Role Playing Pokemon Xianxia Roleplay

[Tommy]

Hello all and welcome to my adventure roleplay game. This game will be pokemon flavoured and xianxia themed (a traditional chinese fantasy story archetype, involving cultivation and ascension to stronger levels of being).

Discord is a requirement for this game, and gameplay will exist mostly in discord with some major events and updates on forum, smaller story and exploration/adventure moments will be confined to discord.

In terms of commitment, you will need to make regular, checkins similar to most games on this forum. I have no real end goal or set date for it, just general plot beats, but there will be the option for new players to drop in/out or even take a break between different story moments.

The hope for this game is to start quite simple, I will store player stats and roleplay and conflict will be handled on an extremely soft basis with rolls where I deem necessary. Although I hope to gameify the traditional roleplay experience to make it a bit of an adventure game hybrid (with a sprinkle of org inspiration), I will be prioritising narrative both overarching and individual players, so liberties will be taken and hot fixes made as the story progresses. Likely new mechanics will also be introduced as we go along to keep things interested/not make it a nightmare to get to grips with 50 million different things to start.

This was your general overview of what to expect. Please see below for game mechanics and start up plot.

 

[Tommy]

All things be it man, animal, or a stone bears some level of qi in its core. It is our qi that gives us consciousness, and allows us to ascend to a higher level of being. Men are born with higher qi than most, with many having the ability to cultivate, and draw in more qi, allowing their cores to expand and become stronger. The vast majority of the remainder of cultivators then comes from other forms of life, such as animals or plants. When a non-human cultivates enough qi to become self aware, they are classified as a Pokemon.

As a cultivator fills its core, they will eventually reach capacity. When this happens, it becomes possible for its cultivator to evolve. For humans, this results in a massive power spike between the stages, but for Pokemon the effects can be even bigger. When a Pokemon evolves, it may also change form, as its original form is often not built for holding the amount of raw qi it now possesses.

You are a bronze level cultivator, be that human or Pokemon. The weakest tier of the 3 mortal tiers of cultivators. If you are a human, you have set out on an expedition across the Stormy Sea, to the unexplored continent. You are the first wave of explorers, aiming to establish a foothold, explore, and set up a base of operations to allow further exploration on the continent.

If you are a Pokemon, you are newly awakened, having just recently achieved the level of qi necessary to become a Pokemon, from your previous state of being without self awareness.

 

[Tommy]

Hi guys, please read above and if you're interested in playing let me know below, or by discord dm is fine. If there is reasonable interest I will post more and write up mechanics fully, in the meantime I decided to just whack up this as an opening and allow questions. I intend to start this within the week, and get going quick. As mentioned above it will be a bit barebones to start, but just wanted to get the general premise out of the way in case absolutely no one is interested.

I also made this post to reserve the spot.

https://discord.gg/Fk3YPmrrbt