Re: [s-d] dice server enhancements

[Joel Uckelman <uckelman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thus spake Daniel Lepage:
> 
> On Dec 15, 2006, at 12:27 PM, Joel Uckelman wrote:
> 
> > Thus spake shadowfirebird@xxxxxxxxx:
> >> You could just have it show its working always, or have one syntax  
> >> for
> >> showing the working and one not:
> >>
> >> "Wonko gains {3d6}" -> "Wonko gains 9"
> >> "Wonko gains {3d6w}" -> "Wonko gains 9 (2+3+4)"
> >
> > A problem I encountered with showing the component rolls is how to
> > do that intelligibly for more complex expressions.
> 
> Is this really an important feature? The email version could include  
> a copy of the original message at the bottom, to make sure nobody  
> cheated, but other than that it doesn't seem like we'd care about the  
> intermediate steps in a calculation.

You might not; but there are games where both a sum and the component
die rolls matter.
 
-- 
J.
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