Tales of Azela [PokeRPG]

Welcome to the Azela region! Not that any of you need a welcome, of course; you've all lived here if not all your life then at least for the last few years. You'd all recognize the map, of course, since you pay just as much attention in Geography as Battle Theory, right?

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You'd also know that in Azela, pokemon ownership and use is much more tightly regulated than in many other regions. Which is to say, regulated at all. Yes, children can't receive their pokémon license until a minimum of age 16, and most that don't plan to pursue a career in gyms or contests wait until 18 or so to bother. It's not even unheard-of for people in their early 20s to get their license, or simply not to bother at all.

Growing up in Azela has also taught you a bit about the place and its pokémon: as a tropical island that was inaccessible to all but the natives for millennia, it once had a tremendous diversity of rare and unique pokémon species. Of course, when it started being aggressively colonized, that diversity rapidly disappeared. By now, you can find pokémon from all over the world living on the little island, but only very few that are native to it. Stringent conservation laws now exist to protect what remains of the native wildlife, but it's mostly too little, too late.

More salient to you, probably, is the fact that the island's culture has undergone a process very similar to the one its pokémon went through: Azela has been actively occupied by a foreign military for longer than any of you, and most of your parents, have been alive, and been a territory of the same occupying nation for even longer. By now, very little remains of what could be called authentic Azelian culture, and that's been the case for so long that most people don't remember or care what that is; foreign soldiers speak in your language and drink in your bars and date your siblings, and that's as normal as it's ever been. There are always groups that oppose that sort of cultural assimilation, though, and they periodically make themselves heard, but they tend to be forgotten as quickly as they appear.

You, and all your soon-to-be friends, have recently received your trainer's license. You're members of an organization called the Young Trainers' Association, which helps young people get their license and supports them on the journeys many of them take upon graduation. At the very least, it certainly lowers premiums on your parents' homeowner's insurance if you graduated from the YTA before you got your license. Best of all, they give a startup kit to all new graduates, which includes... Your very own pokemon! The YTA specifically breeds pokémon known to be docile and good for learning the practical ropes of training with, many of them otherwise-rare Azela natives. Honestly, that's probably the reason you signed up and went to weekly classes at all.

So, how about you tell me a bit about yourselves?

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SpoilerWelcome to another installment of Pokémon Tabletop: Eagle Edition! How many of these can we start before GMs start getting burned at the stake? Who knows!

You should probably know about what to expect from a tabletop RPG, but if you have any questions, just ask. Use the wiki for all your character-building needs; it's pretty easy to understand, but not always worded too well, so if you need help hit me up on IRC! Fill out this form, and let's get started. I'd ideally like this game to be about four people or so (and given the number already involved in other games, it shouldn't be hard to keep things small), but I have a hard time turning people away so v0v. We'll see where this goes.

Character Sheet:

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Desired Class: You all start off as a level 0 Pokémon Trainer, and will gain classes as you level up, but I'd like to know where you plan to go with your dude. This is not a binding decision.

Stats:

• Str:
  
• Dex:
  
• Con:
  
• Int:
  
• Wis:
  
• Cha:

Max HP: (Con*4)+(Level*4)

Money: Anywhere from flat broke to, say, 10000 pokédollas. Must be reasonable based on your backstory.

Inventory: Anything you want to start the game with. Again, pretty flexible, but it's gotta make sense.

Description: A description of your character's appearance and personality. Doesn't have to be florid and long, doesn't have to not be. At least give us a reasonable idea of what to expect.

History: A bit about where and how they lived and what they want to do. Your characters are free to know or not know each other as they see fit. Again, you can go as short or as long with this as you like, as long as we can all get the picture. The game starts in Port Anther, so it's probably a good idea to live there.

Starter Pokémon: This is where this campaign differs significantly from others; your characters will not have a pokémon to start with, and are instead receiving them at the beginning of the game. The YTA will provide any of the canon starter pokémon, or you can simply choose a type (other than water, fire, or grass) and receive a native Azalean starter of that type. They will start off as monotyped, but may or may not change typing as they evolve.