Multiple Dice per roll

[Snikle]

I am wondering if anyone has found a way to do this, or if this is one of those numerous things that will 'perhaps' be resolved with 1.06.
I am looking at running a Serentiy RPG game and it uses a system where you take one die and add it to another die, sometimes these are the same dice type, but more often than not, they are not.
Thus, for a single resolution you may roll d4 + d6, or d8 +d12 etc. Thus far I have not found a way, either throught grabbing the dice, or by text command to allow you to roll more than 1 die of different types at once.

[richvalle]

Right now you can't. Not sure if this will be in 1.06 or not but I do think this ability is coming along at some point.

rv

[DarkStar]

Should be possible with LUA, maybe not throwing dice, but using text command - very probable, I would say.

[Cypher]

I would really like to see this idea implemented. It is helpful to speed up combat by throwing your damage dice with your attack dice.

Another idea would be to have more than one set of dice with different colours. You could still use the primary dice colour to determine the colour of a player's pointers.

[Snikle]

Someone else mentioned a dice cup, that wouldnt be bad to implement either, a little spot on the chat box that you could drop more than one die into and press on it causes it to empty the contents onto the chat area or something.
darn it, I need this yesterday! Dev's! Where is 1.06? hehe

[joshuha]

With a dice cup though the modifiers become more difficult to apply automatically. You then have to break out modifiers per dice type or something to that effect.

Thats why I think we will see a LUA fix before a graphical interface change like a cup.

[richvalle]

With a dice cup though the modifiers become more difficult to apply automatically. You then have to break out modifiers per dice type or something to that effect.

Thats why I think we will see a LUA fix before a graphical interface change like a cup.

Maybe you can add the modifier before you drop in the die. So: I need an attack at +8 so I make the mod box +8 and add a 20 to the die cup. The die goes away and the mod box clears. Then I want to roll my damage in case I hit. Its +5 so I add the +5 to the mod box and drop the d8 into the box. Then roll the cup. Each mod is attached to its own die/dice.

rv

[Cypher]

that's a nice solution richvalle.

a text shorcut would be sweet too.

/cup 1d20+3 ' could add a 1d20 with a +3 modifier to the cup.

[Snikle]

Yeah that would be nice, something like

/cup 1d20+3 1d4
And it would give you the result:
(16+3) 19 + 2 = 21
or something like that. Should be too hard to add that in, doing a graphically driven way would be more complicated, but if we had the text ability, at elast it could be done.

(( hmm I wonder how many times the Devs have had 1.06 ready, and then we come up with a great idea to add to it, and they stop the release to add that in??? ))

[Paradoxic]

If we can overload text commands with LUA, this would be easy to do. Just rewrite the /die command to split the input into chucks going from the number before 'd' to the next number before 'd'... then call the normal die function for each chunk and return the total.

And even if we can't overload it, we should be able to write our own functions and give them names.

[Cypher]

The only thing I can see that we would want to distinguish is the output. Snickle is looking at systems that roll multiple types of dice, adds the result and returns the sum.

/cupsum 1d20+4 1d6+2
result: (14 + 4) + (2 +2) = 22

I would like to see the ability to throw more than one type of die, and have the seperate results shown.

/cup 1d20+4 1d6+2
result: 14 + 4 = 18
2 + 2 = 4

[Snikle]

I like that, that is an excellent idea.

[Morfedel]

I think I like the idea of a dice cup a lot.