diff --git a/docs/REVIEW_LOG.md b/docs/REVIEW_LOG.md
index da0f8f2..1872b5a 100644
--- a/docs/REVIEW_LOG.md
+++ b/docs/REVIEW_LOG.md
@@ -3973,3 +3973,50 @@ Verified in play on PLAIN HARBOUR: extraction failed at 47%, the card read *"You
out, but not cleanly. The window has narrowed... The way home: −10% on every
Transposition roll"*, the clock went to 1, and all four crossings took −10%. Nobody
lost a hit point.
+
+## A briefing, and a millennium of ironmongery
+
+**The players now get a briefing, not a memo.** The generator was already writing the
+timeline, the cast and two lines of texture that are the best prose in the whole
+document — and filing every word of it behind the GM screen. A new PLAYERS page:
+
+- a read-aloud opening built from the classification, the place and the window;
+- **what it is like there** — the texture, with the note that none of it is in the
+ file, because the file was written by somebody who was not there;
+- **what is known so far** — the timeline as a table;
+- **who is there** — the cast by name, role, and what they want from you, but never
+ what they lie about, which stays on the GM page where it belongs;
+- and a short "before you go" that tells a new player the three things this game
+ expects of them: sign for your kit, bring somebody who can make an arrangement,
+ keep your anchor on you.
+
+Ownership is now **declared by the page** rather than guessed from its index — the
+old `i === 0 ? 2 : 0` would have silently hidden any second player page. Two player
+pages, four GM pages, 300 seeds checked clean.
+
+Two bugs in my own prose, caught by reading the output: `classification.texture` is a
+LIST and was being printed comma-joined into a sentence, and the "since then..."
+line was reaching for the last timeline entry, which is *the team crosses* — so every
+briefing ended "since then it has not stopped, and the team crosses."
+
+**The historical range.** The department has been running since before it had a name
+and has never thrown anything away.
+
+- **38 historical weapons** (from 6): arming sword, longsword, falchion, war hammer,
+ mace, military flail, poleaxe, halberd, billhook, pike, quarterstaff, dirk, longbow,
+ arbalest, sling, javelin, rapier, main gauche, matchlock, wheellock, blunderbuss,
+ boarding pike, cavalry sabre, smallsword, cutlass, Brown Bess, Baker rifle, socket
+ bayonet, Martini-Henry, Webley, Lee-Enfield, trench club — each with its period
+ stated, because a GM handing out a matchlock should know it is a matchlock.
+- **14 historical armours** (from 2): gambeson, maille shirt, coat of plates, cuirass,
+ full harness, buff coat, sallet and bevor, lobster-tail helmet, jack of plate,
+ cuirassier armour, Brodie helmet, flak jacket. Weight is the point — full harness is
+ 9 AP and 25 kg, and the free-carry rule does the rest.
+- **Five new skills** to hang it on: Melee Weapon (Polearm), Melee Weapon (Flail),
+ Missile Weapon (Sling), Missile Weapon (Thrown), and **Firearm (Muzzle-loader)** —
+ because a muzzle-loader is not a rifle and loading it is the skill.
+- **275 icons**, all generated; every weapon maps to a real skill and every item has
+ art, both checked.
+
+Catalogue is now **206 items**: 118 gear, 62 weapons, 25 armour, 14 vehicles — 145
+modern, 77 antique, 34 future, 19 anomalous.
diff --git a/icons/arbalest.svg b/icons/arbalest.svg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1e67300
--- /dev/null
+++ b/icons/arbalest.svg
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+
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diff --git a/icons/arming_sword.svg b/icons/arming_sword.svg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d096355
--- /dev/null
+++ b/icons/arming_sword.svg
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+
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diff --git a/icons/baker_rifle.svg b/icons/baker_rifle.svg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7a95e7b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/icons/baker_rifle.svg
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+
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diff --git a/icons/bayonet.svg b/icons/bayonet.svg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..27a77a6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/icons/bayonet.svg
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+
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diff --git a/icons/billhook.svg b/icons/billhook.svg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d418820
--- /dev/null
+++ b/icons/billhook.svg
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+
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diff --git a/icons/blunderbuss.svg b/icons/blunderbuss.svg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a428685
--- /dev/null
+++ b/icons/blunderbuss.svg
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/icons/boarding_pike.svg b/icons/boarding_pike.svg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a5793bb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/icons/boarding_pike.svg
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+
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diff --git a/icons/brodie.svg b/icons/brodie.svg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f0963a4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/icons/brodie.svg
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+
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diff --git a/icons/brown_bess.svg b/icons/brown_bess.svg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..daea6b2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/icons/brown_bess.svg
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+
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diff --git a/icons/buff_coat.svg b/icons/buff_coat.svg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..16780ec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/icons/buff_coat.svg
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/icons/coat_of_plates.svg b/icons/coat_of_plates.svg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a64f2d1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/icons/coat_of_plates.svg
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+
\ No newline at end of file
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new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2f2f687
--- /dev/null
+++ b/icons/cuirass.svg
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/icons/cuirassier.svg b/icons/cuirassier.svg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..5ac09eb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/icons/cuirassier.svg
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/icons/cutlass.svg b/icons/cutlass.svg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..bf8951b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/icons/cutlass.svg
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+
\ No newline at end of file
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new file mode 100644
index 0000000..beebbb8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/icons/dirk.svg
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+
\ No newline at end of file
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new file mode 100644
index 0000000..63e751f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/icons/falchion.svg
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+
\ No newline at end of file
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new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1ebe208
--- /dev/null
+++ b/icons/flail.svg
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+
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new file mode 100644
index 0000000..42fc3d0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/icons/flak_jacket.svg
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+
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new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b2b5d5d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/icons/gambeson.svg
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+
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new file mode 100644
index 0000000..275fdb5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/icons/halberd.svg
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+
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new file mode 100644
index 0000000..53675ed
--- /dev/null
+++ b/icons/harness.svg
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+
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new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f9207f7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/icons/jack_of_plate.svg
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+
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new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
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+
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new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8aadeb3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/icons/lee_enfield.svg
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+
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new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
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@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+
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new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/icons/longbow.svg
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+
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+
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--- /dev/null
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+
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--- /dev/null
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+
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+
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+
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--- /dev/null
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+
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+
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+
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+
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+
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index d703cdc..d63a254 100644
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index cb313c8..e318b43 100644
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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
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index e879929..06f8dc6 100644
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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
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index 0d40464..f71b243 100644
--- a/packs/talents/LOG
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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
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index 33b0948..8f207a3 100644
--- a/packs/vehicles/LOG
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@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
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index e14a81d..1b028ec 100644
--- a/packs/weapons/LOG.old
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diff --git a/ringbrp.mjs b/ringbrp.mjs
index 10daa8c..5e72221 100644
--- a/ringbrp.mjs
+++ b/ringbrp.mjs
@@ -2709,7 +2709,9 @@ export async function generateMissionCase({ seed = null, notify = true, ...opts
// These were the wrong way round — the brief was set to NONE and the four
// secret pages to INHERIT, so a GM opening the entry to the table to share the
// brief would have published the truth, the opposition and the whole plot.
- ownership: { default: i === 0 ? 2 : 0 }
+ // Ownership is declared by the page, not guessed from its index. Adding a
+ // second player page silently hid it when this read `i === 0`.
+ ownership: { default: pg.players ? 2 : 0 }
}))
});
diff --git a/tools/content.mjs b/tools/content.mjs
index 54d5d75..2f4c686 100644
--- a/tools/content.mjs
+++ b/tools/content.mjs
@@ -27,6 +27,10 @@ export const SKILL_CATALOGUE = [
// The boarding axe and the entrenching tool both declare spec "axe" and the
// catalogue had no such skill, so neither could ever be rated above zero.
["melee_weapon", "axe", "melee", 5, "Melee Weapon (Axe)"],
+ // The historical range needs somewhere to hang a halberd and a flail. Everything
+ // else fits an existing specialisation: a mace is a club, a dirk is a knife.
+ ["melee_weapon", "polearm", "melee", 5, "Melee Weapon (Polearm)"],
+ ["melee_weapon", "flail", "melee", 5, "Melee Weapon (Flail)"],
["variable_sword", "", "melee", 5, "Variable Sword"],
// ranged
["firearm", "pistol", "ranged", 5, "Firearm (Pistol)"],
@@ -35,6 +39,10 @@ export const SKILL_CATALOGUE = [
["energy_weapon", "rifle", "ranged", 5, "Energy Weapon (Rifle)"],
["flashlight_laser", "", "ranged", 5, "Flashlight Laser"],
["missile_weapon", "bow", "ranged", 5, "Missile Weapon (Bow)"],
+ ["missile_weapon", "sling", "ranged", 5, "Missile Weapon (Sling)"],
+ ["missile_weapon", "thrown", "ranged", 15, "Missile Weapon (Thrown)"],
+ // A muzzle-loader is not a rifle. Loading is the skill and it is a different one.
+ ["firearm", "muzzleloader", "ranged", 5, "Firearm (Muzzle-loader)"],
["heavy_weapon", "", "ranged", 5, "Heavy Weapon"],
// communication
["bargain", "", "comm", 5, "Bargain"],
@@ -120,7 +128,55 @@ export const WEAPONS = [
/* ---------- FUTURE. Recovered from somewhere ahead. ---------- */
{ key: "gauss_pistol",name: "Gauss sidearm", cls: "energy", fam: "energy_weapon", spec: "pistol", dmg: "1d8+4", wound: "piercing", mod: false, ranges: [15,45,120], fire: "single", cap: 24, mass: 0.9, era: "future", trad: "tradition_transposed", energy: 4, desc: "No propellant and no report — a tap, and a hole. Ammunition is not manufacturable here." },
{ key: "gauss_rifle", name: "Gauss lance-rifle", cls: "energy", fam: "energy_weapon", spec: "rifle", dmg: "1d12+4", wound: "piercing", mod: false, ranges: [40,120,300], fire: "single", cap: 12, mass: 3.8, era: "future", trad: "tradition_transposed", energy: 8, desc: "Punches an entry wound and an exit wound and very little between them." },
- { key: "monoblade", name: "Monofilament blade",cls: "melee", fam: "melee_weapon", spec: "knife", dmg: "1d10+2", wound: "edged", mod: false, mono: true, ranges: [0,0,0], fire: "", cap: 0, mass: 0.4, era: "future", trad: "tradition_transposed", desc: "Cuts armour as though it were not there. Handle with the sheath on." }
+ { key: "monoblade", name: "Monofilament blade",cls: "melee", fam: "melee_weapon", spec: "knife", dmg: "1d10+2", wound: "edged", mod: false, mono: true, ranges: [0,0,0], fire: "", cap: 0, mass: 0.4, era: "future", trad: "tradition_transposed", desc: "Cuts armour as though it were not there. Handle with the sheath on." },
+
+ /* ==================================================================
+ THE HISTORICAL RANGE
+
+ The department has been running since before it had a name, and it
+ has never thrown anything away. Everything below is either still in
+ a store somewhere in the building, or came back through a crossing
+ with somebody. The period note is not decoration — a GM handing out
+ a matchlock should know it is a matchlock.
+ ================================================================== */
+
+ /* --- medieval --- */
+ { key: "arming_sword", name: "Arming sword", cls: "melee", fam: "melee_weapon", spec: "sword", dmg: "1d8+1", wound: "edged", mod: true, ranges: [0,0,0], fire: "", cap: 0, mass: 1.2, era: "antique", trad: "tradition_local", desc: "Medieval. A yard of cross-hilted steel. The plain, correct answer to most of the fifteenth century." },
+ { key: "longsword", name: "Longsword", cls: "melee", fam: "melee_weapon", spec: "sword", dmg: "1d10+1", wound: "edged", mod: true, ranges: [0,0,0], fire: "", cap: 0, mass: 1.6, era: "antique", trad: "tradition_local", desc: "Medieval. Hand and a half. Wants room and rewards someone who has been taught." },
+ { key: "falchion", name: "Falchion", cls: "melee", fam: "melee_weapon", spec: "sword", dmg: "1d8+2", wound: "edged", mod: true, ranges: [0,0,0], fire: "", cap: 0, mass: 1.5, era: "antique", trad: "tradition_local", desc: "Medieval. Heavy at the tip and unsubtle. A cleaver that got above itself." },
+ { key: "war_hammer", name: "War hammer", cls: "melee", fam: "melee_weapon", spec: "club", dmg: "1d8+2", wound: "blunt", mod: true, ranges: [0,0,0], fire: "", cap: 0, mass: 1.7, era: "antique", trad: "tradition_local", desc: "Medieval. For plate, which it does not cut so much as dent inwards." },
+ { key: "mace", name: "Mace", cls: "melee", fam: "melee_weapon", spec: "club", dmg: "1d8+1", wound: "blunt", mod: true, ranges: [0,0,0], fire: "", cap: 0, mass: 1.4, era: "antique", trad: "tradition_local", desc: "Medieval. Flanged. Requires no skill worth the name and never breaks." },
+ { key: "flail", name: "Military flail", cls: "melee", fam: "melee_weapon", spec: "flail", dmg: "1d10", wound: "blunt", mod: true, ranges: [0,0,0], fire: "", cap: 0, mass: 2.0, era: "antique", trad: "tradition_local", desc: "Medieval. Goes round a shield and is nearly as dangerous behind you as in front." },
+ { key: "poleaxe", name: "Poleaxe", cls: "melee", fam: "melee_weapon", spec: "polearm", dmg: "1d10+2", wound: "edged", mod: true, ranges: [0,0,0], fire: "", cap: 0, mass: 3.0, era: "antique", trad: "tradition_local", desc: "Medieval. Axe, hammer and spike on six feet of ash. The best answer to armour anyone found before gunpowder." },
+ { key: "halberd", name: "Halberd", cls: "melee", fam: "melee_weapon", spec: "polearm", dmg: "1d10+2", wound: "edged", mod: true, ranges: [0,0,0], fire: "", cap: 0, mass: 3.2, era: "antique", trad: "tradition_local", desc: "Medieval. Cut, thrust or pull a rider off a horse. Useless indoors and the department keeps eleven." },
+ { key: "billhook", name: "Billhook", cls: "melee", fam: "melee_weapon", spec: "polearm", dmg: "1d8+2", wound: "edged", mod: true, ranges: [0,0,0], fire: "", cap: 0, mass: 2.6, era: "antique", trad: "tradition_local", desc: "Medieval. A hedging tool with ambitions. Every parish had a rack of them." },
+ { key: "pike", name: "Pike", cls: "melee", fam: "melee_weapon", spec: "spear", dmg: "1d10+1", wound: "piercing", mod: true, ranges: [0,0,0], fire: "", cap: 0, mass: 4.5, era: "antique", trad: "tradition_local", desc: "Medieval to Civil War. Sixteen feet. Magnificent in a field, absurd in a corridor." },
+ { key: "quarterstaff", name: "Quarterstaff", cls: "melee", fam: "melee_weapon", spec: "club", dmg: "1d8", wound: "blunt", mod: true, ranges: [0,0,0], fire: "", cap: 0, mass: 1.8, era: "antique", trad: "tradition_local", desc: "Medieval. Six foot of ash. Legal to carry, which is most of the point." },
+ { key: "dirk", name: "Dirk", cls: "melee", fam: "melee_weapon", spec: "knife", dmg: "1d4+2", wound: "piercing", mod: true, ranges: [0,0,0], fire: "", cap: 0, mass: 0.4, era: "antique", trad: "tradition_local", desc: "Medieval onward. Long in the blade for a knife and worn where a knife is not expected." },
+ { key: "longbow", name: "Longbow", cls: "bow", fam: "missile_weapon", spec: "bow", dmg: "1d10+1", wound: "piercing", mod: false, ranges: [30,90,180], fire: "fast", cap: 1, mass: 1.0, era: "antique", trad: "tradition_local", desc: "Medieval. Yew, and a draw weight that deforms the man who uses it. Faster than any firearm here." },
+ { key: "arbalest", name: "Arbalest", cls: "bow", fam: "missile_weapon", spec: "bow", dmg: "1d12", wound: "piercing", mod: false, ranges: [25,60,130], fire: "slow", cap: 1, mass: 5.0, era: "antique", trad: "tradition_local", desc: "Medieval. Steel prod, windlass span. One shot, and it goes through what it hits." },
+ { key: "sling", name: "Sling", cls: "bow", fam: "missile_weapon", spec: "sling", dmg: "1d8", wound: "blunt", mod: false, ranges: [20,50,110], fire: "fast", cap: 1, mass: 0.1, era: "antique", trad: "tradition_local", desc: "Ancient, and never actually obsolete. Ammunition is whatever is on the ground." },
+ { key: "javelin", name: "Javelin", cls: "thrown", fam: "missile_weapon", spec: "thrown", dmg: "1d8+1", wound: "piercing", mod: true, ranges: [10,20,40], fire: "fast", cap: 1, mass: 0.9, era: "antique", trad: "tradition_local", desc: "Ancient. Thrown, and then it is on the ground and somebody else has it." },
+
+ /* --- early modern --- */
+ { key: "rapier", name: "Rapier", cls: "melee", fam: "melee_weapon", spec: "sword", dmg: "1d8+1", wound: "piercing", mod: true, ranges: [0,0,0], fire: "", cap: 0, mass: 1.1, era: "antique", trad: "tradition_local", desc: "Early modern. A yard and a half of point. For duels and for men who expect to be attacked in a street." },
+ { key: "main_gauche", name: "Main gauche", cls: "melee", fam: "melee_weapon", spec: "knife", dmg: "1d4+1", wound: "piercing", mod: true, ranges: [0,0,0], fire: "", cap: 0, mass: 0.5, era: "antique", trad: "tradition_local", desc: "Early modern. The left-hand dagger. Its real job is catching the other man's blade." },
+ { key: "matchlock", name: "Matchlock musket", cls: "firearm", fam: "firearm", spec: "muzzleloader", dmg: "1d10+2", wound: "piercing", mod: false, ranges: [15,40,90], fire: "slow", cap: 1, mass: 4.8, era: "antique", trad: "tradition_local", desc: "Early modern. A burning cord and a prayer. Announces itself for a hundred yards before it fires." },
+ { key: "wheellock", name: "Wheellock pistol", cls: "firearm", fam: "firearm", spec: "muzzleloader", dmg: "1d8+1", wound: "piercing", mod: false, ranges: [8,18,35], fire: "slow", cap: 1, mass: 1.6, era: "antique", trad: "tradition_local", desc: "Early modern. Clockwork ignition, ruinously expensive, and it works in the rain." },
+ { key: "blunderbuss", name: "Blunderbuss", cls: "firearm", fam: "firearm", spec: "muzzleloader", dmg: "2d6+2", wound: "piercing", mod: false, ranges: [5,12,25], fire: "slow", cap: 1, mass: 4.0, era: "antique", trad: "tradition_local", desc: "Early modern. Load it with whatever is to hand. Terrible past twenty feet and decisive within it." },
+ { key: "boarding_pike", name: "Boarding pike", cls: "melee", fam: "melee_weapon", spec: "spear", dmg: "1d8+2", wound: "piercing", mod: true, ranges: [0,0,0], fire: "", cap: 0, mass: 2.4, era: "antique", trad: "tradition_local", desc: "Early modern. Short enough for a deck. The department has them because the department used to have ships." },
+
+ /* --- Napoleonic and Victorian --- */
+ { key: "sabre", name: "Cavalry sabre", cls: "melee", fam: "melee_weapon", spec: "sword", dmg: "1d8+2", wound: "edged", mod: true, ranges: [0,0,0], fire: "", cap: 0, mass: 1.3, era: "antique", trad: "tradition_local", desc: "Napoleonic. Curved, and meant to be used going past somebody at speed." },
+ { key: "smallsword", name: "Smallsword", cls: "melee", fam: "melee_weapon", spec: "sword", dmg: "1d6+1", wound: "piercing", mod: true, ranges: [0,0,0], fire: "", cap: 0, mass: 0.6, era: "antique", trad: "tradition_local", desc: "Georgian. Worn with a coat, not with armour. Kills quietly and leaves very little to see." },
+ { key: "cutlass", name: "Cutlass", cls: "melee", fam: "melee_weapon", spec: "sword", dmg: "1d8+1", wound: "edged", mod: true, ranges: [0,0,0], fire: "", cap: 0, mass: 1.1, era: "antique", trad: "tradition_local", desc: "Georgian. Short, heavy, and it does not care what it hits on the backswing." },
+ { key: "brown_bess", name: "Brown Bess", cls: "firearm", fam: "firearm", spec: "muzzleloader", dmg: "1d10+3", wound: "piercing", mod: false, ranges: [20,50,100], fire: "slow", cap: 1, mass: 4.4, era: "antique", trad: "tradition_local", desc: "Napoleonic. Smoothbore, inaccurate, and it will take an arm off at fifty yards." },
+ { key: "baker_rifle", name: "Baker rifle", cls: "firearm", fam: "firearm", spec: "muzzleloader", dmg: "1d10+2", wound: "piercing", mod: false, ranges: [40,110,250], fire: "slow", cap: 1, mass: 4.2, era: "antique", trad: "tradition_local", desc: "Napoleonic. Rifled, and slow to load precisely because it is. The first weapon here that rewards patience." },
+ { key: "bayonet", name: "Socket bayonet", cls: "melee", fam: "melee_weapon", spec: "knife", dmg: "1d6+1", wound: "piercing", mod: true, ranges: [0,0,0], fire: "", cap: 0, mass: 0.5, era: "antique", trad: "tradition_local", desc: "Napoleonic onward. On the end of a musket it is a spear; off it, an awkward knife." },
+ { key: "martini", name: "Martini-Henry", cls: "firearm", fam: "firearm", spec: "rifle", dmg: "2d6+2", wound: "piercing", mod: false, ranges: [50,150,350], fire: "slow", cap: 1, mass: 4.0, era: "antique", trad: "tradition_local", desc: "Victorian. Single shot, falling block, and a recoil that has bruised generations." },
+ { key: "webley", name: "Webley revolver", cls: "firearm", fam: "firearm", spec: "pistol", dmg: "1d10", wound: "piercing", mod: false, ranges: [10,25,50], fire: "fast", cap: 6, mass: 1.1, era: "antique", trad: "tradition_local", desc: "Victorian to the Great War. Breaks open, ejects all six at once, and is still in a drawer upstairs." },
+ { key: "lee_enfield", name: "Lee-Enfield", cls: "firearm", fam: "firearm", spec: "rifle", dmg: "2d6+2", wound: "piercing", mod: false, ranges: [60,200,500], fire: "fast", cap: 10, mass: 4.0, era: "antique", trad: "tradition_local", desc: "Great War. Ten rounds and a bolt a trained man works without looking. The best rifle in this list." },
+ { key: "trench_club", name: "Trench club", cls: "melee", fam: "melee_weapon", spec: "club", dmg: "1d8+1", wound: "blunt", mod: true, ranges: [0,0,0], fire: "", cap: 0, mass: 1.2, era: "antique", trad: "tradition_local", desc: "Great War. Made in the line out of a table leg and some nails. Quiet, which was the point." }
];
/* ---------- armour (v0.5 §4.8) ---------- */
@@ -138,7 +194,22 @@ export const ARMOURS = [
{ key: "oilcloth_coat", name: "Oilcloth coat", points: 1, mass: 3.0, era: "antique", trad: "tradition_local", desc: "Keeps the weather out and very little else." },
{ key: "brigandine", name: "Brigandine", points: 4, mass: 9.0, era: "antique", trad: "tradition_local", desc: "Plates riveted between cloth. Heavy, quiet, and older than the agency." },
- { key: "hardsuit", name: "Sealed hardsuit", points: 9, mass: 12.0, era: "future", trad: "tradition_transposed", desc: "Sealed, powered and not from here. Also a breathing set — see Gear." }
+ { key: "hardsuit", name: "Sealed hardsuit", points: 9, mass: 12.0, era: "future", trad: "tradition_transposed", desc: "Sealed, powered and not from here. Also a breathing set — see Gear." },
+
+ /* --- the historical range. Weight is the point: everything here protects
+ well and costs you the ability to run in it. --- */
+ { key: "gambeson", name: "Gambeson", points: 2, mass: 4.5, era: "antique", trad: "tradition_local", desc: "Medieval. Quilted linen, thirty layers. Worn alone by the poor and under everything by everyone else." },
+ { key: "maille_shirt", name: "Maille shirt", points: 4, mass: 7.5, era: "antique", trad: "tradition_local", desc: "Medieval. Stops a cut completely and a spike not at all. Wear it over the gambeson or regret it." },
+ { key: "coat_of_plates", name: "Coat of plates", points: 6, mass: 11, era: "antique", trad: "tradition_local", desc: "Medieval. Iron plates riveted inside a fabric coat. The compromise that held for a century." },
+ { key: "cuirass", name: "Cuirass", points: 6, mass: 9, era: "antique", trad: "tradition_local", desc: "Early modern. Breast and back. Proof against a pistol at any sensible distance, and stated so by the armourer." },
+ { key: "harness", name: "Full harness", points: 9, mass: 25, era: "antique", trad: "tradition_local", desc: "Medieval. Head to foot, articulated, and far more wearable than people think — until the third hour." },
+ { key: "buff_coat", name: "Buff coat", points: 3, mass: 5, era: "antique", trad: "tradition_local", desc: "Civil War. Thick ox hide to the knee. Turns a sword, ignores a ball, and never dries out." },
+ { key: "sallet", name: "Sallet and bevor", points: 5, mass: 3.2, era: "antique", trad: "tradition_local", desc: "Medieval. Covers the head and the throat and takes most of your hearing with it." },
+ { key: "lobster_pot", name: "Lobster-tail helmet", points: 4, mass: 2.6, era: "antique", trad: "tradition_local", desc: "Civil War. Three bars across the face. You can see out; that is all that can be said for it." },
+ { key: "jack_of_plate", name: "Jack of plate", points: 4, mass: 6, era: "antique", trad: "tradition_local", desc: "Tudor. Small iron plates stitched between canvas. Looks like a coat until somebody hits it." },
+ { key: "cuirassier", name: "Cuirassier armour", points: 8, mass: 18, era: "antique", trad: "tradition_local", desc: "Early modern. Three-quarter plate for a man on a horse. On foot it is a punishment." },
+ { key: "brodie", name: "Brodie helmet", points: 3, mass: 1.3, era: "antique", trad: "tradition_local", desc: "Great War. A steel plate on a strap. Designed against shrapnel from above and honest about it." },
+ { key: "flak_jacket", name: "Flak jacket", points: 4, mass: 8.5, era: "antique", trad: "tradition_local", desc: "Second War. Manganese plates in a waistcoat. Heavy, hot, and it has saved a great many people." }
];
/* ---------- gear ---------- */
diff --git a/tools/icons.mjs b/tools/icons.mjs
index 58a4d1e..45405f4 100644
--- a/tools/icons.mjs
+++ b/tools/icons.mjs
@@ -147,7 +147,36 @@ export const ICON_MAP = {
/* ---- borrowed authority ---- */
authority:["folder","device",0], authority_flagged:["folder","device",26],
- authority_burned:["folder","device",-26]
+ authority_burned:["folder","device",-26],
+ /* ---- the historical range: medieval ---- */
+ arming_sword:["sword","melee",-4,"antique"], longsword:["sword","melee",-12,"antique"],
+ falchion:["sword","melee",20,"antique"], war_hammer:["club","melee",-30,"antique"],
+ mace:["club","melee",30,"antique"], flail:["club","melee",-36,"antique"],
+ poleaxe:["axe","melee",-18,"antique"], halberd:["spear","melee",-26,"antique"],
+ billhook:["axe","melee",26,"antique"], pike:["spear","melee",34,"antique"],
+ quarterstaff:["bar","melee",-22,"antique"], dirk:["blade","melee",-16,"antique"],
+ longbow:["bow","weapon",-30,"antique"], arbalest:["crossbow","weapon",-24,"antique"],
+ sling:["rope","weapon",38,"antique"], javelin:["spear","weapon",18,"antique"],
+
+ /* ---- early modern ---- */
+ rapier:["sword","melee",-40,"antique"], main_gauche:["blade","melee",40,"antique"],
+ matchlock:["musket","weapon",-34,"antique"], wheellock:["flintlock","weapon",28,"antique"],
+ blunderbuss:["shotgun","weapon",-44,"antique"], boarding_pike:["spear","melee",-32,"antique"],
+
+ /* ---- Napoleonic, Victorian, and the Great War ---- */
+ sabre:["sword","melee",44,"antique"], smallsword:["sword","melee",-48,"antique"],
+ cutlass:["sword","melee",48,"antique"], brown_bess:["musket","weapon",36,"antique"],
+ baker_rifle:["musket","weapon",-38,"antique"], bayonet:["blade","melee",32,"antique"],
+ martini:["rifle","weapon",-42,"antique"], webley:["revolver","weapon",42,"antique"],
+ lee_enfield:["rifle","weapon",46,"antique"], trench_club:["club","melee",22,"antique"],
+
+ /* ---- historical armour ---- */
+ gambeson:["jacket","armour",-16,"antique"], maille_shirt:["mail","armour",-22,"antique"],
+ coat_of_plates:["vest","armour",-30,"antique"], cuirass:["plate","armour",16,"antique"],
+ harness:["plate","armour",-36,"antique"], buff_coat:["jacket","armour",34,"antique"],
+ sallet:["mask","armour",-42,"antique"], lobster_pot:["mask","armour",42,"antique"],
+ jack_of_plate:["vest","armour",24,"antique"], cuirassier:["plate","armour",-48,"antique"],
+ brodie:["mask","armour",30,"antique"], flak_jacket:["vest","armour",-24,"antique"]
};
/** Skill category -> icon key. */
diff --git a/tools/mission.mjs b/tools/mission.mjs
index 1ed1eed..0204333 100644
--- a/tools/mission.mjs
+++ b/tools/mission.mjs
@@ -244,8 +244,64 @@ export function generateMission({ seed = null, rnd = null, ...opts } = {}) {
const esc = s => String(s ?? "").replace(/&/g, "&").replace(/ `
${xs.map(x => `
${esc(x)}
`).join("")}
`;
+/** A table, escaped. Cells may carry markup only when the caller has escaped it. */
+const table = (head, rows) =>
+ `
${head.map(h => `
${h}
`).join("")}
`
+ + rows.map(r => `
${r.map(c => `
${c}
`).join("")}
`).join("")
+ + `
`;
/** The player-facing brief. Everything here is true as far as the agency knows. */
+/**
+ * The players' page. Everything on it is something an agent would be told, or would
+ * see on arrival — the cast's names and what they want, but never what they lie
+ * about; the texture of the place, but never why it is like that.
+ *
+ * The generator was already writing all of this and filing every word of it behind
+ * the GM screen: the timeline, the people, and the two lines of texture that are the
+ * best writing in the whole document. A player brief that opens on a classification
+ * note is a memo. This is a briefing.
+ */
+export function introPage(m) {
+ const first = m.timeline[0];
+ // The LAST timeline entry is the team's own arrival — "today: the team crosses" —
+ // which makes nonsense of "since then, ...". Use the last thing that happened
+ // before they did.
+ const prior = m.timeline.filter(t => !/team crosses/i.test(t.what));
+ const recent = prior[prior.length - 1] ?? first;
+ return `
+
Read this out
+
${esc(m.classification.note)}
+
It is ${esc(m.place)}. You have ${esc(m.duration)},
+and the department has been clear that this is the window and not an estimate.
+${esc(first.when.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + first.when.slice(1))}, ${esc(first.what.toLowerCase())}
+Since then it has not stopped. Most recently, ${esc(recent.what.toLowerCase())}
+
You are going because ${esc(m.anomaly.containment.toLowerCase().replace(/\.$/, ""))},
+and because somebody has to be able to say afterwards that a department attended.
+
+
What it is like there
+${ul(m.texture)}
+
None of that is in the file. It is what you will notice in the first ten minutes,
+and the file was written by somebody who was not there.
+${table(["Name", "Who they are", "What they want from you"],
+ m.cast.map(c => [`${esc(c.name)}`, esc(c.role), esc(c.wants)]))}
+
They are not adversaries. Two of them will be helpful and at least one of them is
+not telling you everything, which is ordinary and is not the same as lying.
+
+
Before you go
+
+
Draw your kit. What you do not sign for, you do not have.
+
Somebody had better be able to make an arrangement, because most cases close that
+way and this one is no exception.
+
Your anchor stays on you. It is the way back and it is the reason you are still
+you when you get there.
+
`;
+}
+
export function briefPage(m) {
// The brief used to open on a classification note and never say where the site
// was, how long the team had, what was likely to be in the way, or how they were
@@ -368,7 +424,8 @@ ${m.timeline.map(t => `
${esc(t.when)}
${esc(t.w
/** The whole case as journal pages, ready to be written into a compendium. */
export function missionPages(m) {
return [
- { name: `${m.codename} · Brief`, content: briefPage(m) },
+ { name: `${m.codename} · Briefing`, content: introPage(m), players: true },
+ { name: `${m.codename} · Orders`, content: briefPage(m), players: true },
{ name: `${m.codename} · The truth`, content: truthPage(m) },
{ name: `${m.codename} · Opposition`, content: castPage(m) },
{ name: `${m.codename} · Phases`, content: phasesPage(m) },