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  • Chapter 1: Character Creation – WIP
  • Chapter 2: Classes – WIP
  • Chapter 3: Skills
    • Body Skills – Acrobatics
    • Body Skills – Athletics
    • Body Skills – Combat
    • Body Skills – Perception
    • Body Skills – Stealth
    • Mind Skills – General Education
    • Mind Skills – Medicine Education
    • Mind Skills – Occult Education
    • Mind Skills – Pokemon Education
    • Mind Skills – Technology Education
    • Mind Skills – Survival
    • Social Skills – Charm
    • Social Skills – Guile
    • Social Skills – Intimidate
    • Social Skills – Intuition
    • Social Skills – Command ★
  • Chapter 4: Crafting, Knowledges, & Professions
  • Chapter 5: System Fundamentals
    • Taking Action
    • Power Points
    • Basic Capabilities
    • Game Flow
    • Goals: How to Gain XP – WIP
  • Chapter 6: Pokémon
    • Levelling Up, Evolution, & Gimmicks
    • Loyalty
    • Breeding
    • Capturing Pokémon
    • Pokémon Hostility
    • Other Methods of Obtaining Pokémon
    • Mounts
    • Releasing Pokémon
    • Type Shifting – WIP
    • Example Pokédex – WIP
      • Mankey Line
      • Snorlax Line
  • Chapter 7: Combat
    • Movement
    • Combat Stats
    • Attacking Shit
    • Abilities
    • Combat Maneuvers
    • Attacking Options
    • Initiative Options
    • Weak Spots
    • Status Afflictions
    • Type Effectiveness
    • Pain: How to take it
  • Chapter 8: Environmental Rules
    • Objects & Object Types
      • Elemental Object Types
      • Aura Object Types
      • Primordial Object Types
    • Kinematics
    • Environmental Conditions
    • Weather
  • Chapter 9: Minigames
    • Downtime
    • Travelling
    • Stealth & Perception
    • Social Manipulation
  • Chapter 10: Property Rules – WIP
  • Chapter 11: Equipment & Items
    • General Items – WIP
    • Cuisine
    • Armor & Weapons
    • Accessories
    • Armor Enchantments – WIP
    • Magic Items
    • Restoratives
    • Steroids
    • Toxins
    • Evolutionary/Mega Items
    • Pokéballs
    • Pokémon Equipment
    • High-Tech Items – WIP
    • Robots – WIP
    • Horticulture – WIP
    • Traps – WIP
  • Chapter 12: Struggle Attacks & Moves
    • Struggle Attack & Move Keywords – WIP
    • Creating Struggle Attacks
    • Example Struggle & Status Attacks
    • Example Moves
  • Chapter 13: Abilities & Capabilities – WIP
    • Example Abilities
  • Chapter 14: Actually Playing The Fucking Game – WIP
    • Test Pokémon – Furious George, Tier 1
  • Chapter 15: Running The Fucking Game – WIP
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Chapter 5: System Fundamentals

General Basics

  • Always round decimals down to the nearest whole number
  • Percentages are additive, not multiplicative. If one source says you gain a 100% boost from doubling something and another 100% boost, then you gain a 200% boost total, not 100% and then 100% more off that total, which would result in a 300% boost.
  • Specific rules trump more general ones

Terminology

Just about everything in the game refers to either a “Tier” or a “Level”. Creatures always have a Level, and therefore a Tier. Objects usually only have Tiers.

Levels are a rough estimate of a creature’s general ‘power level’, and influences everything from combat stats to skill distribution. 

  • Levels range from 1 to 20.

Tiers are just a range of levels, each of which is far stronger than the last. Increasing your Tier results in power spikes, to the point that fighting something outside your Tier is either very easy, or VERY hard.

  • Tiers range from 1 to 4, each being 5 levels long.
    • Tier 1: Levels 1 – 5
    • Tier 2: Levels 6 – 10
    • Tier 3: Levels 11 – 15
    • Tier 4: Levels 16 – 20

The Targeting Hierarchy 

Sometimes it can be unclear what an effect ACTUALLY can target. This short guide should help you quickly determine how targeting works.

  • List of acceptable targets: 
    • Creatures
      • Humans
      • Pokémon
      • Any other sentient life with a stat block and Intelligence, such as floating balls of Normal energy or something
    • Objects
      • Any non-Creature, such as a vase, door, house, whatever.
    • Targets
      • Any Creature or Object

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  • Chapter 1: Character Creation – WIP
  • Chapter 2: Classes – WIP
  • Chapter 3: Skills
    • Body Skills – Acrobatics
    • Body Skills – Athletics
    • Body Skills – Combat
    • Body Skills – Perception
    • Body Skills – Stealth
    • Mind Skills – General Education
    • Mind Skills – Medicine Education
    • Mind Skills – Occult Education
    • Mind Skills – Pokemon Education
    • Mind Skills – Technology Education
    • Mind Skills – Survival
    • Social Skills – Charm
    • Social Skills – Guile
    • Social Skills – Intimidate
    • Social Skills – Intuition
    • Social Skills – Command ★
  • Chapter 4: Crafting, Knowledges, & Professions
  • Chapter 5: System Fundamentals
    • Taking Action
    • Power Points
    • Basic Capabilities
    • Game Flow
    • Goals: How to Gain XP – WIP
  • Chapter 6: Pokémon
    • Levelling Up, Evolution, & Gimmicks
    • Loyalty
    • Breeding
    • Capturing Pokémon
    • Pokémon Hostility
    • Mounts
    • Other Methods of Obtaining Pokémon
    • Releasing Pokémon
    • Type Shifting – WIP
    • Example Pokédex – WIP
      • Mankey Line
      • Snorlax Line
  • Chapter 7: Combat
    • Movement
    • Combat Stats
    • Attacking Shit
    • Abilities
    • Combat Maneuvers
    • Attacking Options
    • Initiative Options
    • Weak Spots
    • Status Afflictions
    • Type Effectiveness
    • Pain: How to take it
  • Chapter 8: Environmental Rules
    • Objects & Object Types
      • Elemental Object Types
      • Aura Object Types
      • Primordial Object Types
    • Kinematics
    • Environmental Conditions
    • Weather
  • Chapter 9: Minigames
    • Downtime
    • Travelling
    • Stealth & Perception
    • Social Manipulation
  • Chapter 10: Property Rules – WIP
  • Chapter 11: Equipment & Items
    • General Items – WIP
    • Cuisine
    • Armor & Weapons
    • Accessories
    • Armor Enchantments – WIP
    • Magic Items
    • Restoratives
    • Steroids
    • Toxins
    • Evolutionary/Mega Items
    • Pokéballs
    • Pokémon Equipment
    • High-Tech Items – WIP
    • Robots – WIP
    • Horticulture – WIP
    • Traps – WIP
  • Chapter 12: Struggle Attacks & Moves
    • Struggle Attack & Move Keywords – WIP
    • Creating Struggle Attacks
    • Example Struggle & Status Attacks
    • Example Moves
  • Chapter 13: Abilities & Capabilities – WIP
    • Example Abilities
  • Chapter 14: Actually Playing The Fucking Game – WIP
    • Test Pokémon – Furious George, Tier 1
  • Chapter 15: Running The Fucking Game – WIP
  • Miscellaneous
    • Capabilities List
    • Game Design Goals
    • Glossary of Terms
    • Math Formulas
    • HP Formulas & Damage; v2
    • Probabilities
      • Probabilities – Athletics
      • Probabilities – Collision Damage
      • Probabilities – Crafting
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