Attack that leaves enemy at 1hp?

[guo]

Hiya,

What's the best way to make an attack that does regular damage but if that amount of damage is enough to kill the enemy they are left alive with 1 HP?

Is this possible?

Regards

[Bob the Hamster]

Hmm... I think doing this with chains of attacks is probably going to be fairly difficult...

The idea is to have something like D&D nonlethal damage, right?

[kylekrack]

That's a pretty common RPG move. Could you do it by chaining to an attack that does 99% of target's current hp if the damage > current hp?

[guo]

Yea, that's the way KK! The problem is figuring out if the damage is going to be high enough to kill or not!

[kylekrack]

This set of conditionals should do it, no?

[Bob the Hamster]

That conditional compares the attacker's attack stat, so if you have any extra damage, elemental damage modification, or damage randomization it won't work as expected

We should add a new built-in feature for this. As an attack bitset it would not be that hard to implement

[kylekrack]

Whoops. I have not used the battle system much

[guo]

I appreciate the effort! Yea that could be a cool bitset , "leave target at x hp instead of killing" or something.

[Spoonweaver]

heal target for 1 hp over their max
then deal damage equal to their max hp.

easy