Help test the new dice roller

[Morrus]

Whipped up a quick page with it in place to see how it looks:

dicetest

 

[IronWolf]

I don't know if I like the graphic representation. If you have to roll six dice pools (4e: minor: How much extra used from healing ability?, standard: attack and damage... on hit another hit and damage roll, free: saving throw) the posts get really cluttered with colored dice graphics.

That was my initial reaction as well. The graphical representation certainly steals focus of the post when really the post itself should be the focus. I suspect most games will hide the rolls behind a spoiler tag though, so that could help. I would pretty much be happy with just seeing 1d20+4=21 though.

 

[Blackrat]

Ok, here's #1 in transparent png to show the finished product. I got to 30 already but now my day is done. Have to continue tomorrow, but now that I'm on good go, I don't think it'll take more than couple of hours to finish.

Once I'm done should I zip them up and upload that as it will take some time to upload them individually?

 

[Morrus]

Yup, a zip sounds ideal. Thanks!

 

[Morrus]

That was my initial reaction as well. The graphical representation certainly steals focus of the post when really the post itself should be the focus. I suspect most games will hide the rolls behind a spoiler tag though, so that could help. I would pretty much be happy with just seeing 1d20+4=21 though.

They'll be below the posts, not in the middle of them.

But we'll add some options later for a "streamlined" view which each user can select via his settings.

 

[IronWolf]

They'll be below the posts, not in the middle of them.

But we'll add some options later for a "streamlined" view which each user can select via his settings.

Very cool! It will be nice to have a dice roller available on these forums.

 

[renau1g]

One suggestion. Be able to roll the dice as you're writing the post, I could only get it to add after I made the post and it said "add dice rolls". It can make it hard to describe your PC's actions without having a general idea of the roll.

Alos, a minimum roll would be cool, i.e. on a brutal weapon, min roll = 2 or something.

 

[Morrus]

One suggestion. Be able to roll the dice as you're writing the post, I could only get it to add after I made the post and it said "add dice rolls".

That's not possible without keeping it secure. If the post does not already exist, there's nothing to attach it to - and the attaching it is the secure part; how does the system know which post it's supposed to be attached to, and what stops you simply changing your mind? There'd be no way to know if people didn't try 100 times till they got the roll they wanted simply by closing their browser after the die roll but before they submitted the post and starting the post again.

You can still edit your post after the die rolls are attached (you just can't edit the attached die rolls themselves). So you can describe your PCs actions that way.

 

[renau1g]

Good point, the security is more important. I will likely just post the actions in an sblock and then edit to include the descriptive text.

Thanks

 

[HolyMan]

Posting to subscribe and see if I see this new option.

EDIT: I don't see the dice roller am I missing something (like a brain LOL).

HM