Come here for talk about all things Pokemon Mystery Dungeon.Previous thread: https://arch.b4k.co/vp/thread/56754322 (>>56754322)PMD Catalog (Down at the Moment): https://mega.nz/folder/tr8i1aiQ#AWzqkesoNSeSUGjHSug5dwPMD Fangames Catalog (Down at the Moment): https://mega.nz/folder/QuYRBJAL#JhfXAuBdsZhQ_7jeIslqHQRomhacks Overview/Reviews: https://rentry.org/pmdglphPMD Guides: https://pastebin.com/Dbq61R5uExplorers of Sky Romhacking Guide: https://rentry.org/skytempleguideEverything about the Clover Guild: https://cloverguild.comDrawing Board: https://magma.com/d/f50ltdbd_aMobile Drawing Board: https://magma.com/d/tusyv_wjdxDrawing Request: https://rentry.org/DrawReqPublicQuestions:>What is the most technologically advanced thing that you think the PMD would should have?>Do you prefer PMD dungeons that attempt puzzles/gimmicks like aegis cave, or do you always want them to have a more traditional challenge?>Do you like having strong miniboss-like enemies roaming in dungeons, such as the "strong foes" in rtdx?>What is your most hated piece of PMD fan media (comics, art, romhacks, etc.)?
Recap of the previous thread:>Ribombee-anon released another flash story, Sorting Things Out (https://rentry.org/RibombeeFlashSorting)>Team Eevee made a short story about their character Ikarus (https://rentry.org/h3nkawpw)>Kiyo-anon and Ribombee-anon finished their Halloween story, Booker and Kiyo’s Halloween Adventure (https://rentry.org/Booker_Kiyo_Halloween)>Jung-anon finished his 31 horror prompts art project>Discussion about romhacks (and their quality), game preference, and version differences
>>56834823Easy to forget, I'm not around as much anymore.
>>56836268unfortunate truth
>>56835369>>What is the most technologically advanced thing that you think the PMD would should have?some means of teleportation or something>>Do you prefer PMD dungeons that attempt puzzles/gimmicks like aegis cave, or do you always want them to have a more traditional challenge?i prefer traditional challenges since puzzles tend to take too long>>Do you like having strong miniboss-like enemies roaming in dungeons, such as the "strong foes" in rtdx?nah>>What is your most hated piece of PMD fan media (comics, art, romhacks, etc.)?not personally fond of romhacks particularly. just not my thing.
>>56835373Thanks for the recap, anonThat long collab story was posted at the end of the thread, so I wanted to link to the post so it doesn't get missed>>56821952
>>56835373Really should play more romhacks. Led to a lot of good discussion last thread
>villagers ask me who the strongest pokemon is>say "me" since I've beaten the other two choices>they look at me like I'm crazyTruly the pokemon world is a society
>>56839000They know you were getting carried by an earlygame recruit.
>>56839010Well they're wrong. I'm getting carried by multi-hit moves being absurdly OP
>>56835369Ah, Mystery Dungeon, The Game when you Got isekai into a Zootopia Universe with Pokemon.Cool.
I'll try not to blogpost: Pic rel is the result of my procrastination on assignments. Can't draw for my life but I didn't want to not contribute to Clover so I went with tracing and MS Paint for now. Hope it's not too low-effort. This is supposed to be Team Eevee when they first meet d'Alin in Ch.1 of the prelude.
>>56839748Also made one for Rain (hope that's alright) since that's the only other Eevee in the guild and I had the template already made.
>>56840845
Got room for one more?
>>56839046We like to pretend it's not true but he's really not lying
>>56841500The Council convenes
>>56842940why did you save this i made this like a year ago
>>56842951I simply like shitposts.
>>56842951To give me the strength to make a Riolu OC and make Clover a really uncomfortable place full of passive aggressive tension.
>>56843017Someone beat you to that last thread, bucko.
>>56841500When Enny transitions will xe be allowed in the fujo club?
>>56841500>>56844226
>>56845450He knows. He's always known
Do natives consider it weird to dress as other pokemon?
>>56846336If it's for a holiday or special occasion, I think it would be fine, unless the costume looks like an offensive stereotype or caricature of the species.
>>56846336People dress up as random celebs, i don't really see why it'd be a problem.
>What is the most technologically advanced thing that you think the PMD would should have?The fact that photographs probably can't exist in the PMD world makes me sad. No baby pictures or family photo albums.Anyone middle class or below can probably only afford to get a yearly family portrait drawn/painted by a professional.
>>56839748This image made me think about the specifics of how to draw/describe a character being blind. I've always hated when people get lazy and go "Oh their eyes are just closed all the time" because the eyelids don't just naturally sit closed and look all cute, it's something you muscles have to actively do. It's why they tape your eyes closed while under general anesthetics.I imagine, realistically, that Pirth could look one of three ways, that I have drawn for reference.>1. Eyes are always unfocused, with pupils either completely dilated due to a fucked up retina, or that classic "milky" look that comes from something obscuring the lense of the eye.>2. Born with no eyeballs at all, but the eyelids are either fused together from birth or somehow sealed closed to prevent infections in the open eye sockets. There would be visible concave spots where his eyeballs would be.>3.Like your pic seems to show, either have him wear little dark glasses or go full "Blind Nigga Samurai" and wrap his eyes in a cloth like an anime character. It could be anything you want under there. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6a9gQKfvoJE Also there's nothing wrong with not being able to draw very well. Any art is good art. Keep up the good work anon!
>>56846397Ghostface is very offensive, anon. Please don't post this here
>>56839755thankyou anon!!I look forward to seeing more of your story :D(I do wonder if the Lapras Ferry is more of a ship...)
>>56849019Sorry, what was that?
>>56849622How else do you think ships sail in the PMD world? With wind? That's fucking retarded and you should feel bad!
>the detect band is a subtractive 30% to enemy accuracy>forewarn is 20% chance to dodge anything>paired with the above+smoochum being female+moves not being that accurate already, she has roughly a 60% chance to just not get hitThe fuck is this
>>56850077Good game design
>>56850077don't question chud-soft
>>56848147Based overthinker
halo eevee
New Story: Dav goes bald b4 his big date.Read: https://rentry.org/CrusaderIntermission1(this takes place before the summer festival, I'll set a proper homepage up sometime)This story marks the start of a "intermission" for Team Crusader. Chapter 6 was the end of "Act 1" Before more fun/serious stuff happens to the group, i'm just gonna write some stories to just flesh out characters and whatnot.
>>56853135Aww, that was cute. Good story, anon.I definitely ship them.Kind of makes me wonder exactly how common former humans are in the world as well - what the demographics are even when not being skewed extremely hard by the presence of the guild.
>>56853227Even with Clover Guild's abundance of humans they are still a significant minority in the pmd world. If it weren't for the guild forming and sheer coincidence, it's likely that humans would go their entire lives without meeting each other
>>56853663>coincidence>he doesn't know about Lliam's ultragigabrain masterplan
>>56854757Ah, yes. Lliam's mustache curling deeplore that was so unhinged that it wasn't kept anywhere on the rentry.
>>56848147Yeah I think I'm going to stick with three (great art by the way!), though initially I was thinking of doing eyes half-opened like Clayton Bigsby, which is a partial inspiration for Pirth (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLNDqxrUUwQ) but I felt that the eyeband could be his team "bandana" once its been made. And thank you for the encouragement!>>56849622Thank you so much for the art! It's really nice and you captured d'Alin perfectly! I'm looking forward to returning to writing soon.
>>56856219If he would just give her a banana he wouldn't need to make such elaborate traps
>>56856543This goes pretty hard
>>56837160Good story anon(s). There were some surprises in there. I enjoyed the atmosphere of the story, and the action. There was more revealed from Kiyo's backstory, which was interesting. Although he's prominent, there's still a lot of questions around him. He and Booker have interesting chemistry.I especially enjoyed all the cute parts. I'm not a coomer, but it is nice to have my theory confirmed that Kiyo is made for snuggling
>>56858433I wonder if working as a carriage horse would be considered demeaning
>>56858500It's basically the same thing as being a taxi driverSo yes
>>56858495Oh I remember seeing these ugly fucks on Tumblr, kek. Glad that shit was canceled per usual.
>>56858495This is a prefect example of why the furry (scaley?) artstyle is terrible for PMD
>>56858919At the very least they don't have hair where it doesn't belong.
>>56859067It might actually be better if they did
>>56859404Why do you like your scalies with hair? I hate scalies with hair.
>>56859433There are certain parts of these furry designs that I don't want to see
>>56859461I've always read Beast in the voice of the tf2 engineer and him saying "wouldja look at that" is not helping
>>56859461now kiss
>>56859624cider accidentally walking in on beast and spinda (his parents) kissing!
>>56859461The most divorced pokemon alive
>>56858495Not really a fan of that style>>56858509More like a rickshaw, since you move the vehicle yourself>>56859566Looks like Spinda said it, actually
>>56858500It's not when the cart puller isn't wearing a fucking bridle like >>56858433. A bridle is for controlling a horse and telling it which direction/what pace to go, something you don't need when you can have a full conversation with the guy doing the pulling. Most carriage pullers probably own their own carts and are fully capable of directing and driving it without the complete control of a fucking backseat driver like these gross kecleon. I hate this image a lot. They went to the effort to give the Mudsdale a bridle, but couldn't be bothered giving it a strap around its shoulders like a real harness.I'm actually still playing around with a character that does exactly this. A human turned horse-mon that immediately makes himself a little gypsy traveler vardo wagon to live in and make a living as what is basically a cabbie that travels anywhere he wants, because his body is his car. Just completely leaned into the horse lifestyle because what else are you supposed to do? Other human mons hate him because he is truly free.He also uses his psychic powers to DJ in his free time and constantly hints to his passengers that he is available for wedding and graduation gigs.
>>56860934How would he DJ in a world without records or record players?Captcha:RAPSJN
>>56862009With his encyclopedic knowledge of white people club anthems and his magical, psychic-type unicorn abilities.Psychic types can do all sorts of weird shit with their powers that don't really make much sense.I'm reasoning that one could use their powers to warp sound waves and produce techno synth beats, or even beam music directly into people's minds. Pokemon talk telepathically and cast images and shit, I figure why not something like a series of repeating beats and/or vocals. I'm talking this kind of shit:>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KztNIg4cvE>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Y_vsVA1_IE>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32slio4TZBMI've seen worse reasoning for stupider stuff. A Porygon could probably just become their own boombox if they really wanted to. The question is "Why the fuck would anyone want to do that?">the answer is for attentionPic related. An awful proof of concept sketch.
>>56858433This harness is incompetently designed. It seems to only be a single, solid piece of wood relying primarily on friction to stay in place.>>56862467This harness is much better. Everything is logically connected and actually makes proper sense.
>>56860166kek
>>56862554To be fair, even I've fucked it up here.>>56862467 Turns out it's actually pretty complicated to rig up a creature to an entire vehicle.I only recently learned that carriage horses usually need two points of contact to properly pull something and that the big poles on the side are more for balance and steering than actually bearing weight.Tropius needs to pull his head out of his own ass and get himself a big cart and a properly fitted harness. He'd be the most popular guy in town.
>>56862467Clover Guild's Porygon used computer programs to play music because it is literally a digital pokemon. That's part of its whole gimmick. I think you could have a psychic type make music and do some very interesting stuff with its abilities. I suppose vocals could be projected somehow with psychic powers if you really stretch the limitations of psychics. But just manipulating sound waves with its psychic powers to make techno beats is retarded. Maybe have it use psychic powers to interact with the environment more rather than spontaneously generating music
>>56862467>>56862794I don't think "psychic music" is that far out there, especially when there is a psychic sound-based attack.That being said, I do think straight out playing music from thin air is stretching it a bit. Maybe it is better if he can only "play" it directly into people's minds rather than actually producing sound waves, as mentioned in "beam music directly into people's minds".Could even lead to some fun scenes like having a bunch or people silently standing there with a pleased look on their faces, then someone passing by wonders wtf they are doing.
>>56862794Lol I concede yes it is retarded, I'm very tired.I do like the idea of just dinging and rattling things in his immediate vicinity to make multiple noises at once, like a Looney Tunes musical sequence. Hooves are already a natural percussive tool.Alternatively, just gathers as many "instruments" as he can and attempts a one horse one-man-band. Really stretch the limit on how much absurd bullshit one person can manage to put on themselves (both literally and figuratively). Taskmaxxing.>>56863059I like this too. Like a silent disco, but even more embarrassing.I don't mean to shit up the thread with useless OC faggotry and I will stop if preferred. I just like throwing around character ideas and drawing pictures of them. I enjoy the discussion.[Spoiler]I have ideas for those three Oricorios, too.[/spoiler]
>>56863222It's hardly useless, and not like much else is going on with the thread.
man.....
>>56863678what should i draw him doing
>>56863771Being with Gus. Exploring with Gus.
>>56863913i can do this...
>>56863222Were you planning to add him into Clover Guild or was it for a personal project? I'm not bothered either way, I'm just curious
>>56863913alrighty here you go godspeed, mr. shipper sir
>>56864362YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Recently, I drew KFC doing some training.>>56856618Thanks anon, I'm glad you liked it!>>56848864Surprised to see this old doodle of mine again. Don't worry, he's not exploding--he's just fluffing himself up with Cotton Guard.>>56835369I've been neglecting thread questions, so I'll answer these ones.>What is the most technologically advanced thing that you think the PMD world should have?I always imagined the world having mostly medieval-level tech, but Pokemon's abilities and the items found in dungeons might allow them to develop/build some more advanced things than you'd expect.>Do you prefer PMD dungeons that attempt puzzles/gimmicks like aegis cave, or do you always want them to have a more traditional challenge?Gimmicks can be a neat way to break up the formula, but only if they're handled well. Case in point, Aegis Cave was a nightmare.>Do you like having strong miniboss-like enemies roaming in dungeons, such as the "strong foes" in rtdx?I think it's a cool idea, as long as it's balanced and the minibosses aren't super OP.>What is your most hated piece of PMD fan media (comics, art, romhacks, etc.)?I haven't dived very deep into PMD fanworks, honestly. I've seen some low-quality fanworks, but I don't exactly hate any of them.
>>56864362BASED BASED BASED THEY *BELONG* TOGETHER
Late Halloween thing. (Audio version is on the booru)
>>56865334This is the most horrifying thing to come out of Clover HalloweenAlways happy to see Sableye-anon though
Huh, I wonder if you could run a PMD ttrpg as a Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Granting Engine hack...
pmd gacha
Just how many can a single Lapras actually seat?
>>56865806>Chuubo's Marvelous Wish-Grantinga quick QRD on this ttrpg setting ?
>>56867105Setting?>The world ended, sort of. This doesn't mean the world became the not-world, though, because that ended too. Rather, both became a not-so-secret third thing.>The setting is a town called Town, which is surrounded by a multicolored void, situated somewhere that's no true place. It's a nice place to live by all accounts: quiet, peaceful, and sleepy, a place where you can just get on with life. However, there are still strange and interesting things to get involved with if you look around.>Imagine a mix of Adventure Time and Miyazaki-style anime (like Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, and My Neighbor Totoro)
>>56865334i love themthe spooks
i'd like to practice drawing more, so post two guildmons you'd like to see doing something togetherI'm not drawing any shipping shit, puritan, wholesome stuff only
>>56868963Gus riding Skiddo through a field
>>56868963Cassie attempting to hug AdrianJimmy & Natu (& Booker & Bean & Maddi) in Jimmy's chestRain & Minun (& Blossom) tending to the gardenTorchic 'flying' with PercivalToge working at DD with LinooneElm & Larkspur pranking someone
>>56867824hmmm i like that might do research on it
>>56868963Cider carrying Gus through the air like they’re Sonic and Tails, bonus points if Cider’s struggling
>have my yearly reminisce over Mystery Dungeon>boot up my copy of Explorers of Sky>find that the save file is gone>remember that I deleted it so I could start fresh on a particularly bad day or something like a power outage>decide to start a new playthroughHand of fate dealt me Shinx, just like my first playthrough of Sky, so instead of Munchlax with Metronome shenanigans, I picked Vulpix partner for the first time. Team name is Livewire.Any suggestions on how to deal with Ground-types in the future, aside from Luxray's immunity item?
>>56869686>Hand of fate dealt me ShinxThe hand of "saying you played time/darkness first" dealt you Shinx
>>56870419>If you have picked Yes to the question about Time and Darkness, this question will give 4 points towards the Natures of the new startersDamn, I genuinely didn't know that. Guess I'll keep that in mind for future playthroughs.
>>56868963Sneasel & Mustel woodcarving with their claws. (the carvings are of their respective partners, Booker & Serpes)
>>56870515Now what's unfortunate is that saying No gives you lower recruitment rates for many pokemon for some godforsaken reason. Personally, this sort of thing is why I use patches that let me simply pick my starters.
>>56870553has this actually been tested? feels like a dumb question but has it actually been verified that picking 'no' makes recruit rates worse?
Friends :)
>>56870572They're plotting...
>>56870565There are separate recruitment values in Skytemple for how you've answered.
>>56870572Cute!
>>56869686Neat, that's pretty much what I ended up with my first time playing.>>56870565This spreadsheet has a list, the second recruitment value is the boosted one:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18utO_lCpWQ7iXY9wpbtxXpgmzebEI2IRjADp6IrUKZ0/Time/Darkness just uses the non-boosted rates. I believe Chunsoft implemented it like this just to reduce a little of the tedium for returning players as there isn't a save transfer system, but didn't want to make it a blanket buff.
>>56869686
>>56870615>>56870653neat, thanks for showing, i don't use skemple much so that's useful to know
>>56870688It should be noted that not every pokemon's recruitment rate is affected by this. Regardless of how you answer, Kecleon's recruitment rate ain't budging.
>>56870653Whoops, messed up the link:https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18utO_lCpWQ7iXY9wpbtxXpgmzebEI2IRjADp6IrUKZ0/edit?gid=1631084179
>>56869017here you go, i dont really want to do backgrounds so no field for youstill open to more suggestions
>>56870672I like this guy's art
>>56870699now draw them shipped
>>56870699I don't want to sound like an angry Sonic fan, but Gus' arms are the wrong color
>>56870715Gus lookin' kinda penguiny now.
>>56870715oops
NOW DRAW RAINGETTING AN EDUCATION
>>56870615Never knew that. Why did they do that? Was it to make recruitment go faster and feel less repetitive, since you'd already played the game once?
>>56870895I think so. The unboosted rates match Time/Darkness, so picking "no" is just playing the game as originally intended.
now draw them teleporting bread
>>56870653In my first playthrough one of the coolest moments for me was my partner Munchlax using Metronome into Endeavor on the final boss of the main story, allowing me to chunk it down with a few more +2 Ginseng Thunder Fangs, and back then I told myself I'd pick Munchlax as a partner every time I'd play the game from then on.But now around a decade later I realized that that would probably be boring, so I picked a partner I've never given much attention to, in any Pokemon game, and that happened to be Vulpix. I'm hoping the Ground types end up being more of a challenge instead of... annoying.also Imprison seems really good lmao
>>56871148Personally I dropped Imprison, it's so broken it takes away some of the fun. Same deal as Attract in Rescue Team. (OG)
>>56871179I guess if I come to the same conclusion, I'll swap it for Confuse Ray
>>56864077Potentially. Him as his team would technically exist in the canon, but he wouldn't be tied down to the guild. He'd probably have some form of acquaintanceship with the guild and the pokemon in it, and pops into town on occasion for a drink with the lads.I like the idea that they sort of just wander all over the grass continent going where they want because they live in his vardo caravan. I was thinking of writing up a couple of very short stories about them, but they're more of a side thing. I don't want to take too much of my time away from stuff with my main team and their stories.They're sort of just there for me to experiment with drawing more complex stuff (horses, birds and vehicles) from time to time. It takes way longer and is way more of a pain in the ass, so I don't want to tie myself down with it too much.Team Petal-Purr are simple, rounded shapes that are comfy and easy to draw.These guys are the exact opposite in every way, I'm already burned out from drawing them this much.I also like the comedy of a frequent Ketamine abuser becoming a horse in an unfortunate twist of irony.
>>56871767Important questionWhat's his opinion on Honda Civics?
>>56871822I don't know if that's a reference to something or not. But everyone knows all cars need to have modded exhaust pipes that are louder and more obnoxious.
what kind of sinister shenanigans could be cooking within this building....
>>56872061>a literal skyscraperThe canon PMD aesthetic was fun while it lasted.
>>56872061Big Egg needs to be dismantled immediately.I always love your lineart so much.
>have idea for story>cider-anon is awol so i can't get input about that character
>>56872423make it anyway
>>56872423you should have plenty of material from him already, blurbs and stories are there for that. What's the point of having so lany characters if you guys are only gonna use the same handful of characters all the time
Finally, the Pelliper Post's supermailmon project has come to fruition...Hair Tuft Wingull
>>56875466The year 2024 has arrived. A herd of fucking ugly blues are rushing from the post office. Damaged package rate skyrockeded! Capim Town is ruined! Therefore, The Capim government called Wooper's friend "Ches" for the massacre of the blues. Ches is a killer machine. Wipe out all 1.2 billion of the blue Pelipper! However, in mainland Treasure Town there was a secret project in progress! A project to transform the deceased Postmaster General into an ultimate chiller!
Is Omer skittering around here these days? Could use his expertise back at Oasis right about now.
>>56876116Go back to the desert ya hornball
>>>/trash/go back in there to do your erp
>>56876195>>56876264Chillax, I was just trying to find a player not start typefucking on a blue board.
Why is there an Espeon hidden in the background here?
>>56876725Good question; ask the artist.
>>56876725there was a thread regular ages back who had Eevee protag in Rescue Team, evolving into Espeon. Throughout the game it spammed attract on everything.
Yaho!
I am alive again.
>>56877269>it's realrowlet summoning is real
>>56877269good to see you again cider :>
>>56877269Good to see you again, anon.
>>56877269Welcome back, anon!
>>56877269we are so back
>>56877269CIDER BROS WE ARE SO BACK LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOwhy is he imagining adrian and enny kissing
>>56877216yaho!
>>56877421yaho !
>>56877269the return........>>56869101here you are, one day i will understand how shading works bettermore suggestions please, lesser drawn but active mons are ideal
>>56872061a second skillet has hit the egg corp. tower
>>56877535cyndaquil tries to give rain a water stone
>>56877535an unstoppable force meets and unstoppable force....
>>56877269Normally I appreciate seeing my characters drawn
I'll be lurking if you need me, you know how to call
Emeras were a mistake.
>>56877443I didn't know furret was into netori...
>>56879523I like Mawile's beach outfit
>>56879523Sex with Dedenne
>>56870883Looks good, except his right hindleg should probably be positioned higher up to show that it's farther away.>>56877535Adrian looks janky to me. His head shape looks wrong, and his left ear is too big, and I think his front legs may not be connected right. Cassie seems okay.
>>56881915oc hair evolution...
>>56882369I like the artist's style and character design, but I can't decide if I like the long hair or not. I don't even know if it makes sense for a fur-covered Pokemon to grow long hair/fur on the head like this.But at least it's the same color as the rest of the fur. I never liked it when OCs have a different color for their hair.
i like 2 joke about hair tuft ocs but i forget that I slowly gave ronnie what's essentially an oc tuft
>>56883165Adding more fuel to the kill ronnie movement
>>56882537I think I like it. The base Pokemon is still 100% recognizable, and it's unique without looking too stupid
meatshroom
We menstruating about hair tufts again?
no fun allowed
>>56871517finished the main story, honestly surprised this game still makes me tear up over a decade later
>>56883398>hair tuft>non-standard coloration>accessoriesMustel is... cringe...?
Just how much are armless pokemon helped out around the guild?
>>56883517N-no you...
>>56883767I think Cyndaquil would be offering to "help", if you know what I mean.
>>56883165I look and act like this
Where is your cutoff for acceptable levels of donut steel OC hair tufts?Personally, I'm pretty generous in that I can sort of tolerate anything up to the "high" level as long as it's not the same boring anime spikes over and over again. It's mostly still retarded, but I'll allow it if it's interesting.
>>56885390Low/medium is as far as I'll go. I actually like seeing a small bit of fluffiness (including a small hair tuft) on furry Pokemon, just to make them look less smooth and bald.
>>56885390Generally medium if it can be justified by the mon actually having fur/feathers/etc, and low if not.Maybe high in some special cases.
>>56885390who gave shelby a bowlcut......
>>56885390I accept up to high if it looks good. The moment it's literal hair, we lost the plot a little.
I will put a sprig of fur on every mammalian Pokémon and you will watch in horror as I have fun and enjoy myself.
>>56885692Her mum did, of course. Who else would have
don't click
>>56883496>playing EoS postgame>looking at moves for partner Vulpix>gets Energy Ball as egg move in Gen 4 (not as a starter/partner lmao) but can't learn it from TM until Gen 5WHY
>>56886882gamefreak momentIt's like how Gengar couldn't learn Sludge Wave outside of an event, despite it being a TM.
>>56886934>gamefreak momentat least there's solar bea-nevermind, Vulpix only gets Drought as a hidden ability in Gen 5 too! I guess I could cope with Sunny Orbs or something idk
>>56886971I'll never understand why they refused to add weather TM's in Explorers.
What would be the most fun part if you got isekaid in PMD?I think it would probably be actually BEING a pokemon. It sounds so fun to be in a super different body, having new parts, having a tail, etc.close second would be meeting other pokemon!
>>56888457I think you hit the nail right on the head, anon.
>>56888457i always thought the idea of being isekai'd as a machop would be novel in it's own weird way since your general instinct of fistfighting would carry over albeit with enhanced strength
>>56888518Imagine evolving and eventually having to learn how to use additional pairs of arms.
>>56888533reminds me of four armed characters in fiction who use their four arms to double emote like crossing your arms and shrugging at the same time
>>56888533>become grassmon>get vines AND arms
>>56888457Wow... I never thought of that
>>56888457I'm kind of indecisive at heart and would like to be a Ditto. I'd probably be an outcast to some and a friend to others due to being a polymorphic protoplasm that has no identity of its own. I'd hope they could learn to withhold favorite forms with enough training and expertise. At the same time I'm such an anxious shit that I'd probably spill my spaghetti at inopportune moments and just revert into a blob at the worst times.
>>56888628you don't think about it enough. Think about it tonight before sleep for maximum dream potential and fun times
>>56888457>What would be the most fun part if you got isekaid in PMD?Affordable housingBut on a serious note, I guess it would be the sense of freedom. Being able to live off of missions money alone, without having to worry about long-term career paths or other fuckeries and pressures of the modern world.Though I guess that a "real" PMD society would not be just like in the games and would have its own share of problems.>It sounds so fun to be in a super different body, having new parts, having a tail, etc.I'm sure that is a lot of fun, but at the same time I feel like that is one of those things where the novelty would wear off fast.Learning new moves and experimenting with them would surely be a fun experience too.
>>56888457>wake up as a pokemon>yay I get to use a new body!>no limbs
>>56888457Waking up as a voltorb is the universe's way of telling you to kill yourself
>>56889323https://wiki.teamfortress.com/w/images/a/a4/Demoman_specialcompleted11.wav
>>56888658I'll never get my pmd isekai dream like everyone else because my dreams exist solely to fuck with me and keep me from getting any decent rest
>>56889431i've dreamt about my characters once or twice, you aren't missing out on anything
>>56889471I've had it happen numerous times, and entire ideas for stories have emerged from my dreams. Sometimes I can take the faintest hint from a dream and stretch it into something big enough to be an entire story.
guildmembers for this feel?
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>>56888457I would not want to be isekai'd into any place where I could end up as a worm or a piece of living mineral.I'd only want to be a bird or something that can fly.
>>56890718Who drew that?
>>56891741Looks like IVA's style.
Still tracing as a baseline but at least with this I can make it more-artistic instead of just plain memes. Pic is Ikarus musing about... something in his workshop/lab.>>56890684I wonder how comfy Ikarus is? He'd at least be warm.
Also drew the bane of Ikarus' existence, using a borzoi (I love these guys like you wouldn't believe) as reference. I'll figure out some way to put these into a story once I get back to writing.
Also enjoy Blossom holding up Shelby so she can get a better view of the Summer Festival!
>>56891761He's probably very comfy, but I'd suspect only Cyndaquil would be willing to make use of his services due to his 'reputation'.
>>56891984the pokemon in the right is unrecognizable
>>56890339hell yeah
>>56892598Erm... that's actually my original character. It's a middle stage evolution of a fairy type vulpix/ninetales and you will spam the twitter replies with constant dickriding about how soulful my fanfiction is
>>56892598I could immediately tell it was ninetales so it may be a skill issue
>>56892812do this
>>56886882So I'm in the postgame and I've obtained a few Golden Apples, thought I could sell them at first, but you can't, so are these only for increasing max belly on long dungeons or something?
>>56893674Yep, eating them sets your hunger to 150, and then 200 on the next one you eat. Shame the vanilla game's dungeons only go up to 75f outside L1.
>>56835369>>56835373When does red rescue get good? I just beat ginger and medichamp and so far I'm just doing fetch quests and spamming A. Other issues>why do I have to return to each friend area every time to re-add them to my party>the ducking repeated dialogue for every job you finish>all party members are completely AI controlled... in a turn based game>cant even pick your starter for some gay pop psychology quizHow is this fun? >but le hecking storyWhy not just read the Pokemon manga at that point instead of sitting through some boring game
>>56894078>i'm just mashing Athat attack gets nerfed into uselessness later on in the series, and outright removed in DX.>>why do I have to return to each friend area every time to re-add them to my partyRescue Team DX doesn't do this, and lets you preset teams>>the ducking repeated dialogue for every job you finishThat's just how the games do things>>all party members are completely AI controlled... in a turn based gameThere are patches for Sky that let you hit Start to take manual control, which is good for bosses>>cant even pick your starter for some gay pop psychology quizAlso patches for sky that let you pick your starter, and Gates/Super let you choose outrighttldr if this is enough for you to think the game is shit, the other games have ways around it, but if you hate the dungeon crawling it simply isn't your kind of game then.
>>56894078>the first game of a series doesn't get everything right immediately"damn guess the game sucks and its bad and not worth sitting through at all">>why do I have to return to each friend area every time to re-add them to my partyfixed in the Explorers games and onwards>>the ducking repeated dialogue for every job you finishdo you want some sense of immersion in a world inhabited by pokemon, or a soulless end-of-mission stats screen spreadsheet telling you everything you get for completing your daily to-do list>>all party members are completely AI controlled... in a turn based gameGames don't explain it well, but you as the player have limited control over your team member's actions, down to the moves they can use on any given turn, their movement behavior patterns, and feeding them Gummis increases a stat called IQ that unlocks generally useful advanced AI tactics you can toggle on and off. Explorers games expanded on this very well from the Rescue team games.>>cant even pick your starter for some gay pop psychology quizIf a gimmick made to fascinate children bothers you that much, the questions and results are known data and you can cheat the quiz to give you the starter you want usually within a few soft resets depending on the questions given. IIRC Gates to Infinity did away with the personality test at the cost of having only 5 options to pick from, then Super Mystery Dungeon reintroduced it with the option to override the results of the test, as well as Rescue Team DX>>but le hecking storyreally weird thing that happens when you play story-driven video games, you have to give them adequate time to do their job, which is to immerse you in the world with its story and characters. While I think Team Meanies is kinda retarded in general, and the concept of malicious Rescue/Exploration teams in general breaks my personal immersion with the games, in Red Rescue Team at least, the game definitely picks up quick after where you are right now.
>>56894078Basically you either really like random dungeon shit, or really want to play as a talking pokemon, and then put up with it because of those. If quality of life shit is driving you insane I'd probably consider DX instead of red
Been busy workin'.Here's a sketch!
>le heckin story>play rpg to spamskip dialogueAnd to think the literacy rate in the western world is only going to get worse from here on out.Really makes me wanna die from a blood clot.
>Gengar: I'm gonna drag the protagonist>scene clearly shows Gengar dragging the protagonist>The protagonist: Gengar is dragging me...Even as a kid, PMD writing had me laughing hard
>>56893232yeah I don't have the 'brosing deviantart for hours' skill
>>56894534shhhh don't point that out, pmd still has the best writing in all of pokemon comparatively
>>56894534It overexplains everything. Seems to just be a thing in jrpgs from my experience but I wouldn't call myself a huge fan of the genre outside of pokemon
>>56894534it's a japanese thing that doesn't translate to english very well. it'd be one thing if the characters actually had voices with intonations (i'm not suggesting that this is necessary btw but the implication in and of itself) but most of the time they don't.it's one of those things that is just present throughout the series where they'll repeat dialogue to drill the nature of the thing down. the whole series suffers from it
>>56894639after replaying Explorers of Sky, and finishing the main story, I'm still kind of reeling over the sheer amount of seemingly unnecessary flashbacks they give you in every chapterthey really expected you to knock out one chapter a day, or maybe not because even in chapters like where you're exploring Waterfall Cave, after the ordeal you get flashbacks to events you witnessed literally 2-3 minutes prior, in case you weren't paying attention.
>>56894668they load save points all throughout the game, so it's clear they expected someone to be putting the game down before all of them and therefore forgetting the plot if they weren't going to come back for a period of time. it's egregious, but it's still a handheld game at the end of the day, so that's probably why it's so crazy
>>56894399Nice!!!!!! Welcome back!
Congratulations on completing Drawingboard #44That was a successful Halloween board! Lots of spooky stuff going on.And seeing all the guild characters with costumes is so CUTE!!!!!!! Amazing job everyone!Next drawingboard is a blank one, be free!join here!! https://magma.com/d/aby499w7r8
>>56894860>#44 I mean 45!!
>>56894860darkest dungeon team misfits goes hard as fuck
>>56894860I like how half of them are trick-or-treating and the other half are experiencing the horrors
>>56883496Same thing happened to me on my last playthrough, particularly the partner's breakdown on the beach. Always felt that was a shockingly potent depiction of resurfacing grief.>>56894534>>56894639>>56894668It's all perfectly valid criticism, but personally the repetition usually doesn't even register whenever I play these games.I guess after reading enough similar (old) JRPG dialogue I just got used to it and started taking it at face value, as long as the core is good.
>>56894399Why doesn't she just use her feet to grab things? She is a bird.
I am posting this precisely because I know it will annoy people.
>>56896262>These are forgotten experiments from secret abandoned laboratories, but instead of being stronger, they were just made the "like irl animals" jobbers.
>>56896220>spend most of life as human>become birdmonyou'd probably still try to use the closest thing you have to arms.
>>56896262It doesn't annoy or upset me, but I'm genuinely curious. If you're going to change this much, why not just make an actual original character not tied to the Pokemon franchise? Is it autism?
>>56896262what are these even supposed to be
>>56896220Because drawing that is difficult.
Pic unrelated, I have an idea for a partner character, and want to make a hero character for them. I’m torn between either Deino or Drilbur.Just on a whim, which mon do you guys like more?
>>56897866Both sound neat, but Deino is blind
>>56897878FOOLISH
>>56897866i yearn for the silly mole
better harness design, but still off in several ways
>>56894668Almost done with the Explorers of Sky postgame story, still very unsure about what to do with my team's moves. A little concerned about Rhyperior with its Lightningrod ruining things for me.I've got starter Shinx with Thunder Fang+2, Crunch, and linked Charge+Discharge, might get rid of Charge for something like Iron Tail (if I find the TM) since my SpA is high now from Gummi drinks.Partner is Vulpix with Flamethrower, Feint Attack, Quick Attack, and Imprison. Thinking about adding Dig over something.There aren't many great coverage options for either Pokemon currently so I'm a bit stumped on what to do, mainly because of the final boss arena with Rhyperior.Maybe I'm overthinking it, but I'd gladly take suggestions.
Any mon with a pretty simple design I can practice freehanding on? I want to be productive while I procrastinate lol. Also, not too great a color selection available so I'll do my best :/
>>56899506Dig is great in these games, especially on the leader as you can anticipate approaching enemies.Dark Pulse might be better than Faint Attack as it can hit multiple enemies, but it's not a TM I've come across very often.
>>56899626Dig would be good coverage, but of the two, only Vulpix can learn it. Could go over Quick Attack, but I like it for reaching past me as the leader with Shinx...Wait, is it possible to do post-game starter/partner-locked missions/dungeons with the partner as the leader Pokemon? I've never tried it before. Unfortunately I overwrote Shinx's egg move Quick Attack awhile ago, so I wouldn't benefit from that again.Likewise, I've been contemplating Dark Pulse over Feint Attack for awhile ever since I've had the TM, but I just wasn't a fan of the low accuracy and total PP loss, so I put it off.
>>56899692>Wait, is it possible to do post-game starter/partner-locked missions/dungeons with the partner as the leader Pokemon?I believe not, but there's only a handful of those (Mt. Travail(?) > Dark Crater) so I usually mix it up for the other postgame dungeons.
>>56899692Decided it was finally time to put Feint Attack to rest in place of Dark Pulse, which I had 3 TMs for apparently. Swapped out her Quick Attack for Dig for better coverage for the Fire types in Dark Crater.On Shinx, I'm going to teach Facade over Charge at least for this final dungeon since Rhyperior's Lightning Rod in both the boss and random dungeon encounters is going to make the linked Discharge combo a lot less useful, and burns should be plentiful with all the Fire types.Unfortunately Shinx has Survivalist from IQ, so I can't force a burn with Grimy Food. Could bring multiple and simply try my luck but I feel like that's getting too gimmicky, and I probably need the bag space for Reviver Seeds anyways>>56899751Just checked this to see what happens for Dark Crater, and the partner has specific dialogue when you set them to be the leader, saying that the player has always been the leader for important missions like this. You're then given the option to Accept Leadership or Refuse, and if you Refuse, the partner says they're not confident enough to be leader, and that you should be the leader anyways. Neat and interesting little dialogue there, though it's still a little odd to hear that coming from the partner after all the character growth they've gone through in the game prior to this.
>>56900052Dyke pairing SPOTTED
>>56900226The game has a surprising amount of dialogue barely anyone would see, like cutscenes for failing at Drenched Bluff or sentry duty, or Lapras's dialogue if you return after Grovyle leaves but before finishing Temporal Tower.
>>56900226>bring Golden Apple to Dark Crater>"it's a somewhat long dungeon, so I might as well use one here">forget to use it floor 1 turn 1>"oh well I'll use it after the checkpoint>Floor 15>step on a Grimer Trap>Golden Apple was affected instead of the Big Apple I had on standbyThis is now the 2nd time this has happened to me
>>56835369What's this romhack I'm thinking ofIt was a firered hack I think, it had both Kanto and then Johto and there was a seven sages thing, a lv 80-100 trainer near the starting areaI played it around 2 years ago, late 2022 ish so the romhack isn't more recent than that
>>56900920I think you're in the wrong thread
hey gang.apologies for the long fucking delay in between stories. at long last, the duo's clover guild debut is here. special thanks to everyone who beared with me with past few months and to my blessed betareaders and collab partners.hopefully it was worth the waithttps://rentry.org/cc1textonly
>>56901708Are you still doing the alternate versions of the stories with the art and music and stuff? I don't see them on your homepage.
Typing this before I go to bed because it's very late for me, but I just finished The Weather Up There and it's fantastic. The custom sprites and maps are such a wonderful touch, and it makes the story feel so much more lively. I had such a big smile on my face watching Tropius wander around the Clover Guild and talking to all it's members, seeing all their personalities. It made the place feel so lively. Also nothing in a rom hack has ever impressed me more than actually making Torchic ride on Phanpy, that was crazy. I don't want to spoil the story just in case, and I'm too tired to remember how to spoiler text, but I'll just say Tropius's arc was very touching, and there were scenes that made my eyes well with tears, as well as scenes that made me "d'awww" audibly. There's never a dull line of dialog either. These hacks are written with the same genius that the og games are where you can pick a perfect voice for the character shown in your head the moment they start talking. Everybody feels so unique and fun.It was just all around a good time, very clever humor, timing, writing, the works. If there are more Clover Guild hacks in the future I wanna be the first to play em. This shit gives me life and Cyndaquil scares me. Congrats to those who worked on this!!
>>56902561There's an earlier hack called Misfits that was made for the hackjam before that, starring everybody's favorite team. Not as long or as detailed, but still worth a peek.
>>56901427Whoops no romhack thread is upCtrl+F you failed me
Decided to just go with Booker.
I'll never be mad over how these games aren't the mainline series, despite never playing a single installment of them.
>>56902561I'm really glad you liked it anon! We worked very hard on it, and I still love seeing people enjoy it so much :DWe'll definitely be doing another hack whenever the skytemple mods decide to get off their ass and announce another jam, but who knows when that'll be exactly. Hopefully sooner than later.
>>56902561anyone has a catbox or something to download it? the OP links are down
>>56903587https://files.catbox.moe/93tiki.ndsno idea how long this'll last
>>56903641arigato
Oh wait, this is actually really good.
>>56902259hey anon! they're still on an indefinite hiatus so i don't want to say no outright, and i do have something in the works that i intend to replace them but i still need to focus group it.was thinking of doing something akin to an audiobook for a while; the stories are pretty damn long already and ideally i'd like to get something a bit "easier" to digest. given that, i could also include some art again too and make them videos - i wasn't really happy with a lot of the art i did for the full editions, so if i do go back to art for them it'll be marginally less than before. trying to strive for quality over quantity.thanks for asking, appreciate the interest.
>>56904132I still haven't read milos from home. Is it worth looking at?
>>56901708pretty nice story, I liked the characters and interactions with other guildies, Lliam's shitposting never gets old>check the home rentry>see all those other storiesholy shit that's a ton of words
>>56904615thank you so much anon! incredibly glad to hear you liked the story. yeah i certainly wrote a ton prior lmao. at the same time, i wanted to make sure that this piece could at least stand on its own for the most part without a bunch of required reading.
>>56904906it definitely did, I didn't read all the previous ones but it introduced the characters understandibly, their personalities are pretty well defined
>>56904329No worries, it seemed like a lot of work. I was holding off on finishing BotA until the full versions of all of the chapters were out, but I think I'll just finish them now.
>>56905200means a lot to hear that. thank you very much!!>>56905222i appreciate your understanding and interest dude. thanks anon, and i hope you enjoy reading the rest!
I wanna play for one of these, never touched the mystery dungeon series. Where should I start? Pls respond
>>56905849nobody will respond, dumb liar
>>56905849start with blue rescue team
>>56905849Any of the rescue team games, doesn't matter if it is Red, Blue or RTDX, then play Explorers of Sky
>>56902587Don't worry I checked that one out too! I still enjoyed it but I didn't share my words about it here. To make up for that here's a doodle, bonus points if you get the reference>>56903547Hell yeah. You guys made Tropius go up a few steps in my favorite Pokemon list
>>56906627Rope. Now.
>>56900359Okay, are evolution stones normally this hard to get a hold of legit? I've been grinding Mystifying Forest and Midnight Forest for Kecleon shops on odd-numbered floors for a Fire Stone, pretty much since I finished the post-game story the other day and just about every single one has had a Sun Stone and a King's Rock instead of a Fire Stone for my partner. Also don't have Lake Afar yet because its locked behind Recycling and I don't want to get anything other than Prism Tickets.
I don't remember anything about the story of explorers other than some of the broad strokes and it being long, but I was thinking of replaying it. Does it actually hold up, or is it more like "it's good for a pokemon game story"?
>>56906857As someone who just finished it the other day for the first time in almost a decade, it's a little cheesy, still sort of campy, and if you know how to play the game you'll get silly shit like 2HKOing a boss and still getting your ass kicked in the cutscene after, but I'd say at the very least, it's still good.I wish it didn't rely *heavily* on certain plot devices, but I get why it does, since it's a game meant for kids. As long as you go into it with a grounded mindset like that, you should have a good time.
>>56907265>>56907265>>56907265
So are all of the characters in Super the same as they were in previous games? Some characters I've recruited make references to stuff they did before in those games, but how does that work with Gardevoir being a main character in Rescue Team and also a member of Team Charm?
>>56907279It's mostly just references, probably - not actually canon.
>>56907283and some of them are even half-retconned because the localizers didn't get the memo
>>56907321What does that mean? Did the localizers do it on their own, or something else?
