PLO RPG development thread

[NinjaDeathStrike]

Hey guys. Welcome to PLO's newest site addition. An on-site RPG. My aim is for this to be something that every member can participate in regardless of weather or not you enjoy battling on wifi at all. My goal is to create something that can easily be participated in, but that offers a good bit of depth and fun for those who really want to get into it. I plan to run it both through post here in this topic, and via chat. That's a big goal and I know I can't do it by myself, so I'm asking for your help. All of you. I want this to be something that can really help our site stand out.

SO. I want to hear your ideas. I have a basic outline of how I want things to work, but there is still a ton of things that need to be done. First I'll tell you my thoughts and then I'll open things up for a discussion of features you'd like to say and idea on how to implement them.

Ways to level-up
Complete a mission
Earn a badge
Other special actions that your Adventure Guide deems worthy of a level-up
Recruit a new member to the site
Contribute to the site in a significant manner

OVERVIEW:
- We will make a custom region
- Players will make an on-site character who will level through completing mission AND being active on the rest of the site
- A class system and special skills will allow each character to be unique
- We'll possibly find a trainer card to allow everyone to display and share their current teams
- This new region will have gyms but will be primarily mission based. If you complete three missions you will be eligible to try for a badge.
- Adventures may be completed alone or in a group
- Clearing adventures will earn your character exp and allow them to level up and grow stronger, unlocking new abilities
- Players will be able to create a team of pokemon by catching them throughout the region. Because this is our game, tiers will be irrelevant and participants will truly be able to use their favorites
- I will select a group of 'adventure guides' who will help guide the story, create missions, and develop special events

WHAT WE NEED:
- more classes and special abilities
- RULES
- IDEAS

Current Adventure Guides:
NinjaDeathStrike
Metal_Coat
Shark
JamesOfJhoto

So, what do you think. How do you want this to work? What kind of features do you want? What do you want to be able to do? What time period should this be set in? How should we go about acquiring new pokemon? I'd really like this to be something we can all be proud of, so please don't be afraid to get involved and make this yours.

[darkfire006]

okay.......nice.........hm..........
i like medieval stuff so.......thats my suggestion.....

i think i will let someone else make the map however i have a map posted in the pokewars development area if you want to find it and name it......

classes.....
fighter- pokemons base attack and defence increase by up to 20 pts during battle speed increases by 25
each lvl the points given in battle increase
earn personal exp by battling more pts if you win
breeder- has good chance of getting specific egg chance things such as egg moves and natures, etc
chance increases as you lvl exp gained based of the chance of birth
researcher-has better chance of catching a pokemon that they have already caught before with specific stats
increase by filling your guide book
trainer- gains up to an extra 10 pts every lvl for you to place
gains lvls for each lvl you pokemon gains


if you can think of any others....

$=total of trainers lvls * 2000

stores sell items at fixed prices or barter system depending where you go

[NinjaDeathStrike]

I don't think we're going to be able to do breeding, at least not right away. We'll definitely have some kind of fighter class. I'm working on the basic classes now.

[Shark]

Wasn't the original idea of this to go through Kanto? We could always stick with that, and then we would have more time to fully develop full regions spacifically for this purpose (with plot set up to the map too, which wasn't needed in pokewars)

[NinjaDeathStrike]

Well we could use Kanto, but would you want to do gyms? We'll have to make a story one way or the other.

[NinjaDeathStrike]

If anyone is interested in being an adventure guide let me know. Enough people have characters that we can start as soon as we have some missions and decide which region (or if we're making a new one). I'll try to do both of those tonight.

[metal_coat]

That's a good idea to start at Kanto (as it's easy to add new regions from there later on).

I would be more than happy to be apart of the Adventure Guide team, if it's possible.

As for the Gyms, I have a few ideas:

1) to have the regular gyms on here integrated into the RPG.

2) Have a similar set-up as the pokemon battle frontier-brains. (that way other people can be involved on the site).

3) to have certain missions involved within the Gyms themselves.

What do you guys think?

[NinjaDeathStrike]

Nov 22, 2010 2:43:44 GMT -5 metal_coat said:

That's a good idea to start at Kanto (as it's easy to add new regions from there later on).

I would be more than happy to be apart of the Adventure Guide team, if it's possible.

As for the Gyms, I have a few ideas:

1) to have the regular gyms on here integrated into the RPG.

2) Have a similar set-up as the pokemon battle frontier-brains. (that way other people can be involved on the site).

3) to have certain missions involved within the Gyms themselves.

What do you guys think?

You're in! To answer your questions,

0) Kanto seems to be the general consensus, so we'll start there until we develop further.

1) I would like to do that eventually, but maybe after we have our own region. An easy first step would be to grant a level up for every gym badge. Once we have our own region I think it makes sense to integrate our leaders here, but not quite yet. Let's make sure this is going to work first.

2) I'm not quite sure I understand you. You mean add more leaders? Maybe when we have more people. That's something the staff will figure out (hopefully) when the time comes.

3) We'll definitely do this. Since we're starting in Kanto I was thinking if you complete three other missions, you can take on the first gym. Three more and you can do the second, etc. Getting a badge will grant you a level up just like completing any other mission, and having badges will unlock mission that weren't available before.

Also, TIME PERIOD? Darkfire suggested medieval which could be interesting since this is in Japan. Personally, I'd love to set it about 1860. Right in the middle of the industrial age while Japan was in the middle of it's imperialistic era. One thing I DO NOT want is the same time as Red was champion. Before or after is fine, but let's do something new.

[darkfire006]

sounds good....might work......

[metal_coat]

Yes Ninja, I like the idea of the time frame being set during the transition into the Japanese Industrial Revolution. This follows the game quite well due to the featured cities that are within each (e.g. Saffron = Tokyo, Goldenrod = Osaka, etc). It may also lead to a possible backstory as to how Sliph Co. was founded.

Thanks for your comments on my ideas. The frontier-brain Idea is based off the 'Pokémon: Battle Frontier' episodes. But yeh I do prefer the Idea of getting missions sorted first.

Also I was thinking of ways in which this RPG could actually promote a growth in members (exponentially) over time. I'll post those ideas in private.

[Silver]

sounds good

[NinjaDeathStrike]

Added a list of ways to level-up. Metal_Coat joined the Adventure Guide staff. I'm also going to ask JamesOfJhoto if he'd like to do it as well, since he has experience running an RPG. As soon as I get some mission up we'll be ready to begin. You may play over the chatbox, by post, or in a separate chat program as long as you have an AG guiding you. AGs are responsible for all dice roles to make sure that no one cheats.

[Shark]

Hmm. Could I also be a AG, I have played in a tabletop RPG a few times.

And NDS' time period sounds fine.

[NinjaDeathStrike]

Ok Shark you're in. I think if James says ok too we should be in good shape.

Also, with the time period set I'm going to start writing up an overview of the world. Also, since we're playing before the pokedex was invented, you should change your items from pokedex to journal on your character pages.

[chaosruler10]

Could I be a AG as I have experience countless RpG

Question: Does the leaders have to start with three pokes? Since our RPg chaacters have to get 6 pokes along the way.

If we are starting on mango then does that mean there will be only mango pokemon?