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[iago]

We should try to organize a real online RPG.  I think everybody here is honest enough to roll dice on their own.  I have no problem GMing it, and we can do it all on IRC.  We can play any game, but I recommend T&T (because the rules are shit easy).  I'd post rules/tutorials here, and let everybody create their own characters.  I'm open to a different game, a certain style of campaign, etc.. 

I think we could have a lot of fun with it.  And having a real program really isn't necessary, since we're all trustworthy.

<edit> btw, for RGM, character creation would take minutes.  I could do a spreadsheet that would look after the couple little calculations.

[Sidoh]

I'd be up for it!

[Blaze]

Hah, told you if we got a WoW forum this would happen sidoh!

I think its a great idea, I've never played a role playing game like that, so it should be fun.  I also think rolling ourselves is not a good idea, either have a server give us our roll, or the GM do it.

[iago]

That would be a lot of work for the GM.  But if we don't all have dice, somebody could throw together a little program to do the rolling automatically. 

[Sidoh]

That would be a lot of work for the GM.  But if we don't all have dice, somebody could throw together a little program to do the rolling automatically. 

Hehe, yeah.  I don't think a client/server program would be hard to make for this.

[Blaze]

That would be a lot of work for the GM.  But if we don't all have dice, somebody could throw together a little program to do the rolling automatically. 

Hehe, yeah.  I don't think a client/server program would be hard to make for this.

Thats exactly what I was thinking about, but wasn't trying to make it sound complex.

[iago]

I meant a local one. 

But a distributed one wouldn't be so hard.  The GM would run it, and the players would just press "Roll".  The GM would generate and be informed about the results.  Not too tough at all.  But not really necessary..

[Newby]

I could script together some perl scripts, ala.

"rolld4.pl"
"rolld6.pl"
"rolld8.pl"
"rolld10.pl"
"rolld20.pl"

With an argument for how many dice to roll (default of 1?) or something.

[iago]

T&T uses a weird dice system.  I don't have time right now. 

But yeah, it depends on whether you/they want a local one, or a distributed one

[Hitmen]

I've never played a real rpg before but I'm totally up for it

[Sidoh]

How hard would it be to make some commands for an IRC bot to do this?

IE:

.roll 10-20

.roll 20d (20-sided die)

I think that would work really well, given we'd be doing it on IRC and all..

[Newby]

I've never played a real rpg before but I'm totally up for it

You're only up for it because iago is playing.

How hard would it be to make some commands for an IRC bot to do this?

IE:

.roll 10-20

.roll 20d (20-sided die)

I think that would work really well, given we'd be doing it on IRC and all..

Not very hard.

I can talk with xar about getting the source to amee (a perl IRC bot), and if all goes well, I can edit the hell out of it (or just take the basics of it) and turn it into an IRC bot with whatever functionality we need.

[Hitmen]

I've never played a real rpg before but I'm totally up for it

You're only up for it because iago is playing.

No, I'm only up for it because you + iago are playing. plus you know it will be a billion times more fun with my creativity and evil sense of humor.

[Newby]

I've never played a real rpg before but I'm totally up for it

You're only up for it because iago is playing.

No, I'm only up for it because you + iago are playing. plus you know it will be a billion times more fun with my creativity and evil sense of humor.

You DO make an interesting point.

* Newby shudders to think what kind of dungeon master Hitmen would make.

[iago]

I've never played a real rpg before but I'm totally up for it

You're only up for it because iago is playing.

How hard would it be to make some commands for an IRC bot to do this?

IE:

.roll 10-20

.roll 20d (20-sided die)

I think that would work really well, given we'd be doing it on IRC and all..

Not very hard.

I can talk with xar about getting the source to amee (a perl IRC bot), and if all goes well, I can edit the hell out of it (or just take the basics of it) and turn it into an IRC bot with whatever functionality we need.

It could probably be done with an xchat or mIRC script. 

If you guys want to play Tunnels and Trolls, we need 2 (3, sorta) rolling styles:
1. xd6.  Any number of 6 sided dice, sometimes dozens of them. 
2. 2d6, doubles-add-roll-over.  2 dice are rolled.  If they match [1 1, 2 2, 3 3, etc.], they are rolled again.  If they match, they're rolled again, until 2 different dice are rolled.  The total is taken.  So if you roll 6 6, then 3 3, then 1 3, you get 22.  If anything below 4 is rolled (1 2 or 1 3), it's a fumble.
3. This one isn't used very much at all, but xd6 doubles-add-roll-over.  You roll any number of dice.  Then you take all the 1's, 2's, 3's, etc, and roll each of them separately.  And in each of those, you roll all the doubles, etc.  Obviously, this could get very messy, very fast.  It's only used for berserked characters.  Here is the source to a C program to look after berserkers that I wrote some time ago (Actually, it was in Windows-style C++, but luckly I wrote C-like code back then and it was easy to convert):
http://www.javaop.com/~iago/BerserkerDice.c

And by the way, for players, I don't want to have more than 5 players + GM.  So hopefully we won't be leaving anybody out, but for now, it's first-time-first-serve.