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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Undrave" data-source="post: 8610308" data-attributes="member: 7015698">How many Star Wars RPG games are we at by now? How do they expect people to invest in a franchise that is so famously flaky and demanding of RPG company? Back when WotC handled the Pokémon trading card game, they did release a Pokémon 'proto-RPG' for little kids! <a href="https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/1625/pokemon-jr-adventure-game-pokemon-emergency" target="_blank">The Pokémon Jr. Adventure Game!</a> The Harry Potter franchise is basically unraveling as we speak, with the prequel movies just crashing and burning and JK being a despised TERF... I don't think Hasbro wants to team up with the license in any big way that would draw negative attention their way. It's not the sure money-making franchise it used to be. the third company is Creatures inc. A lot of fans have tried to make a Pokémon TTRPG, including one based on 5e, but I've found that all of the ones I've seen get mired in numbers and complex formulas and trying to reproduce the video games way too accurately, with giant move lists for every Pokémon, each with their own individual PP, and long list of held items. There's one where each Pokémon, and humans (because those games insist on keeping the concept of humans being able to fight) using the six D&D ability scores (despite the fact those scores don't work for what is needed in a Pokémon game) and THEN calculate the game's ability (Attack, Defense, Special Attack, Special Defense, Speed) for each Pokémon based on those! It's BONKERS. It's like asking a player to have up to juggle up to seven characters at a time... yikes.</blockquote>

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