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gogobee/internal/plugin/bestiary_srd.go
prosolis fd28f31de5 Combat: balance-tune SRD multiattack profiles for single-player
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>
2026-05-14 07:44:01 -07:00

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package plugin
// SRD-shaped stat blocks for the turn-based elite/boss engine.
//
// The auto-resolve path (SimulateCombat) keeps the simplified one-attack
// DnDMonsterTemplate shape — its Attack value is a gameplay-tuned average that
// bakes a creature's whole action into a single number, and the 2026-05-10
// rebalance is calibrated against it. Do NOT feed these profiles into
// auto-resolve.
//
// The turn-based path can afford canonical SRD multiattack *structure*: the
// player issues a command per round, so a creature making three attack rolls a
// turn is a tactical problem the player can answer (heal, control, flee) rather
// than an un-survivable spike.
//
// Balance basis (2026-05-14 tuning pass): raw SRD damage is calibrated for a
// 4-PC party and one-shots gogobee's single player — slice 1 shipped it
// canonical and it was un-survivable across every tier (marilith ~91/round,
// even Grol ~20/round vs a level-1 mage). So each profile keeps its SRD
// *shape* — attack count, names, per-attack to-hit, and the damage split
// between attacks — but the per-attack Damage values are scaled so the
// profile's round total lands at roughly 1.3x the creature's tuned
// auto-resolve Attack stat (dndBestiary). That 1.3x is deliberate: the
// 2026-05-10 rebalance calibrated the single-attack Attack stat as the
// gameplay floor, and turn-based fights should hit a little harder than
// auto-resolve to make the player's per-round agency (heal / control / flee)
// matter — but multiattack already raises hit reliability vs high-AC builds,
// and monster abilities now fire as riders on top, so the headroom over
// auto-resolve stays modest. Damage flows through the same calcDamage penalty
// formula as the Attack stat, so the two are directly comparable in scale.
//
// File is intentionally NOT dnd_-prefixed (see memory: no new dnd_* identifiers).
// SRDAttack is one attack roll within a creature's multiattack action: a d20
// to-hit and an average damage value for that single strike.
type SRDAttack struct {
Name string // "Longsword", "Bite", "Claw" — surfaces in the round log
AttackBonus int // d20 to-hit modifier; 0 falls back to the template AttackBonus
Damage int // average damage for this single attack
}
// SRDProfile is a creature's full multiattack action — one SRDAttack per attack
// roll it makes on its turn. A creature with no profile registered makes a
// single attack using its DnDMonsterTemplate Attack / AttackBonus.
type SRDProfile struct {
Attacks []SRDAttack
}
// srdProfiles is the turn-based multiattack registry, keyed by bestiary ID.
// Only elites and bosses that reach the turn-based engine need an entry; every
// other creature falls through to the single-attack template path. Per-attack
// Damage is tuned (not raw SRD) — see the balance-basis note above; the
// // -comment after each profile records the tuned auto-resolve Attack stat the
// total was scaled against.
var srdProfiles = map[string]SRDProfile{
// ── Bosses ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
"boss_grol_unbroken": {Attacks: []SRDAttack{ // Attack 6 → ~8
{Name: "Morningstar", AttackBonus: 5, Damage: 5},
{Name: "Javelin", AttackBonus: 5, Damage: 3},
}},
"boss_valdris_unburied": {Attacks: []SRDAttack{ // Attack 8 → ~10
{Name: "Paralyzing Touch", AttackBonus: 7, Damage: 6},
{Name: "Necrotic Bolt", AttackBonus: 7, Damage: 4},
}},
"boss_hollow_king": {Attacks: []SRDAttack{ // Attack 10 → ~13
{Name: "Root Slam", AttackBonus: 7, Damage: 7},
{Name: "Root Slam", AttackBonus: 7, Damage: 6},
}},
"boss_dreaming_aboleth": {Attacks: []SRDAttack{ // Attack 16 → ~21
{Name: "Tentacle", AttackBonus: 9, Damage: 7},
{Name: "Tentacle", AttackBonus: 9, Damage: 7},
{Name: "Tentacle", AttackBonus: 9, Damage: 7},
}},
"boss_aldric_blackspire": {Attacks: []SRDAttack{ // Attack 21 → ~27
{Name: "Unarmed Strike", AttackBonus: 9, Damage: 14},
{Name: "Bite", AttackBonus: 9, Damage: 13},
}},
"boss_emberlord_thyrak": {Attacks: []SRDAttack{ // Attack 14 → ~18
{Name: "Molten Maul", AttackBonus: 8, Damage: 9},
{Name: "Molten Maul", AttackBonus: 8, Damage: 9},
}},
"boss_ilvaras_xunyl": {Attacks: []SRDAttack{ // Attack 19 → ~25
{Name: "Scourge", AttackBonus: 9, Damage: 13},
{Name: "Scourge", AttackBonus: 9, Damage: 12},
}},
"boss_thornmother": {Attacks: []SRDAttack{ // Attack 18 → ~23
{Name: "Thorned Lash", AttackBonus: 8, Damage: 12},
{Name: "Thorned Lash", AttackBonus: 8, Damage: 11},
}},
"boss_infernax": {Attacks: []SRDAttack{ // Attack 38 → ~49
{Name: "Bite", AttackBonus: 11, Damage: 19},
{Name: "Claw", AttackBonus: 11, Damage: 15},
{Name: "Claw", AttackBonus: 11, Damage: 15},
}},
"boss_belaxath": {Attacks: []SRDAttack{ // Attack 31 → ~40
{Name: "Longsword", AttackBonus: 11, Damage: 24},
{Name: "Whip", AttackBonus: 11, Damage: 16},
}},
// ── Multiattack elites ───────────────────────────────────────────────
"hobgoblin_warchief": {Attacks: []SRDAttack{ // Attack 4 → ~5
{Name: "Longsword", AttackBonus: 5, Damage: 3},
{Name: "Longsword", AttackBonus: 5, Damage: 2},
}},
"bandit_captain": {Attacks: []SRDAttack{ // Attack 4 → ~6
{Name: "Scimitar", AttackBonus: 5, Damage: 2},
{Name: "Scimitar", AttackBonus: 5, Damage: 2},
{Name: "Dagger", AttackBonus: 5, Damage: 2},
}},
"owlbear": {Attacks: []SRDAttack{ // Attack 6 → ~8
{Name: "Beak", AttackBonus: 7, Damage: 3},
{Name: "Claws", AttackBonus: 7, Damage: 5},
}},
"merrow": {Attacks: []SRDAttack{ // Attack 4 → ~5
{Name: "Bite", AttackBonus: 5, Damage: 3},
{Name: "Claws", AttackBonus: 5, Damage: 2},
}},
"helmed_horror": {Attacks: []SRDAttack{ // Attack 7 → ~9
{Name: "Longsword", AttackBonus: 6, Damage: 5},
{Name: "Longsword", AttackBonus: 6, Damage: 4},
}},
"drow_elite_warrior": {Attacks: []SRDAttack{ // Attack 8 → ~10
{Name: "Shortsword", AttackBonus: 7, Damage: 4},
{Name: "Shortsword", AttackBonus: 7, Damage: 3},
{Name: "Hand Crossbow", AttackBonus: 7, Damage: 3},
}},
"salamander": {Attacks: []SRDAttack{ // Attack 8 → ~10
{Name: "Spear", AttackBonus: 7, Damage: 5},
{Name: "Tail", AttackBonus: 7, Damage: 5},
}},
"guard_drake": {Attacks: []SRDAttack{ // Attack 4 → ~5
{Name: "Bite", AttackBonus: 5, Damage: 3},
{Name: "Claws", AttackBonus: 5, Damage: 2},
}},
"young_red_dragon": {Attacks: []SRDAttack{ // Attack 16 → ~20
{Name: "Bite", AttackBonus: 10, Damage: 8},
{Name: "Claw", AttackBonus: 10, Damage: 6},
{Name: "Claw", AttackBonus: 10, Damage: 6},
}},
"quickling": {Attacks: []SRDAttack{ // Attack 2 → ~3
{Name: "Dagger", AttackBonus: 5, Damage: 1},
{Name: "Dagger", AttackBonus: 5, Damage: 1},
{Name: "Dagger", AttackBonus: 5, Damage: 1},
}},
"vrock": {Attacks: []SRDAttack{ // Attack 10 → ~13
{Name: "Beak", AttackBonus: 6, Damage: 5},
{Name: "Talons", AttackBonus: 6, Damage: 8},
}},
"hezrou": {Attacks: []SRDAttack{ // Attack 13 → ~17
{Name: "Bite", AttackBonus: 7, Damage: 7},
{Name: "Claw", AttackBonus: 7, Damage: 5},
{Name: "Claw", AttackBonus: 7, Damage: 5},
}},
"nalfeshnee": {Attacks: []SRDAttack{ // Attack 21 → ~28
{Name: "Bite", AttackBonus: 10, Damage: 14},
{Name: "Claw", AttackBonus: 10, Damage: 7},
{Name: "Claw", AttackBonus: 10, Damage: 7},
}},
"marilith": {Attacks: []SRDAttack{ // Attack 26 → ~34
{Name: "Longsword", AttackBonus: 11, Damage: 5},
{Name: "Longsword", AttackBonus: 11, Damage: 5},
{Name: "Longsword", AttackBonus: 11, Damage: 5},
{Name: "Longsword", AttackBonus: 11, Damage: 5},
{Name: "Longsword", AttackBonus: 11, Damage: 5},
{Name: "Longsword", AttackBonus: 11, Damage: 5},
{Name: "Tail", AttackBonus: 11, Damage: 4},
}},
"vampire_spawn": {Attacks: []SRDAttack{ // Attack 8 → ~10
{Name: "Unarmed Strike", AttackBonus: 6, Damage: 6},
{Name: "Bite", AttackBonus: 6, Damage: 4},
}},
}
// enemyAttackProfile returns the attack rolls a creature makes on its turn.
// Registered elites/bosses use their SRD multiattack profile; everyone else
// falls back to a single attack derived from the template stats. A zero
// per-attack AttackBonus falls back to the (tier-scaled) template bonus.
func enemyAttackProfile(enemyID string, stats CombatStats) []SRDAttack {
prof, ok := srdProfiles[enemyID]
if !ok || len(prof.Attacks) == 0 {
return []SRDAttack{{AttackBonus: stats.AttackBonus, Damage: stats.Attack}}
}
out := make([]SRDAttack, len(prof.Attacks))
for i, a := range prof.Attacks {
if a.AttackBonus == 0 {
a.AttackBonus = stats.AttackBonus
}
out[i] = a
}
return out
}