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Dice Hero: The Unoriginal Story

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Visually "Hint" at Optimal Dice Combinations

A topic by matt of house owlmoth created Mar 19, 2023 Views: 180 Replies: 1
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People that tabletop game often are skilled at looking at rolled dice and calculating totals with mental math, but this is a skill that is developed over time. It might make the game more accessible to more new players to 'recommend' (visually indicate) a suitable combination of the active dice when mousing over an item.

For example, mousing over Elven Arrow might highlight a combination of active dice that equal the cost to transform back to Elven Bow. Mousing over Elven Bow might highlight the combination of dice that would inflict the most damage.

This 'hinting' stops short of making any decisions on behalf of the player, but it could help make the learning curve less steep for people less experienced with tabletop games.

This is an great idea and i sort of already have the code for it from the Enemy Attacks. Thanks for the feedback! The problem with that code is only that Σ = 10 on Arrow will try to use as many die as possible since that mechanic is mainly used with N, so will need to modify some depending on use case.