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Memorable Pokemon Tabletop Campaign Moments?
Topic Started: Jul 25 2012, 10:51 PM (62,299 Views)
Elemental Knight
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Yes, "Hotei" is a reference. To blatantly oversimplify, he's basically the Buddhist Santa Claus.

And the custom feats:

"Baby Food"


A Mother Always Knows


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"Ah, you unmasked me. Whatever shall I do."
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Ooh, and rereading, I just noticed, is the cordial's note a reference to The Chronicles of Narnia?
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It is indeed! ^_^

I drop a number of references in the presents, though they were, first and foremost, to be "good things the players want and will use". Gotta spot 'em all!
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Feb 16 2013, 11:37 PM
Okay, so, one of the games I'm in, the GM has introduced something called "Notorious" Pokemon. This goes hand in hand with another mechanic he's introduced called "modding". TMs and HMs are types of mods (since pokemon are stored as digital data in pokeballs, they can be easily altered.) Though some other types of mods can be applied to have other effects; which may also have unexpected and potentially lethal side effects, such as artificially teaching an off-type move to a pokemon, like Surf on a Magmortar could cause it unbearable agony and pretty much set its Loyalty to 0, if it doesn't outright kill it. These Notorious Pokemon are, essentially, Optional Boss Battle pokemon; which it would be impossible for a single trainer to take on. We'd encountered two so far:

A Honchkrow that had been modded with Psychic abilities. It received a jump in intelligence... as well as insanity. It now psychically controls a large network of low-level pokemon (mostly Murkrow) and is ruling a large swatch of forest between the group's hometown and the nearest town. Oh, and it's completely fine with murdering humans. We ran into this bad boy as a full party at the start of the adventure, and had to run for our lives.

A gigantic Rotom (level 30) that knows Toxic. Known as a Junk Rotom, because it's possessing a number of befouled pieces of machinery found near a break in a sewer line that was originally set up in order to lure poison-type pokemon away from the two towns. It's also essentially imprisoning the last remnants of a pack of Growlithes that used to roam the area in a tiny habitat; occasionally driving one out. The PC who ran into him very nearly died if not for a Gyrados-ex-Machina, courtesy of a Magikarp he'd helped out earlier in his solo session (helped toss it pass some waves a couple of times after it kept getting beached. Third time he tossed it, it ended up evolving on sheer willpower.) It showed up later and managed to both avoid getting fried by the stronger Rotom due to a luckily bad roll on its part, and a couple of Dragon Rages to the ghost's face. It fled, and so did the PC.

And just last night, my own character had a run-in with a new Notorious pokemon. A Slaking that once belonged to a member of the Elites (There's more than 4 of them in this Region, all very secretive and little-known) over 100 years ago. The thing is truly monstrous in size. And doesn't. Have. Truant. My Petrologist disturbed its beauty sleep while preforming Digging for the Past; and the only reason I got away is because it had to shove trees down to get at me, while I could run around them. After I escaped, I ran into an old man who'd had his leg ripped off for disturbing the beast.

Needless to say, dealing with these things gain us not only level awards, but potentially other rewards as well. We've managed to get some Gym Leader backup to deal with the Rotom, so next group session we'll see how things go.
That Gyarados wasn't ex machina at all, then.
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It kind of was, because the PC was trying to run and he kept on botching his Retreat rolls. If the Gyrados hadn't shown up, he'd have been killed; as his main pokemon had been one-shotted.
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So, the bad guys had just been beaten. Each of the trainers had a token that let them communicate to a legendary. Mew was the most energetic one, and seemed to be the most odd. The trainer with mew wanted to use telekinesis with espeon to torture one of the bad guys.

Mew wouldn't let her, saying "that's against the rules!"

The trainer tried to take their pokémon, and Mew further prodded that was against the rules. So the trainer asked if it was ok to ask them if they could have their pokémon. Mew agreed.

So the trainer asked. The two defeated bad guys looked at each other, and agreed, since they would get their pokémon back after jail.

Mew completely posesses the trainer's body (a previously established mechanic of the verse), and the trainer starts levitating. Then, in mew's voice, the trainer says "that's...against...the rules!"

And then both their heads exploded.

I didn't think it was that great, it was just something I knew would happen, but now it's all my players talk about. It clearly spooked them.
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In the game I am now DM'ing, first gym battle. This happened in the span of two rounds. I don't think the context matters much. The outcome was very hilarious.

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Uh, Zoof? I have NO idea what the heck I'm looking at. So yeah, context kind of does matter here.
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I think he stole the cannons...?
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Feb 19 2013, 09:39 AM
I think he stole the cannons...?
Yes. The round the corner to see delibirds with cannons pointing at them. They then proceed to punt the birds and take the cannons, then frag the gym leader.
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