God the CODE tag on this site blows.

Sorry, don't have time to repaste all the code right now, hope you can make sense of what I was trying to say.

Wow! I would have ran from the freaking dragon, too!!!

Here, let me fix part of your code (which I ran through Notepad first):

if (attackChoice == true && (attackOrFlee == 2))
{
Console.Clear();
Console.WriteLine("WISE decision! Who could possibly stand toe-to-toe with a DRAGON?!");
Console.ForegroundColor = ConsoleColor.Red;
Console.WriteLine("You WIN!!!");
Console.ForegroundColor = ConsoleColor.Gray;
}
Just kidding with you, man!

Sorry that unlike unlike Serapth I don't have a programming answer for you as I am a complete newbie. But, I just wanted to say thanks a lot for sharing that code and for posting. Even though I'm making my first program in Python, it was interesting to see such a simple, basic game just like the one I'm writing.

When I made games with RPG Maker, a front-end for Ruby, the generic advice for non-boss monsters was that you should kill all appropriate monsters in about five hits and all appropriate monsters you fight should kill you in about five hits. That means if you're fighting a "weak" monster, it won't take as many hits to kill it, but if you're fighting a "strong" monster -- i.e., one on a "higher level" than your character is ready to face -- it will take more hits to kill and chances are, it'll kill your character in fewer hits too.

Another generic piece of advice was to have a 20% range above and below base-damage and chance-to-hit stats. So, if your base damage is 100, that means the attack will do between 80 and 120 points of damage, if my math is correct.

One last piece of generic, standard advice was to have weapons raise the character's base damage by half. So, if his Strength stat (or whatever you use to determine base damage) is 100, a magic sword of normal power level would add 50 to that stat, making his base damage 150.

That's all assuming you're going to have a character that "levels up," or becomes categorically more powerful as your game progresses as classical, console-style RPGs do.

You don't seem to have a combat engine that resembles classic RPGs, though. On first glance, it seems as though you have three combat options, each does more damage than the next... I very well could be wrong, though.


Have you never played Dungeons and Dragons, though? Pretty well all of D&D's stuff is OGL and can be accessed here: http://www.d20srd.org/

That's basically a complete character generation system, combat engine and compendium of monsters with which almost all sword-and-sorcery players are already familiar.

If you haven't, I doubt you'll want to learn an entire pencil-and-paper RPG system just to make a game, but...


Hope I've helped in some small way!

Thanks again for posting your code. I enjoyed reading it.