SpawnMonsters

Referee: spawn monsters and open an encounter at a distance.

Full documentation: SpawnMonsters. Wire type: spawn_monsters.

Legal session modes: battle, encounter, exploring, town

JSON Schema

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  "description": "Referee: spawn monsters and open an encounter at a distance.\n\nThe party must be standing in a dungeon with no encounter already open \u2014\nencounters live on the dungeon grid. Spawning is the one referee power a\nterminal session withholds: an encounter is play, and a session that has\nended opens no new play state, so this is illegal in `game_over` and\n`victory` alike. Exactly one of `count_dice` or `count_fixed` is required.\n\nModes:\n    `town`, `exploring`, `encounter`, `battle`\n\nRejections:\n    - `session.command.unknown_monster` \u2014 `template_id` names no monster.\n    - `session.command.encounter_in_progress` \u2014 an encounter or battle is\n      already open.\n    - `session.command.not_in_dungeon` \u2014 the party is not on a dungeon cell.\n\nEvents:\n    [`MonstersSpawnedEvent`][osrlib.crawl.events.MonstersSpawnedEvent], then\n    the encounter opening \u2014\n    [`SurpriseRolledEvent`][osrlib.crawl.events.SurpriseRolledEvent]s,\n    [`EncounterStartedEvent`][osrlib.crawl.events.EncounterStartedEvent], the\n    reaction roll and\n    [`StanceChangedEvent`][osrlib.crawl.events.StanceChangedEvent]; an attacks\n    stance opens battle at once.",
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