Ah shit, I had a post that I saved for later, but it didn't save. That's what I get for trying not to spam too much. I remember the first part was a bug report... When I load up a save and open up the research log, any animations showing the knights' status effects would pause, suggesting the game itself is paused. But when I view one of the events in the log, once it's over, the animations start back up again, suggesting that the game is now unpaused while the research log is open. Since this is a turn-based game, I don't see any immediate problems with this, but a bug's a bug and you never know how it could cause problems in the future.
On the subject of looking through the research log, is there any chance that the Drider's artwork will be updated/adjusted at some point? Going through the list, her incredibly washed-out artwork really stands out, at least compared to the other humanoid-ish monsters. I'm guessing she was one of the earliest designs.
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I had a whole thing on this that I lost.
I know one part of it involved the possibility of having a slow, powerful monster who ticked up to their next attack very slowly, making it more punishing to try to bypass them. Maybe even having them be a sort of "time bomb" monster. The other thought was whether it was possible to have a unique attack that only triggers when you try to leave a monster's room. In addition to having gameplay uses in situations like this, it's a potentially fun premise for events in general, having a monster catch the knight as she's trying to flee or deliver a parting shot from behind. Or insult them and inflict berserk. "Nobody... calls me... chicken!"
Of course, there's also the option to not have a guardian at all and simply have this "treasure room" consist of a bunch of empty trapped chests with only one of them having the real treasure. Kind of a game of reverse Russian Roulette where you gamble on how many times you're gonna get punched in the face before you get the treasure. (Or have a unique "trap" in this room where the empty chest gives the knight a rage stack, and if her rage meter gets full she goes berserk and just smashes the rest of the chests.)
That's the Dark Soul.
Hmm... I'm not a fan of skills that rely on knights being bunched up (and I think Lucette already has stuff like that anyway), but the main alternative I can think of probably doesn't have the necessary framework in the game, and probably wouldn't be worth making for one skill. There's no way to, like, "mark" a tile itself, right? I mean, you can now inflict statuses on enemies, but you can't inflict a status on the ground or something. Otherwise I'd say Leadership could leave some kind of buff behind on every tile Lucette steps on. ...Actually that still sounds dumb now that I think of it. In execution, it'd almost never be used outside of bunching up the knights anyway, unless you do the un-leaderly thing and run away from all the threats after stepping on them. (Although a similar "Trailblazer" skill that makes tiles no longer cost exhaustion if you're not Well-Rested could be neat.)
