RPG Bot

[Newby]

If we code an RPG bot, I just thought a neat structure.

bot/
|-- core (IRC connection crap)
`-- classes
    |-- D&D
    |-- Shadowrun
    `-- T&T

Something like that. Each type of RPG can be a class we add into it.

[Sidoh]

That would be neat.  Then we could have one for dice and things like that.

[iago]

I don't know how useful that would be. 

Just having a bot that can do everything withoua  need for those subclasses would be just as useful.  Just the ability to roll dice, what more do you want?

I really don't see a point to having a bot/plugin for it. 

[Hitmen]

I really don't see a point to having a bot/plugin for it. 

If someone takes the time to do it without it delaying anything than I don't really see the problem either. It would be nice to, if we're doing it in irc be able to just type a command and have the bot announce the roll of the channel. some of us don't have crazy dice!

[iago]

I really don't see a point to having a bot/plugin for it. 

If someone takes the time to do it without it delaying anything than I don't really see the problem either. It would be nice to, if we're doing it in irc be able to just type a command and have the bot announce the roll of the channel. some of us don't have crazy dice!

I'd slap together a program that can roll 6-sided dice locally, then everybody who needs to can run it.  I've said that several times already :-P

If somebody really wants to do a bot/plugin, then just make one that can roll dice.  Anything else is completely pointless, T&T for example has EXTREMELY simple rules..

[Towelie]

lol, well I cant program so you can count me out :-), but yeah just a dice rolling device is good enough for me :-P

[Sidoh]

I'm pretty inexperienced with C (especially in making network programs).  However, if someone wants to team up for a project, I'd be more than willing to help out as much as I can.

I can slap together a PHP web-based version too.  I almost think that would work better.  Let me know what you guys think.

[iago]

I'm thinking a Perl-based plugin for xchat.  How hard can it be?

[Newby]

Not very hard. =P

[Sidoh]

I'm thinking a Perl-based plugin for xchat.  How hard can it be?

That would also work really well.

The reason I was thinking of a web-based one is because it's more accessable.  If someone wanted to make a move (or check up on someone's rolls) assuming we ever do a forum based RPG, it would be nice to be able to get to the rolling interface anywhere you can access the web.

I was thinking we could do something like this:

  -- Game
      `-- Rolling Session
           `-- Players
                 `-- Rolls

That's just me though.  I'm really game for anything that works well!

[iago]

Having a plugin running on the GM's system would be idea.  Since I intend to use xchat, that's not a problem. 

Just a ".roll 3d6" command would be handy. 

Newby -- could you implement some plugin in Perl or C that lets you do ".roll 3d6" and it will respond with the dice roll?  Once that's done, I can look after getting it to work for T&T stuff

[Sidoh]

Having a plugin running on the GM's system would be idea.  Since I intend to use xchat, that's not a problem. 

Just a ".roll 3d6" command would be handy. 

Newby -- could you implement some plugin in Perl or C that lets you do ".roll 3d6" and it will respond with the dice roll?  Once that's done, I can look after getting it to work for T&T stuff

Alright, I was thinking maybe we were going to do something with the forums, but I'd definitely agree that a xchat plugin would be ideal if we're going to be using it for our game!

[Newby]

Having a plugin running on the GM's system would be idea.  Since I intend to use xchat, that's not a problem. 

Just a ".roll 3d6" command would be handy. 

Newby -- could you implement some plugin in Perl or C that lets you do ".roll 3d6" and it will respond with the dice roll?  Once that's done, I can look after getting it to work for T&T stuff

For X-Chat? On it!

Uh, 3d6? Or do you want xd6?

If so, I can do .roll xd6, or .roll d6 x...

Otherwise, just 3d6.

[iago]

Having a plugin running on the GM's system would be idea.  Since I intend to use xchat, that's not a problem. 

Just a ".roll 3d6" command would be handy. 

Newby -- could you implement some plugin in Perl or C that lets you do ".roll 3d6" and it will respond with the dice roll?  Once that's done, I can look after getting it to work for T&T stuff

For X-Chat? On it!

Uh, 3d6? Or do you want xd6?

If so, I can do .roll xd6, or .roll d6 x...

Otherwise, just 3d6.

If you do one that can roll 3, I can look after everything else. 

But if you're feeling ambition, then do:
- x d y (x y-sided dice)
- 2d6 doubles-add-roll-over (I mentioned that somewhere else)
- xd6, doubles-add-roll-over (Required if we have a berserker)

Also, I'd like to be able to do a table look up.  Like, for example, I want a table of, say, 100 languages.  Then they could do:
.choose language
And it would return a random one.  But for other things besides languages, like, make sure I can easily expand it. 

Of course, I can do all that, as long as you get it rolling 3d6

[Newby]

But if you're feeling ambition, then do:
- x d y (x y-sided dice)
- 2d6 doubles-add-roll-over (I mentioned that somewhere else)
- xd6, doubles-add-roll-over (Required if we have a berserker)

Also, I'd like to be able to do a table look up.  Like, for example, I want a table of, say, 100 languages.  Then they could do:
.choose language
And it would return a random one.  But for other things besides languages, like, make sure I can easily expand it. 

Well, I can get most of that, but if you wanna do some of the work...

What do you want me to do with the result of the 3d6?