RPG OS v8.1.1
RPG OS v8.1.1 — individual baselines on direct attention
This incremental instruction update follows v0.8.1. It establishes a small current individual basis before portraying a directly attended NPC or resolving their reception. Current campaign formats and resolution-engine rules remain unchanged.
Download RPG_OS_v8.1.1.zip and its SHA256SUMS from this release. The public package is a separate unbound fresh install with Freeform and empty campaign/archive records; it includes no private campaign, character, transcript or artwork.
What changes in play
“I approach her” is enough. When the player singles out an individual for direct attention or interaction, or an NPC directly engages the PC, the GM retrieves or establishes a minimal current baseline before focused portrayal or reception. It does not assume the PC wants company, directions, flirtation or confrontation. Quiet observation supplies neither an approach nor automatic NPC awareness.
A few relevant facts about current activity, orientation, manner or constraints can suffice. Existing people retain their established state. Even a brief clerk or passerby interaction can have a tiny baseline, while background crowds need no individual initialization. Deeper facts and durable records follow actual developments and continuity needs, without a mandatory personal-life inventory.
The NPC responds to what it can actually perceive or legitimately know. Its interpretation may be mistaken and does not declare the PC's intent. Applicable ENGINE procedures still resolve uncertainty; individual description does not invent numerical modifiers. Initial state, reception and later willingness retain their separate scopes. Do not resolve the same question twice or invent a past motive after seeing the outcome.
The standing d6 fallback remains available for eligible unresolved outcomes with too little basis for grounded judgment. Facts, applicable rules and other selected methods keep priority. Existing diceless agreements remain intact, and standing selection still needs no per-roll permission.
Continue an existing campaign
Use the compatible-campaign upgrade procedure in a separate protected copy. Preserve the old runtime, campaign records and evidence. Do not extract blank INSTANCE or ARCHIVE templates over a played campaign. The update does not reset a run, revise its agreement, initialize past encounters or reroll existing people.
PLAY remains read-only. New unsaved state has best-effort retention in the available conversation until an authorized save installs it. This release introduces no new schema, save type, startup file, autonomous NPC process, cast-wide scan or automatic checkpoint.
Documentation and checks
The mechanics guide updates its agent-state diagram and includes a bare-approach example. All nine diagrams remain. Quick start, installation, upgrade guidance and architecture notes reflect the trigger.
Six optional B16 diagnostic cases cover ordering, undeclared intent, routine contact, NPC initiative, source distinctions, rules and persistence. They remain NOT RUN; structural tests and static review do not prove model compliance. The verification report separates observed engineering results from these pending behavioral observations.