Tips & Tricks

Tips & Tricks – Entrust (Final Fantasy Record Keeper) – RPG Maker MV

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Entrust is a skill from Final Fantasy Record Keeper which lets the user transfer his or her soul gauge to the target ally. In RPG Maker MV, this would be the equivalent of a unit transferring their current TP to a target. Here’s how we can make this effect in RPG Maker MV!  Continue reading

Tips & Tricks – Daring Padawan (Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes) – RPG Maker MV

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The Daring Padawan is a passive effect for Ahsoka Tano, a Jedi from Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes. This passive ability lets the user start the battle with a number of buffs. However, if the user suffers from a critical hit, the user losees one of the buffs. If the user lands a KO, the user regains all of the buffs that were lost. We’ll make a spin on this effect by making the user lose a random buff when lost instead of a certain order. Here’s how we can make this effect in RPG Maker MV!

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Tips & Tricks – Black Resonance (Bravely Default) – RPG Maker MV

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Today’s Tips & Tricks effect comes from Bravely Default’s Black Mage. For each party member that has the Black Resonance passive ability, Black Magic will amplify its damage proportionally. Here’s how we can create this effect in RPG Maker MV!

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Tips & Tricks – Cup of Life (Final Fantasy Tactics) – RPG Maker MV

Yanfly Engine Plugins is a plugin library made for RPG Maker MV, a wonderful piece of software to help you make that role playing game of your dreams. You can find out more about RPG Maker MV here.

The Cup of Life is a passive ability from Final Fantasy Tactics and is used to distribute excess healing across party members. However, we’ll take a spin on this effect today and redirect the excess healing to only the caster itself! Here’s how we can make this effect in RPG Maker MV!

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Tips & Tricks – Beast Boost (Pokémon) – RPG Maker MV

Yanfly Engine Plugins is a plugin library made for RPG Maker MV, a wonderful piece of software to help you make that role playing game of your dreams. You can find out more about RPG Maker MV here.

Beast Boost is a new passive ability found in the Pokémon Sun/Moon games. When a unit with this ability KO’s another unit, the unit will gain a boost to its highest stat as a buff temporarily. Here’s how we can make this effect in RPG Maker MV!

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Tips & Tricks – Critical Vulnerability – RPG Maker MV

Yanfly Engine Plugins is a plugin library made for RPG Maker MV, a wonderful piece of software to help you make that role playing game of your dreams. You can find out more about RPG Maker MV here.

Ever wanted to make a status effect where the affected target will be struck by a critical hit 100% of the time if possible? This Tips & Tricks video will show you how it can be done in RPG Maker MV!

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Tips & Tricks – Circle of Radiant Glory (Champions Online) – RPG Maker MV

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In Champions Online, when a user affected by Radiant Glory dies, the user will revive a few turns after his or her death. The user will be revived based on how much MP was consumed during casting and then a cooldown appears. Here’s how to make the effect in RPG Maker MV!

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Tips & Tricks – Skill Cost Mastery – RPG Maker MV

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Sometimes, we want ways to display mastery in skills. As such, one of the ways is to have the caster become more efficient each time they use it. For today’s Tips & Tricks idea, we’ll show how to make a skill cost less MP each time it’s used!

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Tips & Tricks – Confusion (Pokémon) – RPG Maker MV

Yanfly Engine Plugins is a plugin library made for RPG Maker MV, a wonderful piece of software to help you make that role playing game of your dreams. You can find out more about RPG Maker MV here.

In Pokémon, a confused unit will have a chance to attack itself whenever it tries to perform an action unlike the RPG Maker MV confusion effect where it can randomly target an ally or enemy. Here’s how to replicate the Pokémon confusion effect in RPG Maker MV!

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Tips & Tricks – Death (Final Fantasy 11) – RPG Maker MV

Yanfly Engine Plugins is a plugin library made for RPG Maker MV, a wonderful piece of software to help you make that role playing game of your dreams. You can find out more about RPG Maker MV here.

In Final Fantasy 11, the Death spell will consume all of the user’s MP for a chance to inflict instant death. However, against major enemies (aka bosses), Death will deal damage based on MP consumed instead. We’ll add our own spin on it this time. The Death proc success rate depends on the user’s MP% when consumed. Here’s how to create this effect in MV!

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Tips & Tricks – Bubble Wrap (Mega Man Battle Network) – RPG Maker MV

Yanfly Engine Plugins is a plugin library made for RPG Maker MV, a wonderful piece of software to help you make that role playing game of your dreams. You can find out more about RPG Maker MV here.

In MMBN, the Bubble Wrap effect will block damage (except for Electric), remove itself, and then come back a few turns later, making it one of the better ways to mitigate damage as a whole! Here’s how we can recreate this effect in RPG Maker MV!

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Tips & Tricks – Convert (Final Fantasy 11) – RPG Maker MV

Yanfly Engine Plugins is a plugin library made for RPG Maker MV, a wonderful piece of software to help you make that role playing game of your dreams. You can find out more about RPG Maker MV here.

Final Fantasy 11 had a rather interesting ability called convert. It would convert the user’s remaining HP into MP and the remaining MP into HP! In short, HP and MP get flipped around and swapped! Today, we’ll take an extra spin on it and make it usable on any ally! Here’s how we can make this effect in RPG Maker MV!

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Tips & Tricks – Perfection of the Maestro (Everquest 2) – RPG Maker MV

Yanfly Engine Plugins is a plugin library made for RPG Maker MV, a wonderful piece of software to help you make that role playing game of your dreams. You can find out more about RPG Maker MV here.

In Everquest 2, the ability Perfection of the Maestro makes it so that when any offensive spell is used against the party, the whole party gets a buff to their magical power. Here’s how we can recreate the effect in RPG Maker MV!

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Tips & Tricks – Main Character Game Over (Persona) – RPG Maker MV

Yanfly Engine Plugins is a plugin library made for RPG Maker MV, a wonderful piece of software to help you make that role playing game of your dreams. You can find out more about RPG Maker MV here.

In the Persona series, when the main character suffers a KO, the player would face a game over. For those who would like to learn how to recreate this effect in RPG Maker MV, here’s how!

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Tips & Tricks – Gravity (Final Fantasy) – RPG Maker MV

Yanfly Engine Plugins is a plugin library made for RPG Maker MV, a wonderful piece of software to help you make that role playing game of your dreams. You can find out more about RPG Maker MV here.

Gravity is a recurring spell in the Final Fantasy series. It’s got the unique effect of reducing a percentage of the target’s current HP. However, what happens if the target is a boss? We’ll make the skill damage affect bosses differently in that they use a regular damage formula instead! Here’s how we can reproduce this effect in RPG Maker MV!

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