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Haha that would be asking for trouble balancing it though! ...a month later I change the prices of weapons, raising them... then I get emails from people "the Merc is overpowered, just did 100dmg with a dagger"

Oh, my! I tried to focus, really. Tried to type something smart and helpful, but after seeing Amukiki's name under word "Bard" I had that mental image of our pride Amukiki wearing beret with feathers and playing lyre. And that totally shattered my attention.

Lol I can understand then

The MC could have skills like:

Warrior:

Heroism - the MC and/or his friends heal 10 % of their total Hitpoints when they are reduced to 0 or fewer hitpoints for the first time in a battle
Intimidating Strike - all enemies get -10% attack/DMG/dodge, after MC hit an enemy for 80% damage / increases thread
Guardian - Ally gets +20% defense/dodge, MC gets -20% defense/dodge for 5 rounds
Mow them down - attacks all enemies in a row for 80% damage
Overrun - if you successfully deal damage to an opponent in the first row, you can attack the enemy behind him. This additional attack deals 100% damage to the enemy in the backline and an additional 20% damage
to the enemy in the frontline


Thief:

Strikeback - hit enemy for 20% damage after you were hit for x damage points
dirty lowkick (a.k.a. "called shot to the nuts", see "the gamers" ) - enemy cannot act for 2 rounds
called strike - enemy gets -75% armor and -20% resistances in the next round against your attack
Eyepoke - Enemy is blinded for 3 rounds and thief steals 10% of enemies money
run away - lose you rnext action but avoid the last hit



mage:

arcane genius - absorb 10/20/30% of the mana from a spell that hit you
counterspell - next spell that affects you or your whole group automatically fails this round (= 0 dmg, no status effects, what so ever )
astral form - as long as you stay in astral form, you do and suffer -80% physical damage and you do and suffer +100% magical damage
arcane bomb - deplete your manabar. do spent mana x 4 points of damage to all enemies. you recieve damage equivalent to the amount of mana spent (pretty risky, since mages normally have more mana than lifepoints )
windchannel - enemie's ranged attacks are returned and hit the enemies frontrow instead of your group
magic spear - hits all targets in a line. damage is divided among the targets.

Thanks for the suggestion, with the writer we decided to have the class fit more the "wilderness setting", so Warrior = Ranger, Thief= Scout, Mage=Druid (but they'll have same functions as the base classes, only the "lore" will change).

DunKalar wrote:counterspell - next spell that affects you or your whole group automatically fails this round (= 0 dmg, no status effects, what so ever )

I'd think you'd have to do either damage protection or zero status effect just for game balance.

That depends on the Spell or Effect that will trigger. If only one of those types (damage, status effect, whatnot) triggers then it should not be a problem.


I think it would be funny for a druid to be able to shapeshift himself or others.
Something like:
"Werbear" - target ally gets +X armor but - X Mana - X Spelldamage
"Werboar" - target ally gets +X damage and +X resistance to status effects but -X Mana and -x% Chance to trigger status effects
"Wercat" - target ally gets +X attack and +X dodge but -X Hitpoints and -X Armor
"Werleprechaun" - target ally loses 50% attack, damage, health and armor but gets + X% Resistance to Status Effects, Spell effect damage, chance to trigger status effects and amount of gold looted after the fight
and so on


Ranger could use something like:
"Horizonwalker" - Ranger gets +X% resistance against elemental damage and status effects
"Hunting" - Place a mark on a target, all actions against target recieve +x% attack and damage
"Elemental Arrow" - Ranger shoots an arrow for 50% physical base damage but the arrow deals additional X damage of every element
"Preparation" - As Horizonwalker but for the whole party of allies
"Windwalker" - Ranger gets a bonus on dodge based on his armor rating. the higher his armor rating is, the lower the bonus will be.
"Animalfriends" - Ranger gets a special attack for 80% base damage that has a chance of X % to pin his oponent down (has no action next turn)


Scout might like:
"Found you" - Scout gets firststrike with a special attack against all enemies in the first combat round. Attack does 0% base damage but has a chance of 100% (base without modification/resistances) to stun targets.
"Ambush" - scout gets +20% and +20% attack and damage if he dodged successfully before his next attack
"Herbalist" - For the next 5 rounds, the Scout has the chance to poison his target für x Poisondamage/round. He can cure a poisoned ally instead of attacking.
"Shadowstep" - get +100% dodge against next attack
"Hunter" - party gets +x% attack, damage, spelleffect chance or spell damage

Today finished the Ranger (equivalent to Warrior) class. I'm quite happy about it:

it has a lot of variety and some skills depends on the equipment you're using, which makes a nice change and adds more strategy. Now going to code the Hunter and the Druid

Even the Hunter is done. I played it and is quite fun. The Sudden Strike skill combined with a good amount of SP regen potions is quite powerful to drain enemies SP, preventing them from using their skills (of course, I have balanced it so that you can't just do that to win a fight).

How should I understand the attack of sudden strike? Hit one enemy with 100% and the others with 30/60/90%, or all three with 30/60/90?

In the latter case the lvl 1 attack would be quite a bit less useful than a normal attack, as 3*30=90. Also the delay after a special attack is usually higher than after a normal attack; and often you want to put one enemy out of action before the healer goes into action, not do a bit of damage to everyone which a "heal party" spell will remove nicely.