Question about mods. I feel the question of the starting weapon for the Warper background needs to include staff

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What is the condition I would need to look at to try to mod it?

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First thing you’ll want to check out is crawl-ref/source/dat/jobs/warper.yaml. You’ll see warper starts with weapon_choice: plain. The quarterstaff is too powerful to be included in plain weapons. Gladiator and Fighter use weapon_choice: good and quarterstaff is choosable there. However because Fighter starts with a shield, only Formicid will be offered the two-handed quarterstaff.

Some options:

  1. Use weapon_choice: good instead. (a general buff to warpers)
  2. Modify weapon_choice: plain to include quarterstaves. Modify _get_weapons in newgame.cc. (a buff to many backgrounds)
  3. Make it so Warpers always start with a quarterstaff. Just add the staff to the equipment list in warper.yaml (+ remove weapon_choice line so it defaults to none)
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Thank you very much