Kylesar1
This is my loudest bork
To Be an Explorer (Pokemon Mystery Dungeon)
Hello, all. Call my Kyles (my last name). I'm not gonna bother with all the fancy BBCoding.
I love Pokemon Mystery Dungeon, so let's RP it. What I was initially thinking was a dangerous mission to begin and it branching out from there. We're all part of a Guild name Green Forest, taking place in a town called Casim. Some young Pokemon are out playing on a beach and they inadvertently stumble into the Sea Temple which, if you keep up with Pokemon Lore from other universes (aka the anime), it's a temple that moves along the sea. With many teams out doing missions of their own, that leaves only the young trainees to go accomplish the mission and save their friends
From there, it branches out with potentially an overarching plot (if there is interest) and the entire RP involves things in the Pokemon Universe well beyond the bound of the Mystery Dungeon world. Think of it as a Pokemon universe crossover.........just without humans.
With that in mind, while it does remain at its core a PMD RP, it would be kinda loose with the mechanics. For example, the 4 move rule would be done away with since it doesn't make sense in anything other than for game balance.
Environments will come into play, giving Pokemon access to things and effects that aren't really in the games. For example, if you're flying in the air, cloud placement would matter. If you're below the cloud and the enemy is above it, you'll have low accuracy targeting them. Darkness lowers accuracy and if you're trying to be stealthy, making noise or flashing light would attract enemies. Things like that. There are so so many examples that I feel can make things more interesting and encourage players to think beyond "He's this type and I'm this type. I should charge/stay back."
Abilities will of course be a thing and they may potentially affect personality, along with Pokedex entires. For example, Piplup has a Defiance ability and a Prideful nature in the Pokedex. Their personality may be affected by it, leading to something like an undertone of arrogance.
There's quite a bit to it and I sought to make it as much a thing of Pokemon Nature World as possible instead of like a Pokemon GAME world. In the game world, there are set mechanics and if type alignments match, a victory or loss is almost unavoidable. PMD subverts that a lot as it is, but I want to continue that subversion.
A lot of this was fleshed out in a few 1x1 PMD RPs with a ton of input and feedback from the partners and I want to take this to the group level.
If this gains enough interest, I can launch a full RP with it, full of the cheesy platonic affection and messages of friendship Pokemon (at least the anime) is known for. If you have any questions about anything, feel free to ask either here or you can drop me a PM. If I can build a bigger world than this, I want to develop it as much as possible and there is SO MUCH that you could shed some light on.
