Crucible Version 0.10.1 - Version 14 Alpha

Hello friends, I'm excited to start the week with a Crucible system update that include a bunch of quality of life improvements and bug fixes. Nothing too major here, but laying some foundation for big things to come in the 0.10.x release cycle.

Contributors

Many thanks to the following contributors who added features or improvements as part of this release!

• @roth-michael
• @danielrab
• @XinSysVTT
• @Lioheart

Highlights

• A general system-wide (heroes and adversaries) rule that allows substituting Heroism for Focus
• Improved mechanics for ongoing active effects which require use of one or more hands
• Improved mechanics for actions like Counterspell which partially negate a prior Action's event stream
• Simplified the rule for whether "Fall" action prompts are presented or not depending on whether the Scene has surface regions defined.
• Improve the automation of actions or features which change a creature's Size.
• Numerous bug fixes and tidying

New Features

Combat and Rules

• Added a general system rule allowing any actor, both heroes and adversaries, to substitute Heroism for Focus when spending. #1369
• Allowed all Rune critical hit talents to scale using whatever ability score the associated Rune scales with. #1272
• Added a resources.focus.block prepared record documenting the reasons an actor may be unable to spend Focus, which individual talents can opt into or out of. #1368
• Introduced a concept of "continued hand use" on Active Effects so that maintaining an effect (such as a Grapple) reduces an actor's number of free hands. #1359
• Redesigned action negation to occur on a per-event basis, and updated Counterspell and the Inquisitor to counteract spells using event-stream negation.

Movement and Summoning

• Improved the mechanics for fall surface resolution using a simple razor: whether the scene has intentionally configured surface regions or not. #1262
• Improved the mechanics of terminal waypoint target range for movement-type actions. #1327
• Allowed actions to specify range.maximum = 0 for actions which require base-to-base touch. #1366
• Ensured that a summoned token inherits its summoner's {elevation, level}. #1329
• Implemented a bespoke range clamp mechanism for summon target placement. #1367
• Allowed summons to be explicitly sized by provided token data. #1365
• Improved ruler labeling of forced movement and implemented a mechanism for overriding the calculated movement cost. #1351 #1325

Character Creation and Interface

• Added a prioritized heuristic to suggest auto-equipping weapons and armor purchased during character creation. #1312
• Enabled locking a previewed talent's description in the talent tree via middle-mouse so its nested action tags can be hovered. #750
• Added a Rule enricher that embeds a tooltipped inline element describing a specific game mechanic. #1166
• Added conditional-only autoFavorite behavior for the Recover action. #1263

API Changes

• Further improved the CrucibleAction event-stream confirmation flow with sequential simulation of events for point-in-time resource and effect modeling. #820
• Ensured that skill and spell attacks route through AttackRoll#resolveDamage to compute damage totals. #1315
• Added an AttackRoll#hasDamage convenience getter that replaces inconsistently used checks. #1316
• Made the damage object present on every attack roll's data, not only rolls that dealt damage. #1317
• Updated the Crucible sheets' TABS property to align with the core ApplicationV2 specification. #1331
• Inferred the initial migrationVersion using the adventure quickstart import version. #1296
• Added CrucibleActor disposition helpers.
• Raised the priority with which an action is sorted into the reaction section.

Content Updates

Adversaries

• Added the Prankster creature archetype.
• Improved the automation and rules of the adversary Swallow and Regurgitate talents. #1268
• Added automation for the Iramancer's bonus damage. #1326
• Updated the taxonomies and archetypes used for Earth elementals and modified the associated elemental talent components.

Text and Localization

• Added the missing "DC" abbreviation translation, localizing the default label for unknown defense types. #1270
• Converted additional talent, rules, and item text to use inline enrichers. #1336
• Clarified the rules on the timing of when the Unaware status drops (start of turn). #1259
• Clarified that Intent applies to "actions made within the next Round" but expires on turn start. #1373
• Updated the outdated "within 6 spaces" wording in the Extoll Deeds description. #1374
• Corrected the Gem of Conjured Flame chat description, which used @ref incorrectly. #1299
• Clarified the Disarming Strike description. #1339
• Updated the description of the Pinning Shot action.
• Updated Polish localization strings. #1258

Balance Changes

• Fixed and rebalanced Ferocious Leap, converting it to movement-based targeting and improving its action economy to W-1A 1F. #1274
• Improved the action economy of Ruthless Momentum to W-2A 1F. #1328
• Reversed the progression order for adversary auto-scaling equipment so that weapon quality increases arrive before armor quality improvements, prioritizing offensive challenge. #1264

Bug Fixes

• Socketed the maintenance dialog to the designated owner of the actor. #1242
• Stopped displaying an unmet training requirement for adversary-equipped natural weapons. #1261
• Fixed Provocateur incorrectly making yourself enraged instead of your target. #1269
• Fixed spells using Blood Magic being reversed incorrectly when wounds are applied. #1271
• Fixed physical defense being calculated incorrectly when a character has both Block and Parry. #1273
• Corrected height flexing for the purchased equipment container in character creation so it scrolls vertically. #1275
• Updated token sizes when an actor's talents change, fixing a bug where the Hulking Physique talent failed to resize tokens. #1277
• Fixed an erroneous scrollbar on the action description in chat and the action use dialog at certain UI scalings. #1278
• Avoided removing detail-granted items that are provided by some other active source. #1279
• Fixed the Creation Sheet never showing a step banner label. #1280
• Prevented a strike with a warning, rather than allowing a no-weapon strike, when the only equipped weapon needs to be reloaded (e.g. an unloaded two-handed Mechanical weapon). #1282
• Fixed bomb effects not applying to the thrower when thrown (e.g. Electrocharge Ampule, Alchemist's Fire). #1285
• Fixed Warchanter not extending chants on successful hits. #1289
• Fixed Alchemist's Fire and Caustic Phial dealing typeless damage. #1293
• Corrected assorted bomb consumable misconfigurations: clarified Blast Flask wording to "all enemies who fail to avoid the attack", retagged Choking Ampoule from Reflex to Fortitude, aligned Electrocharge Ampoule and Frostdrop Phial to a Reflex defense, and renamed Frostdrop Phial's action and effect that were mislabeled "Frostdrop Flask". #1294
• Unified tagging across bomb-type consumables, removing the redundant athletics/dexterity tags that clobbered the usage ability bonus. #1291
• Fixed Gambit charging on a glance rather than only on a hit, and All In applying to every roll of an action rather than just the first. #1295
• Fixed Gambit's re-resolve not applying properly to spell attacks, skill attacks, or unarmed attacks. #1297
• Fixed the Invisibility iconic not actually making the character invisible. #1298
• Fixed newly summoned "sprite"-level adversaries assuming a 4x4 size when they should be 3x3. #1305
• Fixed dragging a consumable-granted action to the hotbar producing a nonfunctional macro. #1306
• Fixed versatile weapon grip switching by using sibling categories, so Versatile on a one-handed heavy weapon no longer increases its cost. #1308
• Wrapped arbitrary action scrolling status text in a subtracted parentheses format upon reversal. #1319
• Fixed incorrect armor designation for creatures without an Armor defense, resolving NaN defense percentages and enforcing a minimum defense of 0. #1322
• Fixed the Poison Blades interaction with other actions. #1334
• Fixed spell scroll Touch gestures leaking across scrolls by removing "Touch" as a scroll-grantable gesture, since it is inherited automatically on acquiring any Rune. #1335
• Ensured Crucible preCreate token logic does not clobber token sizing in Ember vistas. #1355
• Verified and fixed removal of the Unaware status at the start of an actor's turn. #1361
• Removed the Falling status when a GM closes a Fall dialog without performing the fall. #1362
• Fixed an error when an action involving time advancement (such as Rest or Recovery) and the action itself both try to expire the same elapsing effect. #1363
• Fixed animation desync issues between the size animation and the hitbox shader. #1364
• Repaired the framework that grants a threat-rank focus bonus to adversaries, so Elite (+1) and Boss (+2) once again receive expanded focus pools. #1370
• Fixed the Kinesis physical damage dropdown continuing to appear and affect spell damage after the actor loses access to the Kinesis rune. #1372
• Fixed War Machine trainings.
• Enabled Patient Deflection and Unarmed Blocking to work when only natural weapons are present.
• Swapped the mainhand requirement for mechanical on the Salvo action.