#skill system

As with all things GLOG the following rules are inspired by something written by Arnold K.

The Rules

Skills represent anything a Player Character can be taught, but cannot replace a characters innate abilities. Skill Scores primarily function as a substitutes for Ability Scores when such broad abstractions of a character’s competency is inadequate or inappropriate. Players test their character’s skill by rolling a d20 and trying to get equal-or-under the character’s Skill Score to succeed.

So long as they have an appropriate source for knowledge once per week Player Characters may test their Intelligence to improve a Skill’s Score. Roll a d20; if the result is equal-or-under the characters Intelligence improve the Score by 1, if the result is also over the characters Score it improves by 2 instead. Skills Scores may not exceed the Ability Score from which they are derived by more than the characters level.

Three types of of Skills:

Basic Skills require little more than an explanation to achieve basic proficiency such as learning to fish using a rod and reel. The starting Skill Score of a Basic Skill is that of the appropriate Ability Score and is usually not tracked unless the PC wishes to master the skill such as a sport fishing enthusiast.

Advanced Skills require some training or significant experimentation to gain competency in - such as sailing a boat effectively. The starting Skill Score of an Advanced Skill is 7 or half the appropriate Ability Score.

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Up until now, all of the Equip Skills have been based around the battle system in some way so far. But, by utilizing Victor Engine’s Events Conditions script, I’ve been able to create a new type of Equip Skill -- the Field Skill.

Here’s a demonstration:

Alright, here we have our test map, wherein I test out various mechanics. Right now, there’s a secret here, but we have no way of seeing it... right now.

So let’s pop into our Class menu and equip our Discover Secrets skill. And when we return to the field, what should we find but...

... A new friend!

So, I figure I might as well show off the Class system I bragged about in my last/first post a bit.

Hey, look, a screenshot.

So, yeah, I’m not what you would call a programmer. For Lions, I am going to be using quite a few third party scripts. The Class System itself, if you’re familiar with popular RPG Maker VX Ace scripts, is Yanfly’s Class System.

Here’s the Class menu, in all of it’s glory. The Assign Class command lets you choose which Class you want to use from the Class list. You gain AP from battles, which you then use to Learn Skills in the Learn Skills menu accessed through the Learn Skills command. But whereas with Yanfly’s vanilla script, you choose a subclass, instead here you’re given the option to Equip Skills.

What I did was modify Yami’s Skill Equip script so that it works with the Class System. It wasn’t terribly difficult.

Furthermore, by utilizing both Neon Black’s Passive Skills script AND Victor Engine’s Passive States script, I’m able to create a vast array of passive skills with various effects. You might be curious as to why I’m using two separate passive skill scripts; simply put, they both work very differently, and while there may be a certain amount of overlap, there are certain things one script can do that the other cannot, and vice-versa.

Anyway, here’s just a few of the skills you can equip. And, again, they are all fully functional. I’ll provide a brief explanation of how each works and how I made it work:

With MP Regain: Map, you regenerate MP as you walk around, whereas with MP Regain: Battle, you’ll regenerate it as turns occur. These are done by manipulating the MP Regeneration parameter that’s part of the RPG Maker program. However, the issue with that is that, by itself, the program does not differentiate Map regeneration and Battle regeneration. Using Victor’s Passive script, however, I was able to have a skill that’s only active on the field and another that’s only active in battle.

HP Up 20% and Defense Up 20% are pure stat bonuses, and they were made using Neon Black’s script. Nothing really to add, there.

Halve Lightning Damage, Null Lightning Damage and Absorb Lightning Damage all pretty much do as they say. However, it should be noted that Absorbing Elemental damage is not a native feature to VX Ace, and as such I had to use Yanfly’s Element Absorb script. As a result, Halve and Null skills are made through Neon Black’s script, whereas the Absorb skills utilize Victor Engine’s.

Darkness Proficiency and Darkness Mastery simply boost the strength of skills and magic that are Darkness elemental. No weird scripts necessary here, other than Neon Black’s. Proficiency and Mastery skills are simply made effective through damage formulas.

Equip Katanas and Equip Axes allow a character to equip those types of weapons regardless of their class. Using Yanfly’s Weapon Attack Replace script, each type of weapon will have it’s own unique attack formula, so there’s a certain strategy in choosing your weapons. Neon Black.

Attack +2 makes your character attack three times while it’s equipped. As this is a standard feature, all I needed to realize this skill was Neon Black’s script.

Restore HP on Guard restores the equipped character’s health while they are guarding. Using Victor’s Passive Script, I was able to set it up so that a character’s HP Regeneration Rate would be buffed but only while guarding.

No Surprise, MP Cost Down 90%, and 2x Item Effectiveness all pretty much do what they say, and all use native RPG Maker features, and as such all only need Neon Black’s script to work.

Utilizing Victor Engine’s Direct Commands script, when you equip Command: Steal and Command: Analyze, the equipped character gains two additional commands to their command list: Steal and Analyze. Steal uses Yanfly’s Steal Item script, whereas Analyze uses modern algebra’s Monster Catalogue script.