VERINCIA'S PROFILE

One way of diversity and depth with NPCs is by giving each city a general theme: An assasin attempt, a child gets some big award, etc. Always give the player the information they need, but add a little to the NPCs by giving some life to them.

I don't know if it's worth asking, but would you mind giving mine a try: http://rpgmaker.net/games/2370/

I sometimes wish I had read the advise about taking on a smaller project. I did get overwhelmed. I made my city maps too large, and placed too many demands on them. For that reason, I chose to forgo other features that I had wanted to play with, and I'm glad I did. What I was doing was too demanding, and would have knocked out a lot from me. As it was I was glad when I drew some specific lines and stuck to them like glue. After my over experience, I also would say start little even though I didn't.

I have. I was trying to play a game called Lucid Awakening on a computer set to Windows Vista, and it didn't work. Tried the same game with Windows XP and it worked like a charm. Can't help beyond that. So far that was the only game with that particular problem.

Okay, I am having some difficulty making up my mind about how to do the skill systems of my game I am working on. My idea is that I try to do something similar like m first game. Everyone was given nine to fifteen skills/spells and that was all. Although some skills crossed between characters, mostly each character kept to their own skills and abilities.
In this new game I am thinking of doing the same things, but four of my characters are swordsmen, and one of them can do almost all of the abilities at the beginning of the game. I was wondering if I should make the swordsmen skills available to all of the sword characters, and then augment them with specific skills for that swordsman. One of those things that I would have liked to avoid was the endless scrolling between abilities that most people don't use anyway. Any ideas?