Well it isnt really ultima like other than top down tile graphics, but thats a staple of its influeces from classic CRPGS (Ultima III, Demons Winter, Magic Candle, etc).
There is magic missle but it does not always hit, you need to succeed in your role to cast it, and you must hit for more damage than they have armour, and it depends if it actually hits or not, etc.
eg: for magic missile costs 3 mp to cast, has a casting difficulty of Everyday (14, which you must beat with STAT+SKILL+1D20), its base magic skill is from spirit (and any other magic skill is classed as STAT+SKILL/2+1D20, so you can cast skills not of your class but it has a /2 penalty). Its chance of hitting depends on the targets REFLEXES + DEFENSE + 1D20, then I take into account different magic immunities (ie: zombies are easily 'held' but vampires or lichs are a lot hard to 'hold'. every monster has 8 kinds of immunities which rate from challenged (14) to godly (impossible dice roll).
you can attack everybody if you want. That will obviously affect your public reputation and alter different parts of the story and quests offered etc. It may rise the price of goods in that town, people might not talk to you, etc.
monster skills don't level up with the player, I really HATE that idea. Every monster has the same set of skills + stats as the players. Kobolds are low level monsters who stats + skills all low level (strength 2, ref 2 etc), they are weak and stupid, I see no sense in making them level up with the player. Monsters that have core stats of say < 3 below your level wont appear, so once you hit midgame you wont be running into kobolds in random encounters, scripted encounters yes, but no random wilderness encounters. and nothing super strong will be generated thats say > 3 over your core stats.
if you plan on making an crpg, will your monsters level up with the player?
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