D&D General Pokemon Campaign Idea

[Blue0Cake]

I've only been a part of a few campaigns with friends, and never DMed myself, but I though of this potential Pokemon campaign idea that I thought would be nice to share!

The campaign obviously takes place in a world that combines both Pokemon and D&D, where before the campaigns even starts each player selects a legendary pokemon. The campaign progresses it is discovered that each of the players' characters' ancestors where all very powerful travelers who had the legendaries the players chose as their patrons. So when they level up they gain new skills and or spells based around their patron legendary as said legendaries slowly begin waking up to take on the roles as patrons once again. (This being really good or really bad depending which Pokemon the players choose)

So, yeah. Just wanted to throw my idea out there. Who knows maybe it might inspire one of you guys or something

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

There is a 3PP, "Roll for Combat" what published "Battlezoo", and "Dungeons in a box" algo published "Monster Trainer Handbook". Other titles are "Animon", "Journeymon" or "monster wrangler". Mystical: Kingdom of Monsters was a 3PP setting.

If you want lore you could read the fandom wikis of this kind of videogames.

Mon - TV Tropes

A Monnote short for "monster", as in Pokémon (Pocket Monsters) and Digimon (Digital Monsters) is a creature, generally summoned by magic or sufficiently advanced science means, which fights on behalf of its summoner. This allows …

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[aco175]

@Blue0Cake welcome to the site.

It seems like you are looking for more Pokémon in your D&D over having a D&D game with themes of Pokémon. This is fine, but I just do not have enough information to really help.

My initial thought was to have the things be some sort of captured elementals that acted a bit like henchmen and not like a ranger's animal companion.

 

[djotaku]

Strong recommendation from me for https://www.kickstarter.com/project...ns-of-the-wild-5e-animal-companion-supplement - I was a backer and it does "Pokemon" really well. Like so well, I'm surprised they weren't sued a la Palworld. They really thought through how Pokemon would work with 5e rules. I like their Dungeon in a Box product - they do good work. I don't know if the KS was successful enough in their eyes that they are going to make more adventures in that world, but they really give you everything you need to homebrew more.

 

[slobster]

Strong recommendation from me for https://www.kickstarter.com/project...ns-of-the-wild-5e-animal-companion-supplement - I was a backer and it does "Pokemon" really well. Like so well, I'm surprised they weren't sued a la Palworld. They really thought through how Pokemon would work with 5e rules. I like their Dungeon in a Box product - they do good work. I don't know if the KS was successful enough in their eyes that they are going to make more adventures in that world, but they really give you everything you need to homebrew more.

This sounded really cool to me, so I went looking-is there any place to currently buy the pdf? All I could find was the old kickstarter, which is long since over and doesn't seem to have any options for late backing, and a webpage for the product...that leads back to the kickstarter!