Alice's wacky design ideas

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I’ve been in the Fire Emblem community for a while, and both the offical games and people’s hacks have had various unique ideas for weapons, items, skills, and just overall gameplay mechanics.

But… HOW far can we go?

Here I’ll be posting ideas I’ve had for my hack, and other things I’ve brainstormed.

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Bandit effectiveness:

If you really think about it, “bandits” have been a whole subtype of classes for a while now. Thieves, Brigands, and their promotions… They can all destroy villages, and also are not frequently recruited by the player army. Most games give you just 2 thieves max, and no brigand.

Now, with these characteristics pointed out, why not have effective weaponry against them?

In concept, a bandit effective weapon should be either a sword or a light tome.

In my hack, I’m giving this effectiveness to Purge, because the etymology of the word [from Old French purgier, from Latin purgare ‘purify’, from purus ‘pure’], it means to essentially purify something, or more specifically, to get rid of impurities. And bandits could be seen as “impurities” by a heroic figure.

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Constitution stat boost on Dragonstones:

This one just makes sense. If you’re turning into a giant dragon, your constitution should increase with your other stats. This would allow manaketes to also rescue other heavier units.

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That is all for now. I will dump more ideas here in the future. Feel free to comment on what you think of these ideas

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Ladyblade has been a thing in both official games and romhacks.

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I’ll do you one better: a sword that’s effective on fliers

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There’s already a Sword that’s effective on Fliers. It’s called Wing Clipper from FE4.

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heh? damn I accidentally named mine the same in a wip project lmao, more you know

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I’m thinking more on the lines of a weapon that’s effective against bulky non-armored units…guys like Warrior, Berserkers, Heroes…call it a Bruteslayer.

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Awakening introduced the Volant Axe as well

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I thought it was effective against terrors, though?

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Don’t remember the thing being effective against anything in SoV, but it was effective against bandits and stuff in FE3.

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Flyer effectiveness I think is something that should remain almost exclusive to Bows and Wind magic. I feel giving Flying effectiveness to other weapon types risks making bows obsolete. And we all know that’s bad.

I believe the most recent example of a non-bow, non-wind flying effective weapon was the Volant Axe in Awakening.

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Honestly, a neat thing I’d wanna see is a cleric in armor. Like in just a base fire emblem game. Even just a mage. Like, why don’t they wear armor anyways? Light and dark mages don’t even do the dance that gba mages do, and clerics barely ever move anyways. Plus, it’d just be a neat idea for a healer. They get more defence and magic, but have 1 less movement, so you gotta play a bit slower.

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dancer lord

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I did write up a healer lord to ‘somewhat’ relate to the last two posts, even after promoting would still only have staff use and nothing else.
Never ended up doing anything with that though.

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I mean that’s Noir from Code of the Black Knights in a nutshell.

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expanding on this idea, a healer lord with 2 staves, one that inflicts random status effects on enemies, another that boost the stats or something beneficial besides just healing for allies, maybe a stave that both heals a small amount of HP and allows a unit to act again

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throwin out another zinger, with an absolutely huge amount of weapon locks, locking certain weapons to classes like blades only for mercs and another new sword type for myrms, you can make similar classes feel very different

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Not in Mystery of the Emblem, no.

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Here I come again to this thread with more ideas:

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Equipable Items:

This is something that’s been done in mainline Fire Emblem before. But I feel like it’s never reached it’s full potential.

In Path of Radiance, you had the Bands that boost your growths, as well as the Knight Ring and the Knight ward. Unlike FE4 and FE5, where there were similar items, in those games you only had to hold these items to get their effect. Similar to the Iote/Delphi/Fili shield in most other games. But in PoR, you had to MANUALLY select “Equip” on these items. And you couldn’t have more than one equipped at a time. 3 Houses also had equipable items in the form of shields.

My problem with these systems of Equipable items: They are always unbreakable. Unlike the weapons in these games, the equipable items don’t have any durability. I’ve always found this quite jarring.

However, thanks to Pikmin1211’s ASM, I’ll not only be able to implement Equipable items in my project, but also make them have durability!

Example image:
SkillsTest.emulator
(Note how BOTH the Sword and the shield are equipped)

How durability works is that I can set an item to lose durability either each time you get hit, or each time you hit an enemy.

Aside from the stereotypical shields, I will also have items that grant you skills. There will be an item called the Sword Band, which gives SwordFaire when you equip it, and loses durability every time you attack.

Note that you can also unequip an item and still have it in your inventory. Having it unequiped will grant no effects, but will also not lose any durability.

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Increased range on Forts

A friend of mine managed to code it so that when you stand on a fort, you get +2 range on Bows and Magic.

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(In this image, the effect was on Forests, just for testing
purposes. Also, Innes has BowRange+1 on top of that)

I think this can add a lot of interesting dynamics to maps with Forts.

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A bow for armored units and cavalry units and one specific to either or. Ie, bow rapier, bow armor slayer and a bow horse slayer.