ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

Huh, I'll have to check that game out. Based on the art style at a glance, I would definitely look into RMMV sideview battlers. Thalzon has a very large set here that he opened for general use in RM games but if you asked he'd probably allow their use elsewhere as well (his older sets are open for a...

On the topic of graphics in general, https://opengameart.org/ is a great resource if you haven't already looked there, and I've found that open-license community-made RPG Maker VM/XP graphics can also be a good source for artwork that can serve as the base for roguelike tiles. The monster battlers i...

The sprites are accessible in your installed game folder under game/modules/tome-gfx.team. Rename "team" to "zip", unzip, and voila. Most of what you're probably looking for is in the shockbolt folder, and they tend to be 64x64 or 64x128. As for using them in other games, I have ...

wild-gift/malleable-body [*]AZDADAZDAZDAZD [*]ERVEVEV [*]ZECZCZECZEC [*]INDISCERNIBLE_ANATOMYBLABLA At first I thought this was some kind of dig at oozemancer. Then, with growing horror, I checked the code and found that these are actual talent names. Coincidentally, situations like this are why I ...

Lol--poor Oozemancer.

Thank you for dumping that, Minmay! I really appreciate it.

Shibari answered me! It's on_melee_hit. Thanks!

Just in case anyone else is wondering, http://tometips.github.io/ has been extremely helpful. Looks like most skills are defined by their name in the given format: T_SKILL_NAME

I still have the question about how to set NPCs damaging the player on melee hit.

Thank you so much for updating this! I'm working on some new content development and this is such a helpful resource.

Is there some way to easily obtain a list of available actor talents for constructing new monsters? I'm working on some new dungeons and have thus far been copying monsters based on existing NPC templates and editing but it gets a little tedious when I want a certain skill and can't find a monster t...