Dice roller¶
Contribution by Griatch, 2012, 2023
A dice roller for any number and side of dice. Adds in-game dice rolling
(like roll 2d10 + 1
) as well as conditionals (roll under/over/equal to a target)
and functions for rolling dice in code. Command also supports hidden or secret
rolls for use by a human game master.
Installation:¶
Add the CmdDice
command from this module to your character’s cmdset
(and then restart the server):
# in mygame/commands/default_cmdsets.py
# ...
from evennia.contrib.rpg import dice <---
class CharacterCmdSet(default_cmds.CharacterCmdSet):
# ...
def at_cmdset_creation(self):
# ...
self.add(dice.CmdDice()) # <---
Usage:¶
> roll 1d100 + 2
> roll 1d20
> roll 1d20 - 4
The result of the roll will be echoed to the room.
One can also specify a standard Python operator in order to specify eventual target numbers and get results in a fair and guaranteed unbiased way. For example:
> roll 2d6 + 2 < 8
Rolling this will inform all parties if roll was indeed below 8 or not.
> roll/hidden 1d100
Informs the room that the roll is being made without telling what the result was.
> roll/secret 1d20
This a hidden roll that does not inform the room it happened.
Rolling dice from code¶
You can specify the first argument as a string on standard RPG d-syntax (NdM, where N is the number of dice to roll, and M is the number sides per dice):
from evennia.contrib.rpg.dice import roll
roll("3d10 + 2")
You can also give a conditional (you’ll then get a True
/False
back):
roll("2d6 - 1 >= 10")
If you specify the first argument as an integer, it’s interpret as the number of dice to roll and you can then build the roll more explicitly. This can be useful if you are using the roller together with some other system and want to construct the roll from components.
roll(dice, dicetype=6, modifier=None, conditional=None, return_tuple=False,
max_dicenum=10, max_dicetype=1000)
Here’s how to roll 3d10 + 2
with explicit syntax:
roll(3, 10, modifier=("+", 2))
Here’s how to roll 2d6 - 1 >= 10
(you’ll get back True
/False
back):
roll(2, 6, modifier=("-", 1), conditional=(">=", 10))
Dice pools and other variations¶
You can only roll one set of dice at a time. If your RPG requires you to roll multiple
sets of dice and combine them in more advanced ways, you can do so with multiple
roll()
calls. Depending on what you need, you may just want to express this as
helper functions specific for your game.
Here’s how to roll a D&D advantage roll (roll d20 twice, pick highest):
from evennia.contrib.rpg.dice import roll
def roll_d20_with_advantage():
"""Get biggest result of two d20 rolls"""
return max(roll("d20"), roll("d20"))
Here’s an example of a Free-League style dice pool, where you roll a pile of d6 and want to know how many 1s and sixes you get:
from evennia.contrib.rpg.dice import roll
def roll_dice_pool(poolsize):
"""Return (number_of_ones, number_of_sixes)"""
results = [roll("1d6") for _ in range(poolsize)]
return results.count(1), results.count(6)
Get all roll details¶
If you need the individual rolls (e.g. for a dice pool), set the return_tuple
kwarg:
roll("3d10 > 10", return_tuple=True)
(13, True, 3, (3, 4, 6)) # (result, outcome, diff, rolls)
The return is a tuple (result, outcome, diff, rolls)
, where result
is the
result of the roll, outcome
is True/False
if a conditional was
given (None
otherwise), diff
is the absolute difference between the
conditional and the result (None
otherwise) and rolls
is a tuple containing
the individual roll results.
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