Hello people, it's been quite a while since I've been around. I've been incredibly busy. I was doing some work on my game and began tinkering with an old Excel project I started to help me balance my character's without testing the game over and over. I was told it was difficult to read and in some ways it still is, but I've organized it and color coded it.
Modifiable cells are marked as Yellow with Red text. They're easy to see. Enter your character information at the bottom and the monster information to the right and it will give you a rough estimate of what the battle will look like for the given level.
There's a space at the top for armor modifiers and weapons. Keep in mind it doesn't account for missing the opponent, critical hits and currently it compares the two stats as a one on one battle. There are cells for stats for Melee and Mage class for both players and monsters, but it can be tweaked to your liking.
The bottom of the workbook has colored tabs with lots of information on the XP systems, in case anyone wanted to know how it incremented or what the percentage gain is like. I don't use it much but parts of it help me in deciding how much XP a given monster is worth.
Let me know what you guys think. Maybe I can make it a little better in the future.
http://members.cox.net/kropolis/RPGMaker3.xls
Enjoy.
Modifiable cells are marked as Yellow with Red text. They're easy to see. Enter your character information at the bottom and the monster information to the right and it will give you a rough estimate of what the battle will look like for the given level.
There's a space at the top for armor modifiers and weapons. Keep in mind it doesn't account for missing the opponent, critical hits and currently it compares the two stats as a one on one battle. There are cells for stats for Melee and Mage class for both players and monsters, but it can be tweaked to your liking.
The bottom of the workbook has colored tabs with lots of information on the XP systems, in case anyone wanted to know how it incremented or what the percentage gain is like. I don't use it much but parts of it help me in deciding how much XP a given monster is worth.
Let me know what you guys think. Maybe I can make it a little better in the future.
http://members.cox.net/kropolis/RPGMaker3.xls
Enjoy.