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[FFAV] OK let's talk about SPECIAL CAMPAIGN MECHANICS, might want to bookmark this one
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I've been hammering out a lot of details on this today
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MONEY
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This is probably the biggest!
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I am absolutely going to be tracking gil in this game!
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You'll get it as rewards or from selling monster parts or whatever, money will be coming to you as you advance through the game.
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You can use it for all kinds of things, as money tends to be, but the important ones are Items and Equipment.
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ITEMS
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Consumables are in! Your potions, your ethers, whatever.
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You buy them at towns, and each character can hold up to ten items at a time.
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Using an item is a Support Action, and a character can only use an item once per scene!
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because Valor is not built for FF-style swingy superhealing.
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Restorative items can be used freely out of battle, but during battle, they're more limited, and their effects are reduced.
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As an example -
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Potion
Cost: 50 gil
Effect: Restores 50 HP, or 25 HP during combat.
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Some items are instead used offensively - for those, you pick a target in range and roll any attribute you feel like!
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Their damage will be reduced, generally, by Resistance MDEF.
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(I'm probably going to tweak the character sheet to display terms in proper FF-ese)
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EQUIPMENT
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This part is a little wacky, because I didn't want gear to just be small passive bonuses, it didn't feel very Valorish for them to be subtle.
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Instead, all equipment effects are active!
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A character has two Gear slots, and can equip any two items as long as they aren't, for instance, both body armor.
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I'm not sure on dual-wielding but I might allow it.
Princess Emily
so it's different than the equipment mechanics in tools?
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yes
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This will of course work a little differently for people who have plot-locked weapons, like something attached to their body or the holy sword Excalibur.
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Any item that's relevant to your character and can't be left behind will permanently occupy one slot, but it may become more powerful as the game progresses.
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ANYWAY
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If you have a piece of gear equipped in a slot, you can activate it once! Then, it's down for the rest of the scene.
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Most of the time, you must pop the Gear Ability before rolling the attack, but some powerful weapons may not be bound by that rule.
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A typical weapon might look something like -
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Flame Brand
3850 gil
Ability: Increase the damage of the attack by 20 and deal fire elemental damage.
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Armor works similarly - you activate it before rolling defense, and it will reduce the damage on a hit, or push the attacker away, or whatever. There are lots of possibilities!
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IN SHORT, advance through the game and find increasingly sicker loot to loot or buy, and use it to win.
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Oh, regarding consumable item use!
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Generally speaking, you can pass an item to someone in your ZOC as a Support Action, or use it on yourself as a Support Action.
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But here's two new custom Skills:
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Chemist
Season 1
Cost: 6 SP
You can use items on others, provided they are in your Zone of Control.
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Potion Toss
Season 3
Cost: 4 SP
You can give an item to someone within five spaces of you.
If you have Chemist, you can use an item on anyone within five spaces of you.
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DUNGEON CRAWLING
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This is going slightly old-school! Expect a larger than average number of fights, many of them smaller or easier.
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Dungeon Crawls will be extended stays in dangerous territory, where you explore, solve puzzles, fight monsters, do plot events, et cetera.
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They have some special rules!
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Dungeons are divided into Rooms - players will have a chance to scout out rooms to see what's in them before they enter. Challenges, monsters, treasure, window dressing, plot, boss fights, or a Sanctuary.
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While in a dungeon, you do not recover HP and ST MP after every scene like normal!
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After you finish each room, you recover one increment of MP, and no HP.
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So, bring healing items.
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The exception is Sanctuaries, which are special rooms safe from monsters!
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At those, you can use a Tent to rest up and fully restore HP and MP.
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BOSS ATTACKS
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So in this game we might be able to build a few more healing technique than we normally would without making battles stupid
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You may encounter strong enemies who have extremely powerful attacks, far earlier than anticipated.
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However, they will usually have some kind of trick you can use to avoid or prepare for them.
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So, attack the scorpion while its tail is up, it's gonna counterattack with its laser, etc.
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I THINK THAT'S IT
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Gabiluzbad YES, I may still forbid them out of battle though
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or possibly make them cost MP as if they had no Limits
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neat
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So lemme know if any of that is unclear or confusing
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Once THV hits season 4 I'll probably push for chargen
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for now I want names, concepts and plot hooks
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Oh, even if you don't have a weapon Equipped, you can generally assume you've got a sword or whatever in hand, it just isn't a cool one with special properties
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I'm picturing a plotting clique plurk up right now that's just "Hey guys suggest item abilities to me"
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I'm not locking in on any character concepts until Kasu weighs in on the announcement plurk, though
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she just did, so
izzy.vrm
question: are elemental resistance/weaknesses in play
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oh, yes!
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everything in the elemental section of the rulebook is fair game.
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element list is, hmmm
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Do we need to have a premade element list?
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I think it'd make more sense for like
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OK yeah, use whatever elements you want and I'll build around them
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Ruka: "I'm making an Acid themed attack"
Prof: /starts including enemies with acid weaknesses and shit
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the only Definitely There elements are Fire, Lightning, Ice, Light, Dark
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right
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Most enemies are going to have some kind of elemental resistances/weaknesses.
Princess Emily
my character obviously has a light focus
Gabiluzbad
I don't think I"m going to be PARTICULARLY elemental themed but I might have a bit of, like
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wind or lightning or something
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Belated update - I'm scrapping Equipment due to characters having a lot of unique plot weapons, but I'm keeping the mechanics and refluffing them as Materia Slots
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You can buy Materia and slot up to two into your weapon and then activate each one once per scene for a Materia effect
moontouched
Nice
Princess Emily
nice
Gabiluzbad
Presumably if you wanted you could also slot them into like
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armor or tools or whatnot
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sure
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