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RWA Monsters is a monster-catching RPG you play in the browser: one region of 44 areas, eight gyms, the League, and the islands past it. You pick a partner, walk into the tall grass, catch and raise a team, and earn badges. Every creature family is tied to one real company's stock. Winning wild battles and catching can drop a rare shard of that stock, and a partner that reaches its final form can turn 100 saved shards into one share.

Three things to know before you start:

• The game is the product. It plays like the handheld games it borrows from, with the same type chart and the same growth curve. It is meant to be hard; a gym is earned, not walked through.
• Your adventure lives on the server. Every accepted step and action is saved as it happens. Sign in with a wallet and the same adventure follows you to any browser.
• Today it is practice. Shards, shares, tokens and cards are practice balances with no value. The reward vault is not funded yet. What changes at launch is written down below.

Controls

Enter a building by walking into its door. Talk to someone by facing them and pressing A. The yellow arrows in the field point to your next goal; START → OPTION turns them off. They send you to a trainer only once your team would win at least 9 times in 10 under the game's own battle rules, counting type matchups and the POTIONS in your BAG. Until then they lead to the nearest tall grass and show the level to train to.

The five families

Five evolution lines carry a stock. A family's type decides its stock, and that pairing never changes. Only their final forms synthesize shards into a share or print a card, and only their final evolution uses an EVOLUTION STONE. Magnemite is the one family whose body and attack differ: a steel body that attacks with electricity.

You start with Bulbasaur, Charmander or Squirtle. The other two starters, Magnemite and Abra all appear in the wild, so a full team of five families is possible.

Wild POKéMON

The early roads have wild POKéMON of their own, as in the original: birds and rats in the tall grass of ROUTE 1, bugs in VIRIDIAN FOREST, MAGIKARP in the pond. Each stock family is still met about one time in eleven there. A wild POKéMON joins your team, levels up and evolves by level alone. Beating one drops shards of the stock its type maps to, at the same odds as a family, but its final form cannot synthesize them or print a card.

Thirty-one more species appear only on trainers' teams.

Battles

Three rules decide almost every fight. Everything else on this page is detail.

1. Types cut both ways. A move the defender is weak to does double. A move it resists does half. Your foe reads the same chart against you.
2. Both sides choose. Every creature knows up to 4 moves, each with a type and a power. You pick one; your foe picks whichever of its moves hits you hardest. One resisting partner cannot wall a whole gym.
3. Every level counts. The higher level both hits harder and shrugs off more. Two levels is a real gap. Ten is a wall no type advantage climbs.

Wild creatures and trainers follow exactly the same rules as your team. Your partner's only edge is that trained creatures are a little sturdier: 138 HP at Lv20, against 128 for a wild one.

The type chart

The main-series chart, unchanged. Read across from the attacking type. Empty means normal damage.

The FIGHT menu tells you before you commit: SUPER EFFECTIVE!, NOT VERY EFFECTIVE, or the move's power.

How much a hit does

Both sides use one rule. In words: a base amount that grows with the attacker's level and a small random roll, scaled by how the two levels compare, then by the type chart, then by a critical hit if one lands.

damage = (7 + attacker level ÷ 2 + a roll of 0–3)
         × move power ÷ 40
         × attacker level ÷ defender level
         × type (2, 1 or ½)
         × critical hit (1.5, one time in 16)
         rounded down, never below 1

A worked example. Your Lv20 Squirtle uses WATER GUN on a wild Lv18 Charmander. Water against fire is super effective. The hit does 37 to 44, and the Charmander has 118 HP, so it goes down in three hits. Its EMBER would be resisted, so it uses SCRATCH instead, for 14 to 17 a hit. A critical WATER GUN would do up to 66.

Critical hits land 1 in 16 for ×1.5, on either side. The screen says "A critical hit!".

How hard it is

Measured by simulating thousands of fights with the server's own rules. First, one partner against one wild creature at Lv20, with no potions:

So: same level is safe, one level up is a coin flip, two up loses, and a bad matchup is a reason to run. Then gyms. How strong does your party need to be to win 80 times in 100, carrying three potions? Shown against each leader's strongest creature:

Matching a gym's type is not enough on its own: you still have to be close to the leader's level. A party that covers more types can challenge a few levels earlier, and a player who has raised all five families can go about ten levels early. Raising five is five times the EXP, so that is what it costs.

Moves

Every first move has power 40, so the first hours play the same whoever you pick. Stronger moves come with levels: a family learns its next move in its teens or twenties and its best one in its thirties or forties. A POKéMON remembers four. When a fifth arrives, you choose one to forget, or keep the four you have.

• PP. Each use spends one PP. A POKéMON CENTER refills every move. With no PP left in any move, a POKéMON uses STRUGGLE: power 50, and it takes back a quarter of the damage it deals.
• Two-turn moves. SOLAR BEAM and SKULL BASH spend the first turn gathering power, and the foe still gets its hit. They land on the second turn.
• Recoil. TAKE DOWN hits hard and costs a quarter of the damage it deals.
• High critical. RAZOR LEAF and SLASH land a critical hit 1 in 8.
• No move misses. The only luck in a hit is the roll and the critical hit.

Names, types and powers follow the main series, with two changes: every first move is power 40, and BITE is Normal, as it was in the first games, because this chart has no Dark type. Trainer-only creatures know moves of their own type that strengthen at Lv25 and Lv40, a few levels after yours do, plus TACKLE, and HEADBUTT from Lv30.

Your turn

• FIGHT — pick one of your moves. The menu shows its PP, its type and whether it is super effective. You always act first.
• BAG — throw a ball (wild only), heal or revive with medicine (a POTION restores 30 HP), refill PP with an ETHER or ELIXIR, or sharpen your partner with X ATTACK, X DEFEND or DIRE HIT for the rest of the battle. Using an item takes your turn; switching partners resets X items.
• POKéMON — switch partners. The new partner takes the foe's next hit.
• RUN — leave a wild battle. You cannot run from a trainer.

When a partner faints, the next healthy one comes out. When every partner faints you black out: your party is healed at the last POKéMON CENTER you visited, and any shards you had not saved are lost.

Catching

A POKé BALL catches about 4 in 10 at full HP and about 9 in 10 once the creature is nearly out. A GREAT BALL adds roughly 2 in 10 and an ULTRA BALL roughly 4 in 10. The MASTER BALL never fails; the MART does not sell it, and the Champion gives you one. A creature that faints cannot be caught, so weaken it with a weaker move if your best one hits too hard. You cannot catch a trainer's creature.

Your first catch is a lesson. The first wild creature you meet is always one your starter beats, one level below it. One super-effective hit leaves it between a third and half of its HP, and a ball thrown after that always works.

EXP and levels

A win gives EXP to the partner that fought. A wild creature gives 10 + 3 × its level (25 for a Lv5), a trainer's creature twice that (50 for a Lv5). Levels follow the real Medium-Slow curve: Lv16 needs 2,535 EXP in total and Lv36 needs 40,007, the same as the original games ask of a Charizard.

* Fighting wild creatures three levels below yourself, without trainers. Trainers speed it up. A measured run of 40 wild battles took a partner from Lv5 to Lv11 at about ten seconds a battle; a final form is several hundred battles.

Evolution and the EVOLUTION STONE

Evolution is your choice: when a partner reaches the level, choose EVOLVE on its page under START → POKéMON. The first evolution needs only the level. The final evolution also uses up one EVOLUTION STONE, sold at the MART for 24 tokens. Evolving keeps the creature's permanent identity; it is still the same creature. Some moves belong to the evolved form only: Charizard's WING ATTACK, Venusaur's PETAL DANCE, Magneton's TRI ATTACK. Evolve late and the move arrives the moment you evolve.

Only a final form can turn shards into a share or become a collectible card.

The journey

The region runs east from PALLET TOWN through ROUTE 2, VIRIDIAN FOREST and PEWTER CITY. Each gym badge opens the next road. After eight badges comes the League; beat the Champion and the islands open, with the toughest trainers in the game.

• POKéMON CENTERS heal your whole party for free and become your checkpoint.
• START → JOURNAL shows your badges and the next trainer to beat. START → TOWN MAP shows where you have been and what your badges unlock.
• Some trainers stand in your way: you must beat the one before each gym to challenge its leader.

Top trainers LIVE

The board lists the ten trainers with the most power: the levels of your six strongest POKéMON added up. Six at Lv50 is 300, the most there is today. Catching more low-level creatures adds nothing, because only the top six count.

• Ties: more badges first, then the Champion, then whoever reached those numbers first. Walking around does not cost you your place; reaching new numbers stamps a new time.
• Who is listed: adventures with a linked wallet, shown as a short address such as 0x7a3F…D41C. A guest sees the place it would take and joins the board by linking a wallet.
• Where: START → RED → TOP 10 in the game, and the landing page. The number updates with your next action.
• No stock rides on a place. The board is for bragging rights. Stock comes only from shards and the first taste, under the same holder rules as always.

Stock shards and shares LIVE · PRACTICE

A shard is a slice of the stock your creature's family is tied to: 100 shards are worth one share.

1. Find. A wild win or a catch drops a shard about 1 in 18 times while the treasury is full. A shiny creature, about 1 in 64, carries 25 shards when caught.
2. Keep it alive. A new shard is unsaved. If your whole party faints before you save, the unsaved shards go back to the treasury for someone else to find.
3. SAVE. At a POKéMON CENTER P.C., SAVE burns 2 tokens and banks every unsaved shard.
4. Synthesize. A final-form partner turns saved shards of its own stock into stock, 10 at a time: every ten make 0.1 of a share. It can do this again whenever you have ten more saved. Then a roll that can only add: 85% of the time you get what you saved, 12% half again, 3% three times. That is 12% extra on average, and a bonus the treasury cannot back rolls down to one it can.

The odds shrink as the treasury empties: a shard can only drop if the treasury still holds the stock behind it. In practice an adventure can find at most 30 shards a day, and a guest adventure sees its shards fade until it links a wallet. Real shards follow the holder rules below.

Tokens and burns LIVE · PRACTICE

Items and a few actions cost the project token, and tokens you spend are burned, not collected. In this playtest the token is a practice balance; the on-chain burn checkout is built and tested on a local chain but not connected. The MART sells 21 items, all from the original games, and asks how many you want: one purchase, or one payment, covers any quantity.

• SAVE at a center: 2 tokens, only when you have new shards to bank.
• FUSE: 35 tokens ($0.90 at launch). One creature is consumed to give another +8 HP, up to twice.
• CARD: turns a final form into a collectible card (see cards).

Rewards: today and after launch

Who earns real shards

• Anyone can play the whole game. Real shards go only to a wallet that has held at least 0.1% of the token supply for 24 hours in a row. Anyone else sees a shard glitter and fade.
• Your daily limit grows with what you hold: 10 real shards a day for every 0.1%. Hold 0.25% and you can keep 25.
• Holding more, and longer, raises the drop odds. The two multipliers stack, up to ×4.
• Borrowed tokens do not count. What counts is the smaller of your first balance each UTC day and your latest one, so tokens bought today count from tomorrow. Dropping below 0.1% restarts the 24 hours.
• Practice shards stay practice. When real rewards turn on, shards found in practice move to an archive and real shards start from zero.

The first taste: real stock in about ten minutes

Shards take a final form, and a final form takes hours. So the first real stock comes much sooner: beat your first trainer while your wallet holds 0.1% of the token supply, and $2.50 of real stock is sent from the vault to that wallet. For most players that is YOUNGSTER BEN on ROUTE 2, about ten minutes in.

How you see it land. The game says so the moment you win. A line under the game then follows the payout ("on its way from the vault"), and once the vault's transfer is confirmed on chain it changes to "is in your wallet" with a link to the transaction on the Robinhood Chain explorer. The REWARD BOX lists it under MADE.

Prices in dollars

With real rewards on, items cost the project token at a fixed dollar price, so a ball costs the same whether the token doubles or halves. The token amount is worked out the moment you order, from the token's price on its own pool, and rounded up.

Every token paid is burned. The lucky roll happens only after the synthesis burn has settled, so the price you see never gives the roll away. If the token's price cannot be read right now, the order waits instead of guessing, and a price that jumped in the last few minutes is not used to make a burn smaller.

Where the stock comes from

The plan is a project token launched on PONS v2 on Robinhood Chain. Trading it pays a creator fee. Part of the fee income buys the five stock tokens into a treasury, and the reward vault pays shares out of what the treasury holds. The rest covers operating the game. The split is published before launch.

Two things follow. Burning tokens does not fund rewards: burned tokens leave the supply; they do not become stock. And the vault can only pay what it holds: that is why shard odds fall as the treasury empties, and why every balance will be readable on the Robinhood Chain explorer once the vault is live. Today the vault is not deployed and holds nothing.

Collectible cards

A final form can become a collectible card. A carded creature keeps its permanent identity and cannot be fused or carded again. In the playtest cards are practice records. The paid path that mints a real, numbered NFT card is built and verified on a mainnet fork, and switches on with the reward vault. PLANNED for later: the game following a card when the NFT moves between wallets, and trading inside the game.

Card tiers BUILT

Cards are meant to be rare in the way printed cards are: foil, numbers and a first edition. The minting is built and verified on a mainnet fork; it switches on with the reward vault.

• Fixed when ordered. Pressing CARD on a final form reserves the card and fixes its tier, number and face (level, HP, moves, stock made) right then. The price is the tier's, burned in tokens. If the order closes unpaid, the number goes back to the pool.
• Sold out falls one step. When a family's 151 shinies are gone, a shiny prints as Holo or Rare; when its 10 golds are gone, Gold prints as Shiny.
• 1st Edition. The first 151 cards of each family, whatever their tier.
• Marks. NO.1 on the first number, DEX MATCH when the number is the creature's own dex number (Venusaur 3, Charizard 6, Blastoise 9, Alakazam 65, Magneton 82), LAST ONE on 151/151 and 10/10.
• On chain. A minted card is an NFT on Robinhood Chain. Its facts are stored with it on chain, not only on our server; the picture and the moving card are drawn by the game. Marketplaces such as OpenSea list it. Resales carry a 5% royalty where the marketplace honors it.
• Population. How many cards each family has at each tier is public at /api/cards.

Wallet and safety

• Sign-in is one message signature. No transaction, no token approval, no seed phrase. Anyone asking for those is not us.
• It links your wallet to your adventure. The same wallet restores the same adventure in any browser. A new guest save is never merged into it.
• The network is Robinhood Chain. A wallet on another network is asked to switch, and to add the network first if it does not know it.
• Browser-injected wallets and wallet in-app browsers work. WalletConnect and smart-contract wallets do not yet.

Official token. Not launched yet. The contract address will be posted on this page, on the landing and in the game the moment it launches on PONS v2. Any address you see before that is not ours.

Roadmap

Glossary

Ace

A trainer's strongest creature, usually the last one out.

Blackout

Every partner fainted. You wake at your last center and lose unsaved shards.

Final form

The last stage of a family: Charizard, Venusaur, Blastoise, Magneton, Alakazam.

Power

The levels of your six strongest POKéMON added up. It orders the top-trainers board.

Partner

A creature on your team.

Shard

One hundredth of a share of the stock tied to a family.

Share

What 100 saved shards and a final form make, once per creature.

Shiny

A rare colouring that carries a bundle of shards when caught.

Treasury

Where the stock behind every shard is held.

Vault

The contract that pays real shares out of the treasury once it is live.