[PTA] (General Discussion) PTA Community Assemble!

DJP3710

With four PTA (Pokemon Tabletop Adventure) games having been started within the last month, there have been requests for a general PTA OOC thread. This idea has been bounced around, but nobody has acted on it. As a PTA GM with a boring saturday at work to sit through, I decided I'd get it started.

This is the PTA community thread, where the players of the four games can mingle and discuss things concerning PTA rules, what's happening in the game threads, etc. This thread will also serve as a launching point in case future PTA games wish to be started.

I'll start adding in listings of the four current games (GM/player rosters, synopsis, etc.) over the course of today.

Welcome to the water cooler.

Squall

this is a pretty fantastic system and I'm glad it's so flexible for different DMing styles

the four games we have going are all unique in their own respect

Kane Red Robe

Hooray! I was just thinking we might need a thread for general discussion of the game since there are so many of us playing. Maybe even come up with some useful ideas that we can pass off to the people making the game.

I was noticing earlier, as I was perusing advancement options for Will, that Weapon Master is a shit awful advanced class. It has roughly the same number of abilities as the other advanced class, but they are split among the different weapon groups, so if you are a sword master, you can get five abilities out of the class (not counting the basic freebies), and sword masters have the most options. If you want to be an unarmed master you are basically hosed.

I guess that's nothing new though, there's pretty much no reason other than RP to use your fists ever to make an attack, swords key off the same stat and do way more damage.

Squall

I thought the idea of the weapon master class is that you become a master of a vast repertoire of weapons, not just the one you started with?

BugBoy

In light of recent events over in our group, I've been wondering what happens if we die

do we get to reroll another character, or is someone recruited to take our place?

Kane Red Robe

Squall wrote: »

I thought the idea of the weapon master class is that you become a master of a vast repertoire of weapons, not just the one you started with?

Nope. Or not really at least. When you take the class you get master level training with one weapon type. You can take that feature multiple times to master other weapons types, but that just means it only costs one feature to master a weapon type instead of two or three. Still kind of a hideous feature sink.

Squall

BugBoy

further questions: can a pokemon egg survive inside an Arbok's stomach?

Squall

it'll be like that scene from alien with john hurt

Kane Red Robe

I think the better question might be: Can an Arbok open a backpack?

It was in your pack right?

Squall

where the arkbok is john hurt and the egg is the alien and alex is sigourney weaver and eightoh is bilbo baggins and and and

BugBoy

I was going to try to photoshop this, but then I remembered we don't know what's in the egg yet

Speed Racer

Can't nobody hope to stop the mad nefariousness of Team Wang

DJP3710

Speed Racer wrote: »

Can't nobody hope to stop the mad nefariousness of Team Wang

In a turf war between the villain groups of the four games, I wonder where Team Wang ranks...

Spoit

Well...We Are Not Good

Marshmallow

BugBoy wrote: »

In light of recent events over in our group, I've been wondering what happens if we die

do we get to reroll another character, or is someone recruited to take our place?

I'm not a fan of random, dice-allotted deaths. Nor am I a fan of shunting players out due to a death.

When a death happens, I'll allow a new character most likely.

Lucedes

In a turf war between the groups of trainers in all the games

Encore would probably fight dirtier than Team Wang

and still lose

DJP3710

Lucedes wrote: »

In a turf war between the groups of trainers in all the games

Encore would probably fight dirtier than Team Wang

and still lose

Maybe, but you'd all be the best groomed group out of the bunch.

"Making losing look good, that's Encore!"

BugBoy

by the time team WANG stops talking and gets to fighting, everyone else has already beaten their pokemon and stolen their stuff

Spoit

Hey notsoy, is there a chronicle for leftovers?

DJP3710

Oh, you're reading the chronicles? *Dashes off to update Encore Chronicles*

Spoit

Not so much of a need for encore, since it has a separate OOC thread

Kay

We've already had our first possible death!

Terrendos

So, regarding the Capture Specialist Feature "Capture Point Max," I assume it's supposed to read "Effect: Subtract your DEX modifier and your INT modifier from your d100 roll when throwing any Poke Ball. This Feature replaces Capture Point X." rather than "Subtract half your DEX modifier" because otherwise it is strictly worse than its prerequisite. Am I wrong about this one?

notsoy

You want to roll low when rolling d100

So, for example, if Gyarados has a Capture Rate of 5, it means that if not accounting for other modifiers related to catching, you need to roll 1-4 to catch it.

Spoit

I don't know why they just didn't invert it, and make everything better to roll high, rather than mixing adding and subtracting "good" modifiers

Terrendos

No, I got that. But both features are saying basically "subtract one modifier and half of another modifier" to the Capture Rate. Except that Capture Point X is basically better, because it lets you choose between using INT modifier and half your DEX modifier or vice versa. Capture Point Max, which requires Capture Point X, forces you to use your INT modifier and then half of your DEX modifier, so it is at best no different from Capture Point X and if you pump DEX instead of INT it is strictly worse.

Perhaps if I just include the full text it will be less confusing:

Capture Point Max: Capture Specialist Feature
Prerequisites: Capture Specialist, Capture Point X
Static
Trigger: You throw a Poke Ball.
Effect: Subtract half of your DEX modifier and your INT modifier from your d100 roll when throwing any Poke Ball. This Feature replaces Capture Point X.

Capture Point X: Capture Specialist Feature
Prerequisites: Capture Specialist, Capture Point +
Static
Trigger: You throw a Poke Ball.
Effect: Subtract half of your DEX modifier or half of your INT modifier and then subtract your DEX modifier or your INT modifier from your d100 rolls when throwing any Poke Ball. When picking which modifiers to subtract, you must pick the opposite modifier of the modifier you picked first (If you picked half of DEX, you must pick INT; if you picked half of INT, you must pick DEX). This Feature replaces Capture Point +.

Rawkking Goodguy

Ace trainers and Coordinators have similar abilities (improved attack and natural grace) that follow the following progression on advancement of the feature:

ability (gifted from class feature): Either half of one ability or half of the other used
ability+: The sum of half of both abilities used
ability++: The sum of half of one ability and the full amount of the other
ability+++: The sum of full value of both ability score modifiers

Edit: Misread the capture point abilities. Yeah, your final tier should add the full value of both ability score modifiers.

Terrendos

That's a clearer way of saying it Rawkking. I think they just need to delete the word "half" from Capture Point Max.

Rawkking Goodguy

That is an even clearer way of saying it. Though that may not be all; for some reason the final tier of capture point does not require 20 DEX and 20 INT, while the final tiers of natural grace and improved attacks do require 20 in their respective stats. Not sure what to make of that since there are inconsistencies in the requirements of the Feature+ feats (15 of both stats for coordinators and capture specialists, 16 of both for ace trainers).

If I were DMing the game I'd make Capture Point Max require 20 DEX and INT, but that's ultimately up to Marsh.

notsoy

Well, this project IS in beta. There's a lot that needs fixing, and many more things that need tuning.

To use an obvious example, Lopunny has the exact same Capabilities as Buneary, which I can only assume to be an obvious typo.

Rent

You know how awesome team WANG is? So awesome

It is awesomer than you

So is my Chansey

She is also awesomer than you

Terrendos

Funny, because it's that sort of self-congratulatory attitude that keeps team WANG so aptly named. "We Are Not Good?" Of course you're not good, you're completely abysmal at everything you attempt to do!

Rent

I finally read mspa for the first time ever this week, so terrendos your awesome av + sig combo and echeladder is fucking hilarious

Also this line:

Absol-ute nightmare. He chuckled to himself. Oh man, that was definitely a keeper

was amazing

ed: we pulled off a successful heist with no problems whatsoever, champ! so 'absolutely abysmal' is pretty much completely untrue!

Spoit

I'm still proud of my physical togepi. And can't wait until present misfires at the worst possible time

Rawkking Goodguy

Rent wrote: »

So is my Chansey

She is also awesomer than you

My future Cleffa (it's on my wishlist! Clearly I'm gonna get it ) will outcute your chansey so hard you will have to beg for mercy to avoid the styling of team contest.

Just have to get to Mt. Coronet to begin its glorious dynasty!

bratr

So far in the what I think was the first pokemon game, I've taken more damage than my pokemon. My pokemon has dodged everything and I lost a quarter of my health

DJP3710

bratr wrote: »

So far in the what I think was the first pokemon game, I've taken more damage than my pokemon. My pokemon has dodged everything and I lost a quarter of my health

And I directly target my PCs more often than not. Trainers can live a dangerous life.

Speed Racer

Battling is for chumps. 8-)

DJP3710

I'm not really justifying directly targeting PCs; just pointing out that when your opponents are terrorist clowns with superpowers, all bets are off.

bratr

I think I'd be dead in your game