Castle Paradox

[NoUserName]

How do you make a "Boost" attack in OHRRPGCE?

A skill that temporarily (1 turn) increases a stat (Such as attack) until the next turn when you attack the enemy.

I didn't think it could be done, but I recently tried a game where they were able to implement it.

[Rya.Reisender]

Just make the skill increase attack power and make the normal attack link to an invisible skill that sets attack power to 100%.
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[NoUserName]

Well, I was hoping there was another way to do it...

Since the character can get status bonuses that can stack with this "Boost"

[Bagne]

You could do something like this:

Have a self-targeting "attack" that increases the hero's strength, and then the hero's regular attack silently chains to a self-targeting "attack" which restores your strength attribute to its base value.

I couldn't find any damage math which looks at the difference between a given stat's current and base value - but you could do something tricky like this:

After your normal attack, immediately chain to an attack which subtracts 100% your _current_ strength from its current value, then in the same tick, chain to an attack which adds 100% the _base_ strength value.

Every time your hero attacks, his strength will return to normal. If you prefer, you could instead use 75% or 50% and the stat will return to its base value more slowly.
If the damage math rounds numbers off normally, you should eventually return to normal if the percentage is higher than 50%. Otherwise, your stat might equilibrate at a value that's off by 1 or something.

Lol, if you use percentages larger than 100%, you could make the stat value oscillate around the base value as it converges (assuming negative stat values are possible in battle).
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[Rya.Reisender]

...or you just make an attack that looks like the normal attack but deals 150% damage instead of 100% and has a higher delay than the normal attack. Would have the same effect as Bagne's chaining suggestion, just easier to do. :-)
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Snippy:
"curt or sharp, esp. in a condescending way" (Oxford American Dictionary)
"fault-finding, snappish, sharp" (Concise Oxford Dictionary, UK)
1. short-tempered, snappish, 2. unduly brief or curt (Merriam-Webster Dictionary)

[Bob the Hamster]

This is difficult to do well right now, but we do have some plans that will make this easier in the future. See:

'Plan for stat buffs'
'Plan for queueable attacks'

[JSH357]

Couldn't he use tags to do this (latest nightly)?

Have the boost attack set a tag true; if the tag is true, the physical attack chains to an attack that sets STR to 100% and turns the tag false.

You'd have to reset the tag after every battle, though. Not too big a deal, really.

[Bagne]

That's a good idea! Just bear in mind that you'd need a tag for every modifiable stat for every hero.

It wouldn't work on enemies.
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[NoUserName]

Why thank you...

I had no idea I could chain attacks like that in the Nightly build...

I usually have just downloaded the most stable version.

[JSH357]

I am surprised James forgot! I haven't used tag chaining much yet, but it seems to be a very useful feature.