Trainer License


So your character is ready to become a full fledged trainer? Think they have what it takes to become the very best? To create a trainer card, simply create a new topic in the Trainer Card sub forum. Every card needs to have the bare bone basics, and after that, feel free to go wild with the design and any additional information you'd like to include.

If you happen to be particularly creative yourself, you may design your own Trainer Card layout. If not, below is the basic information needed in a trainer card. Feel free to use this as your template or take it and run over to the Smeargle Artist Corner to browse through some shops that would be happy to make you a layout design;

[b]Appearance/Physical Description:[/b]
[b]Name:[/b]
[b]Gender:[/b]
[b]Height:[/b]
[b]Weight:[/b]
[b]Age:[/b]
[b]Birthday:[/b]
[b]Home Town:[/b] (Does not have to be in the region you plan to claim your starter in)
[b]Personality:[/b]
[b]History:[/b]

Optional Additions:

[b]Nickname(s):[/b]
[b]Orientation:[/b]
[b]Likes:[/b]
[b]Dislikes:[/b]
[b]Fears:[/b]
[b]Goals/Dreams:[/b]
[b]Skills:[/b]
[b]Trainer Class:[/b] -Coordinator, Ranger, Photographer, Sketcher, Breeder, etc, etc-
[b]Theme Song:[/b]
[b]Favorite Types:[/b]
[b]Least Favorite Types:[/b]



While we want to encourage creativity and unique, interesting characters, P:ER does have some ground rules.

Please keep in mind that this is a pokemon guild, and as such we really try to stick as closely as possible to the canon pokeverse. All characters in this guild should be human. Please do not make a Gijinka, Humanoid, or Alien as a character, this isn’t that kind of RP. If you would like clarification to see if your idea is acceptable, then feel free to ask a mod.

If you would like to play a character pair, such as twins, a parent and child, or a devoted couple, you may create them as a single character rather than two separate characters. However, if you make them as one character, you need to play them as one character, which means they must be posted for together, need to stay in the same area (i.e. they can get separated in Ilex Forest and be searching for each other, but you can’t post one in Ilex forest, and the other in Goldenrod City), they can only have one active team of six between them, and can only claim one reward from character specific achievements. If you want to double battle wild pokemon, it will still require that you expend twice the number of post counters to summon two pokemon. NPC battles can be double battles, however Gym Leaders and Elite Four members who are not already constructed as double battlers (such as Liz and Tate) must be battled as a Single Battle. You can have your characters trade items and pokemon, but pokemon that evolve via trade will not evolve when team characters trade with each other.

It is canon for some characters to have certain powers, such as aura and psionics, however we would like to dissuade the use of these powers in a character. We will allow minor psychic influences such as telepathy as a reason to speak with pokemon, but please don't expect to create a Sabrina-level super powered character. If you would like mind reading to be an RP plot point between a psychic character and another character, you must receive the other RPer's consent. Over time powers can develop, but we ask that nothing be used to alter battling, such as the trainer throwing in an aura sphere to do extra damage to an opponent, or reading minds as an excuse to godmod and predict attacks in battle.

While it is canon in the pokemon world for AUs, Dimension Hopping, and Time Travel to occur, P:ER has some restrictions when it comes to characters dealing with this type of plot.

What is Acceptable?

-The main thing to keep in mind, is that like with all plots, keep them small, personal, or isolated. You are free to have your character move forward or back in time in small increments (such as a day or an hour) to predict the future or go back in time to change their own destiny (several years into the past) as long as it's for personal use.

-Planning small time jumping events with other people's characters so they can join in and plan out plots between your characters as well.

-Having characters who were born in the past and have managed to travel to the present time.


What is NOT Acceptable?

-Going into the past to majorly change/alter a historic canon event.

-Creating characters that come from a different dimension, future, AU, etc.

-Forcing plot on other RPers and their characters without their consent, such as showboating time travel to draw attention to your character.

-Using time travel to jump 100+ years into the future as a means of predicting the future of the entire world.



These lists only cover the basics. We cannot possibly cover every possibility and circumstance in this section, so if you have any questions regarding if your time travel plot is acceptable or not, please contact a mod and we will be happy to give you an answer or offer alternative ideas to make your idea work in the guild setting.