Recently, I replayed Pokémon Red Version and when down a bit of a mental rabbit hole thinking about how I’d recreate it in TTRPG form. Well, I never got entirely out of that rabbit hole - therefore I present you know with my playtest rules for the game.
Read MoreI recently replayed Pokemon Red for the first time in decades. Folks are talking about Pokemon whether it be in new video games, the cards, or even bringing them to the tabletop in new ways. It’s all got me thinking how I’d do Pokemon at my table. Here are some of rough ideas I cooked up while I was taking a shower.
Read MoreRecently, I played through Pokemon: Red Version for the first time since I was a child. Most of the key details I remembered, but one recurring element I did not - that has been all but sanded off of the franchise entirely at this point - was the inclusion of several real-world references throughout the game’s setting, the Kanto region.
Early on, you visit a science museum. Here, a nice man tells you about “the moon landing,” even giving you the date is happened: July 20, 1969! A model space shuttle in one corner of the museum’s ongoing space exhibit is labeled: “Space Shuttle Columbia.” Oh wow, so I must just be in the Pokemon-laden part of the real world? Like there’s a United States and Russia out there! Maybe the S. S. Anne sails to California!
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