I've decided to make a new forum for this RPG even if is still early in the works.

As you know, I wanted to experiment with this RPG and have interesting / original Skills/Spells. So if you played Loren Amazon Princess, and you have some ideas for good skills that you'd like to see in another RPG based more or less on the same system (the game will keep the turn-based, speed dependent movement system) don't be shy and make your suggestions

Currently there are the following Classes that still need their skill designed:

Mercenary

Barbarian

Bard (done)

Assassin

Illusionist

Warlock

plus the main character which can be Warrior, Thief or Mage, but I wanted him/her to have some interesting skills



p.s. Charming and/or summoning spells/skill probably are too hard to code with the current system

Finished the Bard Class implementation today. It's quite cool. His "spells" (the songs) buff all the party (except the resurrecting one that is single target). So they're naturally very powerful, but have high cost, and only one at time can be active.

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Which means if you sing Amukiki's Warsong (cool name, eh? ) and then the Rhytm of Speed, the previous one will be cancelled. This way you'll have to consider what is the effect that is more important to have active at that moment

Would Chant of Resurrection deactivate one of the party buff songs if one was active at the time?

Right now yes, but I'm thinking to remove it since probably is too much. The bard together with the player if chooses to be Healer will be the only character who can resurrect, so maybe that would be too penalizing (there will still be the restoration potions anyway).

These are some ideas, off the top of my head. I got creative with the names.



MERCENARY

For hire (increase damage)

For a few gold (higher damage the more “valuable” the target is, define valuable however you like)

For a few gold more (even higher damage against bosses)



Rookie (increase stat)

Seasoned (increase stat)

Veteran (increase stat)



BARBARIAN

Outdoorsman (less damage from elemental attacks)

Tough as hides (increase health)

Bred to survive (auto-resurrects from first death each combat)



Come at me! (forces opponent to attack you, but opponent increases damage)

Hit me if you can! (increased chance to dodge)

I’ve got you now! (counter attacks every time you dodge)



ASSASSIN

Unassuming (chance to hide)

Smoke bomb (increased chance to dodge, become hidden)

Strike from shadows (critical attack when hidden)



Come into my parlor (mark target, increase damage to target)

Said the spider (target cannot dodge)

To the fly (auto kill target, or high damage to bosses)



ILLUSIONIST

Look closely (decrease opponent speed)

Now you see me... (decrease opponent defense)

Now you don’t! (blinds opponent, auto-avoids next single target attack)



Look to the left (opponent must attack character to the left of caster)

Look to the right (opponent must attack character to the right of caster)

Nothing up my sleeve (increased crit and damage against opponent that attacked left/right)



WARLOCK

The price of power (increase mana for health)

Must have more (increase speed for health)

At any cost! (increase damage proportional to remaining health)

Thanks some interesting ones. I like in particular the Warlock ones, trading mana/health/power, is a good system often used in games. Time to do some experiments now

Some ideas:





Mercenary



Versatile Equipment (reduce basedamage but ignore target's resistances\immunities) [well a sword has a hilt and can do bashing damage if you want to :D]

Crafty (you can repair a small amount of your equipment's HP once per day for free)

You owe me from my last job (once per day, get more gold for a quest)

I know someone who buys this (find a suitable merchant in any town, i.E. someone who buys alchemy when there is no alchemist)

That's my booze (reduce attack/defense but become immune to mind controlling effects/increase magic resistance)

You must know where to look (get a chance to increase the money looted in a fight)

Impressing the ladies is more important (significantly reduce the money looted in combat to get more attack/damage/dodge/health)

That reminds me ... (buff your party with attack/damage or a higher chance to ignore target's resistances)

Dirty tricks (reduce targets defense/dodge and/or resistances)

I get the job done (once per battle may repeat a failed action)





Barbarian



Adrenaline rush (get a bonus to attack/damage and dodge after you where hit in battle for 1 round)

I beat their leader when I was a child (reduced chance to be attacked by random encounters)

I no talk I smash (reduce prices in a shop at the cost of the merchant's affection towards you/encounter with the guards afterwards)

In the wilds we wear no armor (if the barbarian isn't wearing bodyarmor, he get's a significant bonus on attack, dodge and elmental resistances)

Watch my Scars (intimidate Target, it can take no action for 1/2 turns)

I take you with me (gain additional attack with increased attack and damage against target that killed you)

King of the wilderness (get a chance to intimidate adjacent targets after you killed an enemy. Intimidated targets cannot attack this round)

That's no sword, THIS is a sword (get bonus attack and damage if you are wielding a twohanded weapon)





Bard (done)



already done (as the text says )





Assassin



I stand alone (get bonus attack/defense/damage when an adjacent partyposition is free)

Assassins's do it from behind (get bonus attack/damage when target attacked another partymember this round)

I know where you bleed (reduce/ignore resistances and/or armor of target)

I can smell your fear (Assassin gets first strike)

My last target wore your uniform (lessens chance of the Assassin to be targeted this turn)

A slow death is more satisfying (get a chance to do bleeding damage over time)

I saw that coming (get a chance to counterattack after an enemy scored a critical hit on you)

I leave the minions for my friends (attack targets in the back of the enemies formation)

I can kill you unless you pay me .... (get more gold from encounters)

--- Nah I kill you anyway (target gets reduced defense/armor/dodge/resistances after it payed the assassin in the last round)





Illusionist



Why are you holding a flower? (Target does reduced attack/damage and has a chance to not attack at all)

Who's your daddy/mommy? (Target attacks an adjacent enemy)

I has no money (lessens chance of enemies attacking the illusionist)

Flashy explosions (all enemies in an estimated area get reduced attack/damage/dodge)

My friend here is just your imagination (reduces chances to attack friendly target)

He was it (increases chance to attack friendly target)

We do not taste good (reduces chances of the group to get involved in random encounters)

This coin is especially shiny (reduce merchant's prices a bit)

Hallucination (Gives the Party a chance to retreat from battle)





Warlock



My master demands a sacrifice (increase mana/damage at the cost of an allies HP)

My master will eat your soul (grants a chance that target will not attack this turn)

Cursed blood (Warlock get's a resistance/Immunity to poison or some sort of magic)

Weird brew (increase Mana, Spellpower and reduce target's resistance but get more damage for X rounds afterwards)

I demand your service minion (revive friendly target in battle)

Aura of arcane prowess (adjacent enemies get reduced attack/damage/dodge)

Lifechannel (get a chance to steal X life from a target and transfer this to yourself or adjancent friendly target)

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Warlock class done! I followed some suggestions, but of course I also had to conform to the engine limits (or rather I didn't want to code anything complex for now ). Still should be interesting enough to play I think!

Surprised the Bard hasn't got an accompanying Dancer but the dancer must be good with a melee weapon they always get the shitty end of the stick! A Dancer would be fast maybe lower Atk to even up (so more attacks but less damage) and Lower Def but higher evade so a top lever dancer would attack first and multi times and hardly ever get hit High Mag and Mag Def as well... I'll stop now

...Hmmm... had a probably unworkable idea for a Merc skill passive.



Why not?



The Color of Money



The Mercenary is inclined to make the best use of his tools if he knows exactly what they would cost him. The mercenary gains a flat bonus to the attack power of his weapons and the resistances of his armor based on a percent/a higher percent/a pretty high percent of their market price.

Haha that would be asking for trouble balancing it though! ...a month later I change the prices of weapons, raising them... then I get emails from people "the Merc is overpowered, just did 100dmg with a dagger"

Oh, my! I tried to focus, really. Tried to type something smart and helpful, but after seeing Amukiki's name under word "Bard" I had that mental image of our pride Amukiki wearing beret with feathers and playing lyre. And that totally shattered my attention.

Lol I can understand then

The MC could have skills like:



Warrior:



Heroism - the MC and/or his friends heal 10 % of their total Hitpoints when they are reduced to 0 or fewer hitpoints for the first time in a battle

Intimidating Strike - all enemies get -10% attack/DMG/dodge, after MC hit an enemy for 80% damage / increases thread

Guardian - Ally gets +20% defense/dodge, MC gets -20% defense/dodge for 5 rounds

Mow them down - attacks all enemies in a row for 80% damage

Overrun - if you successfully deal damage to an opponent in the first row, you can attack the enemy behind him. This additional attack deals 100% damage to the enemy in the backline and an additional 20% damage

to the enemy in the frontline





Thief:



Strikeback - hit enemy for 20% damage after you were hit for x damage points

dirty lowkick (a.k.a. "called shot to the nuts", see "the gamers" ) - enemy cannot act for 2 rounds

called strike - enemy gets -75% armor and -20% resistances in the next round against your attack

Eyepoke - Enemy is blinded for 3 rounds and thief steals 10% of enemies money

run away - lose you rnext action but avoid the last hit







mage:



arcane genius - absorb 10/20/30% of the mana from a spell that hit you

counterspell - next spell that affects you or your whole group automatically fails this round (= 0 dmg, no status effects, what so ever )

astral form - as long as you stay in astral form, you do and suffer -80% physical damage and you do and suffer +100% magical damage

arcane bomb - deplete your manabar. do spent mana x 4 points of damage to all enemies. you recieve damage equivalent to the amount of mana spent (pretty risky, since mages normally have more mana than lifepoints )

windchannel - enemie's ranged attacks are returned and hit the enemies frontrow instead of your group

magic spear - hits all targets in a line. damage is divided among the targets.

Thanks for the suggestion, with the writer we decided to have the class fit more the "wilderness setting", so Warrior = Ranger, Thief= Scout, Mage=Druid (but they'll have same functions as the base classes, only the "lore" will change).

counterspell - next spell that affects you or your whole group automatically fails this round (= 0 dmg, no status effects, what so ever )

I'd think you'd have to do either damage protection or zero status effect just for game balance.

That depends on the Spell or Effect that will trigger. If only one of those types (damage, status effect, whatnot) triggers then it should not be a problem.





I think it would be funny for a druid to be able to shapeshift himself or others.

Something like:

"Werbear" - target ally gets +X armor but - X Mana - X Spelldamage

"Werboar" - target ally gets +X damage and +X resistance to status effects but -X Mana and -x% Chance to trigger status effects

"Wercat" - target ally gets +X attack and +X dodge but -X Hitpoints and -X Armor

"Werleprechaun" - target ally loses 50% attack, damage, health and armor but gets + X% Resistance to Status Effects, Spell effect damage, chance to trigger status effects and amount of gold looted after the fight

and so on





Ranger could use something like:

"Horizonwalker" - Ranger gets +X% resistance against elemental damage and status effects

"Hunting" - Place a mark on a target, all actions against target recieve +x% attack and damage

"Elemental Arrow" - Ranger shoots an arrow for 50% physical base damage but the arrow deals additional X damage of every element

"Preparation" - As Horizonwalker but for the whole party of allies

"Windwalker" - Ranger gets a bonus on dodge based on his armor rating. the higher his armor rating is, the lower the bonus will be.

"Animalfriends" - Ranger gets a special attack for 80% base damage that has a chance of X % to pin his oponent down (has no action next turn)





Scout might like:

"Found you" - Scout gets firststrike with a special attack against all enemies in the first combat round. Attack does 0% base damage but has a chance of 100% (base without modification/resistances) to stun targets.

"Ambush" - scout gets +20% and +20% attack and damage if he dodged successfully before his next attack

"Herbalist" - For the next 5 rounds, the Scout has the chance to poison his target für x Poisondamage/round. He can cure a poisoned ally instead of attacking.

"Shadowstep" - get +100% dodge against next attack

"Hunter" - party gets +x% attack, damage, spelleffect chance or spell damage

Today finished the Ranger (equivalent to Warrior) class. I'm quite happy about it:

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it has a lot of variety and some skills depends on the equipment you're using, which makes a nice change and adds more strategy. Now going to code the Hunter and the Druid

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Even the Hunter is done. I played it and is quite fun. The Sudden Strike skill combined with a good amount of SP regen potions is quite powerful to drain enemies SP, preventing them from using their skills (of course, I have balanced it so that you can't just do that to win a fight).

How should I understand the attack of sudden strike? Hit one enemy with 100% and the others with 30/60/90%, or all three with 30/60/90?



In the latter case the lvl 1 attack would be quite a bit less useful than a normal attack, as 3*30=90. Also the delay after a special attack is usually higher than after a normal attack; and often you want to put one enemy out of action before the healer goes into action, not do a bit of damage to everyone which a "heal party" spell will remove nicely.