Thinking about aspects of the site and I was wondering what everyone's ideal starting character limit is? I was thinking somewhere between 2-4 to start, with the potential to increase the limit as the site grows/things progress. (eg. if a new playable group is released, the character limit will be increased to accommodate)

I'm leaning towards a cozier, lower character count but I wanted to know your guys' opinions on it!

I'm a big advocator for smaller is better. I think 2-4 is a good start and if the site grows then it wouldn't hurt to open up for a higher threshold. Maybe start with 4 as the max? More than two require a post amount with each of those two characters before you can start on your third. That would be my suggestion!

you'll be saving a small but loyal crowd that has been abandoned by daddy nintendo

and super cute skin 

figured i'd ask about two things:

baby pokemon and paradox pokemon - how do they work? would a pikachu be able to start as pichu? would paradox pokemon even be around?

also i think if your max character slots are 6, 2 slots to start for free is probably fair.

Good question! I plan on going through the full list of pokemon and creating a list of which pokemon aren't allowed to be used.

Legendaries, Ultra Beasts and Paradox pokemon will be banned from the start, but UBs and Paradox pokemon might be allowed later as part of some event, but not for some time.

All pokemon will start as their unevolved form, which does include baby forms. I'll probably make baby forms optional, but players won't have to have their character act like a child just because it's a "baby form" pokemon, if they choose to go that route.

There will also be other restrictions like Pokemon with human influences being restricted to humans turned pokemon (Revaroom, Porygon) or banned outright (Galarian Fossil pokemon, Heat/Wash/Frost/Fan/Mow Rotom).

As a note in relation to the baby form pokemon: I will allow for there to be looser interpretations of pokemon! Baby forms don't have to be literal babies or, as another example, a Spoink won't literally die if it stops bouncing.

Here's another conundrum for you all: Fish pokemon.

I feel like the options for dealing with them being on land are:

1. Ban them outright and don't deal with it at all.
2. Play with realism and restrict them to waterways, but this would limit their ability to go into dungeons at all.
3. Let them "swim" through the air by a few feet and be able to breathe and not address it IC.
4. Have some kind of floating... water bubble device.

yes but only magikarp is restricted to flopping around on the ground in order to move

have to agree with Desmond Miles for the most part.

roleplay is about having fun. restricting fish pokemon's movements would make a lot of interactions a heck of a lot more difficult. with the claim limit in place, letting them "swim" through the air will make them more viable for play.

on magikarp, having them flop is hilarious, but equally funny would be a magikarp who swims through the air but keeps falling out - or who swims effectively and has no idea why everyone else is having such a hard time.

i say put the option there, but let people get creative with it.

A pokemon mystery dungeon rp would be so much fun! However, I do agree with the other poster who mentioned maybe having slots instead of just limiting it to one pokemon per site. Even though there are like a thousand pokemon, it doesn't mean that there are more than a few that someone may want to play. If a member finds the site later, and they're locked out of all of their favorites, they might lose all their enthusiasm for joining in. It would kind of feel like being punished for not finding the site earlier. Just my opinion though!