Taking D20 to the Next Level

[Sabre]

Well I’ve found a code that will make a dice function, just one problem, it is extremely easy to cheat. So here’s what we do, we have a D20 board, people to Mod it should be Kelly, Lirreka, Me, and Adena if she decides to learn about D20. And every time someone wants to roll a dice they put 1d20 or 5d8 then the Game Masters come by roll the dice and add it; it makes it fair. The GM’s can also run the games, every character makes a post for his or her round and the GM can modify the post to reply; so things don’t get crowded. I’m not getting power hungry or anything I’m just really passionate about D20 and I know that we would see the benefits from having this board. And please no reply’s like D20 is stupid it’s a bad idea, fair enough if you don’t like it but some people do.

Code:

<!-- Begin Dice Roller //-->
<center>
<table class="bordercolor" width="750" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="1">
<tr>
<td class="titlebg" align="center"><b>Dice Roller</b></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td class="windowbg">
<font size="1">Number of dice: </font><input type=text id="num"></input></td></tr>
<tr><td class="windowbg"><font size="1">Number of sides: </font><input type=text id="sides"></input></td></tr>
<tr><td class="windowbg"><font size="1">Modifiers: + <input type="text" id="plus" value="0"></input> - <input type="text" id="minus" value="0"></input></font></td></tr>
<tr><td class="windowbg"><input type=button value="Roll Dice" name=button onclick="rollem();"> <input type=text id="roll"></input>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<script>
// DnD Dice Roller
// Copyright SkyStrife (Chase Geigle) 2005

function getval(id){
return document.getElementById(id).value
}

function rollem(){
var dice= getval("num");
var minus = getval("minus");
var plus = getval("plus");
var sides = getval("sides");
var rol = 0;
for(r=0;r<dice;r++){
rol = rol + Math.round(Math.random() * sides) % sides + 1;
}
var roll = Math.floor(rol - minus) + Math.floor(plus);
document.getElementById("roll").value = roll;
}
</script>
<!-- End Dice Roller //-->

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[Lakkerun Joh'had]

Hmm I see a fault here: Its going to be very annoying if any time someone wants to do something, a Mod has to come by and roll for them. Very annoying for the rpers and for the Mods.

[The Madet Legacy]

Plus, if we do D20(Which we probably won't, cause there's too many people to teach the thing to.) You can say "Good-Bye" to me....I've been trying to learn it for the past month or two, and I still don't get the hang of it. Not to mention, School's started for most people here, so even LESS players. In the end, It'd probably just be a few people RPing every day. And I don't mean the normal 20 people online...I mean this site would literally die.

It's all about timing and what version we use. If we DO convert the ENTIRE site to D20, and it's not the system used in the KOTOR games, I'm gone.

That Table-top version is just stupid and very hard to understand on an RP Site.

[Kravin O Prime]

Agreed, on what Bo said 100%

I got school on now. And have like tests every 3 days of the week. I would be to busy to do all this D20 stuff. But I have looked into his my self. I got some points down on creating stats for your character and all just don't get on how we use it.

Alot, of people like my self don't have the time for this D20. If, you make this a rule or something I bet more than half of the members would turn out to be non-active and wouldn't come back to the site to RP.......................well thats my opinion.

But, it would be nice to do this over the summer where kids like my self have time to do so.....

[T3h Blank]

The dice are a little weighted, next

[Lady Zahra/Jules]

This is the reason why this board will never go completely d20. There are those that do and those that don't want to do it. Personally I do it for surprise in my attacks and also to make sure I am being fair to my opponent.....as well as them being fair to me. If you don't want to do it, you don't have to. Those who want to learn, it isn't hard. There are admins here ready to walk you through it and even rp with you to help you see how to do it. Plus, we are on hand to ask any question. Do you have to? NO. Simply said. Moving along.

[Master Bondora]

Yeah you guys were really helpful, but why are you guys saying that this site will die? It was CREATED during school time.

[Jedi Master Arlon Kyjar]

generallee said:

Plus, if we do D20(Which we probably won't, cause there's too many people to teach the thing to.) You can say "Good-Bye" to me....I've been trying to learn it for the past month or two, and I still don't get the hang of it. Not to mention, School's started for most people here, so even LESS players. In the end, It'd probably just be a few people RPing every day. And I don't mean the normal 20 people online...I mean this site would literally die.

It's all about timing and what version we use. If we DO convert the ENTIRE site to D20, and it's not the system used in the KOTOR games, I'm gone.

That Table-top version is just stupid and very hard to understand on an RP Site.

Agreed completely.

[T3h Blank]

God bless the doomsayers.
Once I can be bothered to get around to doing Ashido's D20 stats (To my AD&D knowlege, so now SW stuff ) I'll go to Lirr to refine it a little...
But that shall happen sometime in the next blue moon

[Sabre]

No idon't mean make D20 the only thing, i mean make a board so people can if they want. Atleast put the code in so we can have adventures, all i want to do is be able to play D20, if other people don't, then thats fine with me but some people do. If we made a board it would bring more order, plus people who already know it can help run it and teach, i honestly think it would be stupid for this idea to be turned down, its not like its stopping anyone from doing anything its just adding more variety to the site.

[Master Bondora]

You mean like this?

"*Korbain's soldiers and the main force, now surroundingthe sith forces were given the signal to attack. With Invidius's forces now concentrated of Ravinos, they would be unaware of their doom. The men poured from the building into the field, fireing the balsters rapidly, bringing down the unaware sith forces. A sneak attack that wouuld cost greatly.*"

[Triune]

This is the reason I went to so much trouble (And bugged so many coders ;D ) to get a die function that was very hard if near impossible to cheat with. I think it could be done with other variant functions (emphasis on THINK) but I'm not gonna bug them for a few months yet. I'm sure they all hate me by now anyway. Now then on to the meat of the contention...
The System used for Kotor IS D20, it however uses the small part of the Feat and Skill section that works best in a computer enviroment. IE it's really hard for an AI to understand 'bluff'. The biggest thing is alot of the mechanics of the system are hidden from the player in Kotor, but ultimately it is the same system.
I've always been a proponent of 'use if you want'. I like both Free form AND dice form RP and I would easily use both here. We can put in this Dice code and just accept that it's cheatable but use it for damage and the like while keeping the uncheatable code for to hits and saving throws and the like again that is for those that wanna use it, never would I demand everyone use it. repeat NEVER.

[Halan]

I understood that, sorry I know that is random but with dice and that much talking I actually understood what you were saying, yay for me ;D.

[Sabre]

Well if we use my idea of mods adding in the numbers it would work, it really isn't that hard. I'm on for about 5 hours a day so i would just go through the posts and just roll the dice and edit in the number, i'll try and get a better one but no matter what you do nothing's uncheatable. All you do is delete your post and retry until you get result that favours you more. But can we make a decision soon because i really wanna play.