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: Alice's Guest (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, then create a new one.

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.
 * 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:Custom Sorcerers are able to learn the Magical Drill ability which lets them attack Hannies with any magical attacks. Creating a custom sorcerer with attack focus gives them +20% extra magic which can be later improved in the dark Alice pay2win room with 120% magic growth and Magic talent★★. Magic stat rivaling Pastel Kalar and the ability to smash Hannies with magic such as Black Destruction Beam make a custom sorcerer an extremely effective for clearing monsters while exploring. A male custom with Pheromone also starts every fight with +Attack/Magic buff.

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. Here you can modify the text bubbles that appear for situations like attack, healing, being damaged etc. You can leave these at the default text if you want; it doesn't affect anything besides aesthetics.

Gender
Generally, it's best to pick female. Only women can be H'd, meaning they can take advantage of the effects of Morurun curse. There is little advantage to being male in Rance Quest.

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 women are still able to Morurun faster than men. However, Rizna has a passive skill that raises the attack power of all men in the active party with her and there is a quest that can only be done with an (almost) all-male party. This means it might be worth creating one or two men, but generally it's not recommended.

Bonus Skill
You can choose one of the following 10 skills for your custom characters as a bonus. Note that you cannot modify this after creating the character, so think carefully.

Purchasable Upgrades
You can further upgrade a custom character by doing Quest #106: Dark Alice's Pay2Win Room. Each time any upgrade that costs money is selected, the cost increases, starting at 5,000 G for the first, 30,000 G for the second, 70,000 G for the third, 150,000 G for the fourth, 260,000 G for the fifth, 370,000 G for the sixth and 500,000 G for the seventh upgrade. After this, the cost will remain at 500,000 G for each subsequent upgrade. Note that characters which selected the Weak Constitution or Go Home bonus skill have much cheaper upgrades initially; The first four upgrades will cost only 5,000 G. After that, the cost increases for every further upgrade purchased, the same as normal, also capping out at 500,000 G.

You may only pick one ability upgrade and up to 5 skills and all skills cannot be re-learned if removed. Custom characters cannot see exclusive skills from their own class that they can learn naturally.

Raise an Ability
You may select a stat to be given an upgrade for. The exact bonuses you can get are listed in the table below. If the bonus is a percentage, it will increase the growth rate of that stat by that percentage (i.e. if you pick HP, the character will get 20% more HP per level up and their current HP is also increased by 20%). If the bonus is listed as a point value it increases the stat by that amount once.

The most useful bonuses are typically:


 * Attack for Fighters, Gunners and Brawlers.
 * Magic for Sorcerers and Healers.
 * Speed for Guards.
 * Speed, Resilience or perhaps even Stun for Rangers.
 * Nothing in particular for Civilians.

Note that a stat change may not update right away because of how the stat calculations are programmed. Swapping equipment or leveling up will update the stats correctly.

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, can cause Rance to kill off the custom character in a random screen changing event. Because of this, it is highly advised to not pick the second option.

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. Also a requirement for the Parental Instincts skill to trigger.

The third option removes the ability to Morurun a character completely. However, 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?

This choice will affect the ending text for that character that may be seen if you beat either Quest #77 or Quest #177. For some, the first choice is required as well. See Character Endings for more information.

Non-human characters cannot be evaluated.