FF6 - Brave New World

1: Duncan totally misses out on a Boot to the Head reference. ("Give Kefka the boot!")

I've never played Phoenix Wright and BTB has never played anything from this century, so we missed that chance.

2: Maybe it's me, but I see only one page of the Printme file (Printme.xls). There's nothing about Dances, Rages, or Lores. It only has the Esper bonuses, the character starting stats, and the HP/MP/EXP/Spell? chart.

There should be tabs at the bottom: http://www.synchysi.com/img/printme.png

3: What's the damage formula for Blitzes and Tools?

All attacks use the same damage formulas unless otherwise noted (i.e., Flare Star). Magic attacks and physical attacks have separate damage formulas.

4: Does the damage from Tools ignore row?

Yes.

6: I believe the Ribbon should prevent the Frozen condition since the Ribbon's description says it prevents all bad status effects besides Stop/Slow/Seizure (and, implicitly, death from HP loss).

This is a technical limitation within the game itself. It's not currently possible to allow relics to set immunity to the Frozen status (or Stop/Slow, for that matter).

7: Shouldn't Sabin's Fire Dance ignore row? He plainly makes all those copies of himself which fill the screen, and the attack seems very obviously metaphysical to me.

It does. Only physical Blitzes and Bushidos should be affected by row. Fire Dance is magic damage.

8: Chakra/Mantra: Why not have Chakra (which restores MP) have the blue background (akin to the color of mana from the Ultima and Diablo series) while Mantra (which restores HP) have the red background? That threw me at first.

Mainly because Mantra had an existing animation that we didn't want to mess with.

9: Suplex Blitz: Besides suplexing everything I can (like, oh, a train), I don't see the point in this. Why not use Aurabolt or Pummel or Bum Rush instead?

Well, for one, Suplex is stronger than Pummel. Depending on how you build your Sabin, it can be as strong or stronger than Aurabolt. It also sets Muddle, so it has its place in random encounters as well.

You should also get Suplex way, way before Bum Rush is available, so in that sense it's a preferable alternative to the latter.

3: I noticed that items that boost HP or MP don't stack. Only the biggest percentage applies. Thus, someone wearing a Green Beret (+12.5% HP/MP) and a Magic Cube (+50% MP) only gets +50% MP. Intentional?

Yep.

4: Why do summons cost so much?

Because they are quite powerful.

5: Can we get a healer guy aboard the Falcon who heals everyone to full HP/MP no bad statuses, even those who aren't in my party? If you're asking about how that's logical, I'll ask about the mustached man who changes party gear.

The NPCs on the Blackjack all ate it when the world ended. The guy who offers to unequip you (we'll call him Bob) was part of a worldwide organization of people who do that sort of thing, so Setzer was able to simply requisition a replacement. Unfortunately, both the guy that sells stuff (Tom) and the healer dude (Jimbo) worked freelance and had not yet passed their trade on to someone else, so their skills and knowledge are lost to the currents of history.

It's a tragic story, really.

6: On the menu, can we change it to "GP" instead of "Gp"?

If I remember to, I'll make this change for 1.0.10.

7: Gogo: Did you know that if you equip a brush and a knife and choose Mug, the brush damages the target instead of healing it?

Yeah, this is sort of a bug with Mug. It cancels virtually all special weapon effects for some reason. All weapons basically become generic versions of themselves with the same stats. That means no defense piercing, no random Wind Slashes, no double damage to humans, no auto-crits, nothing.

8: "Mastered a new technique." Can we change that to "Mastered a new Blitz" or "Mastered a new Bushido"?

"Devised a new Blitz" is already in the game. I don't know how inclined I am to change the other one.