RP game idea - Thoughts?

Ok. My idea is a sort of game with RPG and TCG elements. I originally had this as an idea to improve the "Claim a Pokémon" idea and it kind of went overboard...

Basic Plot:

• You're a person from another dimension that has somehow ended up in the Pokémon world without any powers you may have had previously. You need to integrate yourself with this new world and find clues that can help lead your way home. Along your adventure you will find others in the same situation as yourself, people from the world of Pokémon that wish to help you and, of course, Pokémon of every breed and purpose.

Main Concept:

• Everyone either creates a character/OC or a canon character from any form of media. These characters represent "you" as Pokémon trainers.
• Each trainer starts off with one Pokémon from any generation that they get for free.
• In the "main" RP thread players can challenge each other to battles, form teams, create side stories, whatever they want.
• There'll be major events set up by a Games Master (or whatever they're called) that trainers can opt to partake in too (eg: tournaments, event RPs etc)

Points System:

• There's a points/money system involved. Trainers get points by completing RP quests, contests and winning battles against each other.
• Points can be used to buy items in game.
• Once a player has reached a certain threshold of points, they can add another Pokémon to their party.
• Something along the format of: initial pkm = basic. 1st tier = 1st evolution. 2nd tier = 2nd evo. 3rd tier = 3rd evo. 4th tier = legendary. You can choose to either evolve your initial pkm or choose a different pkm from a different evo line.

Battle System:

• For every Pokémon a trainer owns, a "card" will be created with 2 atks. Each atk has a certain number of PP. 1st atk has unlimited PP. 2nd atk has 2-4PP.
• Every pkm comes with a powerful TM move on a separate card that has 1 PP. You can mix and match TMs & pkm.
• A trainer can issue a challenge to another trainer or a group of trainers in the main rp thread.
• Each trainer can bring at most 6 pkm with them to battle. Any combo of pkm is allowed. eg: 1v1, 3v2, 6v6
• A referee rolls a dice/uses a random number generator to determine who starts first, which atks are criticals, which atks miss and so on. (eg: Rolling a 2 = a crit, +1 dmg. Rolling a 6 = a miss. No dmg etc)
• Assume all atks hit. No criticals. Status effects will be integrated into atk descriptions.

I can fine tune some things later but that's the gist of it. We'll probably need tiers for basic pkm vs evolved pkm vs legendaries, someone designated as points coordinator and event/tournament maker. Maybe add on a goal with some badge collecting but that's down the road.

I'm thinking we could use this Pokemon Card Maker (nice UI, limit pkm cards only, 2 atks) or this one (poor UI, all card types, 3 atks or 2 atks + ability) so ppl can make their own cards (thus eliminating a need for a Card Maker role) and others can vote on whether or not the card is fair enough to be played.

Would anyone be interested in such a RP? Post your thoughts.

 

Yeah. I'm trying to figure out if there's a way to do it without a ref/random number gen. Or if there could be a way to incorporate the Pokémon TCG's "energy" system

I was thinking trainers could can buy energy cards with the points you earn (they'd be reusable) but not sure how trainers would "pick up" the cards during battle :/

*edit: scrapped the dice idea and we'll just assume all atks hit. Added a bit more to the first post.

 

Right now I'm hoping to get either the yay or nay from the mods on whether or not they want integrate this with the Claim A Pokémon thing since that'll impact how I implement the battle system. Which will affect the other things...

For those non RP'ers. I'm intending to implement a sort of "Batlle Chateau" where you can just go up and challenge ppl to matches without much need to RP (you can if you wish of course).

@[member="Pyramid King"]@ @shinygiratinaz@ (seriously how does this mention thing work?)
There's no "right" way to roleplay. The main idea is that you want to assume the role of your character. Put yourself into the shoes of your character and make your rp based on how your character would react in a given situation. You can develop and mature your characters as they continue through the plot of the game, or regress and end up a completely different person than how you started. Do whatever you want, they're your characters lol.


In terms of formatting. My rps are chat/dialogue based with short 1-2 sentence descriptions of actions, environments and just generally what's happening. My sort of rp focuses more on developing my characters and showing their interactions with the world they're brought into. Normally, I take the role of one of my characters (my protagonist) and use first person to express his thoughts and actions. Sometimes, if I'm playing a canon character, I add in pictures, gifs, emoticons etc so readers have a better idea of what the characters are doing.

Another format is a story sort of format. I rarely ever do these so maybe someone else who does can add some points. Basically, the person writes their characters as if they're writing a book. They use third person and give detailed descriptions of actions and the environment.