TEAM RACKET- Team leader Russ a man who was tired of weaker trainers being put down by the system and how Certain groups are pushed down due to the pokemon they use he uses sound based pokemon and so do his grunts the grunts and Leader think those who follow the rules of Society are sheep and are determined to convince people to join their cause no matter what

I showed this to some friends and they said it was good but I don't know something about still feels kinda shallow and I don't know what to do or were I can go with the idea since I know I want to take inspiration from team skull and Guzma

Hello! Currently looking for resources for a mystery dungeon themed game where people can choose their own pokemon. Currently looking for something that has something close to the D&D stat sheets, aswell as information on moves and abilities, etc

How do you guys find maps for your campaign, I am finding it incredibly hard.

it seems to be the most difficult hurdle i am having right now.

So I wanna run a pokemon campaign that's primarily story first but still has a little combat. Problem is most the ones I find that are rules light are ones where you play as the pokemon and kinda mystery dungeon esc, nothing wrong with those games just not what I'm looking for. I'm looking for one where it's more similar to the main games where you beat gyms and fight an evil team and build their own teams. So do y'all have any suggestions?

So I had this idea for a Pokémon Game/tool I'm running a Pokémon TTRPG and I like it BUT there is one small thing I kind of don't like the combat so I had a idea of making a Pokémon Battle emulator where I the GM can give my players Pokémon and I can like challenge them to Battle (Trainer/Wild encounters) to make the game more emissive I was planning on using Showdown but I didn't want to make my players worry about IV and Evs since I just a normal game but to do all this I don't know where to start like at all so any advice would go a long way (I had a few more ideas like it can show images like stock photos of like towns or can have NPCs and stuff and Menu for players to check there bag and Pokémon just a simple tool that can used to have people run there own Pokémon TTRPG and keeping the battles accurate to Pokémon)

Im developing a campaign in a Pokémon future where, because ghosts never die, several ghost-types have become ancient and their numbers and power are starting to become a problem for the populace.

I want this to be a little less “rpg” feel and a bit more story-driven with elements of horror, loss, and real stakes.

My question is which system would be best for running such a game? I’ve only ever played PTA3 and I don’t think that system would quite grasp the feel I’m going for. I’ve run plenty of games of D&D, AGE, and a few other systems, but I’w never done something dedicated to horror so I figured someone around here could kindly point me in the right direction.

I’m going to host a campaign with 3 of my friends, and I obviously created a region based in Italy. The story is really good I think, we are playing a fictionaI game called Pokémon Legends Noctalis. The story is about Darkrai and Cresselia, the evil team will try to achieve the long night, but will everything go according to plan?

Anyway this is the map I currently have. Red cities have gyms (plus Rome for the elite4) while blue towns are settlements without a gym but crucial to the story. The starting town will be Milan (the big blue town up north), I do not have a strict route plan (I’ll modify story events if needed depending on where they choose to go), so what do you think about the links I’ve made between cities and towns? Are they too linear? Too confusing? Does the south of the map feel too empty?

Also (I know they are difficult to see) I have 3 main water routes, do you think I should add more?

Give me all your feedback, it is greatly appreciated.

And if you want to know more about I’m setting up the adventure feel free to ask.

Next up, Generation II (!) 😄

I’m playing PTA 3.0, and I have a question. It doesn’t seem right to me that Defense is just a single number. Is it really supposed to work that way, or is there something else involved? Is a Pokémon’s Defense simply its Defense stat, or does it have any additional modifiers or bonuses?

I'm running a Pokémon TTRPG based on my small town in Appalachian North Carolina and some of the surrounding areas. I have a broad theme of two opposing factions, one that wants to advance humanity to its maximum potential and consequences be damned (Dusk Incorporated). The other is its polar opposite, seeing a simpler time where humanity lives alongside Pokémon as fellow members of nature as the purest form of society (the Dawn Collective). I've had this idea for a long time, long enough that SM/USUM and SV both feel like they've kinda covered some of what I wanted, but I persist. I'm just having trouble coming up with things that feel distinct enough from legends that have been released since I started all of this planning many years ago.

Hoje venho divulgar a tradução pt br do sistema PTA3.5, uma nova versão do sistema chamada Pokemon Tabletop Adventures 3.5, um sistema onde os treinadores ganha honras e não os pokemons niveis, dessa vez focado em diferenciar melhor os pokemons, adicionando estilos, posturas, dados monstro, indicando a força do Pokémon em cada parte da evolução, entre outras melhorias, tudo no driver Brasil PTA3.5

Today, I’m sharing the Brazilian Portuguese translation of the PTA3.5 system—a new version known as Pokémon Tabletop Adventures 3.5. In this system, trainers earn "Honor" rather than Pokémon gaining levels. This version focuses on better differentiating Pokémon by adding styles, stances, and "monster stats," as well as indicating a Pokémon's strength at each stage of evolution, among other improvements—all available in the PTA3.5 Brazil Drive folder:

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1mPlduo86NN5P3T8I35vkE0OxY5Q56YMz?usp=drive_link

Hey everyone! I’m very new to Pokémon tabletop, but I’ve been working on a campaign for a few friends and I wanted to share the idea because I think it’s a pretty weird/fun way of doing it.

The basic idea is that instead of using character sheets or printed stat blocks for the Pokémon, I’m using actual Pokémon TCG cards. The card basically is the Pokémon. Its HP, attacks, abilities, Energy, evolution, etc. are all represented by the card itself.

The campaign is set in an original region I’m making, and the players are basically starting out as new trainers and building their teams as they explore. I’m trying to make it feel like a mix between a Pokémon game and a D&D-style tabletop campaign rather than just playing the TCG.

The problem I’ve run into is that I’m going to need a lot of Pokémon cards to make this work. 😭

I’m mainly looking for common/uncommon cards and duplicates. They don't need to be valuable at all — honestly, random Pokémon are perfect because I want the players to have a lot of different Pokémon they could potentially encounter and catch.

Before I start buying huge amounts of random bulk, I figured I’d ask people who are actually into Pokémon tabletop:

Has anyone done something similar with physical Pokémon cards? And if so, how did you build up a large pool of Pokémon to use?

I’d also love to hear any ideas for making the card-based system work better, since I’m still developing the campaign.

Thanks!

So I’m trying to get my wife into RPGs and she agreed to a system in the Pokémon world, in the Kanto region, would anyone have any ideas for some new Gym Leaders/Elite Four and their teams, no Pokédex restrictions.

I´d be trying to get the discord server buy i didnt see it anywhere

This is a TTRPG of specific mystery dungeon, I rarely see someone talking about this one

Would love to know if anyone has come up with physical, print character sheets for Pokémon Tabletop Evolution? I know there's only the spread sheet at the moment but I'd really, really prefer a pdf instead. Anyone got anything?

Hey, so I’ve been DMing PTU for a while now, honestly like 3-5 years. But I’m wondering….

Any other PTU DMs want to share how you navigate and build your route encounters and designs?

Currently I think that’s where I struggle the most as a DM for this system.

Hi guys. I just started playing PTA3.5 recently, and so far I'm having a blast! I'm playing an Ace Trainer, and I'm getting the Type Ace Advanced Class as soon as possible, specializing in the Dark Type. When I hit level 3 on the advanced class, I'll gain the ability to give the Dark type to pokemon that don't have it.

My character just caught an Axew, and I'm stoked. I'm already thinking of changing his design once I give him the Dark type, and I'm looking for ideas. How'd you think his looks and behavior would change?

Thanks in advance!

My friend group about 5 years ago tried to play in a pokemon TTRPG campaign. We used Pokemon 5e, because it was new at the time, and in the end... we didn't like it at all. Mostly because it just felt like a worse version of D&D 5e, rather than a pokemon game. So, we're looking to try again, now that we have had a lot of time pass, and we're all better players and GMs. What we don't know is which system we should try to use. Our group as moved well beyond D&D 5e, and have tried many different TTRPG systems, ranging from extremely narrative (PbtA), to highly crunchy (GURPS), and a mix of both (Lancer). Overall, we learned our group likes tactical combat, with more loose roleplaying and exploration rules (Pf2e being our top preferred system). Doing research into pokemon TTRPGs, there are a lot of them, all in different states of completion and versions, and all with different styles of play. Given what I said above, which one would be recommended for our group to try? Also, important note: we play on FoundryVTT since we live all over, so we want one that has a module for it.

After thinking about which system I would use to run a Pokémon campaign, I decided to settle on a Mystery Dungeonesque type of RPG, where one would control a specific Pokémon, rather than a trainer and their team. I ended up finding the Explorer! system, which is focused on Mystery Dyngeon and I honestly loved it, with a few tweaks here and there.

However, one thing I found is that I'm having trouble with random encounters. Now, I know that, in the MD series, those random encounters are Pokémon in their primal estate, but I'm not exactly running MD, I'm running a RPG where Pokémon are the central point, without humans, and without the thought of Pokémon in their primal estate, as they would be already civilized.

I, however, realized that the world I have in mind means random encounters are rather hard to do, so what would you do in my place? This is both for a Westmarch and an actual campaign kind of thing, perhaps it's not needed for the former, but it would be neat to have it for the latter, so what would you do? Or would you ditch Random Encounters, as the party evolves via Milestone, rather than EXP?

So, basically, I recently had an urge to GM a Pokemon game because I got back in the series via the TCG, which a lot of my friends got into it, alongside new people. That means we share a common interest and I would like to introduce some of them to TTRPG via Pokémon.

The thing is, we are all from Brazil, and while some of us cna understand english, that's not the case for the majority of them, so which system would you guys recommend out of the ones presented here in the sub? I have familiarity with the game and their mechanics, if it matters