For those among us who have played Chrono Trigger, I think you'll know what I'm referring to.

The Chrono Trigger battle engine was a very interesting piece of work. You had time-based turns, and menus similar to FF games, but you also had the battles in the areas you walked around in. Attacks would hit different enemies based on position, enemies would move around. Unfortunately, It didn't have your movement (you only moved if a monster moved you)

There are other things you could change as well.

What do you think? I think it would make a nice Framework for an original Rpg.

It would be interesting to see this. I can't wait.
*Homer hopes that some Chrono Cross concepts are also included 

I liked the way the magic worked where you had to hit the enemy with enough attacks to unlock certain spells in a battle. Though mostly I liked how you chose weather or not to heal using magic/items automatically after each battle

The reason I used the word "engine" is because I really suck at making good games, but I tend to do well at the technical design, the inner function. What would be ideal would be for this to support someone writing up a story, draw all the sprites, maps, etc. then drop them into a second axe file as a data set. Sort of like Game Maker. But, the source would be uncompiled, allowing for ultimate flexibility.

RPG Maker Yes. Game maker, not so much I've seen way too much worthlessness made by that. RPG maker is harder to mess up.

Also, I'm doing a halfhearted attempt at this engine now If I decide to bomb it after any significant coding, I'll just put it on here. People can feel free to help. So far I've got a little bit of the timing system, and I plan on support max 3 allies (I can up it to 4 if people want it, or they can ) And 5 monsters (Some battles need lots of little sidekicks.)

I don't think Axe qualifies. newbies crash their calcs before they can release it, or ask "why won't it run?" after they compile it because they forgot the asm( command

I'm not anywhere close to any images Right now, I'm trying to get the turn timing down, and work out how exactly to do that while enemies can move around. Any ideas on that? Multithreading, if the implementation itself isn't too bad, soudns the easiest past that. (Ideally, two lines at once.) or I could have it go time, move, time, move, consecutively. As it is, it seems the time engine will take up almost no CPU time.

By the way, it will only be Wait mode for turns for now. (As in Wait or Action, where monsters can attack while you select your attacks) for simplicity.

Also, different Chars and monsters can start with boosts to time and have different time to fill. As in, tank is slower than rogue or mage.

I think that the goal of Axe is to meld the ease of Basic with the Speed of assembly, and at that, i think it succeeds perfectly ^^

I'm not too sure. If you have any programming help needed you should probably ask in the help section, though, since you might get a response faster. Game-wise, I think you should not do an active time system for now. Start smaller, since it would be your first calc RPG project (I think).