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  • So I have a battler of a giant Minotaur and one that is a small minotaur. So I guess I'll call the small one a MINItaur. Yeah, I'm full of bad jokes.
    Tai_MT
    Tai_MT
    No, no no no no. Wait. Wait wait. You also have to give them the name "Minnie" when they talk as well. We aren't being meta enough. The Dad Joke hasn't gone far enough yet. MUST GO FARTHER!
    Now I have to change the percentage of weapon type damage so the weapons enemies are weak to will deal more damage then the weapons they aren't weak to. Right now they are taking double or triple damage from weapons that are suppose to do normal or Resilient damage. So there goes my weekend.
    Ok, I finished updating my Bestiary Book. The only reason I can think of enemies having a second weakest to a spell is that the player might not have access to the more powerful version. Not that the spell is more powerful in itself but against certain enemies.
    I'm trying to figure out why anyone would use a spell that does less damage over one that does more damage? They both cost the same. One character has all the spells.
    ScorchedGround
    ScorchedGround
    @gstv87
    That would be true, but if the spells really cost the same, it doesn't really have any tactical relevancy.

    You could use the stronger spell to break the guard and you wouldn't lose out on anything compared to using the weaker one. You pay the same resources for the same result.
    Tanarex
    Tanarex
    @Sword_of_Dusk There aren't any weak spells. They just work better against some enemies than others. They all do the same amount of damage.
    @Erif I'm still trying to fit the basic spells and skills in the game.
    @pawsplay Yes, that is what I have.
    gstv87
    gstv87
    @ScorchedGround if you use the stronger spell to break the guard, you'll deal zero damage.
    and on top of that, the damage of the weaker spell to do actual damage.
    why would anyone turn the greater spell into ZERO damage?
    Seems redundant that I have both a glossary and a index in my Bestiary Book that do the same thing. The index will tell you the enemies weakness but also have it written down in the glossary. Explaining why it has a weakness to something. Does it matter? Does anyone care?
    Sword_of_Dusk
    Sword_of_Dusk
    I would, as that would be a little extra bit of worldbuilding by way of enemy factoids, and I'm always down for that.
    Tanarex
    Tanarex
    Even if they are all different versions of this?
    They are Weak versus Banish. And are Vulnerable to
    Smashing Attacks and Earth. They are Resilient to
    Wind and Piercing Attacks.
    Gonna have to remove the part about fighting Gods and angels. Including the part where I spelled my brother's name backward and made him a Evil God.
    Trihan
    Trihan
    So your brother's name is Dog Live? ;)
    Tanarex
    Tanarex
    No, HTIEK. I made up this whole story about him, too. DELETED. Maybe I should put Etheral Undead (Ghosts, Wraiths, etc.) under the 'normal' undead (Zombies, Skeletons) section.
    Time to rewrite the Bestiary Book again. I took out Angelic creature type. Because my characters aren't gonna be fighting angels or God. My characters are more mischievous then evil. And I combined other species types. Reptiles are now under Beasts. All 2 of them. Had to buy 1.
    I wonder how the thought process went when making the VX Ace battlers. Guy 1: Ok. We have 51 Humanoid creatures. What else? Guy 2: A Jellyfish. Guy1: Ok. What other aquatic creatures should we add? Guy 2: None. Just one Jellyfish. Guy 1: What about animals? Guy 2: A bat, a behemoth, a rat and a snake.
    bgillisp
    bgillisp
    You know in my first game I had a scene where you were told to beware a Wendigo. Then you walk into the room and see a very attractive female and the others go watch out, its a Wendigo! The MC was confused and was like that's a Wendigo? The exchange was like:

    NPC: "What did you expect?"
    MC: "Big hairy beast with a bad temper?"
    bgillisp
    bgillisp
    But overall the reason it was there: There was no Wendigo sprite. So I made do.
    ATT_Turan
    ATT_Turan
    @bgillisp That's why I set up recurring alarms on my phone, they tell me Wendigo to work.
    So I'm not sure why I added elemental rates of creature attack types on enemy creatures. Since the player can't do those types of damage. The only way they would work is if I had enemies attack other enemies. Something I'm not planning on doing.
    Sword_of_Dusk
    Sword_of_Dusk
    You sure? Could be a neat worldbuilding moment, when the player enters an area where two kinds of creatures are mortal enemies and will attack each other in combat until one is dead, then focus on the player.
    Tanarex
    Tanarex
    No. I already considered the idea of an arena. It doesn't fit with the story. The town's main entertainment is having a lottery (the kind you don't want to win) and having townpeople solve puzzles in the mansion and die if they fail by midnight. So, an arena would just mean fewer people to force into the mystery mansion, which is already full of monsters.
    Ok, updating my Species list again. I had Mermaid as Humanoid. But humanoids means 1 head, 2 arms and 2 legs. And they have no legs. So I made Mermaid identify as monster now. That's right The Little Mermaid would be a 'monster' in my world. She would also drown sailors and eat their corpses. So like a monster.
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    Flannery
    Flannery
    Well, to be fair, Minotaur is "Bull (Taur) of Minos". Centaur is trickier in that it could have an etymology of "Piercing Bull" or "Bull-Slayer". If you are okay with a recommendation--Therians. It's derived from Greek for "beast" which would exclude fish, birds, and lizards... but like since when has fantasy been 100% accurate to the etymologies they derived their words from?
    Tanarex
    Tanarex
    I did also label them 'Hybrids' at one time. But thought it sounded too sci-fi. To be honest, I don't know when the word hybrids first came into use. I thought maybe having it separated into three classes. Like Physical Form/Species/Subspecies. Humanoid/Beastaur/Minotaur. AKA Bane weakness/Weapon Weakness/elemental Weakness.
    pawsplay
    pawsplay
    Therion. Yokai. Monstrosity.
    I now have 72 different subspecies in my game and am now in the process of creating icons for each one that don't have one. Players prolly won't be amused if I have the representation of a mermaid with a Fish icon. Prolly think I'm lazy. Well, because I am.
    ScorchedGround
    ScorchedGround
    I mean alternatively you could just use a broader term for mermaids, such as 'merfolk'. Then the fish icon would be more obvious since it could include other species like fishmen, actual fish etc.
    Tanarex
    Tanarex
    @ScorchedGround There aren't any mermen or fish creatures in vx ace. And I have too many creatures already. I have Mermaids and Sahagin as their own Species. One is half fish, and one is a fishman. I did find a free-to-use mermaid sprite. So, I shrunk it down to Icon size and used that. For the Sahagin, I used the walking sprite for it. But used just its head.
    Flannery
    Flannery
    As an avid mermaid fan, I think using a fish icon to represent them is funny as all hell.
    Ok. I think I have the answer to my game. I will have the enemies in my game broken down to two parts. Species and Subspecies. That way they will be able to work with the limited number of creature types and keep their individuality. Time to see if this change will crash my game.
    Why does the Kobold in VX Ace look like a werewolf with a sword?
    kyonides
    kyonides
    Weird indeed.
    ATT_Turan
    ATT_Turan
    That's only in Dungeons & Dragons, which RPG Maker is not designed on. In actual folklore, kobolds are just a shapeshifting spirit/fairy creature.
    Tanarex
    Tanarex
    Still looks like a werewolf.
    The funny part is I'm prolly not even going to use half of these enemies. I have 20 different elves pics and 1 dwarf. It's like a LOTR 2 movie. But I won't know for sure until my game is finished.
    Looks like I need to redo the battle system again. Thanks to my own stupidity. I gave each enemy their own elemental creature type—16 in total. Then, I gave the characters 8 types to use against them. I was somehow planning to make 1 skill target 2 creature types.
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    Tanarex
    Tanarex
    Starting over again for the same reason. One character doesn't get bane skills because he gets spells instead.
    Even though Temenos is the Inquisitor of the party it's Throné that is the scary one. She will start pulling out the knives if she doesn't like what she hears. She will play a game of Russian Roulette just for answers. She was taught to kill as a child.
    You know those videos where people put a cucumber behind a cat and watch it freak out when they turn around? Someone was saying they were being mean to the cat and the cat might think it was a snake. Because we all know the mortal enemy of the cat--The SNAKE!
    gstv87
    TRIDIUM
    TRIDIUM
    I never knew that was a thing. That's a pretty good theory.
    Tanarex
    Tanarex
    The problem with this theory is that there is a cat toy that looks and acts like a real snake. It has some kind of collusion detector that ensures it doesn't smash into walls and will try to escape the cat's clutches. And the cats love it.
    Yep. My brother is an idiot. He just sent me a message on my new phone saying my voicemail was full even though I checked it yesterday—still one message on it. So he must have dialed my old phone and then sent me a text on my new phone. Even though I told him two days ago, I don't use the old one anymore. He must still have both my #s.
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