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>
