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Though this game will have fantasy and sci fi elements, which are a given due to the Mainstream property, they are by no means the only venues of storytelling. And one rut that rpgs have been trying to get out of is the space/ medieval settings that has plagued the genre for too long.

I agree, the main character should be an original character that the player gets to make themselves. What will happen, class/ job-wise, is that for each character the player recruits into their party, that character's class will added as a new class for the main character to change to. He'll have the option of changing between jobs, btw, but not in combat. However, each character has their own specific abilities, so getting a class won't mean he'll be getting all the character's abilities, too. Because he will have the flexibility of class changes, the trade off will be is that the main character won't be able to advance to upgraded versions of classes like other characters can do. But he will have the chances to find more "legendary" classes in the game. For example, defeating Deitric would give access to a Thunder Master class or something.

Yes, there needs to be an original storyline, one that doesn't tie to some specific character. If it "happens" to, it's only because it was natural for it to. I do want characters to be characterized through their own separated stories, some some of the available characters will have side quests that you can do which eventually will let you recruit them. The side quests will put some detail on other people's arcs, but it won't go too deep into it where it becomes this bigger arc. For example, I would like the dragon attack on Falis to be one of the side quests. The player will be able to participate in this event and get some summaries of the story there, but it won't become its own separate episode. Just enough to suffice.

Owner of Character: Tresondros Ecstuffuan
Name: Siegfried "Sieg" Ecstuffuan
Job/ Class/ Expertise: Monk/Paladin
Brief Info about character: I would want Sieg to be someone who fights with the team late game, sort of like Orlandu or Beowulf. However I would like to see him as an NPC who appears here and there. His goal is to destroy all evil abominations and planar outsiders and for that reason he may not work well with some other members of the team.

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I'm assuming this game is 2d rather than 3d which is my forte...but if you ever need any sprite or concept art work done, just PM me alright.

******** that gay lack o' strat s**t.

Make it like SNES Zelda. Real-time fantasy action.

Thunder Master...hrm...I dunno, I think "Elementalist" sounds better for a class name, with different trees for different elements. You also kindof have to take into account what sort of abilities CAN be taught to just about anyone and what kind of things our characters are born with/can't possibly pass on.

I guess thats why I thought a sort of Dragon Age-ish approach would work nice. If you could make an original character from a number of classes, whatever class they pick would affect the kinds of things they can learn from others. Like, if they were some sort of mage class, they'd only be able to learn certain things from other characters while magic-based characters could give them more benefit.

Our roleplays are all generally very open, so if we were to possibly make a game out of it we'd need to somehow consolidate it all into one overarching system. It'd need to be something that can include just about everyone and be cohesive at the same time.

I kindof disagree about the whole "space/medieval" thing being a rut, Vin. Being two forms of fantasy at the opposite ends of the spectrum, including both of those elements basically stretches out the range of the entire thing. Simply put, the futuristic elements even out the medieval ones and vice versa. The only other "time" left is a "modern" setting, which is really only relative to our own modern times to begin with. And that sort of thing pretty much falls into place on its own.

Since the general G.M. world is basically a mix of all three of those, you just need to work it out like that, and it'll be fine.

*Votes for easy* sweatdrop

The Conditional Turn Based (CTB) battle system, the one FFX has, has fortunately been already created by a popular melody script for the RPG Maker VX. What's more, it offers three more battle systems: the Shin Megami Tensei system, the ATB system, and the default turn based (choose your actions before the round of attacks starts).

If you like strategy, the CTB is best. If you like fast paced action, you will like the ATB. It even has the added complexity of queuing characters actions, even if it isn't their turn, which sounds a lot like FF13's battle system from testing it in RPG Maker.

I'm going to give the tactics system one more go. I still enjoyed the Shining Force series, which is a simplified tactics system, and I know pretty much the mechanics behind them, so let me see what I can do.