Light Armor: Equippable by Madilyn and Ryan, light armor will provide only medium Defense. Robes: Equippable by Winter and Madilyn, robes will provide low Defense, while boosting Magic Attack and Magic Defense.
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In the end I decide on 4 types of armor plus shields, and what they affect.Ĭlothes: Equippable by Winter, clothes will provide low Defense, while giving a boost to Accuracy, Agility, and Evade rate. With it done in categories and focusing on choice, I need to decide what categories I want and what bonuses they will give. Thinking about it, I also decide to make the top weapon in each group an elemental weapon, with different elements for each character.Īrmor is a bit more complex. The main purpose of the weapons in this game are linear stat growth, so I start with a relatively small number of +Attack and add more as they go up tiers. I like dual wielding daggers, so Winter will be use two weapons. Weapons are pretty straight forward, Ryan uses swords, Madilyn uses spears, Winter uses daggers. They will all be equipabble by anyone.Īnd now we are back to the most important part of making an RPG: Planning. The final equipment slot, Accessories I decide will be special, and not give stat bonuses at, instead giving other advantages. Shields are unique to Madilyn, because I decided Winter would dual wield, and Ryan is using two handed weapons. Different categories excel at different things, so it lets you customize your characters a bit. Each character will have access to two different categories of armor, and there will be overlap between characters. As a primarily stat growth piece of equipment, each character can have their own weapons to use. The idea of Character Customization is good, so I decide to use armor as primarily for customization rather than pure stat growth.Īs far as deciding who uses what, I decide I want to make weapons unique to each character. Torso Armor and Shields will have 2 tiers, and the other equipment options will have 1 tier. I decide that yes, linear growth is a good idea, so there will be tiers of equipment.
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Now that we have looked at the possibilities of how to approach equipment, Ill make some decisions in the how I want to use equipment in the Sample Game. Mixing and matching is also possible, with different types of equipment being divided in different ways. You can also have categories of equipment, such as Character A and Character B can use Swords, while Character B and Character C can use Daggers. There are multiple ways to handle this, from having each character have their own unique equipment, to having every character be capable of using any equipment.
Player choice is almost always a good idea.Īnother thing that is a good to look at is different ways to distribute equipment among your characters. If you wanted a bit of extra oomph to your spells, or were going into an area where you knew a lot of magic attacks would come your way, the Cloak would be better, if you just needed Defense, the Leather Armor is better. If you had a character who could equip both of these, which would be better to choose? It would depend on the situation and what the player wanted the character could do. Pieces of equipment from a similar tier of power.Ĭloak: +8 Defense, +5 M. Make Your Own Game Tutorial IV: Equipment, Items, and Features
To explain this use of equipment, lets look at two This requiresĪ bit more thought on the part of the game designer and on the player as well as it is not linear growth. You get to a new town and the first thing you do is check the Weapon and Armor shops for the newest biggest beat stick/armor you can buy.Ĭharacter CustomizationThe second use is to customize characters. This is the part of equipment that most players are most familiar with. This is usually very easy to accomplish, a Basic Sword may give you +20 Attack, while a Great Sword gives you +25 Attack.
Stat GrowthThe first is just to help the character become more To understand designing equipment, lets first look at what Equipment is generally used for in RPGs.Įquipment has two major purposes in RPGs: