Well, there are already skill scroll items, and the game keeps track on when a character learns a skill.
You could make it so that it reads the skill of character A, then stores that, and then teaches that stored skill ID to character B
Perhaps make it also durability based, like the default skill scroll, and code it so that the durability changes to match the skill ID it’s reading right before being consumed.
This seems interesting, how about I tell some skill ideas?
Some of these are basically inspired by some SMT and Persona skills and abilities, so keep that in mind.
Counterstrike: Low percent chance to reflect the opponent’s attack to them (I’m not sure if there’s actually a skill that does something similar to this. If so, ignore this one).
Alley doctor: when healing an unit, there’s a chance that unit will additionally receive either a buff or debuff (like, gain +5 str that decreases each turn, or become poisoned).
Hero wannabe: When unit crits an enemy, that unit gain +3 points in STR and SPD.
Crippled determinator: at the cost of permanently having -5 SPD, the unit gains +3 in STR and DEF, and +4 in SKL.
Unfettered: Duplicates effective damage done to an enemy when it’s weak against certain weapons.
Ideal reality: may negate an attack or the use of a status staff. May also negate the use of staves like psychic and fortify.
Just die: magic percent chance to insta kill the enemy. The unit won’t spend any dark magic uses if using a dark tome.
Divine judgment: magic percent chance to insta kill the enemy. The unit won’t spend any light magic uses if using a light tome.
Treasure expert: the unit will obtain double the amount of an item dropped by defeating an enemy. (there’s the option to make certain items be dropped only once regardless if the unit has this skill)
Orgia mode: event based skill (like Gamble or Swap). Upon activating, the unit will become uncontrollable (like turning into a variant of a neutral ally) for three turns, but the unit gains a considerable amount of points in all its stats (like 3 or 5 points). Once three turns have passed, the unit will become controllable again, but they will lose 3 points in all their stats, each point decreasing each turn.
Kill stealing: if the unit gives the killing blow to an enemy that they didn’t attack before and was being attacked by someone else, they will gain double the experience.
Dreadful musician/singer/dancer: when using a dance skill, gives the danced unit +5 SPD, but also gives them -3 DEF and RES.
Tearjerking musician/singer/dancer: when using a dance skill, gives the danced unit +5 DEF/RES, but also gives them -2 SPD, -3 STR and -5 SKL.
Rain bringer: if unit is deployed, there’s a chance it will rain on the map.
Deadly upgrade: event based skill. Upon activating, the unit will heal all of its hp and gain +6 STR, SKL and SPD, at the cost of having -4 DEF and RES and being poisoned for the rest of the battle.
Great seal: event based skill. Insta kills the enemy at the cost of the unit’s life.
Upshift(Weapon Type):
Prism:
Weapon Effects [Poison, Bravery, Effectiveness, …] present on equippable weapons in user’s inventory apply to all weapons in user’s inventory.
Prism+:
Weapon Effects [Poison, Bravery, Effectiveness, …] present on weapons in user’s inventory apply to all weapons in user’s inventory.
Focused Follow-up:
Deal +5 damage against the target of the previous action this turn.
Enshrined Cleave:
Unit’s attacks also strike enemies adjacent to the target.
Malevolent Cleave:
Unit’s attacks also strike enemies within 3 spaces of the target.
Defiant Strike:
Increases unit’s damage by that of foes counter when initiating battle.
Pavise But Good - Unit and adjacent allies take 50% less damage from Swords, Lances, and Axes when an Armoured ally is adjacent to Unit or adjacent allies.
Better name pending.
Damn, this channel is seeing more action these days. I need to start making more skills.
Here’s a few more:
May as well throw a few ideas in here.
Breaker Plus Line: Grants Double the effects of the normal buff also halfs damage.
Link Line: Grants +1 in one stat per every adjacent ally. (Str Link, Skl Link, Mag Link, etc)
Defiant Charge: Grants +1 in every stat per 2 spaces moved.
Weapon Focus: Unit can only use one weapon type but gains Hit+5, Avd+5, Cirt+5 per weapon rank. (Hero can use swords and axes, but the unit can only use one of them.)
Finisher: If unit has special boss convo with the curret chapter boss, unit will always deal cirtical hits against them.
Magropy: Grants avo against magicial weapons.
Strong Rider: +15 Hit/Avd against enemines that have lower str than unit
Quick/Slow Burn (Rework): Grants Plus 1 to all stats increases/decreases 1/per turn (Max: +6).
Hexblade: Unit targets the lower of def/res during combat
Hex Aura: All allies within 2 spaces targets the lower of def/res during combat
With regards to weapon focus, I gave it some thought and realized there’s no system for the user to select a weapon type to use, and you can’t lock the weapon types automatically or you’re introducing a skill with a permenant downside that may outweight its upside.
I feel a better idea would be if all the weapons in the user’s inventory are of the same type, then grant the boost. Same result, but this way you can change weapons more easily.
Skills you say?
Well, I hope these help:
Wind slash
When equipped with a (non magic) sword, user can attack at 2 range using Str/2 + Wpn Mt.
Reckless Dive
Pegasus Knight/ Wyvern gain + 3 Attack Speed and Damage when initiating battle against unmounted units, but takes 10 damage after combat (cannot kill).
Release Restraint
Until the next turn, nearby Armoured unit gain 2 movement + 4 Speed, but loses 8 Def.
Blacksmith
Unit can choose to “Repair” equipped weapon.
Triangle Deviant
All equipped weapons are treated as reaver weapons.
Brain over Brawn
If Skill /2 > Str, damage + 5, avoid + 15.
Have a good day.
Also more “Blow” skills to match the “Stance” skills. Like a Spectrum Blow skill or a Blow skill that combines two stats
I have no idea why nobody brought over the other blow skills from Heroes yet brought all the stance skills, and even created more like Spectrum and Alert stance. I thought that the common opinion was “player phase focus good, enemy phase focus bad.”
Speaking of. There’s an existing skill called Shrewd Potential that increases the stats of a statbooster consumable by one. This was an idea that i shared with Vesly and others as i wanted a skill that could mimic the Heroes Sell-Spell tome. Problem is that i wanted the effect to give the bonus green numbers that could go beyond the caps which didn’t end up working.
Is it possible to make a such a skill? Like how the Afa’s Drops/Metis’ Tome work but with bases rather than growths and stackable to a certain point
If I’m understanding you correctly, there are already a plethora of skills in the skill system that add boosts as green numbers, such as Celerity, Fury and Heavy Metal.
Yes but this one would be based off of using consumable statboosters mimicking the effects of Heroes Hugh and Farina. Like each time you use a Angel Robe you get a +1 on your green numbers up to a +7 similar to how they get those boosts with Dragonflowers
In that case, you’d probably need to reserve some bytes in the debuff table to keep track of which stat boosts you’ve applied and then add the corresponding boost using the macros that handle the green numbers. While theoretically doable, that’s 10 bytes you’d have to reserve per unit. That’s a ton of space.
Maybe you could do it with bits instead, since you’re unlikely to apply more than 15 of the same type of stat booster per stat, so that brings it down to 5 bytes. More managable I suppose.
That sounds…complicated…would that mean that you’d only get a green bonus number off the respective statbooster? Like a Speedwing would only give a green number to your SPD?
Yeah, so basically the way those green number boosts work (in this context) is that you have an event file for each stat you want to boost. In my mind, how you’d do this is to add your skill name to each one of these event files, so the corresponding stat is then looked at.
What could be complicated is how to tell your skill code which stat it’s looking at to get the corresponding debuff bit, because where the code hooks it only has access to the stat value. It has no way of telling which stat it’s looking at.
I’d need to look into this some more later and see if it’s feasible. I recall trying to make a skill that had this same issue.
Couldn’t it be made to work how Afa’s Drops works but for bases?
Different situation. Afa drops/Metis tome applies a uniform +5% to growths across the board. There aren’t any checks for individual stats like we’d need to do here (that I know of).