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Vizhon
April 2nd, 2015, 05:59
I have been wanting for a while to use Fantasy Grounds to run a Firefly game... Real Firefly game, using the Firefly RPG and not Savage Planet or D20 or some other more streamlined rule system. There is one thing getting in the way of my using Fantasy grounds for Firefly, though, and my posting this is the last chance for Fantasy Grounds to redeem itself and not have me going to some other medium to run my campaign... Firefly rules uses mixed dice types in making rolls... Anything from a D4 to a D20 in any combination, though anything larger than a 12 sided die is really rare... In order to use the default rolling mechanics in Fantasy Grounds to do the die rolling, it will require rolling separately for each die type and then basically pooling them all together out of the program and figuring out what the results are, which frankly would make me feel like playing was more about rolling dice than actually playing as tedious as it would get. What I want is someone to point me to or tell me how to do the most basic code to roll multiple dice types in a single roll, like say, "/roll 4d4 2d6 d8 2d10 d12". It doesn't need to add anything together or figure out any of the results and if I can get the basics down I can probably figure out how to script in 'Jinx' counting and 'Success' counts, though the later would require working the target number into the command, like, "/roll 2d4 3d6 d12 @3" to roll all those dice against a target number of 3... It just needs to be able to roll the dice and display the results, preferably but not necessarily in the order of lowest to highest die result (regardless of die types).

This isn't the only game system that I've found issues with the built in dice mechanics in FG2, but just a prime example of where Roll X number of die Y and total them does not work.

Trenloe
April 2nd, 2015, 12:16
See the /die chat command: https://www.fantasygrounds.com/wiki/index.php/Chat_Commands

Taking your example above: /die 4d4+2d6+d8+2d10+d12

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/39085830/Screenshots/Fantasy%20Grounds/die%20command%20example.jpg

ddavison
April 5th, 2015, 16:03
Two other options:

1. There are a bunch of macros hotkey slots at the bottom of the screen. Drag 1 or more die of each type you want to roll there and it will build a dice bucket. You can then right-click and assign a label if you plan to re-use it or right-click and choose clear to start over. Then, whenever you want to roll that specific combo, just click on the hotkey or press the F1-F12 button. If you need more, you have another set of 12 hotkeys by holding ALT, then another for SHIFT, CTRL and any combination of those keys.

2. In a CoreRPG sheet, you can use the dice bucket method as well.
I show how to adjust a CoreRPG character sheet inside FG to allow for dice rolls. Just keep dragging whatever dice you need there, like you do for a hotkey -- but this time each entry will be specific to a character and have a name listed on the character sheet.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BG9ovku3T48

Vizhon
April 5th, 2015, 23:40
Okay... I could swear I have tried that syntax before and it didn't work... It is also not documented, because I have checked the documentation trying to find an answer to my problem and all I find is how to roll x number of die y, so pointing me at the documentation is not helpful if it's not in the documentation. "/die [NdN+N] <message>" is the only syntax it lists... Anyway, that solves the majority of the problem but doesn't completely resolve the issue I'm having. Just makes it a little less tedious to work with... I'll take the further problems to researching it myself, before I harp on them here. . . That is, if I decide to stick with Fantasy Grounds as my attempt to post this message has given me two more reasons not to use fantasy grounds but I won't drag those details into the forum.

damned
April 6th, 2015, 05:18
Thanks for pointing out you couldnt find the info in the current Wiki doco.

I have added the dice rolling info to the main Dice entry in the Wiki. https://www.fantasygrounds.com/wiki/index.php/Dice
As Trenloe says this info is also available in the Wiki under Chat Commands https://www.fantasygrounds.com/wiki/index.php/Chat_Commands

These commands have been in the engine since 2009 at least and are in the older documentation.