• BugReport322

There appear to be some serious typos in the subrace section of lib/edit/p_info.txt. For instance, here's the definition of the Spectre subrace:

S:N:2:Spectre
S:D:B:Spectres only partially exist in the mortal world and so they can
S:D:B:pass through walls. They are somewhat physically weak.
S:S:-5:1:1:2:-3:-6:-3:105
S:K:2:8:7:2:2:7:-5:-2
S:P:-4:80:3
S:M:50:15:0:0:-10:-5:0:0:-10:-5
S:E:0:0:0:0:0:0
S:A:Human | Half-Elf | Elf | Hobbit | Gnome | Dwarf |
S:A:Orc | Troll | Dunadan | High-Elf | Half-Ogre | Beorning |
S:A:Kobold | Petty-Dwarf | Dark-Elf | RohanKnight | Yeek | Wood-Elf |
S:C:F:Warrior | Archer
S:G:UNDEAD | NO_CUT | NO_FOOD | SEMI_WRAITH | NO_SUBRACE_CHANGE
S:R:1:0
S:F:SEE_INVIS | HOLD_LIFE |
S:F:SLOW_DIGEST | RES_COLD | RES_POIS | RES_NETHER |
S:O:70:32:2d3
R:k:+200:+000:Disarming
R:k:+800:+000:Magic-Device
R:k:+700:+000:Spirituality
R:k:+2000:+000:Stealth
R:k:+200:+000:Sneakiness
R:k:-500:+000:Weaponmastery
R:k:-200:+000:Archery

Those R:k: lines are supposed to be S:k:, yes? R:k: would, I think, just apply it to the last defined race, Maia. I've done a few tests to confirm my suspicions: this, for instance, is the starting skill allocation for a level-1 Maia Warrior:

 - Combat                                        02.000 [0.800]
          - Weaponmastery                        00.500 [0.850]
                   . Sword-mastery               00.000 [0.400]
                   . Axe-mastery                 00.000 [0.400]
                   . Hafted-mastery              00.000 [0.400]
                   . Polearm-mastery             00.000 [0.400]
          . Archery                              00.500 [0.600]
          . Antimagic                            00.000 [0.550]
 - Sneakiness                                    01.400 [0.900]
          . Stealth                              03.000 [0.400]
          . Disarming                            01.500 [0.900]
 - Magic                                         01.000 [0.300]
          . Magic-Device                         02.000 [1.150]
 . Spirituality                                  01.500 [0.400]
 . Monster-lore                                  00.000 [0.500]

IINM, Weaponmastery should be 1.000 here; I think we're getting the -0.500 from the Hermit subrace, the last one with an R:k line for Weaponmastery. And here's the starting skill allocation for a Human Barbarian Warrior:

 - Combat                                        02.000 [0.800]
          - Weaponmastery                        01.000 [0.850]
                   . Sword-mastery               00.000 [0.400]
                   . Axe-mastery                 00.000 [0.400]
                   . Hafted-mastery              00.000 [0.400]
                   . Polearm-mastery             00.000 [0.400]
          . Archery                              01.000 [0.600]
          . Antimagic                            00.000 [0.550]
 - Sneakiness                                    01.000 [0.900]
          . Stealth                              00.000 [0.400]
          . Disarming                            01.000 [0.900]
 - Magic                                         01.000 [0.300]
          . Magic-Device                         01.000 [1.150]
 - Spirituality                                  01.000 [0.400]
          . Prayer                               00.000 [0.500]
 . Monster-lore                                  00.000 [0.500]

IINM, Magic-Device should be 0.000 here; the -1.000 modifier that should have come from the Barbarian subrace got applied to the Maia race instead—and then overwritten by the Hermit's +1.000 modifier, which explains the Maia Warrior's 2.000 Magic-Device level.

Changing the R:k: lines in the subrace section to S:k: appears to fix these anomalies.

NeilStevens: Oh, no. Looks like I messed up bad on some of my copy and paste.

NeilStevens: Fixed for 2.3.2.

JulesBean: Demonologists get a [1.800] adjustment to sneakiness. Is that another manifestation of the same bug?