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| [PTX] Pokemon Bug Catching Contest | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Nov 4 2014, 02:12 AM (610 Views) | |
| GuitarooGuy | Nov 4 2014, 02:12 AM Post #1 |
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Pokémon Trainer
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Bug Catching Contest • Five Entrants for the contest with first through third place winning prizes • All entrants keep the bug Pokémon they’ve entered • Held once per day • Pokémon in the contest range from level 12-20 (or if you want otherwise, take the Average Pokémon Level of the party and either use the range [(APL-8) to (APL) or (APL-4) to (APL+4)] • Participants are given 10 Park Balls (Catch rate equivalent to Great Balls) and take one Pokémon with them into the park • Time is the only thing I’m iffy on. Either A) 1d10+2 Encounters (giving a minimum 3 encounters) or B) 1d20+4 Minutes (giving minimum 5 minutes that maybe only tick outside of combat?). Open to suggestions on this one. • Pokémon have a base multiplier applied to them as follows: x1: Caterpie, Weedle, Metapod, Kakuna, Venonat, Wurmple, Silcoon, Cascoon, Scatterbug, Spewpa x1.25: Butterfree, Beedrill, Vivillon, Beautifly, Dustox, Venomoth. x1.5: Scyther, Heracross, and Pinsir • If the Pokémon happens to be shiny, add 0.5 to the base multiplier. • To expand further, Rolling a 100 on the encounter track nets a shiny. You reroll again on the encounter table to determine which. Optional: Roll a d4 before rerolling on the encounter table. The bonus is as follows: 1 - +0 2 - +5 3 - +10 4 - +15 If you roll 100+ on this reroll, go ahead and choose the Pokémon the player in question would want most (The RNG Gods clearly want it to be so). • Yes, by this account, it is substantially more likely for the PC’s to encounter a shiny (the chance increases from 0.00024% to 1%). Bug Pokémon (at least those with single typing) have one of the weaker types in terms of resistances, so I figured “why not make the chance of these being special more common?” Feel free to change roll 100 as you see fit. Scoring Formula: (Remaining HP + Pokémon Level) x Base Multiplier Encounter Table 1-7% Caterpie 8-14% Weedle 15-21% Wurmple 22-28% Scatterbug 29-34% Metapod 35-40% Kakuna 41-46% Silcoon 47-52% Cascoon 53-58% Spewpa 59-63% Venonat 64-67% Butterfree 68-71% Beedrill 72-75% Beautifly 76-79% Dustox 80-83% Vivillon 84-87% Venomoth 88-91% Pinsir 92-95% Scyther 96-99% Heracross 100% Shiny Let me know what you guys think, and please feel free to give suggestions. This was inspired by Chordian's original post here. |
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| Gear_Skitty | Nov 4 2014, 03:00 AM Post #2 |
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Just Another Cat In The Machine
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Wooo, I like it when work is done for me! It's a nice basic system that can be used for Poke catching contests beyond just Bug Types, with a little finagling. Fishing contests, RATtata catching contests (each one has a ribbon with a number on it, catch as many as you can in a time limit and your score is them all added up (add negatives to heighten tension)), or even Bird Sighting (the rarer the bird, the more points, must have photo proof). |
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| rlrichey | Nov 4 2014, 05:39 AM Post #3 |
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My very first session ever was a bug-catching contest. The word "contest" really stuck out I guess, because after all the bugs were caught, I had my players determine their bugs' value with a contest. I had never run a Pokémon contest before, or even heard of them, but this terrible experience forever averted me from the idea of Pokémon contests. It's really good to see a bug-catching contest that's so much simpler to run. |
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| GuitarooGuy | Nov 4 2014, 02:58 PM Post #4 |
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Pokémon Trainer
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I'm glad you guys like it
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