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.
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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.
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