Sorry for necro-ing, but I'm pulling this project back out after a long period of stagnation! Currently in the middle of two runs which I hope to finish before Episode 16 releases, but I did some planning for character names and specific rules that I think would make a few of the runs interesting, which I put in the spoiler below. Should be fun, especially the bottom three.
Also at some point (it's not really essential at the moment), I will ask someone who has time and kindness to hack me in a single Rock, Ice, and Ghost type so I can play through the first few gyms of those types, if anyone has any ideas about which three would be most balanced, right now I'm thinking Vanillite, Roggenrola, and Gastly, but idk yet. Thanks for reading!
The chart is organized by type, starter (~first available replacement), sprite, character name, (special rules).