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Dice Roller Link.

Posted by Zag24
Zag24
member, 313 posts
Sun 13 Jun 2010
at 18:34
  • msg #1

Dice Roller Link

This came up in the "Dynamic Character Sheets" thread, but I thought it deserved its own topic.

I would like the ability to create a link to the dice roller (for the game that you're in) with the dice-roller fields to be filled in (as many as are specified, with a keyword available for every field).

For instance, in my d20 game, I request that the players roll initiative, attack, and damage all in one roll, so as not to flood the dice roller log.  I even put in their character sheet the correct roll for different circumstances, such as

Walther PPK:  d20+2,d20+4,2d6

It would be cool if I could put in their sheet something like:

<dice manual="d20+2,d20+4,2d6" character="James Bond">Walther PPK</dice>

This would be seen as a link in the sheet when it isn't in edit mode, and the link would bring you to the dice roller (for the game that the document is part of) with all the fields filled in already.  The user would just have to fill in any additional fields (like 'Reason for roll') and click roll.

While I'm wishing, I'd like the character keyword to have a special meaning, in that the value assigned to it is applied EITHER to the 'Character' field or to the 'On behalf of' field, which ever one has such a value available.  (If neither do, then just ignore it.)
LoreGuard
member, 195 posts
Sun 13 Jun 2010
at 22:50
  • msg #2

Re: Dice Roller Link

I'd suggest that there be a value or default unspecified value which would represent the current or default player.

I'd also suggest that the words that make up the link be the starting value for the reason, so it would begin with Walther PPK in the reason field, and character filled out as the current/default character for that player.  [there being an optional tag to do as you suggest filling out the on behalf or for fields.  If the for wouldn't be valid, it would default to the current character.]
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