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• The system is still fairly obscure compared to the other Pokemon systems. What we currently lack in player base, we make up for in quality! Try learning to be a Storyteller, and you’ll find a rewarding system with players eager to engage with your world.
• (If you've never been a game master before, Pokexplorer’s Summer Camp is designed for both people new to the system and Storytelling.)

• Players: You can post in the #player-directory channel following the template others have set. Storytellers can then find you by scrolling through the directory.
• Storytellers: You can use the player directory as described above, or you can post your game's description using this template to the #open-games channel. You should ping the “@Looking For Game” role as part of your message as well. Once you've posted your game info, make a thread for people to respond in.

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You can find it the offical website. Not all the resources are used for the most current version of the game, however, so be mindful.

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There are no guaranteed release dates. At time of writing, Pokerole 2.1 and an update to the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon expansion are in active development, they will be released when they are ready.

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Because during the release of 2.0, a hard drive failure caused major delays in the release time frame and people made a meme about it. This frustrated the dev team to no end and they’ll no longer give release dates because of it.

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Contests cards were lost in the aforementioned hard drive failure and 2.0 was released without them.

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The book is password protected out of respect for the artists who donated all the art that makes the book so nice.

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The general recommendation is to run PMD as Pokerole 2.0.

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Type-Resistance, Force Fields (light screen/reflect/aurora veil etc.), Shield Moves (Protect/Detect/Wide Guard), And certain Abilities (Filter, Flash Fire, Volt Absorb) can reduce damage to 0.

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• The number of successes you need is determined by how many actions you have taken in that Round. On your first action you need one success, second action, two successes, etc.
• Learn More on Pg.49

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Rounds consist of multiple rotations through the Initiative order. Each Pokemon can take up to 5 Actions in a single round. Starting with the highest initiative, that Pokemon takes a Turn where it can perform an action. Continue the process down the Initiative order until all Pokemon are out of Actions to take or pass their turn.

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Multiple Actions have an Optional tag next to them because it is optional whether or not you want to use them on your turn. Multiple Actions are built into the system and affect how the system is balanced, and so should be included in your play.

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When you Evade or Clash, you only need to match your opponent’s successes on their Accuracy Check to be successful.

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Yes, Evading and Clashing each add 1 to your action count.

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Moves that use a Social Attribute (Cool, Cute, Tough, Smart, Beauty) for Accuracy can’t be evaded or clashed. Support Moves, Moves that ignore Defenses, and Moves that have a Set Damage cannot be clashed, as well.

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• No. After you rank up or evolve, the number of successes you need does not include successes from before ranking up/evolving.
• IE: A beginner pokemon needs 6 successes to rank up to Amateur. Once it's Amateur, it needs 12 successes to get to Ace, the 6 it already has do not count.

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No. Write down the total number of successes you have at the end of each training session as you add up training session results until you reach the target number.

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The amount of allies/foes you can target is dependent on your rank. Check its description on pg. 30 for more specifics.

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Yes.

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No. A Shield move only blocks one action, and Successive Actions lets you take multiple actions to attack.

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Different moves have been given different effects to match the feel wanted for Pokerole. This is not the case for everything, but 99% of the time the change is intentional.

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• Moves stack with Abilities with the same effect. (Example: Moves with High critical + Super Luck / Growl + Intimidate / Moves that increase an attribute + Ability that increases an attribute)
• Items stack with Abilities with the same effect
• Moves + Items with the same effect do not stack
• Moves + Moves do not stack, take the larger number and apply that
• Abilities with the same effect do not stack even when they are from a different source.

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Charge moves are split between two turns. The first turn is the turn you declare you are using a charge move. You roll the Accuracy for the move, jot that down, and your turn ends. The battle continues until your next turn, where 1, your target can attempt to evade or clash, and 2, you roll the damage for your move.

If you fail your accuracy roll, the second half of the Charge move process is irrelevant: you can take any action you wish on that turn.

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When you first use Bide, you roll for accuracy to see if you can successfully activate the move. Once you have, the battle continues until you have taken two hits. You may not clash or evade moves targeted at you during this time, (though you may clash for an ally at storyteller's discretion). After you have taken two hits, you may once again use Bide (even if it's the same round), rolling accuracy and if you hit, applying the bonus damage detailed in the move description.

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When using Sucker Punch, the puncher trades their chance to evade/clash/react to an attack to make an attack first. The opponent who attacked first also cannot evade/clash/react to the sucker punch because they're in the middle of their own attack.

• Pikachu uses Thundershock on Nickit and rolls to hit
• Nickit declares it's using Sucker Punch, it rolls to hit BEFORE Thundershock finishes.
• Nickit rolls for damage if the Sucker Punch was successful
• Thundershock now finishes, Pikachu goes straight to rolling damage as Nickit forfeited it's chance to evade so it could use Sucker Punch.

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Storyteller's discretion. Your storyteller may allow it if it makes sense for your game and you can narratively explain how your trainer has adjusted their knowledge and abilities.

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• Generally, fights of equal rank and number will make a balanced fight. If your Trainers have three Pokemon at rank Amateur, an enemy trainer with three Amateur Pokemon in the fray will be a fair fight.
• The Action Economy is also very important, IE, if three allied pokemon are attacking one enemy, the enemy, even at a higher rank, simply can’t keep up with three different pokemon attacking it. (AOE attacks can help balance this.)

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• Use “Anime Style” team sizes for official battles, where even if a Trainer has six Pokemon, they only use one or two in the fight. This keeps battle lengths down.
• If your group is willing to share the spotlight, single battles between Trainers and Gym Leaders can be dramatic battles worth spectating.
• If you don’t want to run single combats, have the league run double or triple battles against Gym Leaders and let your PCs all fight as a group. (Galar’s Star Cup rules are a good reference.)

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All entries in the Pokedex are Starter Rank. The suggested rank is a guideline of what rank that pokemon might be encountered at in the wild, but NOT a requirement. You can have a starter rank Dragonite or an Ace rank Caterpie appear in your games.

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The Pokedollar (Pokebuck, Poke, etc.) is based off of the yen. Therefore, the easiest conversion method is taking two decimal places off of the Pokedollar amount, and that will be your dollar amount (A Potion costing 400 Pokedollars would be about 4 dollars). Think about how much a trainer of that age could receive from an individual based on this.

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• As a matter of fact, quite a few are hosted on this very wiki. Jump the Home Page and scroll down the the Modules list. They're also listed in the sidebar, by title only. All four are for Trainer games.
• A special call out to Pokexplorer’s Summer Camp! A module specifically designed to help newcomers learn the system and help new DMs easy into DMing. Good for people who have never DMed before and/or never played Pokerole before.
• There are currently no prewritten adventure for Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Games.

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Beginner is the recommended starting rank for newer players. The Devs refer to starting at Starter Rank as “Hard Mode” due to the lower power level, so if you do start at Starter, be sure to rank out of it quickly.

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1. Check if anyone else has submitted the errata to the team already on this spreadsheet. (If you see it mentioned, don't resubmit, even if the status isn't marked “Fixed” yet)
2. Submit your Errata using the following form.
3. Post the errata you found in the Errata channel of the Discord. Then if you have additional comments, or others want to comment on your errata, start a Discord Thread based off your original message. Please do not have conversation in the Errata channel.

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• Pokemon Variants can be posted in the pokemon-variants channel. These are any of the following:
  • In short: Regional Variants/Mega Evolutions/Forms of Pokémon that do exist in canon
  • ie. Ice-Type Pikachu that is a Regional Variant of a Polar region
  • ie. Mega Meganium, a Mega Evolution for a Pokémon that does not have one in canon but it is still within the realm of possibility that it could exist
  • ie. Rotom Chainsaw form or South form for Gastrodon, Forms that do not exist but it adheres to the realm of possibility of an existing pokémon.
• Fakemon cannot be posted anywhere but comfey-general. If you'd like to know why, read the story of Why Fakemon are Banned here.
  • We define Fakemon as a creature that does not exist in canon and there are no indications of it ever existing in canon at all
  • ie. A completely made up evolution line.
  • ie. A third evolution for Lucario, a Pokémon with only two evolutive stages
  • ie. An Evolution of a Regional Variant that isn't Canon (Mr. Rhyme is Canon, but a made up Evolution for the previously mentioned Ice-Type Pikachu would be a Fakemon)
  • ie. A Pokémon that is implied to have existed in canon but with no canon name, design or representation, like Kyurem's complete form or the complete parts of the Galar fossils, or Beta Pokémon are Thin Ice Not Fakemon per se and still allowed, but discretion must be applied.

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Check the pinned message in the #bot-channel.

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Check the pinned message in the #announcements channel.

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As long as it’s not PTU, ask for permission from a Mod and they’ll let you know if you can post in #looking-for-players.

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• Each channel in this category is for different types of unofficial content generated by other players and GMs. The rule of thumb is only the content itself is to be posted in the channel relevant to it (IE, a custom character sheet in #sheets).
• Any and all discussion of Resources in the channels takes place in homebrew-discussion!

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In order to keep people from accidentally starting conversation in Resource channels, only those with the Content Creator role can post into Resources & Homebrew channels (besides #homebrew-discussion).

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Read the Server Rules channel very carefully…