(Nolgroth) Dice Frame

[nolgroth]

Drop-in Resource

I was really impressed with Rumble's diceBox Drop-in. So much so, that I wanted to modify it so that it filled out a couple of features that I thought were missing. Sadly, I am not nearly as conversant in MTScript as Rumble is and had a hard time following the code from one step to another. Not to be dissuaded by such little things, I decided to move forward in my own way. The result is Diceframe. While not technically as sophisicated as Rumble's, I am quite proud of my brute force methodology.

Files:
Diceframe token:

Diceframe_v11.rptok

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Rumble's Dice Table

Install:
1. Download and put the Diceframe_v11.rptok into a Library Folder. From there, drag it onto the map.
2. Download Rumble's dice table. Put it in a Library Folder. From the Tables window, Import the dice table.
3. Select the Diceframe token. Click on the diceFrame macro.
4. Once the dice frame pops up, position it to where you like. I place it high in the window, almost exactly center of the screen. I have a widescreen monitor so horizontal space is abundant.

If something does not work, please let me know and I will fix it. I hope that you may find a use for this.

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Features:

• Individual die roll output.
• Shadowrun 4 style Glitches and Edge re-rolls. (I think WoD uses these too, just for d10 instead of d6.)
• Hide dice total output if you don't want it cluttering the chat.
• Some small help text. For the moment, it outputs to chat. I could not figure out why the dialog() command was not working. I will look more closely at that and see if I can figure out why.

[mfrizzell]

Looks pretty cool I'll give it a try. Thanks

[nolgroth]

Realized that I had messed up on the way mods are applied. Most games apply mods after the die are rolled. While updating that, I made a couple of small changes.

• Updated modifier to stack with dice totals.
• Updated output to indicate modifier.
• Added the » symbol as a separator between the base dice and re-rolled Edge dice. Also made separator a conditional output item.

New file in first post.

[nolgroth]

Looks pretty cool I'll give it a try. Thanks

I was building it for myself, but I thought others might find a use for it. Honestly, for sheer spiffiness, I think Rumble's is pretty cool what with being able to roll multiple kinds of dice and remembering die rolls. Still, no sense in not putting out another resource. Somebody may find it useful for their game.

[pmbruner]

Ok... you know I gotta ask. Does it handle Hero Dice?

[nolgroth]

Ok... you know I gotta ask. Does it handle Hero Dice?

Nope. I could build in simple Hero functionality for Stun dice, Killing Stun Multiple, Knockback and possibly Hit Locations. As I said earlier though, I built it mostly for myself and being that I already have a whole framework for Hero, didn't see a need. I want to be careful that I don't end up trying to support a lot of game systems. That would bloat this thing up to something more than I originally envisioned it to be.

If you want though, I'll look into it.