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  • Registered: Mar 16, 2002
  • Last visit: Oct 25, 2004
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  Posted: Oct 22, 2004 - 07:53 PM

  Greetings. I do a lot of play-by-post roleplaying (and in fact run a few forums dedicated to it) using the DnD and D20 game mechanics. Now, forums are a great medium for roleplaying, but one of the main problems is how to get die rolls from the player to the game master without fudging numbers.
  
  In an ideal world, you would be able to trust your players to roll their own dice at home and give you the result, but this is not always the case. A lot of online game masters across the Internet have resorted to sites such as:
  
  http://www.internetgames.org/diceserver/dice.asp
  
  Which allow you to
  
  1) Select the number and type of dice to be rolled.
  2) Specify a list of e-mails to receive the results as evidence.
  
  Now, this is a huge hassle, and I have been trying to think of a way to integrate such functionality into PostNuke in a seamless manner. While I am a programmer by trade, my specialty is not in web scripting, so I would appreciate any and all help/advice that could be offered. Here's what I believe would be a great solution:
  
  1) Create a database/table to store all dice rolls in with the following information: NAME | DATE/TIME | GM | CAMPAIGN | DESCRIPTION OF ROLL | DICE ROLLED/RESULT
  
  2) Have a postnuke block that allows a user (while still viewing the
  reply" screen in a thread, ideally) to choose the number of dice, die type, modifiers, multiplier, campaign the roll is for, a description of the skill or attack the roll is for, the username to receive the results via PM, and click "Roll".
  
  3) The player should see the results of the roll immediately, and the GM should receve a private message indicating the results, and a link to view the database (by character name, or campaign, or date, etc...) to see for himself.
  
  Volia'.
  
  Anyway, I'd appreciate any feedback on this idea. I know it has never been done before in a manner that is integrated with a forum or CMS. Wanted to see what you guys thought about it.

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• **unknown user**
  
  

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  • Registered: Mar 16, 2002
  • Last visit: Oct 25, 2004
  • Posts: 16

  Posted: Oct 23, 2004 - 01:49 PM

  Here are some phpBB mods that add something like the functionality I'm lloking for. I know nothing of PHP. PNphpBB or phpBB, so perhaps a more web-savvy user than myself will see fit to convert them or write his/her own to potentially profit from.:
  
  RPG Plus:
  http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=159467
  
  Dice Roller:
  http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=124404
  
  Advanced Dungeons and Rabbits:
  http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.ph ... light=dice
  
  RPG Power Pack:
  http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=198579
  
  Anyway, all I'm really concerned about is dice roll tracking functionality. I prefer to do the rest by hand. The links just kinda show that there is a strong demand for this sort of thing, but no supply.

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