Testing the dice roller...
- Thread starter Morrus
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Theo R Cwithin
I cast "Baconstorm!"
d'oh! Thanks for the heads up, @Morrus. Will they cycle off the bottom eventually, or are they there for good?
I don't really pbp, so i doubt it'll be a problem for me. However, if it is a problem on your end resource-wise, feel free to sweep them out, or delete all my posts/rolls from the previous page in this thread, or whatever works for you.
Sorry!
Now that I know what's going on, it won't happen again. But really, sometimes it's good to have an incompetent orc floundering around to test the system's limits, no? 
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Blackrat
He Who Lurks Beyond The Veil
Awesome! Well at least he proved the system can handle pretty large number of dice at once
Merkuri
Explorer
Suggestion for the dice roller (apologies if this has been suggested before and I missed it):
Instead of the large graphical interface you have now (or in addition to it) allow users to type in a dice "equation". Many virtual tabletop programs work like this (OpenRPG and MapTool being two I've used... I think Invisible Castle also uses similar notation). These are all valid "d-notation" equations:
1d20+7
1d5-3
2d10+1d6+7
1+1+1+3d12
1d6/2
(1d20+7)/2
Some programs also provide functions like max, min, floor, ceiling, droplowest that you can use like this:
max(1d20, 1d20) = roll 1d20 twice and take the highest
droplowest(4d6) = roll four d6s, drop the lowest d6, add up the rest
floor(1d20/2) = roll a d20, divide the result by 2, round down to the nearest whole number
You might be able to find a pre-created engine somewhere that'll parse all of this for you so you don't have to create it from scratch.
You could combine this with your current die roller interface by adding a "Advanced roll" option at the bottom, and make the user choose between a "basic roll" and the "advanced roll".
Instead of the large graphical interface you have now (or in addition to it) allow users to type in a dice "equation". Many virtual tabletop programs work like this (OpenRPG and MapTool being two I've used... I think Invisible Castle also uses similar notation). These are all valid "d-notation" equations:
1d20+7
1d5-3
2d10+1d6+7
1+1+1+3d12
1d6/2
(1d20+7)/2
Some programs also provide functions like max, min, floor, ceiling, droplowest that you can use like this:
max(1d20, 1d20) = roll 1d20 twice and take the highest
droplowest(4d6) = roll four d6s, drop the lowest d6, add up the rest
floor(1d20/2) = roll a d20, divide the result by 2, round down to the nearest whole number
You might be able to find a pre-created engine somewhere that'll parse all of this for you so you don't have to create it from scratch.
You could combine this with your current die roller interface by adding a "Advanced roll" option at the bottom, and make the user choose between a "basic roll" and the "advanced roll".
GandalfMithrandir
First Post
Lots of dice MWAHAHAHA!
KerlanRayne
Explorer
Testing, 1.2.3.
