Me too!  I'm starving here!

YES! I'm late to the party but I just recently started watching this and it's a lot better than I thought it would be. It has such a cool world that would be so fun to explore!

a setting with similar vibes to masquerada: songs and shadows, dandy ace, the sexy brutale, or even just lyney & lynette's theming from fontaine. magic-fueled renaissance with glitz and glamor, circus carnival and venetian aesthetics. all that kinda stuff.

panfandom that lets u play with canon concepts

it's canon that in every other universe except for the main timeline, Garrosh Hellscream was a cool dude and a great hero. let me write that Garrosh. can't do it on my panfandom because i play Jaina Proudmoore in a position of power, and she would kill Garrosh on sight.

i feel like i remember someone talking about a deep space nine esque situation for a panfandom roleplay setting that would be rad as hell. it would lend itself really easily to a horror/mystery aspect as well. people wake up on this creepy ass station and/or are disappearing from it dun dun dun

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i know this has been tossed around before, but like --

pokemon panfan when?

imagine your character/muse being dropped into an original region, and, they're presented with the decision of three pokeballs, which are actually starters, and have to pick one to start their journey.

would characters/muses have powers? that's a tricky one. i'd say.... no? if only because it takes away from the whole 'pokemon' aspect in my opinion. Like how unfair would it be for your muse/character to be going against another muse/character in a battle, and have to worry about both *the pokemon* and *the trainer* battling their pokemon. but then again, some characters, their whole appeal is the fact that they have special talents/abilities/magical transformations... so maybe that's something that could always be explored/hashed out?

Idk, this is just something i'd love to see around that's been sitting in my head rent-free, but I don't have the time or the sanity to run something so extensive. Pokemon sites are already a lot, and add that to being a panfandom... you'd need a dedicated moderating team and at least a five-stack staff. 

i care less about the premise and more about the rules and app style when it comes to panfans tbh.

I actually thought about doing this before, but I'm always scared someone would cheat the system. I just don't like all the heavy systems and mechanics that come with it. Like, I'm wanting to write in the world and develop my character(s) and their friendship with pokemon, not have to worry about experience/levels/math. That's just me though! I've been on a couple rp sites where it's slice of life, light systems, and it was great, but like you said, at one point or another, the admins/mods just get burnt out from events/pokemon spawns/stores, etc.

"a system could be made, but it should be a super light system. like "just pay for a new mon of your choice" and "pay a small site currency to evolve your mons" light."

I've done this before and it is chef's kiss because people are still earning their pokemon and evolutions and stuff, but like, there's less staff interaction, so it's more fun for everyone. I've had a lot of the same thoughts that you're putting down here, and have always felt like "Pokemon rping" needs a different approach overall then just like... a direct reflection of the games, if that makes sense.

To play the devil's advocate a bit, allowing people to power game and break things a bit isn't necessarily as bad as it seems on a surface level. Even in light systems, you are going to have folks who lack grace when it comes to fair play in anything that involves competition that you will have to deal with. Having a tight system provides more nuance into how you handle judgement calls when disputes arise— but my main point is that when you do have a means for people to optimize you can kind of channel those types of players into the same environment while others who aren't that competitive can enjoy other aspects of the game.

For a pokemon site for example- you could make the most optimal progressions all about pokemon league stuff, and that's what power gamers will focus on. They'll all go to league tournaments, while your slice of life folks and pokemon collectors will probably stick to other elements you present. People tend to sort themselves into tribes this way, and if all the power gamers are power gaming against each other in a vacuum and not bullying people who aren't into competitive play then it isn't really a problem. They're just nerds enjoying doing fictional calculus really.

That's not to say I don't love rules light systems. I think they are the most accessible option for a forum to run. They just tend to require more off the cuff arbitration that can actually make handling disputes harder and more frequent. Usually, power gamers aren't as frequent in light systems, but when things get competitive a lack of checks can be a weakness because you have nothing to cite other than your opinion on how something turns out.

I just want to see a cute little Beatrix Potter site where the characters are all just small cute animals in cottage core clothes or something based off of Redwall

to add to the powers aspect, just because - obviously this is panfan and the powers that people have can span far beyond what pokemon has already demonstrated, but pokemon in itself has demonstrated multiple times that people can have mild supernatural powers especially relating to aura. mind reading, telepathy, telekinesis if you look at some of the psychic type trainers, not to mention aura guardians being a thing that have a wide range of abilities given the chance. (riley is horrendously underpowered for what he is if you take at face value what he's said to be able to do & what aura guardians can do vs sir aaron) but there is also the fact that a lot of powers will also have no place in an actual pokemon battle~ 

it can be done, but u rite, panfan already takes a lot of energy as it is so to add the pokemon aspect will be extensive for a lot of people. 

Because I recently binged through some Rifts/Palladium Megaverse related materials... it left a part of me with a hankering for taking the panfandom premise but applying it to OCs instead. Thought it might be cool if there's a setting that's like some kind of multiversal hub, a Nexus of All Realities that attracts heroes and villains from all over the multiverse.

I.e. An aspiring Dark Lord or Galactic Conqueror might see the world's status as a dimensional crossroads a valuable asset because it could open up paths to new worlds to potentially conquer, paragons of justice might take it upon themselves to safeguard this world to prevent its resources from falling into the wrong hands, and still others might just be your typical everyman (by the standards of their native realm, anyway) who were just minding their own businesses and were unfortunately isekai'ed.

Like sure, panfandom likes to go for the approach of "how would characters from unconnected fandoms interact with one another when forced out of their native contexts?". On the other hand, this would be more like a venture into "how would different genres cross over?" Like, what kind of adventures might a fantasy knight errant have with a space bounty hunter? What kind of stories could a wild west gunslinger and a barbarian hero trade? The possibilities are endless.