We have dice rollers!

[d6]

1d6 ⇒ 4

[miniaturepeddler]

Thomas Thiessen wrote:

1d20+3

1d6 ⇒ 4

ok!

[Valegrim]

test
2d10

hmm; thanks to Triomegazero

(dice)XdY(/dice) is the proper code
test 2
(dice)2d10(/dice)

sheesh I dont get it.
oh; brackets
test 3
2d10 ⇒ (4, 5) = 9

Test variation

2d10 ⇒ (3, 10) = 13
2d10 ⇒ (8, 1) = 9
2d10 ⇒ (9, 6) = 15
2d10 ⇒ (9, 6) = 15
2d10 ⇒ (2, 4) = 6
2d10 ⇒ (3, 9) = 12
2d10 ⇒ (8, 6) = 14
2d10 ⇒ (7, 6) = 13
2d10 ⇒ (9, 6) = 15
2d10 ⇒ (8, 2) = 10
2d10 ⇒ (4, 8) = 12
2d10 ⇒ (3, 2) = 5
2d10 ⇒ (5, 2) = 7
2d10 ⇒ (8, 2) = 10
2d10 ⇒ (10, 10) = 20
2d10 ⇒ (9, 3) = 12
2d10 ⇒ (2, 7) = 9

hmm

[Tordek Rumnaheim]

Test

Rolls for initiatives

Init 1d20 + 3 ⇒ (20) + 3 = 231d20 + 3 ⇒ (14) + 3 = 171d20 + 3 ⇒ (19) + 3 = 221d20 + 3 ⇒ (14) + 3 = 171d20 + 3 ⇒ (6) + 3 = 91d20 + 3 ⇒ (10) + 3 = 131d20 + 3 ⇒ (18) + 3 = 211d20 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 71d20 + 3 ⇒ (8) + 3 = 111d20 + 3 ⇒ (12) + 3 = 151d20 + 3 ⇒ (12) + 3 = 151d20 + 3 ⇒ (12) + 3 = 151d20 + 3 ⇒ (8) + 3 = 11

Movie plot spoiler:

Tordek rolls a 1d20 + 1 ⇒ (3) + 1 = 4

It figures...

[Nasserath]

Test

1d20 + 5 ⇒ (20) + 5 = 25
1d20 ⇒ 2
1d20 - 8 ⇒ (16) - 8 = 8

[ciretose]

I may actually try play by post now.

Well done.

1d20 + 2 ⇒ (17) + 2 = 19

[Gruuuu]

ciretose wrote:

I may actually try play by post now.

Well done.

1d20 + 2

?

This has been around for 2 years. Nasserath necro'd the thread

[Andromedanaea]

seekerofshadowlight wrote:

I would like to say Thank you and here have a 1d20

how does the dice roller work?

10d6 ⇒ (6, 6, 5, 1, 6, 2, 3, 4, 2, 5) = 40

[Joesi]

As far as I know it should be quite possible to make this generally uncheatable. I don't know if anyone has stated this before, but here's a simple solution:

Use the time the message was POSTED (not edit) as the source of the seed for the random number generator. Currently it's calling a new seed every time the message is previewed or edited, which is a problem.

Aside from that, there's also the required step of leaving a small placeholder to indicate when a user has deleted their own post. One would have to enure there were no deleted posts made by the user before or after their diceroll post if they were suspicious of cheating.

It makes good sense to have [deleted] placeholders anyway in messageboards, so that user's don't get confused about what's going on (ex. "I SWEAR there used to be a guy saying 'X' but now I can't find it!").

[Deanoth]

1d20 + 11d1000 - 20 ⇒ (11) + (141, 489, 344, 157, 222, 544, 912, 924, 138, 586, 428) - 20 = 4876

[Don Saint -GM]

Testing 1d20 ⇒ 131d6 + 5 ⇒ (2) + 5 = 71d4 + 3 ⇒ (4) + 3 = 75d8 ⇒ (8, 2, 8, 3, 5) = 26 Testing

[Thanael]

Why no advanced dice expressions?

Like for example:

4d6 keep highest 3 dice: 4d6k3
3d6, reroll 1: 3d6r2

[kmal2t]

I didn't see it in this thread, but is this dice roller thing taken from somewhere else? Is it opensource or limited only to this website?

If its open I'm curious how it could be implemented into a standard phb3 (or whatever it currently is at) forum.

[Vic Wertz]

Thanael wrote:

Why no advanced dice expressions?

I'm not sure anyone ever asked for them before!

kmal2t wrote:

Is it opensource or limited only to this website?

It's all custom code.

[kmal2t]

the actual making of the "dice program" couldn't have taken more than 5 minutes. Was implementing it into a website forum hard though?

[Are]

Without knowing all that much about it, I expect it would have been fairly difficult to include the functionality that means rolls are kept when previewing before posting, and the functionality that prevents most forms of cheating through roll-manipulation.

[kmal2t]

Not really. It would require an if statement in the preview button function. It simply saves the data for a type of roll. Not really something that would cause much strain to a programmer.

[Vic Wertz]

It took longer than you might think. The person who did it, Ross Byers, is no longer with Paizo, but from what I recall, the biggest challenges were largely tied to preventing cheating, and making sure rolls wouldn't change between previewing your post, submitting it, and potentially editing it later. Basically, he had to imagine every possible way that somebody might cheat and then come up with solutions that stopped all of them—ideally, without that solution introducing new ways to cheat!

[HangarFlying]

Vic Wertz wrote:

The person who did it, Ross Byers, is no longer with Paizo...

Did I miss an announcement, or have I just not been paying attention? O.o

[Andrew Betts]

HangarFlying wrote:

Vic Wertz wrote:

The person who did it, Ross Byers, is no longer with Paizo...

Did I miss an announcement, or have I just not been paying attention? O.o

If what Ross has said is to be considered fact I believe he is working for Google now.

[HangarFlying]

Nice! How long ago did that happen?

[Andrew Betts]

Started Monday I believe.

[kmal2t]

The preview thing wouldn't be that hard, but I hadn't considered editing. That would be a bit of a challenge. Then again all you'd have to do is when they go to edit it would check to see if there was dice code already in..save the results..and not let it reset.

You could still cheat when using results from this forum in a in-person game by using multiple accounts. A DM would have to prevent this by creating a thread and asking his people to give their SN before posting in the thread.

[Thanael]

Vic Wertz wrote:

Thanael wrote:

Why no advanced dice expressions?

I'm not sure anyone ever asked for them before!

kmal2t wrote:

Is it opensource or limited only to this website?

It's all custom code.

If the programming is modular enough with what's there it should be easier to just add some of the advanced dice expressions. Ross did already solve the big problem and lay the groundwork.

What kind of code is it? Maybe there are snippets available...

[PhilOfCalth]

Are you asking one of us to implement it? Because I'd be happy to have a look if you want to PM me

[Awenydd83]

Xavian Disguise: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (19) + 5 = 24
Aznive Disguise: 1d20 + 20 ⇒ (8) + 20 = 28
Rimble Disguise: 1d20 + 5 ⇒ (10) + 5 = 15
Abaal Disguise: 1d20 - 1 ⇒ (18) - 1 = 17
Ashara Disguise: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (9) + 4 = 13
Nemesis Disguise: 1d20 + 4 ⇒ (10) + 4 = 14

[Gamer X]

8 + 4d8 ⇒ 8 + (7, 7, 8, 5) = 35

[Jeff Morse]

1d20 ⇒ 17

[Jeff Morse]

1d20 ⇒ 9100d1d20 ⇒ (12, 18, 13, 14, 5, 5, 9, 1, 6, 11, 2, 15, 15, 16, 12, 10, 12, 6, 5, 16, 7, 15, 16, 1, 4, 14, 11, 15, 17, 17, 14, 9, 20, 11, 9, 6, 7, 7, 4, 1, 6, 5, 2, 14, 15, 1, 7, 4, 15, 1, 14, 19, 17, 1, 12, 10, 17, 7, 15, 9, 16, 2, 12, 9, 7, 18, 16, 8, 18, 5, 6, 12, 6, 17, 18, 20, 6, 19, 17, 2, 3, 5, 1, 9, 3, 16, 12, 7, 6, 9, 14, 20, 16, 12, 3, 13, 2, 20, 4, 15) = 1023ice]ice]

[Jeff Morse]

1d20 + 6 ⇒ (13) + 6 = 19

[Jeff Morse]

1d20 + 6 ⇒ (6) + 6 = 12 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (4) + 6 = 10 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (17) + 6 = 23 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (19) + 6 = 25 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (17) + 6 = 23 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (19) + 6 = 25 1d20 + 6 ⇒ (8) + 6 = 14