Both scaling levers counted seats. partyEnemyHPScale gave +15% boss HP for any
roster >= 2, and partyActionExpectation lifted the enemy from 1 to 2.4 attacks a
round. A seat COUNT charges the same for an under-levelled friend, a hired NPC,
and a true peer — so a below-median body cost a full seat's worth of boss and did
not give a full seat's worth back.
Measured, once the companion's free full-heal was taken away and he became honest:
hiring him was WORSE than going alone (66.1% against solo's 69.0%). That is this
bug, and it has been live for every under-levelled friend anyone has ever invited.
Seats now carry a SeatWeight, and both levers scale on the summed weight of the
LIVING seats rather than on a head count. The weight is level-based, priced against
the leader, times a discount for a hireling (no subclass, no magic items, gear that
is never Masterwork — the layers a player accrues and a hireling never will).
Level, and deliberately not a power score: an HP-x-damage proxy would rank a cleric
below a fighter and quietly make every mixed HUMAN party easier, which is a
difficulty regression smuggled in under a bug fix.
The safety argument is one property: **a peer weighs exactly 1.0**. So the curves
interpolate between the integer knots the P8 sweep tuned — (1, 1.0), (2, 2.4),
2n-1 from 3 up — and every integer input returns exactly what it always returned.
Solo is byte-identical, a party of same-level humans is byte-identical, both
goldens hold unmoved, and only an UNEQUAL roster lands between the knots. That is
the entire point of the change.
It also finishes §2(b): a seat that is down now buys the enemy nothing. §2(b) fixed
the head-count half; a corpse still carried its full weight until this.
Measured, 640 runs/arm, same grid:
solo 69.0% (unchanged — corpus intact)
+ Pete 76.8% (+7.8pp)
+ a human cleric peer 77.6% (+8.6pp)
band solo +Pete lift
trailing (<40%) 10.0% 31.0% +21.0pp
middle 58.9% 76.8% +17.9pp
leading (>=70%) 93.5% 99.2% +5.7pp
Help, never a carry: he rescues the players who were drowning and barely moves the
ones who were already fine — and he stays below a real human of the leader's level,
which is the invariant a hireling must never break.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01J5SQZWoLmL3M3mw2XmHHdy
Three defects, all the same mistake, all found by sweep and not by tests: the
companion has no database row for a thing to persist onto, so the thing "arrives
fresh next time" — which for a resource means infinite.
1. His spell slots refilled every fight. The ledger went on his combat SEAT, and
a seat is per-session. A human rations one pool across a 30-room run and gets
it back at camp; rationing it IS the caster's game. Now on
expedition_party.companion_slots_used, refreshed at camp. (Worth ~0pp alone —
a run holds only ~2 real fights, so the pool never binds. I predicted this was
the whole answer. It was not.)
2. His BODY refilled every fight. buildFightSeats seated him at Stats.MaxHP and
the close-out skipped him — "he arrives fresh next time", said the comment.
That is an infinite body: he soaked a share of every fight's incoming and then
reset, while the humans beside him bled all the way to camp. THIS was the
carry. Now expedition_party.companion_hp; healed at camp; a dropped companion
returns on 1 HP rather than as a corpse, because there is no companion-death
rule and inventing one inside a bug fix would be a second feature.
3. No autopiloted caster had ever healed ITSELF. simPickAllyHeal skipped
`i == seat` and bailed on !IsParty(), so a solo cleric carried cure_wounds for
a whole run and never once cast it. Now simPickHeal: heal whoever is worst off,
which is sometimes you.
Measured, 640 runs/arm, like-for-like (the leaders whose role-fill gives Pete a
Cleric, against a human Cleric follower of the leader's own level):
solo 69.0%
+ a human cleric 77.6% (+8.6pp)
+ Pete 66.1% (-2.9pp)
The reference arm is the point. Against SOLO even a mace-only Pete looked like a
carry — but parties are designed to be safer, so solo is the wrong yardstick.
Against a human peer the real bug appeared: a gearless, level-penalized hireling
was out-clearing a fully-geared human cleric of the leader's own level by 15pp,
because he was the only combatant in the game who healed to full between fights.
With the free lunches gone he is honest, and honestly a net negative — which is
exactly the plan's §2 diagnosis, unmasked: a below-median seat cannot pay for its
own enemy scaling (+15% boss HP and 2.4 enemy actions a round instead of 1).
§2(a) is next, and the sweep now argues FOR it; before this commit it would have
made things worse.
Self-heal moved solo 66.1% -> 66.2%, so the balance corpus is undisturbed and no
re-baseline is owed. It is also NOT the answer to §6 — casters reach for a healing
consumable first and the sim stocks them, so a human rarely falls through to the
spell. Pete carries no consumables, so it is his only heal.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01J5SQZWoLmL3M3mw2XmHHdy
Every spell lookup in the engine is keyed on a Matrix user id and answered
by a dnd_* table. The companion has rows in none of them, deliberately — a
sheet on disk is what would turn him into a real character everywhere. So
the auto-picker's first statement, LoadDnDCharacter(uid), came back nil and
returned "attack", every turn, for the whole fight.
A hired Cleric swung a mace while the party died. Role-fill hands a lone
martial a Cleric, so that was the common case of the feature.
Adds a seat-scoped spellbook: seatKnownSpells / seatSpellSlots /
seatKnowsSpell / consumeSeatSlot / refundSeatSlot. A human seat delegates to
the DB functions verbatim — same queries, same order — so solo combat and the
balance corpus are untouched (both goldens byte-identical). A companion seat
is answered from his synthetic sheet and a slot ledger on his seat's
persisted statuses. The seat is the correct home and not merely the available
one: every expedition hires the same @pete, so a store keyed on his user id
would have two parties sharing one pool of slots.
He gets the same default kit a real character of his class and level gets.
The below-median stays where it was — the level penalty, the never-Masterwork
gear, the absent subclass and magic items. A bespoke weaker spell list would
be a second nerf hidden in a different file.
castActionForSeat was also a live hazard: it loaded the caster through
ensureCharForDnDCmd, whose auto-migration branch, handed a user with no sheet,
builds one at level 1 and *saves* it. Pointed at the companion that silently
makes him a player. He now takes a branch that never reaches it, and a test
counts rows in dnd_character / dnd_known_spells / dnd_spell_slots /
player_meta to keep it that way.
Measured, 640 runs/arm (10 classes x L10,L12 x 4 zones):
solo 66.1%
+ Pete, mace-only (HEAD) 83.4% (+17.3pp)
+ Pete, casting 95.9% (+29.8pp)
The fix does what it should. It also lands on top of an unpaid §2(a): the
mace-only arm shows Pete was ALREADY a carry, taking the trailing band from
6.8% to 63.6% without casting a thing. The tell is the cleric leader, who
role-fills a *Fighter* Pete — a seat this commit cannot touch — and still goes
26.6% -> 98.4%. That is enemy scaling undercharging for a seat, not spells.
§2(a) is next, and is not optional.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01J5SQZWoLmL3M3mw2XmHHdy
N3 widened the combat *roster* from 1 to N but never widened the action model,
the scaling model, or the test net to match. Building the hireable companion
walked into all three. Only one of the four defects found was the companion's;
the rest have been live in prod for every human party since N3.
The party golden did not exist (§5)
Solo combat is pinned exhaustively (7468 lines); the entire N-body layer had
nothing. That is why a healer class that cannot heal shipped without a test
going red. Adds party_characterization.golden (9 scenarios x 5 seeds, incl.
weak and dying seats) and TestPartyCharacterization_OneSeatIsStillSolo, so the
N-body path can never quietly stop being a superset of the balance corpus.
Regenerate only on purpose: -update-party.
No action could target another seat (§1)
Every heal in the engine was self-scoped. A party cleric could not put one hit
point on a friend. Adds turnActionEffect.AllyHeal/AllySeat, `!cast <spell>
@user` and `--target @user` -- the latter has been advertised in !help and
silently swallowed by parseCombatCast since SP2 ("reserved for SP3"). The auto
picker uses it too (simPickAllyHeal), so away-players and engine-driven healers
behave like competent ones. It will not raise the dead.
Corpses kept buffing the boss (§2b)
enemyActionsThisRound counted len(st.actors), dead included -- so a party that
lost a member kept paying for them, and the survivor faced a boss still swinging
at two-player cadence, alone. A death spiral with the arrow pointing the wrong
way. Now counts livingActors(). Party golden moved deliberately for this.
An engine-driven seat was a bool any command could clear (§3)
autoDriveCombat drives a party by dispatching each seat's turn AS that seat, so
a companion's own auto-played move arrived at beginCombatTurn looking like a
player returning to the keyboard and cleared the latch that was moving him. He
then stood in the fight doing nothing while the boss he had inflated killed
everyone. ActorStatuses.EngineDriven is now a persisted seat property that no
command clears, and the driver calls driveEngineSeat instead of impersonating.
"The party" could be empty (§4)
A solo expedition has no expedition_party rows, so asking the roster who was in
the party answered "nobody" -- and every caller fell back to something plausible.
That is how the companion got hired at level 1 for exactly the player the feature
exists for. expeditionParty()/partyHumans() always include the owner.
The companion himself (!expedition hire [class] / !expedition dismiss)
Day 1, leader only, costs coins, role-fills the gap, globally exclusive. He is an
NPC seat and must never become a player: no player_meta, no dnd_character, no
inventory, no DM room -- mint him a player_meta row and
ensureDnDCharacterForCombat will auto-build the news bot a real character, and
he starts appearing in the graveyard and filing death notices about himself.
Mail and seats are different sets: he fights, he does not get written to.
Measured on millenia, n=750/arm. Before these fixes he was -28pp -- worse than no
companion at all. After: solo 48.5% -> 63.9% clear (+15.3pp), with +28.0pp for
trailing players and +2.0pp for leaders. Help, never a carry.
The solo golden is byte-identical throughout: solo combat provably did not move,
and the balance corpus is intact.
Known gap: the companion cannot cast (castActionForSeat loads a sheet from the DB
and he has none by design), so a hired Cleric is still just a bad fighter.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01J5SQZWoLmL3M3mw2XmHHdy
A party of N used to face one enemy swing a round against a single seat, so
each member absorbed ~1/N² of the solo incoming and cleared 100% of every T5
cell. The enemy now takes enemyActionsThisRound() attack-actions, each
re-targeted at a fresh standing seat, in both combat engines:
- auto-resolve (simulatePartyRound): enemyRoundSwings loops the actions,
re-rolling each target's pet procs.
- turn engine (stepEnemyTurn): enemyAttackAction resolves one full SRD
multiattack per action; step() no longer blanket-stamps the enemy turn to
one seat, since a party's enemy now hits several.
The action count is a fractional expectation realised as a per-round coin-flip
(2.4 for a duo, 2N-1 for N>=3), because the integer lever is too coarse at small
N -- against a duo, 2 actions is a ~91% faceroll and 3 a ~45% grinder, with
nothing between. A light party-only enemy HP scalar (x1.15) trims the martial
ceiling that action count alone leaves at 100%.
Solo is exempt on both levers (1 action, no RNG draw; x1.0 HP), so
TestCombatCharacterization is byte-identical and the d8prereq corpus still
compares. Sim band (party of 3, T5, HP scaled): fighter 70->90%, cleric-led
27->72% -- monotonic by party size, no composition worse than soloing.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017mEwUmmS7aQTP2NQXj6rUa
The doc's item M claimed all three mage subclass spell hooks were dead on the
turn path because applyMageSubclassSpellHooks had one caller. It has three.
resolveTurnSpell has called it since 5cd343a, so Empowered Evocation and
Overchannel always worked -- they only move mods.SpellPreDamage, which
resolveTurnSpell returns as EnemyDamage.
Grim Harvest was the real defect, with a narrower cause: the hook wrote
mods.GrimHarvestSlot into a local CombatModifiers that resolveTurnSpell
discarded, because turnSpellOutcome had no field to carry it out. A Necromancy
Mage who killed with a spell in a manual fight never healed.
The stash can't ride on fight-start mods the way auto-resolve's does -- the
spell is cast mid-fight and the turn engine rebuilds combatants every round --
so it rides on the casting seat's ActorStatuses, like ArmedAbility. Each
damaging cast overwrites it; snapshotActor carries it across commit().
grimHarvestHeal also scanned for the *first* spell_cast event to ask whether
the spell landed the killing blow. Auto-resolve casts once, pre-combat, so
first == last there. A turn-based mage casts every round, so a non-lethal
opening cantrip vetoed the heal the killing spell had earned. Now scans for the
last spell_cast -- provably identical on the auto-resolve path, so the golden
corpus does not move.
Balance: a caster buff on the manual surface only, and the one the subclass was
written to have. Auto-resolve already paid it out.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017mEwUmmS7aQTP2NQXj6rUa
A. An armed ability lasted one round of a turn-based fight.
buildZoneCombatants called applyArmedAbility, which applies an ability's mods
*and* clears ArmedAbility and saves the sheet. The turn engine calls that
builder again on every !attack / !cast / !consume, so round 1 fired the ability
and disarmed the character, and every later round rebuilt them with none of its
mods. A Berserker paid stamina for a single round of BerserkerRage /
RageMeleeDmg / PhysicalResistRage / FrenzyDmgBonus. Every entry in
dndActiveAbilities had the same shape. mods.BerserkerRage was not merely unread
at close-out — by then it no longer existed.
Split arming into its two halves:
consumeArmedAbility(c) mutates: disarms, saves, returns the id. Once,
at fight start.
applyAbilityByID(c, id, mods) pure: no DB write, no disarm. Safe on every
rebuild. (No ability's Apply writes to the
character, so this really is pure.)
armAbilityForFight(c, mods) consume + apply, for the auto-resolve callers
that build and fight in one breath.
buildZoneCombatants now takes the already-consumed id and re-applies it. The id
rides on ActorStatuses.ArmedAbility, seeded per seat at fight start, so
partyCombatantsForSession reproduces the ability every rebuild and the close-out
can still see that a rage fired.
The close-out itself: postCombatBookkeeping now carries grantCombatAchievements
+ persistDnDPostCombatSubclass, and all four close-outs route through it —
runDungeonCombat, runZoneCombatRoster, finishCombatSession,
finishPartyCombatSession. It fires on every terminal status, not just a win: a
Berserker who rages and loses is still exhausted, which is what auto-resolve
always did.
Also: buildFightSeats and runZoneCombatRoster consumed the ability before the
checks that could sit a seat out, so a downed member was disarmed for a fight
they never joined. The refusals now run first.
B. Six unlocked read-modify-writes against the shared supply pool.
updateSupplies rewrites supplies_json wholesale, so a caller folding its delta
onto an *Expedition it read earlier discards whatever landed in between.
Handlers run one goroutine per event, so those writers genuinely interleave.
All six now go through withExpeditionSupplies, which takes advExpeditionLock,
re-reads the row, hands the closure the fresh copy and persists what it returns:
nightRolloverBurn (forage + burn in one write), grantTwoWeeksCache,
advanceToNextRegion's transit burn, campPitch, pitchAutopilotCamp, and the
ambient pack-rat drain. expeditionCmdAccept's hand-rolled lock folds onto the
same helper. expedition_sim.go is left alone: single-threaded, takes no locks.
Known consequence, for the balance track: trySimAutoArm used to live inside the
rebuild, so a simulated Fighter (second_wind) or Cleric (healing_word) re-armed
and re-spent a resource every round of every elite/boss fight. expedition-sim
drives those through the turn engine, so every prior expedition-sim corpus
overstates those two classes. Re-baseline after this, not before.
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_017mEwUmmS7aQTP2NQXj6rUa
`!fight` seats the expedition's roster instead of the one player who typed
it. Seat 0 is the leader, always: the session row is theirs, the lock is
theirs, and `!flee`, the fork, and `!extract` stay their call.
A monster that wins initiative now swings before anyone speaks. The session
layer used to park every new fight on a player_turn, which is true of the
hardcoded solo order and a lie about a party's -- the enemy would forfeit
round 1 and nobody would notice. `startPartyCombatSession` rolls the order
and sets the phase from it; `handleFightCmd` settles the round before it
announces, so the opening block narrates the hit rather than quietly
showing its damage.
Members were invisible to two commands that had no business ignoring them:
`!cast` queued a spell for "next combat" while its caster was standing in
one, and `!rest` healed a seated member to full mid boss fight. Both now
resolve through the party.
Nobody leaves without an answer. A downed member's `!fight` opens the
party's fight and tells them why they are not in it. The leader's `!extract`
reaches everyone it drags out of the dungeon, and everyone rolls for what
moved into their house while they were gone.
Supplies burn at 50% x N x 4/5 -- a party eats more than one and less than
N. The ratio is exact: 0.8 as a float truncates a party of three to 119%,
a permanent tax nobody would have found.
Solo is untouched, byte for byte. One seat means one build, one INSERT, no
participant rows, the same RNG draws in the same order -- the combat
characterization golden does not move, and neither does the balance corpus.
A solo fight is a conversation: the player types, the engine answers, and
nothing happens in between. A party fight is a queue, and three things follow.
Turn ownership. Only the seat on the clock may act, so beginCombatTurn resolves
the sender's seat and refuses the rest before anyone spends a slot or burns an
item. A fight lock, because three members typing !attack at once took three
different user locks and the check would have passed for all three: it takes the
fight's lock (keyed on seat 0) then the member's own, always in that order, and
a solo fight -- whose owner is the sender, and sync.Mutex is not reentrant --
takes exactly the one lock it always took. And a turn deadline, because one
member who wanders off must not freeze the other two for the hour it takes the
session reaper to wake up.
The deadline is three minutes, not the plan's sixty seconds. The sweep rides the
existing one-minute ticker, so any deadline really fires in [d, d+1m); and
expeditions here run for days, so the asymmetry favours patience over robbing
someone of their boss turn while they read the room on their phone. A lapse
latches that seat onto the auto-picker for the rest of the fight, so an absent
member costs the party one wait rather than one per round. Typing anything hands
the wheel back. Solo is never swept.
Three seat-0 leaks fixed on the way past, all of which would have surfaced as
the leader quietly doing everyone's business:
- mid-fight buffs folded into the session's embedded ActorStatuses, so a
member casting Shield on themselves would have armoured the leader;
- pickAutoCombatAction read sess.PlayerHP and Statuses.ConcentrationDmg, so
playing an away member's turn would have healed the wrong person and
re-armed the wrong aura;
- runCombatRound rested on any player_turn, and a downed seat still holds one
-- the round would have come to rest on a corpse and waited for a dead
member to type !attack. settleCombatSession drains it. beginCombatTurn
settles before reading the clock, which also fixes a latent solo bug: a
fight interrupted mid enemy_turn resumed parked there and silently ate the
player's next !attack.
The narration turned out to be written in the second person -- "You score 9
damage", "A hit gets through your guard" -- so swapping a name per seat would
have told three people they each landed the same blow. A round is rendered once
per reader instead: your own events go through the untouched flavor pool, your
allies' through a terse third-person summary. CombatEvent carries the seat to
make that possible, stamped once per phase step rather than at the twenty-odd
append sites in the primitives, which emit against the cursor and know nothing
of seats.
Closing out fans along the seam the data model already cut. Threat, the
zone-kill record, the boss-defeat drop and the run teardown all resolve through
getActiveExpedition or getActiveZoneRun, and a member owns neither row -- so
they fire once, for the owner. Fanning them out would have tripled the threat a
single kill costs. HP, XP, loot and death are the character's, and every seat
gets their own. A member can be dead in a fight the party won, so death is read
per seat off HP, not off the session's status.
The reaper stays attack-only. Finishing an abandoned fight should not quietly
burn the player's spell slots and potions; the deadline latch does use the
picker, because that member is mid-fight with a party waiting on them.
startPartyCombatSession has no production caller yet -- handleFightCmd still
opens a solo session. P6 seats the party.
TestCombatCharacterization is byte-identical: solo balance did not move.
The turn engine seats a party since P3, but only seat 0 survived a
suspend: seats 1+ reopened from their Mods on every step, rearming their
once-per-fight one-shots -- a party Halfling rerolled a nat 1 every round.
Split CombatStatuses into the fight-scoped half (the enemy's stance, the
round cursor) and the per-character half, ActorStatuses. The embed is
anonymous and untagged, so statuses_json stays the same flat object it
always was and every in-flight prod row decodes unchanged.
Seat 0 keeps living on combat_session. Seats 1+ get combat_participant
rows. That asymmetry is the point: a solo fight -- which is every fight
that has ever run, and the whole balance corpus -- writes exactly the
bytes it wrote before, and no participant rows at all. roster_size
guards the read, so the solo loader never issues the second query.
Parties commit their seats in the same transaction as the session row;
solo keeps its single unwrapped UPDATE.
expedition_party is the co-op roster. No party_id on dnd_expedition:
expedition_id already identifies the party, and a second key would be a
second answer to "who is in this party". Absent means solo, in both new
tables, so neither needs a bootstrap backfill.
The combat characterization golden is byte-identical.
Also seeds and re-powers the two statistical subclass tests. They drew
from the package-global RNG, so their verdict depended on how much
randomness every test declared before them happened to consume -- which
is why they flaked on a clean tree. Sweeping 40 seeds: Precision Attack
had a mean margin of +127 wins against a +50 threshold but a worst case
of -42, and Assassinate averaged +12.8 with two seeds outright negative.
Both effects are real; the trial counts were too low to see them. Seeded,
and raised to 24000/6000 trials, where all 40 seeds clear.
The turn engine ran a fixed player -> enemy -> round_end phase machine over
one player and one monster. It now runs a round as a sequence of seats.
turnOrder derives that sequence per round. A solo roster short-circuits to
the historical [player, enemy] and rolls nothing -- the duel has never had
initiative, and handing the monster a coin flip on who swings first would be
a live balance change. A party rolls it with the auto-resolve engine's own
formula (speed + d10 + InitiativeBias).
Every seat in a round shares a (round, phase) pair, so the acting seat is
mixed into the RNG *seed* rather than the stream. Seat 0 and the enemy
sentinel mix to nothing, which is what keeps a solo fight drawing exactly
the pre-roster stream across a suspend/resume.
The round cursor persists as Statuses.TurnIdx, omitempty so no solo row
carries it. A fight that was in flight when the field landed decodes it as
0; turnIdxForPhase reconciles that against Phase, which is the older and
load-bearing field. Without it, a suspended enemy_turn would resume, step,
and land back on enemy_turn forever.
The enemy now picks a target uniformly among the standing roster (solo draws
nothing), a downed seat forfeits its turn silently, and the fight is lost
only when anyAlive() goes false -- not when the acting seat drops. That last
one fixes a latent solo bug on the way past: resolvePlayerSwings returns
false when a retaliate aura kills the swinger between extra attacks, and the
old code walked that corpse into the enemy's turn.
commit() reads seat 0 explicitly instead of the cursor, which the enemy turn
parks on its target and round_end walks across the roster.
TestCombatCharacterization is byte-identical: solo balance did not move.
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)
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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A turn-based elite/boss combat session locks the run for up to 1h and
can straddle any scheduled tick. Add hasActiveCombatSession() and consult
it from the morning DM, midnight idle reaper, expedition briefing/recap,
and mid-day random event paths so none of them fire DMs or mutate run
state into a live fight.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
CombatStatuses now mirrors every persistent combatState one-shot —
depleting resources (ward/spore/reflect/autocrit/arcane-ward/heal-
charges), once-per-fight class/race/subclass flags, and accumulated
buff stat deltas. resumeTurnEngine restores them; commit writes them
back in place. Fixes turn-based bugs where Orc rage, Halfling Lucky
reroll, and the Assassin first-attack bonus re-fired every round and
Abjuration Arcane Ward did nothing.
Buff spells and buff-type consumables (ward/atk/def/crit/spore/reflect/
auto-crit) are now usable mid-fight: a flattened-delta model diffs the
reused applySpellBuff/ApplyConsumableMods math against a throwaway
combatant, folds the marginal effect into the session, and re-applies
the persistent stat deltas onto the rebuilt player each round. Pure-
utility spells diff to nothing and are refused before a slot is spent.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Turn-based Elite/Boss fights gain !cast and !consume as player-turn
actions, so casters and item-users make decisions per round instead of
pre-queuing a single effect. The command handler validates and resolves
the spell/item into a pre-rolled turnActionEffect; the engine just
applies the HP deltas and flows on into the enemy turn.
Scoped to effects that resolve within the casting round: damage, heal,
and control spells, plus heal/flat-damage consumables. Buff and utility
spells and buff-type consumables are refused without spending the
resource — they need cross-round stat persistence, a later sub-phase.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
A combat session abandoned past its 1h TTL is now resumed from persisted
mid-state and auto-played through the shared resolver to a real win or
loss, rather than flatly marked as a retreat. The bulk-UPDATE sweep is
replaced by listExpiredCombatSessions plus a reaper that locks the user,
auto-plays the fight, runs the normal close-out, and DMs the outcome.
markCombatSessionExpired remains the terminal fallback for sessions that
can't be reconstructed. Wired into eventTicker.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Routes Elite/Boss rooms off the auto-resolve SimulateCombat path and onto
the persisted turn-based engine. !zone advance now stops at an Elite/Boss
doorway; the player engages with !fight, then resolves one full round per
!attack / !flee. A won CombatSession is the record that the room's combat
is done, so a fresh !zone advance clears the room and advances the graph.
- buildZoneCombatants: shared player/enemy Combatant builder extracted from
runZoneCombat; combatantsForSession rebuilds the pair from a session row.
- runCombatRound loops the phase state machine through a whole round;
finishCombatSession runs HP/XP/loot/kill/threat/mood close-out.
- getCombatSessionForEncounter lets the room resolver tell "already won"
apart from "not yet fought".
- !zone advance/enter/go blocked while a session is active.
- resolveBossRoom deleted (dead after the reroute).
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
combat_session.go: CombatSession persistence layer mirroring the
dnd_expedition pattern — CRUD accessors, one-active-per-user enforcement,
and the timeout reaper (sweeps stale sessions to 'expired').
combat_turn_engine.go: the player_turn -> enemy_turn -> round_end -> over
state machine. advanceCombatSession seeds a deterministic per-(round,phase)
RNG, resolves one phase via the shared attack primitives, commits, and
persists. The deferred poison/status tick lands in round_end now that the
round-loop shape exists.
CombatStatuses persists only between-round monster-ability effects; the
reaper marks sessions 'expired' rather than auto-playing them — both gaps
depend on Combatant reconstruction, which lands with the command-wiring PR.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
