runekyndig says:
Is there a kind of story you are dying to tell?
Boy, do I.
I have been absolutely obsessed with a certain concept: Pokémon, except with heavy influences from real history (late 50s early 60s Japan).
First this was just a fanfic idea, then I got the idea in my head of writing it as a novel, except as an original IP rather than a Pokémon story (as you can't profit from fanfics). Now the past... one or two months, I have added the idea of doing it as a PBP game using Fate Accelerated, using the Pokémon setting itself, not as a replacement for doing an original novel, but as a way of scratching the itch in a less involved manner than novel-writing before I try my hand at that.
Except I keep sabotaging myself... every time I try to write a forum post for recruiting players, I manage to find something to research and/or re-research that I just """"""must"""""" look into before I get started. Send help.
Oh, and you have got no idea of how much historical research I did because of this obsession... since I barely took any notes I'm sure I have forgotten much of it, and what I do remember I know not how much will come up in either the novel or the game (some of it because making things too constrained by real history would close off a lot of fun possibilities, for example), but since I love history, doing all this research has at been pretty fun at least.
So, who wants to go on a Pokémon journey in 1961 Kanto, 16 years after
WW2 the Great War, 9 years after the Unovan occupation officially ended, in a not only regrowing but growing and booming post-war economy, smack in the middle of a turbulent period of gang wars, just as Team Rocket is violently ascending in the underworld and forcing ex-military (possibly war criminal) scientists to create the ultimate Pokémon for them?
Last edited Dec 16, 2024 10:38 pm