THOUGHTS ON THE NUMBER OF SKILLS/SPELLS PER CHARACTER.

I think that this also depends on how much grinding one will do in your game. Say you have a lot of enemies (with a lot of variety), then generally, in my opinion, you would want a few more varied attacks. Reason being because if you have too few, your player will get bored of repetitious attacks while grinding a lot. And vice versa, if you have few enemies, use less abilities.

As this may be hard to come by (and I'm speaking from lack of experience of game making, just a suggestion), I suggest you create many abilities and then begin to shorten them as you nail down your battle system and enemy numbers and variety. Then you and maybe others playtest your game to weed out the unnecessary abilities.

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No, don't do that, I'm going to make a game based on that concept when I get home, so you'd be copying me.

This thought sometimes prevents me from posting in a game design topic.

I just got done with assigning skills to allies for Forty Nights, and allies have up to 54 skills each with very little overlap. Some of the later allies have less since they start with some of their skills pre-upgraded. The main character has the capability to learn up to 331 (sonofabitch) skills.

In both cases, I think it's pretty necessary to require that you equip your skills, and that no more than sixteen can be equipped at a time. I might cap certain types of skills (actions, passives, autoskills, etc.) even further.

In Complete Chaos, on average, each characters get around 14-16 skills. Eight or six physical-based techniques, and eight/six magic-based specialties.

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Pretty sure he means 14-16 skills, but... RM* users are wacky.

I have just released a completed game that is relevant to this discussion. I am curious what people will think of that particular solution to this problem (15 characters in party at once, five main characters with 3-5 skills each, and ten supporting characters with exactly two skills each). Focused feedback desired on my gamepage but of course I'd like to contribute to the discussion here. I think this is a somewhat unique approach (distributing 33 skills amongst 15 characters).

Until the battle ends, and yes, it stacks. I'm assuming you mean 2k3.