PokemonTabletop Wiki



Welcome to the PokemonTabletop Wiki
Welcome to the wiki for fans of the Pokemon Tabletop systems Pokémon Tabletop United, Pokémon Tabletop Adventures, and Pen & Paper Pokémon.

How To Use This Wiki
This wiki can be your one stop shop for reference material for your Pokémon tabletop game. If you're new to Pokémon in general, check out the World of Pokémon guide. If you're new to your tabletop of choice, or would just like to explore those systems, the guidebooks for each system are being translated to wiki form! Additionally, this wiki is a great source for actual downloads of the sourcebooks, character sheets, and play materials. And when you or your GM wants to put together a repository of Campaign setting info, there's a place in the community to build that out too!

PTU, PTA, P5e... and more. What are the differences?
From the PTU Core Rulebook

As you may or may not be aware, Pokémon Tabletop United is a parallel successor or “sister system” to Pokémon Tabletop Adventures. For those of you familiar with PTA, you’ll find that many character options in PTU are similar. However, the games differ a lot in structure and mechanics.

Trainers and Pokémon share the same set of Combat Stats in Pokémon Tabletop United, which means they’re able to benefit from Combat Stages and be affected by Moves and Abilities that affect them or that rely upon manipulating Stat values.

Unlike PTA, there is no Attribute system in PTU. Everything is done via Skills. The Base Class/Advanced Class structure is gone, making the “cross-classing” options from PTA the norm rather than a special exception and allowing more flexibility in building Trainers.

And finally, the biggest change in PTU is that there’s a Skill system which smooths out interactions between Trainers and Pokémon and makes it easier to adjudicate common adventuring tasks and create characters with developed specializations and interests.

Pen and Paper Pokemon was an early reaction to PTA & PTU which attempted to simplify play. To this end, stats are boiled down to the basic pokemon game stats for pokemon, and related stats for trainers: Special Training, Physical Training, Poise, Aptitude, and Attention. The game is very focused on pokemon abilities rather than human ones, so individual characters are more defined by their personalities and non-battle traits, and are fairly flat combat and physicality-wise.

Pokemon Fifth Edition (P5e) is an adaptation of Wizards of the Coast's Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition ruleset for the pokemon universe. Pokemon use the 6 classic ability scores for calculations (Str, Dex, Cha, Int, Wis, Con), and they gain moves much more regularly, using the class-features system.

If you and your play group are already into D&D 5e, this will be a good introduction to the world of pokemon tabletop. There is also a companion app for the system, adding more to its approachability.

Finally, Pokemon Journeys is an in-progress system developed around the idea of simplifying Pokemon tabletop games to the point that players can focus more on what they come for, the story and drama. The team is also focused on building a game system the young demographic of pokemon games can get into. If you'd like to contribute to the development of this prokect, follow the link in the navigation bar.

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