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<blockquote data-quote="Undrave" data-source="post: 9243375" data-attributes="member: 7015698">This reminds me of when, pre-pandemic, there was talk of doing a Pokémon TTRPG campaign with some friends and I looked into what had been done in the fandom… They were all awful bloated messes that made 3.X look sensible. There was this obsession with reproducing the video game WAY too closely (the math in Pokémon games is insanely dense and it works fine when a computer handles the actual boring part), obsession with stating up EVERY Pokémon from the start, giant move list, absurd stat line up, and stacking traits on both human and Pokémon to the point a trainer and their team would basically be like running 7 entire RPG character. They also have to include the 6 Pokémon stats (HP, ATK, DEF, SP.ATK, SP.DEF, SPD) and I even saw a game use the D&amp;D stats and then GENERATE THE OTHER SIX out of the D&amp;D stats! Absolute madness! And some of them have a weird obsession with making rules for humans fighting Pokémon directly.I can’t imagine any of those being fun to play considering how unwieldy they looked.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Undrave, post: 9243375, member: 7015698"] This reminds me of when, pre-pandemic, there was talk of doing a Pokémon TTRPG campaign with some friends and I looked into what had been done in the fandom… They were all awful bloated messes that made 3.X look sensible. There was this obsession with reproducing the video game WAY too closely (the math in Pokémon games is insanely dense and it works fine when a computer handles the actual boring part), obsession with stating up EVERY Pokémon from the start, giant move list, absurd stat line up, and stacking traits on both human and Pokémon to the point a trainer and their team would basically be like running 7 entire RPG character. They also have to include the 6 Pokémon stats (HP, ATK, DEF, SP.ATK, SP.DEF, SPD) and I even saw a game use the D&D stats and then GENERATE THE OTHER SIX out of the D&D stats! Absolute madness! And some of them have a weird obsession with making rules for humans fighting Pokémon directly. I can’t imagine any of those being fun to play considering how unwieldy they looked. [/QUOTE]

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