The Pokémon Crossroads Role Playing Guide (Beginners, Advanced, and Role Play Creation)

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The Pokémon Crossroads Role Playing Guide

Welcome to the Pokémon Crossroads Role Playing guide! This guide is intended to help you strengthen your role playing skills regardless of whether you're new to the experience, or whether you've role played before and want to boost your skills by learning from us crazy kids that have been doing this kind of stuff for years.

So grab some grub, crank on some tunes, sit back, and relax.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

GUIDE #1 THE BASICS

1. Introduction
2. Terms and Commonly Used Abbreviations
3. Common Rules
   
   • Ground Rules
   • Ratings and Mature Content
4. Role Play Mechanics
   
   • The Sign Up Form
   • Sign Ups: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
   • Into the Breach: Get to Role Playing!
   • Extra Tips
5. See You There!

GUIDE #2 THE ADVANCED STUFF FOR ELITE ROLE PLAYERS

1. Introduction
2. Advanced Aspects
   
   • The Header
   • Time Duration
   • Traveling
3. Cautions
   
   • Game Master Tour Guiding
   • Waiting Chains (And when to break away)
   • Rapid Fire Posting
   • Avoid Wolf Pack Scenarios
4. Player Versus Player Etiquette
   
   • General Attack Handling
   • Defending
   • Counter-Attacking
   • Character Injury and Death
   • Other PVP Aspects
5. Alternate Pokémon Mechanics
6. Customization and Final Remarks

GUIDE #3 BUILDING THAT AWESOME ROLE PLAY

1. Introduction
2. Beginning Bits
3. World-Building
   
   • And in the Beginning, YOU said...
   • Put on your cartographer hat
   • Home sweet home
   • Making fantasy races
4. Your Blank Slate (Getting Started When You're Stumped for Ideas)
   
   • The Three-step Idea Generation Process
5. Weaving the Role Play Together
   
   • Putting the Scraps to Use
   • Linking Scraps
   • The Skeleton Framework
6. Fleshing it Out
   
   • Detail and You
7. Some Zen to Think About
   
   • Keep Things Evolving
   • There Are Rules, But...
   • "Training is Over, Soldier!"
   • Chat Room Yakking
   • Never Fear Failure
8. Cheers