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Pokémon Tabletop Adventures

2019-02-20T18:08:56Z

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[[Category:Homebrew Rules]][[Category:Roleplaying]]
Pokemon Tabletop Adventures is a homebrew tabletop game.
<div style="float:right; margin:1em;">__TOC__</div>

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 natural guardians 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, Mystic 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.

Updates on Tabletop Adventures have noticeably stagnated, as the majority of the development team has moved over to a sister project, Pokemon Tabletop United, which can be found at the same webpage. It is still updated at least once a year.

==Player's Handbook==

====Classes====
When a trainer gains a level they might meet the prerequisites 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 prerequisites:
Ace Trainer, Breeder, Capture Specialist, Coordinator, Martial Artist, Psychic, Ranger, or Researcher.

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

Trainers 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 prerequisite of a Trainer Class, a Pokemon Trainer's Feature Options will look like one of the following examples:
Three Trainer Classes, never pursuing a specialty 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, Stat Ace, Strategist, Tag Battler, Type Ace, Underdog
*Breeder: Botanist, Chef, Evolver, Groomer, Hatcher, Medic, Move Tutor
*Capture Specialist: Artificer, Collector, Engineer, Juggler, Poke Ball Designer, Snagger, Trapper
*Coordinator: Beauty Modeler, Choreographer, Cool Trainer, Cute Idol, Fashion Designer, Smart Teacher, Tough Guy
*Martial Artist: Athlete, Aura User, Black Belt, Dirty Fighter, Massage Therapist, Ninja, Weapons Master
*Mystic: Body Snatcher, Conduit, Godspeaker, Guardian, Rune Master, Shaman, Touched
*Psychic: Air Adept, Clairsentient, Earth Shaker, Empath, Fire Breather, Hex Maniac, Rain Waker
*Ranger: Coach, Commander, Detective, Rider, Signer, Special Operations, Survivalist
*Researcher: Cryptozoologist, Dream Doctor, 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.

==Pokedex==

====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 breathe 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 X: X equals the meters per turn speed, given to each pokemon where Overland 1 is given to Slowpoke and Overland 20 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 Guide==

The GM Guide has many features that help the GM run the Pokemon world without making the game feel exactly like you are playing the Pokemon video game. It hasn't been updated for a few years and is mostly abandoned at this point.

==Game Resources==

=Most Recent Version=

PTA used to be updated regularly, but since it is no longer in beta is only updated to include new content when official Pokemon video games are released. This usually means it is updated about once a year.

'''
XY update: http://www.mediafire.com/download/ybse6bxmorl8767/PTAXYUpdate.zip

ORAS update: http://www.mediafire.com/download/4x11igii6hdfwdd/ORASupdate.zip

===Character Sheets===

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

Pokémon Sheet (.pdf, editable form):
http://www.mediafire.com/?x6q44vcoruk0ccu

Pokédex Seen/Owned Checklist (.pdf for print copies):
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/93722046/fivegenpokemonchecklist.pdf

Pokédex Seen/Owned Checklist (.pdf, editable form):
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/93722046/fivegenpokemoneditablechecklist.pdf

Old Pokédex Seen/Owned Checklist Sheet (.doc, Gen 1-4):
http://www.mediafire.com/?1hvazbwax31kxzr

===Pokémon: Tabletop Adventures Links===
http://pokemontabletop.wikidot.com/

http://forums.pokemontabletop.com/site/

http://s4.zetaboards.com/Pokemon_Tabletop/ (use this if the link above goes down)

====Archived Update and Q&A Threads====
All archived threads can be found here.
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=pokemon

===Pokédex .txt files===
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/93722046/plaintextpokemonbynationaldex.txt
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/93722046/plaintextpokemonalphabetized.txt

Pokémon Tabletop United

2019-02-20T18:08:25Z

2601:240:DF00:1300:E08B:2520:2AA6:AD6D:

[[File:PTU core cover.png|thumb|right]]

'''Pokémon Tabletop United''', or '''PTU''' for short, is a tabletop RPG system designed for running games in the world of Pokémon. Players take on the role of Pokémon Trainers and travel the world, capturing and battling with the hundreds of Pokémon species that have been discovered. The core of the system is largely inspired by the Pokémon Special manga, though it can handle adventures ranging from the standard Pokémon League gym romp to more exotic campaign ideas like PokéPirates.

The system is currently under active development and is a sister system or spin-off from [[Pokémon Tabletop Adventures]] created largely by former devs of that system. It's an attempt to address many of PTA's underlying issues such as a lack of a skill system and the use of different combat stats for Pokémon and Trainers, as well as the balance issues between classes.

The developers for Pokémon Tabletop United hang out in an [irc://irc.rizon.net/PokemonTabletop IRC channel] on the Rizon network, and that's the best place to go with questions or comments. There's also a [http://forums.pokemontabletop.com/index/ forum community] that PTU shares with PTA, which has active games and homebrewers.

== Core Rules ==
Pokémon Tabletop United is a level and class based system with a relatively high level of crunch. Unlike most class-based systems, however, player characters are completely expected to take multiple classes, even starting from level 1. Classes are more like packages of feats than like templates that completely determine how a character plays.

====Skills====

Skills are ranked on a scale from 1 to 6. Skill checks call for an Xd6 + modifier roll, where X is a character's skill rank. Modifiers can come from equipment and other sources.

PTU previously had an attribute system as well, but it was removed in the 1.05 update. However, the categories for skills based on the attributes still exist.

Body Skills are: Acrobatics, Athletics, Combat, Intimidate, Stealth, and Survival

Mind Skills are: General Education, Medicine Education, Occult Education, Pokémon Education, Technology Education, Guile, and Perception

Spirit Skills are: Charm, Command, Focus, and Intuition

====Trainer Classes====

PTU has a wide variety of Trainer Classes, mostly reflecting the types of Trainers that are battled in the video games, or archetypes drawn from other Pokémon media such as the anime and manga. Some examples of the classes include Ace Trainer, Hatcher, Capture Specialist, Martial Artist, Researcher, Survivalist, and Type Ace. They can excel at various tasks from training their Pokémon to battle harder, to helping the party travel through uncharted wilderness, to even battling alongside their Pokémon to fight off wild Pokémon or criminals.

====Pokémon====

Fans of the video games will see a lot that is familiar about how Pokémon are handled and a lot that is new and different. Pokémon have Stats, Moves, and Ablities, just like their video game counterparts, and Trainers share these same traits and use them in battle as well. There are a lot of new Abilities available in Pokémon Tabletop United, however, which serve to help make weaker Pokémon more usable and generally add to the customization of Pokémon.

Most of the raw data for Pokémon is in the separate Pokédex pdf, due to the sheer volume of information needed.

== Supplement Books ==
Everything contained in the core PTU pdf is deemed usable for all types of Pokémon campaigns, but over the course of the development of both PTA and PTU, many genre-shifting campaigns have cropped up such as Pokémon in space and an Etrian Odyssey crossover campaign. To help facilitate that, there are a number of supplement books for running PTU campaigns in various other genres and settings.

'''Do Porygon Dream of Mareep?''' is a science-fiction supplement for PTU and includes optional rules for handling the vacuum of space and other environmental hazards, as well as a wide selection of sci-fi-oriented items and subsystems. It also adds a few Trainer Classes for customizing Poké Balls, upgrading Pokémon with cybernetic augmentations, and more. Finally, there are a number of sample setting ideas to help GMs get started with sci-fi campaigns and guides for running PTU campaigns in various sci-fi sub-genres.

'''Game of Throhs''' is the fantasy supplement for PTU and is structured very similarly to Do Porygon Dream of Mareep?. Notably, it contains the Elementalist Classes, which are there to provide Trainers with elemental powers similar to those that the Psychic Classes in the core pdf can access - though for the other Pokémon Types, of course.

'''The Blessed and the Damned''' is a supplement focused on Legendary Pokémon and their treatment as divine entities. There are rules given for Legendaries to give Trainers their blessing or for handling battles against Legendary Pokémon. While the core pdf takes a more conservative and restrained stance on Legendary Pokémon and treats them like any other Pokémon, this supplement is explicitly geared toward treating them as special powers within the Pokémon universe.

== Downloads and Links ==
'''Website''': https://pokemontabletop.com/

'''PTU Version 1.05 (latest version)''': http://www.mediafire.com/download/lbbtmqi7e75k7td/PTU+1.05.zip

-includes core pdf, pokédex, supplements, character sheets, and useful charts

'''IRC Channel''': #PokemonTabletop on the Rizon IRC network

'''Forum Community''': http://forums.pokemontabletop.com/index/
[[Category:Homebrew Rules]]

Pokémon Tabletop United

2019-02-20T18:08:00Z

2601:240:DF00:1300:E08B:2520:2AA6:AD6D: Added link to game's website.

[[File:PTU core cover.png|thumb|right]]

'''Pokémon Tabletop United''', or '''PTU''' for short, is a tabletop RPG system designed for running games in the world of Pokémon. Players take on the role of Pokémon Trainers and travel the world, capturing and battling with the hundreds of Pokémon species that have been discovered. The core of the system is largely inspired by the Pokémon Special manga, though it can handle adventures ranging from the standard Pokémon League gym romp to more exotic campaign ideas like PokéPirates.

The system is currently under active development and is a sister system or spin-off from [[Pokémon Tabletop Adventures]] created largely by former devs of that system. It's an attempt to address many of PTA's underlying issues such as a lack of a skill system and the use of different combat stats for Pokémon and Trainers, as well as the balance issues between classes.

The developers for Pokémon Tabletop United hang out in an [irc://irc.rizon.net/PokemonTabletop IRC channel] on the Rizon network, and that's the best place to go with questions or comments. There's also a [http://forums.pokemontabletop.com/index/ forum community] that PTU shares with PTA, which has active games and homebrewers.

== Core Rules ==
Pokémon Tabletop United is a level and class based system with a relatively high level of crunch. Unlike most class-based systems, however, player characters are completely expected to take multiple classes, even starting from level 1. Classes are more like packages of feats than like templates that completely determine how a character plays.

====Skills====

Skills are ranked on a scale from 1 to 6. Skill checks call for an Xd6 + modifier roll, where X is a character's skill rank. Modifiers can come from equipment and other sources.

PTU previously had an attribute system as well, but it was removed in the 1.05 update. However, the categories for skills based on the attributes still exist.

Body Skills are: Acrobatics, Athletics, Combat, Intimidate, Stealth, and Survival

Mind Skills are: General Education, Medicine Education, Occult Education, Pokémon Education, Technology Education, Guile, and Perception

Spirit Skills are: Charm, Command, Focus, and Intuition

====Trainer Classes====

PTU has a wide variety of Trainer Classes, mostly reflecting the types of Trainers that are battled in the video games, or archetypes drawn from other Pokémon media such as the anime and manga. Some examples of the classes include Ace Trainer, Hatcher, Capture Specialist, Martial Artist, Researcher, Survivalist, and Type Ace. They can excel at various tasks from training their Pokémon to battle harder, to helping the party travel through uncharted wilderness, to even battling alongside their Pokémon to fight off wild Pokémon or criminals.

====Pokémon====

Fans of the video games will see a lot that is familiar about how Pokémon are handled and a lot that is new and different. Pokémon have Stats, Moves, and Ablities, just like their video game counterparts, and Trainers share these same traits and use them in battle as well. There are a lot of new Abilities available in Pokémon Tabletop United, however, which serve to help make weaker Pokémon more usable and generally add to the customization of Pokémon.

Most of the raw data for Pokémon is in the separate Pokédex pdf, due to the sheer volume of information needed.

== Supplement Books ==
Everything contained in the core PTU pdf is deemed usable for all types of Pokémon campaigns, but over the course of the development of both PTA and PTU, many genre-shifting campaigns have cropped up such as Pokémon in space and an Etrian Odyssey crossover campaign. To help facilitate that, there are a number of supplement books for running PTU campaigns in various other genres and settings.

'''Do Porygon Dream of Mareep?''' is a science-fiction supplement for PTU and includes optional rules for handling the vacuum of space and other environmental hazards, as well as a wide selection of sci-fi-oriented items and subsystems. It also adds a few Trainer Classes for customizing Poké Balls, upgrading Pokémon with cybernetic augmentations, and more. Finally, there are a number of sample setting ideas to help GMs get started with sci-fi campaigns and guides for running PTU campaigns in various sci-fi sub-genres.

'''Game of Throhs''' is the fantasy supplement for PTU and is structured very similarly to Do Porygon Dream of Mareep?. Notably, it contains the Elementalist Classes, which are there to provide Trainers with elemental powers similar to those that the Psychic Classes in the core pdf can access - though for the other Pokémon Types, of course.

'''The Blessed and the Damned''' is a supplement focused on Legendary Pokémon and their treatment as divine entities. There are rules given for Legendaries to give Trainers their blessing or for handling battles against Legendary Pokémon. While the core pdf takes a more conservative and restrained stance on Legendary Pokémon and treats them like any other Pokémon, this supplement is explicitly geared toward treating them as special powers within the Pokémon universe.

== Downloads and Links ==
'''Website''': https://pokemontabletop.com/
'''PTU Version 1.05 (latest version)''': http://www.mediafire.com/download/lbbtmqi7e75k7td/PTU+1.05.zip
-includes core pdf, pokédex, supplements, character sheets, and useful charts
'''IRC Channel''': #PokemonTabletop on the Rizon IRC network
'''Forum Community''': http://forums.pokemontabletop.com/index/
[[Category:Homebrew Rules]]

Pokémon Tabletop Adventures

2019-02-20T18:02:01Z

2601:240:DF00:1300:E08B:2520:2AA6:AD6D: Added a Wikidot link for this game.

[[Category:Homebrew Rules]][[Category:Roleplaying]]
Pokemon Tabletop Adventures is a homebrew tabletop game.
<div style="float:right; margin:1em;">__TOC__</div>

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 natural guardians 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, Mystic 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.

Updates on Tabletop Adventures have noticeably stagnated, as the majority of the development team has moved over to a sister project, Pokemon Tabletop United, which can be found at the same webpage. It is still updated at least once a year.

==Player's Handbook==

====Classes====
When a trainer gains a level they might meet the prerequisites 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 prerequisites:
Ace Trainer, Breeder, Capture Specialist, Coordinator, Martial Artist, Psychic, Ranger, or Researcher.

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

Trainers 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 prerequisite of a Trainer Class, a Pokemon Trainer's Feature Options will look like one of the following examples:
Three Trainer Classes, never pursuing a specialty 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, Stat Ace, Strategist, Tag Battler, Type Ace, Underdog
*Breeder: Botanist, Chef, Evolver, Groomer, Hatcher, Medic, Move Tutor
*Capture Specialist: Artificer, Collector, Engineer, Juggler, Poke Ball Designer, Snagger, Trapper
*Coordinator: Beauty Modeler, Choreographer, Cool Trainer, Cute Idol, Fashion Designer, Smart Teacher, Tough Guy
*Martial Artist: Athlete, Aura User, Black Belt, Dirty Fighter, Massage Therapist, Ninja, Weapons Master
*Mystic: Body Snatcher, Conduit, Godspeaker, Guardian, Rune Master, Shaman, Touched
*Psychic: Air Adept, Clairsentient, Earth Shaker, Empath, Fire Breather, Hex Maniac, Rain Waker
*Ranger: Coach, Commander, Detective, Rider, Signer, Special Operations, Survivalist
*Researcher: Cryptozoologist, Dream Doctor, 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.

==Pokedex==

====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 breathe 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 X: X equals the meters per turn speed, given to each pokemon where Overland 1 is given to Slowpoke and Overland 20 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 Guide==

The GM Guide has many features that help the GM run the Pokemon world without making the game feel exactly like you are playing the Pokemon video game. It hasn't been updated for a few years and is mostly abandoned at this point.

==Game Resources==

=Most Recent Version=

PTA used to be updated regularly, but since it is no longer in beta is only updated to include new content when official Pokemon video games are released. This usually means it is updated about once a year.

'''
XY update: http://www.mediafire.com/download/ybse6bxmorl8767/PTAXYUpdate.zip

ORAS update: http://www.mediafire.com/download/4x11igii6hdfwdd/ORASupdate.zip

===Character Sheets===

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

Pokémon Sheet (.pdf, editable form):
http://www.mediafire.com/?x6q44vcoruk0ccu

Pokédex Seen/Owned Checklist (.pdf for print copies):
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/93722046/fivegenpokemonchecklist.pdf

Pokédex Seen/Owned Checklist (.pdf, editable form):
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/93722046/fivegenpokemoneditablechecklist.pdf

Old Pokédex Seen/Owned Checklist Sheet (.doc, Gen 1-4):
http://www.mediafire.com/?1hvazbwax31kxzr

===Pokémon: Tabletop Adventures Links===
http://pokemontabletop.wikidot.com/
http://forums.pokemontabletop.com/site/
http://s4.zetaboards.com/Pokemon_Tabletop/ (use this if the link above goes down)

====Archived Update and Q&A Threads====
All archived threads can be found here.
http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive.html?tags=pokemon

===Pokédex .txt files===
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/93722046/plaintextpokemonbynationaldex.txt
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/93722046/plaintextpokemonalphabetized.txt