongus & Amoongus. Defence or Special Attack. 2 Shiftry & Seedot/Breloom & Shroomish. Attack or Defence.
1&2 Grass 3&4 Bug 5&6 Rare d6 Rare
3 Lilligant & Petlil. Special Attack or Speed. 4 Vileploom & Oddish/Bellossom & Oddish. Special Attack or Special Defence.
1&2 Poison 3&4 Electric 5&6 Normal
5 Victreebel & Bellsprout. Attack or Special Attack 6 Ferrothorn & Ferroseed. Defence or Special Defence.
Forest Environmental Hazards d6
Base Encounter
d6
Augment
1 While your party is walking past a very large tree, it begins to fall on top 1 A thick mist surrounds you. -4 to attention checks until the encounter is of everyone. Everyone has three seconds to get out of the way. over. 2 Relatively quickly, a forest fire erupts around you.
2 There is a Pokémon injured nearby that one might find in a forest Pokémon sanctuary.
3 Your party wanders into an area full of sticky webs, and must find a way 3 Much of the foliage in the area is poison ivy, and if the players are not to proceed without getting caught in them. careful and don’t identify this, they will get rashes from it. 4 Each member of the party springs a trap that catches their ankle and 4 Near to the terrain hazard the party can see a cottage in the woods, that hoists them up into a tree. contains a Pokémon ranger knowledgeable about these woods. 5 There is a twenty metre fissure standing between you and where you 5 Nearby is a fallen log hollowed out at some point in the past by bug need to go. There are trees on either side of it. Pokémon, 3m in diametre. 6 The area is covered in thick vines which must be cut to proceed.
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6 Nearby is a 30m tall cherry tree in full bloom.
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d6
Forest Bug Pokémon
1 Scolipede & Venipede. Speed or Attack.
d6
Forest Normal Pokémon
1
Raticate & Rattata/Furret & Sentret. Speed or Hitpoints.
2 Beedrill & Weedle/Escavalier & Karrablast/Vespiquen & Combee. Attack 2 Lopunny & Buneary/Cinccino & Minccino. Speed and Attack. or Special Defence. 3 Snorelax & Munchlax/Slaking & Slakoth. Special Defence or Hitpoints. 3 Parasect & Paras/Crustle & Dwebble. Attack or Defence. 4 Ursaring & Teddiursa/Stoutland & Lillipup. Attack or Defence. 4 Venomoth & Venonat/Dustox & Wrumple/Mothim & Burmy. Special 5 Stantler/Exploud & Whispmur/Wigglytuff & Igglybuff. Special Attack or Attack or Speed. Hitpoints. 5 Ariados & Spinarak/Galvantula & Joltik. Attack or Hitpoints. 6 Biebarel & Bidoof/Diggersby & Bunnelby/Purugly & Glameow. Attack or 6 Leavanny & Sewaddle. Attack or Speed. Hitpoints. d6 Forest Poison Pokémon 1 Arbok & Ekans. Attack or Speed. 2 Nidoking & Nidoran/Nidoqueen & Nidoran. Attack or Special Attack. 3 Muk & Grimer/Garbodor & Trubbish/Swalot & Gulpin. Hitpoints or Special Defence. 4 Skuntank & Stunky. Hitpoints or Attack. 5 Toxicroak & Croagunk. Speed & Attack. 6 Dragalge & Skrelp. Special Defence & Special Attack. (in a forest pool) d6
Forest Electric Pokémon
1 Raichu & Pikachu/Jolteon & Eevee. Special Attack or Speed. 2 Eelektross & Tynamo. Attack or Special Attack. 3 Electivire & Elekid. Attack & Speed. 4 Ampharos & Mareep. Special attack or Hitpoints. 5 Manectric & Electrike/Zebstrika & Blitzle. Attack or Speed. 6 Luxray & Shinx. Attack or Special Attack. ! 7171 !
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Grassland Biome In grasslands, Pokémon sanctuaries are typically in valleys surrounded by hills, burrows in the ground, or in thick grass. Treasures are usually hidden under large rocks, buried in the ground, or in shallow pools of water.
1&2 3&4 5&6
Regular Grass Normal Rare
d6
d6 1&2 3&4 5&6
Rare Bug Fairy Flying
Base Encounter
Grassland Normal Pokémon
1 Raticate & Rattata/Linoone & Zigzagoon/Wathog & Patrat. Speed or Hitpoints. 2 Lopunny & Buneary/Cinccino & Minccino. Speed and Attack. 3 Persian & Meowth/Skitty & Delcatty. Speed or Special Attack. 4 Zangoose/Stoutland & Lillipup. Attack or Defence.
Grassland Pokémon Encounters d6
d6
5 Bouffalant/Tauros/Sawsbuck & Deerling. Attack or Defence. 6 Biebarel & Bidoof/Diggersby & Bunnelby/Purugly & Glameow. Attack or Hitpoints.
Forest Environmental Hazards d6
Augment
1 As your party steps into a clearing, they hear a loud rumbling for five 1 The terrain is very misty. After the encounter, make a difficulty 10 seconds before the ground beneath them and around them for 20m aptitude check to keep heading in the right direction. On failure, collapses into a sinkhole 15m deep. increase the length of your journey by 1 day through this grassland. 2 A wonderful scent mesmerizes everyone in the party, and draws you 2 There is a thunderstorm while your encounter is happening. Everyone significantly off course. You aren’t sure what direction you must head in rolls 2d6. On a 12, they are struck by lightning and faint. to reach your destination 3 There is a minor landslide under you while traversing a hill that sends 3 There is a Pokémon injured nearby that one might find in a grassland you stumbling into thick and thorny bushes. Pokémon sanctuary. 4 A wildfire starts in the grass surrounding you.
4 The grasses in the area are poisonous to eat.
5 No Encounter
5 There is an extreme heatwave during the encounter..-2 to aptitude checks.
6 No Encounter
6 The field where you are standing is full of beautiful wildflowers.
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d6
Grassland Bug Pokémon
d6
Grassland Grass Pokémon
1 Kricketune & Kricketot/Accelgor & Shelmet/Ninjask & Nincada. Speed or 1 Shiftry & Seedot/Breloom & Shroomish. Attack or Defence. Attack. 2 Leafeon & Eevee/Roserade & Budew. Special attack or Speed. 2 Butterfree & Caterpie/Beautifly & Wrumple/Vivillion & Scatterbug. 3 Lilligant & Petlil. Special Attack or Speed. Special Attack or Speed. 4 Bellossom & Oddish. Special Attack or Special Defence. 3 Beedrill & Weedle/Escavalier & Karrablast/Vespiquen & Combee. Attack 5 Gogoat & Skiddo. Attack or Hitpoints. or Special Defence. 4 Crustle & Dwebble. Attack or Defence. 6 Jumpleff & Hoppip/Whimsicott & Cottonee. Speed or Defence. 5 Venomoth & Venonat/Dustox & Wrumple/Mothim & Burmy. Special Attack or Speed. Grassland Fairy Pokémon 6 Yanmega & Yanma/Ledian & Ledyba/Masquerain & Surskit. Special d6 Attack or Speed. 1 Clefable & Cleffa/Sylveon & Eevee. Special Defence or Special Attack. 2 Togekiss & Togepi. Special Attack or Special Defence. 3 Granbull & Snubbull. Attack or Hitpoints. 4 Florges & Flabébé. Special Attack or Special Defence. 5 Aromatisse & Spritzee, Hitpoints or Special Attack. 6 Slurpuff & Swirlix. Defence or Special Attack. d6
Grassland Flying Pokémon
1 Pidgeot & Pidgey/Saraptor & Starly/Unfezant & Pidove. Attack or Speed. 2 Fearow & Spearow/Swellow & Taillow/Dodrio & Doduo. Attack or Speed. 3 Noctowl & Hoothoot. Hitpoitns of Special Defence. 4 Noivern & Noibat. Special Attack or Speed. 5 Talonflame or Fletchling. Speed or Attack. 6 Braviary or Rufflet. Hitpoints or Attack. ! 7373 !
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Desert Biome
d6
In deserts, Pokémon sanctuaries are hidden in caves obscured by sand dunes, or inside of the rock walls of canyons. Treasure caches are typically found half buried in sand, left temporarily exposed by the wind. Desert Pokmeon Encounters d6 1&2 3&4 5&6
Regular Ground Poison Rare
d6
d6 1&2 3&4 5&6
Rare Fire Flying Normal
Desert Ground Pokémon
1 Sandslash & Sandshrew/Donphan & Phanpy/Hippowdon & Hippopotas. Attack or Defence. 2 Dugtrio & Diglett/Excadrill & Drillbur. Speed or Attack. 3 Marowak & Cubone/Claydol & Baltoy. Defence/Special Defence. 4 Stunfisk. Hitpoints of Special Defence. (in an oasis) 5 Rhydon & Rhyhorn/Golurk & Golet/Krookodile/Sandile. Hitpoints or Attack. 6 Gliscor & Gligar. Defence or Speed.
Desert Environmental Hazards
Base Encounter
d6
Augment
1 There is a twenty metre canyon between you and where you must go to 1 There is a sandstorm durring your encounter. -2 to training and special precede. There is no bridge to cross it, and scant foliage on either side. training checks. 2 Standing before you is a dune the size of a mountain. It would take an 2 Nearby there is a large cactus plaint with fruit. It is potentially extra day to hike around it, and climbing up it without slipping is poisonous. exceedingly difficult 3 As your party steps into a clearing they find that their legs are trapped by 3 There is a thunderstorm while your encounter is happening. Everyone quicksand rolls 2d6. On a 12, they are struck by lightning and faint. 4 No encounter.
4 There is an extreme heatwave during the encounter. -2 to aptitude checks.
5 A sand dune is being swept towards you incredibly quickly.
5 There is a Pokémon injured nearby that one might find in a desert Pokémon sanctuary.
6 Your party sees a mirage of an oasis one kilometre away.
6 There are many small cactuses in the area where the encounter is happening.
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d6
Desert Poison Pokémon
d6
Desert Normal Pokémon
1 Furret & Sentret/Linoone & Zigzagoon/Wathog & Patrat. Speed or Hitpoints. 2 Nidoking & Nidoran/Nidoqueen & Nidoran. Attack or Special Attack. 2 Lopunny & Buneary/Cinccino & Minccino. Speed and Attack. 3 Muk & Grimer/Garbodor & Trubbish/Swalot & Gulpin. Hitpoints or
3 Snorelax & Munchlax. Special Defence or Hitpoints. Special Defence. 1 Arbok & Ekans/Cacturne & Cacnea Attack or Speed.
4 Weezing & Koffing. Defence or Attack.
4 Zangoose/Stoutland & Lillipup. Attack or Defence.
5 Crobat & Zubat/Toxicroak & Croagunk. Speed & Attack.
5 Persian & Meowth/Skitty & Delcatty. Speed or Special Attack.
6 Drapion & Skorupi. Defence or Speed.
6 Bouffalant/Tauros. Attack or Defence.
d6
Desert Flying Pokémon
1 Pidgeot & Pidgey/Saraptor & Starly/Unfezant & Pidove. Attack or Speed. 2 Fearow & Spearow/Swellow & Taillow/Dodrio & Doduo. Attack or Speed. 3 Noctowl & Hoothoot. Hitpoitns of Special Defence. 4 Noivern & Noibat. Special Attack or Speed. 5 Talonflame or Fletchling. Speed or Attack. 6 Braviary or Rufflet. Hitpoints or Attack. d6
Desert Fire Pokémon
1 Ninetales & Vulpix/Flareon & Eevee. Speed or Special Defence. 2 Arcanine & Growlithe/ Pyroar & Litleo. Special Attack or Attack. 3 Rapidash & Ponyta. Speed or Attack. 4 Magmortar & Magby. Special attack or special defence. 5 Mancargo & Slugma/Camerupt & Numel. Special attack or Defence. 6 Simisear & Pansear/Darmanitan & Darumaka. Speed or Hitpoints.
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MOUNTAIN Biome In mountains, Pokémon sanctuaries are hidden in small inlets, into the mountain, on plateaus, or valleys concealed under trees. Treasure caches are generally hidden between boulders or on the edge of a tree growing out of the side of a cliff.
d6
Mountain Ground Pokémon
1 Sandslash & Sandshrew/Donphan & Phanpy/Hippowdon & Hippopotas. Attack or Defence. 2 Dugtrio & Diglett/Excadrill & Drillbur. Speed or Attack. 3 Marowak & Cubone/Claydol & Baltoy. Defence/Special Defence.
Mountain Pokmeon Encounters d6 1&2 3&4 5&6
Regular Rock Ground Rare
d6 1&2 3&4 5&6
4 Stunfisk. Hitpoints of Special Defence. (in an oasis) Rare
Dragon Fighting Fire
5 Rhydon & Rhyhorn/Golurk & Golet/Krookodile/Sandile. Hitpoints or Attack. 6 Gliscor & Gligar. Defence or Speed.
Desert Environmental Hazards d6
Base Encounter
d6
Augment
1 As you are walking along a mountain path there is a rockslide.
1 It is incredibly windy. Succeed on a human aptitude check with difficulty of 8, or fall off of the mountain.
2 The path you are walking on starts to crumble as you walk on it.
2 There is a Pokémon injured nearby that one might find in a mountain Pokémon sanctuary.
3 In order to proceed in the direction you want to move, you will have to 3 Nearby to where the encounter is happening the players can see a shack on scale a 40m high cliff. a mountain peak containing a hermit knowledgeable about the terrain. 4 There is a giant boulder blocking the entrance to the tunnel you intend 4 There is a thunderstorm while your encounter is happening. Everyone ot pass through. rolls 2d6. On a 12, they are struck by lightning and faint. 5 As you are walking through a mountain tunnel, it starts to collapse.
5 In the distance you can see a number of beautiful mountain peaks.
6 No encounter.
6 The area of the mountain you are on is covered in small blue crystals.
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d6
Mountain Dragon Pokémon
d6
Mountain Fighting Pokémon
1 Dragonite & Dratini. Attack or Hitpoints.
1 Primape & Mankey/Mienshao & Meinfoo. Attack or Speed.
2 Altaria & Swablu. Special Defence or Defence.
2 Machamp & Machop/Conkeldurr & Timburr. Attack or Defence.
3 Salamence & Bagon. Attack or Special Attack.
3 Hariyama & Makuhita/Pangoro & Pancham. Hitpoints or Attack.
4 Haxorus & Axew. Attack or Speed.
4 Medicham & Meditite. Speed or Defence.
5 Goodra & Goomy. Special Defence or Special Attack.
5 Lucario & Riolu. Special Attack or Attack.
6 Garchomp & Gible. Hitpoints or Speed.
6 Hawlucha. Attack or Speed. d6
Mountain Rock Pokémon
1 Gigalith & Roggenrola. Attack or Defence 2 Probopass & Nosepass. Defence or Special Defence. 3 Tyranitar & Larvitar. Attack or Defence. 4 Golem & Geodude. Attack or Defence. 5 Carbink. Defence or Special Defence. 6 Onix. Defence or Special Defence. d6
Mountain Fire Pokémon
1 Ninetales & Vulpix/Flareon & Eevee. Speed or Special Defence. 2 Arcanine & Growlithe/ Pyroar & Litleo. Special Attack or Attack. 3 Rapidash & Ponyta. Speed or Attack. 4 Magmortar & Magby. Special attack or special defence. 5 Mancargo & Slugma/Camerupt & Numel. Special attack or Defence. 6 Simisear & Pansear/Darmanitan & Darumaka. Speed or Hitpoints.
! 7777 !
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Cave Biome In caves, Pokémon sanctuaries are often in secret chambers, the tunnels into which are obscured by small rocks, or small shrubs. Treasure caches can be found buried, or hanging from the ceiling on some rock that is shaped in an unusual way.
Cave Encounters d6 d6
Regular
1&2 Rock 3&4 Dark 5&6 Rare d6 Rare 1&2 Steel 3&4 Water 5&6 Poison
Cave Rock Pokémon
1 Gigalith & Roggenrola. Attack or Defence 2 Probopass & Nosepass. Defence or Special Defence. 3 Tyranitar & Larvitar. Attack or Defence. 4 Golem & Geodude. Attack or Defence. 5 Carbink. Defence or Special Defence. 6 Onix. Defence or Special Defence.
Cave Environmental Hazards d6
Base Encounter
d6
Augment
1 The section of the cave you are in has started to collapse around you.
1 There is a Pokémon injured nearby that one might find in a cave Pokémon sanctuary.
2 From this point onward in the cave, there is no lighting.
2 This section of the cave is made of grey slate rock which is hot to the touch.
3 The tunnel you wish to move through is completely blocked by fallen 3 This section of the cave is full of little blue lights that move further away rocks. They look like they could be safely removed. as your party moves towards them. 4 Your party is at risk of slipping down a steep slope, and being unable to 4 This section of the cave is very iron rich, and smells strongly of it. go back without some kind of special climbing check. 5 While you are moving through a section of the cave with a big vaulted 5 The section of the cave where the encounter s happening is full of ceiling, a massive stalagmite begins to fall directly on top of your party. glowing mushrooms. 6 A section of the cave you need to move through is completely flooded.
! 7878 !
6 The section where the encounter is happening is pitch black.
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d6
Cave Dark Pokémon
1 Mightyena & Poochyena. Attack or Speed. 2 Mandibuz & Vullaby. Hitpoitns or Attack. 3 Houndoom & Houndour. Special Attack or Speed. 4 Weavile & Sneasel/Scrafty & Scraggy. Attack or Speed. 5 Malamar & Inkay. Attack or Defence. 6 Bisharp & Pawniard. Attack or Defence. d6
Cave Steel Pokémon
d6
Cave Water Pokémon
1 Kingler & Krabby/Clawitzer & Clauncher/Crawdaunt & Corphish. Attack or Special Attack. 2 Vaporeon & Eevee/Relicanth. Hitpoints or Defence. 3 Starmie & Staryu/Dewgong and Seel. Special Attack & Special Defence. 4 Poliwrath & Poliwag/Seismitoad & Tympole. Hitpoints or Attack. 5 Slowbro & Slowpoke/Cloyster & Shellder. Defence or Special Defence. 6 Quagsire & Wooper/Wiscash & Barboach/Gastrodon & Shellos. Hitpoints or Special Dfence.
1 Klinklang & Klink. Attack or Defence. 2 Metagross & Beldum. Attack or Defence. 3 Aggron & Aron. Attack or Defence. 4 Bronzong & Bronzor. Defence or Special Defence. 5 Aegislash & Honedge. Defence or Special Defence. 6 Mawile. Attack or Defence. d6
Cave Poison Pokémon
1 Dragalge & Skrelp. Special Defence & Special Attack. 2 Nidoking & Nidoran/Nidoqueen & Nidoran. Attack or Special Attack. 3 Muk & Grimer/Swalot & Gulpin. Hitpoints or Special Defence. 4 Weezing & Koffing. Defence or Attack. 5 Crobat & Zubat/Toxicroak & Croagunk. Speed & Attack. 6 Drapion & Skorupi. Defence or Speed.
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Frozen Encounters d6
Frozen Biome
d6
In frozen terrain, Pokémon sanctuaries and treasure caches are often found concealed under large dunes of snow, in secret pockets. This biome is often combined with others (like grassland or forest), who will have more appropriate places for sanctuaries and treasure caches.
Regular
1&2 Ice 3&4 Psychic 5&6 Rare d6 Rare 1&2 Electric 3&4 Fairy 5&6 Ghost
Frozen Terrain Ice Pokémon
1 Glalie & Snorunt. Attack or Special Attack. 2 Vanilluxe & Vanillite. Special Attack or Special Defence. 3 Beartic & Cubchoo/Mamoswine & Swinub. 4 Walrein & Spheal. Hitpoints or Special Attack. 5 Avalugg & Bergmite. Defence or Attack. 6 Jynx & Smoochum/Glaceon & Eevee. Special Attack or Speed.
Frozen Terrain Environmental Hazards d6
Base Encounter
d6
Augment
1 Unknowingly your party has walked onto a frozen lake. The ice starts to 1 There is a Pokémon injured nearby that one might find in a frozen crack beneath you. terrain Pokémon sanctuary. 2 In order to proceed, you must walk uphill on a frozen surface.
2 Nearby there is a wall of solid ice. Inside you can see shrubs and grasses.
3 There are icicles crashing down above you as you move through a tunnel 3 Nearby you can see several frozen waves on the bank of a lake or the ocean, they are 5m tall. 4 You step onto a snow bank and fall ten meters into it in an air pocket
4 It is extremely cold. If you don’t find a source of heat, everyone in the party will faint.
5 The ice cracks on a lake you are tracking across, and your party is soon 5 While the encounter is happening, there is a blizzard. You can’t see trapped on an ice floe. more than 10m in front of you. -2 to human capacity checks. 6 As you are walking along a steep slope, an avalanche hits your party.
! 8080 !
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Frozen Terrain Ghost Pokémon
d6
Frozen Terrain Psychic Pokémon
1 Mismagius & Misdreavus. Special Defence or Speed.
1 Alakazam & Abra/Reuniclus & Solosis. Special Attack or Speed.
2 Banette & Shuppet. Attack or Special Attack.
2 Hypno & Drowzee/Grumpig & Spoink. Special defence or Hitpoints.
3 Dusknoir & Duskull/Confagrigus & Yamask. Defence or Special Defence.
3 Musharna & Munna. Hitpoints or Special Attack.
4 Trevenant & Phantump/Gourgeist & Pumpkaboo. Hitpoints or Attack.
4 Beheeyum & Elgyem. Special Attack or Special Defence.
5 Gengar & Gastly/Chandelure & Litwick. Special Attack or Speed.
5 Mr. Mime & Mime Jr. Special Defence or Special Attack.
6 Drifblim & Drifloon. Hitpoints or Special Attack.
6 Gardevoir & Ralts/Gallade & Ralts. Special Defence. d6
Frozen Terrain Fairy Pokémon
1 Clefable & Cleffa/Sylveon & Eevee. Special Defence or Special Attack. 2 Togekiss & Togepi. Special Attack or Special Defence. 3 Granbull & Snubbull. Attack or Hitpoints. 4 Florges & Flabébé. Special Attack or Special Defence. 5 Aromatisse & Spritzee, Hitpoints or Special Attack. 6 Slurpuff & Swirlix. Defence or Special Attack. d6
Frozen Terrain Electric Pokémon
1 Raichu & Pikachu/Jolteon & Eevee. Special Attack or Speed. 2 Electrode & Voltorb. Speed or Hitpoints. 3 Electivire & Elekid. Attack & Speed. 4 Magnezone & Magnemite. Special Attack or Defence. 5 Heliolisk & Heleoptile. Special attack or Speed. 6 Luxray & Shinx. Attack or Special Attack.
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Molten Biome
Molten Encounters d6
In the molten terrain biome, Pokémon sanctuaries and treasure caches can be found in crater areas surrounded by high walls, small caves formed by molten rock, or Burroughs in the ground. Because this biome is usually combined with others (like cave or mountain) it will usually be more appropriate to put molten biome treasures and Pokémon into their sanctuary and treasure locations.
d6
Regular
1&2 Fire 3&4 Ground 5&6 Rare d6 Rare 1&2 Steel 3&4 Psychic 5&6 Rock
Molten Terain Fire Pokémon
1 Ninetales & Vulpix/Flareon & Eevee. Speed or Special Defence. 2 Arcanine & Growlithe/ Pyroar & Litleo. Special Attack or Attack. 3 Rapidash & Ponyta. Speed or Attack. 4 Magmortar & Magby. Special attack or special defence. 5 Mancargo & Slugma/Camerupt & Numel. Special attack or Defence. 6 Simisear & Pansear/Darmanitan & Darumaka. Speed or Hitpoints.
Molten Terrain Environmental Hazards d6
Base Encounter
d6
Augment
1 In order to proceed, your party must cross a crater foll of lava, that 1 There is a Pokémon injured nearby that one might find in a molten extends two km in either direction of you, and is 10m thick. terrain Pokémon sanctuary. 2 Suddenly in the area you are walking, pits in the ground begin to belch 2 Where you are there is a thick ash cloud. You can’t see more than 15m fire and hot ash, making it hard to see and breath. in any direction. 3 Suddenly in the area you are walking, geysers in the ground begin to 3 Nearby there is rough volcanic rock that looks to be in the shape of the belch steam, making it hard to see and breath. head of a legendary Pokémon. 4 Slightly west of where you are walking, lava begins quickly bubbling up 4 Nearby there is rough volcanic rock that looks like a giant claw reaching from the ground, and it is flowing towards you very quickly. out of the earth. 5 There are large and hot boulders raining form the sky for five minutes 5 Toxic fumes from the ground are being blown around by powerful wind which you must avoid being hit by. 6 There is a great earthquake in the area you are walking, and multiple 6 There is an extreme heatwave during the encounter. -2 to aptitude fissures open up in the ground and start oozing lava into the area where checks. you are walking. ! 8282 !
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Molten Terrain Rock Pokémon
1 Gigalith & Roggenrola. Attack or Defence 2 Probopass & Nosepass. Defence or Special Defence. 3 Tyranitar & Larvitar. Attack or Defence. 4 Golem & Geodude. Attack or Defence. 5 Carbink. Defence or Special Defence. 6 Onix. Defence or Special Defence. d6
Molten Terrain Steel Pokémon
d6
Molten Terrain Ground Pokémon
1 Sandslash & Sandshrew/Donphan & Phanpy/Hippowdon & Hippopotas. Attack or Defence. 2 Dugtrio & Diglett. Speed or Attack. 3 Marowak & Cubone/Claydol & Baltoy. Defence/Special Defence. 4 Excadrill & Drillbur. Speed or Attack. 5 Rhydon & Rhyhorn/Golurk & Golet/Krookodile/Sandile. Hitpoints or Attack. 6 Gliscor & Gligar. Defence or Speed.
1 Klinklang & Klink. Attack or Defence. 2 Metagross & Beldum. Attack or Defence. 3 Aggron & Aron. Attack or Defence. 4 Bronzong & Bronzor. Defence or Special Defence. 5 Aegislash & Honedge. Defence or Special Defence. 6 Mawile. Attack or Defence. d6
Molten Terrain Psychic Pokémon
1 Alakazam & Abra/Reuniclus & Solosis. Special Attack or Speed. 2 Hypno & Drowzee/Grumpig & Spoink. Special defence or Hitpoints. 3 Gothitelle & Gothita. Special Defence or Defence. 4 Meowstic & Espur/Espeon & Eevee. Hitpoints or Speed. 5 Xatu & Natu/Swoobat & Woobat. Special Attack or Speed. 6 Gardevoir & Ralts/Gallade & Ralts. Special Defence.
! 8383 !
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Freshwater Biome In freshwater biomes, Pokémon sanctuaries are found in small underwater caves, in large pools to the sides of rivers, or on small islands in the middle of a large lake. Treasure caches can be found in shallow areas of the water, or hidden in a shrub along a river bank. Freshwater Pokmeon Encounters d6 1&2 3&4 5&6
Regular Water Grass Rare
d6
d6 1&2 3&4 5&6
Base Encounter
Freshwater Water Pokémon
1 Golduck & Psyduck/Pelipper & Wingull/Swanna & Ducklett. Special Attack or Speed. 2 Vaporeon & Eevee/Relicanth. Hitpoints or Defence. 3 Floatzel & Buizel/Simipour & Panpour/Azumarill & Azuril. Speed or Attack. 4 Poliwrath & Poliwag/Seismitoad & Tympole. Hitpoints or Attack. 5 Slowbro & SlowPoké/Cloyster & Shellder. Defence or Special Defence.
Rare Normal Psychic Fighting
d6
6 Quagsire & Wooper/Wiscash & Barboach/Gastrodon & Shellos. Hitpoints or Special Dfence.
Freshwater Environmental Hazards d6
Augment
1 No encounter.
1 There is a Pokémon injured nearby that one might find in a freshwater Pokémon sanctuary. 2 In order to proceed, you must climb up a large waterfall, or the sheer cli 2 The terrain is very misty. After your encounter, make a difficulty 10 aptitude next to it. check to keep heading in the right direction. On failure, increase the length of your journey by 1 day through this freshwater terrain. 3 You find yourself traveling along river rapids, where you must steer your 3 There is a thunderstorm while your encounter is happening. Everyone rolls watercraft deftly to avoid collision. 2d6. On a 12, they are struck by lightning and faint. 4 As you are crossing a small bridge, it starts to collapse, which will send 4 After your encouner, your party finds they are completely soaked from you falling 20m into the water. head to toe. This may ruin some items they are carrying. 5 As you are moving through a swampy area, there is a minor earthquake, 5 There is a naturally occurring hotspring near to your encounter. and many trees start collapsing all around you. 6 As you arne your party are moving through a swamp, your legs become 6 There is a beautiful natural fountain in the water near you. caught, as though submerged in quicksand. ! 8484 !
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d6
Freshwater Normal Pokémon
d6
1 Furret & Sentret/Linoone & Zigzagoon/Wathog & Patrat. Speed or 1
Hitpoints. 2 2 Biebarel & Bidoof/Purugly & Glameow. Attack or Hitpoints. 3 3 Snorelax & Munchlax/Slaking & Slakoth. Special Defence or Hitpoints. 4 4 Ursaring & Teddiursa/Zangoose/Stoutland & Lillipup. Attack or Defence. 5 5 Stantler/Exploud & Whispmur/Wigglytuff & Igglybuff. Special Attack or 6 Hitpoints. 6 Persian & Meowth/Skitty & Delcatty. Speed or Special Attack. d6
Freshwater Fighting Pokémon Primape & Mankey/Mienshao & Meinfoo. Attack or Speed. Machamp & Machop/Conkeldurr & Timburr. Attack or Defence. Hariyama & Makuhita/Pangoro & Pancham. Hitpoints or Attack. Medicham & Meditite. Speed or Defence. Lucario & Riolu. Special Attack or Attack. Hawlucha. Attack or Speed. Freshwater Grass Pokémon
1 Tangrowth & Tangela/Exeggutor & Exeggcute/Foongus & Amoongus. Defence or Special Attack. 2 Leafeon & Eevee/Roserade & Budew. Special attack or Speed. 3 Jumpleff & Hoppip & Whimsicott & Cottonee. Speed or Defence. 4 Vileploom & Oddish/Bellossom & Oddish. Special Attack or Special Defence. 5 Victreebel & Bellsprout. Attack or Special Attack 6 Ferrothorn & Ferroseed. Defence or Special Defence. d6
Freshwater Terrain Psychic Pokémon
1 Mr. Mime & Mime Jr. Special Defence or Special Attack. 2 Musharna & Munna. Hitpoints or Special Attack. 3 Gothitelle & Gothita. Special Defence or Defence. 4 Meowstic & Espur/Espeon & Eevee. Hitpoints or Speed. 5 Xatu & Natu/Swoobat & Woobat. Special Attack or Speed. 6 Gardevoir & Ralts/Gallade & Ralts. Special Defence. ! 8585 !
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Sea Biome
Sea Encounters
d6 Regular The sea biome is unusual because it is not normally combined with any biomes (few combinations make sense) 1&2 Water 1 and in order to travel along it, you must use the Surf/Dive/ 3&4 Water 2 Whirlpool/Waterfall field move. 5&6 Rare Rare In the sea biome, Pokémon sanctuaries and treasure caches d6
d6
Sea Water 1 Pokémon
1 Seaking & Goldeen/Tentacruel & Tentacool/Jellicent & Frillish. Special Defence or Hitpoints. 2 Wailord & Wailmer/Mantine & Mantyke. Special Defence or Hitpoints. 3 Milotic & Feebas/Gyarados & Magikarp. Attack or Special Attack.
4 Lumineon & Finneon/Lanturn & Chinchou. Speed or Special Defence. 1&2 Ghost can be found in atolls or small islands in the middle of the 5 Sharpedo & Carvanha/Kingdra & Horsea. Attack or Special Attack. ocean. Treasure caches could be found on islands with a 3&4 Flying 6 Relicanth/Stunfisk. Hitpoints or Defence. single palm tree, buried in the sand. Sanctuaries can be 5&6 Dragon found in coral reefs close to the surface of the water. Sea Environmental Hazards d6
Base Encounter
d6
Augment
1 The area where you are sailing is suddenly extremely wavy. Without 1 There is a Pokémon injured nearby that one might find in a sea manipulating the water, you may capsize. Pokémon sanctuary. 2 Where you are sailing, there is suddenly a massive whirlpool that will 2 The terrain is very misty. After your encounter, make a difficulty 10 suck you under water without some intervention. aptitude check to keep heading in the right direction. On failure, increase the length of your journey by 1 day through this freshwater terrain. 3 Where you are sailing there is suddenly a massive tsunami.
3 There is a thunderstorm while your encounter is happening. Everyone rolls 2d6. On a 12, they are struck by lightning and faint.
4 Your watercraft runs aground on a barren coral reef.
4 No augment.
5 No encounter.
5 No augment.
6 No Encounter.
6 No augment.
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Sea Water 2 Pokémon
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Sea Ghost Pokémon
1 Pelipper & Wingull/Swanna & Ducklett. Special Attack or Speed.
1 Mismagius & Misdreavus. Special Defence or Speed.
2 Relicanth/Stunfisk. Hitpoints or Defence.
2 Banette & Shuppet. Attack or Special Attack.
3 Kingler & Krabby/Clawitzer & Clauncher/Crawdaunt & Corphish. Attack or Special Attack. 4 Octillery & Remoraid/Starmie & Staryu/Dewgong and Seel. Special Attack & Special Defence.
5 Slowbro & Slowpoke/Cloyster & Shellder. Defence or Special Defence. 6 Milotic & Feebas/Gyarados & Magikarp. Attack or Special Attack.
3 Dusknoir & Duskull/Confagrigus & Yamask. Defence or Special Defence. 4 Trevenant & Phantump/Gourgeist & Pumpkaboo. Hitpoints or Attack. 5 Gengar & Gastly/Chandelure & Litwick. Special Attack or Speed. 6 Drifblim & Drifloon. Hitpoints or Special Attack. d6
Sea Flying Pokémon
1 Pidgeot & Pidgey/Saraptor & Starly/Unfezant & Pidove. Attack or Speed. 2 Fearow & Spearow/Swellow & Taillow/Dodrio & Doduo. Attack or Speed. 3 Noctowl & Hoothoot. Hitpoitns of Special Defence. 4 Noivern & Noibat. Special Attack or Speed. 5 Talonflame or Fletchling. Speed or Attack. 6 Braviary or Rufflet. Hitpoints or Attack. d6
Sea Dragon Pokémon
1 Dragonite & Dratini. Attack or Hitpoints. 2 Altaria & Swablu. Special Defence or Defence. 3 Salamence & Bagon. Attack or Special Attack. 4 Haxorus & Axew. Attack or Speed. 5 Goodra & Goomy. Special Defence or Special Attack. 6 Dragalge & Skrelp. Defence or Special Attack.
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Battle Generation
Wild encounters work much the same way. A group of generally no more than six Pokémon (generally one highly evolved Pokémon and several wards/underlings/children from the same evolutionary line) will attack the player, who will need to use their Pokémon to defend themselves. They will operate as though controlled by a trainer, with only one attacking at a time. If more than one trainer is fighting the group of Pokémon, they will proceed as though they were engaged in a double/triple/etcetera battle, with the same number of active Pokémon as the players are using. When all six Pokémon are defeated, each player may attempt to capture one of the Pokémon (page 6), at which point all of the rest flee.
This section is designed for use by Game Masters to quickly create encounters with wild Pokémon, and Pokémon trainers. This is intended to be read after the section on the game’s combat mechanics (page 7) and will be incredibly confusing without a familiarity with them.
Battle Encounters With Pokemon There are two sorts of confrontations that can be had with Pokémon: Trainer battles, and Wild encounters. In a trainer battle, one trainer challenges another to a Pokémon battle, each choose up to six Pokémon to battle with, and proceed with one on the field at a time as detailed in the combat section. Two or three trainers may challenge two or three players simultaneously to a Pokémon battle in a double/triple battle. These battles proceed as normal, with each trainer having one active Pokémon at a time. ! 8888 !
In a Pokémon sanctuary (page 67) or for some other story related reason, you may encounter a Pokémon by itself. If a player spots a Pokémon unaccompanied, it can challenge it to a battle, which it will generally accept. If there is more than one active Pokémon released to fight the wild Pokémon, it will instantly flee.
Encounter Building The Game Master has to make a few decisions about the Pokémon that the players are fighting: How many Pokémon there are, what the stats of the Pokémon are, and what their moves are. Choosing Stats Remember that all Pokémon together in a party (wild Pokémon and trainer owned Pokémon) have the same stats. With a typical encounter at the 1st and 2nd level, Pokémon owned by NPC trainers and wild Pokémon
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encountered should have 4 in every stat, and one bonus stat point for the Game Master to assign. At the third level, 5 in every stat, and one bonus stat point to assign. At the sixth level, 6 in every stat, and one bonus stat point to assign. At the tenth level, 7 in every stat, and one bonus stat point to assign. With unusually difficult foes, the Game Master should assign more bonus stats. A boss encounter might have 4 bonus stats, with 2 of them assigned to the boss’s most important stat, and two assigned to other ancillary stats. Each of the Pokémon in the encounter also has a high stat, which the Game Master decides. The section on biome generation makes recommendations for the high stats of specific Pokémon (page 66) and with trainer owned Pokémon, the game master can either look up their high stat or guess. Choosing the number of Pokémon Each Pokémon team should have one leader Pokémon (equivalent to a player’s starter Pokémon), and several supporting Pokémon. A group of wild Pokémon will generally be broken up into multiple “teams” (each with its own leader Pokémon) if they are expected to fight multiple players at once. Generally speaking, trainers that are meant to be a challenge in their own right should have the same number of Pokémon as the players, or in the first few levels, more. In wild encounters, the number of supporter Pokémon to the leader Pokémon can be dealt with more heuristically, but should be around the same in number as the player’s Pokémon as well.
attacks. These attacks don’t have names, and aren’t chosen from any other part of the book, but are made up by the Game Master. Each attack is either physical or special, and has a type. It may also have an effect, but usually won’t. Here are the moves that a team of wild Pokémon knows: 1 Same-Type Move: A physical or special special attack that matches one of the types of the leader Pokémon. It has no additional effect. 1 Wild Coverage Move: A physical or special attack from a type that can be found in the same biome as this Pokémon. (it could match the type of the leader or not) No additional effect.
Choosing Wild Pokémon Moves
1 Normal Attack: A normal type attack, that is physical or special. (No effect)
A team of Pokémon all know the same attacks, and in a wild encounter (barring exceptional circumstances) all of the teams will know the same
0-3 Effect Moves: A physical or special move that has one of the types of the leader Pokémon. It has an effect off of the effect table. (page 91)
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The number of effect moves a team has depends on how difficult the Game Master wants the encounter to be. It could be zero for especially easy encounters, or three for especially hard ones. Note that while effects can be randomly generated off of the effect table, ideally the Game Master should choose one appropriate to the Pokémon. Example Wild Encounter While walking through the wild, the players encounter a colony of Bellossom. The stats of these Pokémon are 6 special defence, 6 special attack, 5 attack, 5 defence, 4hp, and 4 speed. There are three players, and three Pokémon groups, each with one Bellossom and two Oddish. In these groups the Bellosom have a Special attack high stat, and 4hp as per their stats, and the Oddish have a special defence high stat, and 3hp (because they are not leader Pokémon). They know these moves: 1 grass type special attack, 1 poison type physical attack, and 1 attack which puts the opponent to sleep when it hits and deals no damage. Choosing Trainer Pokémon Moves Unlike with wild Pokémon, the Pokémon possessed by a trainer will usually be of different types, and so the attacks of a trainer’s Pokémon will be individual to that Pokémon. Each of their Pokémon gets 1 Same-Type Move: A physical or special special attack that matches one of the types of this Pokémon. 1 Trainer Coverage Move: A physical or special attack from any type that is not super effective against this Pokémon.
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0-3 Trainer Effect moves: A physical or special move that is the same type as this Pokémon. It has an effect off of the effect table. The number of effect moves a Pokémon should have will depend on the difficulty of its trainer and how important it is to its team, and is determined by the Game Master
Describing Attacks When describing attacks for wild Pokémon, the Game Master needs merely to describe what the Pokémon are doing in the world. For trainers, the Game Master should use their knowledge of Pokémon and announce that the Pokémon is using an appropriately corresponding move. For example, if a Pokémon is using a special water attack, with the effect inaccurate attack from the effect table, the Game Master should describe that as Hydro Pump. If you can’t think of a name for a move, make up an appropriate sounding one. For example, a special dark type attack with the charge attack effect might be called dark hyper beam or ultimate dark pulse or something like that.
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Effect Table
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1
Boost: You gain a high stat of your choice. You choose which, and every time this move is used for the rest of the battle it grants the same high stat.
Building attack: -1 Damage. +1 damage for each round prior to this in a row where this Pokémon used building attack.
2
Debuff: No damage. Automatic hit. The targeted Pokémon gains two disadvantages on a roll of your choice. You choose which, and every time this move is used for the rest of the battle it affects the same roll.
Status Attack: No damage. On hit, the target Pokémon is either confused, poisoned, paralyzed, burned, or asleep. You choose which. Every time this move is used for the rest of the battle, it causes the same status on hit.
3
Series: -1 damage. Attack twice Inaccurate attack: +1 damage. this turn, using series both -1 to rolls to hit. times.
4
Accurate Attack: -1 damage. +3 Reckless attack: +1 damage. to hit. On miss, 1 damage to self.
5
Charge attack: Attack twice this round using charge attack both times. Next round this Pokémon cannot act.
6
Fast Attack: Priority. -1 to rolls to Final Attack: -2 to hit rolls. On hit. hit, does as much damage as opposing Pokémon has HP.
Wild attack: When you use this attack, act as though you had targeted every active Pokémon in the battle excluding your active Pokémon.
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