We're playing Pokemon Sorcerer
lumpley:
We played last night. Our friends Ike (Sebastian's), Lanny (Elliot's), Ash (Tovey's) and Penny (Meg's) depart Ebony Cliffs on a paddle-wheel steamship bound for Kelly Island. In Kellyton, Ike tries to let his pokemon Darkit hunt some Seagales, but Darkit's in a snit and refuses, because it'd mean getting wet paws. Lanny's pokemon Shroil gets to dig, though, to its little heart's content. Finally Ike lets Darkit spend the night out of doors, instead of in their room in the hostel.
They wake to a terrible screeching in their room: "SWEETYBIRD! SWEETYBIRD!" Darkit has a smirk and some tail feathers. I'm about to tell Elliot to roll Lanny's "walking pokedex" Lore when Tovey - Tovey's 4 - shouts out in his best Ash Ketchum voice: "HANDS OFF! That Sweetybird's MINE!"
Tovey was supposed to just kind of parallel-play with us with Meg's help, not really get involved. Wasn't that a cute plan?
We flub through a pokebattle. I've never GMed multi-participant Sorcerer combats before, it's going to take a few before I have my feet under me. Anyway, Sweetybird is a little 2-power not-much, no match for Ash's Zapadactyl. One round, one "Zapadactyl! Do ZAP ATTACK!" and Ash is the proud catcher of a little Sweetybird. Tovey's like dusting his hands. He's like, yeah, I've got this game. Bring it on.
It turns out that all the Sweetybirds in the forest are freaking out, and our friends soon learn why. They're hiking up the mountaint trail and they round a corner and they find Team Amberlea doing battle with a shrine-type pokemon called Scaribou! The girl in Team Amberlea shouts at them: "stay out of this, weaklings!" and you know its on.
The first time, we rolled dice for the pokemon trainers and their pokemon. This time, though, 5 pokemon plus 4 trainers - no way! We roll dice for only the 5 pokemon. Sebastian and Elliot declare their pokemon's actions in their PCs' voices: "Darkit, do Nightmare, now!" "Shroil, Earthquake Attack!" It works great.
Team Amberlea, though, have a couple of serious pokemon on their side. A fungus-type named Smashroom and a vine-type named Burrcub. Burrcub immobilizes Scaribou with 2 consecutive Holds. Shroil gets sidelined by Smashroom's special-damage Clobber attack; Darkit stays ahead of Smashroom with Fast but can't quite manage to land an attack, one round, two, but then Smashroom gets lucky and good-and-Clobbers him.
We end the session with Team Amberlea crowing (in rhyme), Scaribou tangled up in Burrcub's Hold, Smashroom victorious, Shroil shaking it off and Darkit in full retreat, but with Ash and Penny coming up with their pokemon to join the fight.
Fun!
-Vincent
lumpley:
And we've played a couple more sessions since. Tovey's character Ash captured Scaribou, but stepped all over Elliot's character Lanny to do it and lost some humanity thereby. Lanny is now hunting for a particular pokemon, a pretty serious business 8-power meteor-type of Elliot's creation, called Crocistal. Elliot missed Lanny's lore roll to identify (contact) the thing, so I've changed two things on its writeup - Ron, that's a fun little rule. I weakened one of its attacks and I gave it warp, described as "malicious clumsiness." Its desire is destruction. In the next session they'll encounter it and Lanny will have to decide whether to bind it after all.
Our friends met Team Amberley again, and had a pokebattle with them on a fishing boat in a stormy sea, which was exciting. The hero of that fight was Sebastian's character Ike's shadow-type pokemon Darkit. It went like this, and recall that Ike's binding strength with Darkit is -3, Darkit's desire is mischief, and Darkit is in every way a vicious little cat:
Vincent: Okay now remember how Smashroom totally clobbered Darkit last time? Going toe to toe is not going to work out. Fight smart.
Sebastian: Yes!
Sebastian, as Ike: Darkit, go! Do claw attack!
Vincent, as Darkit: [Looks at Ike like he's stupid]
Sebastian, as Ike: Uh, Darkit, go! Do whatever you want!
Darkit does whatever she wants and seizes an early advantage. Ike gets knocked out of the boat by the fisherman, so Darkit gets to keep doing whatever she wants. In round 3, Sebastian rolls Darkit's dice and gets five 10s plus some other stuff; Darkit ends the battle by dominating Team Amberley's pokemon.
Vincent, as Darkit: [Looks extremely pleased with herself] Dar. Kit.
Vincent: Darkit is never again going to listen to anything you say.
Sebastian: [sinks head in hands]
How long until Ike busts out a punish? We'll find out!
-Vincent
Ron Edwards:
Hi Vincent,
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Elliot missed Lanny's lore roll to identify (contact) the thing, so I've changed two things on its writeup - Ron, that's a fun little rule.
I don't get to use it enough when I play!
Has dice-wrangling during complicated combat become clearer and/or easier?
Best, Ron
lumpley:
Oh, much.
It's like learning to drive, kind of. I haven't, like, let it out to see what this baby can do, but I'm not grinding gears when I shift anymore.
-Vincent
RichD:
First off, this is awesome.
Second, which of the Sorcerer books are you using to play this? I've got a 4 year old Pokemanic and I'd better get started now if I am going to be up on these rules in time to play with him one day.
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