AUTO REVIVE

Which words : "rise up and walk?" just joking, sorry, can't help, maybe you should precise what engine you're using though.

First you need a parallel process common event that checks if each character is wearing the piece of equipment. Let's call it the Sacrificial Jizo. Use conditional branches to check if each character has the Sacrificial Jizo equipped, and if so, turns on a switch with a name like "Alex has the jizziness". If not, the parallel process turns off the switch.

In RPG Maker 2003, parallel process common events will not happen during battle. You have to use battle events for the part that happens during combat. A battle event with condition "Hero is between 0% and 0% HP" should happen when a certain character dies - make one of these events for each character. Make a battle event for each character. Each battle event should check if the switch for that character is turned on or not. If it's turned on, revive the character, turn off the switch, and turn on another switch named "Destroy Alex's jizo". As before, you'll need a different switch for each character. Once you have a battle event like this for each of your characters, copy all those events to every group of enemies.

Now go back to the parallel process common event. Add some more conditions to the end of the event, checking if each of the "Destroy <character>'s jizo" switches is turned on. If so, unequip that character's accessory, remove one jizo from the player's inventory, and turn off both of that character's jizo-related switches.

Note that if the entire player party is wiped out, even if the last person has a jizo equipped, the battle will be over. This is unavoidable. In RM2K3, when no one on your team has any HP, even for a split second, it's game over, period, end of story, no exceptions.

author=zergar
Yes that's very helpful, but can I modify it in a way that the common event is linked to the Knockout state so when the character is killed it checks for the item in question in their inventory and if so it removes the item from inventory and brings the character back to life without triggering the gameover screen?

If you're using XP, you could probably find someone to help you script a much smoother auto-life than the ones I can event in 2k3. That said, you could easily make an event that checks if a character is unconscious and then checks to see if a certain item is in the party's inventory. If character status = "knocked out" then if item = "Revive Stone" is in party inventory, revive the character and reduce the item count by one.

Of course, as was mentioned above, if you try this in a battle with only one player, it would be problematic. (Again, this is based on how 2k3 handles things. I am not familiar with XP). There should be a way, probably making the actual battle occur with a If Victory / If Defeat Fork. Have defeat check for the revive item, and restore the character's life.

Of course, in THAT case, you would revive outside of battle. You COULD track enemy stats through variables and "re-start" the battle, setting them back to the hp and mp values they had before the character "died."

Chana- I thought the joke was clever. =)