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[ModBot]

Greetings! This is the creator of ModBot. I am working on another wonderful creation for this RP, but I want some feed back.

The general idea is a dnd-esque battle system. This would involve a leveling system and Hp of course. This will of course require a lot of discussion figuring out appropriate HPs for different Pokemon, but Would not be terribly awful if we just deal with New Pokemon as people wish to battle them. Levels would be scaled to player level. I think Attack damage should work just like in dnd with a die and a modifier to determine damage. This would allow for crit modifiers as well as resistance mods. This also allows for a leveling and evolution very easily( although with serious changes to either EXP or the level required to evolve). The consequence for failure in a battle is a % of POKE and a swift return to the last visited POKECENTER. This allows those who want to role play a system to play within, as well as easing the moderators job of seeing if a battle is going on too long or finding a good time to end it. The one current problem is data storage. I have not coded for proboards before, so I do not know if there is a way for me to store all of the info severside, but I can encrypt it loosely clientside. Cheating would of course be a ban-able offense.

TLDR

• HP and EXP would be a thing
  
• Combat is handled just like DND
  
• Still allows for Role-play, just more official, with external stimuli
  
• Info will currently be stored clientside.
  

Please post Opinions and Ideas as a reply! And as always, Have fun!

[Hallow]

I like the idea, but the idea of trainer level and HP seems a little... well, confusing.

If we found a good system to generate it, much like how in d&d you rolled a die and added your class type hp, like for a sorcerer, you had 12 +  D4, then every time you level, you roll the D4 again. If we used a system like that for every time a pokemon leveled up, it'd be a bit more appealing to a simpler system than a whole list of each pokemon, but that's you're call.

Also, How would trainer level work? I'm interested to see how that will effect the pokemon that appear in the wild.

But besides these, your ideas are really nice. It'll be good to get an active system going.


Edit: You may want to leave the % thing for a "hard" version or something, just in case people get scared of losing all their mons over such a small battle.

[ModBot]

The trainer doesn't have a level, the Pokemon do. It would be an interesting idea that warrants discussion to tie the level to the player instead. That would fix the issue of catching new Pokemon and keeping a team leveled. It could be explained of as an exp-share sort of thing.

Hp would definitely have to be tied to an individual Pokemon. I think setting level-based HP presets for non legendary wild Pokemon would be an easy way to deal with Figuring HP of wild Pokemon, and I had no intention of limiting the variety of non legendary encounters.

The % loss of POKE would be the same as in game, so it would only be like 10-20. And with proper moderator DMing, failure will not be as common as a "close fight" (That means lie ). I would be able to make it an option if that is decided upon, but I feel it won't be a huge issue.

The basic flow would look like this:

Player enters encounter
encounter happens
Player wins Encounter
Player or Pokemon Gains EXP
Level increases
Set value or random roll is added to HP
Each attack gets another die (might actually be better to only do this on certain levels or on an per attack basis, player chosen or random)
On certain levels, base mods are increased.

I will draft a DND styled flowchart for combat and post it later, alongside a "character sheet" for a Pokemon-level based system and one for a trainer-level based system. The big question I have (because Silas never explained how this properly works to me) is do you even have a team, or is it a single Pokemon, because if you don't have a team, then Trainer and Pokemon levels are indistinguishable.

I also need Silas on before I can work (is he dead?) and would like a player's (non-mod) opinion, especially on the %loss, because I don't see it as scary, but it might be to everyone else. I haven't RPed in a long time and definitely never with a strong system in place. And I still want an opinion on this system being "hard mode" and still allowing normal RP to happen. I think the cool thing is this allows for trainer battles, but I also don't know whether anyone is interested in that.

Thanks for the reply!

[ModBot]

It turns out the only difference between a trainer-exp system and a Pokemon-exp system is the exp share. To sum (I'll do it for a single Pokemon for simplicity, this doesn't change much, but I still need to know if we have teams or not)[stats subject to change drastically]:


Charmander  LV. 5
HP 32 (on level add 8 + d12) [Health]
AGL 5 (on level add d6-2 can't be less than 0) [chance to dodge and Initiative roll mod {d20 + AGL/10 rounded to the lowest whole number}]
DEF 5 (d4-2 can't be less than 0) [chance to resist 2*DEF damage]
EXP 0 TO_NEXT 100 {This just becomes universal to the team in a trainer system}

@attacks_PKMN1
NAME1 = "Ember" [name of the attack]
TYPE1 = "FIRE"
BASEDMG1 = 8
DICEMOD1 = 1
ATTACK1() = 8 + d8 {too lazy to code :p}


That is a basic skeleton of a POKEMON object. A skeleton for combat is as follows


"""Pokemon1 attacks"""
WHP -= ATTACK1()
ie. WILDPOKEMON_HP = WILDPOKEMON_HP - 8 + d8

"""Wildpokemon attacks"""\
HP -= WATTACK1()

It'll be easy with an OOP language like C. Stat based attacks would affect as a negative mod to ATTACK, AGL, or DEF rolls.