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hello my lovelies~ (◡‿◡✿)
i think once this semester ends (two more weeks!) i might try to jump back into the rp! i just looked through old posts again and wow nostalgia! i really miss you guys you know?! ♥

Yay Lala!

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Hm. Amusingly, limiting it strictly to PvP wasn't something I thought of, despite PvP being my primary motivation for that rule. I can understand not doing it for random NPC trainers, but I would certainly like to see it done for when players battle eachother.

*strokes facial hair in deep thought*

These rules. Hmm. I like the honor system myself, we're all fairly good writers here and behave when it comes to rping. I'll admit that I find myself with the moral dilemma of "should I be fully paralyzed this turn?" Although with the honor system a lot of people, myself included, deal with it by simply dodging the status educing move in general. Mostly cause of the old rule that was in place that basically said "if it's not a never miss move, you can either dodge or you can attack each turn." I do see how adding a dice system for accuracy when an attack is less than 70% is ok to see if it hits, but at the same time there are only a handful of moves with accuracy lower than that and even less people with those pokemon in the rp that actually use them without the aid of something like mind reader or so making the accuracy rolling essentially a novelty that rests on a shelf and collects dust. Even if it were moves lower than 80%, blizzard and Thunder are the only two that jump to mind right away that see any real constant use. Rolling to see if you are fully paralyzed or if you're still asleep though, as those are the only statuses that really have that kind of maybe it will maybe it won't, isn't a bad idea. I'm in favor of that one, just to take that factor out of it when you're thinking how you should have your pokemon act without feeling guilty about not being fully paralyzed five times in a row. On the accuracy note, how would that effect counter strategies? A fun tool to use while rping that isn't available in the games is thinking clever ways to counter something that would otherwise be a hit. Like derailing a powerful attack with a weaker one, if only enough to make it not hit directly. In a situation where the dice spoke and said the move hits, does that take all the power away from the opponent? Can I no longer say, pokemon B uses move #3 to counter/block/diminish the oncoming move and come out fine? Since they rolled and it hit can I do nothing but say Pokemon B was struck down and took some hurt, and staggers to recover before retaliating? And the reverse of that, if the dice say it misses, can I then ignore it and respond with something like "the attack of pokemon A took a wide turn and missed completely, leaving pokemon A totally open and letting pokemon B rush in and deliver move #3 without worry." I feel that when you institute a numerical deciding system it leaves so many other mini decisions that are left to be determined which can be annoying. The kind of things that don't matter in a table top rpg because you say well creative freedom is robbed for order and pure random chance, or that don't matter in a literary rp because you give up order and decisive outcomes for the honor system and personal creativity. Both systems have their flaws, but a fusion of them can be hard to do effectively.

That being said, if rules are put in place then they'll be followed, the final say so is up to you guys once you've weighed in everything. I'm not particularly for it, but I'm not gonna chain myself to an internet tower in protest either. The HM thing, it makes sense and it's ok in some ways. A Fearow isn't that hard to come by though, for example, and you would certainly have a pokemon capable of flight long before you would earn that badge. Water pokemon are a bit harder, cause even a full evolved pokemon like Golduck isn't exactly a ferry. I'd imagine a person having to hang onto it's neck as it swam half drowning the whole way. Though I think that's getting a bit off subject. But for pokemon that aren't that practical for use as a canoe and therefor wouldn't know the move inherently, do they still have access to being taught the HM for the sake of having a powerful water move? And at that, would a pokemon that can use surf inherently also be able to use it freely in battle? Say a Trainer starts with something like a Lapras, already big enough to carry people, does this trainer who's Lapras would already know Surf have access to Surf from the get go and be able to spam the s**t out of it on everything it comes across? Now sure stuff like Surf and Cut aren't equal, but you gotta find a way to balance it all out equally and answer possible questions and problems like that.

I'm pretty sure that'll end my filibuster. I'm not even sure I made any sense in there. Really I was just rambling cause I'm bored.

Really... I just don't think we need to mess with a good thing.

Hi guys.~