Way to fall victim to tobacco marketing! Of course attractive people putting things in their mouth looks cool…

I hate that Malboro figured out that they can use their marketing budget on memes to circumvent advertising laws…

Fuck smoking, it doubles your chance of death, poisons those around you, fucks up bird nests, smells like shit, and makes the absolute worst people imaginable richer.

Ravens are equally close relatives, as are parrots.

Definitely Flemish. It’s a Flemish cartoon and the -ke ending is very Flemish, the Dutch would say “Boertje”.

A bit late, but the “oe” in “boerke” is the same sound as the “oo” in “moon”. The last e is a schwa sound (a short uhh). It means little farmer.

I had to use one of those hex wrenches to fix my shower a few months back. It definitely felt like vindication.

Haha! That one’s for the champion, where it should hopefully be a bit less of a surprise.

It’s just those 6. Keeping the list small was a deliberate choice to keep things manageable. These are just here to give some Gym Leaders a Pokémon not normally found in the wild in the hopes of making them a bit more interesting.

Ha, weird, thanks for pointing it out!

Also, a small heads up: the most recent version fixed an issue with TM25 Thunder which slipt in at some point. Some of the Pokémon sheets incorrectly showed it as available or unavailable.

And since nobody’s going to check this comment chain anyway, here, have some extra Pokémon:

https://heavenlyspoon.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/new-pokemon.pdf

These are part of a companion book I’m working on with a suggested gym for each of the 50 TMs and a couple of pre-designed regions.

It normally is just a copy, but I edit the dex file for small changes instead of doing a full copy since that’s a bit quicker, but yeah, I apparently didn’t actually change it in the main doc. Oops.

And yeah, Articuno is deliberate. I liked it taking up most of that page, and this way seemed like a neat way of not having to shrink it as much.

Happy to hear that! And I’m always happy with more bug reports (as long as they’re fixable). Yeah, Disable should be 1 hit.

I don’t notice the edge clipping on my copy of the Pokédex, but I could’ve accidentally uploaded an older version. It should be good now, I hope.

I’ve updated the document with some other minor changes as well. They’ve been in the doc for a bit now, but this seemed as good a time as any to actually implement them.

Eh, vintage has had control and hatebear-style decks as its most prominent decks for years, with combo often being around 1/3 or less of the metagame. Legacy often has a tempo or control deck as the de facto best deck. Combo being this dominant is really only a modern thing. And while some of these decks aren’t A+B combo decks, I wouldn’t immediately consider them interactive in the way tempo or control would be.

Most of these decks are racing for their win-con, which makes them strategically similar in a way a metagame with strategies like death&taxes, hard control, tempo, and midrange wouldn’t be. I wouldn’t consider a hypothetical metagame with 50 different T3 combo decks more diverse than, say, current vintage.

None of these look very interactive, so I’m not sure “healthy” is the right word. Diverse, sure, but a format where almost every deck is essentially a combo deck is probably not especially interesting to play (and I say this as an absolute combo degenerate).

Weird, I don’t know how that happened, but it should be fixed now. And I’ve had a few projects now where someone just did a thorough proofreading and it’s been awesome every time. The helpers of the internet don’t get nearly enough credit, so it’s the least I can do!

Version 1.2 is up! It should include fixes for everything you pointed out. There’s a short overview in the Version History.

Some design clarifications:

• Amnesia doesn’t work out of battle, I’ve added a clarification to the move.
• I hadn’t actually considered Transform out of battle, that one’s on me. It now gives you that entire Pokémon’s moveset, but every move uses a d4 Move die to balance out the lack of PP.
• It’s deliberate that some Pokémon have more than one Basic Move. It felt kind of arbitrary for Poison Sting to be one for Weedle but not for Nidoran. I have removed Transform’s Basic status for Mew, though.
• There’s no benefit to catching higher-stage Pokémon, the catching rules mostly just make it a bit harder to get higher-stage Pokémon early. By making excursions into higher-difficulty areas more costly, it should hopefully keep trainers within their intended zones without explicitly forcing them to. But yeah, if you want a Machamp, you should probably try to find a Machop instead.
• MissingNo.'s size difference wasn’t intentional, but I’m definitely keeping it.

Thanks for the thorough read-through, I really appreciate it!

And lovely to hear that you’ve got a group together! I’d love to hear how it goes!

Oh wow, thanks a lot! I guess I know what I’m doing this weekend.

It is an ancient being, so probably? If it helps, it now has a blue one and a small one to keep it company in its old age.

I figured out what happened, apparently the Vileplume sheet snuck onto my Pokémon sheet template. It should be fixed now.

Weird! I don’t know how that happened, can you give a page number for where it shows up?

And yes, please share any typos you find!

Just replying to let you know that I’ve changed move to Move whenever it’s not referring to movement and that I’ve changed Paralysis to the easier option of not being able to move this round and next round. It definitely plays differently, but it’s quicker and should hopefully be easier to understand!