skills-and-advancement

Nested skill trees use dot-path addressing like "combat.melee.slashing" to automatically create intermediate nodes. This structure organizes complex hierarchies for game design, allowing precise tracking of player and NPC progression.

Use-based improvement drives organic skill growth by incrementing leaf skills through actions like use_skill. This mechanic integrates XP, TNL, and boons to determine advancement speed and combat balance.

Yes, the advancement system supports both NPC and player contexts with different behaviors for skill queries and boon application. This allows separate combat balance and progression tuning for each entity type.

Core progression relies on functions such as add_skill, query_skill, query_skill_level, advance, and earnXp. These manage nested data structures, handle use-based improvement, and apply boons.

You can execute a scripted flow that creates a skill path, increments a leaf skill via use_skill, and queries its level. This validates the nested data structure and confirms advancement mechanics function correctly.