k, say there's 5 of us, at a different computer in different locations. We want to play D&D but travel is sometimes difficult and not all of us have webcams and even then webcams have cruddy resolution so the number rolled isnt clear.
Is there a program out there that people can log onto, 1 rolls a dice and everyone else sees the result?
Posted by Dagonee (Member # 5818) on :
It should be trivial to right a web application for this. Just have everyone log on, then auto-update the page with the results whenever a logged in person rolls, identifying the roller by name.
It would be only a little extra work to have the DM authorize particular rolls.
It'd be a good chance to learn AJAX development.
Posted by Mucus (Member # 9735) on :
Alternatively, if you're lazy you could all login to either Yahoo Games or Microsoft's version and play something like backgammon, using just the dice rolls. That would only work for rolls with normal dice though.
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
Here you go. Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
*write Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
There is indeed an online dice generator I use regularly when I PBEM. Try googling, per Porter's suggestion. It's not necessary to write your own app.
Posted by Selran (Member # 9918) on :
I used Invisible Castle when I was doing a play by post game. But, for a live game you may want to look for a virtual table top.
Posted by Dan_Frank (Member # 8488) on :
If you're playing by email or by post on a forum, this won't help. But if you're playing over the internet using a real-time chat application, AIM chatrooms have a dice function.
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
does it do d4,d6,d8,d10,d20,d30,d100?
Posted by mr_porteiro_head (Member # 4644) on :
Why don't you go find out for yourself instead of expecting others to do all your legwork?
Here you go. Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
Check out www.irony.com's web dice.
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
because asking on a forum is considerably more conveient then rummaging through dozens of webpages for the specific thing one wants, I could say "online dice roller" but specifying "rolls in real time and viewable by Nth party" confuses the search and returns ambigious results, thus asking on a forum in specific detail of what I want is faster and more convenient then googling because a forum community is much more likely to have wanted or found something similar to what I want and contributes to the community database sotospeak. While random googling only helps one person at great expense compared to a topic that helps anyone else who is interested and opens avenues of discussion.
The condenscending www.justf***inggoogleit.com remarks are completely counter productive and not what a forum community is for.
Posted by scholar (Member # 9232) on :
we used aim chatrooms and had it roll for us.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
quote:The condenscending www.justf***inggoogleit.com remarks are completely counter productive and not what a forum community is for.
So when are you going to start answering questions, Blayne? Because so far you just ask them, and act offended when we note that it would be easy for you to find the answers yourself.
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
what do you mean answering questions? If you mean participating in threads where other people ask for help? I have done so, most recent was helping AoD with picking out computer parts.
Posted by TomDavidson (Member # 124) on :
You're on the other side of that ratio, though, you realize.
Posted by Dan_Frank (Member # 8488) on :
Sorry Blayne, I was at work and unable to answer until now.
The way you do it in AIM (only works in chat rooms, not in personal messaging) is you type //roll-diceX-sidesY
Where X is how many dice and Y is how many sides on those dice. So, let's say you're a fifth level wizard casting fireball. You'd type:
//roll-dice5-sides6
It gives you each individual roll listed in a row, you have to add them up yourself.
Edited for minor changes in phrasing
[ January 19, 2008, 06:28 AM: Message edited by: Dan_Frank ]
Posted by adfectio (Member # 11070) on :
Blayne, I don't think the issue is that you ask for help, it's that you come off as too lazy to look for yourself. I answered a question for you that took me all of about 30 seconds to look up. I think it took me longer to type my response, than find the information you were looking for.
Yes, Hatrack is about helping everyone out. But it's not about doing the work for that person. Just like we expect people to do their own homework and not ask us to do it for them, we expect people to look on their own before begging us to look for them
Posted by The Flying Dracula Hair (Member # 10155) on :
Okay I'm new 'n all, but it seems like a second issue is that even though they think it's silly, people still answer.
Posted by El JT de Spang (Member # 7742) on :
Right. We're partially to blame for Blayne's total lack of self-sufficiency because every time he drags his unbelievably lazy rear-end in here with some trivial question he wants answered, someone always answers it for him.
I can't wait for the next generation of internet to take off so that we can all take turns tying his shoes in the morning.
Posted by Jon Boy (Member # 4284) on :
I think he's said before that he's got velcro straps, so he should probably be okay.
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
I've stopped tying my shoes long ago, i tied them once and by virtue of having a shoe size 1 size bigger I never have to tie or untie them again.
Posted by Philosofickle (Member # 10993) on :
quote:Originally posted by Blayne Bradley: I've stopped tying my shoes long ago, i tied them once and by virtue of having a shoe size 1 size bigger I never have to tie or untie them again.
Thank you for proving our point so thoroughly.
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
quote:Originally posted by Dan_Frank: Sorry Blayne, I was at work and unable to answer until now.
The way you do it in AIM (only works in chat rooms, not in personal messaging) is you type //roll-diceX-sidesY
Where X is how many dice and Y is how many sides on those dice. So, let's say you're a fifth level wizard casting fireball. You'd type:
//roll-dice5-sides6
It gives you each individual roll listed in a row, you have to add them up yourself.
Edited for minor changes in phrasing
k how do I open up a chatroom?
Posted by Phanto (Member # 5897) on :
Peace!
Posted by adfectio (Member # 11070) on :
seriously?
......
Posted by Juxtapose (Member # 8837) on :
<Edited to remove snark.>
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
I go to invite someone to buddy chat, and it times out. What am I doing wrong?
Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
Hmm... Rolling on line lacks the simple joy of picking up a big wad of D8s for your Horrid Wilting...
Plus you can't throw it across the room when 5 of those dice end up being 1s and all of them are 3 or less.
Pix
(I rolled ones on 8 out of my first 9 damage rolls three weeks ago.)
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
make sense you don't.
Posted by msquared (Member # 4484) on :
She is saying, I think, that on line playing lacks the tactile feel of throwing a handful of dice to figure damage. There is nothing like the feeling of throwing 10D6 to see how your fireball did.
A friend of mine had a run of bad die rolls. She took one placed it in the micro wave and then set up all the other dice in front of the micro wave so that they could watch the bad die get nuked.
msquared
Posted by The Pixiest (Member # 1863) on :
msquared: My dice wish you hadn't told me that.
Posted by Blayne Bradley (Member # 8565) on :
the thing is is if i do my campaign online via IM, AIM is supposedly the only one that allows for random dice throwing in a non cheating enviroment.
Posted by BandoCommando (Member # 7746) on :
quote:Originally posted by msquared: She is saying, I think, that on line playing lacks the tactile feel of throwing a handful of dice to figure damage. There is nothing like the feeling of throwing 10D6 to see how your fireball did.
A friend of mine had a run of bad die rolls. She took one placed it in the micro wave and then set up all the other dice in front of the micro wave so that they could watch the bad die get nuked.
msquared
I think this is taking anthromorphism a bit to far....but then, I'm not a gamer, so what do I know?
Posted by TheGrimace (Member # 9178) on :
much as I am loathe to encourage Blayne here, in the interest of helping out anyone else in a similar situation (trying to play D&D or the like over the interweb with friends) my friends and I have been using http://www.openrpg.com/ to good effect... the bare-bones set up allows you to do most everything you need to do for gaming while there are lots of additional plugins and scripts that you can find in order to flesh the program out and make things more convenient.
Posted by Pegasus (Member # 10464) on :
quote:Originally posted by Blayne Bradley: I've stopped tying my shoes long ago, i tied them once and by virtue of having a shoe size 1 size bigger I never have to tie or untie them again.
I highly recommend these, I wear them 95% of the time. I hate laces.
Posted by Dan_Frank (Member # 8488) on :
Blayne your problem would be solved by only playing with decent human beings. That way, they could simply roll the dice and report their results... I've lived the last 4 years away from all my gaming buddies, and we play online every week, and this is what we do. You can still enjoy the feel of all the dice you like.
But, if decent human beings are not available, then yeah, use AIM or something.
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