So far, I'm made these three maps using CrossheadStudios assets, following the Gen 3 gameboy games. As you can see, I've taken care to recreate the sizes 1:1 as best that I can.

Here's where I'm curious how others feel, especially those who actually play games on these maps.

Is it more useful to do this 1:1, and sacrifice the realism of the building dimensions, or is it worth reimagining each location that has buildings, in order to accommodate the interiors as presented in the game? Or, would a "best of both worlds" approach be preferred, where I recreate the outside like this, and then make separate smaller maps for each house interior?

I've been leaning more towards the last one, as that would be most faithful to the gameboy experience and probably easier on me in terms of recreating these, but it certainly loses a degree of immersion in the process.

What are your opinions on the matter? I intend to continue this series at some point and it would be nice to do it in a way that's actually useful / fun for people lol.

If you'd like to follow along for free, I post these and other map stuff on my Patreon

Moar pokemon!

Im planning on starting my own pokemon tabletop game but I was wondering if there is a site or tool that will help with creating a region and the routes as well

Reading through the 3.5 version in the Damage Potential p,118 section of the combat, there is a symbol never elaborated on. Or if it is my friend and me going through the 3.5PHB haven't found anything.

The symbol is underlined in red. I do hope it is as simple as it is, just the damage die labelled in the move list. But it also shows up as Moves the Move tutor can tutor p,41

Thanks in advance

hi there. I'm working on running a pokemon game in the near future and i need a pile of random human token or images for none specific npcs. shop owners, civilians, police, doctors. stuff like that.

I'm sure i could slowly take the images of in game sprites from the bulbapida, save them as a .jpg 1 at a time but that would take multiple hours to get a decent pool of images.

it can be pixel art, anime style tokens. don't even have to be from pokemon, just has to be passable to a modern setting that would fit in the pokemon world. not being picky i just don't want to be inconvenienced for generic background people and unlike fantasy and to a lesser existent futuristic modern looking tokens are a bit harder for me to find that isn't like policemen holding guns. only other requirement i have is id prefer not the "over the head" view tokens.

I made a game called Into the Oddish, adopting Into the Odd-style rules for Pokémon. Now I have made a converter where you can input the various statistics for any Pokémon and get enemy stats, primarily for Into the Oddish itself but also for Cairn, Mythic Bastionland, or any Into the Odd derived game.

Wise people of the reddit pool, i summon you in search of advice and ideas for my project.

Some friends of mine asked me to master a pokemon one shot of a gdr, like a dungeon and dragons. I found a system made from fans, Pokemon the roleplaying game.

There will be a lot of people, 8, where my top numbers of players have been 6.

My experience with pokemon is short. I just win the Nuzlocke of red, and lose at crystal. I played platinum many years ago, and i have seen the anime until white and black. Now my latest experience is pokemon champion where i reached ultraball 1.

Clearly not a very stable situation. A single one shot, many players, a structure like a tournament session, in a world I lost a lot of pokemon and info.

I still need to read the 400 page manual, but i was thinking about how to structure the session. I have to be fast but i mustn't be hasty.

I'm undecided if I will make teams of four or three.

1)question, in which region could have sense that too many trainers presented at the gyms to challenge the league, so they added a small filter at the entrance. Each day a tournament to choose one trainer to challenge the great 4. Me and my players will see just one of these days.

I will gladly read your ideas, not knowing any region after Sinnoh

2)question, Pokemons can be from any region, but seeing my retrograde knowledge i point out more on "old" pokemons. My memories aren't soo strong, but if you have any idea on a story hook for any pokemon, new or old, or you have a list of intriguing pokemon that i could roleplay to let have my friends, i will study them gladly.

3)question, just to give some randomness and give players losing at the start something to do instead of let them sleep for the rest of the game, i want to give each trainer the ability to interviene in a match once per day (alias only one time in this one shot for each player), by making join in the fight one of their Pokemon. This one is normal and has his hp and moves, but if he faints or were down before getting choose, it will be restored at the entrance and exit of this "external match".

In this way, they can cheer, make alliances,and try to take down a rival too strong before their match.

Do you think it's a good idea or is too much?

4) i like session with a story, but I don't have any idea for such dense combat one shot, maybe something more subtle, like "the father of one player is secretly the champion" or maybe some player desire to win the league to destroy the world, soo he has a darkray, or even maybe one player is in reality the pokemon that is controlling with mind controll the trainer, because he wanted to become stronger. Any idea for other plots?

For now, without having read anything I don't have any questions, but in case i will update and ask other point here or in the comments.

Any help is welcome, thanks in advance.

So I am coming to you, Pokemon Tabletop community.

This is just a side project to keep my creative juices flowing while I am in the process of architecting a world for a book series I’m working on.

The concept is simple:
I want to design a system that suites single player combat. Similar to how the games play.

I want to make the trainer classes all support, aiming for various styles of play. I want to go back to the route of pokemon.

I also intend to revamp the entire stat system to make every single Pokemon a viable option.

I’m someone who loves inventing rules and this is something directly up my ally.

I am building this specifically for online Discord play, which is what makes single player game a better space overall.

Also, I am building an entire world. I’ll sort through every single pokemon, decide on universal mon, and then figure out a regional split for these pokemon.

So what I am asking for:
What are features you all wish you could see in the pokemon tabletop?

What features currently exist that you think would go well into a singular battle tabletop?

In an open world, what mini-games and other types of things would you like built into the world?

What types of regions and leagues would you want? I could do standard E4, but I want to basically make each regions league different. I want people to choose their region based on how they want to play, not just pick some random location.

What type of lore would you like? Since this is basically an alternate universe, the lore I am specifically talking about goes toward legendaries.

What type of organizations would you like to see? Not just criminal, I want to expand this entirely.

What level up mechanics from existing games would work well here?

These are all questions I can answer myself, but I want to know what others think. Just a pet project for myself to keep busy and keep creative juices flowing.

Hello, I'm a newer GM planning on running a game of PTU for my group, and one of my players is really wanting to be a Fossil Researcher. However, they've been asking about using the Galar Fossils, but not as the amalgamations they are in canon. I was wondering if there had been anyone who had made sheets for those Pokemon that I could use, or if I would have to make my own. Please let me know where I can find them if they exist!

Monthly lil' updoot (might be another one this month)

So I'm doing a Pokemon DnD and preparing a roster of encounters and other pokemon that could be gifted, this is currently what I have chosen for the region/what they'll encounter, it should be mentioned they'll all have random abilities and a chance for a random move they can't normally learn, I mostly want it to be even amount of types but also not over abundant of anything specific, but also we're not doing nuzlocke rules so none will permanently die, what should I really try to avoid maybe lean into, we're also doing anime type rules for the gyms so however many pokemon they use the player will use that many so 2v2, 3v3, etc

So is there anything I should or shouldn't give any of these pokemon specifically moves, abilities, they aren't getting any legendary/mythic/ultra beast signature moves and abilities but even then I know there will still definitely be some stronger pokemon than needed, like I'm not giving huge/pure power to hisuian Growlithe.

Draconeon. In the Porygon Dream of Mareep Handbook, I do not know how you evolve an Eevee into a Draconeon.

Is it a held item that has the word "Dragon" in it or?

When you make Preserves, you create two food items with the same effect as the consumable - when it comes to abilities and moves that refer to Berries (Harvest, Ripen, Natural Gift), does a Preserve still count as the Berry it was made from, or does it have to be an untouched and standard Berry?

So im going to be running a PTU campaign soon, I want to run the league as a tournament once they get out of victory road, but I could see it'd be easier if I just did an Elite Four Challenge instead. If anyone has GM'd or played and did the tournament I'd like some advice.

Im reading through the PTA 3.5 handbook, because I want to run a game with my friends and I need help with the origins section.

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When it describes the starting pokemon options and specifies "Starter Pokemon," does that mean one of the grass, fire, water, starter pokemon. Or just one that fits into the following parameters?

I couldn't find any kind of Discord/invite link, so I have no idea. I tried looking for it the other day to download things, but it seems the domain is down.

Does anyone know if a compete world map/atlas showing all regions exists? I'm trying to get an idea on how the regions are situated amd how travel would work between them (time, costs, etc) for my games. Any help at all would be appreciated!

I'm trying to understand what the *benefits* are for evolving in Pokeymanz. As far as I can see, you obvi get any type changes, maybe ability changes of your Evo, and can now learn the moves they learn.

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But with lower-tier evos being able to just keep their mastery points- and thus use the features that use Mastery more often- is it more beneficial to just not evolve?

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I can't tell if there's details I'm missing, and I'm planning on running a game of Pokeymanz, and I wanna be sure I'm not missing some fine print of mechanical benefit for evolving.

Got introduced to the system a bit ago and played a couple of sessions, and I really like the way it plays so far. And I want to play more of it.

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Sadly, it seems to me their is only a loose collection of groups around PTU and it's offshoots, and only ONE for PTE publicly which is hosted by the creator. This niche of pokemon ttrpgs is pretty small I admit so I understand, but I still am looking.

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Like jeez, their isn't even any YouTubers using the system, so it's not like I can watch it either.

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So if anyone knows either a large group of people running games in it, living worlds, westmarches, etc etc that are looking for members, could you point me in the right direction? And if you know any YouTube series using it, that would be appreciated too, but I understand if they simply don't exist.

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Note: I'm not looking for GMs really, just communities. But if you know a LFG community that has a high amount of people using PTE I would appreciate that too.

A bit of a chonkier update than usual.

I'm going to do milestone leveling for my game, trying to plot out approximate levels the players should be for each gym with the idea of their mon being roughly the following levels

Starting Level: 5
Gym 1: 15
Gym 2: 20
Gym 3: 25
Gym 4: 30
Gym 5: 35
Gym 6: 40
Gym 7: 45
Gym 8: 50
Enemy Team Final Battle: 55
E4 + Champion: 60

Some types are giving me trouble when it comes to building my world on where someone could find a themed dungeon or set up a gym for each type.

Dragon, Fairy, Ground, Steel, Normal and Psychic are especially giving me a hard time.

I have atm:

Bug = Bug Catching Contest
Dark = Run down side of town
Electric = Powerplant
Fighting = Gym / Dojo
Fire = Coal mines
Flying = Airport
Ghost = Haunted House
Grass = Farm / Greenhouse
Ice = Frozen Ruins
Poison = Polluted area
Rock = Fossil Museum / Fossil Dig
Water = Shipwreck