pokemon

[albeaver89]

Anyone know of a 3.5 rule set?

[Darkweave31]

no 3.5 ruleset that I know of, but you could check out pokemon tabletop adventures or the (imho better) spinoff pokemon tabletop united. Both are available online.

[Ravens_cry]

I am sure somebody has made something. This is the Internet after all. Alternatively, Pathfinder has the Summoner (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/base-classes/summoner), in particular the Broodmaster archytype (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/base-classes/summoner/archetypes/paizo---summoner-archetypes/broodmaster), which is basically 'make your own Pokemon set'.

[Afgncaap5]

Actually... I was browsing Drive-Thru RPG once and I found something called "Bride of Portable Hole" that was a sort of... anthology of weird D&D articles? Most of the content there was just for humorous purposes and not intended to be taken seriously, though some of it had notes on ways that you could adapt some of the not-as-ridiculous stuff into legitimate gameplay. One such prestige class was called The Ball Master.

The class required Craft Wondrous Item, and the ability to make the custom magic items that were basically Pokeballs. Whenever you encountered monsters from any Summoning spell's list, you could use the ball on those creatures in an attempt to capture them. Doing more damage to the monsters increased your chances of catching them, but the monsters were always saved at whatever basic state you caught them at (so it's a great thing that you caught that Naga, it really is... too bad she was about three rounds from a secondary poison effect and only had twelve hit points remaining.) I can't recall if there was a way to improve their health after being captured or not.

It's a nice prestige class for an Artificer (and mixes well with the hordeificer build), and would work passably well for a crafting conjurer, too.

[Ellowryn]

Doesn't even need to be a prestige class.

Treat the "captured" creatures like cohorts with their own exp total from each battle, divided by how many were summoned during combat. Once a creature gains enough exp to level it gains another HD with the associated skills, feats, etc.

They can be healed either during or after combat with magic or magical items (Potions!), and can have their own item slots.

The owner, i.e Pokemon Trainer starts off with only able to have a few captured creatures on him at first, plus can only capture creatures of the animal or vermin type. As he levels his creatures on hand and types of creatures he can captures increases. He starts off able to craft the pokeballs and as he levels ability to enhance them, and also craft support items as well (I'm thinking almost like an alchemist/artificer hybrid thing).

Once he captures a creature he must make a special "handle animal" check to see if the creature will listen to him (i imagine this sorta like the planar ally/gate spells), or else it will act on its own when summoned. He would gain a bonus to this as the trainer levels.

Darn, now i actually want to create and play this class. :smallbiggrin:

[Grod_The_Giant]

I am sure somebody has made something. This is the Internet after all. Alternatively, Pathfinder has the Summoner (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/base-classes/summoner), in particular the Broodmaster archytype (http://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/base-classes/summoner/archetypes/paizo---summoner-archetypes/broodmaster), which is basically 'make your own Pokemon set'.
Better yet, be an Alchemist with the Preservationist archetype. You literally store tiny creatures in crystal spheres and release them to fight for you.

(Pathfinder stuff is dead easy to convert to 3.5, incidentally-- usually all you have to do is rewrite the skill list)

[Ravens_cry]

Better yet, be an Alchemist with the Preservationist archetype. You literally store tiny creatures in crystal spheres and release them to fight for you.

Oh yeah, forgot about that one. Your state alchemist name would be the Sea Monkey Alchemist. :smalltongue:


(Pathfinder stuff is dead easy to convert to 3.5, incidentally-- usually all you have to do is rewrite the skill list)
Also, the combat manoeuvre system is rather different. Still, neither should hinder converting the options presented much.

[AuraTwilight]

dnd-wiki.org has a Pokemon d20 project including classes, rules, and a good chunk (but not all) of the Pokemon as D&D monsters.

http://dnd-wiki.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_d20_%283.5e_Sourcebook%29

The Pokedex is a work in progress but it's otherwise complete, I believe.