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Showing posts with label Pen and Paper. Show all posts
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Thursday, February 17, 2011

Pokemon: Tabletop Adventures - Episode 11 Part 2

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Finally I got around to uploading the second part of the last gaming session.

Episode 11 Part 2 (1:55:11)

This one stars Josy's character Yuki a little more predominantly to start with, as she goes into Viridian Forest on her own to catch a Brock beating pokemon, something she finds in an Oddish. She goes on to train her Caterpie, eventually evolving it.

The group are rejoined and are chilling in the pokemon centre, planning their next move, when DRAMAZ. A stranger with a Koffing and a Weezing causes an explosion in the centre interior. The group proceed to act the part of Big Damn Heroes and run to fight the assailant.

The battle starts badly as Dr Bonsai decided to taunt God, however they quickly regain steam. Taking down the enemy Ponyta, they enrage the stranger, who assaults them with a large staff. After taking down the Koffing, the man continues his assault. What could possibly be his problem with the players? Bonsai tries to calm him down, but his efforts only serve to further enrage the man. Casey follows up with a heartfelt plea, which is backed up by Patrick's tried and true method of beating him senseless.

With little attacking power left, the stranger is beaten, retreating into himself, becoming a shell, capable only of basic thought. Casey takes advantage of this and persuades him to give her his Ponyta, while the rest of the team contemplate stealing the already stolen pokeballs. Luckily they think better of it.

After splitting up the loot, and the stranger is taken by the police, our heroes are left wondering. Who was that man? The group work out that he could be one of the "Demon Trainers" the city has been so scared about, but why did he attack them? Surely they will have to search for more information. Where will their travels take them? What new friends/weapons will they meet? Will the GM finally stop making things easy for them? Find out next time on Pokemon: Tabletop Adventures!



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One, Two, Three!
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Thursday, February 10, 2011

Pokemon: Tabletop Adventures - Episode 11 Part 1

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It's back, ladies and gentlemen. We return to our fictional world for a full hour and a quarter. Todays adventures merely rush us through a capturing and a couple gym battles in order to be prepared for the main event tomorrow. Nonetheless, there are some mildly smile-inducing moments, and if nothing else, you can be soothed to sleep by our voices.

Without further ado, part 1 of Episode 11


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Saturday, December 18, 2010

Pokemon: Tabletop Adventures - Episode 7-10

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 Another bunch of PTA recordings. Things are really starting to get moving now. My PCs can rest assured in the fact that there is in fact a plot and it is incoming. Ask me about cross classing!

For my players, Mystic Update PHB


Episode 7 (45:05)
In which our heroes are attacked by a Scyther. It takes Dave out from the beginning, slicing into his arm, leaving the others to fend for themselves. Yuki does so by running away again. At the end of a climactic battle filled with fire and blood, Bonsai throws a pokeball! And fails. Dave passes out from the sheer excitement of it all. Persuading others not to attack, and with Casey's pokemon enduring a fearsome blow, Bonsai tries again, and succeeds! All rejoice! Or not, as Casey points out that they don't actually get the XP if the pokemon is caught.

Episode 8 (57:56)
In which our heroes are still buzzing from their battle. Casey calls their old friend Youngster Shelly, not realising, given the dence forest that it is in fact the middle of the night.They swiftly escape the research place, and are attacked by crickets! Dave incurs the wrath of the gods as he is assaulted by a powerful Noctowl, and after long last, the group reaches Pewter.

Episode 9 (FT:FY)
In which I guess I caught a Missingno because the recording is corrupted as fuck. I have taken out the worst of it, and there is a lot of content left, albeit with sudden jumps in dialogue, but really I only bothered with it for the sense of completion in my music library. Scratch that. It actually seems to have been replaced with episode 8. Suffice it to say I am pissed. The fuck. Off.

In short, the group wake up, and challenge the gym. Bonsai and Patrick gain badges, while Dave wisely forgoes battling for now on account of his only having Bird types. He subsequently takes a quick trip to the Pewter Battlegrounds.

Episode 10 (46:20)
In which our heroes earn money in the tried and true method of trainers everywhere. Gambling on the outcome of fights. This should really be Episode 9.5 but I thought it would be nicer to end the year on 10.

Finally, as something of a christmas present, I present to you a collection of the best clips from the recordings so far.

Protected by this painfully adorable Vulpix
How is it holding that cookie? I don't know and I don't care.



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Friday, November 12, 2010

Pokemon: Tabletop Adventures - Episode 6.5

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In which our heroes finish off fighting the Diglett. Except for Yuki. She ran away. The Diglett initially score 2 critical hits and a particularily heavy regular hit, forcing most of the party to switch pokemon. A particularily forceful blow from Mr Kipling, Casey's Mudkip enables Ace Trainer Patrick to catch one of the moles. The remaining two are quickly finished off, ending with a ferocious blow from Dave's Pidgey, "Superfly". Stay tuned for next session when our heroes face off with a dangerous foe...

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Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Pokemon: Tabletop Adventures - Episodes 1-6

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As promised, here are the recordings of my P:TA group's adventures. The links are in the titles. Enjoy.



Episode 1 (1:40:15)
In which our heroes continue their journey from the first, non recorded session. They threaten some chavs, consider extorting a small girl, critically fail stealing some pokedex, and get a guy fired.

Episode 1.5 (1:38:16)
In which our heroes stock up at the Viridian Pokemart and I explain the various leveling and experience rules. Dave and the Professor gain some on the side XP and catch a Spearow each. Nothing much else happens, hence the .5.

Episode 2 (2:01:54)
In which our heroes spend a lot of time in Route 2. Casey catches a Sentre, Patrick catches a Ponyta.

Episode 3 (46:52)
In which our heroes make it to Viridian Forest, Yuki catches a Caterpie, a trainer battle is fought, along with a random encounter or two.


Episode 4 (50:38)
In which our heroes enter the depths of the abandoned Viridian Research Facility, and our session is interrupted by some chav twats playing table football.

Episode 5 (44:33)
In which our heroes' pokemon level up, I realise I have fucked up the experience rules, and Bonsai not so much saves as aquires a family of Pikachu.

Episode 6 (35:26)
In which our heroes face some hurriedly created Diglett, and the GM learns a lesson in making up random encounters.

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Saturday, September 25, 2010

Pokemon: Tabletop Adventures - Episode 1

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A long time ago, an elegan/tg/entleman had a dream. It was a dream all of us who have ever played Pokemon have had, usually brought about by the question "What if I could...". What if I could be a member of Team Rocket? What if I could kill pokemon? What if I could focus on contests, without having to gym battle? And such things. And being a denizen of /tg/, he found others with the same dream. He realised that such freedom can only be obtained in one place. The Tabletop. And so it was that Dr. Mr. Stark and others created some rules that would be gathered to become the Pokemon Tabletop Adventures alpha.


I was not there at the beginning, alas. However upon discovery, it became something to look forward to. I downloaded the alpha, and had a look. Having never GM'd anything before, I (rightly) considered it too much for me to handle at this point. Nonetheless, like many others I eagerly awaited the release of the beta. Then it was released, and it was good.


And so it was that I got together some friends, and posed the simple quesiton to them, "Do you want to play?" After a couple innuendo based jokes at my wording of the question, it was generally accepted that this would be a fun thing to do, and after a few weeks it happened. We had our first session. It was decided that, while bumpy, it was pretty ok. Between that session and out next, I decided that I wanted to record our sessions. And that, my dear reader, is why I bring you here today. I have uploaded the audio recorded and invite you to listen and laugh at our 2nd session, in which I monumentally fuck up the rules, one of our players threatens a small child for money, and in-fighting starts between PCs.

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Episode has been reuploaded and listed in a later post.
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