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slaguru666andClaude Opus 5 20306d83d9 Play a scene with panic; tighten one reference row
Ran LAST ADMISSION's east corridor with the six civilians and real dice. The
track works end to end and, more importantly, the penalty REACHES things:
Ferriby at panic 3 swung at Old Marrow with Brawl 25% printed and 15% effective,
while Sharrock at panic 1 rolled his full 58%. That is the whole point of the
track and it is the part that is usually decoration.

The arc played well. Lights out took four of them to 1. The body took Braithwaite
and Ferriby to 2. Enderby counting took three of them again. Braithwaite fumbled
his Psychology roll trying to talk Colin down, then it said his name — 5, broke,
fled, came back at 3. Renshaw steadied herself on POW×5 and dropped to 1.

One thing I got wrong and one thing worth knowing:

  - I flagged a 99 grading as a fumble as a bug. It is not. A 58% skill fumbles
    on 98-00, and both the primer and the rules page say so in those words. The
    "96-99 never succeed / 00 always fumbles" pair are floor rules, not the whole
    fumble range. Only the quick-reference row was ambiguous — it now says
    "never succeeds ... and is a fumble if it is inside your fumble range".

  - The civilians cannot use two of the three new skills. Occult, Religion and
    Psychology sit at 5% on the "(before)" sheets, so in the prologue the only
    relief that works is POW×5 at 50-85%. That is correct — a site foreman is
    not an occultist — but it means the skills are an AGENT'S tools, and the
    prologue is deliberately the game without them. The agents have them where
    they should: Bhattacharya Occult 63, Lindqvist 58, Renshaw Psychology 40,
    Braithwaite Religion 35.

Version 1.1.1.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-17 21:58:30 +01:00
slaguru666andClaude Opus 5 cbad87ba98 Add Occult, Religion and Psychology, and the Panic track
From the first game's list. The three skills are not decoration — they are the
levers on the new track, which is why they arrived together.

PANIC, 0 to 5, up. It is the other half of Coherence and the rules page says so
in the first line, because a table that confuses them will make the wrong call
at the worst moment:

    Coherence   what knowing has cost you       weeks     10-0, down
    Panic       what is happening to you NOW    minutes    0-5, up

A trigger gives a point with NO ROLL. Asking for a die to find out whether you
are frightened slows the scene and tells the player how to feel; the die is for
getting rid of it, which is the interesting direction.

    0 steady · 1 rattled · 2 shaken -5% · 3 losing it -10%
    4 overwhelmed -20% · 5 broken

The first point is free on purpose, so the opening shock of a scene costs the
table nothing. At 5 you break — freeze, flee or fixate, choose fast — and come
back at 3, not at 0, because breaking is not a rest.

Relief is where the skills come in. A success takes one point, a special takes
two. Psychology is the only thing that steadies somebody who is NOT you.
Religion steadies you alone and does not care whether you are right. Occult is
the odd one: naming a thing correctly, out loud, helps everybody who can hear —
the department's actual work, and the only relief that reaches a room. Plus
POW×5 to steady yourself, and your anchor object once per case, which is what
that briefing scene was for.

The three skills are placed in six registers rather than left floating: Occult
to the professor and to Registry, Psychology to the doctor and to Interview,
Religion to Antiquities and Pathology.

Guards, because a track nothing reads is this project's oldest failure: the five
new rules carry spot-checks in check-rules, and check-behaviour gains nine tests
— the free first point, monotonic penalties, only 5 breaking, clamping at both
ends, breaking not clearing the track, special taking two, every band/trigger/
relief having a label, and every relief naming a skill the catalogue actually
has.

Verified in a live game: penalty reaches the roll (58 → 58 → 53 → 48 → 38 for
panic 0-4, criticals and specials recomputed with it), the full arc runs 0 → 2 →
4 → eased to 2 → pushed to 5 → breaks → 3 with no errors, the sheet shows the
band, and the rules journal has a Panic page generated from the same tables.

Version 1.1.0.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-12 22:55:11 +01:00
slaguru666andClaude Opus 5 ab619f4b73 Remove the dice textures and the whole Dice So Nice path
Deleted: the seven PNGs in dice/, tools/make-dice-textures.mjs, the `npm run
dice` script, the RB_DICE colourset and texture tables, diceSetFor, the
diceSoNiceReady hook, and rbDressDice — which was tagging ten roll sites with
coloursets that no longer existed. 99 lines of module, plus the assets.
README and DEPLOY updated; they still advertised all of it.

Recoverable with `git revert` if it is ever wanted back.

This also explains the 01-that-was-12. The RESULT was never wrong: skillRoll
rolls one 1d100 and grades on roll.total, and the chat card derives the tens and
units it prints from that same total. Checked all 100 values of percentileFaces
and 60 live rolls — the printed faces reconstruct the graded number every time,
with no mismatches.

What disagreed was the ANIMATION. The custom addDicePreset labels registered for
d100 and d10 remapped which physical face means what, so Dice So Nice could land
showing 01 while the roll behind it was 12. Nothing downstream ever read the
animated faces, so no roll was ever adjudicated on the wrong number — but a
table watching the dice had every reason to believe otherwise, which is its own
kind of wrong. Disabling the skins in 1.0.6 already removed it; deleting them
makes it permanent.

Verified in a running Foundry after removal: skill roll, weapon damage, hit
location, major wound and Coherence all resolve and post their cards, no errors,
and game.ringbrp.diceSetFor is gone from the API.

Version 1.0.7.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
2026-08-12 22:45:52 +01:00
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@@ -28,7 +28,8 @@ git clone https://gitea.timevans.uk/slaguru666/RingBRP.git ringbrp
```
Requires **Foundry v13+** (verified against v14.364). No modules are required. Dice So
Nice is supported but optional — the system registers four of its own dice textures.
Nice works if you have it, using your own dice — the system ships no dice skins and does
not touch anybody's dice settings.
### Deploying to a remote Foundry server
@@ -47,7 +48,7 @@ packs or regenerate art on that machine:
```bash
npm install # pulls classic-level, used to write the LevelDB packs
npm run build # rebuilds packs/ from tools/content.mjs
npm run check # the three guards; the build refuses to run if they fail
npm run check # the five guards; the build refuses to run if they fail
```
To update a deployed server: `git pull` and restart Foundry. If the pull touches
@@ -64,13 +65,13 @@ changing underneath a running server.
| **Postings** | 25, each with a key characteristic, trained skills, talents and its own kit |
| **Trades** | 10 ordinary jobs the department recruits from, plus induction |
| **Catalogue** | 236 items — 123 gear, 62 weapons, 32 armour, 19 vehicles |
| **Skills / talents** | 59 skills, 19 talents |
| **Skills / talents** | 62 skills, 19 talents |
| **Bestiary** | 21 statblocks across folklore, horror and the far side |
| **Eras** | modern, antique, future, anomalous — the agency is old and never abolishes anything |
| **Icons** | 292, all generated from `tools/icons.mjs`; no external art |
| **Starter scenario** | **BLACK PLATFORM**, a six-player action starter, importable as a single Adventure |
| **Compendia** | pregens, NPCs, skills, weapons, armour, gear, vehicles, powers, tables, rules, the starter |
| **Rules journal** | 12 pages, generated from `rules.mjs` so the book cannot drift from the code |
| **Rules journal** | 13 pages, generated from `rules.mjs` so the book cannot drift from the code |
<!-- box:end -->
---
@@ -152,13 +153,12 @@ template.json data model for every Actor and Item type
templates/ Handlebars sheets
styles/ one stylesheet
lang/en.json all user-facing text
icons/ dice/ fonts/ generated art
icons/ fonts/ art/ generated art
packs/ built LevelDB compendia (committed — see Deploying)
tools/
content.mjs the catalogue: skills, weapons, armour, gear, vehicles, NPCs
build-packs.mjs builds packs/ — runs the three guards first and refuses on failure
build-packs.mjs builds packs/ — runs the five guards first and refuses on failure
make-icons.mjs draws all 231 icons
make-dice-textures.mjs
rules-text.mjs generates the rules journal FROM rules.mjs
mission.mjs the case generator
mission-tables.mjs its content tables
@@ -176,13 +176,13 @@ stops being identity-equal to what it aliases, if a constant is re-declared as a
literal, or if an exported rule has no spot-check. The packs used to be built under
one set of numbers and played under another; this makes that impossible to ship.
The build runs all three guards before it writes anything:
The build runs all five guards before it writes anything:
<!-- guards:start -->
```
check-rules: OK — 87 rules, 21 files scanned, 3 aliases + 41 constant sets checked, 275 formulas verified
check-rules: OK — 92 rules, 20 files scanned, 3 aliases + 45 constant sets checked, 290 formulas verified
check-kits: OK — 25 roles, 10 trades, 218 catalogue items, every kit key resolves, every posting can use what it carries, every loadout distinct
check-lang: OK — en.json, 945 keys, no leaf/branch collisions
check-behaviour: OK — 46 behavioural tests
check-lang: OK — en.json, 976 keys, no leaf/branch collisions
check-behaviour: OK — 55 behavioural tests
```
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```bash
npm install # classic-level, for writing LevelDB
npm run check # the three guards
npm run check # the five guards
npm run build # rebuilds packs/
node tools/make-icons.mjs # redraws all icons
node tools/make-dice-textures.mjs # regenerates the Dice So Nice textures
```
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"RINGBRP.Item.ArtRating": "Rating",
"RINGBRP.Item.PushCost": "Push cost",
"RINGBRP.Item.PushRule": "What pushing does",
"RINGBRP.Item.Origin": "Where it came from"
"RINGBRP.Item.Origin": "Where it came from",
"RINGBRP.Panic.Label": "Panic",
"RINGBRP.Panic.Steady": "Steady",
"RINGBRP.Panic.SteadyNote": "You are all right. You are doing the job.",
"RINGBRP.Panic.Rattled": "Rattled",
"RINGBRP.Panic.RattledNote": "Your hands are not quite steady. No penalty — the first one is free.",
"RINGBRP.Panic.Shaken": "Shaken",
"RINGBRP.Panic.ShakenNote": "−5% to everything. You keep checking the way you came in.",
"RINGBRP.Panic.Losing": "Losing it",
"RINGBRP.Panic.LosingNote": "−10% to everything. You are talking too fast and not hearing answers.",
"RINGBRP.Panic.Overwhelmed": "Overwhelmed",
"RINGBRP.Panic.OverwhelmedNote": "−20% to everything. One more and you go.",
"RINGBRP.Panic.Broken": "Broken",
"RINGBRP.Panic.BrokenNote": "You freeze, run, or go at it. Choose one, take it, and come back at 3.",
"RINGBRP.Panic.Trig.WrongThing": "Something that should not be there",
"RINGBRP.Panic.Trig.Touched": "It touched you",
"RINGBRP.Panic.Trig.Body": "A body",
"RINGBRP.Panic.Trig.Known": "Somebody you knew",
"RINGBRP.Panic.Trig.Dark": "The lights went",
"RINGBRP.Panic.Trig.Wounded": "A major wound",
"RINGBRP.Panic.Trig.Named": "It said your name",
"RINGBRP.Panic.Relief.Steady": "Steady yourself (POW×5)",
"RINGBRP.Panic.Relief.Religion": "Religion — something older than the department",
"RINGBRP.Panic.Relief.Psychology": "Psychology — talk somebody else down",
"RINGBRP.Panic.Relief.Occult": "Occult — name it, out loud, for everyone who can hear",
"RINGBRP.Panic.Relief.Anchor": "Your anchor, once per case",
"RINGBRP.Panic.Gained": "{name} — panic {from} → {to}",
"RINGBRP.Panic.Eased": "{name} — panic {from} → {to}",
"RINGBRP.Panic.Breaks": "BREAKS — freeze, flee, or fixate. Choose, take it, come back at 3.",
"RINGBRP.Panic.NoChange": "No change.",
"RINGBRP.Flavour.Panicking": "panicking ({mod}%)",
"RINGBRP.Chat.ToEverything": "to everything"
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"scripts": {
"build": "node tools/build-packs.mjs && node tools/update-readme.mjs",
"icons": "node tools/make-icons.mjs",
"dice": "node tools/make-dice-textures.mjs",
"check": "node tools/check-rules.mjs && node tools/check-kits.mjs && node tools/check-lang.mjs && node tools/check-templates.mjs && node tools/check-behaviour.mjs",
"test": "npm run check",
"readme": "node tools/update-readme.mjs"
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