New sandbox experiment: a deterministic, fully-parameterized real-time
combat engine (EQ/Daggerfall lineage) built on a single combined Vigor pool
(health+endurance+mana) with ceiling/fatigue attrition, capacity-as-fill
stagger cascade, symmetric Actors + pluggable controllers, one composable
Ability model (skills==spells), and classless three-layer emergent identity.
Sim-first: headless deterministic engine + batch sweep harness + CSV/JSON
export for data-driven balancing. Rust engine (combat-core/combat-sim) +
Python analysis layer, in its own decoupled combat/ workspace.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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