Deciding to use this program

[Rockay]

Hi all, I had an idea for an rpg however many rpg programs require a lot of work both sprite based, scripting and many other components and I understand this program would also need this also but a Visual Story I think would be easier for me to work on and prepared to learn a scripting language for.

Before I download and begin I was wondering is it possible to make a game similar to an rpg style with various changes throughout the game such as levels, stats, equipment and party members?

I understand being complete noob I need to start at the basics but was wondering if this is achievable down the track so I can practice and focus on this later on?

[chisa-chan]

Hmm...
using UI function, I guess?

There are some posts here about RPG system. Maybe those can help you.

[Twar3Draconis]

Indeed it is acheive-able, although you would need to know a moderate amount of python.

[valeatory]

Levels and things like that are also mostly definable using 'if' checks and point based variables, if you're not so good at programming.(that's pretty much how I'm doing it) though it may not be the most efficient.
there's talks about these things on these topics(this isn't all of them, of course):
http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2012
http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewtopic.php?t=982
http://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1600

[kara24601]

I wouldn't know how to go about it myself, but yeah, there's already some "OEL / EL VN" that have RPG-like aspects or could be called an RPG alongside VN. So it's definately something that can be done. But I suspect they are right and the actual coding process is still hard even with something like Ren'Py. I'm not very knowledgable in Python or Ren'Py but I can make a basic game with Ren'Py.