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FL Studio (Fruity Loops) is definitely the most complete program I've found. Be prepared for a steep learning curve tho.

I was considering, rather than having the player's skills increase at all, forcing the player's strength increase to come entirely from 'food' items, or ATK + %5 sorts of items. That way, hopefully there's a greater incentive to fight now that you've got 6 different things to level up rather than one. In addition, there's the immediate gratification of stat bonuses after every single battle (which is nice because I plan on battles only ever having one character, so I don't have the benefit of at least one party member leveling up every other battle). Are there any hidden drawbacks that make this broken that I'm not seeing (I'm not the best at this sort of design)? What sorts of issues am I going to have to account for? Are there better ways of going about this?

I'm considering abandoning the default battle system, being creative, and making one of my own. What are some of the more creative ways of battling monsters that you've seen?

One that comes to mind (for me at least) is evented chrono-trigger style battle system from The Longing Ribbon. That was pretty slick.

The Way for sure.

Me and a friend of mine are writing a campy fantasy story, but we can't come up with any convincing kingdom names...any help?