The post-J1 sweep had the casters clustered at 19–22% L12 clear, vs
martials at 70–80%. A per-round trace across 240 boss-room fights showed
why: autoResolveCombat dispatched !attack only — zero spell_casts, zero
mid-fight consumable uses across every caster class. The entire "caster
cliff" was the sim measuring a strawman where casters couldn't cast.
J2a teaches the sim's autoResolveCombat to mirror a competent prod
player: heal at low HP if an inventory consumable is available, otherwise
cast the highest-EV damage spell (slot or cantrip), otherwise swing.
BuildCharacter now seeds the known-spell list via ensureSpellsForCharacter
so the synthetic spellbook is populated. A -trace flag on the cmd
attaches the raw CombatEvent stream to the last combat of each run for
post-hoc diagnostics.
A first re-baseline (n=100, all 10 classes) showed Ranger regressed
-35.8pp — the picker was burning L3 slots on lightning_arrow when
Ranger's weapon chassis (Hunter's Mark + Extra Attack) was the better
play. Added simMartialFirstClass to gate the picker off for Ranger and
Paladin (whose default kit is also weapon-first / no damage spells).
J2c experimented with widening the picker to control + heal spells;
heal-spell preempt cost druid 10pp (slot heals are 10HP vs 40HP
consumables) and control-spell scoring at 22 cost warlock 6.6pp. Both
reverted. Corpora retained under baseline_j2c*.jsonl for the post-mortem
in sim_results/j2b_findings.md.
Post-J2 L12 leaderboard (baseline_j2a_v2_all10.jsonl, n=100):
fighter 80.0, ranger 80.0, paladin 78.4, rogue 76.8,
druid 61.6, mage 53.4, sorcerer 50.6, warlock 48.2,
bard 40.4, cleric 39.0.
The caster cluster is dissolved; martials are within ±5pp of J1 (sweep
noise). Bard/cleric still trail, but it's no longer a sim artifact —
their defaultKnownSpells damage rosters cap at L2 and the picker can't
pick spells they don't have. That's a prod-level fix, deferred.
J3 trace (sim_results/j3_findings.md): T5 dragons_lair walls every solo
class at 0% (Infernax 546 HP vs solo player HP 110–175; ~25% boss HP
eaten before TPK across all classes). Per the J3 plan menu, this is
party-shaped content the engine doesn't yet have parties for. Surface
a TwinBee-voiced heads-up in handleDnDExpeditionCmd's start path and a
matching tag in !expedition list — players see "raid-shaped — solo
runs not yet survivable" before they spend outfitting coin. No combat
or class balance changes.
Files: cmd/expedition-sim/main.go +trace flag; expedition_sim.go picker
+ SimCombatSummary.Events + spellbook seed; dnd_expedition_cmd.go
raidContentWarning + list tag. All baselines + traces + findings
checked in under sim_results/.
-matrix sweeps the cartesian product of -classes × -levels × -zones
with -runs replicates per cell, fresh sqlite DB per run, emitting one
JSON object per stdout line. Log field is suppressed by default in
matrix mode (override with -log=true) since a single matrix cell's
log can easily dwarf the per-run summary.
Default -cap shrunk from 200 to 50 — RunExpedition now counts
autopilot bursts (not !expedition run invocations), and 50 bursts is
enough to clear a tier-1 zone with headroom.
SimRunner re-uses production plugin code paths against a fresh sqlite DB —
SendDM no-ops without a Matrix client, so ground truth comes from the DB.
BuildCharacter persists adv+dnd character rows with class-appropriate
ability scores and spell slots; RunExpedition loops !expedition run with
stall detection until the autopilot halts or the expedition closes.
The cmd binary is a thin orchestrator: one flag-driven run, JSON output.
Per-room structured logging, day-cycle fast-forward, and matrix batching
are next session.
B4: Slot classifier no longer treats "Springing" / "Snaring" / "Devouring"
as ring matches; tokenises by word boundary instead of raw substring.
Adds DnDSlotCloak so cloaks/capes/mantles/wings stop evicting body armor
from the chest slot. Regenerated magic_items_srd_data.go: boots_of_*,
gloves_of_missile_snaring, bag_of_devouring, talismans, and 6 cloaks all
land in the right slot.
R4: equipMagicItem swap-back returns the prior occupant at full Value
instead of half — swapping a curio shouldn't tax it.
R5: Attunement count is recomputed *after* the swap-back so freeing the
prior occupant's bond opens the slot for the incoming item.
R1: Inventory tags magic_item rows with 🔮 + rarity label and prints a
single equip-magic footer when any are present.
R6: Sheet's Magic Items block marks unbonded items as **(inactive)**
with the reason (cap full vs unbonded), so over-cap items aren't silent.
R7: New activeMagicItemsLine surfaces a one-shot "your curios stir: …"
at combat-start in both the dungeon path and !fight, mirroring the way
class passives are surfaced.
R8/R9: dropMagicItemLoot pretty-prints rarity, drops "wondrous", calls
attunement "needs bonding", appends "auto-uses in combat" for
potions/scrolls, and routes persistence errors to slog instead of
leaking %v into chat.
R2/R3: Curios shelf now shows "Very Rare" not "very_rare", drops the
bare "wondrous" word (the effect line carries it), renders the codified
magicItemEffectSummary above the SRD desc, and ends with a one-line
plain-language "what is bonding" footnote.
R10: Curios stock day flips at 06:00 UTC instead of midnight so EU
players don't see a fresh shelf at 1 a.m. mid-session.
R11: Curios buy resolver disambiguates fuzzy matches — typing "ring"
when several rings are on the shelf lists candidates instead of
silently selling the first.
P1: Greeting grid pairs Curios with an Exit chip so the 2-column
emoji layout doesn't dangle.
P2: Equip-magic empty state trimmed to one line.
P4 (back-from-curios reprompt) deferred — the existing back-flow is
correct, just verbose; not worth the surface-area expansion this
session.
Tests: word-boundary classifier, cloak/chest coexistence, full-value
swap-back. go test ./... + go vet clean.
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.
Plumbed through the open5e importer so regen stays safe:
- New cmd/open5e-import/desc_overrides.go holds two per-ID override
maps (spellDescOverride, magicItemDescOverride) and a regex-driven
cleanDesc sanitizer. Override wins outright; otherwise the SRD
first-sentence runs through cleanDesc, which strips the phrases
the S3 acceptance criteria forbid (saving throw[s], spell slot,
within range, 5-foot, DC <n>, "(save DC X)" parentheticals,
"constitution score is N", "out to a range of N feet"). A small
post-pass repairs the orphan stubs the strippers leave behind
(" and." trailers, "must make." after the saving-throw object
is gone).
- gen.go (spells) + magicitems.go now call spellDescription /
magicItemDescription instead of raw firstSentence; same hand-
authored override pattern, same cleanDesc fallthrough.
- Override coverage: the 19 SRD-only spells that show up in
defaultKnownSpells (call_lightning, charm_person, vicious_mockery,
…) plus ~35 high-visibility magic items (Amulet of Health, every
Belt of Giant Strength variant, Cloak of Displacement, etc.).
Tone is outcome-first second-person with bite — these surface
in the spellbook and the curio shop, so they get to be funny.
- tuned.go (R21) + magicitems.go strip "(...)" from emitted Names
via stripNameParenthetical. Slug keeps the variant; only the
display text loses the qualifier. Two bestiary entries
(giant_rat_diseased, deep_gnome_svirfneblin) and stone_of_good_luck
affected.
- Regenerated all three data files. Acceptance grep is clean:
zero hits for any banned phrase in Description/Desc fields.
- New cmd/open5e-import/desc_overrides_test.go covers the
sanitizer regressions, orphan-repair, name-strip, and the
override-wins-but-fallthrough-still-sanitizes path.
Conflicts: none. S4 (magic-item UX) wanted this in first so the
new curio renderer consumes clean text — ready for it now.
The tuned bestiary previously left every generated entry with a nil
Ability. abilityFromTraits now classifies each creature's SRD trait
names against a priority-ordered rule table, mapping the most
combat-defining trait onto a MonsterAbility effect (death_aoe,
regenerate, spell_resist, evade, enrage, ...). Creatures whose traits
are all non-combat stay nil. 165 of 322 entries get an ability.
fetch/gen magicitems subcommands vendor data/open5e/magicitems.json (237
SRD items) and classify them into a generated registry. magic_items.go
holds the MagicItem struct + Kind enum + an init-time overlay merge where
a hand-authored entry wins on ID collision, mirroring the spell and
bestiary imports. Not yet wired into zone loot or the shop — that
integration is a deliberate follow-up.
Adds `gen tuned` to cmd/open5e-import: a deterministic formula that scales
every raw SRD stat block down to an engine-ready DnDMonsterTemplate. HP/AC/
AttackBonus are verbatim SRD (AC clamped to the engine min 10); the Attack
stat is interpolated from attackByCRPoints, a CR→Attack anchor table lifted
from the hand-tuned dndBestiary (CR is the calibration axis the 2026-05-10
rebalance used — raw SRD per-hit damage is ignored). Speed/BlockRate are
coarse baselines from SpeedWalk/AC.
bestiary_tuned.go merges the 322 generated templates into dndBestiary, but
hand-authored roster entries win — the merge only fills IDs the roster does
not already define, so playtested numbers and wired abilities are untouched.
Abilities are deliberately not wired: every generated entry has a nil
Ability, with the SRD multiattack/trait text parked in Notes as raw material
for the follow-up ability-wiring pass.
fetch|gen bestiary subcommands vendor data/open5e/monsters.json (322
SRD monsters) and generate bestiary_srd_data.go — all 322 as raw SRD
stat blocks (HP/AC/ability scores/CR + per-attack damage dice).
This is a balance-baseline reference, not an engine roster: raw SRD
damage one-shots the solo player, so nothing here feeds combat. It's
what the future tuning pass reads against when deriving dndBestiary /
srdProfiles entries. XP is derived from CR (Open5e has no XP field).
Rebuilds the cmd/open5e-import CLI (fetch/gen × spells) to vendor
data/open5e/spells.json (319 SRD spells) and generate
dnd_spells_srd_data.go (237 after the level>5 filter). mapClasses unions
the API's incomplete structured spell_lists field with the complete
free-text dnd_class field so all eight casters get spells.
dndSpellRegistry loads buildSRDSpellList() first; the hand-authored
buildSpellList() overlays it (hand wins on ID collision). Playable=true
flipped for Druid/Bard/Sorcerer/Warlock/Paladin, each with a
defaultKnownSpells case. TestDefaultKnownSpellsExistInRegistry now covers
all eight classes.
.gitignore: vendor data/open5e/ while keeping the rest of data/ ignored,
and anchor the open5e-import binary pattern so it stops swallowing the
cmd/open5e-import source dir. NOTICE adds CC-BY-4.0 / SRD attribution.
Replaces hardcoded tip scenarios with solver-frequency-backed decisions, adds
equity range display, fixes bet-size matching tolerance (25% threshold), and
adds comprehensive test coverage for scenario validation.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
