■ Instructions for Blood & Pain system:
by Jens of Zanicuud, V 0.7

Introduction:

Blood and Pain system is a battle engine core based on a two defense layer:
-Pain damage;
-Blood damage;

● Parameters Involved:

-Strenght: it affects both pain and blood damage;
-Atk: it affects both pain and blood damage;

-Dexterity: it affects evasion;
-Speed: it affects action speed;

-Pain Defense (physical defense): reduces pain damage;
-Blood Defense (spell defense): reduces blood damage;

-Evasion: rate of hit evasion;

-Blood: real HP stat. Once they run out, the battler dies.
-Pain: ex-SP. Second main stat. if Pain Bar is full, battler cannot move.

-Intelligence is not considered.

NOTE: Base EVA for all enemies has to be AT LEAST 60. If not, they would be
[DEADLY] hit by every attack.

NOTE: Atk has to be at least 100... damage calculation is A LOT DIFFERENT from the base engine...

● Battle algorithms

Pain affects speed and precision of any battler.

Ordinary attacks deal both Pain and Blood damage. Blood damage is dealt only
when pain level is too high.

Skills are divided in [PAIN SKILLS] and [BLOOD SKILLS].
They can do only one kind of damage;

Guard halves [PAIN DAMAGE] and nullifies [BLOOD DAMAGE];

[DEADLY]
A deadly blow is carried when target is almost motionless (high pain level);
it results in a 1.5 x damage and haemoraggie status activation;

[GUARD BREAK]
Guard is not activated until "Guard" word shows.
if a battler is hit before, he/her lose turn and take a 1.5 x damage;

[BRUTAL BREAK]
If a deadly blow is delivered with a guard break, it becomes a [BRUTAL BREAK]
(3 x damage, Haemoraggie)

If all party memebers have full pain, or are dead, or fainted, is game_over!

● How to subdivide skills

Skill:

-dex_f becomes the damage multiplier. ex. 25 means damage will be multiplied
by 2.5

-str_f indicates [PAIN DAMAGE]. if both int_f and str_f are different from 0,
Pain has priority.
*** Only pain skills must have this parameter different from 0 ***

-int_f indicates [BLOOD DAMAGE]
*** Only blood skills must have this parameter different from 0 ***

-phy def force and mag def force are not employed in here.

-Examples:

Skill:
Short Knife;
Str F = 100;
Atk = 100;
Power = 5;

A pain skill that affects pain defence.

Skill:
Heavy Blow
Int F = 100;
Atk = 100;
Power = 5;

A blood skill that affects blood defence.

● Painkiller items:
# It affects certain items and make thier effect vanish into a certain
# number of turns [num]. For example, Weak Painkiller reduces Pain by 500.
# On the fourth turn after the use, 50 Pain is added to actor's Pain,
# on the fifth turn 100 Pain and so on...
# General flow chart:
# -Item use, target's pain -= EFF;
# -[num] turns without countereffects;
# -turn [num+1]: target's pain += 10% EFF;
# -turn [num+2]: target's pain += 20% EFF;
# -turn [num+3]: target's pain += 30% EFF;
# -turn [num+4]: target's pain += 40% EFF;
# -TOTAL: 100%
# Painkillers reduce pain's PERCEPTION, so it's natural that after a certain
# time, effects will begin to fade.

-How to:

To make a painkiller item, just put their variance equal to the effect turn number
[num].
Pain damage can be cured with SP depletion (actually, you have to lower sp value));

Example:
Item: Weak Painkiller
SP Recovery = -500;
Variance = 3;

Effect:
-Item use, target's pain -= 500;
# -2 turns without countereffects;
# -turn [3]: target's pain += 50;
# -turn [4]: target's pain += 100;
# -turn [5]: target's pain += 150;
# -turn [6]: target's pain += 200;
# -TOTAL: 100%

NOTE: if variance is set to 0, item WILL NOT BE a Painkiller and its effect
won't expire.

NOTE: you can create blood cure item:: just use the recover HP parameter;

NOTE: you can even cure Haemoraggie and Faint: just set to "-" the checked box
on status modifications.


● Status:

- Haemoraggie:

Like poison, it causes gradual damage;
can be cured with an item that removes [HAEMO STATUS].

- Faint:

Battler cannot act;
can be cured with an item that removes [FAINT STATUS].


- Death:

Battler is currently dead;
cannot be cured in battle.

● Constants:
Please remember to SET THE RIGHT CONSTANTS in the first script section
EDIT IT AS YOU NEED!

@hud_switch = 2 #Switch that triggers map turns for painkillers

@seconds_per_turn = 60.0 #Seconds per map turn

@haemorragie_state_id = 3 #[HAEMO STATUS] id

@faint_state_id = 2 #[FAINT STATUS] id

@death_state_id = 1 #[DEATH STATUS] id

NOTE: Damage font is set to "Viner Hand ITC" If you haven't it, modify it in the
RPG::Sprite script

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