I had this assembled in gamemaker, just to see what tilesets could do. I scrapped it, because the tileset image was so big it crashed the game, but I can now see it has some potential.

I'll get something done in a few weeks, probably.

eheheh, bother.

Also RoastVeg I'd advise against using game maker for an RPG when there are so many genre targetted gamemaking engines out there.

I'm well aware, Geti. I just wanted to get to grips with Gamemaker in one way or another.
I'm gonna release something along these lines, either in Gamemaker or something more suited to it.

I might as well drop my two cents.

If you want to start learning GM, an RPG is not the way to go. Start with some kind of scroller toy, the move on to physics, and only then to more complex stuff such as making storylines and the like.

If, however, your objective is making a good RPG, then I would totally recommend RPGmaker 2000. It's frightfully easy to use (I learned it when I was 12) and can generate very good results with some patience. As long as you're aiming for some sort of Final Fantasy-style game.

Done and kinda half-done. Thing is the way I was making this thing in GM, there were hardly any physics involved. Up-down-left-right, but no depth. This effectively was a scroller toy.

Before I scrapped it.
I'll check out that system, maybe it'll do what I want faster.

Personally, I'd steer away from GM entirely.
While it does have that fancy drag-and-drop coding and stuff, I've only ever seen it complicate things.
The only hard part of coding a game in a real programming language is setting up the basic engine, and as I've been discovering, this can be done quite quickly with a little bit of edge-slicing.

Anyways, don't mind me, I have a personal vendetta against GM, since it completely failed to help me back when I was just learning to program.
For RPGs, RPGToolkit has been great in my experience, but I've not tried too many RPG makers.

I'll just er... leave this here.