Hey Obsidian Portal Community,
I'm re-posting the material regarding the beta release campaign forum dice rolling here so that it's easier to access; but also so that we have a space for user feedback and discussion. So please feel free to give it a whirl, try it out, give us suggestions, feedback, ideas, criticisms, whatever the case may be.
As something of a new trial stage in our development process, we’ve released a beta version of a new feature for the Ascendant users out there (particularly play-by-post folks I’d imagine). This feature is live right now, and we invite everyone to try it out and give us your feedback. The feature: dice rolls in campaign forum posts of course! These rolls are saved to the post, have unique IDs, and cannot be changed or deleted by the players. There are also fudge options for the GM!
(wow, Thallos might just be in trouble there…) So how does it all work? As seen in the image, there’s a basic format to the rolls with the beginning of the roll being [dice] and the end of the roll being [end-dice]. The full syntax looks like this:
[dice]#d(type)(+- unlimited-modifiers),min=(fudge-roll-up-to),max=(fudge-roll-down-to)[end-dice]
That said, here are a few examples:
The basic functionality for the rules regarding the rolls operates as follows:
Again, please note that this feature is still in the “beta” phase, and we encourage users to report any bugs they may encounter; as well as any updates they’d like to see, or other feedback they may have. This is your chance to impact not only the development of a feature on Obsidian Portal, but to impact the way in which features are developed!
All the best,
- Kallak
Inner Council Member
CotM Selection Committee
Writer/Editor - Words In The Dark
Obsidian Portal Community and Content Manager
GameMaster - Crucible of the Blacksoul (CotM for Jan. 2013)
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We play Table Top and use real dice so I do not use the Dice Roller, but I am glad it is a feature.
"I met a traveller from an antique land....."
CotM May 2016: Mysteria: set in Wolfgang Baur’s MIDGARD.
Previous CotM Aug 2012: Shimring: High Level Multiplanar Campaign
Inner Council Member
This is fantastic as we often cover things in the forums between session that benefit from dice roll!
Hey, I've just read the rules to use the dice roll and I noticed it's not very friendly for success counting, maybe there could be a fudge "type" that never ignores a 1 roll?
Something on the lines of success=(fudge-roll-up-to-unless-1)?
@Mardey, ooh, interesting point. Thanks for bringing this up. I'll take to dev side.
All the best,
- Kallak
Inner Council Member
CotM Selection Committee
Writer/Editor - Words In The Dark
Obsidian Portal Community and Content Manager
GameMaster - Crucible of the Blacksoul (CotM for Jan. 2013)
Is there a formula for rolling different die types to achieve one sum?
Example: Nightwing rolls damage for throwing his projectile disc thing. He needs to roll 1d10 for his strength, 1d6 for the weapon, and gets a +2 because of some extra mechanical benefit. The sum is his damage.
@DMaaron
There isn't a way to combine the rolls into a single damage value with the current dice roller, but you can chain multiple instances of a rice roll together to achieve the same effect. For example:
Attack Roll: [dice]1d20+5[end-dice] (1d20+5)
Damage: [dice]2d6+5[end-dice] + [dice]1d6[end-dice] acid (2d6+5 +1d6 acid)
will display as:
Is there an easy way to roll the same roll multiple times? For instance, in Cyberpunk 2020, automatic fire damage is rolled per bullet that impacted the target. Here is a combat roll example.
-Bob empties his Arisaka SMG mag at the crazed booster gang member. Bob has a chance to hit the gang member up to 30 times.
-Difficulty: 15
-Attack Roll (1d10+Dex+SMG Skill+2 for FA at close range): [dice]1d10+5+3+2[end-dice] =17 vs 15
Damage rolled is determined by how many points above the difficulty. In this case the difficulty was 15 and Bob rolled a 17. That means 3 rounds impacted the booster gang member and 27 other rounds missed. Each 9mm bullet does 2d6+1, requiring three separate rolls. I've tried adding in multiplication, but that didn't work. Am I missing a solution? I guess cut and paste would work, but that is still annoying. I was trying to find a way to quickly calculate the rolls as that is the one big weakness of Cyberpunk's rules.
@Llywelyn, currently there is no multiplication setup in place, but there are definitely systems out there that adding one would really be good for. I'll do my email thing and see what I can do in that direction.
All the best,
- Kallak
Inner Council Member
CotM Selection Committee
Writer/Editor - Words In The Dark
Obsidian Portal Community and Content Manager
GameMaster - Crucible of the Blacksoul (CotM for Jan. 2013)
Although I had previously stated that our group does not use this feature, with the introduction of new lifestyles emerging from the spread of Covid-19, I have looked into it in terms of possibility of use in play by post futures, now that our normal gaming has been halted. Will keep you updated.
"I met a traveller from an antique land....."
CotM May 2016: Mysteria: set in Wolfgang Baur’s MIDGARD.
Previous CotM Aug 2012: Shimring: High Level Multiplanar Campaign
Inner Council Member
Just tried this for the first time- it is pretty cool!
Just trying to help out. Changed name from killervp to Gaming Megaverse to match other sites.
We tried it recently on our Play by Post game. I really like it!
:)
"I met a traveller from an antique land....."
CotM May 2016: Mysteria: set in Wolfgang Baur’s MIDGARD.
Previous CotM Aug 2012: Shimring: High Level Multiplanar Campaign
Inner Council Member
Awesome! Glad y'all are liking it!
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