LIGHTNINGLORD2'S PROFILE

@Gredge109: Look at Etrian Odyssey instead - it's very much a roguelike with a more RPG Maker friendly combat system. It also has custom-made dungeons over randomly generated ones, which for your game means you'll have to deal with less variance of things. Having a handmade dungeon will also allow you to have better features in it.

Regarding the thinking of everything, there's no secret to it in Nethack - it's just very perceptive devs working on the game for years on end to keep adding new such interactions (the prime example is that throwing a Potion of Uselessness to slide around ice gives you an artifact from your god who likes that you found a use for it).

But personally, I haven't really been charmed by NetHack because most deaths are sudden powerful monsters from a corner I can't disengage from that beat me to death once I run into either a wall or another monster.

Lastly, the RPG Maker's tileset is fine for making a dungeon crawler game - don't concern yourself with that just yet. I'd be all up for more games with interesting gameplay and less whose purpose is to look pretty.

I've been shambling through the sea of bad Flash RPGs lately and want to report about Mardek RPG. The combat system is atrociously boring, having only direct damage and healing skills, with only a simplistic timed hit system to keep the players from going AFK (given the low difficulty, it's most likely unnecessary to ever make use of it). The dungeons are also stupidly overcomplicated, the humor is too reliant on lampshading and Mardek himself performs terribly. I also found a book that manages to be both sexist and discriminating against its own element lore. It's so bad I want to share it:

author=Book in MARDEK RPG
Elemental traits can also come into play when it comes to love and sexual relationships. Your elemental affinity plays a large part in determining who you're attracted to, and how well relationships with others will turn out for you.

Males, being the dominant gender, also like to be the dominant element in relationships; thus they are attracted to females of the element they are strong against first and foremost. Females, secretly lusting to be dominated and ravished, are attracted to men of the element superior to themselves. So such matches work rather well.

People of the same element can also work excellently together; similarity at the most fundamental levels has many times been the cause for a great love blossoming and flourishing.

Such things as have been mentioned apply only to people with Natural elements; for people with a Moral element, different rules apply. Naturally, they are attracted to people of the same element as themselves, but also to any and all of the Natural elements. Because of this, Morally-elemental people have more choice when it comes to finding a partner that's right for them.

A relationship between the two Moral elements - that is, a Light and Dark couple - CANNOT work, both emotionally and physically. The two people will never get along or fall in love, and even if they did, a child could never physically be conceived in such a relationship.

When a child is born to other couples, however, its element is inherited from its parents. In a dominant-element relationship, the child is of the dominant element. In same-element relationships, the child is of the element both parents share. In Moral-Natural relationships, the Moral element takes dominance.

Consider these things when looking for a partner. Asking for someone's element before anything else is a great way of getting an idea of whether anything will happen or not!

(For reference, the natural elements are Fire>Air>Earth>Water>Fire and the moral ones Light><Dark)

@Sated:
Maybe you want to make the minecart block the way to force the player to interact with it. Preferrably such that you have to interact with it from the right angle. Also, don't make it possible for the player to block themselves in obviously.

@Gredge:
While the doors look pretty nice on their own, they'd fit better into the tileset if they were blockier. Also, maybe you want some wavy pattern in the water as well.

I planned out some stats so far for my RPG, but the problem is how bad fine-tuning those stats is. All I can do is use a -very- rough growth curve or type in every single stat by hand, which is driving me insane. So, how do I make it so that I can type in a formula from which the individual stats are derived?

I assume you have at least one RPG Maker program, do you?