Episode 52: Pokemon: The First Movie

We wanna be the very best

Like no show ever was

Converting them's our real test

Explaining them's our cause

We will podcast throughout the Net

Airing far and wide

Each listener to understand

The darklord that's inside

Gotta catch 'em all!

And in this case, for Listener's Choice, we're catching the non-Disney movie that you all voted on: Pokemon: The First Movie. Topics discussed include:

• What even is a Pokemon in D&D terms, anyway?;
• Why Mewtwo is basically a perfect darklord right out of the can, especially when given the non-feline statblock that fits him perfectly;
• How to make what Mewtwo did to Nurse Joy EVEN CREEPIER;
• AUs ranging from "Pokemon are just a weird thing Mewtwo does so you have an excuse to use him as a darklord" to "here's a reskin of the magic system that turns all casters into Pokemon trainers" to "actually, Pokemon are completely unnecessary to make Mewtwo work;"
• And more!

The full write-up for New Island is available for free on DM's Guild: https://www.dmsguild.com/en/product/593302/new-island-a-monsterous-ravenloft-pocket-domain?preview=1

Pathfinder's gnarly witch spells are here: https://www.d20pfsrd.com/magic/spell-lists-and-domains/spell-list-witch/

Friend of the show Paladin Pony shared some Pokemon resources with us, including a video about Unearthed Arcane resources for familiars (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7-i1s7KO1M&list=TLPQMTYxMDIwMja9NhIC_KTk3w&index=2 ) and a video about running a Pokemon campaign in D&D (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eyQ32OqX2A). Thanks, Paladin Pony!

TIMESTAMPS

0:00 Content Advisory

1:05 Introduction

11:29 The Lord

43:11 The Land

47:37 Dread Possibilities

1:22:57 Aging Up (body horror)

1:24:19 Body horror discussion ends

1:35:26 Parting thoughts

1:51:11 D’s Parting Thoughts

Content Advisory for D's Journal (details on content advisories can be found on Facebook, Tumblr, and Patreon)

Body horror affecting animals (major; transformation, goo, pregnancy imagery), slavery (major), mind control (major), abusive relationship (major), animal abuse (moderate), violence against both humans and animals (moderate), dismemberment (moderate), death (minor)

A more detailed, spoilery breakdown of the animal abuse in this episode for those who need it:

• Familiars are forced to fight each other; the violence against them isn't described (except for one dog who's hit with a psychic blast and "vanishes with a whimpering growl"), but there's mention of them being reduced to 0 hp and disappearing like familiars do. All but one are resummoned at the end of the episode.
• Mewtwo makes mutant clones of the familiars that are bound to his will.
• One wizard is verbally abusive toward his familiar and is strongly implied to be physically abusive toward it as well, but it isn't described onscreen beyond "I heard him heaping abuse upon his familiar" and a mention of him waving a club at it.

All music recordings are licensed through https://musopen.org:

Chopin Nocturne in B-Flat Minor, Op. 9 No.1 (main theme), performed by Eduardo Vinuela (public domain mark 1.0)

Chopin Etude Op. 25, No. 12 in C Minor: “Ocean” (darklord theme), performed by Edward Neeman (public domain mark 1.0)

Chopin Nocturne in F Minor, Op. 55 No. 1 (land theme), performed by Luke Faulkner (public domain mark 1.0)

Rachmaninoff Morceaux de Fantaisie, Op. 3 - 2. Prélude in C sharp minor (Dread Possibilities), performed by Sergei Rachmaninoff (public domain mark 1.0)

Chopin Nocturne in E Minor, Op. 72 No. 1 (parting thoughts), performed by Luke Faulkner (public domain mark 1.0)

Draeseke Agnus Dei and Requiem Aeternam (Maul's theme), unknown performers (Creative Commons attribution 3.0)

Dialog for Yensid was written by Azalin Rex himself: http://www.tumblr.com/darklordazalin

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