DJBEARDO'S PROFILE

Is GameGuru any good? I've looked on youtube and it looks kinda interesting, and somewhat easy. And the DLC in the bundle could be neat.
But FPS are a totally different bag than JRPGS (my current bag).
Is it easy to use? Hard?
Does the community suck? Or is it cool?

I gave it a shot... but I would probably need higher quality assets before it was 100% to go.

Also, I hate big designs on the front of shirts because it accentuates my fat belly. So I put the design on the back. That may be a deal-breaker for some people. But I'm not wedded to the design. I just wanted to put something together so the possibility was more real for people:

t-shirt link

author=BowelMovement
I think it's meant to be Beelzebub but I have no fucking clue.

It's listed as Devil 03 if I recall. Been a while since I looked into the XP character sets.

Yeah, it's listed as a "devil" of some sort. But I've got a few other devils, and this guy is just... not like a devil. I thought maybe it was a wendigo, but those are more elkish. And then maybe I thought it was a skinwalker...

According to Navajo myth, skinwalkers can look like anything. From a wolf to a person to just something freaky.

So I'm going with skinwalker.

That being said, I was able to find this AMAZING resource that I will share with you all, the "Dictionnaire Infernal" published in 1863.

Even if your French isn't fantastic, it has some awesome pictures.

I'm putting together enemies and I came across this guy:



Any ideas of what I should call him? Is this a "standard" D&Dish monster that I'm not familiar with?

author=FlyingJester
Maybe do a sort of scripted Fire Emblem thing? Make some portion subtly unwinnable without a certain character dying?

If you do it right that could be good. But it would probably work best if any other death of a single character was a game over.

This is a good idea. I guess one solution would be to just get rid of phoenix downs, etc. and deal with death like death.

author=LightningLord2
Dragon Quest totally uses death in combat, but only on your party members - you do have the connections in heaven to get them back, though.

Connections in heaven, eh? I like this concept, but it would require some retconning for my world. Solid option, though.

author=Desertopa
I think there's also a lot of potential in a system that balances combat around the assumption that any of your main characters falling in battle results in a game over, rather than all of them having to fall at once. If being defeated in battle means "death," and the plot hinges on none of the protagonists dying, then you can just make each individual character's death a failure condition.

I can think of a couple games off the top of my head which did this, but both of them were more strategy game than traditional RPG. But there's no real reason you couldn't do the same thing with a more traditional RPG.

This echoes some other comments, and I think it might be the best approach for my particular game - although there were lots of solid suggestions (way more than I could dream up just sitting my myself).

But that brings up a sub-question:

If you were playing a game and the death of any one party member resulted in a game over screen, what would your reaction be? As a player, is it cool or annoying? Does depending on where you can save change your thoughts?