Pokémon Tabletop Adventures

Pokemon Tabletop Adventures is a homebrew tabletop game. It is currently in progress.

The game is played in a world where many fantastic animals are able to be energized and stored nicely in a machine called a Poké Ball. These animals are called "pocket monsters," or Pokemon for short, and they are carried as tools, friends and partners by Pokemon Trainers. Trainers have various skills and abilities each defined by a Trainer's goal. There are Ace Trainers, who focus all of their energy into making their pokemon the best fighters they can. Breeders, who raise pokemon as if they are their own children and groom them up to be powerful. The Researcher gathers information and serves as a party's go-to guy when they confront a creature they've never met. Rangers are nature guards who dedicate their life to the protection of a wild creature's habitat while employing wilds in their feats. A Capture Specialist is a techie Trainer who can tweak equipment, including the Poké Ball to expand their collection. The Coordinator employs their pokemon in Contests instead of battle as she shows off their beauty. Finally, the Psychic and Martial Artist get their hands dirty and fight the beasts with their own supernatural powers.

A Trainer may explore the world and battle at Gyms to gather Badges which allow them entrance to the Pokemon League Championships. They may compete in Contests to enter Grand Festivals. Maybe they'll uncover a secret plot to destroy the world and try to stop those who would use Pokemon for evil. They may be breeding the most powerful Pokemon as their goal. No matter the destination, Pokemon will be valuable allies and tools in your journeys.

Player's Handbook

This will contain all the inofrmation for the Player and their Trainer. It will also contain the list of Pokemon Moves and Abilities.

Classes

When a trainer gains a level they might meet the prerequistes to gain a Trainer Class. In place of gaining a Feature that Level, they may instead take a Class. Trainers can go into one to three of the following eight Classes once they meet the prerequistes: Ace Trainer, Breeder, Capture Specialist, Coordinator, Martial Artist, Psychic, Ranger, or Researcher.

From there, once they gain the nessecary prerequistes, they may go into one or two Advanced Classes.

Trainer's all start with the title: Pokemon Trainer. A Pokemon Trainer can take up to three Trainer Classes and/or Advanced Classes. Since Advanced Classes always have a prerequiste of a Trainer Class, a Pokemon Trainer's Feature Options will look like one of the following examples: Three Trainer Classes, never pursuing a speciality in any of the three Trainer Classes. Two Trainer Classes and one Advanced Class, choosing to find an expertise in an area of one of the Trainer Classes chosen. One Trainer Class and two Advanced Classes, choosing to become adept at the class they choose by mastering two aspects of the Trainer Class.

The following is a list of the Advanced Classes and which Trainer Class they derive from.

Ace Trainer: Chaser, Enduring Soul, Frontier Battler, Gym Battler, Stat Ace, Tag Battler, Type Ace

Breeder: Chef, Evolver, Groomer, Hatcher, Medic, Pusher, Trader

Capture Specialist: Apricorn Smith, Artificer, Collector, Engineer, Maniac, Poké Ball Designer

Coordinator: Beauty Modeler, Coolness Portrayer, Cute Idol, Fashion Designer, Investor, Smartness Teacher, Toughness Contester

Martial Artist: Aura User, Black Belt, Juggler, Message Therapist, Ninja, Weapons Master

Psychic: Air Adept, Clairsentient, Earth Shaker, Empath, Fire Breather, Hex Maniac, Influential, Rain Maker

Ranger: Captain, Coach, Detective, Navigator, Rider, Special Operations Member

Researcher: Cryptozoologist, Petrologist, Photographer, Professor, Scientist, Watcher

Moves

The player's handbook will detail each Move that Pokemon can use, as well as all Abilities and rules regarding these two lists.

While Moves and Abilities are usually used for Pokemon, there are a few Classes who can use Moves as their own and can manipulate a Pokemon's Moves and/or Abilities.

Player's Bestiary

The Bestiary details each species of Pokemon.

For each Pokemon's entry, a Pokemon's picture is accompanied by the Species Name, Vital Information, Capabilities, and a Move List.

Vital Information

The Vital Information lists a particular level of a Pokemon's species with its Type(s), Abilities, Evolutionary Line/Tree. These are virtually unchanged from the source material.

The size and weight of the Pokemon can be changed up to 10% from the average given, to add individuality of your Pokemon.

The Breeding information is also provided with each entry, and has seen some revision in a few Species.

The Biology of Pokemon as well as the variety of habitats that Species would normally be found is also located in this section of an entry.

Capabilities

Capabilities is a new addition for the purposes of Pokemon Tabletop Adventures.

Each Species of Pokemon move at different rates in various terrains. They have different capacities for jumping strength and physical strength. Some Pokemon can fly while others can breath underwater. Many Species of Pokemon can be trained for being used as a Mount. Others are too small for that but can be used for infiltration as a result of their size. The Capabilities list all keywords relating to static abilities the Pokemon has.

Examples of some Capabilities:

Overland 1-Overland 10: This is a scale, accompanied with a meters per turn speed, given to each pokemon where Overland 1 is given to Slowpoke and Overland 7 is given to Suicune.

Sinker: Pokemon with Sinker cannot swim

Firestarter: Pokemon with Firestarter can produce flames without using a Move. Some TMs, such as TM 35 Flamethrower, will give a Pokemon the Firestarter Capability as well as the Move Flamethrower.

Move List

The Move list, attached to each Pokemon's entry, has every Move a Pokemon can learn through Level Up, Breeding, Tutoring, or Technical/Hidden Machines. This is mostly unchanged from the source material.

Game Master's Rules and World Guide

The rules, while play-tested and functioning, have not been really typed out and are in rough draft. The GM book is also in rough draft.

Game Master's Bestiary

This is basically the Player's Bestiary with things the player isn't allowed to know such as Capture Rates, Locations, etc. So once the Player's Bestiary is complete, this will be as well. This might actually just be tacked onto the Game Master's Rules and World Guide.

Archived Update and Q&A Threads

Here are the archived threads where Pokemon: Tabletop Adventures are discussed, updated and questions are asked and answered. Thread descriptions are taken from the archives.

http://4chan.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/5330406/ - A returning anon promises to deliver a Pokemon Tabletop. It ends up being genuinely awesome.

http://4chan.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/5364072/ - A returning anon promises to deliver a Pokemon Tabletop. It ends up being genuinely awesome. This time asking for help with the Pokedex.

http://4chan.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/6096491/ - A returning anon promises to deliver a Pokemon Tabletop. It ends up being genuinely awesome. This time, He talks about Trainer Classes

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/6801575/ - What starts out as an anon asking for info on Starks Pokemon Tabletop quickly turns into discussion about Mystery Dungeon, The Movies, Legendary's, and Glitch pokemon. An Anon promises to deliver a splatbook for glitches and Aura users (among other things) once Stark releases the game.

http://4chan.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/6858482/ - A returning anon promises to deliver a Pokemon Tabletop. It ends up being genuinely awesome. This time, he talks more about Trainer Classes and gives several examples.

http://4chan.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/7128586/ - Discussion of the WIP Pokemon RPG.

http://4chan.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/7379393/ - Whos that? Bearing a gift of the new year? Why it is Dr. Mr. Stark and he does not disappoint.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/7829896/ - Stark comes to celebrate 5th gen's announcement and releases features for every class. What a king.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/8004564/ - Dr. Mr. Stark returns to talk about how Pokemon Tabletop Adventures works. Took him long enough.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/8538436/ - Stark talks about a new part of the game. People ask questions. Stark answers.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/8982714/ - What starts out as an anon asking if pokemon is /tg/ turns into a Pokemon Tabletop Adventures discussion... and then Dr. Mr. Stark shows up!

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/9025948/ - Pokemon and Stuff

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/9188030/ - Dr. Mr. Stark is summoned and gives us the low-down on the mysterious 9th class of Pokemon: Table Top Adventures.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/9215116/ - Another disscusion thread about P:TA. Axiom and Halfwing show up to talk about their progress, A kamen rider build is posted, and team rocket is revealed to have been the good guys all along.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/9302049/ - Some alpha campaigns are being run when suddenly Axiom and Stark show up. It's a fucking party. People hook up for some online gaming and everyone has fun. Rules and character sheets are posted as well. Good times.

http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/9494350/ - Another thread. Builds for an Average Joe with no trainer class, that enters a rage and kills everything if his pokemon dies, A ninjask trainer that can dodge any attack, A normal-type trainer that specializes in ghost types and brings them back to life, and then stark shows up to answer some confusion about the alpha, while /tg/ works on some fakemon. Also includes the birth of a Snagger and Team Grunt class, and Stark lets it slip that there will be a Players Handbook 2.

Alpha version

From a set of notes that Dr. Mr. Stark released in one of his threads:

All of the crunchy bits, all in one place. Uploaded 5/6/10. http://www.megaupload.com/?d=A632NYKO

PDF: http://www.mediafire.com/?mohzmj11mnt

.RAR including PDF and all the related Pokedex/game materials: http://www.mediafire.com/?nzznzcnj2rf

.ZIP of trainer features: http://www.mediafire.com/file/hhmwf4zub02/Trainer%20Stats.zip

.ZIP of updated pokedex: http://www.mediafire.com/file/yhrgfn2lcij/THE_POKEDEX_FINAL.doc.zip

.DOC of Capabilities http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CAWKHBTK

Many rules are nonsensical as Dr. Mr. Stark was very unclear throughout his .docs in his initial Alpha Splatbook release. These will surely be fixed.

Character Sheets

Character Sheet (.pdf, editable form): http://www.mediafire.com/?yiyntelmm3h

Pokemon Sheet (.pdf, editable form): http://www.mediafire.com/?eyqmiqjzj24

Beta version

The Beta .pdfs are due out in Summer 2010. After these are playtested by the masses, Dr. Mr. Stark would like players to say what things are over powered, under powered, unconventional, useless or anything else that doesn't work. From here, he will continue to update with newer versions of the Beta.

Omega version

Once Omega is released, Dr. Mr. Stark and his team will immediately begin incorporating fifth generation Pokemon into the Bestiary for the Bestiary's 2.0 release. His team is also already working on a ninth Class, the Mystic, that will not make it to the initial release as there has not been time to playtest it while the other classes have been heavily playtested. This will be released in an update along with new features for every existing class.