Pokemon Tabletop United

"Excellent!" roars the old man, "Junior! You're up!"
The kid just rolls his eyes and tosses a pokeball to the ground as his grandfather continues;
"You're a little new to this business right? Here's a couple of ground rules;
Don't worry too much about wandering outside the lines on the ground but please don't have your uh... bug friend run too far away or I'll have take that as a sign of surrender. Can't have a pair of animals chasing eachother all around town you understand? Going too high in the air is a little unsporting too but it doesn't look like that will be a problem.
Don't interfere and don't try and get your pokemon to attack the other trainer, first to knock the other's pokemon out or get them to call it quits is the winner and if that's you then there's a prize involved.
That all sound fair to you?"

The boy pipes up, "Try to avoid the shop windows too, it's not him who'll be installing any replacements..."
His Eevee yaps excitedly as he ferries it into position at one end of the crude arena and waits for Theo to take their place at the other.
"Any time you're ready".

Battle Grid:

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Theo is faster than Mr. Kid, so you have initiative!

"And maybe bring your friend to have a go too when you find her hmm?"
"Shut up grandpa."

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GM Stuff:

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SpoilerWoah, it's time for some actual Pokemon ??
We could do the whole thing in the topic, but if schedules allow it would probably be a lot faster to run it through Roll20 as I proposed at the start of the topic!

The Invitation link for the Campaign I've set up for us is right here, I'm going to leave it open so I can listen for any "new message" notifications but obviously I'll be on IRC too if you think you need to ping me. If anyone else catches me online at the same time it might be useful to pop in too so I can authorise access to your simulated character sheets. And if you want me to tell you how this client actually works, I mean it's pretty intuitive I think but I've had a while to mess around with it now.

I'm pretty sure the way Cyber has done it with multiple-people battles is to just leave the thing open so people can drop in and out and leave commands and he rolls dice when he sees them? The visual representation which does not require constant image manipulation seems like it will be very useful regardless.

I'll have to make better icon representations for all the trainers too eventually...