Originally Posted by
Lychee
Hey! Some things have come up in the chat which are worth addressing here!
Firstly; a Pokemon handling skill would be cool. Like how James from team rocket can get Pokemon on his side-- or sometimes they try to eat him. I'm assuming since we have no badge system and also will steal other people's pokemon, we could very realistically come up against the problem that our stolen ratatta will not chew through the wires on a mission, but instead run away and set off an alarm! Perhaps, though, this is unneccesary, since Pokemon are assumed to cooperate in most stories.
Secondly!
In the discord, someone mentioned that if you don't put a skill point into a skill, you don't even get to roll for it and automatically fail! I assumed that the luck of the dice could still get you through, however unlikely it is. So, in order to be able to even able to get Palila to attempt things with any chance of success, I'll be putting 1 point into each skill, lol!
Thirdly, we got into a big debate about using Pokemon to threaten and hurt people. I think we should be both expected to, and also threatened to. We may be grunts, but hey, pretty much every bad team tries to push people around, using Pokemon as their means of force. Maybe I'm thinking too cinematically? But I want the gloves off. Make NPCs cry! Make PCs afraid when they jump into a battle they aren't going to win! Sure, repercussions and the legal system are still in play- but we've ALREADY seen nad guys kidnap, threaten, shoot, burn with charizard, crunch with dinosaurs, and outright incinerate people.
I'm all for cute petty crime beginnings, but it is fun to have a greater evil to build towards, rather than Pokemon harming humans being vetoed from the get go.
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