Great White Games/Pinnacle Entertainment Group

[rungok]

So my friend took the Wreck it Ralph movie and really liked the concept of characters from different video games having adventures in different game worlds. He is going to run a game where we each get to pick a genericized version of a particular style of console/arcade game character.

So I thought about it and decided I wanted to play a generic game boy/DS Pokemon game hero. Someone who collects/trains portable monsters/fighters that he throws out to do things. I was trying to figure out how to do this with savage worlds.

Either I can figure out how to have a character summon a 'pet' monster or I can just have very particular trappings for certain powers. The issue then is targeting. I'd like the monster to be able to take hits since in my character's world they do 'battle'.

Anyone have any suggestions for how to do this? I would be fine starting with one 'monster' at start and can get them as I increase in rank or something.

[ogbendog]

The Summon Ally power?

[rungok]

I don't see that in my explorer's edition book.

[ogbendog]

ah, there you go.

it's in SWD, and (I assume) in Fantasy Companion.

You could probably take Zombie and apply different trappings. I'd suggest using the Skirmish rules to figure out the points on a zombie then build other critters of that point value.

[tigerguy786]

[VonDan]

Summon Ally and Summon Zombie lets you summon greater allies with each advance category but they are mostly human(oid).

Look at the Summon Ally and Summon Zombie list and figure out the point value and apply that to standard animals or an animals with a monster edge or power

I was thinking look to the summon familiar edge for animals for each character lever but they are permanent and thus mundane but to give you an idea maybe that animal with a monster edge as a temporary summon
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[rungok]

Okay.

I like the summon ally ability, but I also like the trappings for mad science option too... Hum. Neither is really a smooth analog for what I'm looking for.

[VonDan]

In a D&D game i fooled the DM into letting me play a Pokemon Trainer, I was a summoner and my PC was an artist and owned a paper and ink shop, so his spells focus was playing cards made with magic ink. I stated up creatures on 3x5 cards and doodled an image on them and the first time i cast I tossed down the card and said the summoned animals name and said "I choose you" No one had guest what I had set up and the whole gang groaned in dispare
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[rungok]

That sir is a fantastic idea.

I like the trappings thing, with the limitation of only being able to have one power active at a time. The power points would be for the (3/1 round) duration of the power, regardless of the actual cost of the power. The pet would have it's own stats and the same pp pool as I would base to use the one 'power' that is what it's trapping is for. I dunno, tried to get a good mixture.

[robert4818]

[tigerguy786]

[Ornimancer]

I think using the Shape Change power table as a guide for point cost in summoning could work well.

[Virgobrown72]

I'd done something like this, giving the character the Superpower AB, and the power being Summon Ally. I also requiered the Hindrance:Young. This worked out very well for my game. As they grew in rank<they could summon more powerful creatures. Also, I'd allowed for swapping melee attacks for the creatures with equivilant ranged attacks with trappings, butnot both (In order to simulate the various types of "Pocket Monsters"). Fat fun was had by all...
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[Lysander]

Would BeastMaster be appropriate here? Use the Spirit die as the number of Pokemon you have at your command?
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