Garkodia: Pokemon League Conspiracy (PTU – Beginners Welcome)

Creating your character

TRAINER MECHANICS -Starts at level 4 -Only combat classes are allowed. In the core rulebook, combat classes include anything listed under “fighter classes” and "supernatural classes" in the book. The full list is Athlete, dancer, hunter, martial artist, musician, provocateur, rogue, roughneck, tumbler, aura guardian, channeler, hex maniac, ninja, oracle, sage, telekinetic, telepath. (Warper is banned.) All classes in Game of Throhs are also allowed. -You may have classes that are not a combat class so long as you have at least one combat class. -Playtest versions of classes/feats/etc are used over the book versions. -There are no contests in the campaign. POKEMON -You start with 2 Pokemon at level 20. -The Pokemon's base stat total must be under 500 in the real games. -The Pokemon cannot be legendary. -Other banned Pokemon lines: Ditto, Rotom, Hisuian Zorua, Honedge, Gimmighoul, Rallor, Pawmi, Poltchageist -The Pokemon cannot be shiny. -The Pokemon cannot be mountable and capable of flight. ITEMS -You start with 5 pokeballs and 2 potions. You cannot sell them before the game starts. -You start with $4000 which you can spend before the campaign starts with prices based on the book/foundry's default prices. -Items can be bought before the campaign starts with prices from foundry (not the book). -You cannot buy evolution items, mega stones, or regenesis roots before the campaign starts. -Mega stones will not be within the region, and are largely replaced by Regenesis. TRAINER LORE -Your character is not a native of the region and comes from a canonical Pokemon region of your choice. -Your character is a human. -Your character is at least 18 years old.

Preparing for the session

The game is played on Foundry Virtual Tabletop. This is done in a browser. Voice chat is done through discord, as well as a lot of reference material in the text channels. You will need Discord and a mic. I will explain necessary mechanics during session 0, and help players continue to get up to speed on the mechanical side during the first session. I will be available for continued assistance and character creation issues.

What Warlord brings to the table

I bring over ten years of experience with Pokémon Tabletop Adventures, custom maps, and homebrew mechanics. We will play on Foundry Virtual Tabletop with my subscription to it. I voice all NPCs for a fully immersive experience, adding atmospheric music for key moments. This is a high-stakes game where creative role-play, strategic combat, and personal choices shape the world around you. Combat sticks primarily to the mechanical rules, but exceptions for things can be made to fit the RP better.

Homebrew rules

Changes to Pokemon Tabletop United (PTU) -Confusion has no turn denial, and instead causes the user to deal their highest attacking stat in recoil damage to themselves whenever they attempt a damaging move. -Paralysis halves the target’s initiative, and causes them to have to make a check on a d20 of 6 every turn. Upon failure, the user may take a shift or standard action, but not both. -”Asleep” targets (drowsy) do not lose their turns, may make a d20 save check of 16 to cure drowsy on their turns, and are cured of drowsy upon being damaged by an attack. Drowsy targets have an accuracy penalty of 4, cannot land critical hits, are vulnerable, cannot apply evasion, and cannot make attacks of opportunity. -Frozen targets have their special attack and speed reduced by 2 combat stages with no turn denial or ability to thaw from being frozen. -You may not make a shift action after your standard action, only before you make your standard action. Certain trainer feats and abilities such as celebrate can circumvent this and still allow you to shift after you attack. -Whenever a pokemon faints, you may swap it out for free with another Pokemon regardless of if you are participating in a legal battle or not. Returning a Pokemon or Sending out a Pokemon is a swift action, only the full act of swapping (both returning and sending out at once) constitutes a standard action. -Trainers do not go at the top of initiative in legal battles, and remain at their speed regardless of whether the battle is legal or not. They may apply effects such as orders at the start of a battle, however. -You may not use elevation during combat (such as flying out of range of a grounded melee opponent.) -We are playing on PTR Foundry which has some changes to PTU inherently due to how developers have coded some things. I cannot exhaustively list them all here, as the PTR devs have already moved on to “PTR 2” which has nothing whatsoever to do with PTU or PTR, and I do not recommend it. -Base stat relation is an ignored rule. Just do not put more than 50% of your Pokemon’s stat points into a single stat. Changes to Pokemon Tabletop Reunited 1 (Foundry) -PTR by default has arbitrary stat bloat beyond PTU’s stats, making everything get a seemingly randomly assigned amount of stats. This is removed in the campaign.

How Warlord creates a safe table

Session 0: I will give time to each player, either together or individually as time allows, primarily focusing on assisting with character creation and getting any new players used to Pokemon Tabletop United and Foundry. During Session 0, we will also go over personal lines and veils for each player. I will be available regularly to help with character creation before and after session 0, and it is also recommended to work on character creation during session 0. Lines and Veils: During session 0, lines and veils can be outlined for what things you do not want to appear in the campaign, and to only be in the background. In the campaign's discord channel, there will be a place where you can also choose to add or remove triggering things you don't want to appear in the campaign at any such time. Luxton Technique Discussion: During session 0, we will go over how much and in what capacity we want certain triggering content to appear or not appear. Stars and Wishes: There will be a channel in the discord server for the campaign for feedback and requests. Here, you can put what you especially enjoyed about sessions and want to see more of, as well as wishes for what you want to see in the future and directions for future sessions.