Tested it, and yeah they do gain it. Thank goodness.

This is really good gang.

I'm in the fight for my sixth class emblem and it's 4v10 which doesn't feel very fair! I should probably get back to the main quest line...

I'm up to 56 on it now, got 8 dudes in my party, six class emblems, cooking on gas.

Finally back on the story too, having kinda fine the dude quests I could obviously see.

Who have you got most recently?

People still playing and enjoying? I have just had my party split following

Very much enjoying, some tough fights - can't just spam attack and be done even with the regular enemies out in the world.

I haven't really bothered with levelling weapons and crystals, on the assumption I'll pick up something better pretty quickly. Is there a good time to start doing that stuff?

Ive been doing it as I go but dont tend to put too much thought into the crystals. The interface for that stuff is very clunky and probably the only major negative for me.
Keep on top of upgrading skills though, thats easy and useful.

Still playing but having a bit of a break.

Yep, SP + skill FTW, struggling with crystal shite too.  Can't remember the rules on fusing, don't have many that are above III or IV, seems to be penalties if you then want to remove, so it's all a bit lucky dip...

Gladly pumped over 4 hours into this last night, absolutely loved it. Despite initially eye rolling at the Chrono Trigger opening, it managed to pull the rug out from under me nicely. Fantastic opening, really well done in the way it gets you straight into the action instead of the slow titting about chatting that I thought it was going for.

The overdrive gauge thing adds a little extra consideration to the battles, I really like that as the mid part of turn based fights can just be a bit too much like going through the motions. Pairing characters and free swapping them in and out is great too.

It's just fun to play, and funny with it too. Been a few times I've laughed out loud at what's went on. Favourite character is Sienna, both her personality and abilities in combat.

There's some stuff I don't understand though, I just stopped at the bit where we're about to gear up before leaving town proper. I think it'll be the first time I've done some genuine gear shopping, there's a blacksmith to make sense out of the stuff I've been collecting too hopefully. But what's the score with levelling? I've been using the grimoire shards to unlock skills and haven had to revive a single character yet (also love that HP and TP replenish after every battle) but I'm collecting SP too, and there's a way to level them using the Y button in the skill screen but it's not doing anything?

I'll have a proper look through the thread as I've only skim read it because I didn't think old school JRPG style things were my thing anymore. One final note, the boxer flies that smack you with the boxing gloves? Check the item description to find out what they really are...

Yeah, so your sp gets applied to all skills at the end of each battle, but you also gain a pool of it for each character, so you can speed up the skill levelling a bit. I’m at the start of act iii and all the skills are maxed out, the sp pool is useful when bringing in new skills though. 

Sp rewards don’t scale much with battle difficulty, which might be a flaw or maybe it’s very clever. Dunno, but there’s a group of 5 pig things south of basil, right next to a fast travel crystal, which provide a useful source of easy sp if needing a boost.

Also, I only recently realised that there’s a button to select all loot to sell it quickly. Hmph.

Yup all skills gain equally and even those out of battle get sp. I think dead characters still get it too, and get auto revived at end of battle

If I claim a reward from the board, does it break the chain or does it keep going? Can't see how else you're supposed to get a chain of 120 going?

I'll link up with you in a minute

It’s just Paul’s way of showing affection.

I'm well jealous of people playing this.  Wish I had the time. 

Polished off Eastward and now I’m on this. Pretty good so far.