I play with a few P&P systems that use "success counts" as their hit mechanics. i.e., you roll a pool of dice, and count the dice that roll over a certain value; those are your "successes." It would be nice to have a roll syntax for that.
Proposed syntax:
4d8>3
rolls 4 eight-sided dice, and returns a count of how many dice rolled 4 or above.
5d6<2
rolls 5 six-sided dice, and returns a count of how many dice rolled 1.
created: 08 July 16 at 03:53 PM (build: 7/1/2016 1:00 AM beta)
Wrecked Avent Site Administrator
How would this work with other groups?
4d8>3+2
The count of the roll of 4 8-sided die which roll higher than 3 added to two? So if 4d8 expands to [1, 2, 8, 8], 4d8>3 = 2, then add 2 = 4?
That would be the simplest solution; the less-than/greater-than symbol (ironically) coming before addition and subtraction in the order of operations.
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