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Try http://reddit.com/r/marioMaker for challenging but fair levels.

author=AubreyTheBard
The MP cost of a skill is an attribute available to mess with in DynRPG, so in theory, yes, you could do whatever you want to MP cost. The tricky part would be changing the MP cost of skills specifically for just one battler when their turn comes up, as I imagine you'd want to do this based on status conditions or equipment or whatnot. It might be doable by looking at the ATB values at the end of each battler's turn, predicting which battler will be having a turn next, and modifying MP costs according to that battler. That might not play nice with other plugins that alter how the ATB system works, though, and I can imagine other difficulties like status conditions such as Paralyze messing with the prediction. I've already got a plugin idea I'm currently working on, so I'm not going to take on such a project myself right now.

The Increased Evasion thing sounds even more difficult offhand, there's not much you can do to mess with RM2K3's internal combat calculations using DynRPG.

You could try something like what I'm doing in my game where if you have a certain condition, you spend a normal amount of MP on a skill as usual when you use it but right afterwards, you also get a "refund" of a certain % of the MP used.

Write down all the reasons why the Legend of Zelda was good, and then use that as inspiration and a foundation for making your own original game. It doesn't even have to be a game of the same genre too.

If you're doing this more for coding practice, remake something simpler from scratch like Pong or Tetris.

If you still want to make a "fan game", don't call it Zelda, and don't go to extensive lengths to make it look exactly like the original Zelda either. If you go to all the trouble of coding the whole thing and adding worthwhile twists or game mechanics that live up to the original, would you still want it to look like it belongs to another developer (i.e. Nintendo)?

Edit: I don't mean to bash fan games. There are a lot of great ones. But to make a successful fan game, the developer has to truly know why the source material was so great in the first place.

If you are new to game development or haven't made games before, I would recommend to not start with a full-blown fan game and instead go for something smaller/simpler first. This will save you a lot of time in the future as you will learn a lot from the first project(s) you finish, knowledge/wisdom which you can then use to make something bigger!

author=bulmabriefs144
Thanks kaine. That should help.

Oh crap...

Ooo, I might want to add this to my project because "Why not use an already existing bugfix?", amirite?

author=GhostRider
here's a small request (this one is tough, dunno if it's possible at all) but is it possibile to make that a certain status disable the attack command on one character? oddly enough rm2k3 status creation does not have "disable attack" option, you can only stop him from acting at all but what i would like to have is basically a status which blocks standard attack but still allows to use skills/items/whatever

You could probably do this real easily by just having a status condition set your attack accuracy to 0. Not exactly the same since the player could then waste a turn, but it has just about the same effect.