Howdy Gang,
For the games that utilize dice NoGoblinsAllowed has a built in dice roller that's easy to use with simple BBC tags. For more information you can always check out Gobo_Welders Forum Tips and Tricks thread in the Metaboard.
Feel free to use this thread as a place to test the tool and see how it works, to roll things you need for your games, or simple to flip a coin or make a decision.
GobO_Welder wrote:
Dice
Add dice rolls using the [dice] bbcode:
You can do some math with the rolls:
Dice rolls can be displayed in a few different ways:
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You can choose how dice images are displayed in your user control panel, under Board Preferences > Edit display options > Display dice.
Cheating precautions:
The dice rolls are reasonably secure against "cheating" the rolls.
Best-of rolls:
You can also do "best-N-of-M" rolls: to roll 4d6 and keep the best 2, you would do "[dice]4d6b2[/dice]" to get
All the usual tricks -- arithmetic, different display modes -- work for best-of rolls as well.
Things you can't do:
Unfortunately, the mod we're using to implement dice has some limitations. The biggest ones are:
Add dice rolls using the [dice] bbcode:
Code:
[dice]3d6[/dice]
GobO_Sapper rolled 3d6 and got a total of 10:
You can do some math with the rolls:
Code:
[dice](3d6-4)*2[/dice]
GobO_Sapper rolled (3d6-4)*2 and got a total of 10:
Dice rolls can be displayed in a few different ways:
Code:
[dice=string]3d6[/dice]
GobO_Sapper rolled 3d6:
Code:
[dice=total]3d6[/dice]
GobO_Sapper rolled 3d6 and got a total of 10.
Code:
[dice=inline]3d6[/dice]
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You can choose how dice images are displayed in your user control panel, under Board Preferences > Edit display options > Display dice.
Cheating precautions:
The dice rolls are reasonably secure against "cheating" the rolls.
- Dice are not rolled until the post is submitted, so you can't just preview your post until you get numbers you like.
- Rolls quoted from other posts are always displayed with a link to the original post, so you can't quote rolls you like to copy them. Like so:Someone else wrote:In inline mode: 17[here]
- Removing rolls from a post leaves a notification that a roll has been removed, so you can't roll dice a bunch of times until you get results you like.
Best-of rolls:
You can also do "best-N-of-M" rolls: to roll 4d6 and keep the best 2, you would do "[dice]4d6b2[/dice]" to get
GobO_Sapper rolled 4d6b2 and got a total of 5:
All the usual tricks -- arithmetic, different display modes -- work for best-of rolls as well.
Things you can't do:
Unfortunately, the mod we're using to implement dice has some limitations. The biggest ones are:
- You can't do multiple rolls in one: [dice]3d6+1d10[/dice] doesn't work.
- "Best of" rolls don't work: [dice]4d10b2[/dice] for "4 d10s, best 2". This works now!
Cheers!
~Sapper
