STAT SET-UP QUESTION.

To know how to undo what you're doing, we'd have to know how you're doing it. Since this is XP, I assume you are using a script to create custom definitions for query_str, query_int, etc.? Or are you eventing it? Either way you'll need to post what you have so far (so we can tell you why it's all wrong and make you start over).

I don't know much about rpgmaker, but I'll ask anyway.
Can you make items on the fly with events? Or can you edit an equipable item at run time? If you can then you could base the items stats off of the secondary characters stats, then equip before battle and unequip it after or whatever, it would let the engine handle stats as normal.

That one depends on how you're defining it, Bandito. You may have done just what you said, but you would have had to define the items in question beforehand, in the editor DB, in order to use them. The original question was about make/edit at the instant it's needed in the game.


The 'equip' tactic is somewhat viable, but it can get messy in this situation - you'd need to sacrifice an equip slot, or else use a multi-slot equip script, and you'd have to have a new, unique item set up for every possible party combination in order to pull it off properly. Assuming you have four characters other than the lead, and a max of four people in a party, that gives you fourteen different equip items. Jump that to six extra, party4, and the number goes from fourteen to forty-one.

Also, a side note, although you may have figured it out for yourself - in RMXP, in order to pull that kind of scenario off, you have to add the special equip to your inventory before you can equip it to the character. I was experimenting with something along those lines once, and it drove me slightly crazy before I figured that part out.