Combat & Survival¶

Mechanics that change how a fight goes -- what a hit costs, what survives one, and what a body carries while it happens.

• Damage mitigation funded by currency — a shield that spends money — A ward that buys off damage a point at a time — charging first, because a mitigation that can be sized to the payment should be
  Health, Currency · Subtle
• Diminishing returns on healing — Anti-stacking diminishing returns, on the one Health seam the pipeline consumes and nothing implements
  Health · Composite
• Last stand — survive one lethal hit, then the cooldown — Survive one otherwise-lethal hit, then go on cooldown — and only spend the save when it was needed
  Health · Focused
• Non-stacking debuffs — only your worst debuff counts — Two 1.5x curses make you take 50% more damage, not 125% — on the one seam the framework checks first and nothing implements
  Health · Composite
• Seeded crit rolls — an encounter that replays roll for roll — One seeded crit stream shared by every CritRule, so an encounter replays roll for roll — through the one of two install doors that survives a re-enable
  Health · Composite
• A status effect that drains currency — a curse that bleeds gold — An effect you wrote yourself, draining currency every second through the ordinary status pipeline
  Status Effects, Currency · Focused
• Status effects on hit — fire damage that actually sets you on fire — A hit tagged Fire leaves a burn behind — and the burn still runs out, because a status tick comes back through the same pipeline carrying the same tag
  Health, Status Effects · Subtle

Filed elsewhere, but they answer this too¶

These live under another heading — the sidebar puts each recipe in one place so you can find it again — and they are here because they genuinely answer this question as well.

• Ability system from Health and Status Effects — four parts you already own — Charging before you know whether the spell landed is how a boss’s immunity bills the player for nothing — the ordering that prevents it, and the one comparison that answers it
  Health, Status Effects · Subtle · filed under Systems You Own
• Crafting priced in health — recipes that cost blood — A bench that charges health: it refuses what you cannot survive, and takes the price when the craft lands
  Crafting, Health · Composite · filed under Crafting & Progression
• Crafting that outputs a status effect — brewing straight into a buff — A craft that ends in an effect on the crafter rather than an item in the bag
  Crafting, Status Effects · Composite · filed under Crafting & Progression
• Death drops from the actor's real inventory — On death, scatter some of what the actor was actually carrying — a drop table built from the corpse, not authored in advance
  Health, Inventory, Loot · Composite · filed under Loot & Rewards
• Dynamic loot odds — drop rates that shift with the player's condition — Better odds when the player is nearly dead, or while a buff is running — real odds, decided at the roll
  Loot, Health, Status Effects · Composite · filed under Loot & Rewards
• Equipment that applies status effects — a cursed item — Wearing it applies a status effect; taking it off removes that one and leaves the potion's alone
  Inventory, Status Effects · Subtle · filed under Items & Equipment
• Health as currency — a shop that takes payment in blood — The same shop service and the same price bundle, with a wallet that happens to be a body
  Economy, Health, Currency · Focused · filed under Shops & Economy
• Kill attribution from the health component — who killed it — The killer is already recorded on every hit — read it inside Died and kill credit is a subscription rather than a plumbing job through your own damage calls
  Health · Subtle · filed under Systems You Own
• Offline time for status effects — buffs that run down while the game is closed — Offline time that expires effects rather than running them, on a save participant that has to go last
  Status Effects, Save · Subtle · filed under Persistence & State
• Paid healing — a healer who charges by the point — Bill for the healing that actually landed, not the healing that was asked for
  Health, Currency · Composite · filed under Shops & Economy
• Wiring stats into damage multipliers — The four stat seams Health and Status Effects already publish disagree about what "no change" means, and two of them quietly discard your answer
  Attributes, Health, Status Effects · Composite · filed under Characters & Stats

Related¶

• The whole Cookbook — all 46 recipes, the full table, and what the systems and shape columns mean.
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