Speaking of the kunoichi, she hits pretty hard! Also, for a stripping kunoichi, she has a distinct lack of stripping/sex moves in combat.
Though she doesn't seem to have a HP=0 script yet, so I can just wail away at her and ignore my HP until she dies, even using "give up" doesn't do anything.
She's just a placeholder for now, though her normal attack does have a 60% chance of armor break
On quests: My recommendation would be to not overdo it - not every game needs to be 40 hours of play time.
I don't expect it to, maybe 10-15, 1-2 is far too short though, considering it's 50 minutes long already
Personally, I'm actually a bit tired of long games these days, and happy if I run into something that only takes 1-2 hours to get through comfortably, or less, depending on how invested I'm in the game. I feel the opposite, i feel like i need a proper amount of buildup before this plot can really be good, the characters are fun to play with, so i'd like to see more of them, but a lot of the content in this game will be side content... they need to build up their rank at the guild because otherwise they wont get hired for the important plot quests, I can only use the excuse that the quest was deeper/tougher than originally imagined so many times before it sounds like bullshit...
Though I suppose opinions on that will differ wildly.
You can always do the usual fetch quests, I suppose: Pick up a piece of rare ore from the mines, or pick 5 mushrooms from the woods.
Or spawn an unusually strong variant enemy in an existing dungeon that you need to find and defeat - nothing fancy, just a normal encounter with slightly buffed stats.
That's what I intended if only for the E rank quests
Assuming capture remains accessible pretty early, you could also do minor quests of "capture a medic plant" or "capture a sneak" - just beware:
If our party ever becomes strong enough to one-shot these enemies, the quest may become uncompletable, assuming capture depends on %HP of the enemy.
You could work around this by giving one party member a "weaken" attack that deals damage but cannot reduce an enemy below 1HP, but I'm not sure how easy that is to implement in rpgmaker.
Alternatively, make capture chance require "enemy HP < capturing player HP".
it's supposed to be as hard as capturing people as it is in pokemon
Random less generic, more this-game-specific minor quest ideas:
- Get defeated in the mines, to pick up an item "behind enemy lines"
- Spend 10 turns total in "grabbed" state across all characters in the forest, to collect spore samples
- Make it through the forest while wearing a gag (can't cast spells)
- Make it through the mines while wearing a leash (can't escape)
- Pick up 5 books from library shelves while nude, without getting spotted
