Pokemon Umbral Discussion 38: Shenanigans At Dawn, Sir!

[Geminex]

You have a kingdom?

And I don't think it'd be too bad. I can calculate the vectors in my head, all we need to do is consider what distance an individual can move for every AP, that'd be fine. We can divide attacks into melee and ranged, nerf the ranged ones a little, and plop a hill down every now and then. Bam. Terrain system.
That's, like I said, not the problem.
The big problem I see is that, with AP, we'd have to rearrange and rethink so much stuff.

And I don't think that's possible to get much simpler at this level. Compared to other RPs, we're still pretty simple, even with the system we're using now. AP wouldn't necessarily improve that.

[Astral Harmony]

Well, regardless of my thoughts, it's time to post what you've waited too long for. This time, I didn't include those little things that indicate who said what. You can pretty much tell who said what lines in each panel, considering how simple my comics tend to be.

All I can ask is...please don't kill my face.



You'll have to forgive me, Dante. I didn't have a whole lot of appearance data on your character and I discovered that I have no talent for spriting Venomoth wings.

[Geminex]

Can you rehost that, please? I'm in China, and apparently they don't allow imageshack here. You have photobucket, right?

Edit:
Also, have you read the bit where I suggested that we could all customize our own upgrades from level 5 on?

[Dracorion]

Originally Posted by Armored Bishoujo

Can't do that. So long as they're brainstorming for the betterment of everything else, RP including, and are not at each other's throats with thread-long arguements about balance (which seem to always include you as well, Dracorian), I have open ears (well, eyes) to the words they have to type.

I just wished they didn't type so much.

Hey, you know me.

I never miss an opportunity to troll those two.

Originally Posted by Armored Bishoujo

Actually, if you feel like it, go ahead and create up to five of them. And remember, if you feel that Pierce himself wouldn't be able to accomplish these Trainer Actions in-character, you can always involve the love interest, yours being Chizuru, of course.

I will not have Chizuru blow Tyranitar.
I will not have Chizuru blow Tyranitar.
I will not have Chizuru blow Tyranitar.
I will not have Chizuru blow Tyranitar.
I will not have Chizuru blow Tyranitar.
I will not have Chizuru blow Tyranitar.


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Ahem-hem.

Originally Posted by Armored Bishoujo

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If I missed questions, I'm sorry. I know I missed some orange shit from Geminex. And probably some other questions that slipped through my speed-reading episode to catch up.

Oh, Geminex was only proposing balancing the upgrades up to level 5 for every class, and then suggested that all of us PCs get to customize our own advanced classes.

Yeah, I know.

Originally Posted by Armored Bishoujo

Half my kingdom for a genie to grant that wish...and for her to be hot, slutty, a foxgirl, and willing to grant a different kind of wish.

You're going to invite Teal into the RP?

Originally Posted by Armored Bishoujo

sprite comic

A) Pierce totally would've asked AB for more bitches instead of more RP posts. Fortunately, the two are related enough for it to count as part of the running gag. B) Impact was, like, three steps away. I would've made up something like "yeah, I wish Impact would shut up too" or something, even if what AB said before that was completely unrelated, just so Impact could hear it.

[Geminex]

WOW, I SUUURE AM GLAD NOBODY REHOSTED THAT COMIC. I'D TOTALLY HATE, TO Y'KNOW, BE ABLE TO READ IT OR ANYTHING. MAN, THANKS GUYS.

Who's teal?

And what do you mean "yeah, I know". You and Menarker are busily doing the former without my participation, and I can handle the latter as long as Menarker plays fair (which he's sort of assured me he will).

[Dracorion]

Originally Posted by Geminex

WOW, I SUUURE AM GLAD NOBODY REHOSTED THAT COMIC. I'D TOTALLY HATE, TO Y'KNOW, BE ABLE TO READ IT OR ANYTHING. MAN, THANKS GUYS.

FINE DUDE HERE IT IS.

BLOW IT OUT YOUR ASS.

WHAT, IT'S TOO SMALL? ASK ME IF I GIVE A RAT'S ASS. GO BITCH AT PHOTOBUCKET.

Originally Posted by Geminex

Who's teal?

Teal Mage.

It was pretty obvious dude, way to fail.

Anyway, we wouldn't even have to catch him up! I know for a fact he's one of the assholes lurking this RP.

Originally Posted by Geminex

And what do you mean "yeah, I know". You and Menarker are busily doing the former without my participation, and I can handle the latter as long as Menarker plays fair (which he's sort of assured me he will).

If you don't get it I'm not allowed to tell you.

[DanteFalcon]

Ok I laughed. That was pretty awesome.

[Menarker]

Well, I'm up again now.

As for the AP system, my major "grief" with it is that it doesn't work well at all with techniques that don't have a set cost (IE: All of Renny's moves which grows more powerful incrementally). It also doesn't help that not all of our techniques are equal in power/cost, so the costs wouldn't be so simple that we could set them in stone.

So while I appreciate that it was a decent idea, I'd probably not support it the way it is now.

Also, if for some reason, we DID use the AP system, we'd probably be best using a max AP of 20 and changing the costs and gains (More AP per turn), which would make it easier to intergrate it with our current rage system. Since rage tends to be given in set of 5, it would make for easier conversion if we pretended that every block of AP is 5 rage, which would make us end up with the conversion of 100 Rage.

Hehe, ^^ Renny looks appropriate in the sprite comic, although I admit I didn't think he'd actually be portrayed as THAT single minded. :3


EDIT: Oh, I just realized I missed this part. Still tired a bit...

By the way, I should mention that this doesn't replace the Rage system. Rage is still there.

I wonder what role rage will play then and what AP will replace...

[Dracorion]

Question: what's to stop a Battle Master or just a Trainer from spending 9 AP for three pokemon attacks? Three pokemon attacks would, I think, be more powerful than two Slayer attacks. And then you'd at least have 1 extra RP to start with, than if you, say, used one Slayer attack and two pokemon attacks.

Basically? Would make Slayers useless.

[Menarker]

I was under the impression that
1) The same pokemon can't attack twice per turn?
2) That we could only send out 2 pokemons normally in the first place in a combat situation.