Health/death/body.

[ndouglas]

Story

I've been thinking about how to handle this -- give things a "health" component? A "fighter" component? Nothing sounded quite right.

I think a better approach might be to describe the physical form of the entity and how that can be damaged. Then we'll handle attack separately.

Body should be separate from species and breed.

Not sure how to figure out damage resistances, etc, but it'll come to me.

Acceptance Criteria

• [ ] I've pondered this idea at length and have opened a followup issue to address my findings.

[ndouglas]

Currently, bodies are just a struct with total HP and current HP.

Ideas for the future:

• define types of damage that an attack can produce. Some thoughts (from D&D 5e):
  • Acid
  • Bludgeoning
  • Cold
  • Electric
  • Fire
  • Force
  • Light -- can damage certain undead, maybe
  • Necrotic
  • Piercing
  • Poison/Toxic
  • Psychic/Psionic
  • Radiant
  • Slashing
  • Thunder
• define vulnerabilities/resistances based on these (and/or type advantages?)
• define body plans
  • a body plan defines which body parts a body has
• define body parts
  • a body part consists of
  • a name
  • a label
  • a condition
  • hit points
  • if it is the dependent of another part (e.g. a hand is dependent of the arm), so when an arm is disabled, the hand is as well
• define body part conditions
  • degrees of damage (normal, injured, badly injured, severely injured, disabled)
  • flags indicating permanent damage (charred, corroded, corrupted, broken, crushed, severed, dissolved, rotted, disabled, paralyzed...)
  • flags indicating temporary damage (burned, frozen, bruised, cut, gashed,...)
  • flags indicating temporary effects (bleeding/bleeding heavily/bleeding AWFULLY, numb, weak, etc)
• define body conditions
  • thinking of common condition flags, like paralyzed, unconscious, etc