actually turns out the zyra onetricking will have to pause i am not spamming league anymore

classes just started and we grind that good grade because it's worth way more than a free victorious skin t b h

oh no viktor's actually fun to play

oh no between this and Arcane I think I like him even more

Whichever route you go, I DO recommend statless. Statted sites tend to end up with a defined metagame really fast. The reason being, if you want people to choose partner pokemon based off personality and player choice, it sucks if you wanna pick like Bibarel and someone else has Garchomp.

I do recommend if you're gonna limit the amount of pokemon people have, make randomization optional. If I come in wanting a specific pokemon for my character, and I only get one Pokemon ever, I promise you I will flake if I get something I super don't want. I think you can make the randomization/choice options there for people who want a bit more flexibility, but yeah.

I also tend to err towards liking full teams with battle rules to use fewer Pokemon (a la how VGC lets you train 6 pokemon but you can only use 4 in a battle), but that's optional. Regardless of what team style you use, I also recommend not going with a required "level up" grinding process, and maybe even an option to let people decide if they've had their Pokemon for a while or if they're new trainers. If you want to facilitate RP that isn't just "grind ur pokemon" IMO, this is the best way. Letting people tie character progression to character development instead of how many battles they have WILL encourage more non-battle plotting AND shift the focus from being just about the Pokemon to also being about the characters.

As for powers vs Pokemon, I've always held the idea that how powerful ur character is doesn't matter if ur not threading combat, which I rarely do. So I'm neutral on this, because personally I don't care if some other character is "more powerful" than mine. You can get around people fighting alongside their Pokemon by making Pokemon battles a more "sport" thing; you get disqualified if you use powers on ur Pokemon and instantly lose the battle. For non-sanctioned battles, it's less important, but you know that could lead to issues on its own.

the zyra onetricking to gold must work. it must.

thinking of making it a forum rule to respond to people who go "i've been up for over 24 hours" with nothing but that asmr video "POV i beat u unconscious"

no but seriously please sleep it's good for u

personally i find that people tend to be really hypocritical about what gets allowed and what doesn't too.

i.e. one author's racism is ok but another author's transphobia isn't, AOT gets banned and you can't play furry characters from other media but Beastars, the Furry Fascist Comic, is totally fine, "Western adult animation" is banned but Castlevania and Arcane are acceptable despite being under that label (and while i admit the bulk of it should be disqualified, using that label is uuuuh A Little Stupid just admit u don't want Family Guy and South Park on ur site that's fine but stop saying ur banning all Western Adult Animation). 

it's why i just don't join panfans that ban for "Problematique" stuff anymore. It's never applied consistently. "Oh uh this character is bad because they do x but you can play Tywin Lannister because staff likes you."

kingdom hearts is just dark souls for children, larxene's about as fun to fight as the capra demon and i am suffering.

i am making a fantasy RP with medievalesque areas. it's warcraft based so it's not fully medieval fantasy, but it's got room for that aesthetic.

it has optional stats and if you go statless, a variant of your character's profile will hide all the stat stuff you made optional. the stats are just there if you like dungeon crawling and d&d added to your RP, and if progression gives u serotonin, but if you prefer more character-driven stuff, you don't have to use the stat system. we don't limit player positions based off levels, so if you wanted to play like a noble or a knight or a leader of the regions, u don't have to use stats either. basically iiiiii prefer to just let my members do w/e they want so long as they're not ruining the fun for everyone else.

oh fair

tho i'll confess my sins: i use inline styles and then convert them to imported styles all the time i'm a disgusting coder--

sadly inline styles are the only way i've found certain things to work on jcink, namely image inputs lmao. Otherwise I just get the constant repeating glitch.

background-image: <!--field 1--> are the only things i use them for tho but like every other solution I've tried just Does Not Work.

You can set Dyno to auto-ban so be sure to do that.

today i finished a site template and coded the profiles so that statless characters don't have ugly half-finished apps. pretty successful tbh.