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Topic: Pokemon-y Fantasy World Planning

Unnamed Pokemon meets High Fantasy World!

Basically, this is an excuse for everyone to take their favorite fantasy works, mix 'em all together, and throw Pokemon into that mix. But since some didn't seem to think it would fit as a WAAPT arc (some thought the initial proposal excluded Pokemon entirely, which was not my intention at all) I decided to make it a sandboxy sub-RP.

Currently, all I have is this:

* Magic is a much bigger thing in this universe, (which needs a name; any suggestions?) and is a predominant force.

* There are eighteen races, all aligned to a Pokemon type. For example, humans are Normal, dwarves are Rock, and elves are Fairy. :P

* Pokemon exist alongside these races, and live with races aligned to their type more frequently than others.

Why do I have so little? Well, I was hoping we could all fill in the gaps!

Questions, comments, and especially ideas are all welcome.

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This idea makes me a very happy child oh yus.

Now, from the chat and this description, basically there's a fantasy universe filled with magical races, Pokémon, and adventures. And dungeons. And dragons.

So, it's an homage to the fantasy genre, yes?
It is delicious.

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Yus, yus it is.

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4 Reply by 0blivion!Dune

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I vote to name it the land Gygax.

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Suggestions for race/type combos:

Normal-Humans

Water-Merfolk, Water nymphs

Fire-Dragons, if non-mon dragons are a think, a theoretical race of lizard people

Grass-Elves, forest nymphs, satyr-type creatures

Dark-demons, devils, yugoloths,

Steel-Dwarves (voting this over Rock because smiths)

Fighting-Orcs

Ghost- ...Ghosts.

Ground-Halflings (Hobbits)

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Hobbits are an offshoot of Men/Humans, so I was thinking they'd have the same Type association.

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...What about Bug, huh? :p

And how does this affect dual-types? Because flying mons...

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8 Reply by CorvusAtrox (edited by CorvusAtrox 2013-07-09 22:10:58)

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Silent: It shouldn't. They're associated with one-type. Unless half-whatevers are a thing.

And I support Hobbits for Ground, though if Fire were lizard people, what would Dragon be?

And I can't think of a high fantasy example for insects, though my knowledge is kind of limited.

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I don't think there should be a set number of races, so we don't have to shoehorn races into types, or leave out ones we would like because we have more than one race for a type.

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Hmmm... Crewe has a point. Any suggestions for some other system?

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I dunno, but I want to do a Wheel of Time sequence at some point. :P

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We could just come up with all the races we want to have in there first, and then assign types to them afterwards.

13 Reply by CorvusAtrox (edited by CorvusAtrox 2013-07-09 22:26:55)

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Type-proficiency is decided on a race-by-race basis, with two types they're generally good with and one they're generally bad with or something similar?

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Umbramatic wrote:

Hmmm... Crewe has a point. Any suggestions for some other system?

How about having the area where the races live determine their Pokémon typing? Elves live in forests, so they'd be around Grass-, Normal-, and Flying-types. Dwarves would still use Ground, as they're miners, but could also use Rock. Humans are an odd case, seeing as they have cities all around.

Rapidash are universal, being a primary mode of locomotion. Unless you're a Dwarf, because they don't like horses. And hobbits prefer Ponyta.

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Angels or harpies/bird-people for Flying, I presume?

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I don't mind the idea of every race having a type they're associated with, I just don't like limiting the races we can have to ones that fit with each type, with only one race per type.

I do like Crow's idea, though.

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Yeah, Crow's idea sounds good.

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So I guess the first step would be to come up with a list of races that we want in this world.

I personally want drow. Totally mainstream, I know, but hey. :P

19 Reply by Umbramatic (edited by Umbramatic 2013-07-10 00:37:48)

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I personally want some sort of Dragonborn/Draconian-esqe race, as well as elves and dwarves (gotta go with the staples after all).

Dark elves of some sort like Crewe mentioned could be cool too.

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I always feel like I'm the only one who plays humans exclusively...

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Wizards! Wizards are important. I'd imagine they'd like to have Psychic and Fairy Pokémon around.

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Are wizards a race? Can't anything be a wizard?

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Are wizards a race? Can't anything be a wizard?

Technically, yes. The traditional definition would be a human with magical powers. I don't believe Dwarves/Elves/Hobbits/etc. can be wizards.

The term is flexible, though.

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Wizards can be any race, from what I've seen. Some make better wizards than others.

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Well, if this RP were to have one overarching plot, I think it'd be cool to have a sort of traditional "defeat the Big Bad" storyline. The Big Bad could be a mix of plenty of fantasy baddies (Sauron, Voldemort, etc.)

If we were to have arcs like WAAPT, we could do a theme of parody/homage for a single fantasy work per arc. For example, one arc would feature homages and parodies of Eragon, another for HP, and so on.