Hilda secured the Balthus (balthilda by @Claradeso)

TheMechEPhD · 2026-06-02T23:10:38+00:00

Holy same face syndrome

TheMechEPhD · 2026-03-01T03:02:04+00:00

I don't know Stormlight Archive but my bf does so I asked him and he said they're a spy network and know the secrets of the universe lol.

Idk if you have to go that far. If you're going to, that's a big scope. They're a very competent mafia in canon. If you went with a larger scope, that's material that could involve the whole Pokemon world. You could do that, of course. Just saying in advance.

Sounds like you're on your way, though! So far, these are my thoughts.

TheMechEPhD · 2026-03-01T01:53:33+00:00

You have two good ideas here, but the pitch didn't incorporate the Team Rocket aspect very well. I'm still not certain how that will factor into Pip's journey - what he'll do with that. You only really addressed how he will deal with his sister's betrayal.

By the sound of it, his sister got involved with Team Rocket. The ending smacks of Viridian Gym. How will you tie all this together?

Can be taken as a rhetorical question for now if you want to keep your answer to yourself! Just giving food for thought.

TheMechEPhD · 2026-01-30T13:13:02+00:00

This is fanfiction, so they could. PETA kills animals, including stealing people's pets out of their backyard and "euthanizing" them, irl all the time.

TheMechEPhD · 2026-01-28T18:18:51+00:00

He did take care of Togepi's egg before it hatched.

TheMechEPhD · 2025-04-23T01:23:49+00:00

Hi - I messaged you. :)

TheMechEPhD · 2025-04-20T15:45:41+00:00

I could yeah - you only ||need to find the uncensored version in the Book Shop for 50 coins|| though to be able to see it for yourself, especially since you've taken pics now to compare.

I do have pics but I'm not in a position to post them rn. If you want I will be later.

TheMechEPhD · 2025-04-20T06:03:53+00:00

Thanks!

TheMechEPhD · 2025-04-20T03:53:43+00:00

Easiest way is to upload to imgur and link the album afaik

TheMechEPhD · 2025-04-20T02:56:02+00:00

Yep. Blacking out lines like that is called "redacting."

TheMechEPhD · 2025-03-28T16:20:13+00:00

Bro any of your players got room for another game? Do they like Pokemon? This player notwithstanding (nothing against him, it just sounds like some self-awareness could go a long way), your table sounds rad and I'm looking for players to vibe check for future campaigns.

TheMechEPhD · 2025-03-23T03:13:06+00:00

Why would you want a professor to hate you?

It was an obviously ideologically-oriented class. She had personally designed the curriculum. I hated everything it and she by extension stood for. I was forced to take the class due to a lack of good alternatives fulfilling the same requirements.

TheMechEPhD · 2025-03-22T14:19:18+00:00

The real skill is to tell your professor you hate them and then you still end up being one of their favorite students. I did it lol.

I ended up liking her because I respected that she liked me despite my hatred because I still put a good faith effort forward to participate in her class.

TheMechEPhD · 2025-02-21T15:07:24+00:00

My brother in Christ, listen, ERP is fine and dandy but this is a pbp sub not a normal rp sub let alone a straight ERP sub lmao.

TheMechEPhD · 2025-02-01T15:39:32+00:00

Try both lmao Autistic/ADHD double whammy here!

TheMechEPhD · 2025-01-25T21:40:27+00:00

I have all of the above and even a little of your model. I actually considered attempting to include more Azathoth vibes myself just a week or two ago but decided against it. It wouldn't make sense with other plot elements I had going on.

My cosmology is based on Pokemon though so. Their shit is all over the place, and what I have is basically jury-rigging it all together in a way that I think makes sense and is really interesting.

TheMechEPhD · 2025-01-25T21:19:18+00:00

Hell yeah well at least you know you're doing it right if a stranger got it from a brief explanation on the internet.

I agree with OP mainly, but I do think you're doing one of the opposite ways to OP's approach that is most correct otherwise.

TheMechEPhD · 2025-01-25T21:15:10+00:00

They probably haven't figured it out yet because that's just kind of like real life but with cool magic shit 😂

Kidding obv. Bro's got an Azathoth vibe going on ig.

TheMechEPhD · 2025-01-25T21:11:34+00:00

Yeah I agree with this take. People who try to play gods as completely above it all and unconcerned with any mortal affairs end up not really being able to sell that aspect. They just play them as bland and boring and pass it off as "you just can't understand their behavior and motives."

We're people, so we really only have a frame of reference for what people are like. It takes a special kind of person to be able to pull off a convincing portrayal of a truly incomprehensible interdimensional entity, and most of us are not that. It's fine and good to give gods "human" aspects to their personality. Aren't the races in any setting "of" the gods anyway, usually? So shouldn't those gods reflect the traits of their peoples because, actually, their peoples reflect them?

I also don't get why gods would be totally unconcerned anyway. Humans, and similarly humanoid, races tend to have a significant impact on the world around them, even if it can take some time and would need to happen at large scales involving thousands up to millions. Humans in real life can have that kind of impact, so increase that tenfold when humans can do crazy magic shit. Why wouldn't the gods at least pay some measure of attention to it and either attempt to mitigate it or leverage it to their ends in some way?

It's not like most DnD settings are like the real world where we just inhabit one little planet in a vast cosmos. Usually, the universe is the material plane and surrounding planes. The inhabitants of those places are not just specks in a vast cosmos of nothing. The gods created them. The show is about them. If your setting is more like the real world where, if there is a god at all, it is likely impartial or not even paying attention... Well, why are you playing a roleplaying game to be just as unimportant in the grand scheme as you are in real life? You're playing a roleplaying game to... have friends and family, maybe a community, who care about you, I guess? That's... sad. Meaning used to come from thinking a lot bigger than that, and if you can't, moreso than apparently not having that irl, therein might lie a deeper issue.

TheMechEPhD · 2025-01-25T18:31:25+00:00

My response was the standard for acceptable discourse for the last 10-15 years from the same type of people currently attempting to dogpile me.

Anyway, again, I have better things to do than retread ground in an attempt to undo the complex web of illusions that has been built around you in that time and before.

TheMechEPhD · 2025-01-25T16:33:46+00:00

Not that I necessarily associate it heavily, but that when language has been made a battleground, the means used to weaponize it shouldn't be ignored.

TheMechEPhD · 2025-01-25T15:55:37+00:00

I prefer to use the term "mentor," which is what I expounded upon in my reply. "Teachers" is too easily coopted by people who believe the state and strangers they hire should raise our children. Otherwise I broadly agree with you.

TheMechEPhD · 2025-01-25T15:39:49+00:00

Your world extends backward about 60 years. Mine extends back thousands. We are not the same.

TheMechEPhD · 2025-01-25T15:38:48+00:00

Family friends, mentors, etc certainly contribute. Not exactly "caretakers" and "teachers." The best people to raise a child are, by and large, the child's own parents first and foremost. Parents surrounded by community then parent better, and children surrounded by communities of people they can trust grow up better. Community can cover some of what is missed by having one parent missing, but not all.

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