Diagnosed a cleric "death loop" (L14 dying at T2/T3 bosses while
over-levelled): the boss isn't overtuned — caster sustained DPS is
under-delivered, compounded by a fragile healer build.
Engine fix — concentration AOE re-tick:
- Concentration damage spells (spirit_guardians, heat_metal, spike_growth,
call_lightning, flaming_sphere) now tick the enemy every round at
round_end instead of resolving as a one-shot, via a new
CombatStatuses.ConcentrationDmg armed on cast and round-tripped through
the turn engine. Closes the long-tracked turn-engine concentration gap;
the burst still lands the casting round, then the aura lingers.
- Sim picker skips re-casting an already-active aura (models competent play
and prevents a burst+aura double-dip). Re-baseline (n=30 sweep + n=100
confirm): bard +47pp T3 (heat_metal), druid +3-7, cleric/mage flat,
fighter unchanged — no regressions.
Player-data bootstraps (idempotent, run once on Init):
- bootstrapCasterSpellBackfill: ensureSpellsForCharacter only seeds an empty
book, so defaults added after a character's roll never reach it. Backfill
missing defaults into known+prepared for existing casters (gives the
affected cleric inflict_wounds + a working healing_word, since her
healing_word_spell is a dead alias).
- bootstrapGrantStarterPet: one-off L10 pet for an endgame player who never
got the morning arrival roll; adds per-round proc damage + deflect.
- TestScenario_JosieCasterAid verifies both against a copy of the live DB,
incl. idempotency.
Also fix a pre-existing wall-clock flake in
TestFireBriefings_EventAnchoredActivePlayerDelivers (start_date defaulted to
real now, filtering the row out when the suite runs after 06:00 UTC).
Spiritual Weapon used to ride the pet-attack channel, so a petless
cleric saw "🐾 Your faithful companion" each round and couldn't tell
the spell was firing. Split it to SpiritWeaponProc/Dmg with its own
✨ flavor; damage now scales with spell mod + upcast.
Rest also fired mid-dungeon — only the autorun honored RestingUntil,
the !rest commands themselves had no gate. Block both short and long
rest when an expedition or combat session is active.
The live turn engine only struck once per fight and never rolled pet
deflect or whiff, so pet armor (deflect-only) bought nothing in real
runs. Roll pet attack each player turn and roll deflect/whiff per enemy
turn, mirroring the auto-resolve engine; retire the one-shot pet-proc
machinery (rollCombatSessionPetProc / PetProcReady).
(cherry picked from commit a0e41c97801e500efad13c7e9a06be4c345e464e)
Phase 2 Monte Carlo tuning had papered over four classes whose 5e-defining
mechanics never actually existed in the engine — only flat DamageBonus or
FlatDmgStart compensation riders that hit the right aggregate win rate.
This pass replaces the proxies with the real primitives.
New CombatModifiers fields: ExtraAttacks (additional swings/round, looped
in a new resolvePlayerSwings helper); HuntersMarkDie (per-hit Nd6 bonus,
same path as Sneak Attack); ThornLashDmg (flat counter on landed enemy
hits, fires in resolveEnemyAttack after ward/block).
Fighter L5/11/20 Extra Attack, Ranger L5 Extra Attack + Hunter's Mark
(1→4 d6 by level), Paladin L5 Extra Attack + per-hit Divine Smite
(replaces one-shot opener), Druid thorn lash. Bard College of Valor L7
"Extra Attack" subclass tier converted from +1 attack/+10% damage proxy
to the real primitive.
Post-fix T5 class-balance: martials cluster at top (Fighter/Rogue 0.90,
Ranger 0.89, Paladin 0.88), casters keep their relative ordering, spread
14pp top-to-bottom.
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Tedium-removal pass driven by live play feedback. Three big threads:
Expedition autopilot Phase 4 — background auto-run + harvest-until-dry:
- New expeditionAutoRunTicker walks active expeditions every 15min
(5min tick, per-expedition CAS on new last_autorun_at column). Skips
combat sessions, briefing/recap quiet windows, expeditions <30min old.
- Walks up to 3 rooms/tick with compact narration; suppresses DMs when
0 rooms walked or just hitting the per-tick cap (no "stretch complete"
filler). Player only hears from the bot when a real decision is needed.
- Compact mode: one-line combat narration for trash/elite, auto-resolves
elite doorways via the forward-sim engine (boss still pauses). Threaded
via new advanceOnceWithOpts → resolveRoom → resolveCombatRoom.
- Auto-harvest now grinds each Common/Uncommon node until dry (cap at 8
attempts/visit), mirroring manual !scavenge retries. Rare+ still pauses.
- Ambient ticker: anti-repeat by Kind via new last_ambient_kind column
(avoids two pack_rat DMs in a row when the pool only has 6 lines).
- !expedition go <n> now routes to the fork-choice handler when active +
numeric; fork footer rewritten to suggest !expedition go instead of
!zone go. Boss/Elite doorway: formatNextRoomMessage routes the action
hint by next room type and autopilot loop breaks via new nextRoomType
field so "Room X/Y — Boss" doesn't double-print with contradictory
hints (!zone advance vs !fight).
- runAutopilotWalk extracted from expeditionCmdRun so foreground and
background share the loop body.
Rogue Sneak Attack actually exists now:
- Audit found the rogue's "Sneak Attack" passive was AutoCritFirst +
5% damage rider. No Nd6, ever. Phase 2 Monte Carlo masked this
with a small flat buff; the class's defining mechanic never matched
its tooltip or 5e identity.
- Added SneakAttackDie int to CombatModifiers, per-hit Nd6 in
combat_primitives.go (same lane as DivineStrikePerHit). Scales with
level: 1d6 at L1-2 ... 4d6 at L7-8 ... capped at 10d6 at L19-20.
- AutoCritFirst + 5% rider retained as bonuses on top of working sneak
attack — preserves the opener-burst feel.
- L7 rogue expected per-hit ~8 → ~22 damage. Valdris fight math goes
from "16 rounds to kill, die in 8" to winnable.
TwinBee voice sweep (Phase B3):
- ~530 line changes across 24 files replacing third-person "TwinBee
notes/files/tracks/respects/..." constructions with first-person
inside flavor string literals. Code identifiers (TwinBeeLine,
twinBeeLine, etc.), chat-prefix labels (🎭 **TwinBee:**), item names
(TwinBee's Bell), achievements, and game-title references in
fun.go (Konami TwinBee ship) left intact.
- Catches a real bug: Valdris fight rendered "TwinBee marks the
Legendary Resistance" mid-combat in third person, contradicting
the Phase B2 convention.
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The rage threshold check sat only at the top of resolvePlayerAttack,
so a player who took a threshold-crossing hit and was then killed by
the very next enemy swing (before getting back to their own attack)
would never see "rage" emitted — even though HP visibly crossed 50%
while alive.
Extracted maybeTriggerOrcRage shared by both sites:
- Top of resolvePlayerAttack (unchanged UX: rage applies same-round
when the player swings after the enemy hit).
- End of runRound as a backstop (catches cross-round two-shots).
st.raged guards against double-emit. Fixes the flaky
TestOrcRageFiresOnLowHP; 10/10 repeats green.
R22: replace race copy that promised mechanics the engine doesn't deliver.
- Tiefling: wire FireResist as a CombatModifier. Enemy main attack is
halved when monster is FireAttacker-tagged; aoe_fire abilities are
halved unconditionally; fire-tagged traps deal half damage to Tieflings.
DnDMonsterTemplate carries FireAttacker; toCombatStats propagates it.
Hand-authored fire entries tagged in dnd_bestiary.go (flameskull,
magmin, azer, salamander, fire_elemental, emberlord_thyrak,
young_red_dragon, infernax, belaxath).
- Open5e tuned generator derives FireAttacker from the highest-AvgDamage
attack's DamageType (threshold AvgDamage>=5). 19 tuned monsters tag.
Regenerated bestiary_tuned_data.go.
- Elf: drop "immune to sleep" (no sleep mechanic); reframe as keen
senses + trance flavor.
- Half-Elf: drop "two bonus skill proficiencies" (no skill system);
reframe as adaptable cross-cultural know-how.
- Tiefling copy: drop "bonus on CHA checks" (no checks); keep fire
resistance with flavor framing.
R23: DnDRaceInfo grows a BestFit field; renderRaceMenu emits an
"_best with: …_" hint per race so spiky stat spreads (Orc -1/-1/-1)
read as specialist picks rather than a brick of penalties.
R24: dnd.go header comment for the caster classes now reflects the
shipped state (Playable=true, spell lists populated) instead of the
pre-Open5e scaffold language.
Tests: TestApplyRacePassives gains a FireResist column; new
TestTieflingFireResistance asserts ~0.5x ratio over a 300-trial sweep
against a FireAttacker enemy. Full suite green.
Turn the four placeholder ability effects into working mechanics:
spell_resist halves player spell damage, reveal_action rolls the
player's next swing at disadvantage, fear_immune fizzles control
spells, and ally_buff grants an accumulating enemy attack bonus.
All four are armed by applyAbility, read by the shared resolution
primitives, and round-tripped through CombatStatuses for turn-based
suspend/resume. New branches are guarded by zero-valued state so the
auto-resolve characterization golden is untouched.
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Slice 3 of the bestiary SRD upgrade: the monster abilities that need
per-fight state (evade, block, advantage, retaliate, regenerate,
survive_at_1, stat_drain, debuff, max_hp_drain). applyAbility arms
combatState flags that the shared resolution primitives read, so both
the auto-resolve and turn-based engines honor them; the turn-based
engine round-trips them through CombatStatuses so a suspended fight
resumes from exact mid-state. New branches are guarded by zero-valued
state so the auto-resolve characterization golden is untouched.
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Wires up the ability effects that resolve fully within applyAbility with
no new persistent state: damage riders (bonus_damage, aoe/aoe_fire/
death_aoe, execute) via the shared calcDamage formula, self_heal, and
flavor-only placeholders for effects still pending per-fight state.
Works in both auto-resolve and the turn engine since both call
applyAbility.
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Pet attacks were never resolved in turn-based fights. Roll the proc once
at fight start (a per-round roll would make a proc near-certain over a
long manual fight), persist it on the session so suspend/resume and
reaper auto-play honor the same outcome, and land a single pet hit on
the player's first acting turn.
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Pull effectiveAttackBonus, attackCritFloor, attackConnects, and the
post-hit player damage stack out of combat_engine.go into
combat_primitives.go so the upcoming turn-based engine resolves an
attack identically to auto-resolve. Behavior-preserving — the combat
characterization golden file is unchanged.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Splits SimulateCombat into a thin wrapper over simulateCombatWithRNG, a
deterministic core that accepts an optional *rand.Rand. Production passes
nil (package-global rand, behaviorally identical); the new test seeds it
per scenario.
Adds TestCombatCharacterization: 23 curated scenarios x 5 seeds, with the
full event stream + result summary serialized to a stable text form and
diffed against a golden file. This locks current auto-resolve behavior
before the shared-primitives extraction for the turn-based engine — any
perturbation fails loudly and forces a deliberate -update + diff review.
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Adds an optional *rand.Rand to combatState so a fight can be driven by a
deterministic source. Auto-resolve leaves it nil and falls through to the
package global in the same call order — behaviorally identical. Threads
the source through calcDamage and rollWeaponDamage.
Groundwork for the turn-based elite/boss engine and its timeout reaper,
which seed the rng per combat_session to make fights resumable and
replayable.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Bundle of uncommitted working-tree edits across combat engine, expedition
cycle, flavor pools, and TwinBee/zone narration. Includes new files:
combat_debug.go, dnd_boss_consumables.go, dnd_dex_floor.go, plus
CHANGES_24H.md and REBALANCE_NOTES.md scratch notes.
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Two bugs reported back-to-back from a Rogue's run:
1. HP display reset between battles. End of fight 1: 101/123 → start of
fight 2: 100/100. applyDnDHPScaling was overwriting Stats.MaxHP with
the scaled wound value, so the display denominator dropped along with
the numerator. Wounded carry-over became invisible.
Fix: introduce CombatStats.StartHP. Combat engine reads it as the
entry-HP when set; MaxHP stays put. Display now reads "100/123" as
intended.
2. Auto-crit fired on a roll of 11 with no narrative tell. Rogue passive
AutoCritFirst was triggering correctly, but the renderer used the
generic crit pool, so the player saw "🎲 11 vs AC 10 → CRIT" with no
indication their *class* caused it.
Fix: tag the crit event with Desc="auto_crit" when the passive (not
the dice) caused it; new narrativePlayerAutoCrit pool calls out the
training/instinct/exploit theme.
Test bound for T5 dungeon death rate loosened from 0.02 to 0.01 — the
new Sudden Death phase from the previous commit shifted geared-T5
fights slightly toward player wins.
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Players reported the prior 6-round exhaustion timeout felt arbitrary
when both sides still had plenty of HP. Two fixes:
- Add a "Sudden Death" 4th phase (3-4 extra rounds) so most fights
resolve naturally before any timeout. Total combat length now caps
at ~10 rounds.
- When the timeout does fire, tiebreak by absolute HP instead of HP%.
The %-based logic was unintuitive — a player at 88/123 (71%) would
lose to a boss at 83/97 (86%) despite having more HP remaining.
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Life/War/Trickery Domain L10/L15 capstones.
L10 Divine Strike (all 3 subclasses): +4 flat per weapon hit, scaling
to +9 at L14. New CombatModifiers.DivineStrikePerHit channel, gated on
Weapon != nil since 5e specs "weapon hit". Damage type (radiant/weapon/
poison) varies by domain but isn't tracked by the engine.
Life L15 Supreme Healing: heal-spell dice resolve at max instead of
rolled. Wired through resolveHealOutOfCombat via lifeDomainSupremeHealing
helper.
War L15 Avatar of Battle: 5e physical resistance vs. non-magical
weapons → flat 0.80 DamageReduct (softer than full 50% to account for
elemental hits).
Trickery L15 Improved Duplicity: 5e duplicates grant ally-flank
advantage; no allies in 1v1, so proxied passively as +1 SporeCloud
round and +5% damage (duplicates flicker around the foe).
10 new tests; cleric-suite green. Pre-existing rng flakes
(TestOrcRageFiresOnLowHP, TestSimulateCombat_FirstAttackBonus...) are
unrelated.
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Evocation L7 Empowered Evocation adds INT mod (min +1) to Mage evocation
spell damage. Abjuration L5 Arcane Ward grants a 2×level HP buffer
absorbed before player HP, +prof at L7. Necromancy L5 Grim Harvest heals
2× spell level on spell-kill (3× necrotic) via post-combat hook.
Sculpt Spells / Potent Cantrip / Inured to Undeath skipped — no allies,
save-half is already uniform, and no necrotic enemy damage to resist.
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Battle Master:
- New "superiority" resource pool (4/long-rest at L5), provisioned via
initSubclassResources at !subclass selection.
- Three armed maneuvers fueled by superiority dice:
* Precision Attack — +d8 (≈+4) to first attack roll
* Tripping Attack — enemy skips first attack (reuses Phase 9
SpellEnemySkipFirst)
* Rally — +(d8 + CHA) HealItem at <50% HP
- L7 Know Your Enemy proxied as +1 AttackBonus passive.
Assassin:
- L5 Assassinate: AssassinateAdvantage (re-roll first miss, take better
of two d20s) + AssassinateBonusDmg = level (5 at L5) stacked on top
of the Rogue's existing Sneak Attack auto-crit.
- L7 Impostor bumps the bonus damage by +3.
- L5 Infiltration Expertise → +5 Deception; L7 Impostor → +10.
Engine:
- CombatModifiers gains FirstAttackBonus, AssassinateAdvantage,
AssassinateBonusDmg.
- resolvePlayerAttack consumes each on the first attack only via new
combatState one-shot flags.
Tests added: 14 covering passive gating (BM L7+, Assassin L5/L7),
maneuver Apply flags, superiority pool init for BM only, !arm gating
across class/subclass for precision_attack, Deception bonus tiers,
statistical lift from FirstAttackBonus and AssassinateBonusDmg in
SimulateCombat.
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First mechanical slice of the subclass system. Each subclass gets its L5
and L7 abilities wired through the existing combat engine + skill check
substrate; no new resource pools introduced.
Champion (L5/L7):
- Improved Critical: new Mods.CritThreshold lowers crit floor to nat 19+
in resolvePlayerAttack. Default 20 preserved for non-Champions.
- Remarkable Athlete: +½ proficiency bonus to STR/DEX/CON skill checks
via subclassSkillBonus, layered on raceSkillBonus.
Berserker (L5/L7):
- Rage: new !arm-able active ability gated to Berserker subclass via
DnDAbility.Subclass field. Reuses the Fighter stamina pool (3/long-rest
matches 5e's rage uses). On fire: +2 flat damage per hit, halve incoming
weapon damage, +50% damage approximation for Frenzy's bonus-attack-per-
turn (one-shot combat can't model that literally).
- Frenzy exhaustion: new exhaustion column on dnd_character; incremented
by persistDnDPostCombatSubclass after any rage'd combat. Decremented by
one per long rest.
- Mindless Rage: documented; charm/frighten conditions don't exist in the
combat engine yet, so no functional effect until P11 zone bosses land.
Thief (L5/L7):
- Sleight of Hand added to dndSkillTable.
- Fast Hands: +5 to Sleight of Hand checks via subclassSkillBonus.
- Supreme Sneak: advantage on Stealth (best of two d20s) via new
subclassSkillAdvantage hook in performSkillCheck. 5e's half-speed gate
dropped — we don't track movement speed.
Plumbing:
- applySubclassPassives layered after applyClassPassives in both arena
and dungeon combat bridges.
- DnDAbility.Subclass enables per-subclass gating; characterActiveAbilities
filters !arm and !abilities lists by both class and subclass.
- Existing !respec full-wipe also clears Exhaustion.
Tests: Champion CritThreshold gating across L4/L5/no-subclass; rage Apply
flag-set; rage probabilistic win-rate lift vs tougher enemy; exhaustion
increment only on raged combats; long-rest decrement; Champion bonus on
STR/DEX/CON only and only at L7+; Thief Fast Hands SoH-only; Thief
Supreme Sneak L7+ Stealth-only; statistical advantage roll lifts Thief
stealth average by ≥2 vs plain Rogue; !arm rage subclass gating; schema
roundtrip; characterActiveAbilities visibility.
applyPendingCast resolves c.PendingCast against the upcoming fight before
SimulateCombat. Damage spells (Fire Bolt, Burning Hands, Magic Missile,
Fireball, etc.) emit a pre-combat spell_cast event via new
CombatModifiers.SpellPreDamage{,Desc}. Control spells (Hold Person, Sleep,
Command) set SpellEnemySkipFirst so the engine skips the enemy's round-1
attack with a spell_held event; Hold-family also primes AutoCritFirst.
Buffs (Mage Armor, Bless, Hunter's Mark, Shield of Faith, Aid, Spiritual
Weapon, Mirror Image, Greater Invisibility) fold into stats/mods directly.
Concentration-on-damage break is left for Phase 11 (turn-based bosses);
ConcentrationSpell persists across fights until manually dropped.
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- Adventure characters now record DeathSource ("adventure"|"arena") and
DeathLocation when killed. Threaded through Kill() and transitionDeath.
Daily report uses the recorded death location instead of misattributing
arena deaths to the day's adventure log: when DeathSource != "adventure",
the adventure block shows the alive icon and a separate "Later fell in
{location}." line. Standout-loss flavor uses DeathLocation. Empty
DeathSource (legacy rows) falls back to current behavior.
- calcDamage applies a ±15% per-hit jitter, so successive hits in a phase
no longer produce identical numbers. Previously every hit in a phase was
flat (e.g. 17, 17, 17, 17) and mirror-symmetric between player/enemy,
reading as scripted.
- assessThreat rewritten to use the engine's actual penetration formula:
damage-per-round each direction, then rounds-to-kill ratio. The old
additive HP+Attack*3 model ignored Defense, so even fights could be
rated trivial — players died after consumables were skipped with the
"threat assessed as manageable" message.
- SelectConsumables never skips on trivial when arenaRound > 0. Arena
losses cost real money and equipment, so the cost of a wrong assessment
is too high to gamble on; adventure-side fights still skip trivial
threats to avoid wasting items on chump enemies.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Replaces the single-roll probability system for dungeon and arena combat with
a multi-phase simulation engine where gear, buffs, pets, and NPCs are meaningful
mechanical inputs. Adds consumable items (auto-crafted from forage/mine/fish drops),
monster abilities for T2+ enemies, and Dragon Quest-style combat narrative with
phased message delivery.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
