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Bastard View Member Profile	Sep 15 2004, 11:15 PM Post #1
Grand Nagus Group: Members Posts: 4,014 Joined: 27-July 04 From: Almost Heaven Member No.: 6,518	Im new to this idea of running the game...but since all my chummers live a couple cities away and everyone has different schedules, I thought this would beat the face to face meetings. Any suggestions for someone giving their first forum based mission? Or is there a better method for a group that is already together to do an online mission? And dont call me Bastard.

Ecclesiastes View Member Profile	Sep 15 2004, 11:24 PM Post #2
Jesus Freak Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,141 Joined: 23-April 04 From: Anaheim, CA Member No.: 6,274	Forum games tend to go very slow. If you have a group that is already getting together, but don't want to deal with the long drive, I'd suggest doing a game over chat. AIM, Yahoo!, or IRC work fine for this purpose.

Large Mike View Member Profile	Sep 15 2004, 11:30 PM Post #3
Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,311 Joined: 26-February 02 From: Calgary, Alberta Member No.: 2,062	I agree with Grey 100%. There's even a web irc client here on dumpshock (which has it's own irc server, to boot) so that you don't even have to download anything or be on your home box. Don't our people in charge rock? I believe the props for that one belong to Neuron Basher and Adam. The link for it is on the main dumpshock page.

Ecclesiastes View Member Profile	Sep 15 2004, 11:36 PM Post #4
Jesus Freak Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,141 Joined: 23-April 04 From: Anaheim, CA Member No.: 6,274	I'm looking on the main page and don't see a link... where is it? (and quit calling me Grey!)

Blitz View Member Profile	Sep 16 2004, 12:36 AM Post #5
Neophyte Runner Group: Members Posts: 2,048 Joined: 20-March 02 Member No.: 2,422	I told you...gamers are lazy. grey = 4 letters, 1 syllable Ecclesiastes = 12 letters, 5 syllables Im just gonna start calling you "The Dude"

Ecclesiastes View Member Profile	Sep 16 2004, 12:51 AM Post #6
Jesus Freak Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,141 Joined: 23-April 04 From: Anaheim, CA Member No.: 6,274	When most people quote me they usually just use Ecc, which is even easier than Grey. :-P

BishopMcQ View Member Profile	Sep 16 2004, 02:23 AM Post #7
The back-up plan Group: Retired Admins Posts: 8,423 Joined: 15-January 03 From: San Diego Member No.: 3,910	Ecc--I use the shortened form just because I don't want to screw up the spelling or call you Ecclesiasticus by mistake... Bastard--I know you said not to call you that, but it's the only name I've got for you. The IRC Channel is at irc.dumpshock.com

Bastard View Member Profile	Sep 17 2004, 10:36 PM Post #8
Grand Nagus Group: Members Posts: 4,014 Joined: 27-July 04 From: Almost Heaven Member No.: 6,518	My bad McQ---I guess you can call me bastard then Thanks for all the info E and Large....what is an IRC though? Does it use a program for the dice rolls or do you just use honor?---A thing a lot of RPers dont know when it comes to dice.

Tanka

Sep 17 2004, 10:41 PM

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Chrome to the Core

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QUOTE (Bastard)

My bad McQ---I guess you can call me bastard then

Thanks for all the info E and Large....what is an IRC though? Does it use a program for the dice rolls or do you just use honor?---A thing a lot of RPers dont know when it comes to dice.

IRC doesn't contain an automated dice-roller. Some servers do (one being irc.sorcery.net, not sure about Dumpshock's), and a lot of people script them for various clients.

I can pop one out for mIRC if anybody wants one and uses mIRC. If you're not on mIRC, tough luck. It doesn't work with any other client.

Ecclesiastes View Member Profile	Sep 17 2004, 10:50 PM Post #10
Jesus Freak Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,141 Joined: 23-April 04 From: Anaheim, CA Member No.: 6,274	Give me that script please tanka, just post it here.

Bastard View Member Profile	Sep 17 2004, 10:56 PM Post #11
Grand Nagus Group: Members Posts: 4,014 Joined: 27-July 04 From: Almost Heaven Member No.: 6,518	ME TOO! ME TOO! ME TOO!!! --- I mean please

Tanka View Member Profile	Sep 17 2004, 11:40 PM Post #12
Chrome to the Core Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,152 Joined: 14-October 03 From: ::1 Member No.: 5,715	Well. Seems my SRDice Script went poof... Time to script up a new one. Give me some time. It's giving me hell tonight.

Tanka View Member Profile	Sep 17 2004, 11:54 PM Post #13
Chrome to the Core Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,152 Joined: 14-October 03 From: ::1 Member No.: 5,715	Not meaning to double post, however... Tanka forgets mIRC script. Haven't touched it in ages (meaning over a year) and coding isn't being kind to him tonight. He's even defaulting to Java! (Ha! Hahaha! Hahahahahaha!) Anyway. If you're so untrustworthy, roll 'em yourselves. If you know you can trust the players, let them roll and post. Maybe the script will turn up sometime. Maybe not.

Tanka

Sep 18 2004, 12:00 AM

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And another post. I knew I made one in the past and put the code up here, so I searched.

CODE

alias roll {
if (!$1) { echo $color(info) -a * You must enter a number of dice to roll. All dice will be six-sided. }
elseif ($1 !isnum) { echo $color(info) -a * You must enter a numerical value. }
else {
set %die $1
set %roll 1
set %result $rand(1,6)
set %result2 ""
set %result3 ""
while (%roll < %die) {
set %result2 $rand(1,6)
while (6 // %result2) {
set %result3 $rand(1,6)
set %result2 $calc(%result2 + %result3)
}
set %result %result $+ , $+ $chr(32) $+ %result2
inc %roll
}
msg $active Rolling $1 six-sided dice. Results are: { %result }
}
unset %die
unset %roll
unset %result
unset %result2
unset %result3
}

Put that in your mIRC Remotes. (Alt + R, start a new line, copy/paste, hit OK.)

Syntax is /roll <number>, replacing <number> with an actual numeric.

It prints out like this:

QUOTE

* Rolling 2 six-sided dice. Results are: { 1, 4 }
* Rolling 7 six-sided dice. Results are: { 5, 2, 8, 3, 2, 2, 3 }
* Rolling 10 six-sided dice. Results are: { 6, 3, 4, 3, 9, 10, 3, 2, 4, 5 }

Any questions?

Ecclesiastes View Member Profile	Sep 18 2004, 12:13 AM Post #15
Jesus Freak Group: Dumpshocked Posts: 3,141 Joined: 23-April 04 From: Anaheim, CA Member No.: 6,274	Danka!

Bastard View Member Profile	Sep 18 2004, 12:18 AM Post #16
Grand Nagus Group: Members Posts: 4,014 Joined: 27-July 04 From: Almost Heaven Member No.: 6,518	uh...Ill probably crash my computer---but I will give it a go---thanks killer

Panzergeist View Member Profile	Sep 19 2004, 08:08 PM Post #17
Running Target Group: Members Posts: 1,362 Joined: 3-October 03 From: Poway, San Diego County, CA, USA Member No.: 5,676	If you have never done a forum game before, I recomend playing in one before you try GMing one, to get a feel for it.

Bastard View Member Profile	Sep 20 2004, 09:59 PM Post #18
Grand Nagus Group: Members Posts: 4,014 Joined: 27-July 04 From: Almost Heaven Member No.: 6,518	Thanks---I was actually going to run it with people that I usually play face to face with...and see how that works. Much easier than scheduling a weekend and having to travel...at least I hope. I want to do a combination of forum and irc, as it fits the group.

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