Can you have free roaming levels

[Malfucius]

Sorry if his has already been asked and answered. In between the tactical combat levels, can you have your character free roam walk across boards. I'm talking about something like shining force where you could freely walk around each board shopping and looking for secrets before and after each battle, as opposed to fire emblem and or final fantasy tactics where each level is a tactical board and you had to search for secrets during the battle or do your shopping in a menu interface in between battles.

[Goinza]

There is a japanese plugin called "RPG Mode Map", I think that may be what you are looking for. Here is the link:

https://ci-en.net/creator/4919/article/219861

[funewchie]

To be fair, Fire Emblem simulated a free roam in the past, with the 7th game having a normal map (with no enemies) in Hector mode, that you could shop on, fight in arenas for money/EXP, visit houses for intel, and so on.
(also allowed recruiting a rare character (Carla) with the arena)

The map lasted for 7 turns, then auto-ended.

If need be, you can set up something like that, if you're not into plugins.
You can even set the map to end by standing on a certain space (like a gate) instead of turn count.

Conversation events? Sure.
Shops? Easily.
Houses with intel? Piece of cake.
Treasure Chests? You bet.
Arenas? ...Um, I actually haven't figured out how to set one of those up, sadly.

But, I'm just saying they did have a form of free roam.
(Admittedly, now Fire Emblem: Three Houses has a proper, genuine free roam mode, with the monastery)

[Alice_Ravenholm]

does anyone actually know how to implement this script though? i can't seem to figure it out