New! Dice Roller is Installed

[Jennifer]

@ncscswitch:

If you try to edit a post with a dice roll in it, the roll goes away and all you get is the command line.

Which is a very nice feature, btw.

[Guest]

Agreed.  Without it, it would be worthless for gaming.

[djensen]

another try?
Rolling 10 6-sided dice:
1, 6, 4, 4, 5, 1, 3, 5, 6, 6

[murphybilly82]

:bice10d6:

[murphybilly82]

Rolling 3 6-sided dice:
3, 1, 1

[murphybilly82]

Three tanks
   Rolling 3 6-sided dice:
1, 3, 5
Two infatry
   Rolling 2 6-sided dice:
1, 5
one fighter
   Rolling 1 6-sided dice:
1

[Rattenkrieg]

hehe this could be fun

does it work for 12 sided?

:dice2d12:

or just 6 sided

:dice4d6:

[Rattenkrieg]

oops, tries again

Rolling 2 12-sided dice:
5, 7

Rolling 4 6-sided dice:
3, 1, 6, 3

[murraymoto]

had to try it out, gearing up to play, this is great!

Rolling 5 6-sided dice:
2, 5, 3, 2, 1

[ficas]

TESTING

Rolling 3 6-sided dice:
3, 2, 6

[Guest]

Modifier test….

:dice 1d31+1:

[Guest]

One more attempt…
:dice 1d31 +1:

[Guest]

And outside the colons…
Rolling 1 31-sided dice:
9+1

[Guest]

So much for that idea…

[Imperious Leader]

How exactly do you use this thing?

[frimmel]

@Imperious:

How exactly do you use this thing?

It is groovy. If you have a small battle and are a competent typist you can type the code :mice xdy: and a random number will be generated. Howevre you must use dice instead of mice. x is the number of dice you want to roll and y is the number of sides on the dice or the range for which you need a random number.

Rolling 1 6-sided dice:
5

Rolling 1 12-sided dice:
10

Rolling 1 100-sided dice:
3

or
Attacking INF (3) need 1s
Rolling 3 6-sided dice:
1, 6, 2

Attacking ART (1) and matched INF (1)
Rolling 2 6-sided dice:
5, 4

Defending INF (2)
Rolling 2 6-sided dice:
3, 5

Or
1 INF, 2 TANKS and 1 RTL in BOTB
Rolling 8 12-sided dice:
3, 10, 9, 6, 2, 10, 5, 3

Switch was trying to do some geeky D&D stuff and give a bonus to the random result.

[Guest]

LOL, yep it was indeed my AD&D game heritage that went into thsoe dice attempts.

But alas, AD&D appears to be passe, so it did not work

But I was able to work out the pairings for the Tournament anyway :-D

[frood]

I’ve been using this and actually liking it more than frood.net in some ways - the results are there and saved in the forum immediately, and you don’t have to have as many windows/tabs etc. Also, even pretty complicated battles can be done fairly easily, ex:

(reliving my most glorious recent combat, killed 73 IPCs and lost 35 IPCs:)

Karelia: 14 Inf 4 Art 3 Arm defending v. 5 Inf 14 Arm 6 Ftr 1 Bom

Dice:
Attacking (in sequence: 5 @ 1, 20 @ 3, 1 @4)
Rolling 26 6-sided dice:
2, 1, 1, 5, 6, 2, 1, 3, 6, 6, 3, 3, 6, 4, 1, 1, 3, 2, 3, 6, 1, 3, 3, 5, 3, 2
Defending (18 @ 2, 3 @3(
Rolling 21 6-sided dice:
2, 1, 2, 5, 4, 3, 6, 4, 2, 5, 6, 2, 2, 5, 2, 5, 1, 2, 2, 2, 2

[Guest]

The problem there is to distinguish what units are what… thus the multiple entries for various units.

[frood]

That’s solved by declaring eg “5@1, 20@3, 1@4”, so you know that the first 5 have to be 1’s to hit, the rest all have to be 3 or lower except the very last one which could be a 4.

It would be nice if this gadget could be simplified, so that eg. you only had to type  :5d6: to roll 5 dice

Also, it’s nice because you can’t cheat it, because the forum doesn’t let you post actual html code, eg:

Rolling 8 12-sided dice:
3, 10, 9, 6, 2, 10, 5, 3