Dice pools? Dice pools.

Here's a thought(?)/question (?) on dice rules;
Dice pool rule
-Define dice
-add dice to the roll pool somehow before rolling
-GM posting a roll for players to click and add to their post.

Is any of this somehow achievable already?
How hard would it be to implement?

Asking for a friend.

'Dice pools' are not a really well-defined term. They all revolve around a set of rules for interpreting the result. Would the roller not need to understand what to do with the dice once they are rolled?

For now we can collect the needed dice by discussion and then roll the number needed, and the humans can interpret what they mean.

Being able to keep just the highest or lowest helps with many dice pool rulesets.

Do we yet have the ability to not add up the dice? That would be useful for dice pools where the total does not matter.

I'll try to outline the case a bit better.

A character has traits and items.
Each trait and item adds dice to your rolling pool.

Ok,ok. How about a variable (checkbox?) that when it's true, it adds a d(something) and the end roll is calculated by variable total?

Rules can define the details, e.g. highlighting successes etc, like TftL rules.

Yah, I'm still confused on how this would work too. Can you provide an example? It would be hard to code something like that.

Basically, instead of adding a new roll when clicking on a rolls field, it would just add those dice to an existing roll.

At least that's what I think Antiproduct wants and what I have been thinking about for a while now as well

Basically, if you select

Trait A | 2D6

and

Trait B | 1D8

on your sheet, the current system would turn that into two rolls:
Trait A | 2D6
Trait B | 1D8

But a dice pool system would turn that into one roll:

Trait A, Trait B | 2D6, 1D8

Basically, I'm starting every post with basically

Why's this better?

Because it takes up less space and looks better. And because then I would actually use it for games like Cortex if it worked like that, while right now, I still do that manually

This mechanism would also apply to Genisys (or however they spells it) and the FFG Star Wars games.

If you're not mixing dice types, something like this might work for what you are describing?

[abilities="Character Sheet"]
Base Proficiency: [_base=1]
Ability: [_abl=3] | Active ? [_ablBool=1/1]
Equipment: [_equip=2] | Active ? [_equipBool=1/1]
Other bonuses: [_bonus=1/5]

[table="rolls"]
Action | Roll
Do Action (with Abl/Equip/Bonus?) | [_$=base+abl*ablBool+equip*equipBool+bonus]d20
[/table]
[/abilities]

You can adjusted the boxes that currently apply to the action and then click roll.

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If you need mixed dice, then we might need a new BBCode tag, maybe something like:

[dicepool]
[_$=base]d20 + [_$=abl*ablBool]d8 + [_$=equip*equipBool]d6 + [_$=bonus]d4
[/dicepool]

Which would render to a clickable button: 1d20 + 3d8 + 2d6 +1d4
When clicked the whole expression is added to a single Roll field.

Dice rules could then interpret the results.

So every time you click a dice roll, it munges the reason and roll onto the last one of the same type (provided there's room)?

I just looked at it with some player data from one of my games.



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I'm not sure it looks better. It looks like a bloody mess to me.

Because you're using it for what it wouldn't be made for. The intention isn't to mash a couple of unrelated rolls together (though you could use it for attack roll and damage) but to make one roll look like one roll



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And the thing is, this is one roll/action.
You need to take all these results as one roll. It makes much more sense to have them all right with each other rather than spread out like this.

I have to take your word that your first example is clearer.

But how's the computer supposed to know which rolls are related?

I think my [dicepool] tag idea (above) would accomplish that

That already works without a dicepool tag (if I understand the requirement).

In bowl's case, it might be something like this:

[abilities="Character Sheet"]
Teams: [_t=8] [_tBool=1/1]
Uncompromising: [_u=8] [_uBool=1/1]
Superhuman Punch: [_sp=10] [_spBool=1/1]
Enhanced Speed: [_es=8] [_esBool=1/1]
Combat: [_c=10] [_cBool=1/1]

[table="rolls"]
Action | Roll
Do Action | [dicepool][_$=tBool]d[_$=t] + [_$=uBool]d[_$=u] + [_$=spBool]d[_$=sp] + [_$=esBool]d[_$=es] + [_$=cBool]d[_$=c][/dicepool]
[/table]
[/abilities]

Note: I just typed out the results of the [dicepool] tag in the charsheet as an example

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Edit:
Testing without [dicepool] tag as Adam suggests ...

Oh, that's great! In that case, ignore my last post XD

Too late. I've added your example to this game.

Okay. So the problem (if this is a solution) is that the page doesn't recalculate the roll based on clicking things.

Testing