MARREND'S PROFILE

I thought about this some more, and remembered Suikoden 2 and the Bright Shield Rune. It's first-level spell heals one target to full, and removes status conditions. It's second-level spell is an AOE damage spell. It's third-level spell is an AOE healing spell that sometimes applies the "Berserk" state, which buffs attack, and maybe speed, without the usual sacrifice of character control.

Then there is the fourth-level spell, Forgiver Sign. I believe that spell is part of that game's 108% bonus, but, the basic idea is that there's a pool of 2000 HP that is first applied as healing to the party, and whatever remains of that pool after the healing is applied spills over as damage to a single target.

*Edit: Though, I suppose I would be remiss in not mentioning the Water Rune as far as magic-based healing in Suikoden games are concerned. Using items for healing might be considered more viable in these games because any given spell slot would not exceed 9 charges, and spell-slot recovery is pretty much limited to resting in inns.

*Edit2: Suikoden 3 is something of a black sheep of the series, but, it does make using Runes less viable because of the skill system. Like, a character with a high enough "Swing" skill can get three, maybe four hits in with an "Attack" action. This is especially true if the character also has a high SPD stat. Meanwhile, attempting to cast a fourth-level spell will result in the character taking two turns, unless that character has at least a "B" rank in the appropriate magic skill?

I forget. With Hugo as Flame Champion, topping out at a "C" in Fire Magic, I'm pretty sure he takes most of a turn, if not slightly over one turn, to cast the 4th-level spell on the True Fire Rune. Whereas Geddoe, with his "A" rank in Lightning Magic, can cast True Lightning Rune's 4th level spell maybe somewhere before the halfway point of the turn? Man, it's been a while, and I don't think I noted terribly much about how action-timing worked with my LP of Suikoden 3.

I keep forgetting to update this thread on the last day of each month. ;_;

Anyway, August numbers are up! The month saw 18 nominations, incrementing our annual total this year to 36! Comparing to last year, the value of how many nominations were cast in August is similar. The next couple months were pretty heavy nomination months last year. Will they be again this year? Only time will tell.


Hopefully, I'll update the thread on time, though. >_<

My favorite out-of-bounds interaction, the one that made me interested in programming to begin with, is outlined in this post. Now, I'll submit that this is not necessarily exploration with the game-world, as RedMask is doing with their examples within the OP. It's more an interaction with how the game deals/reads it's data.

Telling preferences might be nice, but, I'm pretty sure who gets which first half will be randomized based on 1) what all things were made in and 2) the stated engines? Which probably would include the subset of "preferred engine(s)", but also probably wouldn't be skewed towards that.

I might be taking the "post lots" directive that was sometimes thrown at newbies a little to hard. I mean, I've 10+ years behind me at this point, but, Darigaaz.

Thanks for the stats again, kentona!
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