If I told you I was going to publish an extremely short little rulebook for a game called LAIRBUSTERS: A RULES-LITE ROGUELIKE, would you be interested
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If I told you I was going to publish an extremely short little rulebook for a game called LAIRBUSTERS: A RULES-LITE ROGUELIKE, would you be interested
I really wish there were more stories where we were foot soldiers or grunts or basically just Some Dude rather than Very Special People (e.g. chosen ones, spectacularly pretty people, special bloodlines, etc.) I'm so much more invested in a character that's thoroughly *of* the world they're in.
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Trying to get some food in the house to make it 'til Monday when I get paid.
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I was stiffed on some work by a small-time contractor I cannot name due to an NDA and that left me in a bind. I apologize for asking.
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Under the Island is FINALLY OUT!
After more than 7 years of development, the journey comes to life today ♥️.
Huge thank you to everyone who supported the game along the way!
Enjoy the Launch Trailer
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Now Available on PC and all current consoles
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I'm going to be terrible at this game but I would give my right arm for some kind of proper single player title in this universe. This is so **very specifically** my jam it hurts. Oh my **god.**
...holy shit Deadlock.
It's a Saturday morning cartoon of a story but the JOB SYSTEM IS SO GOOD GAAAAAH
SEE!!!!
Lost my damn mind laughing at this
Trying to raise $250 for medications. I'm on week one of what will be four and I am nigh totally nonfunctional. This is not sustainable for a month of effectively being unable to work.
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I appreciate the work you all do, and the good work I'm sure you'll keep doing after. Good luck with this next chapter!
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Keep Ramza A Regular But Extremely Eloquent And Kind Person - my campaign slogan for #ChezForPrez2028
I really believe that if they had gone the traditional route of just giving him big-damage, straightforward swordskills of his own, it would have cheapened the effect and made Ramza less unique and interesting as a result, *and* would have lost the duality with Delita. There's value in restraint.
Ramza ends the story having achieved his goals at increasing personal cost, but never at the cost of himself. Part of selling that theme - of holding onto his core values regardless of what Ivalice attempts to do to him - is that Ramza grows more powerful as an inspiring leader, using his own tools.
A plastic cube diorama of Delita Heiral from Final Fantasy Tactics, kneeling over the inert form of Princess Ovelia along a cobblestone path, surrounded by stone pillars. A pixelated knife lies nearby, while a dialogue box above Delita reads: "King Delita: Ramza...what did you get?" The bottom of the diorama reads "FINAL FANTASY TACTICS."
By the end of the story, even Delita can't tell when he's using people anymore. The sole soft thing left in his life - his relationship with Princess Ovelia - crumbles as her (probably justified) paranoia drives her to attack him. At that moment, he thinks of Ramza.
Delita spends the entire story carving his bloody way up the ranks, aided by both the double-dealing of everyone around him and his own implacable hatred for the aristocracy that murdered his sister. By the end of the story, he has achieved what he wanted - top of the food chain. King of Ivalice.
It creates a fantastic duality with Delita, who absolutely adopts the tools of nobility with the sole aim of revenging himself on the concept entirely. Delita is presented as the sort of cooler, stronger foil to Ramza at first, a powerful Holy Knight who steamrolls the fights where he's a guest.
(This is all interpretation, of course. I'm not a scholar of any kind on FFT, and I find a portion of the story - particularly around Chapter 2 - to be confusing. I didn't realize I found it confusing until I dug into it while playing the Ivalice Chronicles, but whoobuddy!)
Ramza breaks from that early on in Chapter 1, leaving his nobility behind, but not his beliefs. He's Ramza, so he welcomes people like Meliadoul, Orlandu, and Agrias, but still - holy swordskills are the tools of a class he abandoned so that he could better adhere to his own beliefs.
Every holy knight in the game has either a direct tie to a noble house, or was trained by the nobility. The "holy" moniker stems from their ties to the church, wherein the divinity presumably accounts for their magical abilities. They are, in every way, a powerful tool of the aristocracy.
Ramza doesn't want to take; Ramza gives. He *believes* in Beoulve justice in a way his brothers and the artistocrats around him don't. Gaffgarion's *philosophy* is abhorrent to him; ergo, I argue Gaffgarion's tactics would be too.
In fact, I think that's why he couldn't be a holy knight.
Ramza becomes a heretic with the murder of the Cardinal, and served under Gaffgarion as a mercenary, so there's a case to be made for the Dark Knight skills on the surface, but those skills appear to stem wholly from Gaffgarion's beliefs - take from others (absorb HP, MP) before they take from you.
The most common thing people ask for, of course, is giving Ramza Dark Knight or Holy Knight skills. Both of those classes utilize what I call "swordskills," since they conjure various blades. They're superbly powerful - instant cast, no MP cost, high status chance, HUGE damage at absurd range.
Of course Tactics can be broken if you look at Orlandu for too long, or field more than one monk who figured out how to punch twice, but still. The point in my mind is that Ramza *is* special, but in a way that is wholly integrated with his place in the story: a leader who inspires people.
But he *does* get special things, and in the right hands they're the most broken abilities in the game. Ramza makes everyone around him *better*, with instant-cast, 0 MP, full-battle duration buffs to speed and bravery that, if you huddle on one side of the map for a bit, can break the game.
Every time I see someone complain that Ramza in #FinalFantasyTactics is "just a Squire," I die a little. Mind you, folks are entitled to their views on the game, and certainly it is a little strange that the protagonist doesn't get all the cool powers some other special characters do.
