R-276 correction: check-lethality fights solo, and I read the wrong column
Asked to re-record the lethality baseline against a lone redcap, I read the tool and found it already does: measure(party, [spec]), with a comment saying "Solo, because a creature is the unit under test". My claim that it fights packs came from memory of check-focus, whose redcap is n: 3. The lethality figure was also not hiding the power. Wipe rate moved 0.7% to 0.9% because one redcap cannot wipe four agents whatever it ignores -- that column is at its floor. Agents down moved 0.55 to 0.74 of 4, a 35% relative increase, which is the column I did not look at. No baseline re-recorded: it is already solo and was re-recorded in R-275. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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survival. Three redcaps against four agents are attacked roughly once each, never spend a
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second defence, and the power is worth a tenth of a point.
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**Which is why check-lethality barely moved.** Its redcap figure went 0.7% to 0.9% wiped,
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and I reported that in R-275 as "small, because these fights rarely spend a second
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defence". That was the right explanation and I under-read it: the lethality baseline fights
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redcaps in a pack, and **the pack is precisely the configuration in which this power is
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worth nothing**. The guard suite is not wrong, it is measuring the case where the rule does
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the least, so the number it reports is the floor rather than the effect.
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**Which is why check-lethality barely moved.** ~~Its redcap figure went 0.7% to 0.9%
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wiped... the lethality baseline fights redcaps in a pack, and the pack is precisely the
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configuration in which this power is worth nothing.~~
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> **CORRECTED, and the correction is worse than the claim.** `check-lethality` fights every
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> creature **solo** — `measure(party, [spec])`, with a comment two lines up saying so:
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> *"Solo, because a creature is the unit under test — counts are an encounter's business."*
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> I asserted it fought packs from memory of a different guard. It is **check-focus** that
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> records a pack size, and its redcap is `n: 3` — so the "measured where the power does
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> nothing" point is true, and true of the other guard.
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> And the lethality figure was never hiding anything. Wipe rate moved 0.7% to 0.9% because
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> **one redcap cannot wipe four agents whatever it ignores** — that column is at its floor.
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> The column that moved is *agents down*, **0.55 to 0.74 of 4**, which is a 35% relative
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> increase and is not small at all. I read the small number, explained it, and did not look
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> at the one next to it.
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> Two statistics, two guards, and I had them crossed in both directions. Found by being
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> asked to re-record a baseline that was already recorded the way I said it was not.
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**One thing I nearly presented as evidence and did not.** At seed 3 the party wins with the
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power on and is wiped with it off — the opposite of the power's direction. That is not a
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