This system was designed to largely mimic Skills in the d20 system if you are familiar with tabletop games such as Dungeons & Dragons, Pathfinder RPG or Star Wars d20.
This can be mitigated a tiny bit by various plugins but what we really need here is a full-blown system that makes all of this stupid simple, as if it were built right into RPG Maker itself.Īnd that’s precisely what Frogboy’s Talent Core does! It lets you easily define all of your character’s out-of-battle talents, class proficiency bonuses, lets your characters earn points when they level up, allows them to use those points to improve their characters however they want, gives them a really nice user interface to interact with and allows you, the developer, to easily obtain or manipulate this information in whatever way works for your game. If you want these talents to be something that anyone can do by training in such activities, now it becomes a lot of work and requires quite a few variables and custom events. Maybe it’s picking locks, gathering information from a local tavern, finding hidden clues to help solve a mystery or balancing on a tightrope across a large canyon.īy default, you have to tie these abilities to actors or classes and if they aren’t in your group, you can’t perform these actions. Chances are, you’re already doing this kind of thing. What kind of stuff? That’s pretty much up to you. But until then, there’s Frogboy’s Talent Core! What’s this, you say? What are talents? Simply put, talents are special stats that you can customize for your game to give your players stuff to do when they aren’t slaying beasts. Well, of course they are! There just isn’t any core component within RPG Maker MV that covers this.
What about all that time your characters spend outside of combat? Aren’t they good at anything besides killing monsters?
All of the things I just listed mostly revolve around combat. What else could you possibly ask for? Come to think of it, there is one thing that is noticeably missing. It’s got weapons, armor, items, magic spells, special abilities, character classes, monsters and more. RPG Maker MV has everything you could ever want when it comes to making the RPG of your dreams.