thegrimace
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Post by thegrimace on Jul 9, 2014 9:49:19 GMT -8
Hi all, first time posting, so please be gentle I started listening a couple months ago, which quickly renewed my energy for the hobby and also convinced me to spend a whole bunch of time and money getting into the L5R system. I'm putting together a campaign for my college buddies who are scattered across the country and have recently switched from Maptools to Roll20. I noted that there weren't any built-in L5R character sheet templates yet and have been dabbling with the html to create one, but thought I'd check if anyone here has already made/found code for such a thing and/or have any suggestions on the use of roll20 for L5R. I realize we can just create simple macros or whatnot, but I really like the program's ability to basically have everything in there, and auto-calculate rolls etc... Unfortunately my ideal world would include the ability to do if/then logic for some things (such as figuring out whether to explode die or reroll 1s due to skill ranks and/or emphases) but right now I'm still having some difficulty just getting the program to calculate rings and use those values for rolls, etc... Had a lot of fun listening to the first series of the saga of the Inukai, and SirGuido I plan on listening to your game as well for more inspiration.
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Post by SirGuido on Jul 10, 2014 4:28:20 GMT -8
There is an exploding die mechanic built into the dice roller. I don't remember exactly how to do it right now, but its there! I believe its something like /roll 5d10!k5 or something similar.
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Post by joecrak on Jul 10, 2014 5:26:43 GMT -8
Two !'s, and it works great, one seems to limit the explosions.
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thegrimace
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Post by thegrimace on Jul 10, 2014 9:59:12 GMT -8
Thanks, yes I stumbled onto the !! and am (I think) correctly coding it all. For anyone who's interested I think I'll have a first draft of the character sheet ready for upload (although I haven't looked at what hoops I have to jump through to get it posted along with the other "official" character sheets).
I still haven't looked at details like kata, class features etc... but most of the basic die-rolling is included as is most of the general character sheet tracking stuff. I'll also be working to try to streamline things once I get the first draft out. i.e. right now I just have three different buttons for skilled/unskilled/skilled+emphasis rolls, and am also brute-forcing things by just pre-entering all the skills. Once it's out there I'd like anyone's comments/critiques on it.
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Post by D.T. Pints on Jul 10, 2014 12:43:41 GMT -8
Sounds wonderfully user friendly! If you'd like to do a test run I know a few wandering samurai...
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thegrimace
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Post by thegrimace on Jul 11, 2014 14:13:23 GMT -8
just to share credit, apparently about 30 seconds after I saw that the roll20 forums weren't talking about an L5R character sheet another guy started posting that he was going to start working on it. Thankfully in going back there yesterday for some coding tips I stumbled on his thread, which showed that he already had a much prettier version of a sheet started. So FYI, when we get one published to the site, frankly most of the credit will go to Nick (not sure if he's on these forums, but in talking last night it sounds like both of us got turned onto L5R by happyjacks D.T. one of these days... yes. unfortunately getting married and having a non-gaming fiance is not condusive to much playing, but if/when I get to the point of being ready and needing some players I'll certainly toss it out here. I'll probably also toss out a link to the template though as soon as it's available in case anyone wants to mechanically test it and yell at me about how non-user-friendly/broken it is
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Post by polarbruski on Jul 21, 2014 1:51:13 GMT -8
Hi! This is Nick, took me awhile to get over here. I have a working but not polished L5R character sheet. I spent tonight fixing emphasis rolls, initiative, and wound healing. I also used it a couple days ago to run a Topaz Tournament session as a practice for a campaign I'm starting, and it worked reasonably well. We had a few complete newbies in there, who had never played L5R, used roll20, or played a tabletop RPG, and they managed to figured out where to click to roll attack, damage, skill, and traits. (I made their sheets for them though). I'm thinking of including a "notes" tab when it's finished. Sheet currently looks like this: Other tabs here: imgur.com/a/abPFM#0I welcome any comments, suggestions, especially constructive criticism and design. I'm also happy to email my HTML and CSS files to anyone who wants to poke or test it. (you will need to have a Mentor subscription to Roll20 to do this)
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GoudaWeapon
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Post by GoudaWeapon on Jul 23, 2014 18:46:49 GMT -8
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Post by polarbruski on Jul 23, 2014 21:55:32 GMT -8
"SirGuido I plan on listening to your game as well for more inspiration." Is there another good actual play L5R campaign? Where is it?!
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polarbruski
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Post by polarbruski on Jul 24, 2014 12:02:46 GMT -8
Here is the Git link if anyone would link to try out the character sheet. I would appreciate any comments, especially criticism or suggestions for improvements. github.com/PolarBruski/L5RRoll20
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Post by yojimbohawkins on Jul 24, 2014 13:29:47 GMT -8
There are a number of L5R utilities on Sourceforge. Session planner, die roller, character builder and others. Worth a look.
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Post by SirGuido on Jul 24, 2014 14:48:29 GMT -8
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Post by polarbruski on Jul 24, 2014 15:05:37 GMT -8
Thank you for the link!
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Post by D.T. Pints on Jul 24, 2014 20:00:34 GMT -8
No...its certainly not "good". ITS FUCKIN' AMAZING. Especially the haiku's and where you killed that british guy's character...that was pretty sweet. spoilers.
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