Dean wrote:I'm not. Rapidash wasn't the contentful word in that sentence, cavalry was. If your contention is that you can have armed forces meeting with their pokemon riding dragoons or whatever and that that's not too large a setting change to make a bunch of people tag out I will point you to the post where someone talked about pokemon not repeating their names as a full dealbreaker exactly as I said they would.
But again and still: you are very wrong. "Pokémon at War" is a plot point that has come up several times. Now, Pokémon is a Japanese property and also for children, so the demilitarization of Pokémon has been presented as an unambiguously good thing. But remilitarizing Pokémon is a plan that a couple different villains have had.
But for example, the Great War of Kalos involves many Pokémon dying on both sides, and eventually someone uses a super weapon that's very much like a nuke and now Pokémon have been demilitarized. It's all very Japanese. But if you want to play in Kalos during the Great War period, that
is canon. The official moral takeaway for that period is that war is bad and the use of radiation based weapons of mass destruction is tragic, because Japan, but the period certainly
exists.
Personally, my Pokémon related campaigns have had a mixture of D&D monsters and tropes and Pokémon monsters and tropes. People like seeing Pikachu alongside Ashrat, they like seeing Arbok alongside Naga. And references to various D&D concepts and Pokémon anime concepts interchangeably can be a lot of fun. It brought the house down when one of the NPCs demanded the PCs "Stop or I'll call the cop!"
-Username17