REDMASK'S PROFILE

author=Corfaisus
This got me to thinking: what about items whose effects are affected by the user's magic stat? Would it be useful to have healing items that become more effective as a user's magic stat increases as would be the case for a healing spell? While it would make a melee character's magical properties matter more (ensuring no characters stats are ever wasted), would it really add anything to the strategy or would it just complicate or confuse the situation?

Would you be more focused on keeping the person with the highest magic stat alive to take advantage of the items? Would you go out of your way to deck out the tank with magical gear just to get the healing benefits? Could this be flipped so that the character with the highest strength gets healing item boosts (think Healing Signet in Guild Wars), creating a secondary class of healers? Would you go a different route and create two categories of healing items that reflect a strength or a magic build, such as HP with strength and MP with magic or vice versa?

Interesting idea. Though my game only has one character since it's an adventure game. But Items in my game do actually restore more if you increase your luck stat. The higher your luck is, the more likely you are to get bonus Life and Magic points when using items.
You increase luck by dancing for specific NPCs in the game.

I'd really like to agree with InfectionFiles because that was my mentality for many years. But continued feedback from both the games I have on this site and my experiments in Mario Maker seem to indicate to me that players don't really care much about a real challenge they just want an easy simplified experience. My easier/simpler levels in Mario Maker are get way more praise than the more elaborate and difficult ones.

So I'm probably going to side with Marrend and Skjo. Maybe to get the MP regen speed boost I'll make it a really expensive upgrade since that will at the very least make money useful to a player who generally hordes cash. I was also considering a level cap for it so that the player doesn't get it too early in the game.

One of the things I intended to do with my adventure game was make items useful. Healing spells in my game take a second or two of time to cast because I wanted to give players a reason to use healing items which work instantly. And auto MP regeneration takes a long time because I wanted players to use MP restoring items in a pinch. Also there are TENT items which full restore at save points.
My new test player refuses to ever use any of these items because he says he never uses items in games ever. Luckily because I continue to lower the difficulty, he has been able to do this. I think the only healing items I've seen him use was the Medicine item to heal the rare status ailments of the game. But because of this mentality of his, I'll watch him wait for long periods of time to auto regen his entire MP bar even though he has accumulated plenty of MP restoring items which could do it instantly. (Also, he has jack tons of in game money he refuses to use on items)
So one of my other game design philosophies is to make sure I'm not wasting players time. And yes technically it's his choice to regen his MP slowly instead of using his items but that made me wonder, should I include an ability later on in the game that lets MP regen even faster? Would it make the game too easy and make items even less important? What are your thoughts?

P.S. I am not talking about Red Nova or Unity this particular play tester is someone I know offline.

Dang I just realized I left out one of my favorites, V from V for Vendetta. I actually like both the comic and the movie if anyone's wondering.
Unfortunately I think I have to give him the generic typing of Normal.
Edit: though he did live through a fire so maybe Normal/Fire

Thats true, Ratty, plus she's been using a sword a lot more these days.

As for Hulk I think the Normal makes more sense than Fighting because Hulk ain't a trained fighter he's just powerful.