Modded "Choose Your Own Adventure" Threads

[Michael Davis]

Hello all, 

This is an idea for a type of thread that I believe many might enjoy. Similar to Modded Quests and Journey threads, the idea behind the "Choose Your Own Adventure" is simple. The player sets an OOC goal, I.e. an IPF member hunting down Team Rocket goons, a Ranger keeping an eye out for Poachers, or a Trainer searching for a specific Pokemon. Depending on the goal, or the Tier of the Pokemon being searched, a Player will have to have met specific requirements. I.e., they have reached a certain City, they have a certain number of badges, or perhaps they've even defeated the Elite Four. 

For those who wish to work toward specific goals like rare Pokemon, and who are looking for a unique experience aside from a quest that everyone has completed and have had the same story told over and over, this can allow a unique flair for those wanting to set themselves apart from the norm. 

In order to help prevent Mod workload from becoming overbearing, this thread would count toward the usual limits each player gets for Modded threads.

[Caramell 🍬]

This admittedly does sound like our Job Board, which is linked above in the same place near "Profile" and "Search" links. The jobs aren't limited, just ideas to flavor your journey threads as normal. You can make your own for an adventure. Specific things like finding a rare Pokemon can be accomplished with these (or without) still using the RNG dice giving it to you, as that would still be utilized and would still need to be based on what's around. It's rare but not unheard of if you've faced a lot of tasks in your journey thread to earn things too (like items and such related to the level of work put in). And some jobs may require specific amount of progression and such

[Michael Davis]

Aug 26, 2023 12:09:12 GMT 11 Caramell 🍬 said:

This admittedly does sound like our Job Board, which is linked above in the same place near "Profile" and "Search" links. The jobs aren't limited, just ideas to flavor your journey threads as normal. You can make your own for an adventure. Specific things like finding a rare Pokemon can be accomplished with these (or without) still using the RNG dice giving it to you, as that would still be utilized and would still need to be based on what's around. It's rare but not unheard of if you've faced a lot of tasks in your journey thread to earn things too (like items and such related to the level of work put in). And some jobs may require specific amount of progression and such

I see! Thank you for the clarification and helping me better understand my possibilities

[Caramell 🍬]

If you do like the jobs, but maybe not the ones you find in the link and want mods to come up with one for you or ideas, you can also ask. <3 That has the risk of w/e the mod that takes your thread comes up with but nearly all jobs are offered with the opportunity to walk away. Since they're mostly flavor text.

[Lamont]

I'm not sure how this is different from just a normal journey thread *thinks*

You can already go and set your own goals and try to work through your own story that you create in normal threads. We have the Job Board for helping generate some ideas for kinda 'mini-quests' you can try to focus your thread around. You just tell a mod what you're trying to do and then they'll play into it. Sometimes this results in bonus rewards depending on length and difficulty comes up.
*Also, you can suggest things to be added to the job board as per a sticky thread in this board.

Mods may also randomly think of something the spiral your journey thread into a completely custom and impromptu mini-quest at any time should they have the mental energy to do so.

But these are generally just for small knickknacks or pokemon that are already around the route. I don't really like the idea of members being able to generate their own 'difficulty' of things to get whatever they want, and setting up anything regimented then just becomes a quest.


We also have this in Team Rocket's Pokemon Pit quests. These are by far the most 'wing it' style quests we have.


Though! On that note, not all quests are told exactly the same. The number of different reasons Cyndaquil is going up Bellsprout Tower is innumerable. And the Mr. Pokemon egg quest? We've thrown a Police Officer in instead of TR when the character undertaking it was already a grunt in TR. If your character is really playing into something unique and approaching from a different angle Mods will generally play into that.

[Tiki]

bike thread might work if you just turn off bike and ask a mod to "custom" a trainer battle or "non catchable pokemon during the story" if the pokemon isn't available in the route or area commonly :shrug emoji:

[Tarlar]

As for working towards getting a specific rewards, I know that kind of quests for another side, and that might work here? but only for a limited amount of pokemon now I think about it.

How it worked there:
The other site had everything available, all pokemon were there somewhere, so it was just a matter of being at the right route/board and be lucky, and your travel threads were personal stories and quests so heavy modded in general. They had solo threads too which were graded in the end and you got rewards, or saw if you caught a pokemon, if some were spawned for you in the beginning of the thread.
If you really wanted to get a specific pokemon you could work something out, if something rather easy to come by it could just be a part of the story, but if it was something rare and powerful for example, then you got a quest you needed to succeed in to get it.

So let's say I wanted a rare powerful pokemon, like a pseudo legendary, then I get some criterias and goals which I would need to work towards, fulfill and succeed with, and in the end, I would get the pokemon as reward.
As an example, there were one on there who got a deino as a quest pokemon (not reward), which they needed to work with and tame reach some milestones with it, in a limited amount of solo threads to get whatever reward it was for. That side was all about realism so if they just gave it a poffin and they were now best of friends, it would fail.

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How it might work here?
First I'd say that all pokemon already available would be a no, if you really want a wooper you can just get your behind moved to Violet and start hunting for it. Later route pokemon or quest pokemon would be made obsolete with less incentive to trade and breed to help spread the pokemon, and less reason to try reach those area to find one yourself.
Things like lapras, which's quest are close to be released would fall into this one as well.

Now I look at the availability list there are actually fewer unavailable than I remembered, so it might be harder to do this than I initial thought. I had thought that if I for example really wanted an elgyem, then I could get one by reaching some set criteria, like Getting Whitney's badge and getting a certain amount of stars in certain escapades.

I can see though, that most unavailable things though are the newest gen(s) or dragons, which limits the pool a lot since most of the latter are meant for quests.

Perhaps members helping making the quests for those still hardly sought after and strong pokemon would be better? They have been a bit under prioritized since they are later route stuff and most people are in the former.