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author=LockeZ
Wait, stun only lasts one round? I was assuming it lasted a long time.

The chance of anyone being willing to spend a round for the chance to prevent a stun that only lasts a round is exactly 0%. You're spending a round in order to not spend a round; why would anyone do this ever? The immunity needs to be AOE, so it affects your entire party and prevents a stun against each member. And then it probably also needs to be free, because that's still not very impressive.

So you've never been like "Alright, I'm about to do this-this-and-this and turn the fight in my favor, but I need to make sure that I fully heal my party next turn with my healer's Healing Limit Break" only for your healer to get stunned, her AOE heal doesn't go off leaving everyone at low HP, and since this boss is faster than you he manages to kill 3 party members at the start of the next turn before anyone else can heal the next turn and costing you the whole battle?

Or thought "alright, I'll use this guy to crack the enemy's Parry ability and then have everyone else dogpile the bastard at the same time with their strongest attacks" only for the crack guy to get stunned, and then everyone else has their attacks nullified and countered, making your whole team hurt themselves and wasting all your MP and eventually costing you the fight?

I've heard a LOT of complaints about stun. Personally, I just find it an annoyance. But some people make it sound like it's the end of the world and the worst crime ever. Alongside enemies who hit multiple times with each attack (something I also give the player options to deal with). So I figured I'd give those people a way to deal with it.

The ability I'm proposing is like you saying "I can afford to give up a turn now so that I don't lose one critically later." (since this stun-negation buff will last several turns). I'm also not expecting players to use it all the time since not all enemies have stun, and some will take your stance and go "I don't care. I can take it.". In that case they can just equip other armor that gives them other skills instead. In fact most of the time other armor/skills will be more useful anyway since most bosses/enemies won't have a stun. That's the point of me making the character's skills tied to whatever they have equipped. So you can shuffle things around to deal with whatever threat you're facing at the moment.

I might end up making that stun-negation status not disappear after blocking a stun, though. That way if I choose to have a boss do an AOE stun for whatever reason, you can use that skill on the tank and have him use his skill which redirect all incoming hits to himself, allowing him to negate all the stuns.

tl;dr: I said a lot of stuff.

Once again, yuna21, you’re mapping skills don’t cease to amaze me.

I’m also glad that you put the location header at the bottom of the screen instead of at the top. Looks way more polished this way.

Well, the basic template of my mining town is done. It's missing an indoor area or two, and the NPCs and stuff

Before I start working on the mine dungeon, I think I should make the capital city next since that's actually where the party will go next (to GET the mission to go to the mining town).

.......Dammit. I don't know how to build this one. I'm guessing since they have a slave trade (which end up being an event in the party's visit) I should make the main feature a market....But the port town that will be the party's main base later will also be kinda market based...Dammit. x_x

EDIT: on further thought, I think I shouldn't make the slave trade part prominent in this capital. Otherwise their problems are too obvious, and the crazed kingdom toppling lunatic would have already targeted it. I should find a way to make it less obvious, but still allow the heroes to get involved...

Been working on some artwork, need some feedback.

oh my god your avatar

it's like having another clone of Sated on the forums, I don't think I can take it

Working on my chapter of Radiant Chain, finishing Outlaw City so I can review it, and working on a project on RMW, all the while annoying Artbane on Skype.

Trying to create laser puzzles. Involves a lot of eventing and a little scripting. It's pretty modular, but it's absolutely hacked together. Hopefully I'll clone Zelda less poorly than most.

author=LockeZ

author=thatbennyguy
Trying to create laser puzzles. Involves a lot of eventing and a little scripting. It's pretty modular, but it's absolutely hacked together. Hopefully I'll clone Zelda less poorly than most.

Lemme warn you up front, having done this...people.

Sounds exactly where I'm headed. Beautiful destruction.

...Dammit.

So the RPGmaker devs announced another mini-contest. And it seems so easily doable. I'm sure I'd rock it. I have a wonderful concept.

But my schoolwork is in a REALLY bad place right now (although the rest of the class I'm most worried about is equally screwed), and my saturday is already accounted for. So I have absolutely no time to work on it.

Man, it's just one boss and 2 cutscenes. I rock at those. But I don't think I'll be able to do it. ;_;

And going back to my main project, I still have no idea how the hell I'm going to get the slave character to be forced to join the party. Any ideas I have either feel contrived, or so over the top it's comical and stupid. *sigh*

Rewriting some parts of Lady of the Lion to keep its pacing that it sets from the beginning of the game, implementing some new game mechanics and working on more maps/dungeons. Oh, and including relevant tutorials for puzzles as well. And kicked out the party swapping aspect for now.