Re: [OT] Dice Servers

On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 06:48:41PM -0000, NeoMatrix wrote:
>Anywone know of any Email Dice servers that are working ?

You could use mine. :-)

I don't particularly want it bruited to the world, but I'm happy for
the list to play with it. Use it by sending an email message to
infobot @ firedrake.org, with the subject line "dice EMAIL", where EMAIL
is the address of the person against whom you're playing. (Or just
"dice", if you're playing solo.)

The body text of the message, which should be plain text, will be copied
back to you and to your partner. Any line that looks like a die roll
request will be evaluated as such, and the results added. So you might
send something along the lines of:

HMS Repulse is firing 3 class-2 beams at point blank on the Ibiza,
giving 6 beam dice.
6 d6
The next ship...

This would be sent out by the server as:

>HMS Repulse is firing 3 class-2 beams at point blank on the Ibiza, 
>giving 6 beam dice.
>6 d6
  5  3	6  3  3  3

>The next ship...
Dice signing off.

Dice rolls are defined as:
(optional # rolls) (optional # dice)d(# sides)(optional # to
add/subtract)

So all the following are valid:

d100	    (roll d100)
3d6	    (roll 3d6)
6 3d6+5     (roll 3d6 six times, adding 5 to each result)
4d3-8	    (roll 4d3 and subtract 8)

If you find any problems, let me know.

Roger