🎲Welcome Dicebot🎲

[djensen]

I know it’s been a long time coming. But the dicebot is here. Just type out your dice like this …

[dice 1d6 3d4 7d10]

And dicebot will respond, very quickly, with results.

In the future I hope to add some new commands like

3d6<=2 or 3d6>=2 to indicate a "successful result either less than or equal to 2 or greater than or equal to 2.

Lastly, try not to get too angry with @dicebot as it does not use a fancy PRNG (pseudo random number generator), just the one built into nodejs. Plus it’s avatar is soo cute, how can you get mad at that?

[dicebot]

1d6: 3
3d4: 1, 3, 2
7d10: 9, 5, 8, 7, 3, 2, 6

[djensen]

[dice 2d6 2d8]

[dicebot]

2d6: 2, 2
2d8: 8, 4

[Panther]

Simulating an attack:

Simulating an attack with 6 units attacking at 1, 3 units attacking at 2, 2 units attacking at 3 and 3 units attacking at 4:

at 1
[dice 6d6]

at 2
[dice 3d6]

at 3
[dice 2d6]

at 4
[dice 3d4]

[dicebot]

6d6: 6, 4, 6, 6, 4, 3
3d6: 1, 3, 1
2d6: 5, 2
3d4: 2, 4, 3

[Panther]

Or the same attack in brief:

[dice 6d6 3d6 2d6 3d6]

[dicebot]

6d6: 3, 5, 3, 6, 5, 6
3d6: 3, 5, 5
2d6: 2, 2

[Panther]

@djensen Does dicebot support only three rolls in one argument (see above example, where the fourth result is missing)?

[Cernel]

@djensen said in 🎲Welcome Dicebot🎲:

In the future I hope to add some new commands like

3d6<=2 or 3d6>=2 to indicate a "successful result either less than or equal to 2 or greater than or equal to 2.

I guess something like [dice 1d6 3d4] would be used in less than 1% of cases, all the remaining uses being either a single bounch of dice or multiple bounches of the same dice (and almost always d6).

Taking the @Panther example, maybe this formulation would be easier on the users:

[dice 6d6@1 3d6@2 2d6@3 3d6@4]

Not a developer, so no idea if feasible.

[dicebot]

1d6: 4
3d4: 1, 4, 4

[Cernel]

@Cernel said in 🎲Welcome Dicebot🎲:

[dice 6d6@1 3d6@2 2d6@3 3d6@4]

Or maybe even allowing for specifying a default dicesides. For example:

[dice6 6@1 3@2 2@3 3@4]

[Panther]

@Cernel … what would be close to how it worked with the old forum software.

[djensen]

@Cernel This is feasible but I’m trying to make the roller generic so that other sites can use it. Not only that, A&A minis games go in the other direction for dice rolls. I know a lot of folks are not play A&A minis here but now they can.

I’ll eventually allow labels: [dice infantry:3d6<=1 tanks:2d6<=3]

Maybe one day I’ll allow for configuration of aliases. But one thing at a time.

[Cernel]

@djensen Since this is going to be something that likely applies to all bunches of dice, maybe something like this:

Hit results at maximum value:
[dice@Max 6d6@1 3d6@2 2d6@3 3d6@4]

Hit results at minimum value:
[dice@Min 6d6@1 3d6@2 2d6@3 3d6@4]

The first one would mean “rolling so many six-sided dice at this maximum required result to hit”.

[simon33]

Has this been broken with the latest upgrade?

[Panther]

[dice 2d6 2d8]

[Panther]

@simon33 said in 🎲Welcome Dicebot🎲:

Has this been broken with the latest upgrade?

It looks like … @djensen ?

[djensen]

This sucks. I read through all of the change logs for NodeBB and nothing about changes to plugins was mentioned.

[simon33]

[dice 3d6<=3]

[dice inf 3d6<=1 arm 3d6<=3]