Hellion
There is something strange going on at the old temple in the remote village of Salidar. You are the Mysterious Wanderer - a warrior chosen from destiny to face the evil within. You fate is tied intimately with what lies at its depths. Will you bring salvation to the forlorn hopefuls of Salidar? Or will you unleash destruction, whether by design or disaster? It is in your hands.... Hellion is best described as a cross between Dragon Warrior, Diablo and Knights of the Old Republic - you have a blank slate character with 8 classes to choose from at the beginning of the game. You adventure solo. You can hire hirelings. The monster drops are random. The graphics are NES. The battles backgrounds are black. There are traps. There are locks to be picked and NPCs to be persuaded.
..:: FEATURES ::.. - Dragon Warrior NES-style theme
- Several outside of battle skills, including lockpicking, hiding, running, pickpocketing and persuading.
- A simple Alignment tracking system
- Random monster drops and chest contents
- On-map traps and monsters
- Unique Skill trees for the 7 character classes
- Fatigue-based Running System
..:: SCREENS ::.. ..:: Outside-of-Battle-Skillsets (OOBS) ::.. OOBS, or outside-of-battle-skillset, is just some generic term I came up with for the skills and abilities that you use outside of a battle environment.
Your outside-of-battle-skillset includes the following actions your avatar can make outside of battle:
Spoiler for :
Run Ability Points to distribute - how many you get depends on class. The abilities that you can beef up your character with are:Lockpick - used to determine your success in picking locks on locked doors and chests.Disarm Traps - used to determine your success in disarming detected traps without setting it off and taking damage.Hide - used to determine the effectiveness of your Hide skill. While hidden, you can pickpocket NPCs or monsters, or begin a preemptive attack on monsters.Pickpocket - used to determine the success or failure of pickpocketing both NPCs and monsters. Failure results in being sent to jail (NPC) or a Backattack battle (monster) Bash - used to bash locked doors, chests and traps when lockpicking or disarm traps fails. Bashing doors results in taking some damage, while bashing locked chests may result in detroying the item inside. Bashing traps may destroy the trap without taking damage or only taking 1/2 damage.Decipher - used to decrypt scrolls (which in turn allow you to cast a spell one time) and read runes. Some doors are locked using magic runes.Persuade - used in conversation with NPCs. This may result in a reduced price for goods and services, or progression in story arcs, or increased rewards for quests.Stamina - used to increase your stamina bar, which drains when your are running or hiding .Detection - used to detect hidden things such as traps, monsters, treasure, and doors (and a certain Hireling!)Forage - used to improve the success rate of scavenging the remains of defeated monsters. All monsters have drops, but only a high forage skill will allow you to capitalize on that.
..:: CLASSES ::.. Spoiler for :
The classes in Hellion are:The Rogue The Kensai The Animagus The Cleric The Warlock The Elementalist The Mindfreak
..:: DOWNLOAD ::.. Hellion v1.0 FULL GAME (December 18th, 2009)
..:: NOTES ::.. Hellion is a dungeon crawler cross with gameplay elements inspired by Diablo and D&D games, using retro NES Dragon Warrior IV graphics, sounds and music. The gameprofile is at RMN:
http://www.rpgmaker.net/games/146/ ..:: RAD SUNGLASSES ::.. After Deacon Batista suggested that Hellion could use some light effects (and was shouted down), I ran a little competition to make some XTREME maps for Hellion. The Hellion Rad Sunglasses mappack was released today and it's chock full of overlays, light effects, rocking MP3 music and arrow tile puzzles.
http://rpgmaker.net/games/146/radsunglasses/ Good luck!
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