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Pokécharms Central

Entrance Gate and Hall of Justice

Here you can find the rules and guidelines that apply -everywhere- on the Pokécharms forums. All new members MUST read these before posting. Failure to comply with the rules is hazardous to your continued existence! This section is also home to our New Member Introductions and other useful topics, which new users are encouraged to peruse.
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Pokécharms News

The latest news and updates for your discussing pleasure.
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Questions and Site Feedback

Got some feedback or questions about anything on Pokécharms? Have an idea for something we could add or improve, or found a problem with the site? This is the place for it!
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Trainer Card Maker Submissions

Do you have a trainer sprite or background that you'd like to see put on to the Pokécharms Trainer Card Maker? This is the place to submit them!
Not every submission will be added to the Trainer Card Maker. Judgements are made based on quality and uniqueness. Please do not resubmit any sprites that are not included in previous updates.
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Pokémon Discussion

Pokémon Chat

Discuss the latest news, gossip and rumours on Pokémon, as well as the anime and movies, TCG, and general Pokémon talk too. Discussion on the games themselves goes to the appropriate forum, as does team strategies, etc.
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Pokémon Games Discussion

For all Pokémon games discussion. All WiFi Discussions must be posted on the WiFi forums. This forum is for game discussion only.
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Pokémon Trades and Battles

This is the board to organise all your battles and trades in the Pokémon games, as well as battle requests for Pokémon Showdown!

Please use the thread prefixes when creating a thread to specify which generation you're trading or battling on!
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The Doctor's Clinic

Got a Pokémon emergency? Need help refining a Pokémon you're training? Looking for some new movesets for your best Pokémon? In need of advice for your team to make it the best?
Come to the Clinic today with your Pokémon emergencies, and they SHALL be solved! Competitive team advice ONLY. (Battle Frontier/Battle Subway teams included.)
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Pokécharms Organised Play

All discussions regarding our competitive community, tournaments, leagues, and more go here. This is also your place to discuss the various tournaments and events hosted by the Pokemon Company or our affiliates.
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General Discussion

Small Talk

A place for topics that don't fit anywhere else. Please don't post forum games here.
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General Video Game Discussion

From the NES to the Switch, from the Master System to the PS4, if it's video games and it's not Pokémon, this is the place.

Discussion about both consoles and games are allowed - but please, for the sake of our sanity don't argue about which console is best...

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The Playground

This is the place for forum games and memes – Hurt and Heal, Word Tennis, Memeocalypse, and so on. Posts here do not count towards your message count.
All games require approval before being posted – check the stickied thread in this forum for more information.
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The Creative Corner

Artwork and Photography

Share with us your latest drawings, graphics, photography and other original image content!
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Writing

Share your fan fictions, prose and any other kind of writing original content with us here!
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Creative Discussion

Discussions regarding creative works - including tutorials, critiques, and advice.
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Requests

Your one-stop place for requesting creative works, or setting up a place to offer your own skills for requests.
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Creative Archive

This is a forum for old works that predate the original Creative Corner. This forum is read-only.
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Role Play

Pokémon Role Play

A forum specifically for Pokémon-based role playing - be it based on any of the canonical regions or your own creations. If it's Pokémon, and it's RP, here is where it belongs.
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General Role Play

General role playing stuffage will go here. Create your own character, your own world and your own events! Any Pokémon-based role playing is to take place in the Pokémon Role Play board.
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Pokémon Role Play Discussion

A board to discuss your Pokemon Role Plays and PRP characters behind the scenes, whether it be sharing ideas for potential PRP plots, gathering sign-ups, sharing character bios, or anything else PRP related that doesn't belong on the main Pokemon Role Play board.
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General Role Play Discussion

A place to discuss non-Pokémon Role Plays and RP characters behind the scenes, whether it be talking about plots, gathering sign-ups, sharing character bios, or anything else.
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Archives

Pokécharms Generation VI Cryptidex

This is the section of the site we used to chronicle all the new Pokémon revealed in the lead-up to Generation 6.
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Graduated high school today, and I'm thankful to this website for the memories I made in the earlier years, and even more thankful to those who were apart of my first roleplay (Pokemon Academy). I dunno when I might leave another message but, cya then :)
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I've been writing an elaborate crossover fanfiction with a few original characters, specifically a painfully obvious self-insert, and I just traumatized an entire species 11 hours ago
Yeeeeaaaah
thats crazy its been 4 years now
Tried to access Pokécharms but it wouldn't reconize my browser (its Google Chrome), but I can still aceess the forums, fortunately
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