WHAT ARE YOU THINKING ABOUT? (GAME DEVELOPMENT EDITION)

I'd say it depends entirely on your intentions (through the game) : if the cliché works, go for it, if it doesn't, don't and be (more) realistic, I mean, it seems hard to make rules for wild aberrations.

@LucidStillness
I don't really think that, to me, removing some unrealistic game conventions draws any extra attention to the ones that remain. If anything, it just draws attention to the use of that convention in other games.

I get where you're coming from: there's a point where a game is so ridiculous and unrealistic that suspension of disbelief is no longer an issue, because no one bothers comparing it to reality any more. The setting in Mario games is like this. But most RPGs never reach that point, and so I still evaluate unbelievable things on an individual basis. If you make a bank give realistic loans and interest rates, but still have money be obtained by killing slimes and chopping grass, I'm not going to complain about the slimes and grass any more than before.

No way to know without the player's stats and abilities, but reading lolnumbers is boring. Play it, that's the only way you'll know.

Well, -10 def is +2.5 damage to normal attacks and skills with 100% physical influence, assuming there are no elemental attributes affecting it. If its attack does 10-15 damage, that's enough to be noticable, but it's probably not going to make or break the fight by itself unless it's a close match. Which is exactly how I like my status effects.

Download Atoa's Custom Battle System, and then maybe also Blizzard's Tons of Add-Ons I think these two sets of add-ons are mostly compatible; if you have to choose one of the two, go with Atoa's. Between them, they should allow you to do the vast majority of what you want. They have so many options it's ridiculous.

Anyone have a 2K/2K3 chipset/charset convertor? I need it for Doggie Dayz, as i'm awesome enough to port a 2K game to XP.
(Many people are awesomeer then me, however.)

author=LockeZ
Here's a program that converts RM2K3 tilesets and charsets to RMXP format.In theory. I can't say I've personally tried it.

You are very helpful today~ Thank you for everything so far. I'll be sure to try it.

author=chana
LockeZ has always been particularly helpul.

That's a fucking lie and you will take it back! >:O

I'm thinking about GAME DESIGN instead of random unrelated jibber-jabber.

Also, scripting. Woo.

http://crazescriptasylum.wordpress.com/rmvxa-scripts/

(One script done! GO ME.)

I finished the basic skill progressions for the main character's classes in one of my games, then I promptly realized that his path takes a big right turn a third of the way into the game, so the "prestige" classes wouldn't get used at all.

Right now I'm shuffling things around between the rest of the party members. Instead of everyone having a full list of unique skills, I'm thinking of letting them share stuff from the prestige classes that is similar to the original skills I came up with, so that each party member would end up with only two or three completely unique powers, and all the skill design I did for the prestige classes wouldn't be a total waste.

I still have one prestige class that feels totally useless. It doesn't even fit with the purpose/role of the base class, although having at least one person with some of the abilities from it would be pretty helpful in the long run.