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Memorable Pokemon Tabletop Campaign Moments?
Topic Started: Jul 25 2012, 10:51 PM (62,288 Views)
Hung Like A Tauros
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Our GM ran a tournament for us, I made it to the finals against a weakened version of what we would later find out to be the leader of the evil team in our campaign.

It was a 3v3, I sent out my Wartortle vs a Scyther, the battlefield was fire type and would deal very little damage to pokemon depending on their types every turn. I forget the move it used but I responded with Waterfall, which (used to?) hit for extra damage if the target is in the air, so I asked if Scyther was flying and he said yes, so Scyther was knocked out with one Waterfall.

Shedinja came out next, again I forget what move it used but Wartortle used Bite and it was also knocked out in one hit.

It was down to his Alakazam vs Wartortle, I guess he must have had bad rolls or something because Wartortle survived an attack and I rolled a 20 on my Bite, only to hear Alakazam survived with it's Focus Sash (I still think it was added on so the GMs NPC wasn't swept by one pokemon xD) only to realize after the Bite the fire field would knock out the Alakazam and I won the tournament and a Beldum as my reward
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JBPuffin
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Oct 31 2013, 05:59 AM
Welp, in last week's session, my players came across a group of 5 Squirtle on the shore. The moment I finished describing them, everyone jumped and shouted "I want one!". In the battle, one was KO'd before it could be caught, but the rest were captured, including the one who had a cracked shell due to a crit Double Chop.

Four Squirtles, the players have started their own Squirtle Squad, and what do they name them?

Leonardo, Michelangelo, Donatello, and Rafael.
The Teenage Mutant Ninja Squirtles.
OMG YES! That's fricken' incredible, sir. Please continue their tale.
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Lockdown
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Tell me one of them has a Fighting-type shifted Raticate...
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ElykeArgosi
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Okay, so I've only really played a single game so far but it already had a great moment.

In the game over Skype, I was GMing and more and less just 'winging it' and improvising everything. Since there was only the two of us, I decided to have myself playing an NPC who would be befriended and accompany the player on his journey so he wasn't entirely on his own.

After stocking up on supplies, both trainers decided to leave out for a day's walk to the next closest town with hopes of getting a little bit of training in. We decided to have our starters walk alongside of us for the trip so we had more eyes to look out for wilds. I sent out my Charmander, Henry, to walk alongside of me. the player called upon his Slugma who we then ruled could ride on him since its heatbody capability implies that it isn't exteriorly magma(as that would mean it'd always cook an egg rather than keeping it warm) and could control their body temp to a degree so the trainer wouldn't get hurt. This was to compensate for the lvl 5 Slugma's movement of 1 so it could keep pace with us.

A short walk later down the road, my Henry spots movement in the grass off the side of the road on a rolling grassy hillside. As it moves closer, we manage to notice its leafy petals on its head and use our pokedex to identify it. A few seconds and an electronical 'Ding!' later we know its species: An Oddish. Immediately, the trainer rushes off after the Oddish, who then freaks out and starts scrambling up the hillside in a panic to escape the running teen. As the trainer closes in, my trainer shouts after him to be careful because we don't know what might be over the hill since we cannot see there, then dashes after him with a command to Henry to run ahead to catch up.

Ignoring my trainer's warning, he runs chases the frantic oddish all the way up this hillside to the peak where he then tosses his slugma at it to land beside of it, commanding it to unleash a smog. Initiate battle theme music. The oddish, in its flustered state decides to rustle its leaves about releasing a Sweet Scent into the air to try and prepare for the incoming attack since it has a higher speed. The slugma, Heph for short, succeeds on its AC for Smog. On the next turn, the oddish tries to use Absorb and fails, the slugma then unleashing Ember which then faints the poor oddish with a massive damage roll. My character and Henry arrive on the scene just in time to see the charcoal collapse into the grass with a crackling sizzle. With a wince as if to say "Oops!", he called back Heph to his pokeball.

Immediately, we start hearing a rather loud rushing coming from the other end of the hill and we quickly hurry back down a short ways and duck behind some rocks and hide in the grass, I tell Henry to do his best to block sight of his tailfire behind me since its daylight and it doesn't provide any smoke. The large bulky creature comes into view but we cannot make it out due to the sun behind it. We decided to, again, scan it with our pokedexes. It continues looking around, sniffing the peak of the hill and scuffing at the burned onion roast laying among the grassy top as we await the identity.

That is when both of our pokedexes go "Ding!" in unison...

We both look at each other as it reads Kangaskhan and it turns to stare down at us from 15 feet away. The trainer makes his move first and bursts out of our hiding spot and throws a pokeball to land Heph directly next to the Kangaskhan to use Smog again while I tell Henry to circle around to flank the kangaskhan so Henry doesn't get poisoned. Still out of range, Henry starts his circle as Heph appears, the Kangaskhan running at him and using Comet Punch. Only landing 2 hits, Heph faints before ever launching his Smog attack, but gets burned by making contact with Slugma. We both panic. I quickly yell for Henry to use his speed and to use Scratch.

With a shout, the trainer calls back his fainted Heph and the following occurs...

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"I'll get you, Kangaskhan! Hephaestus' work will not be in vain." He pulls out a pokeball, and throws it at the Kangaskhan, not exactly wanting to run in and punch it, his only alternative.


At this point, I tell him to roll for capture. 1d100+5 for using a normal pokeball against a capture rate of 15. He HAS to roll a 1-9 since the Kangaskhan is hardly damaged.

He rolls a 4.

We both do a "...." then go crazy with excitement, not believing what just happened. He named the Kangaskhan Hera and we hastily made our retreat back to the town we came from to the pokemon center with our tails between our legs, vowing that the next pokemon catch was for me to make since he got such a strong pokemon with such luck. Laughing we both end that late-night session there.

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Unfortunately, he had never contacted me since about continuing the venture and its been a few months so I've just assumed he dropped from interest of having too few players or something but whatever. Was still a great way to end my first PTAdventure! :D
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Quarotas
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My group was in Mauville looking for work when they find a job to investigate a disturbance in the desert north of town. They use their Gible to shield themselves from the sandstorm and travel inwards. The travel south, following the corpses of sandshrew and trapinch. They approach the cave located in the south of the desert and encounter a horde of Trapinch, snapping at them threateningly. The party's mystic decided this was a good time to comfort them and proceeds to attempt to pet them, as a result the trapinch used bit on said trainer. This did a large chunk of her hp and a battle ensued. During this time she did not run and had not bonded and borrowed a move and did not have access to anything useful anyways. She stood there as the last trapinch standing took another bite, ripping off her arm and knocking her unconscious. The air adept produces some electricity to cauterize the wound and some enriched water and some rest to wake her up. From that point on they continued to the cave, riding the ghost shifted metang(ghost /steel). The corpse count increased as they approached and the sandstrom picked up massively. The ground below began to shake wildly as they approached the cave. They enter said cave, three of the players expecting an angry regirock, i then explained that every regirock had apparently been caught, (I mean come one, how many people passed through there?) Inside was a golurk and 2 golet. The Golurk, seeing the party flying in on metang begins stomping around threateningly. The mystic, seeing this as a chance to beat some down sends out her Blastoise.The blastoise is faster and begins with water pulse, then the golurk dynamic punches it with no guard and confuses it. The blastoise begins beating it self. Noticing the blastoise failing the trainer of the metang sends it in for a demon robot fight, where it asserts its dominance by nearly one-shotting the golurk. The metang proceeded to establish dominance on the golet and the golurk was revived and captured. Upon returning to town the newest party member is introduced, an engineer, who replaces the mystic's arm.

The whole time the mystic was spriting her trainer just because and left out the arm until it was replaced, needless to say, it looked hilarious.
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Dragonqueen
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I was running Sabrina's Gym, and the following happened:

Sabrina's gym constituted of each room having trainers in it, and a riddle. The riddle needed to be solved with an Int. roll. The trainers tried their best to faint your pokémon, and you were given limited items.

The final room had 4 trainers, each with 3 pokémon, and a required Int. roll of 20. The pokémon themselves were fairly weak (15-25 when his pokémon were all 30) but they tended to hit hard. He had a +2 bonus for intelligence and everytime a pokémon of his fainted, he got another +1 modifier.

Most of his pokémon, being sweepers, started to fall in one or two turns, especially due to damages from last round. He has a modifier of +6 and is consistently rolling 5's and 6's for his intelligence check.

Finally he's down to his last pokemon, a Fearow. He stops and asks me how high the ceilings are. Shrugging, I say about 20 feet or so.

So he immediately orders his Fearow to fly completely out of range, and luckily for him, no one has any natu's or xatu's. I only have one move that could possibly hit him -- Wobuffet's Destiny Bond.

So for the next five or six rounds, Wobuffet chased his Fearow around while he finally rolled a 13 or so, passed the room.

He is now considering using Fearow for most if not all his gym battles.
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JuneS
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If this is who I think it is, I am not looking forward to that gym. XD And this scenario should seem very familiar.

Two sessions ago, we had a mission to go to the Ilex Forest. Our boss decided that she would send her Absol, Willow, to accompany us/spy on us. For some reason she seemed very down and depressed that day, though. We traveled to Goldenrod City via the magnet train and were told we had 4 days before we actually had to go to the forest, so the Mystic in our group and I, a Botanist, decided to make the Absol some Poffins and Aprijuice in her favorite flavors. We got back to where we were staying and gave the Absol our presents...and she started crying...or at least that's how it looked to me. Anyway, this usually frosty, stand-offish Absol was crying, and telling us to go away and that she wasn't hungry, that she thought we were going to get to hurt in our job...it was heart breaking listening to her. We eventually gave up and let her be, leaving the gifts there, but it still sticks to me how she reacted.
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rlrichey
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In the party that I GM we have a really rough ex-Rocketeer named Garrett who's kind of like a mix between Solid Snake and the Wolverine.
We were hanging out in the lobby of the Saffron Gym and somebody brought up the topic of Warp Pads (since they are a Saffron Gym puzzle in the handhelds). He replied that his solution would be to use cigarettes to test if the pads were working and as a means of tracking ground where the party had already walked. After all, he had plenty on his person and he could afford to lose a few.
The party then had a pretty interesting conversation about smoking and its health implications, and many of them seemed surprised that Garrett was actually a smoker.
In the next room, he came upon a warp pad and tossed a cigarette onto it to confirm that it worked. Once the cigarette disappeared, he jumped in after it. At this point, I isolated all of my players and had a secret chat with each of them, explaining to everyone's players (except for Garrett's) that Garrett was hallucinating. They played along wonderfully.

The following did not actually happen:
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Garrett snapped out of it and realized that he was alone in this room and that nothing had actually happened. I awarded exp to the party anyway as a reward for playing along.
Edited by rlrichey, Nov 20 2013, 03:15 PM.
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DNA
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I was recruited by my old GM to create a Fuchsia City Gym for the players of his new campaign. The theme was supposed to be a challenging ninja dungeon.

I designed a death trap.

I later found out the GM added to it.

It was beautiful.

They're still trying to go through it and are having a hell of a time...which makes sense, since I didn't design it to be easy. Regardless of the outcome, I will be extremely pleased at what happens in the end.

And if I end up TPKing them like I almost did to the last bunch, I'm going to have a reputation for wiping out parties, unintentionally or otherwise.

(I know this technically doesn't count as a memorable moment, since it's not over yet. But I think it will have at least one when it is over.)
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Vir
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I was the GM, and two of my players (an Ace Trainer named Tenran and a Mystic named Luke) were in a cabin in the woods in the middle of the night, in a sort of Mexican standoff with the mayor and sheriff of a creepy backwater town. The sheriff had a shotgun pointed at the two of them. Tenran didn't have any pokemon out, and although Luke had a Flareon out, it had been thrown to the far end of the room when the mayor's Bouffalant had crashed through the cabin earlier. The mayor reckoned that them being outsiders, they needed to be "gotten rid of". The sheriff readied his shotgun and asked them if they had any last words. Luke declares Quick Attack as an Interrupt. I tell him that his Flareon is too far away to reach the sheriff. His reply?

"I never said it was Flareon who was going to use Quick Attack, did I?"

I was dumbfounded for a moment before remembering that prior to their ambush he had channeled (and was still channeling) the Flareon. He Quick Attack-tackles the sheriff, causing him to fire the shotgun to the roof. Tenran whips out his Pokeball and releases his own Bouffalant, jumps on it, quickly helps Luke get on as well. Luke recalls his Flareon, and they hightail it out of the cabin.
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