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Dumpshock Forums _ Community Projects _ Die - Yet another die roller

Posted by: Feshy Nov 14 2005, 01:51 AM

I, too, have written a shadowrun die roller. I wanted more features, and an excuse to play with wxWidgets.

Features:

Handles normal and extended rolls
Handles all roll-related uses of edge, including adding dice before and after the roll, rerolling failures, and cancelling glitches
Idiot-proofs edge -- you can only add edge to a test once (no adding dice then cancelling a glitch)
Handles the negative qualities Gremlins and Bad Luck (bad luck will cancel edge use -- subtracting dice before or after the roll, rerolling hits, and turning a glitch into a critical glitch)
Handles optional extended test rules including limiting the number of rolls to the size of the dicepool, reducing hits by 1d6 on glitches, and rushing the test
Lagged Fibonacci random number generator for improved (pseudo) randomness
Very verbose text output ideal for posting to forum games (or for the pedantically minded)
Sortable and unsortable output (in case your GM retroactively applies negative modifiers and wants to remove two dice from the end of your roll, you can unsort the roll by unchecking "sort")
graphical dice (I had some actual Shadowrun dice, with the logo, and I scanned them...)
No libraries or interpretive language downloads needed, no install needed. Just one reasonably sized executable.

Here is some output from the program, so you can see the text features.

1) A plain vanilla roll:

CODE

Dice Pool / Dice Rolled: [ 12 | 12 ]
Hits scored: 5
Dice: [5] [3] [2] [1] [5] [2] [6] [4] [4] [6] [6] [4]

2) A roll with some edge, and sorted results:

CODE

Dice Pool / Dice Rolled: [ 12 | 22 ]
Edge was used to reroll the failures
Hits scored: 5
Dice: [1] [1] [1] [1] [1] [2] [3] [3] [3] [3] [3] [3] [3] [3] [4] [4] [4] [5] [5] [6] [6] [6]

3) A simple extended test:

CODE

Dice Pool / Dice Rolled: [ 8 | 8 ]
Hits scored: 1
Dice: [1] [1] [2] [3] [3] [3] [4] [6]
============================
Dice Pool / Dice Rolled: [ 8 | 8 ]
Hits scored: 2
Dice: [1] [2] [3] [3] [4] [4] [5] [6]
============================
Dice Pool / Dice Rolled: [ 8 | 8 ]
Hits scored: -5
<! A Glitch occured !> < Glitch reduced hits by 6 >
Dice: [1] [1] [1] [1] [2] [3] [4] [6]
============================
Extended Hits: -2 out of 5 achieved in 3.0 intervals
<! Extended Test Failed, Glitches reduced hits below zero !>

Another extended test (using some rushed tests and bad luck):

CODE

Dice Pool / Dice Rolled: [ 8 | 8 ]
Rushing the test (Will glitch on 1 or 2)
Hits scored: 3
Dice: [5] [5] [2] [4] [1] [5] [1] [3]
============================
Dice Pool / Dice Rolled: [ 8 | 8 ]
Edge was used to negate a glitch
The character's luck holds...
Rushing the test (Will glitch on 1 or 2)
Hits scored: 1
Dice: [3] [2] [5] [1] [4] [1] [4] [2]
============================
Dice Pool / Dice Rolled: [ 8 | 13 ]
Edge was used to reroll the failures
The character's luck holds...
Rushing the test (Will glitch on 1 or 2)
Hits scored: 3
Dice: [1] [2] [2] [3] [3] [5] [6] [6] [2] [3] [3] [1] [4]
============================
Dice Pool / Dice Rolled: [ 8 | 8 ]
Hits scored: 4
Dice: [3] [6] [5] [6] [6] [4] [2] [1]
============================
Extended Hits: 11 out of 9 achieved in 2.5 intervals
Success!

Download it, give it a try, and let me know what you think.

http://savefile.com/files/9874709
(file hosted at savefile.com)

Oh -- windows only, at the moment. Everything in the code is platform-independant, so theoretically I could port it to Mac or Linux if a) there was enough interest, and b) I had either of those machines. Alternately, some willing sucker with one of those platforms could compile it, I suppose.