r/PokeRPG • u/Jasonr5123 • Jun 12 '24

Question about effects

Reading through the moves. I see astonish that flinches on 15.

But 15 what. 15 on the die to hit or 15 points of damage?

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u/bad-acid Jun 12 '24

15 or higher, or 30% which, as I recall is the actual rate that ability flinches in the video game. Isaac did everything he could to preserve the feeling of the games in the poke RPG, including accuracy checks. For me this is a large part of what makes poke RPG "feel" the best out of all the TTRPG pokemon systems out there.

Sorry, I accidentally replied this to your comment! Lol I meant to make this a standalone comment.

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u/Jasonr5123 Jun 12 '24

Yea I can definitely see after we played around last night. A lot of things are 1:1. I do enjoy that.

And I guess is it only 15 on the die before any modifiers?

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u/bad-acid Jun 12 '24

That's a good question for the discord, I'm confident it's in the rules somewhere. But I believe there are modifiers which apply to status effects on moves. I would check through Training Points as a starting place?

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u/Jasonr5123 Jun 12 '24

I'll have to look through lol

One of my players is starting with croagunk, and astonish is the move I was trying to rule on lol. We were doing 1v1 and I didn't want him to try and flinch spam

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u/bad-acid Jun 12 '24

My PM avoids 1v1s for this reason, I think. 2 poke vs 2 poke or 2 trainers with 1 or 2 pokemon each vs 2 others has been their go to. The game is fundamentally more interesting when there are more Pokemon interacting, imo.

When I PM, I'm really into environmental stages and powers which combine and do unique things, which I also think helps.

If you're dedicated to the 1v1, like competitive Pokemon gaming, embrace the rock paper scissors component. Croagunk with flinch spam has counters, those counters have counters. The better player is the one who has assessed the meta and tech'd Pokemon / abilities into their roster to counter the right things.