[OOC]Prologue - Peru, March 1921

[Zero]

I had the same thing happen with the roller the other day. I'll wait until the Keeper sorts things out before posting my next action.

[Mallet]

Good to know i am not the only one who has problems with the dice roller.

BTW, how would you roll something like "1d6+1d4+1" here on this forum ?

I couldn't figure it out, and had to use The Dhole's House, which as usual always works flawlessly.

[Raiko]

Just a test
[dice]0[/dice]

[Raiko]

Did you by any chance preview your posts?

The dice code doesn't generate the roll when previewing, only when you submit.

I'll have to go with the first roll (the 99), which is just a miss as only 00 fumbles if you're rolling for at least 50% chance of success. This at least leaves everything already posted correct.

OOC:   De Mendoza is now out of sight of everyone except Atauchi.

Your character is fine now, Mallet. Fighting isn't in the officers experience package, but persuade is, so the numbers work out fine.

The default for sword is 20% though, so you have a choice of 70% sword skill, or 20 points to spend elsewhere.

[Raiko]

BTW, how would you roll something like "1d6+1d4+1" here on this forum ?

You can't do 1d6+1d4+1 with the forum roller, it only works with a single dice type and a single number modifier.

So you need to do eg:
1d6+1
and then
1d4

If you prefer to use the dholes house roller, that's fine as long as you fully link your roll to here, as you did for your Dholes House rolls before - and also use spoiler tags to hide away the wall of text.

Carnage_Lee runs both sites, so I'm confident that Dholes House will be around for as long as the forums. I can't say the same for other dice roller sites, so only forum rolls or Dholes House ones will do.

[Raiko]

Another test roll
[dice]0[/dice]

[Mallet]

Did you by any chance preview your posts?

No, I clicked on submit, and all I got as a response was something that was written like "[dice=](o)[/dice )" , and no number at all.

So that's why I rolled a second time.

I realized afterwards that I had used the [dice=] [/dice ] entry, and not the [dice] [/dice ] entry.

I have no clue about when you should use one or the other.

[Raiko]

Just use the dice version, not the dice= version.

The dice= doesn't do much anyway, it would be nice if it could give the roll a title like Dholes House rolls, but it can't.

Lee found it as a plug-in for phpbb and it's pretty good, but not perfect.
Whereas I think he wrote the Dholes House roller himself.

[Zero]

I've found that making all the rolls first, then editing the action afterwards based off the posted results is the best way to go. I had problems when I tried to insert rolls into an existing post

[Mallet]

BTW, how would you roll something like "1d6+1d4+1" here on this forum ?

You can't do 1d6+1d4+1 with the forum roller, it only works with a single dice type and a single number modifier.
So you need to do eg:
1d6+1
and then
1d4

Wow, that is so primitive ...

Apart from Masks and another RPG, all my Play by Forum games are on RPG Geek /BoardGameGeek, and the dice roller on that internet site is simply awesome. There is pretty much nothing that it cannot do.

[Raiko]

Well, if you can find a better plug-in for phpbb I'm sure that Lee would happily add it.

[Raiko]

I've played on forums with better dice rollers (usually vbulletin forums), but I've also played on forums where we've used trust and rolled actual dice.

Everyone here used to use invisible castle, which had a terrific roller and database, but it went buggy and then went offline.

That's why I'll only allow either the built in roller or Dholes House, because both sites are run by Lee, so if one goes offline, I expect both will.

[Mallet]

Well, if you can find a better plug-in for phpbb

phpbb ?

[Raiko]

phpbb ?

The forum software is called phpbb (I think we're on phpbb v3), it's good open source software, and is free to use, but plug-ins are a little sparse, and unfortunately not many forums need a dice roller.

The plug-in that Lee added here, is as far as I'm aware the only fully functional roller available for phpbb.

Lots of big forums use vbulletin, which is better than phpbb and has excellent dice roller plug-ins, but it's expensive.

Let's be honest though, it's not like Call of Cthulhu needs an amazing dice roller.

Raiko rolls 1d100

I used to play Shadowrun a lot online, before playing here.

Feel free to use Dholes House if you prefer. My first Masks game and my BtMoM game both used invisible castle. I'd actually prefer a roller like those where I can look back at all the rolls from the campaign, but the built in roller is really convenient.

[Zero]

Yeah, I'm not too bothered by having to make individual rolls. It's only slightly more time consuming.

[Zero]

Speaking of rolls, what sort of bonuses would Atauchi receive if he attacked the prone de Mendoza?

[Mallet]

phpbb ?

Let's be honest though, it's not like Call of Cthulhu needs an amazing dice roller.

OK

[Raiko]

Speaking of rolls, what sort of bonuses would Atauchi receive if he attacked the prone de Mendoza?

You receive a bonus die.

[Raiko]

I think we're waiting on you Zero.

After you've had an action, Antoine and Marcus will be able to do whatever they plan, e.g. move to help you or run for their lives while de Mendoza is distracted.

[Mr. Handy]

I've found that making all the rolls first, then editing the action afterwards based off the posted results is the best way to go. I had problems when I tried to insert rolls into an existing post

I always do the same, though I also may have to make a roll, then go back and make another roll depending on its results (such as a Sanity roll followed by Sanity loss).