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Memorable Pokemon Tabletop Campaign Moments?
Topic Started: Jul 25 2012, 10:51 PM (62,309 Views)
planswalker
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passinglurker
Oct 13 2012, 03:06 PM
any moment where you hijack the local crime gangs poke'mecha and turn it against them is a memorable moment. cause how many times do you get to say "I fought a rhydon from inside a giant flying steel shifted vileplume at TL4 and lived"?
... AND got the rhydon as a trophy!
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So, my character (who is basically an insane sociopath, but whatever) decides to catch a Charmander. He finds an area in the direction he is heading; Charred Clearing. He heads there with his team in search of one. He has his Oshawott (Thales) use Water Sport on basically his entire team, then attacks. His Drilbur burrows under, unleashing a Bulldoze that levels about 6 Charmander and a Charmeleon. A few rounds later (with some help from his equally sociopathic talking Scyther) and many more Bulldoze all the Charmander/meleon (24 and 4, receptively) are down except for one. My character only has one Pokeball left so he makes the lone Charmander an offer; get in the ball or the surrounding Charmander/meleons will all die. The Charmander really has no choice and lets itself be captured.

Now this is where it gets fun. Out of nowhere, a blast of flames hits the party. A Charizard lands in the middle of the clearing, royally pissed. As the smoke from the blast clears, my character sees Thales has evolved into a Dewott. After a quick Glare from his Ekans, my character and his Dewott start to fight the thing and through a mixture of luck, 1/4 Fire Resist and just a teensy bit of GM help, my character and his Dewott come out on top, the fight ending with Thales decapitating the thing.

My character beat a Charizard with a Dewott.

That couldn't do damage with Water Gun and didn't know Razor Shell yet.

It. Was. Awesome.
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^My players would never get away with that.

So I'm running a (slightly) modified version of the Carrico Town module for my irl players, and everything goes pretty much according to plan (aside from them using the bomb on the Capture Tank, thereby avoiding the fight completely and earning them trainer levels for doing something awesome). They all head back to town, and we ended for the day. Thinking I would be doing the gym battle the following week, I prepped the map, statted up the Gym Leader's Pokemon, and got myself prepared. I also planned to berate my players for choosing to plow through everything, and not roleplaying very well.

So the following week, we do some wrap up before a potential Gym Battle. Before I can get the party moving, Jack, an ex-Team Rocket executive who was playing the Homebrew class Criminal, accidentally lets it slip that he used to belong to Team Rocket, who the party had just defeated. The whole party breaks out in chaos for half the session, and when the Unofficial Party Leader (a capture specialist) finally got them all calmed down, they realized that almost everyone in the party had someone they were avoiding or trying to get revenge on, including the Mafia, Team Rocket, and the National Police. Naturally, that prompted this response.

Martial Artist: Well, at least it can't get any worse.
Me: It starts raining.
The rest of the Party glares at him.

The Rocket Grunt who crashed in the truck was convinced into turning good by the party's Psychic, a compulsive gambler named Trent, an a number of players took a new class (Photographer, Pokeball Designer, Ace Trainer, Engineer) due to the various levels I had given them (Pokedex entries, Roleplaying, Beating Team Rocket, etc). Mord the Martial Artist took Ninja. Being a particularly vengeful player, he tried to convince her into turning, but between his poor charisma checks and her Intimidate feature, he failed quite horribly. Wanting him out, she called for Nurse Joy to remove him from the room. He panics, having lost his chance to leave her stranded in the woods (thereby killing her, as she had no Pokemon and a broken leg- the jerk), he grabs her, then teleports to the roof, Nurse Joy barely managing to see him as he vanishes in a cloud of smoke. The Rocket Grunt starts screaming, the whole bloody town wakes up, and the party surrounds him. He lies horribly to them, but they let him off with a warning, the Psychic deciding to stay and watch over the Grunt tonight. She shows her first sign of romantic interest in him.

By the time this finally ends, Mord the Ninja asks if his whole party is asleep. They reply with a "yes". He wakes up, sneaks out to the farm (berry quest), and steals the farmer's boots. Due to the rain that occurred earlier from his comment, the ground is muddy, and he makes sure his boots are nice and muddy so he could leave footprints. He walks out to the Pokemon Center, steals a Poke Ball off the Capture Specialist's belt containing his prized started Pokemon (Flaafy), and one of the Rocket Uniforms our specialist had been saving for a later scheme. He walks out, puts on the uniform, and heads into the Pokemart.

As soon as he walks in there, Clerk Chuck (my Pokemart equivalent of Nurse Joy and Officer Jenny) objects, but is silenced with a newly-learned Sleep Powder feat. Mord robs the Pokemart of all its Potions, Super Potions, Great Balls, and Sap Balls (a new ball type created by the capture specialist with sap from the Whistling Tree, with a -20 capture rate on Bug Type Pokemon), then leaves Flaafy's ball in a corner where it can be found, then leaves, dropping the muddy boots on the farmer's doorstep, and stashing the uniform in his barn before returning to his room.

The result? His muddy footprints create a double accusation on the farmer and the capture specialist. The rest of the party found the uniform, but sadly, all failed their Tracker checks. The Gym Leader and Police threw them both into a detention cell, and are investigating (with cameos by Miles Edgeworth and Dick Gumshoe from the Ace Attorney Series).

Needless to say, we did not get to the Gym Battle that week.
Edited by The Black Glove, Oct 15 2012, 12:48 AM.
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^ Wow, the MA is a dick.
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planswalker
Oct 14 2012, 09:43 PM
passinglurker
Oct 13 2012, 03:06 PM
any moment where you hijack the local crime gangs poke'mecha and turn it against them is a memorable moment. cause how many times do you get to say "I fought a rhydon from inside a giant flying steel shifted vileplume at TL4 and lived"?
... AND got the rhydon as a trophy!
we were kinda lucky the solarbeam missed and hit the trainer standing behind it instead with a x4 type advantage it probably would have been vaporized.

PROTIP: when a GM sends an over leveled trainer battle at you aim for the trainer and steal his ball :D
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So we take a break in Fuscia and everyone has just taken a swing at the local Gym, and through a couple of events we end up hunting down a local gang. My Fire Breather decides that he'd rather have the element of surprise and starts Shadow Walking with the rest of the party so that they appear to have one less person (he's also the highest level party member). Naturally a few goons are guarding the guy's base and they jump us, carrying a bunch of improvised weapons. The still invisible Fire Breather just sits back and starts wailing on them with their own weapons (the GM had ruled that it didn't make sense for Telekinesis to stop working as soon as you tried swinging something at somebody), and isn't even targeted once.

I also was told that short of a really important fight, rocks would probably fall on my guy if he ever pulled that again, so the fight with the leader of the gang went without invisibility shenanigans.

During the actual fight, we end up walking right to where the guy and his two best men were waiting for us. Earlier he had tried to rough us up with a giant, Electric synced Tangrowth, including by throwing a subway train at us with it. It's one of the mons that they have waiting for us. Huge buildup basically that this thing would be a huge badass.

Natural 20 AC roll on Lava Plume from the Fire Breather. The thing bursts into flames before it gets to attack.
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Martial Artist: Well, at least it can't get any worse.
Me: It starts raining.
The rest of the Party glares at him.

This is by far the best part. I snickered uncontrollably as soon as I read that.
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So, I was playing a capture specialist and we had just encountered our first gym. I wasn't really sure which pokemon I was going to use yet, since we had only gone from Lillycove to the Safari Zone to Fortree.
The whole way there, the other party member, a cocky Ace Trainer, had bugged my character for battles, and long story short things were fairly competitive between them (despite how she acted like she didn't care). So she *really* didn't want to lose against Winona.
Anyway, my character thinks it's a smart idea to use the hit-and-run-with-confusion tactic with girafarig against Winona's Skarmory. However, Skarmory flies much faster than Girafarig can run, and almost kills it with a Sky Attack (it only survived because of Gym Medics/GM intervention).

At this point, my character figures she's screwed, because she has only physical attackers, another girafarig, and untrained oddish and wingull. She sends out her starter (Kangaskhan) hoping its Hammer Arm can take Skarmory out. It hits hard but not hard enough, and Kangaskhan goes down.

Not knowing what else to do, she sends out the Kecleon she'd befriended a few days ago. It doesn't have any neutral-hitting moves, but manages to finish Skarmory off with wrap. It then proceeds to solo the rest of the gym with a combination of Color Change, Wrap, and hilariously ridiculous evasion (Blender is awesome).
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It's weird; when PokeMon you only use out of desperation do amazing things, you end up considering them a favourite from that time on.
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Oct 15 2012, 11:46 PM
It's weird; when PokeMon you only use out of desperation do amazing things, you end up considering them a favourite from that time on.
Like blowing up a Croagunk's head.
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