deaddmwalking wrote:Perhaps you should articulate what you DO want rather than forcing the audience to figure out what aspects of the franchise you are or are not familiar with. Basing it solely on the video games is very limiting - that isn't an RPG.
I HAVE TOLD PEOPLE WHAT I WANT!
Any Pokemon TTRPG, at its core, is a device for
playing out Pokemon fanfiction. Maybe you're doing it in Kanto with nothing but OG Pokemon, or maybe you're doing a globetrotting adventure with everything you ever wanted out of the franchise, or maybe you've made up your own region with a spin on the Pokemon formula. All of this is fanfiction within the Pokemon "multiverse". Perhaps you're part of a special team that travel the world to solve mysteries, maybe you're a plucky group of JRPG heroes out to save the world, or you're some squad in the shogunate Poke-War. You must be able to enable people to tell the kind of stories they want within the Pokemon setting and allow people to make their own regions,
because that is what people actually fucking do. The only thing uniting every Pokemon fan is the fact that they like pokemon. They don't even like the same fucking pokemon, to boot. Obviously you can't cater to everyone, but D&D supports a metric fuck-ton of adventure concepts even despite its failings, and a Pokemon RPG needs to have just as many adventures that you can do.
I'm not even trying to base it solely on the fucking video games, and I even bitched about PTU doing that in my fucking review that people seem to have tl;dr'd. I just stopped watching the anime and movies because they are
bad and I saw that as a fucking stupid teenager, and that eventually translated to the games, too. I
want people to be able to do things beyond gym crawls and I
want people to actually interact with their pokemon beyond giving them headpats.
I can think of a lot of good reasons that you'd not want to watch the prequels/sequels, but just engaging with the original trilogy is going to exclude a lot of 'fans'.
Isn't that what overly obsessed fan-wikis are about? I have read two fucking plot synopses about Detective Pikachu, one of which was 2,133 words. I saw literally two aspects that mildly interested me, so I looked up the scene where the protagonist begs some Bulbasaur to help save Ryan Reynolds, expecting to glean some great insight. Instead, all I got was some dopey fucker going "They can't understand words, but they
understand emotions!" like my fucking dog doesn't understand when I'm sad. I have engaged with this fucking movie and it does not make me want to engage with it further.