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I need to think about this, but I don't believe McDie can handle dice having another attribute besides different #'s of sides and faces (e.g. color in your case).

It's possible this might be handled by the new card/cube/tile system I'm working on adding, which let's you add arbitrary 'attributes' (like color) to elements.

Since each die size can be any color, how did you want the model to set that up? Are there certain configurations? Is it random? Are there always one of of each type on a pool?

mbahnshee2 years ago

So I basically just wanted to be able to, via integer, determine how many of each die are in the attack pool. We have 9 die total (d6/8/10 in green/yellow/red), so the pool would be made up of some number of these. Just being able to output histograms from various pools would be helpful enough. Being able to compare, say, the number of successes of

[2 green d8s + 1 green d10 vs 1 defense die]

against

[3 red d6's vs 2 defense die]

would be *super* helpful.

gengelstein2 years ago

OK - As noted I don't think McDie can do this now. But let me think about if/how this could be accommodated.

gengelstein2 years ago

Question - Is the "defense value" the sum of the defense dice? Or the highest defense die?

mbahnshee2 years ago

The highest of the rolled die. (That part I figured out at least.)

Thanks so much for looking into this Geoff, longtime listener of Ludology btw, always impressed by your thoughts on design.

gengelstein2 years ago (1 edit)

Thanks for the kind words! To encourage this kind of behavior, here's a file that should get you most of what you want. You can specify any number of red D6, D8, D10, yellow D6, D8, D10, green D6, D8, D10, and defense D6's. It does NOT do the bonus stuff.

I didn't 100% vet this, but I think it should be right.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_HQRUsq72dFo_BHu3_ZbfhlbSB0xQkoe/view?usp=shari...

Please let me know how it looks!

EDIT: Quick note - I just looked at your original post and see that ties should go to the attacker. Here they go to the defender. To fix that just take out the +1 I add to the Defender highest die.

mbahnshee2 years ago

Thank you so much! This does all make sense how you laid it out, but I get a totally blank histogram for some reason... tried tinkering a bit but it's always blank. Not blank for you I'm guessing?

gengelstein2 years ago

Huh. Yeah, I'm definitely getting results. Here's a histo for 2xred D6, 1 yellow d6, 1 yellow d8, and 2 green d10s vs 2 defense. Here's a link to that specific file in case something got messed up: https://www.dropbox.com/s/0882a9q6w895w8h/Red-Green-Yellow.mcd?dl=0

mbahnshee2 years ago

Ah yup that did it! Thanks so much for the help.

(I do still have this strange issue where copying anything, with ctrl+C or the button in the edit menu, crashes the program immediately. Strangely, even after re-installing, this happens on my desktop pc, not my laptop. Not a big deal, I just use it only my laptop, but let me know if you want the crash logs or anything. I'm guessing this doesn't happen to most people so not too worried about it.)

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