benknoble
commented
6 months ago After digging in to this in some depth, here are my conclusions:
- It is not useful for "L" to appear in a monster stat formula: the monster's statistics are already (in a primordial, set -> set sense) a function of the monster's level, since they are bundled together. That is when writing the
[hp "…"]formula for a stat[normal 3, you know that the monster level is 3! - It might be useful (though not in Frosthaven's standard monsters) to know the scenario level in a formula. This would only differ from the monster level specifically when a monster was scaled up or down, though.
- Thus, "L" referring to the scenario level is not a bug and is working as intended (indeed, it's never used in a monster stat anyway, and only while intending to support its use did I figure all this out).
Also:
- monster groups do store the level (https://github.com/benknoble/frosthaven-manager/blob/72b0f585af1bec667df6b0dea83b7b43b93e7323/defns/monsters.rkt#L26)
- the adjusted level is accounted for by
make-monster-groupand inadd-monster-group - thus later functions know exactly which stats are interesting (based on the monster group) but can still be aware of the scenario level if desired.
The
monster-stats-max-hp*takes anenv, but IIRC the environment that's used always hasLas the scenario level. When adjusting the level of the monster group before adding it, the new level is not taken into account for max HP and other formulas (it is only used for the stats level to apply). This is partly because monster groups don't store the level.