Rance Quest:Custom Characters

Custom Characters
In Rance Quest, you are able to create your own Custom Characters. To do so, simply buy the "character sheet" item (costs 1000 x number of characters made) and then do quest 129 (which is the process to create the character)

You can have a maximum of 10 custom characters at a time, although you can delete unwanted ones by dragging them to the lower right in the party management screen.

CG
Choose a Face Portrait for your character. If you want, you can create your own by placing a 196x232 BMP/PNG (PNG preferred due to transparency) file in the save data folder under the "Face CG" folder.

Job
Choose your character's job. If you don't care about power level, go ahead and choose anything but assuming you are creating characters so that the game is easier, what classes should you choose?

Recommended
Consider creating additional rangers to Escape battles and Chest Opening/Trap Evasion for dungeon crawling purposes as characters like Suzume are more suitable for fighting. Tip: You can make more Shikigami Sorcerers and also learn "Magical Drill" at "Increase Skills (Pay)/Original" which breaks through Haniwa resistance the most with shikigami skills (may be worth a try?)
 * Ranger:There are only 4 rangers in the game total (without Magnum), and only 2 are storyline characters that are forced on you, meaning you will be running very low on Rangers.
 * Guard:Guards are highly likely to be killed so having replacements is good. You can also customize your guards for niche purposes such as giving them Darkness Tolerance or Electric Tolerance for specific battles. Storyline guards tend to have a lot of special skills they want to spend their points on and some of them have inherent disadvantages like Sachiko not being able to remove her shield.
 * Gunner:Bow Gunners can learn Volley, a skill that uses up all attacks but deals huge damage to the entire enemy group (one of the only 3 skills that can target the entire enemy group, and Rance Attack is only for Rance). Training a couple of them are very helpful in taking out red crystals/bosses while saving your more powerful storyline gunners (such as Urza) for bigger threats.
 * Healer: Healer is a very good occupation with multiple builds, such as a backline healer, a front row tank or an exorcist, so creating a healer to cover any of these purposes works out fine.
 * Sorcerer: For whatever reason, custom Sorcerers are not able to learn the "Knowledge of (Element)" white passive skills that boost elemental spell damage You have to change your Magic Talent to 2 stars at "Change magic attribute" then they will become available. You cannot choose your own elements though and there are only certain combinations of random elements available to customs. You also get a lot of Sorcerers in the story.

Not Recommended

 * Fighter: While the fighter base class is decent and there's generally not that huge a power leap, you also get A LOT of fighters and there's enough to build them with a wide variety of weapons.
 * Brawler:Same as Fighters, but Brawlers don't even have weapon choices.
 * Civilians:The Civilian class sucks as a base class. Storyline characters get special skills to help them (such as Lia's Leazas Lightning Dragon) but custom civilians get no such advantages. You also get plenty of civilians so there's no real need to create more.

In Magnum, the gal monster skill trees have been improved such that Civilians who already have a heavy point investment in their own skills (such as Arlcoate) may now find it more difficult to max the skill out. A dedicated gal monster user is acceptable (although probably still unoptimal)

Speech
Not much to say here. Enter speech for situations like attack, healing, being damaged etc.

You can enter up to 3 lines of 12 characters each. However, using English characters tend to screw up a lot. If you don't even understand Japanese at all you might as well leave this section alone, really.

In patched versions of the game (including Magnum), it seems like the ability to use English characters have been removed. If you wish to have characters with English names or speech because you can't type Japanese, you will have to do it in the original RQ. You need to change to Japanese (Microsoft IME) and use Fullwidth Alphanumeric to type in the name and the dialogues in English. Version 3.860 mangagamer release supports all english charecters without needing to do anything.

Gender
CHOOSE FEMALE. Only females can be H'd, meaning they can take advantage of the effects of Morurun curse. There is absolutely no advantages to being a male in Rance Quest that I can think of. (Except for not having to have sex with Rance....)

In Magnum, Males (and lolis) can now have the effect of the Morurun curse. This requires however doing a special quest that involves raising Kouhime to level 35 first, so females are still able to Morurun faster than males. However, Rizna has a passive skill that raises the attack power of all males and there is a quest that can only be done with an (almost) all-male party so creating a few male characters is probably worthwhile now.

Bonus Skill
You can choose up to 10 bonus white skill for your custom characters. I believe "スキルP+" to be the best pick for just about most characters, but you can pick whatever suits you better (except the last two)

Purchasable Upgrades
You can further upgrade a custom character by doing Quest #106: Dark Alice's Pay2Win Room. Each upgrade obtained costs more than the last, starting at 5,000g for the first, 30,000g for the second, 70,000g for the third, 260,000 for the fourth, and 370,000 for the fifth and final skill. Note that characters which selected the "Weak Constitution" bonus receive much cheaper upgrades(not above values). You may only pick one ability upgrade and up to 5 skill upgrades and all skills cannot be re-learned if removed. Custom characters can not see exclusive skills from their own class that they can learn naturally.

Change Magical Element
Sorcerer custom characters have another option to allow the character to switch between Fire-Ice-Light, Ice-Electric-Light, Fire-Light-Darkness, or Onmyou Shikigami magical elements. They also have the option to raise their Magic Talent to ★★, giving access to higher level magic attacks. Both of these options come at a cost equal to your current upgrade price. Magic Talent ★★ has no effect on the Onmyou Shikigami magic.

Evaluation
Sometimes when changing screens in dungeons, Rance will have an event where he evaluates one of your custom characters. This usually seems to have no effect, except for one case. The evaluation screens are shown below.

For male characters there's one choice:

<- "Let's calmly evaluate this man..."


 * He's useful... and harmless.
 * He seems popular with the ladies...
 * He's a little interesting. No problem.

The first and third options make Rance have a good impression. The second, a negative one. Does not appear to do anything.

For female characters there are three sets of choices and there is a particular option that you need to pay attention to:

<- "This chick's..."


 * She's a good, fuckable woman.
 * Hmm... she's still a bit young.
 * Not my type. Not even considering it.

Choosing the second option will give your custom female character the Immature skill (same as Kouhime and several other characters.) This permanently decreases the character's HP, ATK and MAG stat by 20%. This skill cannot be removed. Character can stil be Morurun'd as long as Quest #189: Kouhime's Tea Party has been cleared first. Stats may not update right away, but buying/upgrading a skill or changing equips will.

The third option removes the ability to Morurun a character completely. However, this can by changing Rance's rating during Quest #106 into either "Too soon" or "Good woman", you can make a female character Morurunable again. If you change the rating to "Too soon" it will not add the Immature skill, this can only happen during dungeon events.

The second choice:

<- "Wondering about her body, mostly her boobs!"


 * She's got good tits.
 * She's small, but that's fine.
 * Huh? What the heck is this?

These choices appear to do nothing.

The third choice:

<- "She thinks of me as..."


 * She loves me.
 * She doesn't have any special feelings for me.
 * She doesn't like me, huh?

These choices appear to do nothing.

It is not known is there are any other combinations of answers with special effects.

Non-human characters cannot be evaluated.