sorry to hear, it sucks when this happens. Thats why i backed up in group files every 15 mins or so

Hmmm I don't know. How about super energy?

The only stats are Attack, Defense, and Agility. Attack and Defense are already taken by Gimli and Sam respectively, and abilities shouldn't be redundant.

No, it SHOULDN'T be too powerful. The idea is to strike some sort of balance so that sometimes it's a better choice to perform a regular attack. Y'know, to add SOME element of strategy to the battles.

Continuous damage... Hmm, I like that. I'm planning on doing poison for the bad guys anyway... maybe I'll give him a venom-coated blade to return the favor.

Aragorn heals another member of the party. This ends up making the Kingsfoil and Meat items redundant at higher levels, but it's not NEARLY as effective at lower ones.

Legolas has a multi-shot, which splits up his normal attack damage amongst all the enemies, i.e. 1 enemy = full damage, 2 enemies = half damage to each (round down), etc.

Gimli has an Attack boost. He loses the turn, and a bit of health, to gain attack power.

Frodo has the One Ring, which makes him "disappear" for a few turns. If he's attacked while invisible, the enemy's turn is wasted, while he can retaliate with impunity. Unfortunately, he's also one of the weakest characters in terms of power, and the Ring causes him to lose some health when he uses it.

Sam has a Defense boost, similar in all other ways to Gimli's except for the specific attribute.

Gandalf has a zap spell which does minimal damage (only 1-10 points, regardless of his level) and paralyzes the target for one turn. I'm thinking of adding a chance to the paralysis to negate its battle-deciding ability against single enemies, which would be a MAJOR game balance problem against bosses.

Merry "steals" an item from the enemies, ending up with (most likely) nothing, Kingsfoil, meat, herbs, or (rarely) ent water. (This one's not implemented yet.)

Boromir has a charging shield bash attack, which has a 50% chance of doing triple his normal damage. The rest of the time he misses completely and is winded for the next turn (essentially paralyzed). (Also not implemented yet.)

I haven't mapped out Faramir, Eowyn, or Eomer yet, because I'm not sure if they'll end up in the game. They probably will, though. At any rate, we're not focusing on them currently.

Fixed up Boromir's ability and the item code today. The items menu now works completely, but the items still don't. They're next on my priority list.

(Sorry for the delays, but school keeps getting in the way.)  

Merry's ability works now too, so that just leaves Pippin. Also, some cosmetic touches were applied to clean up the status line. >_>

Also. I finally got around to the items!! Kingsfoil and meat can be used within battle now, although the only way to currently GET any Meat is by having Merry steal it.
Their effects are, in case you 1) forgot and 2) are too lazy to look at the front page (heheh):
Kingsfoil - recovers 20 HP.
Meat - recovers 50 HP.

I've decided the next beta I release won't be until the game is feature complete, sorry. On the plus side, it means we won't have any nasty placeholder commands that detract from gameplay.

By "feature complete" I mean that I still want to:
1. Implement Pippin's ability, whatever it is.
2. Implement poison (and herbs to cure it).
3. Allow use of items while in the overworld.
4. Implement entwater, lembas, and miruvor.

The beta will NOT have the save file editor, the help system, or event triggers yet.

Anyway. That's my progress log for today.

i've got a good one. have pipin's special be a cool attack called launch firework which does big damage on 1 guy and splash damage on the other guys in the same row (assuming enemies have rows too).

obviously this neds to be balanced however you see fit though

thats all i got, from there it goes to hobbit spaz.