Castle Paradox

[msw188]

Just a couple of balancing tips in this regard. Remember that when you give the heroes stats, theirs are going to be augmented (usually increased) by equipment. Enemies do not get equipment, so you have to take this into account. Also remember that enemies do not usually have an intelligent ability to heal themselves, whereas heroes usually do. Higher enemy HP may help to balance this, if you wish.

Those are just ideas of mine, they may or may not be helpful for you. Good luck with your game!

[Newbie_Power]

I know. In fact, I think equipment will end up being the bulk of character stats by the time the 3rd set of them comes around or so.

Although I will try and base magic attack mostly on leveling up for characters that depend on it.

[TMC]

[Newbie_Power]

That formula is even worse to figure out! Although I admittingly think it might actually work better.

[msw188]

Here's a relatively simple way to do what the Mad Cacti is talking about (and maybe it will help Newbie Power too). If you want an attack to have a base attack of 70, have a chain of attacks as follows:

1. An attack to store the target, like in my last example, doing no damage

2. Attack that targets self, pure damage, base atk stat 100, extra damage -30%, and targets a stat that HAS NO BEARING ON THE CURRENT ATTACK. The attacker's defense comes to mind. Give this attack bitsets to heal above the maximum amount, DO NOT RANDOMIZE and never miss, and not show damage, etc

3. EXACT same as 2, except that it does not heal (thus it hurts the attacker's stat back to what it was)

4. Attack that uses "last damage to attacker" as base stat, targets the stored target, and clears the target store

Simple enough, huh?

If there is a general lesson to be learned here, it is that a LOT can be achieved with the OHR's current battle system using chains like this. These are simple examples. I'm sure some of the experts here could say more (and possibly simplify what I've done).

[Newbie_Power]

It is not a big deal. I will use after-defense damage multipliers and tune the enemies and heroes around that. In fact, I think it will be easier to balance since HP scale tends to be so high. Actually, it is mostly out of laziness and the fact that I wasn't going out of my way to ask how to do it, just if it calculated defense before or after the multiplier.

I *would* use chains for creating things such as variable MP cost, where I would not want a spell to cost 8 MP the whole game, but rather 10% of your MP or whatever. I discovered I couldn't do that normally, so I decided that I could cast a spell then chain to "MP Cost" that does percentage damage to my MP. I plan to use this for a special ability that transfers HP to MP.

[Iblis]

[Newbie_Power]

I guess that is true. That is why I guess I am not using it for normal spells then.