Ren'Py Completed Damsels and Dungeons [v1.2.41 Remastered] [Amaraine]

Demiare · Feb 15, 2018

Amaraine said:
Thank you for sharing your ideas. I always like the idea of players making meaningful choices that have advantages and drawbacks, so I like your "banner" idea and I'll keep it in mind.

I waited for +/- your games for years so somewhat overfilled with ideas ^_^. Most of similar games I found previously were either jap (and grindy like hell) or futa/furry madness.

Amaraine said:
The Pirate isn't meant to be a regular back-rank fighter, so Grapeshot is meant to be only situationally useful (mostly against plentiful low-armored opponents.)

So... we can hope for some gunslinger char, huh? Maybe even dwarven / gnome lady?

Amaraine said:
Healing is more likely to be nerfed at this point than buffed, sorry.

But at least make basic post-combat recovery semi level-based. Something like 2 hp per turn since 4/5 lvl.

Amaraine said:
I don't want any class to be absolutely essential, and right now I'm getting a lot of feedback that the priestess is close to essential. It's very difficult to have healing in a game, and not have it become something people won't do without, but I'm watching the balance and working on it.

In that case you're almost lack of choices (at least I never see anything else)

set up some hard limit on events per adventure (making healing less mandatory)
throw healing around many chars
nerf it into being useless
leave as is

As partial solution will be nice to have very limited ability to heal (at least post-combat heal) girls. For example via potions or mana (if later - with limited amount of uses).

Or make priestess "heal" not real heal, but counter. For example - counter for poison (ofk it should became really cheap skill, plus maybe some tiny temporary buff if poison actually healed). Maybe for some other nasty (future) effects.

Avatar Swagstag · Feb 21, 2018

To make characters that can heal, it is best to have options to heal that are on par or even slightly behind the character to make it worth while.

I'd suggest something like 25% of max hp healed after each fight, or potions to use either in combat or after combat. Make it like D&D, and each character has personal use for potions, so you can buy your tanks like 2-3 potions, and your sorceress maybe 1. I did my first run without a healer, and it seemed fine. The Priestess just meant I could go on almost endless journeys for exp and gold, so I ended up with unlimited gold and nothing to spend it on.

If looking for more non human characters,
Gnome Illusionist (can scare monsters, or add mirror images to self or party member),
Halfling Thief (can steal from enemies, chance to gain items or gold from monsters)
Half Orc Commander (has a passive skill that makes other party members do a little better, hit for more, spells hit harder, debuffs last an extra round, etc. Otherwise she can just fight and maybe block a specific party member instead of taking all aggro)

Really like the concept for the game! It's pretty awesome

Amaraine · Feb 21, 2018

Thank you, both of you... some good ideas here. Level basing post-combat recovery is a good idea; a hard limit on events per adventure is in place as of 0.6, and I closed a loophole in 0.7; 0.7 has a character that does a type of passive healing.

Appreciate the desire for more non-human characters, too. It's partly a matter of finding a model that I feel I want to work with. Definitely would love to have an orc character, and thought I had one lined up, but it turned out they didn't provide mats for her genitalia.

Potions -- yes. I could do that now, by having "Potion" objects fill up a characters inventory. I would much rather have a potion stat that keeps track of the number of potions they have, but that would require breaking saves, and I'm trying to save up save breaking ideas so I can do a whole bunch at once.

Seipherwood · Feb 21, 2018

Maybe have it so every X amount of movement you get a choice to make camp and rest to heal up?
Have a way to teach the girls First Aid so the after combat message "bandage up" actually does something?
Any plans to add more stuff to use gold on? I bought armor for 2 of my characters and have yet to see another use for it besides the 3 spells.

Amaraine · Feb 22, 2018

Seipherwood said:
Maybe have it so every X amount of movement you get a choice to make camp and rest to heal up?
Have a way to teach the girls First Aid so the after combat message "bandage up" actually does something?
Any plans to add more stuff to use gold on? I bought armor for 2 of my characters and have yet to see another use for it besides the 3 spells.

Yes, there's buildings and potions to buy (not healing potions) in 0.7. And the ability to make some donations to factions.
Bandaging currently restores 1 hp per character, so it does *something*. There are chances to camp and heal up completely at the "end points" of journeys, before making the trip back home.

Bip · Feb 24, 2018