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[PTU][Worldbuilding] PokéEarth Campaign Setting; Blending the Pokemon World with the Real World: A cooperative thought-experiment
Topic Started: Mar 15 2017, 03:39 PM (1,813 Views)
jroncladd
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By way of introduction, my name is Jroncladd, and while I have never played PTU or PTA I have followed the system(s) for some time, since summer 2012 (somebody invited me to join a PTA campaign they were starting, so I got into PTA and made my character, but the campaign fell through).

More importantly, while I have never played PTA or PTU, I have both played and GMed other RPGs, and therein lies one of my true passions: Worldbuilding! I have been thinking about this campaign setting for a week or two, but I figure I've gotten as far as I can on my own without feedback from others, as well as possibly crowdsourcing some of the

The Premise
The goal of this campaign setting is to blend the Pokemon world with the real world, to create campaign setting where players can create characters from real countries and real places, and travel to real world locations for their Pokemon Adventures. If there was a mission statement for this campaign setting, I would describe it as to "Create a campaign setting using the real world, with the flavor and feel of the Pokemon World." In other words, if there is an element that is important to the flavor and feeling of the Pokemon World, such as Pokemon battles and the Pokemon League, it should be incorporated into the Real World without otherwise changing the real world.

Discussion Topics (Giving the World Background)
There are many differences between the Pokemon World and the Real World, and I have already thought about some of the general categories of features of the Pokemon World to be included in the Setting:
The Existence of Pokemon

The Relationship of Pokemon and Humans

The World is made of Small, Insular Regions

The Pokemon League


I need help! The purpose of this post is to encourage discussion. I want discussion on philosophical and background aspects of how this PokeEarth setting might function, and eventually I hope to get into mechanical elements, like creating regional varieties of pokemon in American vs. Britain, and so forth. I'm going to go ahead and post this thread, even though I haven't 100% finished this post, in case anyone wants to pitch in.



Edited by jroncladd, Mar 17 2017, 08:14 AM.
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jroncladd
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Pokemon League in PokéEarth

North American League

South American League

European League

Middle East / North African League

Subsaharan Africa

Russian League

South Asian League

East Asian League

Oceania League


Edited by jroncladd, Mar 17 2017, 01:00 PM.
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l33tmaan
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So how many governments spy on their citizens with Porygon Security Units?
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Interesting Concept, I might try and make a conversation with my youth friends and post what gets mentioned
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Mar 15 2017, 04:45 PM
So how many governments spy on their citizens with Porygon Security Units?
Literally all of them. In fact there could even be a group of hackers like Anonymous in this setting, which would make for an interesting plot hook!
Edited by Muted_ReDead, Mar 16 2017, 12:41 AM.
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l33tmaan
Mar 15 2017, 04:45 PM
So how many governments spy on their citizens with Porygon Security Units?
Literally all of them. In fact there could even be a group of hackers like Anonymous in this setting, which would make for an interesting plot hook!
Since Anonymous is a real organization in the real world, I think that we could simply include them as-is in the setting! You all bring up a good point: governments would almost certainly control the use of artificial pokemon like Porygon, and Russian and American governments probably developed Porygon in the Cold War period for the purposes of cyberwarfare.

On the other hand, groups like Wikileaks and Anonymous, although they lack to the sophisticated Porygon and Porygon2 tools that governments use, could use Rotom to hack into systems, which would match the asymmetry of the hacking/security conflict we see today.
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The question of Pokemon Sentience could be seen as a parallel to AI Sentience/AI Rights, and I feel many a same point apply. Exceptions are obviously that AI's are programmed and thus can be prohibited from enacting certain actions simply through that (for example AI's may not harm humans, must be truthful to authority, etc.), though saying that....what is Pokemon training (As in keeping them close to humans and developing a relationship) other than a living form of programming? Food for thought, or so I hope.
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l33tmaan
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Why aren't pokemon just straight up slaves in this world? The relationship between humans and pokemon is already dubious enough in the games/anime, I can only imagine things get worse when you take off the kid gloves.
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Mar 16 2017, 02:55 PM
Why aren't pokemon just straight up slaves in this world? The relationship between humans and pokemon is already dubious enough in the games/anime, I can only imagine things get worse when you take off the kid gloves.
You bring up a good point, in that if Pokemon were in the real world they would most likely be considered as slaves and property, at least historically, as slavery existed throughout western civilization until the 1800s. However, considering that Pokemon are intelligent beings and capable of thought, speech, emotion, and so forth, I would think that by the modern era, Pokemon slavery would be abolished.

Also, though this is less important, giving Pokemon rights would fit in thematically with the Pokemon games, in that abusing Pokemon seems to be illegal or at least frowned upon. The Pokemon games do explicitly say people "own" pokemon, though, which is line with your point.
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