Possible to make a normal attack determine damage via game data when a certain weapon is used?

[Little Paw]

For example, if I wanted to make something akin to Final Fantasy V's Chicken Knife, where the damage dealt to the enemy with a normal attack is determined by how many times you have run from battle - more escapes = more damage.

I know I can call stuff like this with a Skill and the damage formula box, but what I want is for a weapon to cause the normal attack to call such a formula. Is it possible to do this?

 

[Victor Sant]

There are plenty of scripts that allows you to call a skill different fron the default one for the weapon basic attacks.

Here is one: http://victorscripts.wordpress.com/rpg-maker-vx-ace/gameplay-scripts/custom-basic-actions

 

[Selchar]

There are scripts that let you change your basic attack depending on things like equipped weapon. I'll point to Yanfly's >here<.

Simply make a skill with the desired damage formula, and tag your weapon so that it'll use that skill instead of the regular attack.

 

[Little Paw]

There are scripts that let you change your basic attack depending on things like equipped weapon. I'll point to Yanfly's >here<.

Simply make a skill with the desired damage formula, and tag your weapon so that it'll use that skill instead of the regular attack.

Aha! That's perfect! Now I just need to figure out the formula for what I want to do...

 

[kerbonklin]

May I suggest a hard-coded variable increase each time Escape Processing happens?

And then have the damage formula use that in it.