Ok i can understand the first region maybe. he's 10 ok

but now when he stands next to gym leaders they are 12 feat tall compared to Ash.

it's kinda unrealistic if Ash who's been training a few years to beat someone that's been training there whole life.

and team rocket is grown ups but they cant catch a 10 year old boy?

1) Maybe he's short? It makes his big accomplishments seem bigger when he isn't some macho bodybuilder.
2) He's supposed to be a 'hero' of sorts. In the final fantasy games, the bad guy was omnipotent before the hero is even born, but he's the hero. So he wins.
3) Again, he's supposed to be a hero. In being a hero, he has to grow up and get good at doing stuff much faster than everyone around him. Also, Team Rocket is supposed to be a bunch of incompetent nubmuffins.

So Frenchfry545 stabbed

Howdy.
*In creepy stalker voice*
In pokemon land, you can be whateeeeveeer aaage you waaaant...

Mmm... I'm gonna call you Obo instead. It sounds cooler.
Also: Hi.

unbathed french men

That's true, I just thought it might be nice for people who just want to vent in their own place; not through role-play or IRC. Also, I don't understand RP, do you use someone's character or just be yourself?

Roleplay is a kind of fan-fiction. You could have the main character be youself, but that would be boring because it would largely involve you posting in forums. No, the best roleplays are of an origonal character, either one with the same characteristics as you or one totally different, going on an origonal journey and doing origonal things. If you were so inclined, you could write it in the first person, but I personally get annoyed by that, and it also takes away your ability to have multiple plots going on at once.

**Small detail I left out. You also have a bunch of other people writing the story with you, from the point of view of THEIR character. Because of this, writing one chapter can take weeks, and fights between two of the characters can result in butthurt on the part of the loser. This is also what makes roleplay so special, because in typical writing, it's almost insulting to have somebody co-write. So, it is very easy to tell a good RP'er from a bad one. If the Roleplayer is horrible, average, or anywhere in between, the plot with have more holes than the parachute of a dead man, and dialogue will be impossible to follow. If they are good to awesome, then the plot will be solid, and dialogue will be coherent and... not stupid. Small detail, amirite?

Along with the aforementioned filter and restriction to only using letters and numbers, I see it like this:
If there are loopholes in the chat filter, then people are going to be able to curse, amirite? imrite. I do so on rare occasions in other games to punctuate. So, if people are going to be able to curse in chat, then why would we take out an entire awesome feature from the game just so they can't curse without actually typing every time? Furthermore, while the maturity level may be low in mmo's, that also means that few people will really care if they see some sick abomination that vaugely resembles the F bomb. Those who do care are likely to be mature enough to correctly use a 'report' feature.
               On the topic of abusing the report feature, we can do this: Every time somebody reports a nickname that is not innapropriate, they get a strike. For the duration of having the strike (Two weeks or so), they will be unable to report ANYTHING. If they continue to get strikes exeedingly often, then their ability to report can be disabled entirely.