ToME: the Tales of Maj'Eyal

I just lost a good character because I had various sustained talents set to auto-use when enemies weren't visible, which turns out not to be 100% safe (since sometimes dangerous enemies attack without becoming visible, and if you just stepped out of a fight with the Weirdling Beast then an enemy like that plus your auto-use settings could get you killed... as just happened to me).

I thought maybe switching to auto-use when out of combat would work better, but I don't actually know what that means. What does it mean? Would it have saved me from this death?

I believe at a minimum:
-all regenerating resources at max
-no talents on cooldown

That's what it seems to take to respect, but I could be wrong here.

Hmm your stories conflict. But either one of those would have saved me. The trouble was that I took two full turns' worth of attacks and automatically turned on a sustained talent in between the two - either one of those rulesets would have blocked the automatic turn-on by detecting the first of the two turns' worth of attacks. The enemy never became visible, but according to my log it DID inflict damage on the first turn, so my resources would not have been at maximum and my five-turn damage-taking counter would have been about four turns away from finishing.

Did a quick search on the codebase for it, here's the relevant bit.

Seems to be:

• Check FoV for enemies
• Check if damage was taken
• Check if damage dealt
• Check for temp. detrimental effects
• 5 turns

As far as I can tell, starsapphire has it right.