Boss-only tuning at the L15/L16 mid-range (D8-f #2 had tested T5 at the L12
floor where everything walls). The two T5 zones needed opposite treatment:
- dragons_lair (infernax): impossible wall, leaders 0-2% -> HP 546->405,
AC 22->20, frightful-presence stun 0.80->0.40, multiattack 49->42.
- abyss_portal (belaxath): leader faceroll 88-92% -> HP 262->300, AC 19->20,
multiattack 40->41.
Final n=50: leaders 61% at L15 (both zones), 72-79% at L16 -- same
leaders-define-band shape as T4; casters ~0% (J3 caster-track gap, not
monster-tunable). Bosses are the sole binding lever (every run decided at the
boss; standard/elite pools already survivable).
Also harden handleFightCmd: a malformed bestiary entry with an empty ID was
silently persisting an enemy-less combat session that spun to autoDriveCombat's
200-round cap. Now treated as a bestiary miss (fail loud). Writeup:
sim_results/t5_findings.md (gitignored).
T4 monster tuning so martial leaders land in the 60-75% band (underdark
59/80, feywild 65/84 at L10/L12, n=50); casters trail (class-side gap that
monster tuning provably can't compress -- Pass 1 showed casters pinned at 0%
while martials moved). T5 deferred (walls everyone at its L12 floor; needs an
L15-16 corpus).
- dnd_bestiary.go: underdark elite/boss HP+AC up + caster-lethal proc cuts
(mind_flayer/drow_mage/roper); feywild HP+AC up.
- bestiary_srd.go: feywild multiattack profiles (fomorian/night_hag/green_hag)
+ Thornmother 2->3 lashes -- HP/AC alone didn't move feywild's low-damage
roster; multiattack is what pulls facerolling martials into band.
- zone_graph_feywild_crossing.go: free fork1's marsh edge. fork1 was the only
fork in the game with every exit skill-locked (CHA+Perception, no LockNone)
and deterministic no-retry rolls -- a prod SOFT-LOCK stranding ~60% of
players (low CHA+WIS). Kept grove's CHA bargain as a bonus route.
- expedition_sim.go: firstUnlockedForkChoice -- sim fork policy picks the
first unlocked option instead of blind 'go 1' (which looped forever on
locked forks); halts fork_all_locked if none.
- tests: graph-wide TestZoneGraphs_NoSoftLockedFork + fork1 free-path guard.
Writeup: sim_results/d8f_findings.md
Slice 1 shipped raw SRD damage, which is calibrated for a 4-PC party
and one-shots gogobee's single player at every tier. Rescale each
profile's per-attack damage so the round-total lands at ~1.3x the
creature's tuned auto-resolve Attack stat, keeping the SRD structure
(attack count, to-hit, damage split) intact.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Elites/bosses in turn-based fights now swing a full SRD multiattack
profile and fire their special ability — abilities never fired in the
turn-based path before, and every enemy made a single attack.
bestiary_srd.go adds SRDAttack/SRDProfile and a hand-authored registry
for the named bosses and multiattack elites; auto-resolve keeps its
tuned single-Attack blocks untouched. turnAbilityFires remaps the
auto-resolve phase clock onto fight progress for the phase-less duel.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
