The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth

The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth

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Basil, the Fool for Christ
   
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Basil, the Fool for Christ

Description
Exploration and melee oriented high risk/reward character.

Adds 2 items and 1 character to the game:

Fool for Christ
"You feel curious!"
* 0 - Fool cards have a chance to spawn each time you enter a new room (scales with luck) if you don't have one on the current floor already.
* 0 - Fool cards have Teleport 2.0 effect now.
* Entering a Boss Room or Devil Room can spawn a fool card only if you took no damage on the floor and a special room like Secret or Treasure can only spawn a Fool card only if you enter it naturally and not through usage of Fool cards.
An exploration oriented item to reward both impatient speedrunning playstyle by letting players enter new rooms quickly and exploration heavy playstyle by allowing resourceful and explorers to gain access to more pickups and items... if they play their cards right (heh)

A Strange Card
"...if a spell was cast this round, transform the Fool for Christ."
* Using a card transforms the character into a murderous kitty!
* While transformed, the character can't fire tears. Instead, the player can leap around! Leaping works a bit like How To Jump.
* The transformation is temporary and getting hit reduces it's duration by 33%.
* The character deals close-range (almost contact) damage while transformed. Damage scales with damage stat.

Basil, the Fool for Christ:
1 HP, 1 Soul Heart
1.30 Speed (Cain), 4.2 Damage (Cain)
A Strange Card, Fool for Christ
And here is the titular character! With his low health and an item that promotes close range encounters, he's a very risky character, but his stats and items allow him to generally go through the game at a faster pace, at the cost of possibly dying faster. Can't live fast without dying quicker!

Planned features:
* Synergies (synergies with items like Scorpio or Iron Bar to apply status effects while dealing damage in melee form, Tarot Cloth to increase duration of the effect and other, less obvious synergies if they might be needed)
* Challenge character: The Cannibal! (2 HP instead of 1 HP and 1 Soul heart. Kills heal red heart damage. Not killing enemies in melee for a while deals periodic damage in a form of hunger. Need to figure out how to make him unlockable or at the very least find a way to make a challenge)

23 Comments
MrBalloons 19 Jun, 2023 @ 2:23pm 
Understood, a shame tho, the Idea of character working with Cards is something you'll notice isn't quite there yet. It was cool to think "Ehi! Card Sinergy! :D".
Irbynx  [author] 19 Jun, 2023 @ 2:18am 
@MrBalloons Unfortunately, I haven't been playing TBoI in more than a year and as such I have no current interest to update the mod. Dedicated melee characters already put a dampener on my desire to work on this mod to begin with admittedly, since I've developed it to cover the niche that didn't exist before.
MrBalloons 18 Jun, 2023 @ 3:49pm 
The concept is sweet, the base mod does work as intended, but i think updating it to the modern standards would make it better, also, when i try to leap Basil starts blinking VERY Bright white, and it' directly connected to leaping and not the Leaping cooldown, it also would make sense to have some sort of Sound or Visual cue to allert the Player that he can Leap again;
Also, the leap is quite wonky and since sometimes you would end up stuck over a rock or a pit it gives you flight for the room, wich is.. unintended i think.
Making the Leap Mechanically work like "How to Jump" would be nicer and cleaner of Trouble i belive, and maybe the Attack Aura that Basil has in Cat form is.. a bit too strong and not the easiest to use since you can't actually see how much range it has; if it could work in Swipes instead of an Aura it would certainly be more intuitive and less precarious, the Leap should still keep the Damage Aura if that was the case.
monctrum 10 Apr, 2022 @ 12:53pm 
Repentance please. :resmile:
God Tier Goop Sack 31 Jul, 2021 @ 8:31pm 
R.I.P. this mod
神谱Theogony 31 Mar, 2020 @ 4:05am 
I love the cat
CrAzyDoginฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ 22 Oct, 2019 @ 12:17pm 
but basil is just perfect also i love the idea fool for christ and the cat form but cat form with the hair is kind weird xP is cute when you use the strange card in others like eden
CrAzyDoginฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ 22 Oct, 2019 @ 12:14pm 
shut up he is perfect the way he is right now go have fun with weak characters design '-'
Brooklyn 8 Aug, 2019 @ 7:27am 
the character is too easy, with camo undies i can go around the room killing everything, bosses melt like ice cream and generaly he is just too good of a start what i would reccomend is removing the fool for christ item and giving a little bit more chance of finding that item, starting with just the strange card is more than enough, also if you have cursed eye , brimstone and others you will be able to shoot in kitty form.
CrAzyDoginฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ 8 Jul, 2019 @ 12:44am 
my favorite