Game Goals

So, here is an outline of what I want my game will consist of and what I want it to achieve.

- RPG elements

• Heroes have RPG style stats, gain experience, level up, etc.

- Party Based

• Diverging from true roguelikes, I want my game to have you manage a party of heroes on each run into the dungeon

- Tactical, team based combat

•  inspired by Hoplite, so hex based, and only movement based attacks. No mashing the attack button
•  keep stats minimal
• keep RNG minimal in combat - so far my plan is to have largely deterministic combat, but with chances to roll extra damage depending on weapon.

- Perma death

• So here is a roguelike feature
• Also influenced by the Darkest Dungeon or the Fire Emblem series

- Hybrid RPG/Strategy

• Since you are managing a stable of adventurers rather than a single PC or group of PC's
• Heavily inspired by Darkest Dungeon
• More on the RPG side than Fire Emblem
• I imagine somewhat similar to XCOM but I've never played.

-Procedurally generated dungeons

• Purely roguelike in this respect

- Minimalist Inventory

• I don't like micromanaging inventories especially if you have a whole party of heroes
• Heroes won't have equipment with the exception of variable weapons
• In general the principal is macromanagement over micromanagement

-Theme

• The setting is low magic, sword and sorcery over epic
• Adventurers are desperate lowly individuals not lofty heroes (as in DD)
• Fairly traditional class system but with lower tier starting class ex: early adventurers are peasants and cultists who find better equipment and graduate to mage apprentices, witches, thieves, hunters, militant religious zealots, etc.

-Dungeon

• emphasis on exploration, rationing resources, avoiding difficult encounters and traps etc

So this is a very disparate and incomplete list, but I don't have much more in me right now. It should give a clear enough picture of what I'm aiming for.