CREATURE_FORGE_PLAN Part 5. A third button on the Actors sidebar, beside New
agent and New NPC. Pick what it does, how big it is and how bad it is; the
card underneath describes what those settings will actually produce, because
the argument for a derivation over a form is that it can be interrogated, and
choosing between "brute" and "sentinel" from two nouns is not interrogating
anything. The card is itself forged rather than written, so it cannot
describe a creature the derivation would not make.
generateCreature reads the catalogues out of the packs and calls the same
forgeCreature the CLI calls. Natural attacks carry their body-plan
declarations into flags.ringbrp.plans so the engine can read them.
The plan asks that the panel and the CLI cannot diverge, and importing one
derivation was most of that guarantee but not all of it: the two feed it from
DIFFERENT catalogues — content.mjs on one side, the built compendium on the
other. check-forge now builds the engine's view straight out of packs/weapons
and requires both to forge the same creature.
It found a divergence on its first run, in 40 of 90 pairs. The fallback took
the first usable natural attack from the caller's list, and that list arrives
in declaration order from content.mjs and in id order from the pack, so a
tiny vesh brute was punching for the CLI and constricting at the table. The
derivation may not depend on its caller's iteration order; it imposes its
own now.
Not yet verified in a running Foundry. The pure derivation is covered by 450
guarded combinations and the catalogue seam by the agreement check above, but
Actor.create, the pack reads and the dialog itself are the part
check-behaviour says outright it cannot reach. They need a world open, and
that has not happened yet.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
